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Charles Edward Adams (1867-1936) —
also known as Charles E. Adams; Charlie
Adams —
of Granite Falls, Yellow
Medicine County, Minn.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
1, 1867.
Superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state senate 57th District, 1915-36; died in office 1936; Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1929-31.
Congregationalist. Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
6, 1936 (age 69 years, 5
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Samuel Adams (1722-1803) —
also known as "The Tribune of the People";
"The Cromwell of New England";
"Determinatus"; "The Psalm Singer";
"Amendment Monger"; "American
Cato"; "Samuel the Publican" —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
27, 1722.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1781; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1788; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1789-94; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1793-97; received 15 electoral votes, 1796.
Congregationalist.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 1803 (age 81 years, 5
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Adams and Mary (Fifield) Adams; married 1749 to
Elizabeth Checkley; married 1764 to
Elizabeth Wells; uncle of Joseph
Allen; granduncle of Charles
Allen; great-grandfather of Elizabeth Wells Randall (who married
Alfred
Cumming) and William
Vincent Wells; second cousin of John
Adams; second cousin once removed of John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848); second cousin twice removed of George
Washington Adams, Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886) and John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin, John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Chapin, Arthur
Laban Bates, Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954) and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass, Emerson
Richard Boyles and Thomas
Boylston Adams; third cousin of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel
H. Huntington and Caleb
Cushing; third cousin twice removed of Willard
J. Chapin, Erastus
Fairbanks, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington, Charles
Adams Jr., James
Brooks and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Alphonso
Taft, Benjamin
W. Waite, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor, Franklin
Fairbanks, Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington, Edgar
Weeks and Arthur
Newton Holden; third cousin four times removed of John
Quincy Adams (1848-1911). |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Mount
Sam Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Samuel Adams (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Samuel Adams: Donald Barr
Chidsey, The
World of Samuel Adams |
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Frank Dewey Allen (1850-1910) —
also known as Frank D. Allen —
of Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., August
16, 1850.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1881-82; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1885-87; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1886-88; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1890-93; receiver, Central National
Bank,
Boston, 1902-05; director, Lynn Gas &
Electric Co.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in January, 1910
(age 59
years, 0 days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Francis Allen and Olive Ely (Dewey) Allen; married, January
9, 1878, to Lucy Rhodes. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | Image source: Bench and Bar of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1895) |
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Frank Gilman Allen (1874-1950) —
also known as Frank G. Allen —
of Norwood, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., October
6, 1874.
Republican. Chairman of Winslow Brothers & Smith, leather
and wool
manufacturers; director of banks and
insurance
firms; trustee of Norwood Hospital;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1918-19; member of Massachusetts
state senate Norfolk District, 1921-24; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1925-29; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1929-31; defeated, 1930; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Union
League.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
9, 1950 (age 76 years, 3
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Norwood, Mass.
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John Weston Allen (1872-1942) —
also known as J. Weston Allen —
of Newton Highlands, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Newton Highlands, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
19, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1915-18; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1920-22.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association; Loyal
Legion.
Prosecuted Charles Ponzi and other famous criminals.
Died in a hospital
at Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
1, 1942 (age 69 years, 257
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Walter Allen and Grace Mason (Weston) Allen; married, June 12,
1901, to Caroline Cheney Hills. |
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Samuel Clesson Allen (1772-1842) —
also known as Samuel C. Allen —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in Bernardston, Franklin
County, Mass., January
5, 1772.
Pastor;
lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1806-10; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1812-15, 1831; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1817-29 (6th District 1817-25,
7th District 1825-29); member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1829-30.
Congregationalist.
Died in Northfield, Franklin
County, Mass., February
8, 1842 (age 70 years, 34
days).
Interment at Center
Cemetery, Bernardston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Zebulon Allen and Freedom (Cooley) Allen; married, September
11, 1793, to Sarah Newcomb; married, April
10, 1797, to Mary Hunt; father of Elisha
Hunt Allen; grandfather of William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; great-grandnephew of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin twice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second cousin once removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, Frederick
Wolcott and Chester
Ashley; second cousin twice removed of William
Pitkin, Albert
Asahel Bliss and Philemon
Bliss; second cousin thrice removed of Judson
H. Warner; third cousin of Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin once removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Daniel
Pitkin, Theodore
Davenport, Chester
William Chapin, John
William Allen, William
Alfred Buckingham, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, George
Washington Wolcott, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin twice removed of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott, Edwin
W. Kellogg, Alfred
Wolcott and Samuel
Herbert Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Alfred
Clark Chapin, Abraham
Lincoln Kellogg, Henry
Augustus Wolcott, Arthur
Beebe Chapin, James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden
Chapin; fourth cousin of James
Hillhouse, Jonathan
Brace, Timothy
Pitkin, James
Kilbourne, Amaziah
Brainard and Greene
Carrier Bronson; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Walter
Booth, Albert
Haller Tracy, Millard
Fillmore, Byron
H. Kilbourn, Leveret
Brainard, Henry
Purdy Day, Edmund
Day and John
Robert Graham Pitkin. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) —
also known as Roger W. Babson; "The Seer of Wellesley
Hills" —
of Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., July 6,
1875.
Statistician;
economist;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1940.
Congregationalist. Member, American
Economic Association.
Author
of many books on business and religion; famed for predicting the 1929
stock market crash; founder
of Babson Institute (now Babson College), in Wellesley, Mass.; Webber
College (now Webber International University), in Babson Park, Fla.,
and Utopia College (now defunct), in Eureka, Kan.
Died in Mountain Lake, Polk
County, Fla., March 5,
1967 (age 91 years, 242
days).
Interment at Babson College Grounds, Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Mass.
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Thomas Cogswell Bachelder (b. 1860) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Gilmanton, Belknap
County, N.H., November
6, 1860.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1896-97.
Congregationalist. Member, Royal
Arcanum.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Fogg Bachelder and Martha Badger (Cogswell) Bachelder;
married, November
8, 1893, to Claudia Wilma Crosby. |
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John Denison Baldwin (1809-1883) —
also known as John D. Baldwin —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in North Stonington, New London
County, Conn., September
28, 1809.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1847-52; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1863-69.
