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  Josiah Cowles (1716-1793) — Born in Farmington, Hartford County, Conn., November 20, 1716. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1780-81. Congregationalist; later Episcopalian. Died in Southington, Hartford County, Conn., June 6, 1793 (age 76 years, 198 days). Interment at Quinnipiac Cemetery, Southington, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Cowles and Martha (Judd) Cowles; married, November 11, 1739, to Jemima Dickinson; married, November 23, 1748, to Mary Scott; great-grandfather of Charles Upson, Calvin Josiah Cowles and Gad Ely Upson; second great-grandfather of Charles Holden Cowles; first cousin once removed of Daniel Upson; first cousin thrice removed of Christopher Columbus Upson, Andrew Seth Upson and Evelyn M. Upson; first cousin seven times removed of Boyd Kenneth Benedict; second cousin once removed of William Pitkin, Daniel Chapin and Ela Collins; second cousin twice removed of Graham Hurd Chapin, William Collins and William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923); second cousin thrice removed of Addison Beecher Colvin, Helen Herron Taft and William Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); second cousin four times removed of Franklin Woodruff, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Robert Alphonso Taft, Charles Phelps Taft II and Frederick Lippitt; second cousin five times removed of Roy Dikeman Chapin, Ephraim Henry Cowles, William Howard Taft III, Robert Taft Jr. and Seth Chase Taft; third cousin of Moses Seymour and Simeon Baldwin; third cousin once removed of Timothy Pitkin, Orsamus Cook Merrill, James Doolittle Wooster, Horatio Seymour (1778-1857), Henry Seymour, Timothy Merrill and Roger Sherman Baldwin; third cousin twice removed of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., John Charles Birdsall, John Arnold Rockwell, Origen Storrs Seymour, Francis William Kellogg, Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), Ausburn Birdsall, Farrand Fassett Merrill, George Seymour, Russell Sage, McNeil Seymour, Henry William Seymour and Simeon Eben Baldwin; third cousin thrice removed of Walter Booth, Jesse Hoyt, Truman Hotchkiss, Asa H. Otis, Norman A. Phelps, George Isaac Sherwood, Joseph Pomeroy Root, William Chapman Williston, Edward Woodruff Seymour, David B. Sherwood, Frederick Walker Pitkin, Joseph Battell, Charles Page, Austin George Nettleton, Morris Woodruff Seymour, Rowland Case Kellogg, Dwight May Sabin, Horatio Seymour Jr., Erwin J. Baldwin, Luther S. Pitkin, Norman Alexander Seymour, Russell Cowles Ostrander, Ernest Harvey Woodford, Francis Everett Baldwin, Benjamin Pixley Birdsall, La Monte Cowles, Henry de Forest Baldwin and Gardner Cowles.
  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
John Adams 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.
  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 HarperJohn A. CameronJohn A. DixJohn Adams FisherJohn A. TaintorJohn A. GilmerJohn A. PerkinsJohn Adams HymanJohn A. DamonJohn A. LeeJohn A. SandersJohn Adams Hurson
  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)
  Samuel Allyne Otis (1740-1814) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740. Merchant; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1776-85; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1784-85; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1780; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1787-88; Secretary of the United States Senate, 1789-1814. Died in Washington, D.C., April 22, 1814 (age 73 years, 149 days). Interment at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of James Otis (1702-1778) and Mary (Allyne) Otis; married, December 31, 1764, to Elizabeth Gray; married, March 28, 1782, to Mary (Smith) Gray; father of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848); great-grandfather of James Otis (1836-1898); third great-grandfather of Robert Helyer Thayer; first cousin twice removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Fessenden and Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; first cousin four times removed of Albert Clinton Griswold; second cousin once removed of Asahel Otis; second cousin twice removed of Oran Gray Otis, Day Otis Kellogg, Asa H. Otis, Dwight Kellogg, John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, David Perry Otis, Harris F. Otis, James Otis (1826-1875) and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); second cousin thrice removed of Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., George Lorenzo Otis, John Grant Otis, Norton Prentiss Otis, Lauren Ford Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; second cousin four times removed of Ralph Chester Otis; third cousin once removed of Chillus Doty; third cousin twice removed of James Duane Doty, George Bailey Loring and Abraham Lansing; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Doty.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Jonathan Freeman (1745-1808) — of Hanover, Grafton County, N.H. Born in Mansfield, Tolland County, Conn., March 21, 1745. Member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1787; member of New Hampshire state senate from Grafton County, 1789-91, 1792-94; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1797-1801. Died August 20, 1808 (age 63 years, 152 days). Interment at Hanover Center Cemetery, Hanover, N.H.
  Relatives: Uncle of Nathaniel Freeman Jr..
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  David Waterman (b. 1749) — of Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., 1749. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1794, 1800. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Daniel Waterman and Ann (Ford) Waterman; father of Thomas Glasby Waterman; second great-grandfather of Joshua Milton Fiero Jr.; third great-grandfather of Henry Clark Springer; first cousin thrice removed of Edmond Otis Dewey and George Martin Dewey; first cousin four times removed of Thomas Edmund Dewey; second cousin once removed of Luther Waterman and Elisha Waterman; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Gager, William Harrison Waterman and Alexander Hamilton Waterman; second cousin thrice removed of Robert Whitney Waterman; second cousin four times removed of Henry Arthur Huntington, Claudius Victor Pendleton and Sterry Robinson Waterman; second cousin five times removed of Charles William Hadley; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer Huntington, Samuel R. Gager and Samuel Austin Gager; third cousin twice removed of Joshua Perkins; third cousin thrice removed of Virgil Adolphus Fitch; fourth cousin of Jabez Williams Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Robert Treat Paine, Nathaniel Freeman Jr., Joseph Lyman Huntington and Ira Chandler Backus.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; King-Hazard family of Connecticut and New York; Beakes-Greene-Witter family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Jonathan Brace (1754-1837) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Harwinton, Litchfield County, Conn., November 12, 1754. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1788; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1798, 1802-18; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1798-1801; mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1815-24; member of Connecticut state senate at-large, 1819-20. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., August 26, 1837 (age 82 years, 287 days). Interment at Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Jonathan Brace (1707-1787) and Mary (Messenger) Brace; married, April 15, 1778, to Ann White Kimberly; father of Thomas Kimberly Brace; second cousin twice removed of Levi Yale, John Calhoun Lewis, Russell Sage and Henry Gould Lewis; second cousin thrice removed of Levi Bacon Yale, Dwight May Sabin, Daniel Frederick Webster and Charles M. Hotchkiss; second cousin four times removed of William Judson Clark, Charles Hull Clark and Kenneth Sidney White; third cousin once removed of Greene Carrier Bronson, John Russell Kellogg and Millard Fillmore; third cousin twice removed of Samuel George Andrews, Selah Merrill and Alphonso Alva Hopkins; third cousin thrice removed of Asa H. Otis, Charles Taylor Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Lampson Parker Sherman, David Munson Osborne, John Sherman, Rush Green Leaming, George Harrison Hall, Addison Beecher Colvin, Edward Russell Kellogg, Arthur Eugene Parmelee and Hiram Bingham; fourth cousin of Jonathan Ingersoll, Jared Ingersoll, James Kilbourne and Samuel Clesson Allen; fourth cousin once removed of Robert Treat Paine, Elijah Hunt Mills, Charles Jared Ingersoll, Joseph Reed Ingersoll, Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, Theodore Davenport, Charles Anthony Ingersoll, Byron H. Kilbourn, Elisha Hunt Allen and William Alfred Buckingham.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; 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
  John Taintor (1760-1827) — of Windham, Windham County, Conn. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., September 23, 1760. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Windham, 1820. Died in Hampton, Windham County, Conn., 1827 (age about 66 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Taintor (1725-1798) and Sarah (Bulkeley) Taintor; brother of Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; married 1786 to Sarah Hosford; uncle of John Adams Taintor and Henry G. Taintor; first cousin once removed of Ralph Smith Taintor; first cousin twice removed of Charles Newhall Taintor; second cousin once removed of DeGrasse Maltby, Henry Taintor and Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley; second cousin twice removed of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley and William Henry Bulkeley; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; third cousin of James Kilbourne (1770-1850); third cousin once removed of Calvin Frisbie and Byron H. Kilbourn; third cousin twice removed of Asa H. Otis, John Ransom Buck, James Kilbourne (1842-1919), Samuel S. Knabenshue and Benjamin Baker Merrill; third cousin thrice removed of Delos Fall and Paul Knabenshue; fourth cousin of Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong and Jonathan Stratton; fourth cousin once removed of Ephraim Safford, John Baldwin, Amaziah Brainard, Albert Gallup, John Arnold Rockwell, Henry Brewster Stanton, Theodore Sill and Robert Coit Jr..
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Chillus Doty (1764-1824) — of Lewis County, N.Y. Born in Salem, Washington County, N.Y., 1764. Member of New York state assembly from Lewis County, 1813-14, 1815-17. Died in Martinsburg, Lewis County, N.Y., October 16, 1824 (age about 60 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Theodorus Doty and Jane (Densmore) Doty; married to Sarah Martin; father of James Duane Doty; grandfather of Charles Doty; third cousin once removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; fourth cousin of Harrison Gray Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 8, 1765. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1796, 1803-05; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1803-05; U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, 1796; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1797-1801; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1805; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1814; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1817-22; Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1823; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1829-32. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 28, 1848 (age 83 years, 20 days). Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Allyne Otis and Elizabeth (Gray) Otis; married, May 31, 1790, to Sally Foster; grandfather of James Otis (1836-1898); second great-grandfather of Robert Helyer Thayer; second cousin once removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Fessenden and Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; second cousin thrice removed of Albert Clinton Griswold; third cousin of Asahel Otis; third cousin once removed of Oran Gray Otis, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Asa H. Otis, John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, David Perry Otis, Harris F. Otis, James Otis (1826-1875) and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); third cousin twice removed of Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., George Lorenzo Otis, John Grant Otis, Norton Prentiss Otis, Lauren Ford Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; fourth cousin of Chillus Doty; fourth cousin once removed of James Duane Doty, George Bailey Loring and Abraham Lansing.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Harrison, Maine, is named for him.
