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W. Atlee Burpee & Company was founded in 1876 by Washington Atlee Burpee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after starting a mail-order chicken business in 1876.The company expanded to selling garden seeds, farm supplies, tools and hogs after customers began asking for seeds they had grown in their native farms.
Burpee's move to photography changed the whole industry and the hand-drawn illustrations in catalogs disappeared. In another break with tradition, Burpee eliminated cultural information and put in testimonial letters and plant descriptions. At Burpee's death in 1915, the company had 300 employees, and it was the largest seed company in the world.
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David Burpee was born on April 5, 1893, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] He attended Blight School and Doylestown High School, and later Culver Military Academy in Indiana. In 1913, he enrolled in Cornell University to study agriculture until his father, W. Atlee Burpee, died in 1915. Burpee dropped out and took over the family business ...
George Carl Ball Jr. is an American seedsman who has served as chairman of W. Atlee Burpee Company since 1991. After studying at Bard College and DePaul University, he joined Ball Seed in the late 1970s. He later worked as a marketing executive at Pan American Seed, [citation needed] where he was named president in 1984.
Even after surpassing the world record of 573 burpee pull ups in an hour around 56 minutes in, and then blowing his personal goal of 600, he kept at it until the clock ran out, eventually ...
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Fordhook Farm, also known as Burpee Farm, is an historic farm and national historic district located at Doylestown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.It encompasses 12 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures.