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Edward Burd (1751-1833)

• Trustee 1790-1831

Revolutionary officer with the rank of Major

Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

 

Edward Burd, born in 1751, held the rank of Major during the Revolutionary War. He at some point held the office of prothnotary of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and after the Revolution, he was a Justice of that Court. He married his cousin, Elizabeth Shippen, the daughter of trustee Edward Shippen.

Burd served Penn in 1790 and 1791 as a trustee of the Academy and College of Philadelphia (the University of Pennsylvania in its original form), and then continued as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania until his death in 1831. His son Edward Shippen Burd attended the Academy of Philadelphia, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794, and would serve on its board of trustees from 1831 to 1839 and 1842 to 1844.

REFERENCES
Matriculates, Alumni Record, American National Biography: look under "Shippen, Edward IV"

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