William Burlingame Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: BURLINGAME
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1180

   WILLIAM BURLINGAME, one of the leading business men of Exeter,
N. H., president of the Exeter Co-operative Bank since its organization in
1892, and interested in other important enterprises, was born in Rhode Island
in 1838. His parents were James and Lucy B. (Dana) Burlingame. The
father, a native of Connecticut, was a minister in the Christian church, being
for over fifty years pastor of the church of that denomination at Coventry,
R. I., of which state his wife Lucy was a native. Their children were:
Sophia, Lydia, Emily, James P., Ann Eliza, John K., Lucy, William and
Mary.
   William Burlingame, after beginning his education in the common schools,
continued it at Greenwich Seminary, Rhode Island and at Antioch College,
Yellow Springs, Ohio, subsequently taking a commercial course. He learned
the trade of carpenter and builder, also that of machinist, and then, in 1864,
came to New Hampshire to take charge of building the "Brayton" engine."
and boilers for the Swampscot Machine Company at South New Market,
N. H. When he had completed his work there he came to Exeter and had
charge of a plant here until 1867. He then constructed new buildings for the
Exeter Machine Works, of which concern he was the organizer, having a
large interest therein. He remained connected with this company until 1909,
at which time, after a long and prosperous career, he sold out his interest and
has since lived a retired life, except for his connection with the bank above
mentioned, and the performance of his duties as a director in the Exeter Gas
Company and, as a member of the board of trustees of Robinson Female
Seminary, which position he has held for thirty years, being, since about 1898,
president of the board. He is a repulican in politics, has served at times in
local offices, including those of supervisor and member of the police com-
mission, and was representative to the legislature in 1877-78. He belongs to
Star of the East Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and also to the Chapter at Exeter.
Mr. Burlingame was married in 1861 to Miss Josephine Shaw, of Provi-
dence, R. I., who died in 1864, leaving no children. He then married for
his second wife, Amy Carter, of Exeter, N. H., who died in 1875, the issue
of this marriage being two children: William B., who is a teacher in Porto
Rico, and James C., a contractor. In August, 1877, Mr. Burlingame was
married to Harriet Grace Boyd, daughter of Colville Boyd of Providence,
R. I. They are the parents of four children, namely: Harold D., who is
in the employ of the Standard Steel Car Works at Butler, Pa.; Amy, a
graduate of Vassar College, 1906, wife of William J. E. Sander, an attorney
of Boston, Mass. ; Robert A., who graduated from Lehigh University in 1908
and is chief engineer for the Canadian Steel Foundry Company, and Ella,
who graduated from Simmons College, 1910, and is the wife of Henry Lewis
of Portland, Me., a member of the banking firm of C. H. Gilman & Co. The
family attend the Congregational church.

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