Index to Locations
Arlington Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
Arlington St. Paul's Cemetery
Belmont Belmont Cemetery
Cambridge Cambridge Cemetery
Cambridge Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge Old Cambridge Cemetery
Chelmsford Pine Ridge Cemetery
Chelmsford St. Joseph Cemetery
Concord Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Dracut Varnum Cemetery
Durham Durham Cemetery
Everett Glenwood Cemetery
Everett Woodlawn Cemetery
Framingham Unknown location
Framingham Edgell Grove Cemetery
Groton Groton Cemetery
Groton Town Cemetery
Holliston Lake Grove Cemetery
Hopkinton St. John's Cemetery
Hudson Forestvale Cemetery
Lexington Munroe Cemetery
Lexington Old Burying Ground
Littleton Westlawn Cemetery
Lowell Hildreth Cemetery
Lowell Lowell Cemetery
Lowell St. Patrick's Cemetery
Malden Unknown location
Malden Forest Dale Cemetery
Malden Holy Cross Cemetery
Marlborough Immaculate Conception
Cemetery
Marlborough Maplewood Cemetery
Medford Unknown location
Medford Oak Grove Cemetery
Medford Salem Street Burial Ground
Melrose Wyoming Cemetery
Natick Dell Park Cemetery
Natick St. Patrick's Cemetery
Newton East Parish Burying Ground
Newton Newton Cemetery
Newton Lower Falls, Newton St. Mary's
Cemetery
Reading Unknown location
Reading Forest Glen Cemetery
Reading Laurel Hill Cemetery
Tewksbury Pine Hill Cemetery
Townsend Hillside Cemetery
Wakefield Forest Glade Cemetery
Wakefield Lakeside Cemetery
Waltham Grove Hill Cemetery
Winchester Calvary Cemetery
Winchester Wildwood Cemetery
Woburn Calvary Cemetery
Woburn Montefiore Cemetery
Woburn Pride of Boston Cemetery
Woburn Woodbrook Cemetery
Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery
70 Medford Street
Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Founded 1843
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
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William J. Donovan (c.1908-1988) —
also known as Bill Donovan —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born about 1908.
Mayor
of Somerville, Mass., 1954-59; Somerville city clerk.
Catholic.
Member, Rotary.
Died, in Somerville Hospital,
Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., March
19, 1988 (age about 80
years).
Interment at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
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Image source:
Somerville Times |
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St. Paul's
Cemetery
Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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J. Frank Facey (1863-1943) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in 1863.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1904,
1932
(alternate).
Died in 1943
(age about
80 years).
Interment at St. Paul's Cemetery.
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Belmont
Cemetery
121 Grove Street
Belmont, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Founded 1859
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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Jay Rogers Benton (1885-1953) —
also known as Jay R. Benton —
of Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
18, 1885.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; banker;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1916;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1917-18; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1923-27; insurance
executive.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Acacia;
Sons
of the American Revolution; American Bar
Association.
Died in Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
3, 1953 (age 68 years, 16
days).
Interment at Belmont Cemetery.
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Everett Chamberlin Benton (1862-1924) —
also known as Everett C. Benton —
of Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Guildhall, Essex
County, Vt., September
25, 1862.
Republican. Insurance
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1896,
1900,
1904;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1912.
Universalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died in 1924
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Belmont Cemetery.
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Timothy F. Hagerty (1856-1930) —
of Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Massachusetts, 1856.
Democrat. Postmaster at Woburn,
Mass., 1895-99.
Died in 1930
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Belmont Cemetery.
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Cambridge
Cemetery
76 Coolidge Avenue
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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Charles Francis Hurley (1893-1946) —
also known as Charles F. Hurley —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
24, 1893.
Democrat. Real estate
business; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; Massachusetts
state treasurer, 1931-36; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1937-39; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1940,
1944.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Ancient
Order of Hibernians; Elks; Foresters.
