When Lewis Clinton Burnham was born on 20 January 1912, in Mancos, Montezuma, Colorado, United States, his father, Lewis Barnett Burnham, was 40 and his mother, Georgina Madora Barker, was 38. He married Rose Winnifred Pratt on 18 September 1940, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 26 Marvel, La Plata, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Red Mesa, La Plata, Colorado, United States for about 1 years. He died on 16 March 1996, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
The Mesa Arizona Latter-day Saint Temple was announced on October 3, 1919. Don Carlos Young and Ramm Hansen were chosen to design the temple. The Mesa, Arizona temple was the first temple to be built in Arizona.
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
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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