3 Antique 1800s Robert Burchell Letterheads Banker & Butter Creamery Erie PA for Sale

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3 Antique 1800s Robert Burchell Letterheads Banker & Butter Creamery Erie PA For Sale

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3 Antique 1800s Robert Burchell Letterheads Banker & Butter Creamery Erie PA:
$79.00

All ephemera has wear commensurate to age, including, potentially: nicks, folds, smudges, rips at edges, stains, old smells, minor rips at folds , small holes, and other imperfections. Our research notes indicate our best efforts but are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate. You get what you see :)

Notes on our research:

Robert Luckett Burchell opened a small dry goods store in Erie, IL. The business prospered, and 15 years later, it consisted of three stores connected -- a dry goods department, a grocery department, and a men's clothing department. Burchell's Store lasted for nearly 60 years.

In 1870, Burchell became postmaster. He was also chairman of the board of supervisors. He opened a creamery around 1875 and by 1884 was manufacturing about 100,000 lbs. of butter a year. In 1883, he was village treasurer and school treasurer. He operated a private bank, called the Burchell Bank, which became the First National Bank of Erie in 1903. He was a charter member of the Erie Masonic Lodge AF&AM. The Burchell Produce business prospered so much that chickens, ducks and geese by the thousands were shipped to Chicago for distribution.