The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-06-04
r. z. BURR, BARRE
MERCHANT. DEAD
Passed Away This Morning, After Lorg
Period of Ill Health-Had Been
in Business in Barre %
Years.

| Fred +. Burr, successful merchant
of Barre for nearly quarter OF cen
| tury, passed away at q o'clock tins
morning, at his home, 8 Camp street,
after having been in poor health Tor
| some time The cause of death was
| arterio -sclerosis. He sustained shock
seven years ago and suffered a series
of lesser attacks of similar nature
during the intervening years. On
March 2, last, while returning TO
Barre from business trip to Boston,
| he had a shock and fell while at the
| station in Barre and since then his de-
cline has been more rapid. He was.
however, able TO be at his store as re
Gently as two weeks ago. Death had
been momentarily expected during the
past three days.
Fred Eastman Burr was born in
Thetford Center, Oct. Is, 1866, being
the youngest son of Warren and Sarah
Eastman Burr. His early life was
spent on his fathers farm and he went
to the common schools, supplementing
his education at Thetford academy on
Thetford hill. When young man he
made his first business venture, going
into the photography business in
White River junction and meeting
with Considerable degree of success.
Deciding to enter the jewelers. bust
ness, he then went to Waldoboro, Me,
where his brother, Frank Fl. Burr, was
engaged in business. After learning the
jewelers. trade, Fred Burr, together
with his brother, went to Foxboro,
Mass. where they carried on sue
cessful business in jewelry and in BIZ
cycles. The younger man devoted much
time and attention to buying out and
selling entire stocks, and il was while
conducting this branch of the business
that he came to Barre and purchased
the business of the late Perley Chand-
Ter in the Jackman block
Being impressed with the business
possibilities in Barre, Mr.. Burr con
cluded to establish himself in this city
permanently and he and his brother
were engaged in partnership for short
time, after which the elder brother re-
tired to the old home in Thetford. For
the past - wears Fred Burr has been
one of the substantial business men of
the community, having been located
recently in the south store of the
Bolster block. He was held in high
esteem by many people and he enjoyed
good trade in iewelry and allied
lines being regarded as business man
of good Judgment and marked in
tegrity. During recent years he had not
been able to devote himself so closely
to business because Of i'll health. He
was a man without ostentation but he
had done much to help young men to
get established in life.
On July IA, 1905, he was united in
marriage to Annie c. Holden of Barre.
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Eli
HOLDEN: and the widow, together with
their one son. Warren Holden Burr,
aged l3 years. survives. Mr. Burr was
affiliated with the Barre Merchants
association and the Board Of Trade.
The funeral is to be held at his late
home on Camp street Sunday after
noon at 2 O'Clock, Rev. James Ramage,
an intimate friend of the family, Off
ciating. and interment is to be in Elm
wood cemetery. II is expected that the
brother, Frank H. Burr, the only other
surviving member of the Burr family,
will come to Barre to attend the fu
neral
Friends are requested to omit flow