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all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
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with more than one subset.
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Samuel Adams (1722-1803) —
also known as "The Tribune of the People";
"The Cromwell of New England";
"Determinatus"; "The Psalm Singer";
"Amendment Monger"; "American
Cato"; "Samuel the Publican" —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
27, 1722.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1781; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1788; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1789-94; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1793-97; received 15 electoral votes, 1796.
Congregationalist.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 1803 (age 81 years, 5
days).
Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Adams and Mary (Fifield) Adams; married 1749 to
Elizabeth Checkley; married 1764 to
Elizabeth Wells; uncle of Joseph
Allen; granduncle of Charles
Allen; great-grandfather of Elizabeth Wells Randall (who married
Alfred
Cumming) and William
Vincent Wells; second cousin of John
Adams; second cousin once removed of John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848); second cousin twice removed of George
Washington Adams, Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886) and John
Milton Thayer; second cousin thrice removed of Edward
M. Chapin, John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; second cousin four times removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Chapin, Arthur
Laban Bates, Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954) and Almur
Stiles Whiting; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Grenfill Washburn, Lyman
Metcalfe Bass, Emerson
Richard Boyles and Thomas
Boylston Adams; third cousin of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Samuel
H. Huntington and Caleb
Cushing; third cousin twice removed of Willard
J. Chapin, Erastus
Fairbanks, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington, Charles
Adams Jr., James
Brooks and Bailey
Frye Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Alphonso
Taft, Benjamin
W. Waite, George
Otis Fairbanks, Austin
Wells Holden, Horace
Fairbanks, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor (1820-1910), Franklin
Fairbanks, Edgar
Weeks and Arthur
Newton Holden; third cousin four times removed of John
Quincy Adams (1848-1911). |
| | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Mount
Sam Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Samuel Adams (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Samuel Adams: Donald Barr
Chidsey, The
World of Samuel Adams |
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John Adams (1735-1826) —
also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of
Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old
Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of
Independence"; "Father of the American
Navy" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1735.
Lawyer;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice
President of the United States, 1789-97; President
of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1826 (age 90 years, 247
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams (1699-1797);
married, October
25, 1764, to Abigail
Quincy Smith (aunt of William
Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813; 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 once removed of Jeremiah
Mason and George
Bailey Loring; 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 (1801-1885), 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 Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | Mount
Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains,
Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Adams (built 1941-42 at Richmond,
California; torpedoed and lost in the Coral
Sea, 1942) was named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: John
Adams Harper
— John
A. Cameron
— John
A. Dix
— John
Adams Fisher
— John
A. Taintor
— John
A. Gilmer
— John
A. Perkins
— John
Adams Hyman
— John
A. Damon
— John A.
Lee
— John
A. Sanders
— John
Adams Hurson
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| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about John Adams: John Ferling,
John
Adams: A Life — Joseph J. Ellis, The
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John
Adams — David McCullough, John
Adams — Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson — John Ferling,
Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 — James
Grant, John
Adams : Party of One |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Joseph Allen (1749-1827) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
2, 1749.
Delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1810-11; member
of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1815-18.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., September
2, 1827 (age 78 years, 0
days).
