Arthur Hartwell Burt

Background

Burt, Arthur Hartwell was born on August 6, 1892 in Cleveland. Son of Arthur Edwin and Sarah (Jones) Burt.

Education

Student, Public Schools, Cleveland.

Career

With advertising department, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1912-1914; salesman, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1915-1916; architectural representative, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1916; manager architectural sales, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1918-1924; Cleveland division sales manager, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1924-1930; national dealers sales manager, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1930-1942; general manager trade sales, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1942-1946; regional director North Central, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1946-1952; general sales manager, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1952-1953; vice president marketing and director, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, from 1953. Board directors Ozark Mining & Smelting Company, The Lowe Brothers Company, John Lucas& Company, Martin-Senour Company.

Achievements

• Arthur Hartwell Burt has been listed as a noteworthy Paint manufacturing executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Captain United States Army, 1917-1918. Member Cleveland Senior Council Citizen's League, American Society Sales Executives, National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association, Cleveland Advertising Club, Pilgrims of the United States, Pepper Pike Club, Canterbury Golf Club, Midday Club, Rotary (Cleveland).

Connections

Married Gladys Hopkins Tilden, June 22, 1918 (deceased March 1940). Children: Mary B. Coppedge, Sarah B. Moore, Nancy Louise. Married second, Dorothy Whitelaw, June 14, 1941.

Father:

Arthur Edwin Burt

Mother:

Sarah (Jones) Burt

Spouse:

second

Spouse:

Gladys Hopkins Tilden

child:

Mary B. Coppedge Burt

child:

Nancy Louise Burt

child:

Sarah B. Moore Burt