David Burpee (1893 - 1980)

Born 5 Apr 1893 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 24 Jun 1980 at age 87 in Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

David Burpee was born in Pennsylvania and attended Cornell University until his father, W. Atlee Burpee, died in 1915. Burpee dropped out and took over the family business selling seeds. He immediately began shifting the firm's focus from vegetables to flowers. In 1917 the W. A.. Burpee Company was incorporated with Burpee as president.

In the 1900 US Census, his name is listed as Daniel.

• Fact: Burial Doylestown Cemetery , Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA

Sources

• David Burpee (1893-1980) on Find A Grave: Memorial #7932898 retrieved 16 November 2018
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Burpee
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M37D-B65 : accessed 18 March 2018), Daniel Burpee in household of W Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia city Ward 9, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 164, sheet 6A, family 88, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,455.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGDZ-HRN : accessed 18 March 2018), David Burpee in household of Atlee W Burpee, Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 18, sheet 6B, family 117, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1319; FHL microfilm 1,375,332.
• http://www.saveseeds.org/biography/burpee_david.html