Congregationalist.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., July 8,
1883 (age 73 years, 283
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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John Rodney Ball (b. 1881) —
also known as J. Rodney Ball —
of Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., June 17,
1881.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; president, Lawrence Morris Plan Bank;
vice-president, Essex Savings Bank;
director, Lawrence Cooperative Bank;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank James Ball and Mary Graves (Mann) Ball; married, February
24, 1909, to Maude R. Peary. |
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Joseph William Ballantine (b. 1888) —
also known as Joseph W. Ballantine —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born, of American parents, in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India,
July
30, 1888.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Deputy Consul in Kobe, 1911-12; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Yokohama, 1912; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Taihoku, 1912-14; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Yokohama, 1914; U.S. Consul in Dairen, 1921-23; Tokyo, 1923-29; U.S. Consul General in Canton, 1930-32.
Congregationalist. Member, Phi
Gamma Delta; American
Geographic Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Osborn Ballantine and Josephine Louise (Perkins)
Ballantine; married, October
30, 1917, to Emilia Ashburner Christy. |
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George Bancroft (1800-1891) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
3, 1800.
Democrat. U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1832-34; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1844;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1844; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1845-46; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1846-49; Prussia, 1867-71; Germany, 1871-74.
Congregationalist.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1910.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
17, 1891 (age 90 years, 106
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Clarence Alfred Barnes (1882-1970) —
also known as Clarence A. Barnes —
of Mansfield, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
28, 1882.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1912-13; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952
(speaker);
Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1945-49; defeated, 1928, 1938, 1948;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1950.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons.
Died, in Martha's Vineyard Hospital,
Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., May 25,
1970 (age 87 years, 270
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William D. Barnes and Mabel F. (Harding) Barnes; married, March
13, 1906, to Helen V. Long; married, October
8, 1927, to Doreen Kane. |
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George L. Barnes (b. 1879) —
of South Weymouth, Weymouth, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in South Weymouth, Weymouth, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 24,
1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Sixth Norfolk District, 1904-06;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1908
(alternate), 1912,
1924;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1911-12.
Congregationalist. Member, Exchange
Club.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Barnes and Adelia A. (Graves) Barnes; married 1906 to Anna
Stetson. |
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Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795) —
of Kingston, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Amesbury, Essex
County, Mass., November
21, 1729.
Physician;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1775-76, 1778; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council, 1776-84; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1779; common pleas court judge in New
Hampshire, 1779-82; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1782-90; chief
justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1790; President
of New Hampshire, 1790-93; candidate for Presidential Elector for
New Hampshire; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1792; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1793-94.
Congregationalist.
Died in Kingston, Rockingham
County, N.H., May 19,
1795 (age 65 years, 179
days).
Interment at Plains
Cemetery, Kingston, N.H.; statue at Public
Square, Amesbury, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Bruce Barton (1886-1967) —
also known as "Advertiser"; "The Advertising
King"; "The Great Repealer" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Robbins, Scott
County, Tenn., August
5, 1886.
Republican. Author; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1937-41; derided by
Franklin
Roosevelt as one of "Martin, Barton, and Fish", three Republican
opponents of his New Deal policies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1940; a founder of the Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn (BBDO) advertising
agency.
Congregationalist. Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1967 (age 80 years, 334
days).
Interment at Rock
Hill Cemetery, Foxboro, Mass.
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Theodore Cornelius Bates (b. 1843) —
of North Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in North Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass., June 4,
1843.
Republican. Manufacturer;
proprietor, Worcester Corset Co.; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1879; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1883; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1884.
Congregationalist. English
ancestry. Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Elijah Bates and Sarah (Fletcher) Bates; married, December
24, 1868, to Emma Frances Duncan. |
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Jesse Bunton Baxter (b. 1872) —
also known as Jesse B. Baxter —
of Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
10, 1872.
Republican. Banker; treasurer of
Massachusetts Republican Party, 1915-16; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Congregationalist. Member, Loyal
Legion; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Quincy Baxter and Isadore Frances (Bunton) Baxter;
married, June 29,
1909, to Katharine Woodbury. |
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Ernest Lorne Bell (1871-1925) —
also known as Ernest L. Bell —
of Woodstock, Grafton
County, N.H.; Plymouth, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
16, 1871.
Physician;
surgeon to Boston & Maine Railroad;
surgeon-general of New Hampshire; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1903-04; member of New
Hampshire state senate 2nd District, 1905-06; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I.
Congregationalist. Member, American Medical
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Hebron, Grafton
County, N.H., April
19, 1925 (age 54 years, 34
days).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery, Plymouth, N.H.
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Jay Rogers Benton (1885-1953) —
also known as Jay R. Benton —
of Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
18, 1885.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; banker;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1916;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1917-18; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1923-27; insurance
executive.
Congregationalist. Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Acacia;
Sons
of the American Revolution; American Bar
Association.
Died in Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
3, 1953 (age 68 years, 16
days).
Interment at Belmont Cemetery, Belmont, Mass.
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Max Berking (1917-1997) —
of Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.; North Port, Sarasota
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 27,
1917.
Democrat. Advertising
executive; member of New York
state senate 30th District, 1965; chair of
Westchester County Democratic Party, 1971-75.
Congregationalist. Member, Urban
League.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Alford, Berkshire
County, Mass., September
24, 1997 (age 80 years, 59
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Dorothy Noyes and Frances Bauman. |
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Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (1895-1971) —
also known as Adolf A. Berle; A. A. Berle —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
29, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; economist;
law
professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; American Labor candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937; U.S.
Ambassador to Brazil, 1945-46.
Congregationalist. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a stroke,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
17, 1971 (age 76 years, 19
days).
Interment at Muddy Brook Cemetery, Great Barrington, Mass.
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Frank Austin Bond (1889-1960) —
also known as Frank A. Bond —
of North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., March
11, 1889.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; real estate
business; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1940
(alternate), 1944.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, of carcinoma
of the sigmoid colon, in North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., May 19,
1960 (age 71 years, 69
days).
Interment at Southview
Cemetery, North Adams, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of John Arnold Bond and Anna Belle (Kimball) Bond; married, July 25,
1929, to Margaret E. Wheeler. |
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George Francis Booth (1870-1955) —
also known as George F. Booth —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., November
11, 1870.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924,
1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1944.
Congregationalist or Unitarian.
