[3] After a short period of study in Europe he enrolled in Harvard College in 1879, graduating summa cum laude in 1883.

[3] He went on to the Harvard Law School, graduating the next year and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in September 1884.

[1] In this position he earned an $800,000 fee for helping the company bring service to Boston.

[1] He resigned his positions in gas light companies in 1898 to enter the copper mining industry.

[1] Burrage purchased the gold collection of Georges de la Bouglise at an auction in Paris in 1911.

[3] In 1925 he received the Lindley Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society of England for an exhibition of Cypripediums displayed in a natural setting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.

[3] Burrage's 28 room mansion on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts was built in 1899 at a cost of US$600,000.

[2] His summer residence the Needles in Hanson, Massachusetts was completely destroyed by fire on May 27, 1907.

[10] In 1931 he gave a coming out party for his granddaughter Katherine "Kitty" Lee Burrage that cost US$50,000.