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Alson Bailey Abbott (1844-1894) —
also known as Alson B. Abbott —
of Queensbury, Warren
County, N.Y.; Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., November
3, 1844.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; member
of New York
state assembly from Warren County, 1878; president, Canton Bridge
Company.
While cleaning a shotgun
for hunting,
it accidentally
discharged, killing him, in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., August
27, 1894 (age 49 years, 297
days).
Interment at Pineview
Cemetery, Queensbury, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William F. Abbott and Sarah Job (Abbott) Abbott; married 1873 to Sarah
Morgan. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Caleb F. Abbott (1811-1855) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Chelmsford, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
8, 1811.
Whig. Lawyer; mayor of
Toledo, Ohio, 1850-51.
Died in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, April
24, 1855 (age 43 years, 228
days).
Interment at Forest
Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
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Ira Anson Abbott (1845-1921) —
also known as Ira A. Abbott —
of Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass.; New Mexico.
Born in Barnard, Windsor
County, Vt., July 20,
1845.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; district judge in Massachusetts, 1898-1904; justice of
New Mexico territorial supreme court, 1904-12.
Died in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., October
18, 1921 (age 76 years, 90
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Abbott and Deborah (DeWolfe) Abbott; married, April
30, 1879, to Emma Nichols. |
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John True Abbott (1850-1914) —
also known as John T. Abbott —
of Keene, Cheshire
County, N.H.
Born in Keene, Cheshire
County, N.H., 1850.
Lawyer; law partner of Charles
H. Hersey; U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1889-93; probate judge in New Hampshire, 1894-99.
Died in Keene, Cheshire
County, N.H., March 8,
1914 (age about 63
years).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Keene, N.H.
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Josiah Gardner Abbott (1814-1891) —
also known as Josiah G. Abbott —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Needham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Chelmsford, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
1, 1814.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1836-37; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1841-42; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; superior
court judge in Massachusetts, 1855-58; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1864,
1876
(speaker),
1880,
1888;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1876-77;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1878.
Died in Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 2,
1891 (age 76 years, 213
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Newton Lower Falls, Newton, Mass.
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Sewall Wester Abbott (1859-1943) —
also known as Sewall W. Abbott —
of Wolfeboro, Carroll
County, N.H.
Born in Tuftonboro, Carroll
County, N.H., April
11, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer; president, Wolfeboro Woolen Mills;
probate judge in New Hampshire, 1889-1921; member of New
Hampshire state senate, 1923-25; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Hampshire, 1924
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Upsilon; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Odd
Fellows; Grange;
Redmen;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Wolfeboro, Carroll
County, N.H., January
3, 1943 (age 83 years, 267
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Morris Berthold Abram (1918-2000) —
also known as Morris Abram —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill
County, Ga., June 19,
1918.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in
World War II; served on prosecution staff at Nuremburg war crimes
trials; U.S. Representative to United Nations European office; worked
on Marshall Plan for postwar reconstruction of Europe; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1952; candidate for
nomination for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1968; president
of Brandeis University, 1968-70; member, U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, 1984-86.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Jewish Committee; Urban
League; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from a viral
infection, in a hospital
at Geneva, Switzerland,
March
16, 2000 (age 81 years, 271
days).
Interment at Woodside
Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Yarmouth, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Abram and Irene (Cohen) Abram; married, December
23, 1944, to Jane Isabella Maguire; married, January
25, 1975, to Carlyn (Feldman) Fisher; married, August
26, 1990, to Bruna Molina. |
| | Epitaph: He established "one man, one
vote" as a principle of American law. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Brooks Adams (1848-1927) —
also known as Peter Chardon Brooks Adams —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 24,
1848.
Lawyer; author; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; candidate
for Massachusetts legislative seat.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
13, 1927 (age 78 years, 234
days).
Interment at Mt.
Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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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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Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) —
also known as "C.F.A."; "A Whig of the Old
School" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
18, 1807.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1831; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1835-40; Free Soil candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1848; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856
(Convention
Vice-President; speaker);
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1859-61; U.S.
Minister to Great Britain, 1861-68; Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1876.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
21, 1886 (age 79 years, 95
days).
Interment at Mt.
Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Louisa
Adams; brother of George
Washington Adams; married, September
3, 1829, to Abigail Brown Brooks (sister-in-law of Edward
Everett; niece of Benjamin
Gorham; granddaughter of Nathaniel
Gorham); father of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; nephew of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William
Stephens Smith); grandson of John
Adams, Joshua
Johnson and Abigail
Adams; grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); grandnephew of Thomas
Johnson; great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin once removed of William
Cranch; second cousin of Bradley
Tyler Johnson; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Adams; third cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen and Edward
M. Chapin; third cousin twice removed of Samuel
Sewall, Josiah
Quincy, Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868) and Arthur
Chapin; fourth cousin of John
Milton Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Mason, Josiah
Quincy Jr., George
Bailey Loring, William
Vincent Wells and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904). |
| | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Image source: Humanities magazine,
December 2011 |
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Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954) —
also known as "Deacon"; "Uncle
Charlie" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., August
2, 1866.
Republican. Lawyer; banker; mayor of
Quincy, Mass., 1897-99; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1936
(speaker).
Unitarian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 10,
1954 (age 87 years, 312
days).
Interment at Mt.
Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Frances (Crowninshield) Adams;
married, April 3,
1899, to Frances Lovering (daughter of William
Croad Lovering); nephew of Brooks
Adams; grandson of Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); grandnephew of George
Washington Adams; great-grandson of John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Benjamin
Williams Crowninshield, Louisa
Adams and David
Sears; great-grandnephew of Jacob
Crowninshield and Benjamin
Gorham; second great-grandson of John
Adams, Nathaniel
Gorham, Joshua
Johnson, Abigail
Adams and Jonathan
Mason; second great-grandnephew of Thomas
Johnson and Thomas
Lindall Winthrop; fifth great-grandnephew of Fitz-John
Winthrop; sixth great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1606-1676); seventh great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1588-1649); first cousin once removed of William
Everett and Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of William
Cranch and Robert
Charles Winthrop; second cousin of Augustus
Peabody Gardner; second cousin once removed of William
Crowninshield Endicott, Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall and George
Cabot Lodge; second cousin twice removed of Bradley
Tyler Johnson, William
Amory Gardner Minot and William
Lawrence Saltonstall; second cousin four times removed of Samuel
Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Allen; fourth cousin once removed of Edward
M. Chapin and John
Forbes Kerry. |
| | 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). |
| | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Charles Hall Adams (1853-1938) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 6,
1853.
Lawyer; Consul
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1885-94; Consul-General
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1894-1907; Consul
for Nicaragua in Boston,
Mass., 1899-1907; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Boston,
Mass., 1905-07; in May 1909, he and another lawyer were charged
with conspiring to obtain
unclaimed deposits at Suffolk Savings Bank by inventing
fictitious heirs; pleaded not guilty.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 5,
1938 (age 85 years, 121
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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George Washington Adams (1801-1829) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
April
12, 1801.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1826.
En route to New York City aboard the Benjamin Franklin, he
apparently killed
himself by jumping from the ship and drowning,
in Long
Island Sound, June 9,
1829 (age 28 years, 58
days). His body washed ashore a few days later.
Interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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John Adams (1735-1826) —
also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of
Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old
Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of
Independence"; "Father of the American
Navy" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1735.
Lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice
President of the United States, 1789-97; President
of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1826 (age 90 years, 247
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; married, October
25, 1764, to Abigail
Quincy Smith (aunt of William
Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William
Stephens Smith) and John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (who married Louisa
Catherine Johnson); grandfather of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); third great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; first cousin four times removed of Arthur
Chapin; first cousin six times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; second cousin of Samuel
Adams; second cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen; second cousin twice removed of John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of William
Vincent Wells; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass and Emerson
Richard Boyles; third cousin of Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868); third cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Mason, George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); third cousin twice removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Caleb
Stetson, Oakes
Ames, Oliver
Ames Jr., Benjamin
W. Waite, Alfred
Elisha Ames, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor, Joseph
Washburn Yates, Augustus
Brown Reed Sprague, Franklin
Fairbanks, Erskine
Mason Phelps, Arthur
Newton Holden, John
Alden Thayer, Irving
Hall Chase, Isaiah
Kidder Stetson and Giles
Russell Taggart. |
| | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | Mount
Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Adams (built 1941-42 at Richmond,
California; torpedoed and lost in the Coral
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: John
Adams Harper
— John
A. Cameron
— John
A. Dix
— John
Adams Fisher
— John
A. Taintor
— John
A. Gilmer
— John
A. Perkins
— John
Adams Hyman
— John
A. Damon
— John A.
Lee
— John
A. Sanders
— John
Adams Hurson
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| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about John Adams: John Ferling,
John
Adams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis, The
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John
Adams — David McCullough, John
Adams — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — James
Grant, John
Adams : Party of One |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) —
also known as "Old Man Eloquent"; "The
Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts
Madman" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., July 11,
1767.
Lawyer; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1802; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1817-25; President
of the United States, 1825-29; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District
1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office
1848; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1834.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Suffered a stroke
while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in
the Speaker's office,
U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1848 (age 80 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Adams and Abigail
Adams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married William
Stephens Smith); married, July 26,
1797, to Louisa
Catherine Johnson (daughter of Joshua
Johnson; sister-in-law of John
Pope; niece of Thomas
Johnson); father of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); second great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams; first cousin of William
Cranch; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Adams; second cousin twice removed of Edward
M. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed of Arthur
Chapin; second cousin five times removed of Denwood
Lynn Chapin; third cousin of Joseph
Allen; third cousin once removed of Samuel
Sewall, Josiah
Quincy, Thomas
Cogswell (1799-1868) and John
Milton Thayer; third cousin twice removed of William
Vincent Wells; third cousin thrice removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Laban Bates and Almur
Stiles Whiting; fourth cousin of Jeremiah
Mason, Josiah
Quincy Jr., George
Bailey Loring and Thomas
Cogswell (1841-1904); fourth cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson, Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer, Bailey
Frye Adams and Samuel
Miller Quincy. |
| | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: John
Smith — Thurlow
Weed |
| | Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are
named for him. |
| | Mount
Quincy Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Mount
Quincy Adams, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Hoonah-Angoon
Census Area, Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: John
Q. A. Brackett
— John
Q. A. Shelden
— J.
Q. A. Reber
|
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about John Quincy Adams: Paul C.
Nagel, John
Quincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life — Lynn
Hudson Parsons, John
Quincy Adams — Robert V. Remini, John
Quincy Adams — Joseph Wheelan, Mr.
Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary
Post-Presidential Life in Congress — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
22, 1833.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1866, 1869; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1879; Straight Out
Democratic candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1872; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1873.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., August
14, 1894 (age 60 years, 326
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Melvin Ohio Adams (1850-1920) —
also known as Melvin O. Adams —
of Ashburnham, Worcester
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Ashburnham, Worcester
County, Mass., November
7, 1850.
Republican. Lawyer; took part in the legal defense of Lizzie
Borden, charged in 1892-93 with the murder of her parents in Fall
River, Mass.; president, Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad;
vice-president, Liberty Trust Co.;
trustee, Dartmouth College; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1905-06.
Died August
9, 1920 (age 69 years, 276
days).
Interment at Meetinghouse
Hill Cemetery, Ashburnham, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Adams and Dolly Winship (Whitney) Adams; married, January
20, 1874, to Mary Colony. |
| | Image source: Bench and Bar of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1895) |
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Shubael Pratt Adams (1817-1894) —
also known as Shubael P. Adams —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa.