  Politician named for him: Harrison Gray Otis Blake
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Nathaniel Freeman Jr. (1766-1800) — of Massachusetts. Born in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Mass., May 1, 1766. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1795-99 (5th District 1795-97, at-large 1797-99). Died in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Mass., August 22, 1800 (age 34 years, 113 days). Interment at Old Town Cemetery, Sandwich, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Freeman and Tryphosa (Colton) Freeman; nephew of Jonathan Freeman; uncle of Benjamin Fessenden and Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; first cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; second cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis and Reuben Eaton Fenton; second cousin thrice removed of Desda Chapin; third cousin once removed of Asahel Otis and James Otis; third cousin thrice removed of Frank Elisha Reed and Robert Helyer Thayer; fourth cousin of Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg and Asa H. Otis; fourth cousin once removed of David Waterman and Charles Augustus Otis, Sr..
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
John Quincy Adams 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.
  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. BrackettJohn Q. A. SheldenJ. 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)
  Roger Taintor (1767-1831) — of Hampton, Windham County, Conn. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., 1767. Merchant; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Hampton, 1820, 1822. Died in Hampton, Windham County, Conn., 1831 (age about 64 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Brother of John Taintor and Solomon Taintor; father of John Adams Taintor; uncle of Henry G. Taintor; first cousin once removed of Ralph Smith Taintor; first cousin twice removed of Charles Newhall Taintor; second cousin once removed of DeGrasse Maltby, Henry Taintor and Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley; second cousin twice removed of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley and William Henry Bulkeley; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; third cousin of James Kilbourne (1770-1850); third cousin once removed of Calvin Frisbie and Byron H. Kilbourn; third cousin twice removed of Asa H. Otis, John Ransom Buck, James Kilbourne (1842-1919), Samuel S. Knabenshue and Benjamin Baker Merrill; third cousin thrice removed of Delos Fall and Paul Knabenshue; fourth cousin of Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong and Jonathan Stratton; fourth cousin once removed of Ephraim Safford, John Baldwin, Amaziah Brainard, Albert Gallup, John Arnold Rockwell, Henry Brewster Stanton, Theodore Sill and Robert Coit Jr..
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Asahel Otis (1768-1837) — of Montville, New London County, Conn. Born in Montville, New London County, Conn., May 1, 1768. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Montville, 1822. Died in Bethany, Genesee County, N.Y., January 12, 1837 (age 68 years, 256 days). Interment at Chester Burying Ground, Montville, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Otis and Amy (Gardner) Otis; married, January 15, 1792, to Mary Chester; first cousin once removed of Day Otis Kellogg and Dwight Kellogg; second cousin once removed of Samuel Allyne Otis and Asa H. Otis; third cousin of Harrison Gray Otis; third cousin once removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr. and Abraham Lansing; third cousin twice removed of John Adams, Benjamin Fessenden, Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden, Charles Augustus Otis, Sr. and James Otis; third cousin thrice removed of William Barret Ridgely and Austin Eugene Lathrop; fourth cousin of Stephen Daniel Tilden, Moses Younglove Tilden and Samuel Jones Tilden; fourth cousin once removed of John Quincy Adams, Daniel Rose Tilden, Calvin Tilden Hulburd, Andrew Gould Chatfield and George Bailey Loring.
  Political families: Otis family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Stephen Daniel Tilden (1769-1852) — also known as Stephen D. Tilden — of Lebanon, New London County, Conn. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., May 3, 1769. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Lebanon, 1827; member of Connecticut state senate 9th District, 1836. Died in Columbia, Tolland County, Conn., February 2, 1852 (age 82 years, 275 days). Interment at Liberty Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Daniel Tilden and Esther (Mason) Tilden; married, February 20, 1798, to Lucretia Pettis; father of Daniel Rose Tilden; second great-grandson of Peleg Sanford; first cousin once removed of Lucretia Garfield; first cousin twice removed of George Galen Tilden, Harry Augustus Garfield and James Rudolph Garfield; first cousin thrice removed of Lucien Cooper Tilden and Julius Galen Tilden; third cousin of Moses Younglove Tilden and Samuel Jones Tilden; third cousin once removed of Calvin Tilden Hulburd; third cousin thrice removed of Fred Chester Tilden; fourth cousin of Jason Kellogg, Asahel Otis, Jeremiah Mason, Orsamus Cook Merrill and Timothy Merrill; fourth cousin once removed of Silas Dewey Kellogg, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg and Farrand Fassett Merrill.
  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
  Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) — also known as Augustus Porter — of Canandaigua, Ontario County, N.Y.; Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y. Born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., January 18, 1769. Surveyor; member of New York state assembly from Genesee and Ontario counties, 1802-03; postmaster at Niagara Falls, N.Y., 1836. Died in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y., June 10, 1849 (age 80 years, 143 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Joshua Porter and Abigail (Buell) Porter; brother of Peter Buell Porter; married, March 10, 1796, to Lavinia Steele; married, January 24, 1801, to Jane Howell (sister of Nathaniel Woodhull Howell); father of Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872) and Peter Buell Porter Jr.; uncle of Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); granduncle of Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); first cousin twice removed of Ulysses Simpson Grant; first cousin thrice removed of Frederick Dent Grant and Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin thrice removed of Asa H. Otis and Alvred Bayard Nettleton; second cousin four times removed of Daniel Frederick Webster, Lovel Davis Parmelee and Theron Ephron Catlin; third cousin of John Davenport, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Henry Huntington, Gurdon Huntington, Samuel Lathrop and Abel Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington, Henry Scudder, Ebenezer Huntington, Gaylord Griswold, Benjamin Trumbull, Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, Theodore Davenport, Abijah Blodget and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Jabez Williams Huntington, Abiel Case, Samuel George Andrews, Harrison Blodget, John Hall Brockway, Jairus Case, Lorenzo Burrows, Norman A. Phelps, Anson Levi Holcomb, George Smith Catlin, Waitman Thomas Willey, Lyman Trumbull, William Dean Kellogg, John Smith Phelps, William Gleason Jr., Almon Case, James Phelps, Robert Coit Jr., Samuel Lathrop Bronson, Abial Lathrop, Roger Wolcott and Allen Jacob Holcomb; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Creighton Stratton, Edmund Holcomb, Ira Chandler Backus, Calvin Tilden Hulburd, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, Charles Jenkins Hayden, John Leake Newbold Stratton, Bushrod Ebenezer Hoppin, Judson B. Phelps, Edwin Carpenter Pinney, Timothy E. Griswold, Erskine Mason Phelps, William Walter Phelps, William Patrick Willey, Charles A. Hungerford, Walter Harrison Blodget, William Barret Ridgely, George Harrison Hall, Clayton Hyde Lathrop, Phineas Orange Small, Clement Phineas Kellogg, Monroe Marsh Sweetland, William Brainard Coit, Lafayette Blanchard Gleason, Arthur Eugene Parmelee, Austin Eugene Lathrop and Hiram Bingham; fourth cousin of Samuel H. Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Leonard White, William Woodbridge, Isaac Backus, Eli Thacher Hoyt, Nathaniel Huntington, Caleb Scudder, James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington, Charles Phelps Huntington, John Arnold Rockwell, Elisha Mills Huntington, Henry Titus Backus, Bailey Frye Adams and Henry Joel Scudder.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Ephraim Safford (b. 1769) — of Canterbury, Windham County, Conn. Born in Canterbury, Windham County, Conn., May 9, 1769. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Canterbury, 1821. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Safford and Lydia (Ensworth) Safford; married, November 14, 1793, to Dolly Morgan; uncle of James Safford; granduncle of Robert Crawford Safford; first cousin once removed of John Jay Walbridge, David Safford Walbridge and Anson Peacely Killen Safford; first cousin thrice removed of Cyrus Packard Walbridge and Edward L. Safford; second cousin twice removed of Stafford Canning Cleveland; second cousin four times removed of Grover Fredrick Cleveland; third cousin of Isaiah Kidder; third cousin once removed of Jonathan Usher, Chauncey Fitch Cleveland, Charles Stetson, Luther Kidder and Isaiah Stetson; third cousin twice removed of Ira Chandler Backus, John Palmer Usher, Edward Green Bradford, Francis Landon Cleveland, Bailey Frye Adams, Orestes Cleveland, Henry Sabin, Abner Coburn Cleveland, Robert Cleveland Usher and Isaiah Kidder Stetson; third cousin thrice removed of Grover Cleveland, Edward Green Bradford II, James Harlan Cleveland, Charles E. Wooster, Charles Stetson Wilson and Clarence Cutting Stetson; fourth cousin of Asa H. Otis; fourth cousin once removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor, Solomon Taintor, Joseph Churchill Strong and Ebenezer Strong.
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Solomon Taintor (1769-1827) — of Hampton, Windham County, Conn. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., October 7, 1769. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Hampton, 1821. Died in Hampton, Windham County, Conn., 1827 (age about 57 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of John Taintor (1725-1823) and Sarah (Bulkeley) Taintor; brother of John Taintor (1760-1827) and Roger Taintor; married to Judith Bulkeley; father of Henry G. Taintor; uncle of John Adams Taintor; first cousin once removed of Ralph Smith Taintor; first cousin twice removed of Charles Newhall Taintor; second cousin once removed of DeGrasse Maltby, Henry Taintor and Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley; second cousin twice removed of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley and William Henry Bulkeley; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; third cousin of James Kilbourne (1770-1850); third cousin once removed of Calvin Frisbie and Byron H. Kilbourn; third cousin twice removed of Asa H. Otis, John Ransom Buck, James Kilbourne (1842-1919), Samuel S. Knabenshue and Benjamin Baker Merrill; third cousin thrice removed of Delos Fall and Paul Knabenshue; fourth cousin of Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong and Jonathan Stratton; fourth cousin once removed of Ephraim Safford, John Baldwin, Amaziah Brainard, Albert Gallup, John Arnold Rockwell, Henry Brewster Stanton, Theodore Sill and Robert Coit Jr..
