Background
Burr, Eugene Wyllys was born on October 14, 1875 in Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Review Edson Wyllys and Josephine Elizabeth (Hill) Burr.
Burr, Eugene Wyllys was born on October 14, 1875 in Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States. Son of Review Edson Wyllys and Josephine Elizabeth (Hill) Burr.
Graduate Centenary Collegiate Institute. Hackettstown, New Jersey, 1894. Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Wesleyan University, 1898.
Bachelor of Laws, New York Law School 1902.
Admitted to New York bar, 1902, practice law, New York City. Moved to Seattle, 1904. District counsel United States Reclamation Service, Department Interior, for Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, variously 1906-1916, special assistant to United State Attorneys in litigation government water rights, 1910-1916.
District counsel same service, Denver, Colorado, in charge reorganization government projects in 17 Western states, 1917-1919.
On trial staff Federal Trade Commission, Washington, 1920-1947, in litigation relating to freedom of competition under Federal Trade Commission and Clayton acts, before Commission and in appelate cases before federal courts especially in cases involving methods in oil, steel, photo-engraving, lumber, advisory public businesses in interstate commerce.
Member American Bar Association Nu Theta.
Married Mary Jennings, November 9, 1903. Children: Katharine Wyllys, Warren Wyllys, Irving Wingate, Edwin Lorimer (killed in action Philippine Islands 1945), Arthur Donald (deceased), Robert Malcolm.