When Anna Lou Burnham was born on 11 August 1882, in Louisiana, United States, her father, Jonathan William Burnham, was 25 and her mother, Lucy J. Phillips, was 25. She lived in Ward Two, Claiborne, Louisiana, United States in 1900 and Haynesville, Claiborne, Louisiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 July 1971, at the age of 88, and was buried in Old Town Cemetery, Haynesville, Claiborne, Louisiana, United States.
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The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English: habitational name from any of several places called Burnham. Those in Buckinghamshire (Burnham Beeches), Norfolk (various villages), and Essex (Burnham-on-Crouch) are named with Old English burna ‘stream’ + hām ‘homestead’. In the case of Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, however, the second element is Old English hamm ‘water meadow’, while Burnham in Lincolnshire is named from brunnum, dative plural of Old Norse brunnr ‘spring’, originally used after a preposition, i.e. ‘(at) the springs’.
History: In 1635 Robert Burnham and his two brothers came from England to Ipswich, MA, after their ship was wrecked on the coast of Maine. In the mid 18th century John Burnham and his son, also called John, were among the early settlers in what became the state of VT. In 1785, the younger John Burnham established himself at Middletown, CT.
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