The family history of James Alan Burdick as of February 20, 2016. Printed for review.

James Alan Burdick was born in Omaha on Oct. 24, 1934. He lived there for a short while, then at the following places: Lansing, Topeka, Wilmette, Ankara, Lawrence, Decatur, Chicago, New York, Fort Dix, Fort Gordon, Bushy Park AFB, Belle Mead, Tom's River, Burien, Winnipeg, Sanford, Warsaw, Gowanda, Bloomington, Jamestown, Millington, Evansville, Henderson, and McDaniels. He was educated at: Walnut Street School, Crane Jr. High, New Trier H.S., James Millikin University, McCormick Theological Seminary, New York University, Kingston-Upon-Thames Art School, Brooklyn College, and The University of Manitoba

Joseph Childers was born in about 1740. His son, James Childers, was born in about 1785, probably in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Anderson in about 1806. They had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

This text aims to explode two notions that are commonplace in American cultural histories of the 19th century: that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and that there was a body of 19th-century literature that reflected "a nation of readers."

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