Died in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., September
1, 1955 (age 84 years, 294
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Booth and Eliza (Jackson) Booth; married, November
18, 1896, to Minnie L. Welles. |
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Vernon Ensign Bradley (1912-1990) —
also known as Vernon E. Bradley; Brad
Bradley —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., September
27, 1912.
Republican. Accountant;
realtor;
real
estate developer; candidate for mayor
of Springfield, Mass., 1949; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1954.
United Church of Christ. Member, Civitan.
Died, of arteriosclerosis,
in a hospital
at Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., September
7, 1990 (age 77 years, 345
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Hillcrest
Cemetery, Springfield, Mass.
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Joshua Loring Brooks (b. 1868) —
also known as Joshua L. Brooks —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
19, 1868.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1930, 1932;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932.
Congregationalist. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Theta
Delta Chi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman B. Brooks and Maria Cordelia (Loring) Brooks; married, June 6,
1894, to Margaret Lilian Robinson. |
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Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913) —
also known as Henry B. Brown —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in South Lee, Lee, Berkshire
County, Mass., March 2,
1836.
Lawyer;
circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1868; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1875-90; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1890-1906; resigned 1906.
Congregationalist.
Died in Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
4, 1913 (age 77 years, 186
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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James Barrett Brown (b. 1885) —
also known as James B. Brown —
of Everett, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham
County, Vt., March 3,
1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
general counsel, Massachusetts Bankers
Association; special counsel, Boston & Maine Railroad;
vice-president, First National Bank of
Reading; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Twentieth Middlesex District,
1921-24; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Addison Brown and Flora (Pierce) Brown; married, July 30,
1913, to Grace Donaldson. |
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John Parker Hale Chandler Jr. (1911-2001) —
also known as John P. H. Chandler, Jr.; "Happy
Jack" —
of Warner, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
6, 1911.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1943; owner, Warner Ski
Area, 1946-62; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council 5th District, 1953-59; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1956
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1960,
1972,
1980;
member of New
Hampshire state senate, 1961; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire, 1962.
United Church of Christ. Member, Freemasons;
Grange.
Died, in Pleasant View Nursing
Home, Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., April
27, 2001 (age 89 years, 264
days).
Interment at New
Waterloo Cemetery, Warner, N.H.
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Edwin O. Childs (b. 1876) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
10, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor of
Newton, Mass., 1914-29, 1936-39; defeated, 1939.
Congregationalist. Member, Royal
Arcanum; Freemasons;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edwin O. Childs and Caroline A. (Chaffin) Childs; married, January
11, 1908, to Mildred E. Roy. |
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Florence Gifford Claussen (1897-1975) —
also known as Florence G. Claussen; Florence
Gifford —
of Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Cotuit, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., February
12, 1897.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1948;
member of Massachusetts
Republican State Central Committee, 1949.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Died in 1975
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Mosswood
Cemetery, Cotuit, Barnstable, Mass.
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Charles Langdon Cook (b. 1865) —
also known as Charles L. Cook —
of Ripton, Addison
County, Vt.
Born in Hinsdale, Berkshire
County, Mass., February
27, 1865.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Ripton, 1910.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Lorrin Alamson Cooke (1831-1902) —
also known as Lorrin A. Cooke —
of Colebrook, Litchfield
County, Conn.; Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in New Marlborough, Berkshire
County, Mass., April 6,
1831.
Republican. Member of Connecticut
state senate 18th District, 1882-84; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1885-87, 1895-97; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Connecticut, 1892;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1897-99.
Congregationalist.
Died in Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn., August
12, 1902 (age 71 years, 128
days).
Interment at Center
Cemetery, Colebrook, Conn.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) —
also known as John Calvin Coolidge; "Silent
Cal"; "Cautious Cal" —
of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Plymouth, Windsor
County, Vt., July 4,
1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1907; mayor
of Northampton, Mass., 1910-11; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1912-15; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1916-19; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1919-21; Vice
President of the United States, 1921-23; President
of the United States, 1923-29.
Congregationalist. English
ancestry.
Died of coronary
thrombosis in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
5, 1933 (age 60 years, 185
days).
Interment at Plymouth
Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Vt.
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Presumably named
for: John
Calvin |
| | Relatives: Son of John Calvin Coolidge
and Victoria Josephine (Moor) Coolidge; married, October
4, 1905, to Grace
Anna Goodhue; father of John Coolidge (son-in-law of John
Harper Trumbull); first cousin twice removed of Arthur
Brown; second cousin once removed of William
Wallace Stickney. |
| | Political families: Coolidge
family of Plainville, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: John
W. Langley — Everett
Sanders — Robert
C. Lacey |
| | Personal motto: "Do the day's
work." |
| | Campaign slogan (1924): "Keep cool and
keep Coolidge." |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books by Calvin Coolidge: The
Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929) |
| | Books about Calvin Coolidge: Peter
Hannaford, ed., The
Quotable Calvin Coolidge : Sensible Words for the New
Century — Robert H. Ferrell, The
Presidency of Calvin Coolidge — Robert Sobel, Coolidge:
An American Enigma — David Greenberg, Coolidge —
Amity Shlaes, Coolidge |
| | Critical books about Calvin Coolidge:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | Image source: "The Statesman," George
Wythe University, October 2012 |
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Louis Sherburne Cox (b. 1874) —
also known as Louis S. Cox —
of Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., November
22, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate Fifth Essex District, 1906; postmaster at Lawrence,
Mass., 1906-13; superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1918-37;
justice
of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1937-40.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Grange;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi.
Burial location unknown.
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William Cushing (1732-1810) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Scituate, Plymouth
County, Mass., March 1,
1732.
State court judge in Massachusetts, 1777; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1782-89; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1782-89; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-1810.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons.
Died September
13, 1810 (age 78 years, 196
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Plymouth County, Mass.
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Joshua Cushman (1761-1834) —
of Winslow, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Halifax, Plymouth
County, Mass., April
11, 1761.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; physician;
pastor;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1810; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1811-12; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1819-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine at-large, 1821-25; member of Maine
state senate, 1828; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1834.
Congregationalist.
Died in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
27, 1834 (age 72 years, 291
days).
Interment at State
of Maine Burial Ground, Augusta, Maine.
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Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Killingly, Windham
County, Conn., May 13,
1742.
Ordained
minister; physician;
member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1780; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1801-05.
Congregationalist.
Died in Hamilton, Essex
County, Mass., July 28,
1823 (age 81 years, 76
days).
Interment at Hamilton
Cemetery, Hamilton, Mass.
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Nathaniel Davis (1925-2011) —
of Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
12, 1925.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Minister to Bulgaria, 1965-66; U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, 1968-71; Chile, 1971-73; Switzerland, 1975-77.
Congregationalist. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Historical Association.
Died May 16,
2011 (age 86 years, 34
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Proctor Lambert Dougherty (b. 1873) —
also known as Proctor L. Dougherty —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1873.
Republican. Engineer;
Manager, Otis Elevator Co., 1919-26; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1926-30; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1926-30.
Congregationalist; later Unitarian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of M. Angelo Dougherty and Mary Elizabeth (Proctor) Dougherty;
married, October
12, 1910, to Grace Cook Holmes. |
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Joseph Daniel Duffey (b. 1932) —
also known as Joseph D. Duffey —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va., July 1,
1932.
Democrat. Professor
and acting dean, Hartford Seminary, 1960-70; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Connecticut, 1968;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1970; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State
for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1977-78; chairman, National
Endowment for the Humanities, 1977-81; chancellor,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1982-1991; president,
University of Massachusetts system, 1990-91; president,
American University, 1991-93; dirctor, U.S. Information Agency,
1993-99.
United Church of Christ.
Still living as of 2011.
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Henry Durant (1802-1875) —
of Byfield, Newbury, Essex
County, Mass.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Acton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 18,
1802.
Pastor;
founder,
College of California; first president,
University of California, 1870-72; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., January
22, 1875 (age 72 years, 218
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Richard Durant (1918-2008) —
also known as Dick Durant —
of Grosse Pointe, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., March 5,
1918.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 14th District, 1950, 1952; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1960,
1964;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; lawyer.
Congregationalist.
Died January
17, 2008 (age 89 years, 318
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Caleb Ellis (1767-1816) —
of Claremont, Sullivan
County, N.H.
Born in Walpole, Norfolk
County, Mass., April
16, 1767.
Lawyer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1803; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1805-07; member
of New
Hampshire Governor's Council, 1809-10; member of New
Hampshire state senate 11th District, 1811-12; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New Hampshire; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1813-16; died in office 1816.
Congregationalist.
Died in Claremont, Sullivan
County, N.H., May 9,
1816 (age 49 years, 23
days).
Interment at Broad
Street Cemetery, Claremont, N.H.
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Joseph Buell Ely (1881-1956) —
also known as Joseph B. Ely —
of Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., February
22, 1881.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director, Hampton National Bank and
Trust Company; director, American Woolen
Company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924,
1928,
1932,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1931-35.
Congregationalist. Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Elks; Kiwanis.
Died in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., June 13,
1956 (age 75 years, 112
days).
Interment at Pine
Hill Cemetery, Westfield, Mass.
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John Scott Everton (1908-2003) —
of Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Istanbul, Turkey;
Yarmouth Port, Yarmouth, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March 7,
1908.
Minister;
college
professor; president,
Kalamazoo College, 1949-53; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1961-63; president
of Robert College (now Bogazici University), Istanbul, Turkey,
1968-71.
Baptist;
later Congregationalist. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Kappa Delta.
Died January
23, 2003 (age 94 years, 322
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Erastus Fairbanks (1792-1864) —
of St. Johnsbury, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Brimfield, Hampden
County, Mass., October
28, 1792.
One of the founders of E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., platform
scale manufacturers; president, Passumpsic Railroad,
which completed a line from White River to St. Johnsbury in 1850;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1836-38; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Vermont; Governor of
Vermont, 1852-53, 1860-61; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Vermont, 1856.
Congregationalist.
Died in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia
County, Vt., November
20, 1864 (age 72 years, 23
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
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George Chandler Fairbanks (1852-1931) —
also known as George C. Fairbanks —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1852.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1909.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows.
Died April
23, 1931 (age 79 years, 107
days).
Interment at Dell
Park Cemetery, Natick, Mass.
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Elial Todd Foote (1796-1877) —
also known as Elial T. Foote —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Gill, Franklin
County, Mass., May 1,
1796.
Physician;
banker;
member of New York
state assembly, 1819-20, 1826-27 (Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and
Niagara counties 1819-20, Chautauqua County 1826-27); Chautauqua
County Judge, 1823-43; postmaster at Jamestown,
N.Y., 1829-41.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
17, 1877 (age 81 years, 200
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Jamestown, N.Y.
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Orin Fowler (1791-1852) —
of Plainfield, Windham
County, Conn.; Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., July 29,
1791.
Missionary;
minister;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1848; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1849-52 (9th District 1849-51,
2nd District 1851-52); died in office 1852.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
3, 1852 (age 61 years, 36
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Fall River, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Seth Newton Gage (b. 1857) —
also known as Seth N. Gage —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Ascutneyville, Weathersfield, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Bristol, Grafton
County, N.H., 1857.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Weathersfield, 1910.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Nelson Gardner (1881-1953) —
also known as Richard N. Gardner; Dick
Gardner —
of Staples, Todd
County, Minn.
Born in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., 1881.
Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state senate 51st District, 1931-43; resigned 1943.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Rotary;
Royal
League; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., December
4, 1953 (age about 72
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Alfred Calvin Gaunt (b. 1882) —
also known as Alfred C. Gaunt —
of Methuen, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., April
30, 1882.
Republican. Manufacturer;
president, Merrimac Mills; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1947-48; defeated, 1948.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Gaunt and Mary Lyle (Weir) Gaunt; married, September
12, 1906, to Bertha Fisher. |
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Charles Laceille Gifford (1871-1947) —
also known as Charles L. Gifford —
of Cotuit, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Cotuit, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., March
15, 1871.
Republican. School
teacher; real estate
business; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1912-13; member of Massachusetts
state senate Cape and Plymouth District, 1914-19; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1916;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1922-47 (16th District
1922-33, 15th District 1933-43, 9th District 1943-47); died in office
1947.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Cotuit, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., August
23, 1947 (age 76 years, 161
days).
Interment at Mosswood
Cemetery, Cotuit, Barnstable, Mass.
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Moses Gill (1734-1800) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., January
18, 1734.
Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1794-1800; died in office 1800; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1799-1800; died in office 1800.