Died March
24, 1946 (age 52 years, 120
days).
Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) —
of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont
County, Ohio, March 1,
1837.
U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author;
editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1872-81.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1920 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
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William Parmenter (1789-1866) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
30, 1789.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1837-45.
Died in East Cambridge, Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
25, 1866 (age 76 years, 332
days).
Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
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J. Edward Barry (d. 1932) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Democrat. Mayor
of Cambridge, Mass., 1911-14; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1912,
1916.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks.
Died in 1932.
Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
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Edward J. Sennott —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Second Middlesex District, 1905;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924.
Interment at Cambridge Cemetery.
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Mt. Auburn
Cemetery
580 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Founded 1831
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1975
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
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Samuel Dexter (1761-1816) —
of Lunenburg, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 14,
1761.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1788-90; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1793-95; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1799-1800; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1800; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1801; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1814, 1815, 1816.
Died in Athens, Greene
County, N.Y., May 4,
1816 (age 54 years, 356
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Mt. Auburn
Cemetery.
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Richard Olney (1835-1917) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Oxford, Worcester
County, Mass., September
15, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1873-74; candidate for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1876; U.S.
Attorney General, 1893-95; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1895-97; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1904.
Presbyterian.
Died April 8,
1917 (age 81 years, 205
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Charles Devens Jr. (1820-1891) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., April 4,
1820.
Member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1849; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; People's candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1862; state court judge in Massachusetts, 1867; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1873-77, 1881-91; U.S.
Attorney General, 1877-81.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
7, 1891 (age 70 years, 278
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Edward Everett (1794-1865) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston,
Suffolk
County), Mass.
Born in Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., April
11, 1794.
Unitarian
minister; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1825-35; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1836-40; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1841-45; president,
Harvard College, 1846-49; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1852-53; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1853-54; Constitutional Union
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1860; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Massachusetts.
Unitarian.
Delivered a lengthy speech immediately preceding Abraham
Lincoln's brief Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
15, 1865 (age 70 years, 279
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894) —
also known as Robert C. Winthrop —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 12,
1809.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1835-40; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1838-40; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1840-42, 1842-50;
resigned 1842, 1850; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1847-49; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1850-51; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1851; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Massachusetts.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
16, 1894 (age 85 years, 188
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Nathan Matthews Jr. (1854-1927) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
28, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1891-95.
Episcopalian.
Died, of a pulmonary
embolism, in Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
11, 1927 (age 73 years, 258
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902-1985) —
of Beverly, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Nahant, Essex
County, Mass., July 5,
1902.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1933-36; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1937-44, 1947-53; resigned 1944;
defeated, 1952; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1940
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Representative to
United Nations, 1953-60; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1960; U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, 1963-64, 1965-67; , 1967-68; Germany, 1968-69; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964.
Died in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., February
27, 1985 (age 82 years, 237
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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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.
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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
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| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
4, 1772.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1804-05, 1813-20; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1805-13; member
of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1821-22; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1821-22; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1823-29; president,
Harvard College, 1829-45.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 1,
1864 (age 92 years, 148
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Anson Burlingame (1820-1870) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in New Berlin, Chenango
County, N.Y., November
14, 1820.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1855-61; U.S.
Minister to China, 1861-67.
Died, from congestion of
the lungs, in St. Petersburg, Russia,
February
23, 1870 (age 49 years, 101
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Frederick Octavius Prince (1818-1899) —
also known as Frederick O. Prince —
of Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
18, 1818.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1851-53; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1855; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1860,
1864,
1880,
1888;
Temporary Secretary, 1876;
member, Arrangements Committee, 1876;
speaker, 1876,
1888;
Convention Secretary, 1888;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1876-80; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1877-78, 1879-82; Secretary
of Democratic National Committee, 1880; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1885 (Democratic), 1896 (National Democratic).
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 6,
1899 (age 81 years, 139
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1773-1851) —
also known as Benjamin W. Crowninshield —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., December
29, 1773.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1811; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1812; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1815-18; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1823-31.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
3, 1851 (age 77 years, 36
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
16, 1792.
Whig. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1835-37, 1839-40;
U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1849-52.
Unitarian.
Died August
18, 1855 (age 62 years, 245
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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John Prescott Bigelow (1797-1872) —
also known as John P. Bigelow —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
25, 1797.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1828; secretary
of state of Massachusetts, 1836-43; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1849-52.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1872 (age 74 years, 314
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Timothy
Bigelow and Lucy (Prescott) Bigelow; married, March 9,
1824, to Louisa A. Brown; third cousin twice removed of Daniel
M. Prescott, John
Albion Andrew, Cyrus
Dan Prescott and Charles
Pinckney Holbrook Nason; third cousin thrice removed of John
Forrester Andrew, Henry
Hersey Andrew, Arlington
Ansel Parrish and Columbus
E. Parrish; fourth cousin of Nathan
Read; fourth cousin once removed of Isaac
Davis, Rufus
Heaton, Alexander
Wheelock Thayer, Alvarus
Payson Adams, John
Ogden Bigelow and Merton
William Fairbank. |
| | Political families: Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
22, 1819.
Writer,
poet,
critic,
professor,
and abolitionist; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1877-80; Great Britain, 1880-85.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died of cancer,
in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
12, 1891 (age 72 years, 171
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Theodore Lyman Jr. (1792-1849) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
19, 1792.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1820-25; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1834-36.
Died July 18,
1849 (age 57 years, 149
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Theodore Lyman and Lydia Pickering (Williams) Lyman; married, May 22,
1821, to Mary Elizabeth Henderson. |
| | Epitaph: "Founder in this country of
the first system of reform for young culprits." |
| | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798-1862) —
also known as Samuel A. Eliot —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 5,
1798.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1834; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1837-39; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1843; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1850-51.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
29, 1862 (age 63 years, 330
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Charles Wells (1786-1866) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
30, 1786.
Mayor
of Boston, Mass., 1832-34.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 3,
1866 (age 79 years, 155
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Wells and Elizabeth (White) Wells; married to Nancy
Gardner. |
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Frank Harris Hitchcock (1867-1935) —
also known as Frank H. Hitchcock —
of Massachusetts; Arizona.
Born in Amherst, Lorain
County, Ohio, October
5, 1867.
Republican. Lawyer; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1908-09; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1909-13; newspaper
publisher; member of Republican
National Committee from Arizona, 1932-33.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Died in Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., August
25, 1935 (age 67 years, 324
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Chapman Hitchcock and Mary Laurette (Harris)
Hitchcock. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1908 |
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Otis Norcross (1811-1882) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
2, 1811.
Candidate for Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1861; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1867-68; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1869.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
5, 1882 (age 70 years, 307
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Augustus Pearl Martin (1835-1902) —
also known as Augustus Martin —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Abbot, Piscataquis
County, Maine, November
23, 1835.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1884-85.
Unitarian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
12, 1902 (age 66 years, 109
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) —
also known as James B. Conant —
Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
26, 1893.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; chemist;
university
professor; President
of Harvard University, 1933-53; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1955-57.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Xi; Alpha
Chi Sigma; American
Philosophical Society; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., February
11, 1978 (age 84 years, 322
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831-1920) —
also known as T. Jefferson Coolidge —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
26, 1831.