Interment at Mechanic
Street Burying Ground, Worcester, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Allen and Mary (Adams) Allen; father of Charles
Allen; nephew of Samuel
Adams (1722-1803); first cousin twice removed of William
Vincent Wells; second cousin once removed of John
Adams; third cousin of John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848); third cousin once removed of Samuel
Huntington, George
Washington Adams, Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886) and John
Milton Thayer; third cousin twice removed of Edward
M. Chapin, John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; third cousin thrice removed of Lyman
Kidder Bass, Daniel
T. Hayden, Arthur
Chapin, Arthur
Laban Bates, Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954) and Almur
Stiles Whiting; fourth cousin of Samuel
H. Huntington and Caleb
Cushing; fourth cousin once removed of Willard
J. Chapin, Erastus
Fairbanks, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington, Charles
Adams Jr., James
Brooks and Bailey
Frye Adams. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Fairbanks-Adams
family of Massachusetts; Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan
family of Dexter, Michigan; Pike
family of Lubec, Maine; Adams-Rusling
family (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) —
also known as "Old Man Eloquent"; "The
Accidental President"; "The Massachusetts
Madman" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., July 11,
1767.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1794-97; Prussia, 1797-1801; Russia, 1809-14; Great Britain, 1815-17; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1802; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-08; resigned 1808; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1817-25; President
of the United States, 1825-29; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-48 (11th District
1831-33, 12th District 1833-43, 8th District 1843-48); died in office
1848; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1834.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Suffered a stroke
while speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of
Representatives, February 21, 1848, and died two days later in
the Speaker's office,
U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1848 (age 80 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Adams and Abigail
Adams; brother of Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813; 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 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 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. and George
Bailey Loring; fourth cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis, Erastus
Fairbanks, Charles
Stetson, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Charles
Adams Jr., Isaiah
Stetson (1812-1880), Joshua
Perkins, Eli
Thayer, Bailey
Frye Adams and Samuel
Miller Quincy. |
| | Political families: Greene-Lippitt
family of Providence, Rhode Island; DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Thayer-Capron-Aldrich-Stetson
family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: John
Smith — Thurlow
Weed |
| | Adams counties in Ill. and Ind. are
named for him. |
| | Mount
Quincy Adams, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — Mount
Quincy Adams, on the border between British
Columbia, Canada, and Hoonah-Angoon
Census Area, Alaska, is named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: John
Q. A. Brackett
— John
Q. A. Shelden
— J.
Q. A. Reber
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| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about John 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 |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Peter Rawson Taft (1785-1867) —
of Vermont.
Born in Uxbridge, Worcester
County, Mass., April
14, 1785.
Member of Vermont state legislature, 1820.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, January
1, 1867 (age 81 years, 262
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Isaac Backus (1789-1868) —
of Canterbury, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Plainfield, Windham
County, Conn., November
27, 1789.
Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Canterbury, 1838.
Died February
13, 1868 (age 78 years, 78
days).
Interment at Raymond Cemetery, Canterbury, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Backus (1754-1814) and Esther (Shepard) Backus (1756-1832);
married, April
30, 1817, to Susan P. Barstow; first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of William
Woodbridge and Henry
Titus Backus; second cousin once removed of Zina
Hyde Jr.; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Almur
Stiles Whiting; third cousin of Thomas
Worcester Hyde; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Samuel
H. Huntington, Abel
Huntington, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Matthew
Griswold, Charles
Edward Hyde, John
Sedgwick Hyde and Edward
Warden Hyde; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit and James
Davenport; third cousin thrice removed of John
Foster Dulles, Allen
Welsh Dulles and Selden
Chapin; fourth cousin of Henry
Meigs, Bela
Edgerton, Jabez
Williams Huntington, Heman
Ticknor, Nathaniel
Huntington (1793-1828), James
Huntington, Martin
Olds, Charles
Phelps Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington and Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell; fourth cousin once removed of Augustus
Seymour Porter, Samuel
Lathrop, Peter
Buell Porter, Theodore
Davenport, Henry
Meigs Jr., John
Forsyth Jr., Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, William
Clark Huntington, Hiram
Bingham and John
Leffingwell Randolph. |
| | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Rusling (1812-1879) —
of Warren
County, N.J.
Born in Newburgh, Warren
County, N.J., January
1, 1812.
Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Warren County, 1859-61.
Died in Hackettstown, Warren
County, N.J., August
9, 1879 (age 67 years, 220
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Hackettstown, N.J.
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John Milton Thayer (1820-1906) —
also known as John M. Thayer —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Bellingham, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
24, 1820.
Republican. Member
Nebraska territorial council, 1860; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1867-71; Governor
of Wyoming Territory, 1875-78; Governor of
Nebraska, 1887-91, 1891-92.