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Peter Buell Porter (1773-1844) — also known as Peter B. Porter — of Canandaigua, Ontario County, N.Y.; Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y. Born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., August 4, 1773. Democrat. Member of New York state assembly, 1801-02, 1828 (Ontario and Steuben counties 1801-02, Erie County 1828); U.S. Representative from New York, 1809-13, 1815-16 (15th District 1809-13, 21st District 1815-16); general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; fought a duel with Gen. Alexander Smyth; secretary of state of New York, 1815-16; candidate for Governor of New York, 1817; U.S. Secretary of War, 1828-29. Slaveowner. Died in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y., March 20, 1844 (age 70 years, 229 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Joshua Porter and Abigail (Buell) Porter; brother of Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849); married, October 16, 1818, to Letitia Preston Breckinridge (daughter of John Breckinridge; sister of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; widow of Alfred William Grayson); father of Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); uncle of Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872) and Peter Buell Porter Jr.; grandfather of Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); first cousin twice removed of Ulysses Simpson Grant; first cousin thrice removed of Frederick Dent Grant and Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin thrice removed of Asa H. Otis and Alvred Bayard Nettleton; second cousin four times removed of Daniel Frederick Webster, Lovel Davis Parmelee and Theron Ephron Catlin; third cousin of John Davenport, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Henry Huntington, Gurdon Huntington, Samuel Lathrop and Abel Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington, Henry Scudder, Ebenezer Huntington, Gaylord Griswold, Benjamin Trumbull, Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, Theodore Davenport, Abijah Blodget and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Jabez Williams Huntington, Abiel Case, Samuel George Andrews, Harrison Blodget, John Hall Brockway, Jairus Case, Lorenzo Burrows, Norman A. Phelps, Anson Levi Holcomb, George Smith Catlin, Waitman Thomas Willey, Lyman Trumbull, William Dean Kellogg, John Smith Phelps, William Gleason Jr., Almon Case, James Phelps, Robert Coit Jr., Samuel Lathrop Bronson, Abial Lathrop, Roger Wolcott and Allen Jacob Holcomb; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Creighton Stratton, Edmund Holcomb, Ira Chandler Backus, Calvin Tilden Hulburd, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, Charles Jenkins Hayden, John Leake Newbold Stratton, Bushrod Ebenezer Hoppin, Judson B. Phelps, Edwin Carpenter Pinney, Timothy E. Griswold, Erskine Mason Phelps, William Walter Phelps, William Patrick Willey, Charles A. Hungerford, Walter Harrison Blodget, William Barret Ridgely, George Harrison Hall, Clayton Hyde Lathrop, Phineas Orange Small, Clement Phineas Kellogg, Monroe Marsh Sweetland, William Brainard Coit, Lafayette Blanchard Gleason, Arthur Eugene Parmelee, Austin Eugene Lathrop and Hiram Bingham; fourth cousin of Samuel H. Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Leonard White, William Woodbridge, Isaac Backus, Eli Thacher Hoyt, Nathaniel Huntington, Caleb Scudder, James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington, Charles Phelps Huntington, John Arnold Rockwell, Elisha Mills Huntington, Henry Titus Backus, Bailey Frye Adams and Henry Joel Scudder.
  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 — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Parker (1776-1868) — of Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, N.J. Born in Bethlehem, Hunterdon County, N.J., March 3, 1776. Democrat. Member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Middlesex County, 1806-10, 1812-13, 1815-16, 1818, 1827; mayor of Perth Amboy, N.J., 1815, 1850; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1829-33; U.S. Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1833-37; delegate to New Jersey state constitutional convention, 1844. Episcopalian. Slaveowner. Died in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, N.J., April 1, 1868 (age 92 years, 29 days). Interment at St. Peter's Churchyard, Perth Amboy, N.J.
  Relatives: Son of James Parker (1725-1797) and Gertrude (Skinner) Parker; married, January 5, 1803, to Penelope Butler; married, September 20, 1827, to Katherine Morris Ogden; father of John Cortlandt Parker; grandfather of Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; great-grandson of Stephanus Van Cortlandt; great-grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus Van Cortlandt and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin once removed of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; first cousin twice removed of John Livingston, Robert Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert Livingston and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin thrice removed of David Davidse Schuyler and Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Nicholas Bayard, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip Van Cortlandt, Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr. and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert Gilbert Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775), William Livingston, James Jay, Philip P. Schuyler, John Jay, Frederick Jay, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Philip Schuyler and James Alexander Hamilton; second cousin twice removed of Edward Livingston (1796-1840), Henry Bell Van Rensselaer and James Adams Ekin; second cousin thrice removed of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert Ray Hamilton and John Sluyter Wirt; second cousin four times removed of Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870), John Eliot Thayer Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; second cousin five times removed of Brockholst Livingston; third cousin of Volkert Petrus Douw, Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), James Livingston, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Killian Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William Jay; third cousin once removed of Leonard Gansevoort, Leonard Gansevoort Jr., Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Hamilton Fish, George Washington Schuyler, John Jay II and Philip N. Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Peter Gansevoort, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gilbert Livingston Thompson, Gerrit Smith, William Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, Denning Duer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Jacob Astor III, Eugene Schuyler, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin thrice removed of William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Hamilton Fish Kean, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Karl Cortlandt Schuyler, Peter Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); fourth cousin once removed of Asa H. Otis.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Joseph Churchill Strong (1778-1844) — also known as Joseph C. Strong — of Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn. Born in Bolton, Tolland County, Conn., October 3, 1778. Physician; mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., 1828-31. Died in Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., November 3, 1844 (age 66 years, 31 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Martha (Alvord) Strong and Judah Strong; married to Catharine Neilsen; father of Martha Alvord Strong (who married Charles Ready Jr.); first cousin of Ebenezer Strong; first cousin twice removed of Julius Levi Strong; second cousin twice removed of Timothy E. Griswold; third cousin once removed of John Strong, Elijah Hunt Mills and John Arnold Rockwell; third cousin twice removed of Aaron Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of William Berkeley Hotchkiss; fourth cousin of John Taintor, Samuel Strong, Roger Taintor, Solomon Taintor and Elisha Hunt Allen; fourth cousin once removed of Jason Kellogg, Ephraim Safford, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Amaziah Brainard, Timothy Merrill, DeGrasse Maltby, Henry Taintor, Charles Creighton Stratton, Asa H. Otis, John Adams Taintor, Anson Levi Holcomb, Theodore Sill, Ralph Smith Taintor, Henry G. Taintor, George Seymour, John Leake Newbold Stratton, William Fessenden Allen, Herschel Harrison Hatch, Jethro Ayers Hatch, Alfred Clark Chapin and Frederick Hobbes Allen.
  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
  Calvin Frisbie (1780-1846) — of Branford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Branford, New Haven County, Conn., April 30, 1780. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Branford, 1824. Died in Branford, New Haven County, Conn., January 7, 1846 (age 65 years, 252 days). Interment at Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Frisbie and Sarah (Rogers) Frisbie; married, June 12, 1805, to Polly Harrison; second cousin once removed of Philip Frisbee, Erwin J. Baldwin and Francis Everett Baldwin; second cousin four times removed of George Franklin Chapin; third cousin of Henry Taintor; third cousin once removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; third cousin twice removed of Aaron Kellogg, Alonzo Thompson Frisbee and Anson Foster Keeler; fourth cousin of DeGrasse Maltby, John Adams Taintor, Ralph Smith Taintor and Henry G. Taintor; fourth cousin once removed of Silas Condict, Jason Kellogg, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Timothy Merrill, Asa H. Otis, Henry Clinton Frisbee, Charles Newhall Taintor, Robert Cleveland Usher, Charles Brown Frisbie, Edward Silsby Farrington and Wallace Rider Farrington.
  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
  Ebenezer Strong (1780-1864) — of Bolton, Tolland County, Conn. Born May 24, 1780. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Bolton, 1832. Died March 23, 1864 (age 83 years, 304 days). Interment at Bolton Center Cemetery, Bolton, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Strong (1754-1824) and Lucy (Kilbourn) Strong; married, September 3, 1800, to Mary 'Polly' Day; first cousin of Joseph Churchill Strong; first cousin twice removed of Julius Levi Strong; second cousin twice removed of Timothy E. Griswold; third cousin once removed of John Strong, Elijah Hunt Mills and John Arnold Rockwell; third cousin thrice removed of William Berkeley Hotchkiss; fourth cousin of John Taintor, Samuel Strong, Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; fourth cousin once removed of Ephraim Safford, Amaziah Brainard, DeGrasse Maltby, Henry Taintor, Charles Creighton Stratton, Asa H. Otis, John Adams Taintor, Theodore Sill, Ralph Smith Taintor, Henry G. Taintor, George Seymour, John Leake Newbold Stratton, Herschel Harrison Hatch, Jethro Ayers Hatch and Alfred Clark Chapin.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Garrison-Fithian-Hires-Sayers family of New Jersey; DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  DeGrasse Maltby (1782-1872) — of East Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Branford, New Haven County, Conn., September 14, 1782. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from East Haven, 1833. Died February 15, 1872 (age 89 years, 154 days). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Benjamin Maltby and Rebecca (Taintor) Maltby; married to Sarah Smith; granduncle of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; second cousin of Henry Taintor; second cousin once removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; third cousin of John Adams Taintor, Ralph Smith Taintor and Henry G. Taintor; third cousin once removed of Thaddeus Betts and Charles Newhall Taintor; third cousin twice removed of Aaron Kellogg; fourth cousin of Calvin Frisbie; fourth cousin once removed of Jason Kellogg, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong, Timothy Merrill and Asa H. Otis.
  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
  Henry Taintor (b. 1793) — of Branford, New Haven County, Conn.; Clinton, Middlesex County, Conn. Born in Branford, New Haven County, Conn., May 19, 1793. Whig. Merchant; manufacturer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Branford, 1823; member of Connecticut state senate 19th District, 1844. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Medad Taintor and Anna (Lindsley) Taintor; second cousin of DeGrasse Maltby; second cousin once removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; second cousin twice removed of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; third cousin of Calvin Frisbie, John Adams Taintor, Ralph Smith Taintor and Henry G. Taintor; third cousin once removed of Charles Newhall Taintor; third cousin twice removed of Aaron Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Jason Kellogg, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong, Timothy Merrill and Asa H. Otis.
  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).
  Oran Gray Otis (1795-1836) — of Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, N.Y. Born December 5, 1795. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Saratoga County, 1831-32. Died, of apoplexy, in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., June 28, 1836 (age 40 years, 206 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Perez Otis and Deborah (Gillett) Otis; married to Lucy Kingman; first cousin once removed of Lauren Ford Otis; second cousin of David Perry Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis and Ralph Chester Otis; third cousin of Asa H. Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) and Norton Prentiss Otis; fourth cousin of John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, Harris F. Otis and James Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Day Otis Kellogg (1796-1874) — also known as Day O. Kellogg — of Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y. Born in Galway, Saratoga County, N.Y., August 7, 1796. Member of New York state assembly from Rensselaer County, 1839; mayor of Troy, N.Y., 1850; U.S. Consul in Glasgow, 1850-53. Died August 9, 1874 (age 78 years, 2 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Kellogg (1773-1842) and Mary Ann (Otis) Kellogg; brother of Dwight Kellogg; married to Mary Ann Dimon and Harriet Walter Odin; first cousin of Alvan Kellogg; first cousin once removed of Asahel Otis; second cousin of Ensign Hosmer Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis and Aaron Kellogg; second cousin thrice removed of Martin Weld Deyo; third cousin of Asa H. Otis; third cousin once removed of Jason Kellogg, Harrison Gray Otis, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Timothy Merrill, Daniel Fiske Kellogg, Orlando Kellogg and William Dean Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Rowland Case Kellogg and Frank Billings Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of John Adams; fourth cousin of Nathaniel Freeman Jr., Luther Walter Badger, Silas Dewey Kellogg, Greene Carrier Bronson, Chester Ashley, Daniel Kellogg (1791-1875), John Russell Kellogg, Alvah Nash, Thomas Belden Butler, George Smith Catlin, Albert Gallatin Kellogg, Francis William Kellogg, Farrand Fassett Merrill, Abraham Lansing and Charles Kellogg (1839-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Stephen Daniel Tilden, Benjamin Fessenden, Moses Younglove Tilden, Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden, Samuel Jones Tilden, Stephen Wright Kellogg, George Bradley Kellogg, Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., William Pitt Kellogg, Daniel Kellogg (1835-1918), Arthur Tappan Kellogg, James Otis and Selah Merrill.
