Background
Burpee, Charles Winslow was born on November 13, 1859 in Rockville, Connecticut, United States. Son of Colonel Thomas F. and Adeline M. (Harwood) Burpee.
Burpee, Charles Winslow was born on November 13, 1859 in Rockville, Connecticut, United States. Son of Colonel Thomas F. and Adeline M. (Harwood) Burpee.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1883.
1 son, Stiles. Chairman of Yale News, 1882-1883. City editor of the Waterbury (Connecticut) American, 1883-1891. Associate editor Bridgeport (Connecticut) Standard, 1891-1895.
Staff Hartford Courant, 1895-1904, managing editor, 1900-1904.
With Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1904-1935. Literature editor Hartford Times, 1930-1935.
Council National Economic League. Was state secretary National Citizens’ League for Sound Banking, president Yale Alumni of Hartford County, secretary Hartford Yale Fund.
Captain in Connecticut National Guard, retiring in 1897.
Volunteer aide-de-camp staff of 1st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War, colonel 1st Regiment Connecticut Singapore, 1917-1921.
Member Sons of the American Revolution, Connecticut Historical Society, Friends of Hartford. Club: Twilight (Hartford).
Married Bertha Stiles, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, November 5, 1885.