Burgum, Emma (1826-1923)

Name:: Burgum, Emma (1826-1923)
Title:: Diploma, New Hampshire Mechanics and Art Association, October 1868
Other Names:: Gannell, Emma
Rumford, Emma
Born:: 04/20/1826
Birthplace:: London, England
Died:: 01/09/1923
Death Location:: Concord, NH
Residence:: London, England 1826-1835
Concord, NH 1835-1838, 1845-1923
Paris, France 1838-1845

Rolfe-Rumford House, 1845-1853
68 South State St, Concord, NH, 1853-1923
Nationality:: English
Occupation:: Artist
House Keeping
Father:: Gannell, Henry (1805-1848)
Mother:: Grove, Mary Ann (see notes)
Relations:: Niece: Marion Elkins
Spouse:: Married John Burgum (1826-1907), October 30, 1852
Children:: Burgum, Sarah Rumford (m. Noyes)
Burgum, John Fulton
Burgum, Charles Henry (Concord, NH)
Burgum, Edwin Gannell (1858-1948)
Burgum, Mary Jane (m. Lane, Concord, NH)
Notes:: Sarah Thompson, the Countess of Rumford, adopted Emma Gannell in 1827. Emma was the granddaughter of one of the Countess' servants. In later life she sometimes used Rumford as her last name.
SEE ALSO Gannell, Emma / Rumford, Emma

Rumford Papers, NH Historical Society
Emma Burgum Diaries, pp. 286-287)
Burgum Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society

J. Elizabeth Hoyt Stevens, "Emma Gannell Rumford Burgum," The Granite Monthly, 50(April-June 1918)4-6, 122-124.

Emma B. Burgum Obituary, New Hampshire Necrology, The Granite Monthly, 55(February 1923)2, 94.