  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
  Asa H. Otis (1797-1855) — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Born in Fort Ann, Washington County, N.Y., March 24, 1797. Farmer; delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention 1st District, 1835; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Wayne County, 1850. Died in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne County, Mich., August 26, 1855 (age 58 years, 155 days). Interment at Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
  Relatives: Son of Matson Otis and Deborah (Wetheral) Otis; married to Mary Goodell; second cousin once removed of Asahel Otis and Norton Prentiss Otis; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; second cousin thrice removed of Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin of Oran Gray Otis, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, David Perry Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); third cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) and Lauren Ford Otis; third cousin twice removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor, Solomon Taintor, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr., Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864) and Ralph Chester Otis; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah Cowles and Jonathan Brace; fourth cousin of Nathaniel Freeman Jr., Ephraim Safford, John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, Harris F. Otis, James Otis (1826-1875) and Abraham Lansing; fourth cousin once removed of James Parker, Joseph Churchill Strong, Calvin Frisbie, Ebenezer Strong, DeGrasse Maltby, Henry Taintor, Benjamin Fessenden, John Adams Taintor, Edmund Holcomb, James Safford, John Arnold Rockwell, Ralph Smith Taintor, Henry G. Taintor, Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden, Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., James Otis (1836-1898), Edwin Carpenter Pinney, Daniel Frederick Webster, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925) and Theron Ephron Catlin.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Benjamin Fessenden (1797-1881) — of Cumberland, Providence County, R.I. Born in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Mass., June 13, 1797. Cotton goods manufacturer; member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1855-56; Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1855-56; member of Rhode Island state senate, 1869-70; postmaster. Unitarian; later Baptist. Died January 6, 1881 (age 83 years, 207 days). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of William Fessenden and Martha (Freeman) Fessenden; brother of Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; married, December 13, 1821, to Mary Wilkinson; nephew of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; first cousin once removed of Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903); first cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; second cousin once removed of Walter Fessenden; second cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis; third cousin of Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), John Milton Fessenden and Reuben Eaton Fenton; third cousin once removed of William Pitt Fessenden, Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden, William Fessenden Allen and Joseph Palmer Fessenden; third cousin twice removed of Asahel Otis, James Deering Fessenden, Henry Nichols Blake, Francis Fessenden, Joshua Abbe Fessenden, Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908), Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden and Desda Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin of James Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Peter Rawson Taft, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Asa H. Otis and Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Dwight Kellogg (1797-1859) — of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. Born in Marcellus, Onondaga County, N.Y., October 4, 1797. Miller; supervisor of Ann Arbor Township, Michigan, 1837-38. Died in 1859 (age about 61 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Kellogg (1773-1842) and Mary Ann (Otis) Kellogg; brother of Day Otis Kellogg; married 1820 to Minerva Annable; first cousin of Alvan Kellogg; first cousin once removed of Asahel Otis; second cousin of Ensign Hosmer Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis and Aaron Kellogg; second cousin thrice removed of Martin Weld Deyo; third cousin of Asa H. Otis; third cousin once removed of Jason Kellogg, Harrison Gray Otis, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Timothy Merrill, Daniel Fiske Kellogg, Orlando Kellogg and William Dean Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Rowland Case Kellogg and Frank Billings Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of John Adams; fourth cousin of Nathaniel Freeman Jr., Luther Walter Badger, Silas Dewey Kellogg, Greene Carrier Bronson, Chester Ashley, Daniel Kellogg (1791-1875), John Russell Kellogg, Alvah Nash, Thomas Belden Butler, George Smith Catlin, Albert Gallatin Kellogg, Francis William Kellogg, Farrand Fassett Merrill, Abraham Lansing and Charles Kellogg (1839-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Stephen Daniel Tilden, Benjamin Fessenden, Moses Younglove Tilden, Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden, Samuel Jones Tilden, Stephen Wright Kellogg, George Bradley Kellogg, Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., William Pitt Kellogg, Daniel Kellogg (1835-1918), Arthur Tappan Kellogg, James Otis and Selah Merrill.
  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).
  Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872) — also known as Augustus S. Porter — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Born in Canandaigua, Ontario County, N.Y., January 18, 1798. Whig. Lawyer; mayor of Detroit, Mich., 1838-39; U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1839-45. Died in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y., September 18, 1872 (age 74 years, 244 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Lavinia (Steele) Porter; half-brother of Peter Buell Porter Jr.; nephew of Peter Buell Porter; first cousin of Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin once removed of Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); second cousin once removed of Ulysses Simpson Grant; second cousin twice removed of Frederick Dent Grant and Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Huntington; third cousin once removed of John Davenport, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Henry Huntington, Gurdon Huntington, Samuel Lathrop and Abel Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Huntington, Henry Scudder, Asa H. Otis and Alvred Bayard Nettleton; third cousin thrice removed of Daniel Frederick Webster, Lovel Davis Parmelee and Theron Ephron Catlin; fourth cousin of Ebenezer Huntington, Gaylord Griswold, Benjamin Trumbull, Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, Theodore Davenport, Abijah Blodget and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel H. Huntington, Jabez Williams Huntington, Abiel Case, Samuel George Andrews, Harrison Blodget, John Hall Brockway, Jairus Case, Lorenzo Burrows, Norman A. Phelps, Anson Levi Holcomb, George Smith Catlin, Waitman Thomas Willey, Lyman Trumbull, William Dean Kellogg, John Smith Phelps, William Gleason Jr., Almon Case, James Phelps, Robert Coit Jr., Samuel Lathrop Bronson, Abial Lathrop, Roger Wolcott and Allen Jacob Holcomb.
  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 — Find-A-Grave memorial
Epaphroditus Ransom Epaphroditus Ransom (1798-1859) — of Vermont; Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Mich. Born in Shelburne Falls, Shelburne, Franklin County, Mass., March 24, 1798. Lawyer; member of Vermont state house of representatives, 1830; justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1836-48; chief justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1843-48; Governor of Michigan, 1848-50; member of University of Michigan board of regents, 1850-51; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Kalamazoo County 2nd District, 1853-54. Died in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kan., November 9, 1859 (age 61 years, 230 days). Interment at Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
  Relatives: Uncle of Elizabeth Noyes Ransom (who married Charles Eugene Otis); granduncle of Edward Cahill.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Ransom Avenue, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is named for him.
  See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)
  James Duane Doty (1799-1865) — also known as James D. Doty — of Neenah, Winnebago County, Wis.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Born in Salem, Washington County, N.Y., November 5, 1799. Democrat. Lawyer; federal judge, 1828-32; member Michigan territorial council 7th District, 1834-35; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1839-41; Governor of Wisconsin Territory, 1841-44; delegate to Wisconsin state constitutional convention, 1846; U.S. Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1849-53; Governor of Utah Territory, 1863-65; died in office 1865. Presbyterian. Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, June 13, 1865 (age 65 years, 220 days). Interment at Fort Douglas Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  Relatives: Son of Chillus Doty and Sarah (Martin) Doty; married to Sarah Collins; father of Charles Doty; first cousin of Morgan Lewis Martin; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Doty Elementary School, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS James D. Doty (built 1943 at Portland, Oregon; scrapped 1961) was named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Adams Taintor (1800-1862) — also known as John A. Taintor — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., April 22, 1800. Democrat. Candidate for mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1858. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., November 15, 1862 (age 62 years, 207 days). Burial location unknown.
  Presumably named for: John Adams
  Relatives: Son of Roger Taintor and Nabby (Bulkeley) Taintor; nephew of John Taintor and Solomon Taintor; first cousin of Henry G. Taintor; second cousin of Ralph Smith Taintor; second cousin once removed of Charles Newhall Taintor; third cousin of DeGrasse Maltby, Henry Taintor and Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley; third cousin once removed of James Kilbourne (1770-1850), Amaziah Brainard, Theodore Davenport, Morgan Gardner Bulkeley and William Henry Bulkeley; third cousin twice removed of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; third cousin thrice removed of Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; fourth cousin of Calvin Frisbie, Alvah Nash, Byron H. Kilbourn and Leveret Brainard; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong, Jonathan Stratton, Asa H. Otis, Elisha Hunt Allen, Gouverneur Morris, Russell Sage, John Ransom Buck, James Kilbourne (1842-1919), Samuel S. Knabenshue and Benjamin Baker Merrill.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  John Otis (1801-1857) — of Hallowell, Kennebec County, Maine. Born in Maine, 1801. Lawyer; member of Maine state legislature, 1840; U.S. Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1849-51. Died August 17, 1857 (age about 56 years). Interment at Hallowell Cemetery, Hallowell, Maine.
