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- !SOURCE: "Descendants of Abner Angell," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 11 Jun 2006. Cites/notes the following:
- Rossiter Johnson, Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, (1904), II:50 (birth)
- Donna Burlingame Giveden email to N.A. Combs, "Electronic," 20/5/2000.
- Occupation: served as his fathers secretary in Peking and was the first editor of Scribners Magazine (1887-1914) (Source: Donna Burlingame Giveden email, "Electronic," 10/5/2000.)
!BIOGRAPHY: "BURLINGAME, Edward Livermore, editor, was born in Boston, Mass., May 30, 1848; son of Anson Burlingame. He accompanied his father on several of his diplomatic missions, thus enjoying unusual advantages of travel. He left Harvard before completing his course and became private secretary to his father, then minister to China. The years 1867-69 were spent in study at Heidelberg, where he took the degree of Ph.D., and a part of the year 1870 at Berlin. Returning to America in 1870 he was engaged for a time on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune, and from 1872 to 1876 he was connected editorially with the revision of The American Cyclopædia, In 1879 he joined the editorial staff of the Scribner publishing house, and in 1886 became the editor of the new Scribner's Magazine. He was also associated with others in the preparation of several historical works and has made numerous contributions to periodical literature. He translated and edited Art Life and Theories of Richard Wagner (1875); and edited Current Discussion: a Collection from the Chief English Essays on Questions of the Time (2 vols., 1878)." --article in The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume II, p. 50, quoted by Donna Burlingame Giveden
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