The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday, May 7, 1955 Page 6
Russ Pratt Burr
Hingham Wood Carver,
Cabinet Maker, Aged 68
HINGHAM. May 6 - Servlces for Russ Pratt Burr, the famous whittler, will be held Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the Downing Cottage chapel, with Rev. Richard W. Seebode, minister of the Old Ship Church, officiating. Burial will be in Hingham Center Cemetery. The Yankee woodcarver, to whom people came from thousands of miles away for one of his exquisitely wrought wooden birds, was 68 when death followed a heart attack at the Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain. He did his work near a pot bellied stove in a small building behind the old Burr Homestead at 57 Leavitt St, built nine generations of Burrs ago in 1670. He had remained a bachelor. He was an expert carpenter and cabinet maker, but a jack-knife was his only whittling tool He never whittled when anybody was present. But his finished products were shipped all over the earth. He began whittling birds in 1937, for fun. A neighbor wanted the first one and he tried another. He sold that, too, and had to make eight before he could keep one for himself. Pretty soon, he couldn't keep up with the demand. In 1940, he had his first Boston exhibit and sale at the Book Shop, 270 Boylston St. He was a lifelong resident of Hingham, the son of the late Elisha and Mary (Pratt) Burr. His mother was from Cohasset. After graduating from the Hingham public schools, he attended Harvard for a year in 1909-1910. He joined the Army in World War I, and was injured overseas. He was a charter member of the Edward Ball Cole Post No. 120, A. L., of Hingham. He leaves a brother, Carl Burr of Hingham, and several nieces and nephews.
Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday, May 7, 1955 Page 6
Russ Pratt Burr
Hingham Wood Carver,
Cabinet Maker, Aged 68
HINGHAM. May 6 - Servlces for Russ Pratt Burr, the famous whittler, will be held Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the Downing Cottage chapel, with Rev. Richard W. Seebode, minister of the Old Ship Church, officiating. Burial will be in Hingham Center Cemetery. The Yankee woodcarver, to whom people came from thousands of miles away for one of his exquisitely wrought wooden birds, was 68 when death followed a heart attack at the Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain. He did his work near a pot bellied stove in a small building behind the old Burr Homestead at 57 Leavitt St, built nine generations of Burrs ago in 1670. He had remained a bachelor. He was an expert carpenter and cabinet maker, but a jack-knife was his only whittling tool He never whittled when anybody was present. But his finished products were shipped all over the earth. He began whittling birds in 1937, for fun. A neighbor wanted the first one and he tried another. He sold that, too, and had to make eight before he could keep one for himself. Pretty soon, he couldn't keep up with the demand. In 1940, he had his first Boston exhibit and sale at the Book Shop, 270 Boylston St. He was a lifelong resident of Hingham, the son of the late Elisha and Mary (Pratt) Burr. His mother was from Cohasset. After graduating from the Hingham public schools, he attended Harvard for a year in 1909-1910. He joined the Army in World War I, and was injured overseas. He was a charter member of the Edward Ball Cole Post No. 120, A. L., of Hingham. He leaves a brother, Carl Burr of Hingham, and several nieces and nephews.
The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday, May 7, 1955 Page 6
Russ Pratt Burr
Hingham Wood Carver,
Cabinet Maker, Aged 68
HINGHAM. May 6 - Servlces for Russ Pratt Burr, the famous whittler, will be held Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the Downing Cottage chapel, with Rev. Richard W. Seebode, minister of the Old Ship Church, officiating. Burial will be in Hingham Center Cemetery. The Yankee woodcarver, to whom people came from thousands of miles away for one of his exquisitely wrought wooden birds, was 68 when death followed a heart attack at the Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain. He did his work near a pot bellied stove in a small building behind the old Burr Homestead at 57 Leavitt St, built nine generations of Burrs ago in 1670. He had remained a bachelor. He was an expert carpenter and cabinet maker, but a jack-knife was his only whittling tool He never whittled when anybody was present. But his finished products were shipped all over the earth. He began whittling birds in 1937, for fun. A neighbor wanted the first one and he tried another. He sold that, too, and had to make eight before he could keep one for himself. Pretty soon, he couldn't keep up with the demand. In 1940, he had his first Boston exhibit and sale at the Book Shop, 270 Boylston St. He was a lifelong resident of Hingham, the son of the late Elisha and Mary (Pratt) Burr. His mother was from Cohasset. After graduating from the Hingham public schools, he attended Harvard for a year in 1909-1910. He joined the Army in World War I, and was injured overseas. He was a charter member of the Edward Ball Cole Post No. 120, A. L., of Hingham. He leaves a brother, Carl Burr of Hingham, and several nieces and nephews.
Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday, May 7, 1955 Page 6
Russ Pratt Burr
Hingham Wood Carver,
Cabinet Maker, Aged 68
HINGHAM. May 6 - Servlces for Russ Pratt Burr, the famous whittler, will be held Sunday at 2:30 p. m. at the Downing Cottage chapel, with Rev. Richard W. Seebode, minister of the Old Ship Church, officiating. Burial will be in Hingham Center Cemetery. The Yankee woodcarver, to whom people came from thousands of miles away for one of his exquisitely wrought wooden birds, was 68 when death followed a heart attack at the Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain. He did his work near a pot bellied stove in a small building behind the old Burr Homestead at 57 Leavitt St, built nine generations of Burrs ago in 1670. He had remained a bachelor. He was an expert carpenter and cabinet maker, but a jack-knife was his only whittling tool He never whittled when anybody was present. But his finished products were shipped all over the earth. He began whittling birds in 1937, for fun. A neighbor wanted the first one and he tried another. He sold that, too, and had to make eight before he could keep one for himself. Pretty soon, he couldn't keep up with the demand. In 1940, he had his first Boston exhibit and sale at the Book Shop, 270 Boylston St. He was a lifelong resident of Hingham, the son of the late Elisha and Mary (Pratt) Burr. His mother was from Cohasset. After graduating from the Hingham public schools, he attended Harvard for a year in 1909-1910. He joined the Army in World War I, and was injured overseas. He was a charter member of the Edward Ball Cole Post No. 120, A. L., of Hingham. He leaves a brother, Carl Burr of Hingham, and several nieces and nephews.
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