Background
Sheppard,, Walter Lee was born on July 23, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Walter Lee and Martha Houston (Evans) Sheppard.
Sheppard,, Walter Lee was born on July 23, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Walter Lee and Martha Houston (Evans) Sheppard.
BChem, Cornell University, 1932. Master of Science, University Pennsylvania, 1933.
Control chemist various companies, 1933-1935. Advertising writer Northwest Ayer & Son, 1937-1937. Assistant to editor The Houghton Line (E.F. Houghton Company), 1937-1938.
Salesman Atlas Mineral Products, 1938-1948. Plant manager, consultant engineer Tanks & Linings, Ltd., Droitwich, England, 1948-1949. Sales engineer, district manager ElectroChem.
Engineering & Manufacturing, and successor companies, 1949-1968. Assistant pastor St. Paul's Liberal Catholic Church Philadelphia, 1965. National accounts manager, field sales manager Corrosion Engineering division Pennwalt Corporation, Philadelphia, 1968-1976.
President C.C.R.M., Inc. Consultant on chemically resistant masonry, from 1976. Professional genealogist, from 1936.
Director displaced persons camps, Salzburg, Austria, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, also d.p. specialist, staff Chief of Mission, Vienna, Austria, 1945-1946. Founding trustee, vice president Board Certified Genealogists, 1965-1982, president, 1969-1978, chairman, 1978-1979. Assistant to rector, then rector Church of St. Paul.
Major United States Army, 1941-1945, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1945-1946. Lieutenant colonel, Reserve, retired, 1960. Fellow American Society Genealogists (secretary 1958-1961, 66-67, vice president 1967-1970, president 1970-1973), National Genealogical Society, Pennsylvania Genealogical Society.
Member American Society for Testing and Materials (membership secretary 1975-1983, C-3 committee), National Society of Professional Engineers, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Academy Environmental Engineers, Welcome Society (president 1969-1976), Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of Kings and Queens of Britain (founder, secretary 1950-1968, president 1968-1988), Flagon and Trencher Society (co-founder, president 1967-1973), National Association Corrosion Engineers (certified competence in corrosion engineering, chairman Philadelphia section 1962), New England History Genealogical Society (committee on Heraldry since 1991), National Genealogical Society Quarterly (contributing editor), Genealogical Society Pennsylvania, Society Genealogists (London), Yorkshire Archaeol. Society, Savoy Company, Gilbert and Sullivan Society (founder, president Philadelphia branch 1957-1963), Sovereign Orders St. John of Jerusalem, Military Order Foreign Wars, Mayflower Descendants, Order of Three Crusades, Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in American (3d vice president 1989-1995), Retired Officers Association, Phi Kappa Psi (national vice president 1964-1968, personnel 1968-1970), Alpha Chi Sigma.
Married Dorothy Virginia Cosby Vanderslice, October 17, 1942 (divorced March 1947). Married Boudinot Atterbury Oberge Kendall, March 24, 1953 (deceased February 1996). Stepchildren: Charles H. Kendall Junior, John Atterbury Kendall.