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Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in North Guilford, Guilford, New Haven
County, Conn., November
22, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1785; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1785, 1787-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-99; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1799-1807; died in office 1807.
Congregationalist.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
One of the founders,
and first president,
of Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 4,
1807 (age 52 years, 102
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Greenfield
Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Joel Barlow (1754-1812) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
24, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; chaplain;
writer;
poet;
lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Cadiz, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to France, 1811-12, died in office 1812.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held
prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of
U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S.
Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident.
Died, of pneumonia
or exposure,
in Zarnowiec, Poland,
December
24, 1812 (age 58 years, 275
days).
Interment at Churchyard,
Zarnowiec, Poland; cenotaph at Great
Pasture Road Cemetery, Redding, Conn.
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Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1837-1922) —
also known as Morgan G. Bulkeley —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., December
26, 1837.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president,
Aetna Life
Insurance Company, 1870-1922; mayor
of Hartford, Conn., 1880-88; defeated, 1878; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1884
(alternate), 1896;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1889-93; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1896;
U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1905-11.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; Society
of the War of 1812.
First
president of the National League of Professional Base
Ball Clubs in 1876.
Died in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., November
6, 1922 (age 84 years, 315
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Henry Champion (1751-1836) —
of Colchester, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Westchester, Colchester, New London
County, Conn., March
16, 1751.
Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; banker;
member of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1806-17; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Colchester, 1820.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died July 13,
1836 (age 85 years, 119
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Champion and Deborah (Brainard) Champion; brother of Epaphroditus
Champion; married, October
10, 1781, to Abigail Tinker; father of Harriet Champion (who
married Joseph
Trumbull); first cousin four times removed of Charlotte
H. McMorran; second cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard; second cousin twice removed of Leveret
Brainard; second cousin four times removed of Asahel
Rowland DeWolf, Winthrop
Roger De Wolf and John
Anderson De Wolf Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Charles
Gates Dawes, Rufus
Cutler Dawes, Beman
Gates Dawes and Henry
May Dawes; third cousin of Daniel
Upson; third cousin twice removed of Chester
Ackley, Charles
Upson, Gad
Ely Upson, Christopher
Columbus Upson, Andrew
Seth Upson and Evelyn
M. Upson; third cousin thrice removed of Almar
F. Dickson. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Dawes-Upson
family of Connecticut; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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of Champion,
New York, is named for
him. — The township
of Champion,
Ohio, named for
him. |
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Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862-1948) —
also known as Wilbur L. Cross —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn., April
10, 1862.
Democrat. University
professor; Governor of
Connecticut, 1931-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1946.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; Society of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
5, 1948 (age 86 years, 178
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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John Paterson (1744-1808) —
of Lenox, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Lisle, Tioga County (now Broome
County), N.Y.
Born in New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn., 1744.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1775; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of New York
state assembly from Tioga County, 1792-93; Broome
County Judge, 1798, 1806; U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1803-05.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in Lisle, Broome
County, N.Y., July 9,
1808 (age about 64
years).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Whitney Point, N.Y.; reinterment in 1892 at Church
on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Mass.
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Morris Woodruff Seymour (1842-1920) —
also known as Morris W. Seymour —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born October
6, 1842.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state senate, 1881-82 (10th District 1881, 14th District 1882);
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1888 (Democratic),
1896 (Gold Democratic).
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Society of the Cincinnati.
Died October
27, 1920 (age 78 years, 21
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835) —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brookhaven, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
25, 1754.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; banker;
postmaster at Litchfield,
Conn., 1792-1801; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut, 1801-17 (at-large 1801-05, 7th
District 1805-07, at-large 1807-09, 7th District 1809-11, at-large
1811-17).
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Slaveowner.
Died in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., March 7,
1835 (age 81 years, 10
days).
Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
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Erastus Wolcott (1722-1793) —
of South Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., September
21, 1722.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Connecticut
council of assistants, 1786-89; superior court judge in
Connecticut, 1789-92.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Died in South Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., September
14, 1793 (age 70 years, 358
days).
Interment at Edwards Cemetery, South Windsor, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767) and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott; brother of Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; married to Jerusha (Wolcott) Wolcott and Mary
Conyers; uncle of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; great-grandfather of James
Samuel Wadsworth; great-granduncle of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); second great-grandfather of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth and Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second great-granduncle of Alfred
Wolcott; third great-grandfather of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; third great-granduncle of Selden
Chapin; fourth great-grandfather of James
Jermiah Wadsworth; fourth great-granduncle of Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; fifth great-grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; first cousin twice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; first cousin thrice removed of Elisha
Hunt Allen and George
Washington Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of Edmund
Holcomb, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; first cousin five times removed of Judson
H. Warner, Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler and Henry
Augustus Wolcott; first cousin six times removed of Alexander
Royal Wheeler; second cousin of William
Pitkin; second cousin once removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799) and Daniel
Pitkin; second cousin twice removed of James
Hillhouse and Timothy
Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Henry
Ward Beecher, Leveret
Brainard, Edwin
Carpenter Pinney and John
Robert Graham Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Joseph
Pomeroy Root, George
Griswold Sill, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, George
Buckingham Beecher, Luther
S. Pitkin and Claude
Carpenter Pinney; second cousin five times removed of Augustus
Brandegee, George
Frederick Stone, Clarence
Horatio Pitkin, Carroll
Peabody Pitkin, Caleb
Seymour Pitkin, Harry
Kear Wolcott, Eldred
C. Pitkin, Henry
Merrill Wolcott, Frances
Payne Bolton and Harold
B. Pinney; third cousin thrice removed of John
Arnold Rockwell and Oliver
Morgan Hungerford. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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