Born in Medfield, Norfolk
County, Mass., February
5, 1817.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1845, 1857; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from Iowa, 1862.
Died in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, March
14, 1894 (age 77 years, 37
days).
Interment at Linwood
Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa.
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David Christopher Ahearn (1879-1925) —
also known as David C. Ahearn —
of Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Glenwood Springs, Garfield
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Rotherham, England,
November
4, 1879.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1910-11; trustee, Framingham Hospital,
1910-16; selectman, Framingham, 1912-13; pioneer in Colorado oil shale
industry; founder and president of the Yarg Producing & Refining
Corporation.
Catholic.
Member, Elks.
Crippled
as a boy, had minimal use of both legs, and used canes or crutches.
Died in Denver,
Colo., November
30, 1925 (age 46 years, 26
days).
Interment somewhere
in Framingham, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of John Ahearn and Mary (Kerwin) Ahearn; married, December
27, 1909, to Jane Francis Shea. |
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Bailey Aldrich (1907-2002) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
23, 1907.
Lawyer; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1954-59; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1959-72; took
senior status 1972.
Member, American
Judicature Society; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
25, 2002 (age 95 years, 155
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Allen (1827-1913) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., April
17, 1827.
Lawyer; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1867-72; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1882-98.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
13, 1913 (age 85 years, 271
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Sylvester Allen and Harriet (Ripley) Allen. |
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Elisha Hunt Allen (1804-1883) —
also known as Elisha H. Allen —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in New Salem, Franklin
County, Mass., January
28, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1835-40, 1846-47; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1838; delegate to Whig
National Convention from Maine, 1839 (member, Committee on Permanent
Organization; member, Committee to Notify Nominees); U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1841-43; defeated, 1842;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1849-50; U.S. Consul in Honolulu, 1849-53; became a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii;
Minister of Finance for King Kamehameha III; member, Hawaii House of
Nobles, 1854-56; Kingdom of Hawaii Minister to the United States,
1856-83; chief justice, Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court, 1857-77.
Died suddenly from heart
disease, while attending a diplomatic reception
at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1883 (age 78 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel
Clesson Allen and Mary (Hunt) Allen; married 1828 to Sarah
Elizabeth Fessenden; married, March
11, 1857, to Mary Harrod Hobbes; father of William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second great-grandnephew of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second cousin of Gouverneur
Morris; second cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; second cousin twice removed of Oliver
Ellsworth, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of Chester
Ashley; third cousin once removed of Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Abijah
Blodget, Albert
Asahel Bliss and Philemon
Bliss; third cousin twice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr., Jonathan
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Josiah
Meigs, Daniel
Pitkin, Oliver
Morgan Hungerford, Judson
H. Warner and Josiah
Quincy; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr. and John
Davis Lodge; fourth cousin of Joseph
Churchill Strong, Theodore
Davenport, Chester
William Chapin, Harrison
Blodget, John
William Allen, William
Alfred Buckingham, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, George
Washington Wolcott, William
Dean Kellogg, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); fourth cousin once removed of James
Hillhouse, Jonathan
Brace, Martin
Chittenden, Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr., Timothy
Pitkin, James
Kilbourne, Amaziah
Brainard, Henry
Meigs, Charles
Jared Ingersoll, Joseph
Reed Ingersoll, Ralph
Isaacs Ingersoll, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Charles
Anthony Ingersoll, John
Adams Taintor, Henry
G. Taintor, Joseph
Pomeroy Root, Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, John
Hill Walbridge, Edward
Oliver Wolcott, Walter
Harrison Blodget, Henry
E. Walbridge, Edwin
W. Kellogg, Alfred
Wolcott and Samuel
Herbert Kellogg. |
| | 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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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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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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Thomas Allen (1813-1882) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass., August
29, 1813.
