Lyndon Walkup Burch

Background

Burch, Lyndon Walkup was born on February 9, 1899 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Thomas Walkup and Grace Burch.

Education

Student, Curtiss School Aviation, Buffalo, 1917. Student, University California, 1920.

Career

Test engineer Packard Motor Car Company, 1925-1930. Design engineer, sales engineer Wilcolator Company, Newark, 1930-1941. Tank proof officer Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Also project engineer Tank Automotive Center, Detroit, 1942-1943. Project officer United States Army Air Force, Wright Field Equipment Laboratory, 1943-1944, assistant chief personal flight equipment laboratory, 1944-1945. Organizer, vice president, sales manager Control Products, Inc., Harrison, New Jersey, 1946-1954.

Engineering and sales consultant metals and controls division Texas Instruments, Inc., Attleboro, Massachusetts, 1954-1960. Private practice Boston, since 1960.

Achievements

• Lyndon Walkup Burch has been listed as a noteworthy design engineer, inventor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Academy Applied Science. Member Society Automotive Engineers, Explorers Club.

Connections

Married Isabella Keys, June 1919 (divorced 1926). Children– Hadley K., Marilyn K. (Mistress Harry Kindle). Married Sarah C. Wells, August 17, 1946.

Father:

Thomas Walkup

Mother:

Grace Burch

Spouse:

Sarah C. Wells

Spouse:

Isabella Keys

child:

Marilyn K. Burch (Mistress Harry Kindle)

child:

Hadley K. Burch