Congregationalist.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 20,
1800 (age 66 years, 122
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Warren R. Gilmore (b. 1898) —
of Wrentham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Walpole, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
10, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1948.
Congregationalist. Member, Lions; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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John Merrill Goodwin (b. 1857) —
also known as John M. Goodwin —
of Corinth, Orange
County, Vt.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 9,
1857.
Democrat. Butter
maker; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Corinth, 1910.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Nathaniel Gorham (1738-1796) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., May 27,
1738.
Delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1780-81; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1781-87; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1782-83,
1785-86; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1782-83, 1785-87;
state court judge in Massachusetts, 1785-96; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Congregationalist.
Died in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., June 11,
1796 (age 58 years, 15
days).
Interment at Phipps
Street Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
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Merle Dixon Graves (b. 1887) —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.; Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, October
13, 1887.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Fourth Hampden District, 1921-24.
Congregationalist. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Phi
Gamma Delta; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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William Kirk Greer (b. 1873) —
also known as William K. Greer —
of North Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
11, 1873.
Republican. Textile mill
agent; mayor
of North Adams, Mass., 1923-24; director, North Adams National Bank;
vice-president, North Adams Savings
Bank.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Greer and Caroline (Kirk) Greer; married, October
18, 1898, to Sarah M. Walker. |
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John William Haigis (1881-1960) —
also known as John W. Haigis —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in Turners Falls, Montague, Franklin
County, Mass., July 31,
1881.
Republican. Founder, editor, and publisher of the Greenfield
Recorder newspaper;
banker;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1909-12; member of Massachusetts
state senate Franklin & Hampshire District, 1915-16, 1923-26; Massachusetts
state treasurer, 1929-30; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1934; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1940
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; speaker);
trustee of the University of Massachusetts, 1940-56; owner and
operator of radio
station WHAI.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Redmen.
Died in 1960
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Green
River Cemetery, Greenfield, Mass.
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Alfred Stevens Hall (b. 1850) —
also known as Alfred S. Hall —
of Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Westminster West, Westminster, Windham
County, Vt., April
14, 1850.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Twelfth Middlesex District, 1905.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Hall and Frances A. (Tuttle) Hall; married, October
18, 1876, to Annette M. Hitchcock; married, April
10, 1895, to Delia R. Ranney. |
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Lemuel C. Hall (b. 1874) —
of Wareham, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Harwich, Barnstable
County, Mass., December
13, 1874.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1927-28; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Redmen;
Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Gershom Hall and Sophie Louise (Parker) Hall; married, December
25, 1896, to Lettice M. G. Foster. |
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John Hancock (1737-1793) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., January
23, 1737.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1775-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1780-85, 1787-93; died in office 1793; received 4
electoral votes, 1789.
Congregationalist. Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
8, 1793 (age 56 years, 258
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Hancock and Mary (Hawke) Hancock; married, August
28, 1775, to Dorothy 'Dolly'(Quincy) Scott. |
| | Hancock counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Miss., Ohio, Tenn. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | The town
of Hancock,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. — Mount
Hancock, in the White Mountains, Grafton
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Hancock (built 1941 at Portland,
Oregon; torpedoed and lost in the Caribbean
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | Books about John Hancock: Harlow Giles
Unger, John
Hancock : Merchant King and American Patriot — Harlow
Giles Unger, John
Hancock: Merchant King & American Patriot |
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Samuel Ralph Harlow (1885-1972) —
also known as S. Ralph Harlow —
of Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey;
Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 20,
1885.
Socialist. Congregationalist
minister; college
professor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1932, 1934, 1936.
Congregationalist. Member, League
for Industrial Democracy; NAACP; American
Association of University Professors; American
Federation of Teachers; Pi Gamma
Mu.
Died in Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
21, 1972 (age 87 years, 32
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Samuel A. Harlow and Caroline Mudge (Usher) Harlow; married,
February
1, 1912, to Marion Stafford; married to Elizabeth (Kaufmann)
Grigorakis. |
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Charles Walbridge Hedges (b. 1901) —
also known as Charles W. Hedges —
of Wollaston, Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., March
27, 1901.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1932-42, 1946; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1936,
1940,
1948,
1952,
1956;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.
Congregationalist. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Amvets;
Freemasons;
United
Commercial Travelers; Phi
Gamma Delta.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Arthur J. Hedges and Kate (Walbridge) Hedges; married 1929 to Dr.
Ella Goodale. |
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William Lincoln Higgins (1867-1951) —
also known as William L. Higgins —
of South Coventry, Coventry, Tolland
County, Conn.
Born in Chesterfield, Hampshire
County, Mass., March 8,
1867.
Republican. Physician;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Coventry, 1905-08, 1917-22,
1925-28; member of Connecticut
state senate, 1909-12; first
selectman of Coventry, Connecticut, 1917-32; Tolland
County Commissioner, 1921-32; secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1929-33; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1933-37; defeated,
1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1936
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., November
19, 1951 (age 84 years, 256
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Chesterfield
Center Cemetery, Chesterfield, Mass.
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Pehr Gustaf Holmes (1881-1952) —
also known as Pehr G. Holmes —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Sweden,
April
9, 1881.
Republican. Manufacturer;
mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1917-19; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council 7th District, 1925-28; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1931-47;
defeated, 1946.
Congregationalist. Swedish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Redmen;
Elks; Rotary.
Died in Venice, Sarasota
County, Fla., December
19, 1952 (age 71 years, 254
days).
Interment at Old
Swedish Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Lewis R. Hovey (b. 1874) —
of Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., May 17,
1874.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; printer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Lewis Hovey and Mae S. (Peaslee) Hovey; married, April
19, 1899, to Helen Cleveland Smith. |
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James Frederick Jackson (1851-1937) —
also known as James F. Jackson —
of Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.; Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., November
13, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Fall River, Mass., 1889-90; chair, Massachusetts Railroad
Commission, 1899-1907.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in 1937
(age about
85 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Chester Walton Jenks (b. 1894) —
also known as Chester W. Jenks —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass., March
11, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1945; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1946; member of
New
Hampshire Republican State Executive Committee, 1949; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1952,
1956,
1960.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Harold Chessman Keith (b. 1884) —
also known as Harold C. Keith —
of Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass., June 18,
1884.
Republican. Shoe
manufacturer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1928.
