Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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HIRAM P. BURLINGAME, 
 
a native of the State of Maine, was born in 1827, and is the son of Carpenter 
and Rebecca (Woodman) Burlingame, natives of New York and Maine respectively, 
and of Scotch origin. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Burlingame left his native 
State and went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he pre-empted 120 acres of land.
He was married in St. Anthony, in 1852, to Miss Sarah A. Bean, a native of 
Maine. Her parents moved from that State to Wisconsin and later went to 
Minnesota. It was Sarah Bean who was so miraculously saved from going over the 
falls at St. Anthony when she was a girl. Mr. Burlingame left Minnesota, 
February 9, 1870, coming to California, first to San Francisco and from there to 
Los Angeles County. He purchased 140 acres of land. A part of this he sold and 
has since bought 280 acres more of the best land in California. Mr. Burlingame 
raises more strawberries than any other man in the State, having under 
cultivation thirty-five acres. He was also interested in the development of 
water supply, and sank one of the largest pipes in the world, it being fourteen 
and one-half inches in diameter. He has since disposed of his interest in this 
enterprise, selling out to Pomroy & Gains and to his son, Edward C. Burlingame.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 710
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler