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Smith-Miller-Loring-Osgood family of New York City, New York

Note: This is just one of 1,325 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

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These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

Samuel Osgood Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) — of Andover (part now in North Andover), Essex County, Mass.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Andover (part now in North Andover), Essex County, Mass., February 3, 1748. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1780; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1781-84; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1784; U.S. Postmaster General, 1789-91; Presidential Elector for New York, 1792 (voted for George Washington and George Clinton); member of New York state assembly from New York County, 1800-02. Member, American Philosophical Society. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., August 12, 1813 (age 65 years, 190 days). Original interment at Brick Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1856 at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Peter Osgood and Sarah (Johnson) Osgood; married 1786 to Mary Browne; granduncle of George Bailey Loring; third cousin twice removed of William Crowninshield Endicott.
  Political family: Smith-Miller-Loring-Osgood family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: U.S. Postal Museum
  Isaac Townsend Smith (1813-1906) — also known as Isaac T. Smith — of New York, New York County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 12, 1813. Republican. Banker; Republican Presidential Elector for New York, 1864; Consul-General for Siam in New York, N.Y., 1887-1904. Member, Union League. Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., March 30, 1906 (age 93 years, 18 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Smith and Eliza Ballard (Townsend) Smith; married to Elizabeth Ingalls Putnam; father of Anna T. Smith (who married George Bailey Loring); grandfather of Loring Townsend Hildreth.
  Political family: Smith-Miller-Loring-Osgood family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  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 Joseph Otis, Benjamin Lincoln, 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 family: Smith-Miller-Loring-Osgood family of New York City, New York (subset 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
  Warner Miller (1838-1918) — of Herkimer, Herkimer County, N.Y. Born in Hannibal, Oswego County, N.Y., August 12, 1838. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; paper manufacturer; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1872, 1892, 1896; member of New York state assembly from Herkimer County, 1874-75; U.S. Representative from New York 22nd District, 1879-81; resigned 1881; U.S. Senator from New York, 1881-87. Died in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., March 21, 1918 (age 79 years, 221 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Herkimer, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Hiram Miller and Mary Ann (Warner) Miller; married to Caroline Churchill; father of Augusta Warner Miller (who married Loring Townsend Hildreth).
  Political family: Smith-Miller-Loring-Osgood family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight (1846-1917) — also known as Theodore F. Dwight — of Washington, D.C.; Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y., June 11, 1846. Librarian; director, Boston Public Library, 1892-94; U.S. Consular Agent in Vevey, 1904-14. Bisexual. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., February 3, 1917 (age 70 years, 237 days). Interment at Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Almon Dwight and Cyria (White) Dwight; married, November 5, 1895, to Sally Pickman Loring (daughter of George Bailey Loring); father of Lawrence Dwight.
  Political family: Smith-Miller-Loring-Osgood family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Loring Townsend Hildreth (1873-1915) — also known as Loring T. Hildreth; Loring Thayer Hildreth — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Elizabeth, Union County, N.J., July 24, 1873. Lawyer; Consul for Siam in New York, N.Y., 1902-07. Member, Union League. Died, in a private sanitarium, at Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., April 1, 1915 (age 41 years, 251 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Relatives: Step-son of George Bailey Loring; son of Charles Hosea Hildreth and Anna T. (Smith) Hildreth; married, June 1, 1907, to Augusta Warner Miller (daughter of Warner Miller); grandson of Isaac Townsend Smith.
  Political family: Smith-Miller-Loring-Osgood family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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