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R. BURNS LINDERMAN, the proprietor of the Hotel Burns, Cortland village, was born October 19, 1853, at Tully, Onondaga County, N. Y. He is a son of David V. and Deborah (Smith) Linderman, and is of German descent.

David V. Linderman was born in Newfield, Tompkins County, N. Y., and received his education in the public schools of that village. He learned the trade of a carriage maker and followed that as a journeyman for a few years. He then built a factory in which he manufactured cutter wood for the following ten years. When he sold the factory he engaged in the hotel business in Groton, N. Y. After conducting the hotel for two years, he retired on account of poor health and moved to Tully, N. Y. Soon after, while on a visit to his son in Cortland, he was taken sick and died. Mr. and Mrs. Linderman reared two children, but R. Burns, the subject of this sketch, is the only one living. David V. Linderman was a Republican at one time, but later sided with the Democrats.

R. Burns Linderman received a good common school education, and later attended the Groton Academy. He then began work with his father in the manufacture of cutter wood, and remained at that business for twelve years, when he came to Cortland. He entered the employ of the Hitchcock Manufacturing Company, and after one year of industrious work, he was rewarded by being made foreman of the wood department. He remained with them for two years, and then moved to Brockport, N. Y., where he conducted a saloon and restaurant. He had been there but one year when misfortune, in the form of fire, overtook him; his establishment burned down and he sustained a $1,300 loss. He then returned to his father’s home at Groton, where he remained until the following November, when he again moved to Cortland and bought a half interest in the Hotel Brunswick. The other half interest was owned by Mr. Wallace, and they conducted the hotel under the firm name, Wallace & Linderman. After remaining in this business for three years, he sold his interest and purchased a billiard parlor in Cortland. After a period of ten months he bought his present hotel. He recently remodeled the house, refurnished the rooms, supplied them with hot and cold water, and made other improvements which add to the comfort of his guests. The hotel consists of twenty-seven sleeping rooms, all supplied with steam heat and electric bells, and three nicely furnished and homelike parlors.

Mr. Linderman was joined in marriage to Miss Emma B. Bixby, a daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Bixby, January 24, 1883. He is independent in politics and always votes for the best man. He has many friends in private life as well as in business circles.