Stephen Lovell Burgwin and Elspeth Adele Toepfer

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Husband Stephen Lovell Burgwin

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           Born: 2 Apr 1906 - Parkers Landing, Armstrong Co, PA
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           Died: 16 Jul 1971 - Oak Creek, Yavapai Co, AZ
         Buried:  - Sedona Community Cemetery, Sedona, Coconino Co, AZ

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         Father: Dr. Charles Wesley Burgwin (1873-1946) 1
         Mother: Effie Odelia Pryor (1873-1956) 1

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Elspeth Adele Toepfer

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           Born: 7 Feb 1906 - Lansing, Ingham Co, MI
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           Died: 5 Mar 2002 - Orange, Orange Co, CA
         Buried:  - Sedona Community Cemetery, Sedona, Coconino Co, AZ

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         Father: Adolph Toepfer (      -      )
         Mother: Elise Minnie Augusta Anna Johanna Hermann (      -      )

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Children

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1 M Charles Edward Burgwin

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           Born: 28 Feb 1938 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
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2 F Elisabeth Adele Burgwin

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           Born: 18 May 1940
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General Notes: Husband - Stephen Lovell Burgwin

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Stephen Lovell Burgwin was born at Parker's Landing, Armstrong County, Penna. In September 1909 he moved with his parents to Guys Mills, Crawford County, Penna. He finished the four year High School course at Randolph High School situated at Guys Mills when he was sixteen years of age. He stood at the head of his class during almost the entire school course and was Valedictorian of his class of nine members.
He was a great reader and his interest centered in electricity consequentially, in the fall following his graduation, in 1922 he entered the Engineering College of Michigan U. at Ann Arbor from which he received his diploma as Electrical Engineer in June 1926.
Westinghouse Electrical Company of Pittsburgh had engaged him as a student workman to begin work in July following his graduation from the U. but because of high blood pressure he could not pass the health examination so spent the summer at home resting and getting advice from various physicians until the first of November when Westinghouse took him on and sent him to Sharon to work but the work there was not what he wanted so they removed him to Pittsburgh January first, 1927 and gave him work in the research department where he wanted to be.
After going to Pittsburgh he took evening classes at the University there during the winters and in this way he obtained his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering.
For a time he roomed with Adolph Toepfer from Beloit, Wis. and during the summer Adolph's sister, Elspeth, who was teaching in the Faulkner School for girls in Chicago came to spend her vacation with her brother and Stephen helped entertain her while she was there and Dan Cupid entered into the picture and the result was that Stephen and Elspeth were married on October 20, 1934 in a little Chapel in Chicago and they went to live at 12, Hillcrest Road, Wilkensburg Penna.
On Monday morning, at 9:00 A.M. February 28, 1938 there came into their home a son which they named Charles Edward after his grandfather Charles W. Burgwin and his uncle, Edward Toepfer. He was born at the same hour, on the same day of the week and the same day of the month as his cousin Ann Tracy, being her birthday present and her first full cousin.
In 1939 they bought a lot in Forest Hills, Castlegate Road, Wilkensburg, Penna. where they built a house and moved into it at Thanksgiving time 1939.
On Saturday, May 18 about 5:00 P.M., a daughter, Elisabeth Adele, was born to them. They always called her Betsey. This was in May 1940.
In the spring of 1943 the Westinghouse Company transferred Stephen from their Research Plant to their main plant in East Pittsburgh.
In the spring of 1947, the Westinghouse Company having a plant in New York State in the vicinity of Buffalo moved the division of their plant that Stephen was employed in to the new location making it necessary for him to move his family. He sold his house in Forest Hills and moved to this new home in May 1947. East Aurora is a beautiful quite residential town with a good school, several Churches, two banks and a good shopping district on Main street and a railroad depot.
East Aurora is noted as the site of the famous "Roycroft Inn". The "Roycrofters" was created by Elbert Hubbard and their work was to create beautiful things including printing and publishing books, cooper work, leather work, furniture building, farming, weaving, banking and operating the "Roycroft Inn".
During the summer the engineers in the plant near Buffalo became dissatisfied with the way things were going and began to leave Westinghouse and seek work somewhere else so after a number of them had gone Stephen also resigned and obtained the best engineering job in the Minneapolis-Honeywell Company and his work being in St. Paul Minnesota it became necessary to sell his home in East Aurora and buy a home nearer his work so he sold out and purchased a large house in White Bear Lake, about fifteen miles from St. Paul and they moved there on the first of October, 1951.

[Obituary Daily Times]
BURGWIN, Stephen L; ; ; Sedona RRN (AZ); 1971-7-22; Sedona RRN - Sedona Red Rock News - Sedona AZ

SSDI: STEPHEN BURGWIN 02 Apr 1906 Jul 1971 86336 (Sedona, Coconino, AZ) (none specified) 169-09-6189 Pennsylvania

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General Notes: Wife - Elspeth Adele Toepfer

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Possible SSDI: ELSPETH T BURGWIN 07 Feb 1906 05 Mar 2002 (V) 92831 (Fullerton, Orange, CA) (none specified) 263-82-2354 Florida

1 Alan R. Jones, Threads of Venango (Indiana, PA: A. G. Halldin Publishing Co., 1984), Pg 241.