Alvan V. Burch

As long-time president of Burch Plow Company, he co-invented a rotary wheel hoe.Alvan Vernon Burch was born in a log cabin in Crawford County, Illinois, on May 27, 1886.[2] The couple had three children: twins Harold and Gerald, and Alvan, Jr.[1] The family moved to Mooresville, Indiana, where he owned a grocery store.[3] Burch and his family returned to Evansville in the late 1910s or early 1920s to work as a sales manager for Blunt Plow Company.After, he unsuccessfully ran for three additional offices: United States Congress, Indiana Governor, and Mayor of Evansville.[5] Burch divorced his first wife, Violet after almost 50 years of marriage for a much younger hairdresser named Janet Beckhan, they divorced some time later and he then married Velma Bohie, who ran the hat shop in the McCurdy Hotel.
Indiana State AuditorHenry F. SchrickerRalph F. GatesRichard T. JamesCrawford County, IllinoisEvansville, IndianaRepublicanEvansvilleGeorge Rogers Clark Memorial BridgeAlexandria, IndianaIndianapolis, IndianaswitchmanmotormanMooresville, IndianaWarren T. McCrayU.S. Route 50U.S. Route 411944 Republican National ConventionKiwanisShrinersLoyal Order of MooseBenevolent and Protective Order of ElksIndiana State Library1934 Evansville, Indiana mayoral election1937 Evansville, Indiana mayoral election