Congregationalist. Member, Chi Phi;
Freemasons;
Union
League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George E. Keith and Anna G. (Reed) Keith; married, April
12, 1910, to Ethel Middlebrook Bowne. |
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Roger Keith (b. 1888) —
of Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 8,
1888.
Republican. Insurance
business; mayor
of Brockton, Mass., 1921-22; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1924;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1929-32.
Congregationalist. Member, Chi Phi;
Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Horace A. Keith and Nellie W. (Packard) Keith; married, April
12, 1913, to Carolyn Bruce Hastings; father of Paul
Keith. |
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William A. King (b. 1855) —
of Stafford Springs, Stafford, Tolland
County, Conn.; Willimantic, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., July 22,
1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1882, 1899-1902, 1919-20
(Stafford 1882, Windham 1899-1902, 1919-20); defeated, 1908; Connecticut
state attorney general, 1903-07; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1912.
Congregationalist.
Interment at Old
Willimantic Cemetery, Windham, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Patrick King and Mary King; married, August
26, 1889, to Jane S. Cady. |
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William Franklin Knox (1874-1944) —
also known as Frank Knox —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1874.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1920
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); candidate for nomination for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1924; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1936; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1940;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44; died in office 1944.
Congregationalist. Member, American
Legion.
Died, following a series of heart
attacks, in Washington,
D.C., April
28, 1944 (age 70 years, 118
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943) —
also known as Bertha Knight —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., October
19, 1868.
Republican. Lecturer;
writer;
mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1926-28; defeated, 1928.
Female.
Congregationalist. Member, Soroptimists;
League of
Women Voters.
First
woman mayor of a large American city.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
29, 1943 (age 75 years, 41
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Benjamin Clarke Lane (b. 1866) —
also known as Benjamin C. Lane —
of West Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 1866.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1892; member of
Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1894-95; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1918-21.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Abbot Lane and Sarah Delia (Clarke) Lane; married, April
25, 1899, to Florence Goodwin. |
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Eileen B. Lewis (b. 1903) —
also known as Eileen B. O'Connor; Eileen B.
Lane —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., July 29,
1903.
Democrat. Candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Greenwich, 1946.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin F. Lincoln (b. 1831) —
of Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Wareham, Plymouth
County, Mass., September
4, 1831.
Republican. Lumber
manufacturer; director, Lyndon National Bank;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Lyndon, 1876-78, 1888.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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James Logan (1852-1929) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
May
6, 1852.
Republican. Mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1908-11.
Congregationalist.
Died November
30, 1929 (age 77 years, 208
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Wallace Raymond Lovett (b. 1880) —
also known as Wallace R. Lovett —
of Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
6, 1880.
Republican. President and general manager, Standard Diary Co., publishers;
vice-president, Malden Savings
Bank; director, Melrose Cooperative Bank;
director, Malden Morris Plan Bank;
director, Liberty Trust
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1936.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Frederick Lovett and Eliza Carleton (Hackett) Lovett;
married, September
11, 1902, to Maude Alice Morrin. |
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Lena A. Marson (1848-1928) —
also known as Pauline A. Yeaton —
of Pemaquid, Bristol, Lincoln
County, Maine; Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Maine, June 15,
1848.
Republican. Postmaster at Pemaquid,
Maine, 1897-1905.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Died in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., March
25, 1928 (age 79 years, 284
days).
Interment at Maple Grove Cemetery, Randolph, Maine.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Charles H. Yeaton and Lucy Ann (Houdlette) Yeaton;
married to Myrick Henry Marson. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Sumner Maynard (1802-1866) —
also known as William S. Maynard —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Berkshire
County, Mass., April
25, 1802.
Merchant;
village
president of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1836-38, 1839-40; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1856-58, 1865-66.
Congregationalist.
Suffering from severe depression, he killed
himself by an overdose
of morphine or laudanum, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., June 18,
1866 (age 64 years, 54
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Walter Robertson Meins (b. 1883) —
also known as Walter R. Meins —
of Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
14, 1883.
Republican. Lawyer;
member, Boston City Council, 1909; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1912; Massachusetts State Income
Tax Assessor, 1922; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1932.
Congregationalist. Member, Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Walter Robertson Meins and Grace Forster (Leach)
Meins. |
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Selah Merrill (1837-1909) —
of Andover, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Canton Center, Canton, Hartford
County, Conn., May 2,
1837.
Clergyman;
author;
archaeologist;
U.S. Consul in Jerusalem, 1882-86, 1891-1905.
Congregationalist.
Died in Alameda
County, Calif., January
22, 1909 (age 71 years, 265
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Merrill and Lydia (Richards) Merrill; married, April
29, 1875, to Adelaide Brewster Taylor; first cousin once removed
of Greene
Carrier Bronson; first cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; second cousin once removed of John
Russell Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Hezekiah
Case; second cousin thrice removed of Noah
Phelps; third cousin once removed of Parmenio
Adams, George
Smith Catlin, Francis
William Kellogg and Edward
Russell Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Jason
Kellogg, Jonathan
Brace, Augustus
Pettibone, Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Elisha
Phelps, Timothy
Merrill, Rufus
Pettibone, Amos
Pettibone and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; fourth cousin of Asahel
Pierson Case, Hiram
Bidwell Case and Arthur
Tappan Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Luther
Walter Badger, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg, Theodore
Davenport, Alvan
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, William
Alfred Buckingham, Norman
A. Phelps, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, John
Smith Phelps, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Augustus
Herman Pettibone, Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903), Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler, Joseph
Wells Holcomb and William
Lucius Case. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Stewart Miller (b. 1884) —
also known as George S. Miller —
of Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., May 12,
1884.
Republican. School
teacher; college
professor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1932;
acting
president, Tufts College, 1937-38; director, Medford Hillside
Cooperative Bank.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Alpha
Tau Omega; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James H. Miller and Katherine (Stewart) Miller; married, August
14, 1913, to Marion F. Stratton. |
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Charles Pinckney Holbrook Nason (1842-1937) —
also known as Charles P. H. Nason —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Newburyport, Essex
County, Mass., September
7, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; clergyman;
writer;
lecturer;
U.S. Consul in Grenoble, 1901-11.
Presbyterian
or Congregationalist.
Died in 1937
(age about
94 years).
Interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Henry Gleason Newton (1843-1914) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Durham, Middlesex
County, Conn., June 5,
1843.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1885, 1895; trustee, Farmers' and
Mechanics' Savings Bank,
Middletown, Conn.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died March
21, 1914 (age 70 years, 289
days).
