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Burgum Family, Concord, NH. July 1893
This picture was taken at 68 South State Street, in Concord, New Hampshire, the home of John and Emma Burgum. It was taken in July 1893. In the back row from the left is - Cora Estelle Read Burgum, John Fulton Burgum, Baby is Earle Benjamin Burgum, Manuel Elkin, Florence Elkin, Mary Jane Burgum Elkin, Constance Elkin, John Burgum, Emma Gannell Thompson Burgum, Mary Jane (Minnie) Burgum Lane, Edward (Ed) Lane. In the front row from the left is Emma Dell Burgum, John Francis (Frank) Burgum, Florence Isabella Burgum Wright, Shad Elkin, Marion Elkin, Sarah Rumford Burgum Noyes.
The house still stands at 68 South State Street, Concord, NH. I had the privilege of visiting the house in 1993 and was shown around by the owner. She claimed she was expecting me and she showed me a round wooden lid, which had etched upon it -
BURGUM DEVICE FOR KEEPING BEEF, PORK, PICKLES, ETC UNDER BRINE. Patented June 12, 1866. MADE BY JOHN BURGUM CONCORD N.H. I asked whether she would sell it to me. She replied "Oh no! I would never sell it, but I will give it to you".
Read more about my visit to Concord and the Tragedy of Mark Lane, Grandson of John and Emma Burgum
John Burgum (1826-1907)
John Burgum was born in Birmingham, England, on 14th May 1826. John emigrated to America in 1850, entering at Boston. He found a job at a Boston factory that same day and was then recruited to work for the Abbot-Downing Factory, in Concord, and became their chief ornamental painter for the famous Concord stagecoaches. It was in Concord that he was invited to the house of Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford. There he met
Emma Gannall. They were married a year later on 30th October 1852, much to the disapproval of the Countess who felt he might be after their money. John Burgum died on 16th April 1907. Three days later he was buried at Blossom Hill Cemetery. John and Emma had been married for fifty-five years. Maybe the Countess was wrong about John Burgum.
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Emma Gannell Burgum (1826-1923)
Mary Grove worked for the Countess Rumford in Brompton Row, London, and married a silversmith named Henry Gannell. Their first child
Emma Gannell was born two years later. The Countess adopted Emma from an early age and became completely absorbed by her.
In 1835, when Emma was nine, the Countess returned to America. However America had changed and many of her friends had passed away. The Countess opened up the old house in Concord, New Hampshire, but within three years the house was closed up again.
Sarah returned to Paris, taking Emma with her. The Countess remained restless and eventually returned again to Concord, NH. In 1851 she invited John Burgum, now a succesful ornamental artist, to the Rolfe-Rumford house in Concord to view several painings. It was there he met Emma Gannell. The rest, as they say, is history.
The Countess Rumford Connection
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John Fulton Burgum (1854-1933)
John Fulton Burgum was born in Concord, New Hampshire on 25th November 1854. His parents were John and Emma Gannell Burgum. He married Cora Read on 25th December 1882, at Keene, New Hampshire. The couple had six daughters and two sons. John had worked as a mechanic (1883), a door maker (1885/6), a furniture finisher (1887/8), a hardwood finisher (1889-1902), a furniture maker and an upholsterer (1933).
John died in tragic circumstances at his house in Keene on 20th November 1933. He died of suffocation and burns after being trapped in a burning builging at his shop at the back of his house at 122 South Lincoln Street in Keene, NH. It's thought he may have knocked over a oil lamp. He was 78.
Charles H. Burgum (1856-1950)
Charles H. Burgum was born in Concord, New Hampshire on 2nd May 1856. His parents were John and Emma Gannell Burgum. He married Carrie E. Stanyan on 21st January 1880, in Concord, NH. Charles died on 13th July 1950 aged 94.