  Relatives: Son of Oliver Otis and Elizabeth (Stanchfield) Otis; married 1831 to Harriet Frances Vaughn; married, August 21, 1848, to Ellen Grant; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin of William Shaw Chandler Otis, Harris F. Otis and James Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), Charles Augustus Otis, Sr., George Lorenzo Otis, John Grant Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; fourth cousin of Oran Gray Otis, Asa H. Otis, David Perry Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Edmund Holcomb (1801-1874) — of Granby, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Connecticut, February, 1801. Member of Connecticut state senate 3rd District, 1865. Died in Granby, Hartford County, Conn., December 20, 1874 (age 73 years, 0 days). Interment at Granby Cemetery, Granby, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Daniel Holcomb and Hepzibah (Griswold) Holcomb; married, September 2, 1835, to Eliza Minerva Hayes; married, September 29, 1863, to Emily H. Eggleston; first cousin twice removed of Gaylord Griswold; first cousin four times removed of Erastus Wolcott and Oliver Wolcott Sr.; first cousin five times removed of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767); second cousin thrice removed of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Roger Griswold and Frederick Wolcott; third cousin once removed of Noah Webster Holcomb; third cousin twice removed of Oliver Ellsworth and Elisha Phelps; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew Griswold (1714-1799), Augustus Seymour Porter and Peter Buell Porter; fourth cousin of Oliver Owen Forward, Walter Forward, Abiel Case, Chauncey Forward, Jairus Case, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss and William Gleason Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Jeremiah Mason, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, William Wolcott Ellsworth, Asa H. Otis, Abijah Blodget, John William Allen, Norman A. Phelps, Oliver Dwight Filley, James Samuel Wadsworth, George Smith Catlin, Henry Titus Backus, John Smith Phelps, Christopher Parsons Wolcott, Matthew Griswold (1833-1919), Nelson Platt Wheeler, William Egbert Wheeler, Roger Wolcott (1847-1900) and Lafayette Blanchard Gleason.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Safford (1802-1891) — of Canton Township, Wayne County, Mich. Born in Canterbury, Windham County, Conn., September 6, 1802. Supervisor of Canton Township, Michigan, 1834. Died in Plymouth, Wayne County, Mich., December 9, 1891 (age 89 years, 94 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Jabez Ensworth Safford and Susannah (Delop) Safford; married, August 29, 1829, to Eveline Adams; nephew of Ephraim Safford; uncle of Robert Crawford Safford; second cousin of John Jay Walbridge, David Safford Walbridge and Anson Peacely Killen Safford; second cousin twice removed of Cyrus Packard Walbridge and Edward L. Safford; third cousin once removed of Isaiah Kidder and Stafford Canning Cleveland; third cousin thrice removed of Grover Fredrick Cleveland; fourth cousin of Jonathan Usher, Chauncey Fitch Cleveland, Charles Stetson, Luther Kidder and Isaiah Stetson; fourth cousin once removed of Asa H. Otis, Ira Chandler Backus, John Palmer Usher, Edward Green Bradford, Francis Landon Cleveland, Bailey Frye Adams, Orestes Cleveland, Henry Sabin, Abner Coburn Cleveland, Robert Cleveland Usher and Isaiah Kidder Stetson.
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  John Arnold Rockwell (1803-1861) — also known as John A. Rockwell — of Norwich, New London County, Conn. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., August 27, 1803. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state senate 8th District, 1839; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1845-49. Died in Washington, D.C., February 10, 1861 (age 57 years, 167 days). Interment at Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Rockwell and Sally (Arnold) Rockwell; married to Mary Watkinson Perkins; third cousin once removed of Elijah Abel, Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong and Bela Edgerton; third cousin twice removed of Josiah Cowles; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew Griswold, Erastus Wolcott and Oliver Wolcott Sr.; fourth cousin of Alfred Peck Edgerton and Joseph Ketchum Edgerton; fourth cousin once removed of John Davenport, James Davenport, John Taintor, Daniel Chapin, Henry Huntington, Roger Taintor, Gurdon Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter, Solomon Taintor, Peter Buell Porter, Calvin Fillmore, Orsamus Cook Merrill, Abel Huntington, Timothy Merrill, Daniel Upson, Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy, Asa H. Otis, Theodore Sill, Oliver Morgan Hungerford, Julius Levi Strong and Luther S. Pitkin.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York; Bolton-Whitney-Brainard-Wolcott family of Ohio and New York; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Daniel Rose Tilden (1804-1890) — also known as Daniel R. Tilden — of Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., November 5, 1804. Whig. Lawyer; Portage County Prosecuting Attorney, 1838-41; U.S. Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1843-47; delegate to Whig National Convention from Ohio, 1848, 1852; Cuyahoga County Probate Judge, 1855-88. Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, March 4, 1890 (age 85 years, 119 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Stephen Daniel Tilden and Lucretia (Pettis) Tilden; married to Eleanor Clapp, Martha Jane McAllaster and Cornelia Lossing Jennings; third great-grandson of Peleg Sanford; second cousin of Lucretia Garfield; second cousin once removed of George Galen Tilden, Harry Augustus Garfield and James Rudolph Garfield; second cousin twice removed of Lucien Cooper Tilden and Julius Galen Tilden; third cousin once removed of Moses Younglove Tilden and Samuel Jones Tilden; fourth cousin of Calvin Tilden Hulburd; fourth cousin once removed of Jason Kellogg, Asahel Otis, Jeremiah Mason, Orsamus Cook Merrill and Timothy Merrill.
  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 congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Lockwood Conger (1805-1876) — of Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, Mich.; St. Clair, St. Clair County, Mich. Born in Trenton, Mercer County, N.J., February 18, 1805. Whig. School teacher; lawyer; merchant; banker; patent medicine manufacturer; U.S. Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1851-53. Died in St. Clair, St. Clair County, Mich., April 10, 1876 (age 71 years, 52 days). Interment at Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio; cenotaph at Clinton Grove Cemetery, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Mich.
  Relatives: Son of David Beeman Conger and Hannah (Lockwood) Conger; married, December 23, 1824, to Paulina Belvedere Clark; second cousin once removed of Hanford Nichols Lockwood; second cousin thrice removed of John Hart; third cousin of Homer Nichols Lockwood and Charles Franklin Conger; third cousin once removed of Daniel Lockwood and Hugh Conger; third cousin twice removed of Ebenezer Lockwood, Alfred Collins Lockwood and Daniel Clark Joyce; third cousin thrice removed of John Alsop, William Henry Rossell and Asbury Elliott Kellogg; fourth cousin of Thaddeus Betts, Anson Griffith Conger, Harmon Sweatland Conger, Omar Dwight Conger, Moore Conger, Chauncey Stewart Conger (1838-1916) and Frederick Ward Conger; fourth cousin once removed of Horatio Lockwood, Walter Booth, Abiel Case, Abraham Bogart Conger, Edwin Hurd Conger, James W. Conger, Franklin Barker Conger, Benn Conger, Frank Elisha Reed and Chauncey Stewart Conger (1882-1963).
  Political families: Conger family of New York; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Morgan Lewis Martin (1805-1887) — also known as Morgan L. Martin — of Green Bay, Brown County, Wis. Born in Martinsburg, Lewis County, N.Y., March 31, 1805. Democrat. Lawyer; member Michigan territorial council 7th District, 1832-35; member of Wisconsin territorial legislature, 1838; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory, 1845-47; member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1855, 1874; member of Wisconsin state senate, 1858-59; major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Brown County Judge, 1875-87. Died in Green Bay, Brown County, Wis., December 10, 1887 (age 82 years, 254 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Allouez, Wis.
  Presumably named for: Morgan Lewis
  Relatives: Son of Sarah (Turner) Martin and Walter Martin; married, July 25, 1837, to Elizabeth Smithm; first cousin of James Duane Doty; first cousin once removed of Charles Doty.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Martin Elementary School, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Peter Buell Porter Jr. (1806-1871) — also known as Peter B. Porter, Jr. — of Niagara County, N.Y. Born in Canandaigua, Ontario County, N.Y., March 17, 1806. Member of New York state assembly from Niagara County, 1838-41. Died in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y., June 15, 1871 (age 65 years, 90 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Jane (Howell) Porter; half-brother of Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872); nephew of Nathaniel Woodhull Howell (1770-1851) and Peter Buell Porter; first cousin of Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin once removed of Nathaniel Woodhull Howell (1830-1916) and Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); second cousin once removed of Ulysses Simpson Grant; second cousin twice removed of Frederick Dent Grant and Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Huntington; third cousin once removed of John Davenport, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Henry Huntington, Gurdon Huntington, Samuel Lathrop and Abel Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Huntington, Henry Scudder, Asa H. Otis and Alvred Bayard Nettleton; third cousin thrice removed of Daniel Frederick Webster, Lovel Davis Parmelee and Theron Ephron Catlin; fourth cousin of Ebenezer Huntington, Gaylord Griswold, Benjamin Trumbull, Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, Theodore Davenport, Abijah Blodget and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel H. Huntington, Jabez Williams Huntington, Abiel Case, Samuel George Andrews, Harrison Blodget, John Hall Brockway, Jairus Case, Lorenzo Burrows, Norman A. Phelps, Anson Levi Holcomb, George Smith Catlin, Waitman Thomas Willey, Lyman Trumbull, William Dean Kellogg, John Smith Phelps, William Gleason Jr., Almon Case, James Phelps, Robert Coit Jr., Samuel Lathrop Bronson, Abial Lathrop, Roger Wolcott and Allen Jacob Holcomb.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Epitaph: "Faithful to his friends, charitable toward all, he died in Christian hope."
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Shaw Chandler Otis (1807-c.1887) — also known as William S. C. Otis — of Summit County, Ohio. Born in Massachusetts, August 24, 1807. Lawyer; delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention from Summit County, 1850-51. Died about 1887 (age about 80 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of William Otis and Philena (Shaw) Otis; married 1836 to Hannah Mygatt; married to Laura Lyman; uncle of Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin of John Otis and James Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848); fourth cousin of Oran Gray Otis, Asa H. Otis, David Perry Otis, Harris F. Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Calvin Tilden Hulburd (1809-1897) — also known as Calvin T. Hulburd — of Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Born in Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., June 5, 1809. Republican. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1842-44, 1862 (St. Lawrence County 1842-44, St. Lawrence County 3rd District 1862); U.S. Representative from New York 17th District, 1863-69; defeated (Prohibition), 1876; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1868. Died in Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., October 25, 1897 (age 88 years, 142 days). Interment at Fairview Cemetery, Brasher Falls, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Hulburd and Lucy (Tilden) Hulburd; married, June 1, 1842, to Jane Isabella Butterfield; second cousin once removed of Moses Younglove Tilden and Samuel Jones Tilden; third cousin once removed of Stephen Daniel Tilden; third cousin twice removed of Daniel Burrows, Benjamin Trumbull and Lancelot Phelps; third cousin thrice removed of Noah Phelps, Augustus Seymour Porter and Peter Buell Porter; fourth cousin of Daniel Rose Tilden, Judson B. Phelps and Erskine Mason Phelps; fourth cousin once removed of Asahel Otis, Lorenzo Burrows, George Smith Catlin, Lyman Trumbull, Charles Marsh Pendleton, James Phelps, Cyrus Henry Pendleton and George Galen Tilden.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  David Perry Otis (1809-1890) — also known as David P. Otis — of Salem, New London County, Conn.; Norwich, New London County, Conn.; Niantic, East Lyme, New London County, Conn. Born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., February 28, 1809. Merchant; piano manufacturing business; member of Connecticut state senate 9th District, 1860. Died December 30, 1890 (age 81 years, 305 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of David Otis and Nancy (Perry) Otis; married, March 21, 1832, to Hannah Comstock; married, October 4, 1837, to Julia Ann Florence; first cousin twice removed of Ralph Chester Otis; second cousin of Oran Gray Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); second cousin once removed of Lauren Ford Otis; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin of Asa H. Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) and Norton Prentiss Otis; fourth cousin of John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, Harris F. Otis and James Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Andrew Gould Chatfield (1810-1875) — also known as Andrew G. Chatfield — of Addison, Steuben County, N.Y.; Racine, Racine County, Wis.; Belle Plaine, Scott County, Minn. Born in Butternuts, Otsego County, N.Y., January 27, 1810. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Steuben County, 1839-41, 1846; justice of Minnesota territorial supreme court, 1853-57. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Belle Plaine, Scott County, Minn., October 3, 1875 (age 65 years, 249 days). Interment at Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Cemetery, Belle Plaine, Minn.
