Charles W. Burpee

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Charles Winslow Burpee (13 November 1859, Rockville, Connecticut - 13 May 1945) was educated in local schools, and graduated from Yale in 1883. Following in his brothers footsteps, he was elected membership of Skull and Bones. He was also Chairman of Yale News during his senior year.

Immediately upon graduation he got a job as city editor of the Waterbury American, the editor of which was also a member of Skull and Bones. He left this job in July of 1891, and removed to Bridgeport, where he became associate editor of the Bridgeport Standard. He left the Standard in 1895 to become state editor of the Hartford Courant, of which he was managing editor from 1900 to 1904. He left newspapers in 1904, to become head of the educational and editorial departments of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford. He remained at this company until 1935. In 1930 he became editor of The Hartford Times, a position he held for five years.

Burpee also became involved in the military. He entered the 1st Regiment of the Connecticut National Guard, and became a 2nd lieutenant in Company A, 2nd Regiment. In 1892, he was appointed adjutant of the 4th Regiment, in Bridgeport. In the same year, he was made captain of Company K of the 4th Regiment. He was also inspector of small arms practice on the staff of the 1st Regiment in Hartford. He served as a volunteer aide on the staff of the 1st Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, in the early part of the Spanish war. He retired in 1897, with the rank of captain.

He was historian of the First Regiment, and author of Military History of Waterbury (1891); History of Hartford County (1928); A Century in Hartford (1931); Connecticut in Colonial Wars (1933) and Story of Connecticut, “Constitution State,” (1939).

Burpee was member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Twilight Club of Hartford.