Edwin Gannell Burgum (1858-1948)
Edwin Gannell Burgum was born in July 1858, the son of John and Emma Burgum. On 1st June 1893 he married Adelaide (Addie) M. Burgum, a music teacher. They had three children Edwin Berry Burgum, George Kenneth Burgum and Katherine Berry Burgum. Edwin was working as an apothecary at the time of his marriage in 1893 and described as a druggist a year later. In later life (aged 81) he had his own business as an antique Furniture decorator. He had also taken an interest in his father's career, wrote about the Abbot-Downing Company and even restored Concord Coaches. He died in 1948, aged 90.
Florence Burgum (1883-1966)
Florence Isabel Burgum was born at Keene, New Hampshire, in 1883 to parents John Fulton Burgum and Cora (Read) Burgum. She grew up and, at age 22, married
Caleb Newton Wright, a 25 year old horse trainer. Together they had five children Paul Burgum Wright, Christine Newton Wright, Bertha Wright, Dorothy Elizabeth Wright and Frank Wright. Florence died at 123 Plain Street, Easthampton, Massachusetts, aged 83.
Earle Burgum (1891-1964)
Earle Burgum was born at Keene, New Hampshire, on 2nd January 1891, to parents John Fulton Burgum and Cora (Reed) Burgum. On 31st July 1921 he married
Alma D. Wheeler . Sometime before 1930 he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a real esate salesman. He died at Monmouth Medical Center, Oceanport, New Jersey, on 10th November 1964. He was buried at Woodbine Cemetery, Oceanport, New Jersey, joining his wife Alma who had passed two years earlier.
Edwin Berry Burgum (1894-1979)
Edwin Berry Burgum was born to Edwin Gannell Burgum and Adelaide (Berry) Burgum in Concord, New Hampshire, on 11th March 1894. In 1915 he graduated from Dartmouth College. Between 1916 and 1920, he worked as an Instructor in English at the University of Pittsburgh. Meanwhile he had time to graduate from Harvard University in 1917. From 1920 to 1923, Berry became Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois and, in 1924, he became Associate Professor of English at New York University.
On 22nd November 1927 he married
Mildred Rabinowich in New York. Dr Edwin Berry Burgum remained at New York University for twenty-eight years, but fell victim to the McCarthyism and the communist witch-hunts, Losing his job as a consequence. Berry died on 2nd July 1979. They had one daughter.
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George Kenneth Burgum (1895-1970)
George K. Burgum was born at Concord, New Hampshire, on 25th August 1895 to John Burgum and Emma (Gannell) Burgum. He married
Kathryn Rose Benoit on 21 June 1920 at Newton City, Midlesex County, Massachusetts. They had one son, George Burgum, born in 1925. George snr. died in 1970 at Camden, New Jersey, and was buried at Berlin Cemetery, in Camden.
Paul Burgum Wright (1906-1997)
Paul Burgum Wright was born 25th May 1906 at Keene, New Hampshire. He was the son of Caleb N. Wright and Florence Isabel Burgum. Paul died on 11th November 1997, at Westmoreland, Cheshire Co, New Hampshire.
John Fulton Burgum (1854-1933)
This picture shows
John Fulton Burgum with two of his grandchildren, Paul and Christine Wright.
Count Rumford (1753-1814)
The story of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, is an extraordinary story. (You can read more about it below). It was his daughter, Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, who adopted Emma Gannell when she was a baby and eventually took her to America. It was there in Concord, NH, that Emma met John Burgum and a dynasty was founded.
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Countess Rumford (1774-1852)
Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, was the daughter of one of the most extraordinary men in American history. The Countess adopted Emma Gannell, who was born to one of the Countess's servants in London. She took Emma to America, where Emma met and married John Burgum and a dynasty was founded.
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Alma Sandford (nee Gannell)
Alma Sandford, formerly Alma Gannell, is part of the "JJ" Family Tree This family tree includes John Burgum who married Emma Gannell, adopted daughter of the Countess Rumford, (daughter of Benjamin Thompson).
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