Anson Burlingame (November 14, 1820 – February 23, 1870) Twain bench at Anson Burlingame Monument in Washington Park "On Wednesday, in St. Petersburg, Mr. Burlingame died after a short illness. It is not easy to comprehend the exceeding magnitude of the loss which mankind sustains in this death, the loss which all nations and all peoples sustain in it. For he had outgrown the narrow citizenship of a state and become a citizen of the world; and his charity was large enough and his great heart warm enough to feel for all its races and to labor for them." Mark Twain Obituary on Anson Burlingame, 1870 Join us for our Quarterly Event:  Anson Burlingame's Influence on Mark Twain Sunday, Oct. 18 at 2pm Community Center Maple Room Anson Burlingame played an outsized but little-noticed role in making Mark Twain the writer he became. In this talk, Stanford professor and Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin will trace the history of that relationship and note the ways in which Burlingame helped  Twain become  more than “the wild humorist of the Pacific Slope.”  Mark Twain would eulogize Burlingame after his death as a “citizen of the world.”  This talk will [...]

The Burlingame Hillsborough History Museum is open the first Sunday of every month(except July) at the Burlingame Train Station at the foot of Burlingame Avenue and California Drive. Hours are 1 – 4 pm. Free admission, donations are accepted.