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Index to Locations
Amherst West Cemetery
Amherst Wildwood Cemetery
Chesterfield Chesterfield Center
Cemetery
Cummington Dawes Cemetery
Northampton Unknown location
Northampton Bridge Street Cemetery
Northampton Old Cemetery
Florence, Northampton Park Street
Cemetery
Ware Aspen Grove Cemetery
Williamsburg City Cemetery
West
Cemetery
Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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Simeon Strong (1736-1805) —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., March 6,
1736.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1791; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1801-05.
Died in 1805
(age about
69 years).
Interment at West Cemetery.
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Ebenezer Mattoon (1755-1843) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Massachusetts, 1755.
Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1790; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1801-03.
Died in 1843
(age about
88 years).
Interment at West Cemetery.
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Edward Dickinson (1803-1874) —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
1, 1803.
Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1840; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1853-55.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 16,
1874 (age 71 years, 166
days).
Interment at West Cemetery.
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Wildwood
Cemetery
Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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George Bosworth Churchill (1866-1925) —
also known as George B. Churchill —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
24, 1866.
Republican. Delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; member of
Massachusetts
state senate Franklin & Hampshire District, 1917-18; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1925; died in
office 1925.
Died in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., July 1,
1925 (age 58 years, 250
days).
Interment at Wildwood Cemetery.
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Julius Hawley Seelye (1824-1895) —
also known as Julius H. Seelye —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Connecticut, 1824.
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1875-77;
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1884.
Died in 1895
(age about
71 years).
Interment at Wildwood Cemetery.
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Ernest M. Whitcomb —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924.
Interment at Wildwood Cemetery.
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Chesterfield
Center Cemetery
Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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William Lincoln Higgins (1867-1951) —
also known as William L. Higgins —
of South Coventry, Coventry, Tolland
County, Conn.
Born in Chesterfield, Hampshire
County, Mass., March 8,
1867.
Republican. Physician;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Coventry, 1905-08, 1917-22,
1925-28; member of Connecticut
state senate, 1909-12; first
selectman of Coventry, Connecticut, 1917-32; Tolland
County Commissioner, 1921-32; secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1929-33; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1933-37; defeated,
1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1936
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., November
19, 1951 (age 84 years, 256
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Chesterfield Center Cemetery.
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Dawes
Cemetery
Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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George Pratt Shultz (1920-2021) —
also known as George P. Shultz —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
13, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; economist;
university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Labor, 1969-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1972-74; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1982-89; survived an assassination
attempt in South America, August 1988; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1989.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Economic Association.
Died in Stanford, Santa Clara
County, Calif., February
6, 2021 (age 100 years,
55 days).
Interment at Dawes Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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John Proctor Clarke (1856-1932) —
also known as J. Proctor Clarke —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Florence (Firenze), Italy,
of American parents, April
23, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1900-26; appointed 1900;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1905-26.
Member, Union
League; American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Murray Hill Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
12, 1932 (age 75 years, 264
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Edwards Clarke and Mary (Proctor) Clarke; married, June 25,
1884, to Sarah M. Parker; married, July 8,
1924, to Ida (Hatch) Cambell. |
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Bridge Street
Cemetery
Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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Caleb Strong (1745-1819) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
9, 1745.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1776; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1780; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1789-96; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1800-07, 1812-16.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died November
7, 1819 (age 74 years, 302
days).
Interment at Bridge Street Cemetery.
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Elijah Hunt Mills (1776-1829) —
also known as Elijah H. Mills —
of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Chesterfield, Hampshire
County, Mass., December
1, 1776.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1811-14, 1819-21; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1820-21; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1815-19; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1820-27.
Died in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., May 5,
1829 (age 52 years, 155
days).
