. History of Worcester and its people . d Sarah .\vis (Warren) Rurlingatne. !n due course Sheldon F. Burlingame attended the public schools of his nativeplace, after completing which courses he became an apprenticed machinist in theshop of Abraham Ihirlingame, his brotlier, on Exchange street, Worcester. Laterhe went to Philadelphia, where for several years he worked at his trade. FromPhiladelphia he went to Newark. New Jersey, but after a few years returned to Wor-cester, and established himself in independent business as a builder and repairer ofsteam engines. locating his machine shop on Ce
. History of Worcester and its people . d Sarah .\vis (Warren) Rurlingatne. !n due course Sheldon F. Burlingame attended the public schools of his nativeplace, after completing which courses he became an apprenticed machinist in theshop of Abraham Ihirlingame, his brotlier, on Exchange street, Worcester. Laterhe went to Philadelphia, where for several years he worked at his trade. FromPhiladelphia he went to Newark. New Jersey, but after a few years returned to Wor-cester, and established himself in independent business as a builder and repairer ofsteam engines. locating his machine shop on Central street. A few years later heremoved to Florida, and there was employed by Governor Drew as master mechanicin the New Branford mills. For several years he remained in the Soutli. followinghis trade, in responsible capacity, in New Branford. Live Oak. High Springs, ColumbiaCity, and other southern places. Eventually, about the year 1893, he returned toWorcester, and since that time has remained occupied in the city and vicinity. At. Jh^ /ri^^-vn n^u^y^ ITS PEOPLE 315 first he associated in l)usiness witli his brother, Abraham Burlingame. In the earlynineties he turned his attention to gas and gasoline engines, recognizing that thatclass of engine would come increasingly in demand for small plants. In course oftime he established a shop at Greendale, under the firm-name of the Greendale GasEngine Company, and has established an excellent reputation for the gas engine, theGreendale, wliich he builds. The Greendale engine is in demand because of itssimplicity and reliability in particular, though other qualities it possesses have causedit to become well placed among .American gas engines, and it has withstood manynoteworthy tests. For instance, one engine was run for three weeks, night and day,witliout a stop: another of five-horse-power was in constant use for eighteen monthson a tract for sawing wood, and required an expenditure of only thirty-five cents forrepairs duri
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