Background
Sharples, Laurence Price was born on October 6, 1891 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Philip M. and Helen E. (Brinton) Sharples.
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Sharples, Laurence Price was born on October 6, 1891 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Philip M. and Helen E. (Brinton) Sharples.
AB, Swarthmore College, 1912.
President, Sharples Milker Company, Philadelphia, 1920-1927; vice president, Sharples Corporation, Philadelphia, 1932-1962; airplane pilot, from 1930; winner Doherty Cup, Florida air race, 1934; Chairman of the Board, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, from 1940. Member Collier Award Committee, 1942-1944.
Member of the board Franklin Institute, from 1962, Dunwoody Village, from 1973. Honorary.chmn. board Widener Colls., from 1972. First lieutenant Tank corpus, United States army, World War I.
Advertising Educational Foundation, France. Member Philadelphia Club, Philadelphia Racquet Club, Merion Cricket Club (Haverford, Pennsylvania), Courts Club (pres.1960, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania), Merion Golf Club (Ardmore, Pennsylvania).
Married Rose-Vincent Lyon, June 24, 1934. Children Laurence Price, Susan Brinton Abbot. Married second, Adrienne Kirby, 1964.