Summary
Major Daniel J. Egbert is named in September 1970 as the purchaser of the Don Burke Farm on Beaver Island. The report says he was assigned to Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, visited his parents’ Sand Bay cottage annually, and planned to maintain and preserve the farm’s old barn.
Evidence and limits
This is an episode-qualified person record. The source does not give Egbert’s birth or death dates, full military biography, parents’ names, or the legal details of the purchase. The preservation plan is not treated as a completed restoration.
Open questions
- Which military and land records identify Major Egbert and the transaction?
- What was the eventual disposition of the farm and barn?
See also
- Purchase and preservation plans for the Don Burke Farm (1970)
- Don Burke Farm (1970 preservation report)
- Sand Bay
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 1970, “Newsy-Notes.”Identifies Major Daniel J. Egbert as assigned to Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, a purchaser of the Don Burke Farm, an annual visitor to his parents’ Sand Bay cottage, and a person interested in preserving the old barn; it provides no fuller biography or military record.