Interment at Durham Cemetery, Durham, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. Gaylord Newton and Nancy M. (Merwin) Newton; married 1885 to Dr.
Sarah Allen Baldwin. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) —
of Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
11, 1731.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1777; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1777-90; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1790-1804.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 12,
1814 (age 83 years, 62
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; statue at Church
Green, Taunton, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Paine and Eunice (Treat) Paine; married to Sarah Cobb;
great-grandson of Robert
Treat; second great-grandfather of Robert
Treat Paine Jr.; second cousin twice removed of John
Condit, Eli
Thacher Hoyt, Aurelius
Buckingham and Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland; second cousin thrice removed of Silas
Condit, Ira
Chandler Backus, Joshua
Perkins, Edward
Green Bradford, Philo
Beecher Buckingham, Bailey
Frye Adams, Henry
Sabin, Lee
Randall Sanborn, Alanson
B. Treat, Charles
M. Hotchkiss and David
Leroy Treat; second cousin four times removed of Albert
Pierson Condit, Edward
Green Bradford II, James
L. Sanborn and Warren
Walter Rich; second cousin five times removed of Clarence
Sidney Merrill, Simeon
Harrison Rollinson, Edward
Green Bradford Jr., Elizabeth
Bradford du Pont Bayard and Joseph
Clark Baldwin III; third cousin twice removed of Gershom
Birdsey, Benjamin
Hard and Alonzo
Sidney Upham; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Eli
Coe Birdsey, Lorenzo
Burrows, Nathan
Belcher, Russell
Sage, Gilbert
Carlton Walker, John
Ransom Buck and Benjamin
Baker Merrill; fourth cousin of Luther
Waterman; fourth cousin once removed of David
Waterman and Jonathan
Brace. |
| | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Raymond Percival Palmer (1895-1959) —
also known as Raymond P. Palmer —
of Braintree, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in East Bridgewater, Plymouth
County, Mass., December
27, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1939-43, 1947-50; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1940;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.
Congregationalist.
Died March
28, 1959 (age 63 years, 91
days).
Interment at Old
North Cemetery, Weymouth, Mass.
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Philo Parsons (1817-1865) —
of Michigan.
Born in Scipio, Cayuga
County, N.Y., February
7, 1817.
Wholesale
grocer; banker;
member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1861-63.
Presbyterian;
later Congregationalist.
Died in Winchendon, Worcester
County, Mass., January
12, 1865 (age 47 years, 340
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lewis Baldwin Parsons and Lucine (Hoar) Parsons; married, June 27,
1843, to Anne Eliza Barnum. |
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Hamilton Sullivan Peck (b. 1845) —
also known as Hamilton S. Peck —
of Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Royalston, Worcester
County, Mass., October
22, 1845.
Republican. Lawyer; Chittenden
County State's Attorney, 1878-80; secretary of
Vermont Republican Party, 1892-96; mayor
of Burlington, Vt., 1896-98; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Burlington, 1910.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Brickett Priest (b. 1910) —
also known as Benjamin B. Priest —
of Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass.; Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., December
3, 1910.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1939-43; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1943-45; served in the U.S. Navy during World War
II; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1948.
Congregationalist. Member, Beta
Theta Pi; American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Winston Lewis Prouty (1906-1971) —
also known as Winston L. Prouty —
of Newport, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., September
1, 1906.
Republican. Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1941, 1945-47; Speaker of
the Vermont State House of Representatives, 1947; U.S.
Representative from Vermont at-large, 1951-59; U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1959-71; died in office 1971.
Congregationalist.
Died, of gastric
cancer, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
10, 1971 (age 65 years, 9
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Newport, Vt.
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Fred H. Purches (b. 1881) —
of Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass., October
5, 1881.
Republican. Insurance
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1948.
Congregationalist. Member, Kiwanis;
Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Elks; Eagles;
Grange.
Burial location unknown.
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William I. Randall (b. 1915) —
of Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
13, 1915.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1950; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1960.
Congregationalist.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Howard B. Randall and Helen (Rice) Randall; married, August
31, 1940, to Harriet Griswold. |
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Charles Gardner Reed (1835-1899) —
also known as Charles G. Reed —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in North Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass., April 2,
1835.
Wheel spoke
manufacturer; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1884-85.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons.
Suffered a heart
attack at the corner of Belmont and Orchard streets, and died
soon after in a nearby house, Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., November
21, 1899 (age 64 years, 233
days).
Interment at Hope
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Edith Nourse Rogers (1881-1960) —
also known as Edith Frances Nourse —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, 1881.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1925-60; died in
office 1960.
Female.
Congregationalist; later Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion Auxiliary.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1998.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
10, 1960 (age about 79
years).
Interment at Lowell
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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John Jacob Rogers (1881-1925) —
also known as John J. Rogers —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
18, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1913-25; died in
office 1925; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1924.
Congregationalist.
Sponsor and longtime advocate of legislation to reform the U.S.
foreign service, finally enacted in 1924.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1925 (age 43 years, 222
days).
Interment at Lowell
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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D. Joseph St. Germain (1893-1980) —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Ellenberg, Clinton
County, N.Y., July 27,
1893.
Republican. Investment
banker; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1940,
1948,
1956.
Congregationalist. Member, American
Legion; Elks.
Died in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., April, 1980
(age 86
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Roland Douglas Sawyer (1874-1969) —
also known as Roland D. Sawyer —
of Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Kensington, Rockingham
County, N.H., January
8, 1874.
Clergyman;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1912 (Socialist), 1928 (Democratic primary), 1930
(Democratic primary); expelled from Socialist Party, 1913; member of
Massachusetts
state house of representatives Fourth Hampshire District,
1914-40; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1928;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1925.
Congregationalist.
Died in 1969
(age about
95 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Seaver (1795-1856) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., April
12, 1795.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1846-48; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1850-51; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1852-54.
Congregationalist.
Died February
14, 1856 (age 60 years, 308
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Roger Sherman (1721-1793) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
19, 1721.
Superior court judge in Connecticut, 1766-89; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1774-81, 1783-84;
member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1776-85; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1777; mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1784-93; died in office 1793; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-91; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1791-93; died in office 1793.
