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PERCY V. BURKE
Percy V. Burke, lumber and wooden box manufacturer, was born September 28, 1895, in Central City, Nebraska; son of Orval D. and Donzella (Wolcott) Burke. He received his A.B. at York College in 1918.
After serving for two years in 16th Field Artillery, 4th Division, during World War I, Mr. Burke began his career as a clerk for the Klamath State Bank, Klamath Falls, Oregon, in 1919 and continued with them for one year. From 1920 to 1923 he was office manager for Growers Packing & Warehousing Association. Since 1926 he has been president of Sacramento (California) Box and Lumber Company; and president of Covelo Lumber Company, located at Covelo, California; partner in L. J. Carr & Company, Sacramento, California, lumber wholesalers since 1937; vice president of Sacramento Plastics, Inc. since 1948; and treasurer of Western Box Distributors, San Francisco, since 1939.
President of National Wooden Box Association; president of Pine Industrial Relations Committee; vice president of Western Pine Association; member of National Industry Advisory Committees to OPA, OPS, WPB and NPA; member of Sacramento Chamber of Commerce; Masonic bodies; Del Paso Country Club and Sutter Club. Congregationalist.
Mr. Burke married Velma G. Stuckey August 14, 1919, and has three daughters: Catharine Jean, Betty Anne and Janet Maurine.
Home: 1414 Forty-third Street, Sacramento, California.
Offices: Sixty-fifth and R Streets, Sacramento, California.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 415, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Joyce Rugeroni.
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