Burd, Clara Miller (1873-1933)

"Women In The News"
Montclair, N.J. – The only woman who designs and builds stained glass windows is Miss Clara M. Burd of this city. Two hundred of her designs in church windows are scattered all over the country. She works with her men in the factory and directs the cutting and leading of the glass.

Source:
Jackson Daily News (Newspaper) (Jackson, Mississippi) 03 Jun 1915.

Obituary
Miss Clara Miller Burd, of 45 Myrtle Avenue, for 19 years a resident of Montclair, died at Community Hospital on Saturday.

Miss Burd was born in New York City, but spent her girlhood at Patchogue, Long Island, the old home of her mother, Amelia Roe Burd. After graduating from the high school, she studied at the National Academy of Design, New York, where she was an honor student. Then she spent a year in Paris and returned to take up work in the Louis Tiffany Studios as a designer of windows. She also was chief artist in the J. and R. Lamb Company, and the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York. Her windows are in many important churches throughout the country. Of recent years, she turned her attention to illustration, specializing in books for children.

She was an enthusiastic Sunday school worker and built up notable departments in the First Congregational Church and Pilgrim Chapel, Montclair. For the last few years she was head of the junior department in the Verona Congregational Church, where her brother, Rev. Charles G. Burd, is pastor.

Funeral services were held yesterday at the home, Rev. Fred P. Young, of Montclair, officiating. The interment was at Patchogue.

Source:
The Montclair Times (Newspaper) (Montclair, New Jersey) 14 Nov 1933.

A resident of Montclair, New Jersey, she was a children's book illustrator and designer of magazine covers. One of the more famous books she illustrated was A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge for Macmillan Publishing Company in 1927.

She was born in New York City and studied there and in Paris.