When William Francis Burlingame was born on 14 August 1871, in Albia, Monroe, Iowa, United States, his father, Andrew Cole Burlingame, was 28 and his mother, Mary Susan Forsythe, was 24. He married Martha M. Moore on 11 September 1901, in Larimer, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Wellington, Larimer, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Colorado, United States in 1950. He died on 3 October 1955, in Fort Collins, Larimer, Colorado, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fort Collins, Larimer, Colorado, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: habitational name from Burlingham in Norfolk ‘homestead (Old English hām) of Bærla's or Byrla's people’, or from Birlingham in Worcestershire ‘enclosure (Old English hamm) of Byrla's people’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
History: Joel Burlingame was a Methodist exhorter and lay preacher at New Berlin, NY, in the 1820s. His son Anson Burlingame, born in New Berlin in 1820, headed the first diplomatic mission to China and negotiated the Burlingame Treaty (1868).
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