Burlingame was one of these and from that time until 1904, when she resigned because of change of residence, she was a member of each General Conference. The benevolent societies were consolidated in 1889 into the Conference Board. Burlingame was elected one of the seven women on this Board and continued until 1904. She was also vice-president of the Board, and presided over two of its sessions. “No work,” she says, “that I have ever done is more important than this — the helping to plan and mold the affairs of a denomination.” As a representative of the F. B. W. M. S., she was several times delegate to the National Council of Women. Mr. Burlingame died in 1890. On July 5, 1892, she married Oren Burbank Cheney (1816–1903), resident of Bates College, and went to live in Lewiston, Maine. For many years, their interests had been identical in Christian and reformatory work. Both had lived very strenuous lives in devotion to such work. Both were “weary in the march of life” and the clasping of hands steadied and strengthened both. In Lewiston, Burlingame worked with the young women, leading them to formulate a self-governing platform of principles and rules. These “Principles" were printed and re-printed through the years and given to each woman student as she entered the college. At the National Council of Women's session at Washington, D.C., 1894, she was elected recording secretary, and in the following fall went to Atlanta, Georgia, to speak at a meeting of the Council in connection with the Exposition. In 1894, she resigned her position as editor of the Missionary Helper, to take effect at the end of that year. Serving for ten years as President of the National Free Baptist W.M.S., Burlingame became convinced that women as a disfranchised class were powerless to carry on efficient mission and reform work. She, therefore, printed a leaflet entitled, “An Appeal to Women’s Missionary Societies Urging Church Women to Support Woman Suffrage as a Step Toward More Efficient Missionary Work.” The National American Woman Suffrage Association printed and distributed several thousand of these leaflets among missionary societies in the churches. Personal life She married Luther Rawson Burlingame on November 24, 1859. Five children were born to them, two surviving to adult life, Luther Day of Providence, Rhode Island, and Minnie Thomas of Arizona; the other children were Frank Luther Burlingame (1861-1863), Emma Angell