Died in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., March
19, 1906 (age 86 years, 54
days).
Interment at Wyuka
Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb.
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Relatives: Son
of Elias Nelson Thayer (1773-1833) and Ruth (Staples) Thayer
(1775-1851); married, December
17, 1842, to Mary Laura Albee (1818-1892); granduncle of Arthur
Laban Bates; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Adams (1722-1803), John
Adams and Almur
Stiles Whiting; third cousin once removed of Joseph
Allen, John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Peter
Rawson Taft; third cousin twice removed of Daniel
Chapin (1761-1821) and Wilson
Henry Fairbank; fourth cousin of Willard
J. Chapin, George
Washington Adams, Charles
Francis Adams, Alphonso
Taft and Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer, Eli
Elmer, Elijah
Boardman, John
Allen, William
Bostwick, Elijah
Hunt Mills, Daniel
Warner Bostwick, Daniel
Chapin (1791-1878), Chester
William Chapin, Graham
Hurd Chapin, Alexander
Wheelock Thayer, William
Aldrich, William
Vincent Wells, Staley
N. Wood, Edward
M. Chapin, John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894), Charles
Phelps Taft, William
Nelson Taft, Brooks
Adams, John
Alden Thayer, William
Howard Taft and Henry
Waters Taft. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Fairbanks-Adams
family of Massachusetts; Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan
family of Dexter, Michigan; Pike
family of Lubec, Maine; Adams-Rusling
family (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Thayer County,
Neb. is named for him. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography |
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Adin Ballou Capron (1841-1911) —
also known as Adin B. Capron —
of Stillwater, Smithfield, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Mendon, Worcester
County, Mass., January
9, 1841.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; miller;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1887-92; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1891-93; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 2nd District, 1897-1911;
defeated, 1892.
Died in Stillwater, Smithfield, Providence
County, R.I., March
17, 1911 (age 70 years, 67
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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James Jacob Rusling (1844-1899) —
also known as James J. Rusling —
of Hackettstown, Warren
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey, 1844.
Postmaster at Hackettstown,
N.J., 1898-99.
Died April 2,
1899 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Hackettstown, N.J.
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Ex Sumner Mansfield (1847-1923) —
also known as E. Sumner Mansfield —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; North Scituate, Scituate, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., October
25, 1847.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Belgium in Boston,
Mass., 1895-1919.
Episcopalian.
Died in North Scituate, Scituate, Plymouth
County, Mass., February
1, 1923 (age 75 years, 99
days).
Interment at Cohasset Central Cemetery, Cohasset, Mass.
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John A. Rusling (1848-1921) —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in 1848.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1896.
Died in 1921
(age about
73 years).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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Emor L. Calkins (b. 1855) —
also known as Emor Luther Capron —
of Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Springville, Erie
County, N.Y., 1855.
Prohibition candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1909; member of Michigan
Prohibition Party State Central Committee, 1919.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Burial
location unknown.
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Arthur Laban Bates (1859-1934) —
also known as Arthur L. Bates —
of Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa.
Born in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., June 6,
1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1888
(alternate), 1924;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1901-13 (26th District 1901-03,
25th District 1903-13).
Baptist.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Kiwanis;
Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., August
26, 1934 (age 75 years, 81
days).
Interment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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Philip Mansfield (1874-1929) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
8, 1874.
Lawyer;
Vice-Consul
for Belgium in Boston,
Mass., 1901-03.
Episcopalian.
Died in Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
2, 1929 (age 54 years, 359
days).
Interment at Cohasset Central Cemetery, Cohasset, Mass.
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Almur Stiles Whiting (1889-1959) —
also known as Almur S. Whiting —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.; Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Wausau, Marathon
County, Wis., March 2,
1889.
Republican. Shipyard
paymaster; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1944,
1952
(alternate).
Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., February
5, 1959 (age 69 years, 340
days).
Interment at Pine
Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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