  Relatives: Son of Enos Chatfield and Hannah (Starr) Chatfield; married, June 27, 1836, to Eunice Electa Clark Beeman; sixth great-grandson of Thomas Welles; first cousin thrice removed of Almon Ferdinand Rockwell; second cousin of Philo Fairchild Barnum and Phineas Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Charles Robert Sherman and Truman Hotchkiss; fourth cousin of Charles Taylor Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Benjamin Pulaski Chatfield and Glover Wheeler Cable; fourth cousin once removed of Asahel Otis, Nathan Summers Beardslee and Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The city of Chatfield, in Fillmore and Olmsted counties, Minnesota, is named for him.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Ralph Smith Taintor (1811-1892) — also known as Ralph S. Taintor — of Colchester, New London County, Conn. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., November 13, 1811. Republican. Farmer; wool commission merchant; member of Connecticut state senate 9th District, 1857. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Grange. Died in Colchester, New London County, Conn., October 22, 1892 (age 80 years, 344 days). Interment at Linwood Cemetery, Colchester, Conn.
  Relatives: Married, June 2, 1834, to Phoebe Higgins Lord; father of Charles Newhall Taintor; first cousin once removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; second cousin of John Adams Taintor and Henry G. Taintor; third cousin of DeGrasse Maltby and Henry Taintor; third cousin twice removed of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; fourth cousin of Calvin Frisbie; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong and Asa H. Otis.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Moses Younglove Tilden (1811-1876) — also known as Moses Y. Tilden — of Columbia County, N.Y. Born in New Lebanon, Columbia County, N.Y., November 14, 1811. Druggist; livestock raiser; member of New York state assembly from Columbia County 2nd District, 1869. Died in Lebanon Springs, Columbia County, N.Y., September 9, 1876 (age 64 years, 300 days). Interment at Cemetery of the Evergreens, New Lebanon, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Elam Tilden and Polly Younglove (Jones) Tilden; brother of Samuel Jones Tilden; married to Lucy Foote Campbell; second cousin once removed of Calvin Tilden Hulburd; third cousin of Stephen Daniel Tilden; third cousin once removed of Daniel Rose Tilden; third cousin twice removed of George Galen Tilden; third cousin thrice removed of Lucien Cooper Tilden, Julius Galen Tilden and Fred Chester Tilden; fourth cousin of Asahel Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Day Otis Kellogg and Dwight Kellogg.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Henry G. Taintor (1813-1889) — of Hampton, Windham County, Conn. Born in Hampton, Windham County, Conn., February 17, 1813. Republican. Merchant; member of Connecticut state senate 13th District, 1851; Connecticut state treasurer, 1866-67. Died March 11, 1889 (age 76 years, 22 days). Interment at South Cemetery, Hampton, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Solomon Taintor and Judith (Bulkeley) Taintor; nephew of John Taintor and Roger Taintor; first cousin of John Adams Taintor; second cousin of Ralph Smith Taintor; second cousin once removed of Charles Newhall Taintor; third cousin of DeGrasse Maltby, Henry Taintor and Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley; third cousin once removed of James Kilbourne (1770-1850), Amaziah Brainard, Theodore Davenport, Morgan Gardner Bulkeley and William Henry Bulkeley; third cousin twice removed of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; third cousin thrice removed of Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; fourth cousin of Calvin Frisbie, Alvah Nash, Byron H. Kilbourn and Leveret Brainard; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong, Jonathan Stratton, Asa H. Otis, Elisha Hunt Allen, Gouverneur Morris, Russell Sage, John Ransom Buck, James Kilbourne (1842-1919), Samuel S. Knabenshue and Benjamin Baker Merrill.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden (1813-1895) — also known as C. B. H. Fessenden — of Utica, Macomb County, Mich.; New Bedford, Bristol County, Mass.; Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Mass., July 17, 1813. Lawyer; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Macomb County, 1842; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1853-61; newspaper editor; Bristol County Sheriff, 1863-69. Died in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., April 16, 1895 (age 81 years, 273 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of William Fessenden and Martha (Freeman) Fessenden; brother of Benjamin Fessenden; married, June 21, 1842, to Sarah A. H. Fitch; nephew of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; first cousin once removed of Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903); first cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; second cousin once removed of Walter Fessenden; second cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis; third cousin of Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), John Milton Fessenden and Reuben Eaton Fenton; third cousin once removed of William Pitt Fessenden, Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden, William Fessenden Allen and Joseph Palmer Fessenden; third cousin twice removed of Asahel Otis, James Deering Fessenden, Henry Nichols Blake, Francis Fessenden, Joshua Abbe Fessenden, Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908), Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden and Desda Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin of James Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Peter Rawson Taft, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Asa H. Otis and Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor.
  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).
Samuel J. Tilden Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886) — also known as Samuel J. Tilden; "The Great Reformer"; "The Great Forecloser" — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in New Lebanon, Columbia County, N.Y., February 9, 1814. Democrat. Delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1846; member of New York state assembly, 1846, 1872 (New York County 1846, New York County 18th District 1872); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1864; New York Democratic state chair, 1872-82; Governor of New York, 1875-77; candidate for President of the United States, 1876. Died near Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y., August 4, 1886 (age 72 years, 176 days). Interment at Cemetery of the Evergreens, New Lebanon, N.Y.; statue erected 1926 at Riverside Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Elam Tilden and Polly Younglove (Jones) Tilden; brother of Moses Younglove Tilden; second cousin once removed of Calvin Tilden Hulburd; third cousin of Stephen Daniel Tilden; third cousin once removed of Daniel Rose Tilden; third cousin twice removed of George Galen Tilden; third cousin thrice removed of Lucien Cooper Tilden, Julius Galen Tilden and Fred Chester Tilden; fourth cousin of Asahel Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Day Otis Kellogg and Dwight Kellogg.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: John Bigelow — Pulaski F. Hyatt — Daniel S. Lamont — William W. Niles
  Samuel J. Tilden High School (opened 1930), in Brooklyn, New York, is named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Samuel T. MontagueSamuel T. Munson
  Epitaph: "I still trust the people."
  See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Samuel J. Tilden: Alexander C. Flick & Gustav Lobrano, Samuel Jones Tilden — William Severn, Samuel J. Tilden and the Stolen Election — William H. Rehnquist, Centennial Crisis : The Disputed Election of 1876
  Image source: Library of Congress
  Harris F. Otis (1816-1861) — of Danby, Rutland County, Vt.; Manchester, Bennington County, Vt.; Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Born in Vermont, June 3, 1816. Lawyer; member of Vermont state house of representatives, 1849; mayor of Topeka, Kan., 1860-61. Died in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan., 1861 (age about 45 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of David Harris Otis and Sarah (Rogers) Otis; married 1836 to Elizabeth H. Haviland; married to Pauline Lumpham; father-in-law of Thaddeus H. Walker; father of John Grant Otis; first cousin once removed of George Lorenzo Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin of John Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848); fourth cousin of Oran Gray Otis, Asa H. Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, David Perry Otis, James Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Adams-Baldwin family of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  George Bailey Loring (1817-1891) — also known as George B. Loring — of Salem, Essex County, Mass. Born in North Andover, Essex County, Mass., November 8, 1817. Republican. Physician; surgeon; postmaster at Salem, Mass., 1853-58; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1866-67; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1868 (member, Credentials Committee), 1872, 1876 (speaker); Massachusetts Republican state chair, 1869-76; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1873-76; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1877-81; U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture, 1881-85; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1889-90. Died in Salem, Essex County, Mass., September 14, 1891 (age 73 years, 310 days). Interment at Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Bailey Loring and Sally Pickman (Osgood) Loring; married, November 6, 1851, to Mary Toppan Pickman; married, June 10, 1880, to Anna T. (Smith) Hildreth (daughter of Isaac Townsend Smith); step-father of Loring Townsend Hildreth; father of Sally Pickman Loring (who married Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight); grandnephew of Samuel Osgood; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin Pickman Jr. and Dudley Leavitt Pickman; second cousin once removed of Benjamin Toppan Pickman; second cousin thrice removed of Simeon Baldwin; third cousin once removed of John Adams and George Peabody Wetmore; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis, Roger Sherman Baldwin, Maude Alice Keteltas Wetmore and Mary Winsor; fourth cousin of John Quincy Adams and Caleb Cushing; fourth cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis, Asahel Otis, George Washington Adams, Charles Francis Adams, Eli Thayer, Simeon Eben Baldwin and Arthur Percy Cushing.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Foster-Baldwin family of Brookfield, Massachusetts; Adams-Baldwin family of Boston, Massachusetts (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
Reuben E. Fenton Reuben Eaton Fenton (1819-1885) — also known as Reuben E. Fenton — of Frewsburg, Chautauqua County, N.Y. Born in Carroll, Chautauqua County, N.Y., July 4, 1819. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York, 1853-55, 1857-65 (33rd District 1853-55, 1857-63, 29th District 1863-65); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856; Governor of New York, 1865-69; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1868; U.S. Senator from New York, 1869-75. Died in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N.Y., August 25, 1885 (age 66 years, 52 days). Entombed at Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of George Washington Fenton and Elsie (Owen) Fenton; married, February 5, 1840, to Jane Frew; married, June 12, 1844, to Elizabeth Scudder; second cousin once removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin Fessenden and Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin twice removed of Desda Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Peronneau Finley Henderson; fourth cousin once removed of George Champlin, John Baldwin, Levi Yale, Herschel Harrison Hatch and Frank P. Fenton.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Fenton, New York, is named for him.  — The community of Fentonville, New York, is named for him.  — Fenton Hall, at the State University of New York at Fredonia, is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: New York Red Book 1896
  Charles Doty (1824-1918) — of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wis.; Godfrey, Madison County, Ill. Born in Green Bay, Brown County, Wis., August 17, 1824. Whig. Surveyor; member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1848; served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Bay County, Fla., 1918 (age about 93 years). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Panama City, Fla.
  Relatives: Son of Sarah (Collins) Doty and James Duane Doty; married, December 24, 1846, to Sarah Jane Webster; grandson of Chillus Doty; first cousin once removed of Morgan Lewis Martin; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James C. Bell — of Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y. Village president of Yonkers, New York, 1865-66. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Father of J. Harvey Bell.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  James Otis (1826-1875) — of San Francisco, Calif. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., August 11, 1826. Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; importer and exporter; candidate for Presidential Elector for California; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1872 (delegation chair); mayor of San Francisco, Calif., 1873-75; died in office 1875. Unitarian. Died, of diphtheria, in San Francisco, Calif., October 30, 1875 (age 49 years, 80 days). Original interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.; reinterment at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of George Washington Otis and Hannah Leavitt (Waters) Otis; married 1858 to Lucy Hamilton Macondray; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin of John Otis and William Shaw Chandler Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) and Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.; fourth cousin of Oran Gray Otis, Asa H. Otis, David Perry Otis, Harris F. Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917).
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Augustus Otis, Sr. (1827-1905) — also known as Charles A. Otis — of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Born in Bloomfield, Muskingum County, Ohio, January 30, 1827. Democrat. Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, 1873-74. Founder, Otis Iron and Steel Co. Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, June 28, 1905 (age 78 years, 149 days). Interment at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of William Augustus Otis and Eliza (Proctor) Otis; married, September 8, 1853, to Mary Jane Sheppard; married, October 14, 1863, to Ann Eliza Sheppard; nephew of William Shaw Chandler Otis; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin once removed of John Otis and James Otis; third cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis and Asahel Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr., Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg and Asa H. Otis.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864) — also known as Peter A. Porter — of Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y. Born in Black Rock (now part of Buffalo), Erie County, N.Y., July 17, 1827. Member of New York state assembly from Niagara County 2nd District, 1862; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Episcopalian. Killed by enemy gunshot while leading troops in battle, Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Va., June 3, 1864 (age 36 years, 322 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Peter Buell Porter and Letitia Preston (Breckinridge) Porter; married, March 30, 1852, to Mary Cabell Breckinridge (granddaughter of John Breckinridge); married, November 9, 1859, to Josephine Morris; father of Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); nephew of Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; great-grandnephew of William Preston and William Cabell; first cousin of Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr., John Cabell Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of James Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell, Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of William Cabell Jr., Francis Smith Preston, William Henry Cabell and James Patton Preston; second cousin of Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of William Campbell Preston, James McDowell, Frederick Mortimer Cabell, John Buchanan Floyd, John Smith Preston, George Rogers Clark Floyd, Edward Carrington Cabell, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Benjamin Earl Cabell and Carter Henry Harrison II; second cousin twice removed of Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr. and Earle Cabell; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Huntington; third cousin of John William Leftwich; third cousin once removed of John Davenport, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Henry Huntington, Gurdon Huntington, Samuel Lathrop and Abel Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Huntington, Henry Scudder, Asa H. Otis and Alvred Bayard Nettleton; third cousin thrice removed of Daniel Frederick Webster, Lovel Davis Parmelee and Theron Ephron Catlin; fourth cousin of Ebenezer Huntington, Gaylord Griswold, Benjamin Trumbull, Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, Theodore Davenport, Abijah Blodget and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel H. Huntington, Jabez Williams Huntington, Abiel Case, Samuel George Andrews, Harrison Blodget, John Hall Brockway, Jairus Case, Lorenzo Burrows, Norman A. Phelps, Anson Levi Holcomb, George Smith Catlin, Waitman Thomas Willey, Lyman Trumbull, William Dean Kellogg, John Smith Phelps, William Gleason Jr., Almon Case, James Phelps, Robert Coit Jr., Samuel Lathrop Bronson, Abial Lathrop, Roger Wolcott and Allen Jacob Holcomb.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  George Lorenzo Otis (1829-1882) — also known as George L. Otis — of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Born in Homer, Cortland County, N.Y., October 7, 1829. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 2, 1857-58; member of Minnesota state senate 21st District, 1866; mayor of St. Paul, Minn., 1867-68; candidate for Governor of Minnesota, 1869. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Died in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., March 29, 1882 (age 52 years, 173 days). Interment at Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
  Relatives: Son of Isaac Otis and Caroline Abigail (Curtiss) Otis; brother of Charles Eugene Otis; married 1858 to Mary Virginia (Mix) Morrison; first cousin once removed of Harris F. Otis; second cousin of John Grant Otis; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin once removed of John Otis; third cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Thaddeus H. Walker (1831-1895) — of Salem, Washington County, N.Y.; Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Born in Manchester, Bennington County, Vt., September 12, 1831. Democrat. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Washington County 1st District, 1858; candidate for Governor of Kansas, 1872; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 18th District, 1880. Died in Glens Falls, Warren County, N.Y., November 14, 1895 (age 64 years, 63 days). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Salem, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son-in-law of Harris F. Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Abraham Lansing (1835-1899) — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., February 27, 1835. Lawyer; New York state treasurer, 1874; member of New York state senate 17th District, 1882-83. Dutch and English ancestry. Member, Kappa Alpha Society. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., October 4, 1899 (age 64 years, 219 days). Interment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Christopher Yates Lansing and Caroline Mary (Thomas) Lansing; married, November 26, 1873, to Catherine Gansevoort; nephew of Gerrit Yates Lansing; grandson of Abraham Gerritse Lansing; grandnephew of John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr.; great-grandson of Abraham Robertse Yates; first cousin once removed of Robert Lansing (1799-1878) and Frederick Lansing (1806-1861); second cousin of Frederick Lansing (1838-1894); second cousin once removed of Robert Lansing (1864-1928), Stuart Douglas Lansing and Emma Sterling Lansing; second cousin twice removed of Agnes Phelps Lansing; second cousin thrice removed of Abraham Jacob Lansing; third cousin once removed of Asahel Otis; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis, Cornelius Lansing and Bradford R. Lansing; fourth cousin of Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg and Asa H. Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis.
  Political family: Lansing family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Otis (1836-1898) — of New York. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., October 12, 1836. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1878; member of New York state senate 1st District, 1884-85. Member, Union League. Died, from congestion of the lungs, in Bellport, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., July 22, 1898 (age 61 years, 283 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of James William Otis and Martha Crapon (Church) Otis; married, March 31, 1863, to Adelia Ludlum; grandson of Harrison Gray Otis; granduncle of Robert Helyer Thayer; great-grandson of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin once removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Asahel Otis; fourth cousin of Benjamin Fessenden and Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; fourth cousin once removed of Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Asa H. Otis and Albert Clinton Griswold.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917) — of Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky.; Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Washington County, Ohio, February 10, 1837. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1860; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1892; general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. Died, from a rupture of the heart, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., July 30, 1917 (age 80 years, 170 days). Interment at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
  Relatives: Son of Sarah (Dyer) Otis and Stephen Otis; married, September 11, 1859, to Eliza A. Wetherby; second cousin of Oran Gray Otis and David Perry Otis; second cousin once removed of Lauren Ford Otis; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis and Ralph Chester Otis; third cousin of Asa H. Otis; third cousin once removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) and Norton Prentiss Otis; fourth cousin of John Otis, William Shaw Chandler Otis, Harris F. Otis and James Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The World War II Liberty ship SS Harrison Gray Otis (built 1942-43 at Terminal Island, California; mined and beached at Gibraltar, 1943) was named for him.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Grant Otis (1838-1916) — of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Born in Danby, Rutland County, Vt., 1838. U.S. Representative from Kansas 4th District, 1891-93. Died in 1916 (age about 78 years). Interment at Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
  Relatives: Son of Harris F. Otis and Elizabeth H. (Haviland) Otis; married to Bina A. Numan; second cousin of George Lorenzo Otis and Charles Eugene Otis; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin once removed of John Otis; third cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Adams-Baldwin family of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Edwin Carpenter Pinney (1838-1917) — also known as Edwin C. Pinney — of Stafford, Tolland County, Conn. Born in Stafford, Tolland County, Conn., October 8, 1838. Democrat. Manufacturer; farmer; member of Connecticut state senate 24th District, 1891-92; defeated, 1910; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1892. Died in Stafford, Tolland County, Conn., 1917 (age about 78 years). Interment at Stafford Springs Cemetery, Stafford Springs, Stafford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Phelps Daniel Pinney and Azuba (Carpenter) Pinney; married, December 25, 1861, to Esther Smith Harvey; father of Claude Carpenter Pinney; grandfather of Harold B. Pinney; second cousin of Lucretia Garfield; second cousin once removed of Harry Augustus Garfield and James Rudolph Garfield; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Trumbull; second cousin thrice removed of Erastus Wolcott and Oliver Wolcott Sr.; third cousin once removed of Hezekiah Case, George Smith Catlin and Lyman Trumbull; third cousin twice removed of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Roger Griswold, Frederick Wolcott and Lancelot Phelps; third cousin thrice removed of Noah Phelps, Oliver Ellsworth, Augustus Seymour Porter and Peter Buell Porter; fourth cousin of Parmenio Adams, William Dean Kellogg, Almon Case and Bushrod Ebenezer Hoppin; fourth cousin once removed of Gaylord Griswold, Asa H. Otis, Alonzo Sidney Upham, Asahel Pierson Case, Hiram Bidwell Case, James Phelps and James Levi Hotchkiss.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Norton Prentiss Otis (1840-1905) — also known as Norton P. Otis — of Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y. Born in Halifax, Windham County, Vt., March 18, 1840. Republican. Mayor of Yonkers, N.Y., 1880-82; defeated, 1886; member of New York state assembly from Westchester County 1st District, 1884; U.S. Representative from New York 19th District, 1903-05; defeated, 1900; died in office 1905. Died in Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y., February 20, 1905 (age 64 years, 339 days). Interment at Oakland Cemetery, Hudson Terrace, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Elisha Graves Otis and Susan (Houghton) Otis; married 1877 to Lizzie A. Fahs; father of Charles Edwin Otis (son-in-law of J. Harvey Bell); second cousin once removed of Asa H. Otis; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin once removed of Oran Gray Otis, David Perry Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); third cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848); fourth cousin of Lauren Ford Otis.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Lauren Ford Otis (1842-1917) — also known as Lauren F. Otis — of Allegan County, Mich. Born near Syracuse, Onondaga County, N.Y., September 10, 1842. Republican. Dry goods merchant; fruit grower; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Allegan County 1st District, 1895-98. Died, of apoplexy, November 19, 1917 (age 75 years, 70 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Newton Otis and Elizabeth D. (Eager) Otis; married, August 14, 1872, to Mary McLallen; married, December 28, 1902, to Nettie E. Davis; first cousin once removed of Oran Gray Otis; second cousin once removed of David Perry Otis and Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917); second cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin once removed of Asa H. Otis and Ralph Chester Otis; third cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848); fourth cousin of Norton Prentiss Otis.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Edward Cahill (1843-1922) — of Lansing, Ingham County, Mich. Born in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Mich., August 3, 1843. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney; justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1890; law partner of Russell C. Ostrander. Died July 27, 1922 (age 78 years, 358 days). Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
  Relatives: Married 1867 to Lucy C. Crawford; grandnephew of Epaphroditus Ransom.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial — Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society
  Charles Eugene Otis (1846-1917) — also known as Charles E. Otis — of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Born, in a log cabin, Prairieville, Barry County, Mich., May 11, 1846. Democrat. District judge in Minnesota 2nd District, 1889-1902; candidate for justice of Minnesota state supreme court, 1904. Died November 26, 1917 (age 71 years, 199 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Isaac Otis and Caroline Abigail (Curtiss) Otis; brother of George Lorenzo Otis; married to Elizabeth Noyes Ransom (niece of Epaphroditus Ransom); first cousin once removed of Harris F. Otis; second cousin of John Grant Otis; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin once removed of John Otis; third cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  J. Harvey Bell (d. 1921) — of Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y. Democrat. Real estate broker; mayor of Yonkers, N.Y., 1886-90; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 19th District, 1904. Died in 1921. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Harriet (Thomas) Bell and James C. Bell; married to Elizabeth Cock; father of Harriet T. Bell (daughter-in-law of Norton Prentiss Otis); grandson of Philip E. Thomas.
