Historical Obituary: Anson Burlingame

Anson Burlingame & Burlingame Treaty of 1868

Historical Obituary: Anson Burlingame

2/26/1870

Historical Obituary

This California Digital Newspaper Collection source features a February 26, 1870, obituary published by the Sacramento Daily Union on the life and sudden death of Anson Burlingame, a lawyer, Republican Representative of Massachusetts, and U.S. Minister to China. The source provides an account of Burlingame’s upbringing, education, his political career, associations with Chinese trade and immigration, and sudden death from “congestion of the lungs."

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University of California, Riverside Center for Bibliographical Studies & Research (Sacramento Daily Union, CA)

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