Biographies:  Allah E. BURLINGAME, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Allah E. Burlingame, former president, treasurer and general manager of the 
A. E. Burlingame Company, wholesale and retail dealers in cigars and tobacco, 
was born at Ripon, Wisconsin, Decmeber 7, 1873, the son of Henry H. and 
Elmira (Olin) Burlingame, natives of Indiana and Dartford, Wisconsin, 
respectively.  His paternal grandfather, Wanton Burlingame, was on of the 
pioneers of Fond-du-Lac county, Wisconsin, where he took up and purchased 
large tracts of land at $1.25 per acre, and was one of the largest land 
holders of his day in that section of the state.  In later life, he returned 
to Indiana and purchased the old homestead near LaPorte which he had 
previously taken up from the government, and there he lived and died.  Henry 
H., father of our subject, was reared in Fond-du-Lac county, where he 
followed farming until 1891, when he became connected with the postoffice 
department, being appointed one of the first rural mail carriers out of 
Ripon.  After a continuous service of eight years, he died in 1899 at the 
age of 67 years.  His wife, Elmira, mother of our subject, is a daughter of 
Almon and Margaret Olin, pioneers of Green Lake county, Wisconsin.  They 
were the parents of three children, Charles, Grant and Allah E.

Mr. Burlingame was reared on the home farm in Fond-du-Lac county, remaining 
there until he reached the age of 18 years.  He was educated in the Ripon 
high school and Ripon college, and for eight years after finishing his 
schooling, he was employed as clerk and bookkeeper in various hotels in 
Wisconsin and elsewhere.  In 1903 he embarked in the retail cigar business 
in Marinette, Wisconsin, which he conducted for two years, and in which he 
retained an interest up to his death.  He formed the Burlingame Company 
which has branch stores in Wausau, Chippewa Falls and Stevens Point.  They 
own their own building which they occupy at Chippewa Falls, and also the 
Wilson Block at Eau Claire.

On January 7, 1899, Mr. Burlingame married DeLaphene, daughter of Everest 
LaLiberty, of Marinette, Wisconsin, and four children were born, viz.: 
Burnadette, Allah, Dorothy and Beatrice.  Mr. Burlingame was a resident of 
Eau Claire from April 1907.  He was a 32d degree Mason, a Shriner and a 
member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Phythias, 
the Y. M. C. A., and the Eau Claire Club.  He was an honorable and successful 
business man and a prominent factor in both the business and social life of 
Eau Claire, and his death in the prime of life is deplored by a wide circle 
of friends.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
pages 663-664.