  Political family: Otis family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925) — also known as Peter A. Porter — of Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y. Born in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y., October 10, 1853. Banker; newspaper editor; village president of Niagara Falls, New York, 1878; member of New York state assembly from Niagara County 2nd District, 1886-87; U.S. Representative from New York 34th District, 1907-09. Died in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., December 15, 1925 (age 72 years, 66 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Mary Cabell (Breckinridge) Porter and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); married 1887 to Alice Adele Taylor; grandson of Peter Buell Porter; grandnephew of Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Joseph Cabell Breckinridge and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; great-grandson of John Breckinridge; second great-grandnephew of William Preston and William Cabell; first cousin once removed of Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr., John Cabell Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William Campbell Preston Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of James Douglas Breckinridge and Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell; first cousin thrice removed of William Cabell Jr., Francis Smith Preston, William Henry Cabell and James Patton Preston; second cousin of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison, William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; second cousin twice removed of William Campbell Preston, James McDowell, Frederick Mortimer Cabell, John Buchanan Floyd, John Smith Preston, George Rogers Clark Floyd and Edward Carrington Cabell; second cousin four times removed of Benjamin Huntington; third cousin of Ulysses Simpson Grant, Benjamin Earl Cabell and Carter Henry Harrison II; third cousin once removed of John William Leftwich, Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr. and Earle Cabell; third cousin twice removed of John Davenport, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Henry Huntington, Gurdon Huntington, Samuel Lathrop and Abel Huntington; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Huntington and Henry Scudder; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer Huntington, Gaylord Griswold, Benjamin Trumbull, Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, Theodore Davenport, Asa H. Otis, Abijah Blodget, Benjamin Nicoll Huntington and Alvred Bayard Nettleton.
  Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  William Barret Ridgely (1853-1920) — also known as William B. Ridgely — of Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill. Born in Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., July 19, 1853. Republican. Vice-president, Springfield Iron Company; banker; postmaster at Springfield, Ill., 1897-99; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1901-08; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1908. Died in Washington, D.C., April 30, 1920 (age 66 years, 286 days). Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Ridgely and Jane Maria (Barret) Ridgely; married, October 24, 1882, to Eleanor M. 'Ella' Cullom (daughter of Shelby Moore Cullom); married, December 30, 1905, to Kate Deering; nephew of Redick McKee Ridgely; second great-grandnephew of Samuel Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington and Elisha Mills Huntington; first cousin thrice removed of Samuel H. Huntington; first cousin five times removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin twice removed of Joseph Lyman Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Joshua Coit, Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; third cousin of Edwin Reed Ridgely and Austin Eugene Lathrop; third cousin once removed of Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington and Helen Huntington Hull; third cousin thrice removed of John Davenport, Ebenezer Huntington, James Davenport, Asahel Otis, Augustus Seymour Porter, Samuel Lathrop, Peter Buell Porter, Abel Huntington, Zina Hyde Jr. and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of John Hall Brockway, Abial Lathrop and Hilliard Samuel Ridgely.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — Comptrollers of the Currency
  Daniel Frederick Webster (1853-1896) — also known as Daniel F. Webster — of Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., March 14, 1853. Republican. Lawyer; mayor of Waterbury, Conn., 1892-94; member of Connecticut state senate 5th District, 1895-96; died in office 1896. Died, from peritonitis, in Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn., October 31, 1896 (age 43 years, 231 days). Interment at Hillside Cemetery, Thomaston, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Cornelia Clarissa (Loomis) Webster and Frederick Buel Webster; married, June 26, 1879, to Elizabeth Rogers Fox; second cousin thrice removed of Jonathan Brace; second cousin four times removed of Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin twice removed of Thomas Kimberly Brace; third cousin thrice removed of Luther Hotchkiss, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr. and Peter Augustus Porter; fourth cousin of Theron Ephron Catlin; fourth cousin once removed of Asa H. Otis, Russell Sage and Henry DeWitt Hotchkiss.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Austin Eugene Lathrop (1865-1950) — also known as Austin E. Lathrop; Cap Lathrop — of Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska; Cordova, Chugach census area, Alaska. Born in Lapeer, Lapeer County, Mich., October 5, 1865. Owner of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper, a chain of movie theaters, two radio stations, two banks, and the Healy River Coal Company; trustee, Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, 1933-35, continuing as regent, University of Alaska, 1935-50. Killed in a railroad accident, at Healy, Denali Borough, Alaska, July 26, 1950 (age 84 years, 294 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Eugene Vernon Lathrop and Sarah (Parsons) Lathrop; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin once removed of Alfred L. Lathrop (who married Barbara M. Lathrop); second cousin four times removed of Joshua Coit and Jedediah Sabin; second cousin five times removed of Samuel Huntington, Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; third cousin of William Barret Ridgely; third cousin thrice removed of Ebenezer Huntington, Asahel Otis, Augustus Seymour Porter, Samuel Lathrop, Peter Buell Porter, Zina Hyde Jr. and Henry Sabin; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph Lyman Huntington, John Hall Brockway and Abial Lathrop.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Ralph Chester Otis (b. 1870) — also known as Ralph C. Otis — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., March 8, 1870. Republican. Banker; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1916. Interment at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Edward Otis and Maria (Taylor) Otis; married, November 23, 1899, to Sarane Seelye; first cousin twice removed of David Perry Otis; second cousin twice removed of Oran Gray Otis and Harrison Gray Otis; second cousin four times removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin once removed of Lauren Ford Otis; third cousin twice removed of Asa H. Otis.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Theron Ephron Catlin (1878-1960) — also known as Theron E. Catlin — of St. Louis, Mo. Born in St. Louis, Mo., May 16, 1878. Republican. Lawyer; member of Missouri state house of representatives from St. Louis City 6th District, 1907-08; U.S. Representative from Missouri 11th District, 1911-12; defeated, 1912. Died in St. Louis, Mo., March 19, 1960 (age 81 years, 308 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
  Relatives: Son of Daniel Loring Catlin and Justina G. (Kayser) Catlin; married to Frances Dameron; second cousin thrice removed of George Smith Catlin; second cousin four times removed of Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin once removed of Stephen Wright Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Abijah Catlin; third cousin thrice removed of Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr. and Peter Augustus Porter; fourth cousin of Daniel Frederick Webster and Clement Phineas Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Asa H. Otis.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Lansing family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
Frank E. Reed Frank Elisha Reed (1880-1967) — also known as Frank E. Reed — of Glencoe, McLeod County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn. Born in Glencoe, McLeod County, Minn., June 19, 1880. Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; member of Minnesota state house of representatives District 31, 1917-18; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1920. Died in Hennepin County, Minn., February 3, 1967 (age 86 years, 229 days). Interment at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
  Relatives: Son of Axel Hayford Reed and Hannah Antoinette 'Nettie' (Morrison) Reed; married, December 27, 1917, to Gladys Naomi Cooper; third cousin thrice removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of James Lockwood Conger.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917
  Albert Clinton Griswold (1884-1954) — also known as Albert C. Griswold — of Wethersfield, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y., February 10, 1884. Republican. Life insurance agent; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Wethersfield; elected 1920. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., July 21, 1954 (age 70 years, 161 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Frederick Albert Griswold and Mary (Stillman) Griswold; first cousin four times removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; second cousin twice removed of Ashbel Griswold; second cousin thrice removed of Harrison Gray Otis; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas Hale Sill; fourth cousin once removed of Arthur Tappan Kellogg and James Otis.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Desda Chapin (1893-1945) — also known as Desdamona Baldwin — of Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y. Born in Elkhorn, Douglas County, Neb., 1893. Democrat. Member of New York Democratic State Committee, 1936. Female. Died in Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., August 14, 1945 (age about 52 years). Interment at Grand View Cemetery, Batavia, N.Y.
  Relatives: Daughter of Beecher Benjamin Baldwin and Mary Ann (Chambers) Baldwin; married, June 27, 1914, to Horace H. Chapin; second cousin thrice removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Benjamin Fessenden, Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden and Reuben Eaton Fenton.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert Helyer Thayer (1901-1984) — also known as Robert H. Thayer — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; Washington, D.C. Born in Southborough, Worcester County, Mass., September 22, 1901. Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 14th District, 1946; U.S. Minister to Romania, 1955-57. Member, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Audubon Society. Died, of leukemia, in Washington, D.C., January 26, 1984 (age 82 years, 126 days). Interment at Southborough Rural Cemetery, Southborough, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of William Greenough Thayer and Violet (Otis) Thayer; married, December 26, 1926, to Virginia Pratt (daughter of Ruth Baker Pratt); grandnephew of James Otis; second great-grandson of Harrison Gray Otis; third great-grandson of Samuel Allyne Otis; third cousin thrice removed of Nathaniel Freeman Jr..
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
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