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Marinette County
Wisconsin

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Marinette County


Index to Locations

  • Marinette Forest Home Cemetery
  • Marinette Woodlawn Cemetery
  • Stephenson town Thunder Mountain Ranch Cemetery


    Forest Home Cemetery
    Marinette, Marinette County, Wisconsin
    Politicians buried here:
      Isaac Stephenson (1829-1918) — of Marinette, Marinette County, Wis. Born near Fredericton, New Brunswick, June 18, 1829. Republican. Member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1866-68; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1868 (alternate), 1900, 1908; U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 9th District, 1883-89; U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1907-15. Died in 1918 (age about 89 years). Interment at Forest Home Cemetery.
      Relatives: Brother of Samuel Merritt Stephenson.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page


    Woodlawn Cemetery
    Marinette, Marinette County, Wisconsin
    Politicians buried here:
      Hiram Orlando Fairchild (1845-1925) — of Marinette, Marinette County, Wis. Born in 1845. Republican. Lawyer; Marinette County District Attorney; member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1883-86; Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1885; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1888. Died in 1925 (age about 80 years). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.


    Thunder Mountain Ranch Cemetery
    Stephenson town, Marinette County, Wisconsin
    Politicians buried here:
      Ellsworth Brewer Buck (1892-1970) — also known as Ellsworth B. Buck — of Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., July 3, 1892. Son of Orlando Jacob Buck and Lillian Louisa (Brewer) Buck. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; business executive; U.S. Representative from New York, 1944-49 (11th District 1944-45, 16th District 1945-49); shot and seriously wounded, by Charles Van Newkirk, at the Richmond Borough Hall, April 5, 1949; chair of Richmond County Republican Party, 1951-52; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1952. Member, Delta Tau Delta; Elks; American Legion. Died in Stephenson town, Marinette County, Wis., August 14, 1970 (age 78 years, 42 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Thunder Mountain Ranch Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married, April 12, 1919, to Constance Tyler.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page


     

     


     
       
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