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Kenosha County
Wisconsin

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Kenosha County


Index to Locations

  • Kenosha Unknown location
  • Kenosha City Cemetery
  • Kenosha Green Ridge Cemetery


    Unknown Location
    Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
    Politicians buried here:
      James Henry Howe (1827-1893) — also known as James H. Howe — of Green Bay, Brown County, Wis. Born in Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine, December 5, 1827. Son of Addison Goodale Howe and Mary Turner (Torrey) Howe. Republican. Lawyer; Wisconsin state attorney general, 1860-62; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; General Solicitor and General Manager, North Western Railroad; U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1873. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 4, 1893 (age 65 years, 30 days). Interment somewhere.
      Relatives: Third cousin thrice removed of Jonah Howe and Gardner Howe; son of Addison Goodale Howe and Mary Turner (Torrey) Howe; married, December 12, 1850, to Priscilla Jackson Cotton; married, January 17, 1857, to Mary Gordon Cotton. See Howe family of Massachusetts.


    City Cemetery
    Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
    Politicians buried here:
      Joseph Very Quarles (1843-1911) — of Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wis.; Racine, Racine County, Wis.; Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis. Born in Southport (now part of Kenosha), Kenosha County, Wis., December 16, 1843. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; law partner of John B. Winslow; Kenosha County District Attorney; mayor of Kenosha, Wis., 1876-77; member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1879; member of Wisconsin state senate, 1880-82; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1899-1905. Died in 1911 (age about 67 years). Interment at City Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page


    Green Ridge Cemetery
    Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
    Politicians buried here:
      Charles Durkee (1805-1870) — Born in Royalton, Windsor County, Vt., December 10, 1805. Member of Wisconsin territorial legislature, 1836-38; Independent candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, 1848; U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1849-53; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1855-61; Governor of Utah Territory, 1865-69. Methodist. Died in Omaha, Douglas County, Neb., January 14, 1870 (age 64 years, 35 days). Interment at Green Ridge Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Daniel Hugunin, Jr. (1790-1850) — of New York. Born in Montgomery County, N.Y., February 6, 1790. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Representative from New York 20th District, 1825-27. Died in Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wis., June 21, 1850 (age 60 years, 135 days). Interment at Green Ridge Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Clifford Ellsworth Randall (1876-1934) — of Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wis. Born in Troy Center, Walworth County, Wis., December 25, 1876. Republican. Lawyer; municipal judge in Wisconsin, 1909-17; U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1919-21. Died in Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wis., October 16, 1934 (age 57 years, 295 days). Interment at Green Ridge Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page


     

     


     
       
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