1906 - Passed the Entrance after attending South Middleton Public School, S.S. No. 13.
1907-1909 - Tillsonburg High School
1909-1910 - Tillsonburg Business College
1910-1915 - Worked on farm with his Father
l915 - September 15, married Eva Bernice Swinn
1920 - Bought the farm from his Father, his Father and Mother moved to the "Triggerson Place" on the Plank Road, now Hwy. 59
1928 - Grew first crop of tobacco
1928-1930 - Councillor, Township of Middleton
1940 - sharegrowers grew the tobacco crop
1952 - sold the farm to Jack and Freda Graves
1948-1950 - Deputy Reeve Middleton Township
1951-1952 - Reeve, Middleton Township
1951 - Warden of Norfolk County
1953 - Progressive Conservative Candidate in Federal Election
1956-1961 - Assessor, Middleton Township
1972 - Moved to Tillsonburg from the farmhouse where he was born
1980 - Killed in a car accident on November 6
Stories of Charles Birdsall's Life
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