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.
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.
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