Republican. Manufacturer;
cotton mill
business; president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad,
and other companies; U.S. Minister to France, 1892-93.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
17, 1920 (age 89 years, 83
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Presumably named
for: Thomas
Jefferson |
| | Relatives: Son of Ellen Wayles
(Randolph) Coolidge and Joseph Coolidge; married, November
4, 1852, to Mehitable Sullivan 'Hetty' Appleton (daughter of William
Appleton); nephew of Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; uncle of John
Gardner Coolidge; grandson of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha
Jefferson Randolph; great-grandson of Thomas
Jefferson; second great-grandson of Archibald
Cary; third great-grandson of Richard
Randolph; first cousin once removed of Francis
Wayles Eppes; first cousin twice removed of Dabney
Carr and John
Wayles Eppes; first cousin thrice removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin four times removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Frederick
Madison Roberts; second cousin once removed of Dabney
Smith Carr; second cousin twice removed of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall and Alexander
Keith Marshall; second cousin thrice removed of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph and Beverley
Randolph; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Marshall, John
Jordan Crittenden, Thomas
Turpin Crittenden, Robert
Crittenden, James
Keith Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison and Edith
Wilson; third cousin twice removed of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker and Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell; fourth cousin of Alexander
Parker Crittenden, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas
Theodore Crittenden, John
Augustine Marshall and Carter
Henry Harrison II; fourth cousin once removed of Edmund
Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker, William
Lewis Cabell, George
Craighead Cabell, Thomas
Theodore Crittenden Jr., William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt. |
| | 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 U.S. State Dept career summary |
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Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) —
of Nahant, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 12,
1850.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1880-81; Massachusetts
Republican state chair, 1883; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1887-93; resigned
1893; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924; died in office 1924;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908,
1916,
1920
(Temporary
Chair; Permanent
Chair; speaker),
1924.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, after a severe stroke,
at Charlesgate Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
9, 1924 (age 74 years, 181
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Lemuel Shaw (1781-1861) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., January
9, 1781.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1811-14, 1820, 1829; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1821-22; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1830-60.
Drew up the first
charter of the city of Boston in 1822-23; wrote the decision in
Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1842, which exempted labor unions from
the criminal conspiracy law. Related by marriage to the author
Herman Melville.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
30, 1861 (age 80 years, 80
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Charles Sumner (1811-1874) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
6, 1811.
Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1848; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1851-74; died in office 1874.
In May, 1856, he suffered severe injuries in an assault by South
Carolina Rep. Preston
S. Brooks, who was furious over an anti-slavery speech.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
11, 1874 (age 63 years, 64
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery; statue erected 1879 at Boston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.
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William Eustis Russell (1857-1896) —
also known as William E. Russell —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1891-94; defeated, 1888, 1889.
Died suddenly, in a fishing
camp near Grand-Pabos (now Chandler), Quebec,
July
14, 1896 (age 39 years, 190
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Roger Wolcott (1847-1900) —
of Massachusetts.
Born July 13,
1847.
Republican. Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1893-97; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1896-1900; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Massachusetts.
Died December
21, 1900 (age 53 years, 161
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Joshua Huntington Wolcott and Cornelia (Frothingham) Wolcott;
married to Edith Prescott; grandson of Frederick
Wolcott; grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Jr.; great-grandson of Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; great-grandnephew of Erastus
Wolcott and Ebenezer
Huntington; second great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); fifth great-grandson of William
Leete; sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; first cousin twice removed of Roger
Griswold and Jabez
Williams Huntington; first cousin five times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Abel
Huntington; second cousin thrice removed of William
Pitkin and Samuel
Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Joshua
Coit and Samuel
Gager; third cousin of John
William Allen, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott and Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); third cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Theodore
Davenport, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott and Alfred
Wolcott; third cousin twice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Samuel
H. Huntington, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Daniel
Pitkin, Peter
Buell Porter, James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden
Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Chittenden, Enoch
Woodbridge, Joseph
Silliman, Samuel
R. Gager, Samuel
Austin Gager, James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; fourth cousin of Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Elisha
Hunt Allen and George
Washington Wolcott; fourth cousin once removed of James
Hillhouse, Timothy
Pitkin, Zina
Hyde Jr., Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Edmund
Holcomb, Peter
Buell Porter Jr., Elisha
Mills Huntington, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, Peter
Augustus Porter, Collins
Dwight Huntington, William
Fessenden Allen, George
Milo Huntington, Frederick
Hobbes Allen and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. |
| | 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 National Governors
Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Jeremiah Mason (1768-1848) —
of Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., April
27, 1768.