Congregationalist.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 23,
1793 (age 72 years, 95
days).
Original interment at New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment in 1821 at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Mehitable (Wellington) Sherman and William Sherman; married, November
17, 1749, to Elizabeth Hartwell; married, May 12,
1763, to Rebecca Prescott; father of Rebecca Sherman (who married
Simeon
Baldwin (1761-1851)), Elizabeth Sherman (who married Simeon
Baldwin (1761-1851)) and Sarah Sherman (who married Samuel
Hoar); grandfather of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar; great-grandfather of Roger
Sherman Greene, Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; second great-grandfather of Henry
Sherman Boutell, Edward
Baldwin Whitney, Henry
de Forest Baldwin, Thomas
Day Thacher, Roger
Sherman Greene II, Roger
Sherman Hoar and Roger
Kent; second great-granduncle of Chauncey
Mitchell Depew and John
Frederick Addis; third great-grandfather of Archibald
Cox; third great-granduncle of John
Stanley Addis; ancestor *** of George
Sherman Batcheller; first cousin thrice removed of John
Adams Dix; second cousin five times removed of Horace
Bemis and Lorin
Andrews Lathrop. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | The town
of Sherman,
Connecticut, is named for
him. — The town
and village
of Sherman,
New York, are named for
him. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James A. Stacey (b. 1872) —
of Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., August
2, 1872.
Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1915; member of Vermont
state senate from Windsor County, 1923.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Andrew Coolidge Stone (1839-1905) —
of Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Marlborough, Cheshire
County, N.H., May 16,
1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1880-82; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1884.
Congregationalist. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., February
26, 1905 (age 65 years, 286
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Caleb Strong (1745-1819) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
9, 1745.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1776; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1780; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1789-96; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1800-07, 1812-16.
Congregationalist. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died November
7, 1819 (age 74 years, 302
days).
Interment at Bridge
Street Cemetery, Northampton, Mass.
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Arthur M. Taft (b. 1854) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Uxbridge, Worcester
County, Mass., January
28, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Twenty-First Worcester District,
1901-06; member of Massachusetts
state senate First Worcester District, 1906-07.
Congregationalist. Member, Grange;
Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Redmen.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Brigham A. Taft. |
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George Sylvester Taylor (1822-1910) —
of Chicopee Falls, Chicopee, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in South Hadley, Hampshire
County, Mass., March 2,
1822.
Republican. Farm tool
manufacturer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1860-61; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1869; president, Chicopee Falls Savings Bank; mayor
of Chicopee, Mass., 1891.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Chicopee, Hampden
County, Mass., January
3, 1910 (age 87 years, 307
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Odin Tilton (b. 1885) —
also known as Henry O. Tilton —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Lexington, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 1,
1885.
Republican. Electrical
engineer;
local sales manager, General Electric; director, Stratton and Co.,
Concord, N.H.; director, New England Confectionary
Co., Cambridge, Mass.; candidate for mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1933; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1952.
Congregationalist. Member, Kappa
Sigma; Freemasons;
Grotto;
Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Odin Tilton and Hattie (French) Tilton; married, September
30, 1914, to Olive Northrop Fobes. |
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Charles Lee Underhill (1867-1946) —
also known as Charles L. Underhill —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Richmond,
Va., July 20,
1867.
Republican. Blacksmith;
hardware
merchant; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1900; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1921-33.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1946 (age 78 years, 192
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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William Perrin Walker (1778-1858) —
also known as William P. Walker —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Lenox, Berkshire
County, Mass., October
8, 1778.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1810; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1820; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1820; probate judge in Massachusetts, 1824-48.
Congregationalist.
Died in Lenox, Berkshire
County, Mass., November
11, 1858 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Interment at Church
on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Mass.
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Arthur Clarence Walworth (1844-1920) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
29, 1844.
Mechanical
engineer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1886-87.
Congregationalist.
Died, from heart
disease, in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 23,
1920 (age 76 years, 55
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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Sterry Robinson Waterman (1901-1984) —
also known as Sterry R. Waterman —
of St. Johnsbury, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., June 12,
1901.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee); Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1955-70.
Congregationalist. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary;
Sphinx;
Zeta
Psi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in 1984
(age about
83 years).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
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George Addison Whiting (1827-1903) —
also known as George A. Whiting —
of California.
Born in Holliston, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
20, 1827.
Member of California
state assembly 12th District, 1871-73.
Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of heart
disease, in Holliston, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
14, 1903 (age 75 years, 359
days).
Interment at Lake
Grove Cemetery, Holliston, Mass.
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William Fairfield Whiting (1864-1936) —
also known as William F. Whiting —
of Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass., July 20,
1864.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1928-29.
Congregationalist.
Died August
31, 1936 (age 72 years, 42
days).
Interment somewhere
in Holyoke, Mass.
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Henry Wilson (1812-1875) —
also known as Jeremiah Jones Colbaith —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Farmington, Strafford
County, N.H., February
16, 1812.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1841-42; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1844-46, 1850-52; delegate to Whig National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1848; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1852; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; candidate
for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1853; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1855-73; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1856 ;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1868;
Vice
President of the United States, 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died, of a stroke,
in the U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., November
22, 1875 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Dell
Park Cemetery, Natick, Mass.
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Paine Wingate (1739-1838) —
of Stratham, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Amesbury, Essex
County, Mass., May 14,
1739.
Delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1781; member of
New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1783, 1795; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1787-88; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1789-93; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1793-95; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1798-1809.
Congregationalist.
Died in Stratham, Rockingham
County, N.H., March 7,
1838 (age 98 years, 297
days).
Interment at Stratham
Cemetery, Stratham, N.H.
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Jesse Paine Wolcott (1893-1969) —
also known as Jesse P. Wolcott —
of Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born in Gardner, Worcester
County, Mass., March 3,
1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; St.
Clair County Prosecuting Attorney, 1927-30; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 7th District, 1931-57.
Universalist
or Congregationalist. Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; American
Legion; Moose.
Died in Chevy Chase, Montgomery
County, Md., January
28, 1969 (age 75 years, 331
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Charles Francis Wyman (1836-1906) —
also known as Charles F. Wyman —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 16,
1836.
Importer;
commission
merchant; Vice-Consul
for Russia in Boston,
Mass., 1888-1906.
Congregationalist.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
29, 1906 (age 70 years, 197
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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