Democrat. Lawyer; railroad
builder; member of Missouri
state senate, 1850-54; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 2nd District, 1881-82; died in
office 1882.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 8,
1882 (age 68 years, 222
days).
Interment at Pittsfield
Cemetery, Pittsfield, Mass.
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William Allen (c.1822-1891) —
of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine, about 1822.
Lawyer; superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1872-81; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1881-91; died in office 1891.
Died, from neuralgia of
the heart, in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., June 4,
1891 (age about 69
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. William Allen Allen; grandson of John
Wheelock. |
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William Stickney Allen (1805-1868) —
of Newburyport, Essex
County, Mass.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Newburyport, Essex
County, Mass., April, 1805.
Lawyer; newspaper
editor; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1832; secretary
of New Mexico Territory, 1851.
Died in Franklin
County, Mo., June 16,
1868 (age 63 years, 0
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Charles Almy (b. 1851) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., January
23, 1851.
Lawyer; Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1891; district judge in
Massachusetts, 1892.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Almy and Mary A. (Cummings) Almy; married, October
5, 1882, to Helen Jackson Cabot. |
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Benjamin Ames (1778-1835) —
of Bath, Lincoln County (now Sagadahoc
County), Maine.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., October
30, 1778.
Lawyer; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1811-14; delegate
to Maine state constitutional convention, 1819; Governor of
Maine, 1821-22.
Died in Houlton, Aroostook
County, Maine, September
28, 1835 (age 56 years, 333
days).
Interment at Soldiers Cemetery, Houlton, Maine.
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George Weston Anderson (1861-1938) —
also known as George W. Anderson —
of Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Acworth, Sullivan
County, N.H., September
1, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1911, 1912; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1914-17; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1917-18; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1918-31; took
senior status 1931.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Economic Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Died in DeLand, Volusia
County, Fla., February
14, 1938 (age 76 years, 166
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of David Campbell Anderson and Martha Lucinda (Brigham) Anderson;
married 1897 to Minnie
E. Mitchell; married, January
25, 1908, to Addie Earle Kenerson. |
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Henry Hersey Andrew (b. 1858) —
also known as Henry H. Andrew —
of Union, Monroe
County, W.Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Asbury Park, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; lawyer; candidate for West
Virginia state senate 8th District, 1898.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) —
also known as John A. Andrew —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Windham, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 31,
1818.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1858; in 1859, he raised money
for the defense of John Brown; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1860,
1864;
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1861-66.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1867 (age 49 years, 152
days).
Interment at Hingham
Cemetery, Hingham, Mass.
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John Forrester Andrew (1850-1895) —
also known as John F. Andrew —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Hingham, Plymouth
County, Mass., November
26, 1850.
Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1880-82; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1884-85; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1884;
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1886; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1889-93; defeated
(Democratic), 1892.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 30,
1895 (age 44 years, 185
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Charles Bartlett Andrews (1834-1902) —
also known as Charles B. Andrews —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Sunderland, Franklin
County, Mass., November
4, 1834.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state senate 15th District, 1868-69; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1878; Governor of
Connecticut, 1879-81; superior court judge in Connecticut,
1881-89; chief
justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1889-1901; resigned 1901;
delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention from Litchfield,
1902.
Died, from heart
disease, in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., September
12, 1902 (age 67 years, 312
days).
Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
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John Appleton (1815-1864) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., February
11, 1815.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1848-49; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1851-53; U.S. Minister to
Russia, 1860-61.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
22, 1864 (age 49 years, 193
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of John White Appleton and Sophia (Williams) Appleton; married 1840 to Susan
Lovering Dodge; nephew of James
Appleton and Nathan
Dane Appleton; first cousin once removed of Nathan
Appleton, William
Appleton, Elijah
Livermore Hamlin and Hannibal
Hamlin; first cousin thrice removed of Randolph
Appleton Kidder; second cousin of John
Appleton (1804-1891), Jane
Pierce, Charles
Hamlin and Hannibal
Emery Hamlin; second cousin once removed of Isaiah
Kidder Stetson; second cousin twice removed of Arthur
Taggard Appleton and Clarence
Cutting Stetson; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards, Leverett
Saltonstall and Richard
Saltonstall; second cousin four times removed of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; third cousin of Edward
Williams Hooker; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Aaron
Burr, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight and Henry
Waggaman Edwards; fourth cousin of Thomas
Passmore Treadwell; fourth cousin once removed of John
Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas
Appleton, Leonard
White, Jedediah
Sabin, Charles
Robert Sherman, Theodore
Davenport, Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland, Robert
Odiorne Treadwell and George
Pickering Bemis. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Shippen-Middleton
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Nathan Dane Appleton (1794-1861) —
also known as Nathan D. Appleton —
of Alfred, York
County, Maine.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., May 20,
1794.
Lawyer; law partner of John
H. Goodenow; Maine
state attorney general, 1857-59.
Died in Alfred, York
County, Maine, November
12, 1861 (age 67 years, 176
days).
Interment at Parish Cemetery, Alfred, Maine.
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Adelard Archambault (1860-1923) —
of Woonsocket, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Saint-Paul, Quebec,
April
24, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1900-03; Lieutenant
Governor of Rhode Island, 1903-04; mayor
of Woonsocket, R.I., 1905-07, 1917-19; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Rhode Island.
Catholic.
French
Canadian ancestry.
Died in Woonsocket, Providence
County, R.I., February
19, 1923 (age 62 years, 301
days).
Interment somewhere
in Holyoke, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Francois Xavier Archambault and Delphine (Bouthillier)
Archambault. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Dewey G. Archambault —
also known as D. G. Archambault —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Republican. Funeral
director; lawyer; mayor of
Lowell, Mass., 1936-39.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Amedee Archambault and Rose F. (Mineau) Archambault; married, June 22,
1922, to Marguerite E. Delorme. |
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Robert Wodrow Archbald (1848-1926) —
also known as Robert W. Archbald —
of Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born in Carbondale, Lackawanna
County, Pa., September
10, 1848.
Lawyer; common pleas court judge in Pennsylvania, 1884-88;
district judge in Pennsylvania, 1888-1901; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1901-11;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1911-13; removed
1913.
Impeached
by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1912 on conflict
of interest charges; convicted
(removed
from office) by the U.S. Senate on four articles of impeachment.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
19, 1926 (age 77 years, 343
days).
Interment at Dunmore
Cemetery, Dunmore, Pa.
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William Henry Arnoux (1831-1907) —
also known as William H. Arnoux —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
12, 1831.
Lawyer; New York City superior court judge, 1882-94.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., April
23, 1907 (age 75 years, 223
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
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Charles J. Artesani (1911-1992) —
of Allston, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Auburndale, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Allston, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 30,
1911.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1941-50; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952,
1956.
Died January
12, 1992 (age 80 years, 166
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard T. Artesani and Mary E. (Tierney) Artesani; married to
Helen T. Cusack. |
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Joseph A. Aspero (1915-1987) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.; Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., June 30,
1915.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1945-48; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1948
(alternate), 1952,
1956,
1960.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Elks; Knights
of Columbus.
Died November
26, 1987 (age 72 years, 149
days).
Interment at Davis Memorial Park, Las Vegas, Nev.
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Henry Converse Attwill (b. 1872) —
also known as Henry C. Attwill —
of Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., March
11, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1896-98; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1899-1901; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1915-19.
Universalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac M. Attwill and Harriet E. (Sanger) Attwill; married, June 30,
1906, to Augusta Harris. |
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Matthew J. Avitabile (1913-2001) —
of New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn.; Ashland, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn., August
16, 1913.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Connecticut
state senate 6th District, 1945-46; member of Connecticut
Democratic State Central Committee, 1948.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died October
25, 2001 (age 88 years, 70
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Alphonso L. Avitabile and Concetta M.
Avitabile. |
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