Brief Life History of Leonard Gaskill
When Leonard Gaskill Burr was born on 30 October 1894, in Hopedale, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Henry Melvin Burr, was 42 and his mother, Cora Elsie Gaskill, was 38. He lived in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. He died on 1 November 1971, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Leonard G Bun in household of Henry M Bun, "United States Census, 1900"
- Leonard Gaskill Burr, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
- Leonard G Burr, "Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003"
Parents and Siblings
1852–1933 Male
1855–1936 Female
Siblings (3)
1890–1952 Female
1893– Male
1894–1971 Male
World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 2
1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 4
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 22
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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