Interment at Bridge Street Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Mills and Mary (Hunt) Mills; married, May 16,
1802, to Sarah Hunt; married, September
6, 1804, to Harriet Blake; father of Helen Sophia Mills (who
married Charles
Phelps Huntington); grandfather of Herbert
Henry Davis Peirce and Anna Cabot Mills Davis (who married Henry
Cabot Lodge); great-grandfather of Josiah
Quincy; second great-grandfather of Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr. and John
Davis Lodge; third great-grandfather of William
Amory Gardner Minot and George
Cabot Lodge; second cousin once removed of Elisha
Hunt Allen and Gouverneur
Morris; second cousin twice removed of William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Morgan Hungerford; second cousin five times removed of Ralph
Waldo Hungerford and Harold
W. Hungerford; third cousin of John
Strong; third cousin once removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr., Jonathan
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Josiah
Meigs, Samuel
Strong, Joseph
Churchill Strong, Ebenezer
Strong, Martin
Keeler, Silas
Wright Jr. and William
Dean Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Hiram Keeler, George
Seymour, Joseph
Pomeroy Root, William
Chapman Williston, Herschel
Harrison Hatch, Jethro
Ayers Hatch, John
Hill Walbridge, Alfred
Clark Chapin and Henry
E. Walbridge; third cousin thrice removed of Frederick
Enoch Woodbridge, Julius
Levi Strong, Charles
Hale, Timothy
E. Griswold, Hiram
Augustus Huse, Maurice
Lauchlin Wright, Daniel
Parrish Witter, Frank
Billings Kellogg, Henry
Ward Beecher, George
Williston Nash and Edward
Stanley Kellogg; fourth cousin of Martin
Chittenden, Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr., Henry
Meigs, Charles
Jared Ingersoll, Joseph
Reed Ingersoll, Ralph
Isaacs Ingersoll and Charles
Anthony Ingersoll; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Chittenden, Jonathan
Brace, Jedediah
Sabin, Chittenden
Lyon, John
Willard, Chester
Ackley, Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland, Return
Jonathan Meigs III, Laman
Ingersoll, Henry
Meigs Jr., Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, John
Forsyth Jr., Colin
Macrae Ingersoll, Eli
Thayer, John
Milton Thayer and Charles
Roberts Ingersoll. |
| | | 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 |
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Isaac Chapman Bates (1779-1845) —
also known as Isaac C. Bates —
of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Granville, Hampden
County, Mass., January
23, 1779.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1808-09; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1827-35;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts; delegate to
Whig National Convention from Massachusetts, 1839 (Temporary Chair;
Convention Vice-President; speaker; member, Committee to Notify
Nominees); U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1841-45; died in office 1845.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
16, 1845 (age 66 years, 52
days).
Interment at Bridge Street Cemetery.
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Eli Porter Ashmun (1770-1819) —
of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Blandford, Hampden
County, Mass., June 24,
1770.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1803; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1808; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1816-18; resigned 1818.
Died in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., May 10,
1819 (age 48 years, 320
days).
Interment at Bridge Street Cemetery.
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Charles Delano (1820-1883) —
of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in New Braintree, Worcester
County, Mass., June 24,
1820.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1859-63 (at-large 1859-61,
10th District 1861-63).
Died in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
23, 1883 (age 62 years, 213
days).
Interment at Bridge Street Cemetery.
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Osmyn Baker (1800-1875) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., May 18,
1800.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1833-34, 1836-37; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1840-45.
Died in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., February
9, 1875 (age 74 years, 267
days).
Interment at Bridge Street Cemetery.
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Charles Phelps Huntington (1802-1868) —
of Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., May 24,
1802.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; superior
court judge in Massachusetts, 1855-59; banker.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
30, 1868 (age 65 years, 251
days).
Interment at Bridge Street Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Dan Huntington and Elizabeth Whiting (Phelps) Huntington; married
to Helen Sophia Mills (daughter of Elijah
Hunt Mills); grandfather of Josiah
Quincy; first cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin of Charles
Edward Phelps; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; third cousin of Joseph
Lyman Huntington; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Samuel
H. Huntington, Abel
Huntington, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Collins
Dwight Huntington and George
Milo Huntington; third cousin thrice removed of Noah
Phelps and Waightstill
Avery; fourth cousin of William
Woodbridge, Jabez
Williams Huntington, Isaac
Backus, Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Elisha
Mills Huntington and Henry
Titus Backus; fourth cousin once removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Chauncey
Goodrich, Elizur
Goodrich, Augustus
Seymour Porter, Peter
Buell Porter, Silas
Wright Jr., Marshall
Chapin, William
Dean Kellogg, William
Clark Huntington, Everett
Chamberlin Benton and Fred
Douglas Fisher. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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memorial |
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Theodore Fiske Dwight (1863-1952) —
also known as Theodore F. Dwight —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., September
19, 1863.
Republican. Insurance
and real
estate business; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Fourth Hampden District, 1905.
Died in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., July 12,
1952 (age 88 years, 297
days).
Interment at Bridge Street Cemetery.
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Old
Cemetery
Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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William Lyman (1755-1811) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., December
7, 1755.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1787; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1789; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-97 (2nd District 1793-95,
4th District 1795-97); U.S. Consul in London, 1804-11, died in office 1811.
Died in Cheltenham, England,
September
22, 1811 (age 55 years, 289
days).
Interment at Gloucester
Cathedral, Gloucester, England; cenotaph at Old Cemetery.
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Park Street
Cemetery
Florence, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Aspen Grove
Cemetery
Ware, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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Charles Abbot Stevens (1816-1892) —
also known as Charles A. Stevens —
of Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in North Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
9, 1816.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1853; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1864;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1875.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 7,
1892 (age 75 years, 242
days).
Interment at Aspen Grove Cemetery.
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City
Cemetery
Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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