Background
Burch, Edwin Whitney was born on November 22, 1901 in Rockwell City, Iowa, United States. Son of Edwin Welch and Lillian Esther (Loughhead) Burch.
Burch, Edwin Whitney was born on November 22, 1901 in Rockwell City, Iowa, United States. Son of Edwin Welch and Lillian Esther (Loughhead) Burch.
Student, Des Moines University, 1920—1922. AB, Harvard University, 1925. Juris Doctor, 1930.
Associate M.D. Hanley, Chicago, 1931—1932, Ryan, Condon & Livingston, Chicago, 1933—1937, Wham & O'Brien, Chicago, 1937—1940. Legal writer Callaghan & Company, 1941—1942. Associate Robert S Spindell, 1943—1946.
Private practice Oklahoma City, 1946—1971. Partner Burch, Burch & Wilkinson, 1971—1983, Burch & Burch, Oklahoma City, since 1983. Member faculty John Marshall Law School, Chicago, 1940—1944, University Okla, 1971.
Fellow: American College Probate Counsel (state committee 1975-1981). Member: American Bar Association, Oklahoma City Estate Planning Council (co-founder, president 1952), Oklahoma Society Mayflower Descendants (governor 1971-1974), Oklahoma County Bar Association, Oklahoma Bar Association, Masons, Kiwanis, Beacon.
Married Roberta Swartwout Johnson, January 28, 1939. Children: Jonathan Whitney, Nancy Burch Wilkinson, Emily Burch Dunagin.