Frank Burrelle (May 25, 1856 – January 25, 1910) was the founder of Burrelle's Press Clipping Bureau, later called

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and today known as Burrelle's, a company providing media relations planning, media monitoring and media measurement services to

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agencies,

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and

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throughout the

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Personal life

Burrelle was born in

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. He grew up in

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and attended school in

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. After he graduated, he pursued a career as a

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and tried his hand at the

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business before moving to

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. In 1888, Frank overheard two businessmen complaining that it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the news about their company. The idea for a press clipping service was born. With the help of his wife, Burrelle started Burrelle's Press Clipping Bureau. Burrelle was quick to get involved in organizations related to his business. As second vice president of the

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, Burrelle presided over the first of the Fall/Winter series of Club dinners in 1892, according to ''

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.'' An active member for many years, he left the New York Press Club a small bequest in his will.

A setback

In 1903, a

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broke out at 2 West 19th Street—the site of the four-story

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which served Burrelle as both residence and office. This blaze destroyed much of the furniture in the press clipping bureau and consumed thousands of irreplaceable press clippings, including Burrelle's personal collection of “principal articles and engravings relating the cause and effect of the late war with

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." Fittingly, that building today houses a

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called the NewsBar that sells

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and

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alongside breakfast and lunch fare.

Death

Burrelle died on Tuesday, January 25, 1910 at age 55, at sea on the way from

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. Mr. Burrelle who was accompanied by his second wife had been returning home from a trip to

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. Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home handled the final arrangements. Arthur Wynne, the long-time

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of the press clipping business and friend to Frank Burrelle, soon took the

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of the business, which eventually developed into

http://www.burrellesluce.com/About_Us/history.php/ "Burrelles''Luce'': History", 2008

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burrelle, Frank 1856 births People from Painesville, Ohio Businesspeople from New York City 1910 deaths 19th-century American businesspeople