Lawyer;
New
Hampshire state attorney general, 1802-05; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1813-17; resigned 1817; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1820-21, 1824.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
14, 1848 (age 80 years, 170
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Mason (1730-1813) and Elizabeth (Fitch) Mason; married,
November
6, 1799, to Mary Means; third great-grandfather of John
Forbes Kerry; first cousin thrice removed of Lorin
Andrews Lathrop; third cousin of David
Hough; third cousin once removed of John
Adams, George
Champlin, Henry
Brewster Stanton, Samuel
Townsend Douglass and Silas
Hamilton Douglas; third cousin twice removed of David
Edgerton, Jonathan
R. Herrick, Joshua
Perkins, Alfred
Avery Burnham, Robert
Coit Jr., Erskine
Mason Phelps, Dwight
Arthur Silliman, Henry
Woolsey Douglas and Giles
Russell Taggart; third cousin thrice removed of D-Cady
Herrick, Virgil
Adolphus Fitch, Spencer
Gale Frink, William
Brainard Coit and Walter
Richmond Herrick; fourth cousin of Jason
Kellogg, John
Quincy Adams, Christopher
Grant Champlin, Stephen
Daniel Tilden, Daniel
Cady, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill and Alvah
Nash; fourth cousin once removed of Oliver
Owen Forward, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Walter
Forward, Abiel
Case, Chauncey
Forward, George
Washington Adams, Edmund
Holcomb, Jairus
Case, Daniel
Rose Tilden, Charles
Francis Adams, Edwin
Denison Morgan, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, William
Gleason Jr. and Lucretia
Garfield. |
| | 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 — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Peleg Sprague (1793-1880) —
of Hallowell, Kennebec
County, Maine; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Duxbury, Plymouth
County, Mass., April
27, 1793.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Maine state legislature, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Maine 4th District, 1825-29; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1829-35; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1834; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1839 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization;
speaker); U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1841-65; resigned 1865.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
13, 1880 (age 87 years, 169
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Rufus Choate (1799-1859) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Hog Island, Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., October
1, 1799.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1831-35; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1841-45; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1853-54; resigned 1854.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Died in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, July 13,
1859 (age 59 years, 285
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Horace Gray (1828-1902) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
24, 1828.
Lawyer;
justice
of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1864-81; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1873-81; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-1902; died in office 1902.
Unitarian.
Died in Nahant, Essex
County, Mass., September
15, 1902 (age 74 years, 175
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Francis Cabot Lowell (1855-1911) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
7, 1855.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1895; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1898; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1905-11; died in
office 1911.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Antiquarian Society.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 6,
1911 (age 56 years, 58
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Jonathan Mason (1756-1831) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
12, 1756.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1786-96, 1805-08; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1797-98; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1799-1800, 1803-04; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1800-03; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1817-20.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
1, 1831 (age 75 years, 50
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Edward Kent (1802-1877) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., January
8, 1802.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Bangor, Maine, 1836-37; Governor of
Maine, 1838-39, 1841-42; defeated, 1836, 1838, 1839, 1841; U.S.
Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1849-53; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1856
(speaker);
justice
of Maine state supreme court, 1859-73.
Died of heart
failure, in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, May 19,
1877 (age 75 years, 131
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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William McKinley Osborne (1842-1902) —
also known as William M. Osborne —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Girard, Trumbull
County, Ohio, April
26, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul General in
London, 1897-1902, died in office 1902.
Died, from Bright's
disease and dropsy,
in Wimbledon, London, England,
April
29, 1902 (age 60 years, 3
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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George Cabot (1752-1823) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., December
3, 1752.
Delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1777; delegate
to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1791-96.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
18, 1823 (age 70 years, 136
days).
Original interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.; reinterment at Mt. Auburn
Cemetery.
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Edward Kent Jr. (1862-1916) —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, August
8, 1862.
Republican. Chief
justice of Arizona territorial supreme court, 1902-12; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Arizona, 1916.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 30,
1916 (age 53 years, 357
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Frederic Dodge (1847-1927) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 4,
1847.
U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1905-12; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1912-18.
Died March 7,
1927 (age 79 years, 337
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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John Quincy Adams Brackett (1842-1918) —
also known as John Q. A. Brackett —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Arlington, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bradford, Merrimack
County, N.H., June 8,
1842.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1877-82, 1884-87; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1885-86; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1887-90; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1890-91; defeated, 1890; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1892;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 6,
1918 (age 75 years, 302
days).
Entombed at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Joseph Story (1779-1845) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., September
18, 1779.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1805-07, 1811; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1811; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1808-09; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1811-45; died in office 1845; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
10, 1845 (age 65 years, 357
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Huntley Nowel Spaulding (1869-1955) —
also known as Huntley N. Spaulding —
of Rochester, Strafford
County, N.H.
Born in Townsend Harbor, Townsend, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
30, 1869.
Republican. Manufacturer;
Governor
of New Hampshire, 1927-29; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Hampshire, 1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1940,
1944;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire.
Protestant.
Died in Rochester, Strafford
County, N.H., November
14, 1955 (age 86 years, 15
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Joseph Albree Gilmore (1811-1867) —
also known as Joseph A. Gilmore —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Weston, Windsor
County, Vt., June 10,
1811.
Wholesale
grocer; superintendent of Concord & Claremont Railroad;
member of New
Hampshire state senate 4th District, 1858-60; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1863-65.
Died in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., April
17, 1867 (age 55 years, 311
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Emory Washburn (1800-1877) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born February
14, 1800.
Whig. Candidate for mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1852; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1854-55.
Died March
18, 1877 (age 77 years, 32
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Robert Luce (1862-1946) —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Auburn, Androscoggin
County, Maine, December
2, 1862.
Republican. Lawyer;
director, Boston Mutual Life
Insurance Company; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Seventh Middlesex District, 1899,
1901-08; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1912-13; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917-19; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1919-35, 1937-41 (13th
District 1919-33, 9th District 1933-35, 1937-41); defeated, 1934,
1940.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Political Science Association; American
Economic Association; Exchange
Club.
Died April 7,
1946 (age 83 years, 126
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Frank William Taussig (1859-1940) —
also known as Frank W. Taussig; "The American
Marshall" —
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., December
28, 1859.
University
professor; economist;
chair, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1917-19.
Member, American
Economic Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
11, 1940 (age 80 years, 319
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Joseph Wallace Oman (1864-1941) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Light Street, Columbia
County, Pa., August
15, 1864.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; rear
admiral, U.S. Navy, 1918; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands.
Died, in a nursing
home at London, England,
July
1, 1941 (age 76 years, 320
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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John Gardner Coolidge (1863-1936) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1863.
Republican. U.S. Vice Consul in Pretoria, as of 1900; U.S. Minister to Nicaragua, 1908.
Unitarian.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
28, 1936 (age 72 years, 239
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Randolph Coolidge and Julia (Gardner) Coolidge; married, April
29, 1909, to Helen Granger Stevens; nephew of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; grandnephew of Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; great-grandson of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha
Jefferson Randolph; second great-grandson of Thomas
Jefferson and John
Lowell; second great-grandnephew of Timothy
Pickering; third great-grandson of Archibald
Cary; fourth great-grandson of Richard
Randolph; first cousin of Augustus
Peabody Gardner; first cousin twice removed of Francis
Wayles Eppes and William
Amory Gardner Minot; first cousin thrice removed of Dabney
Carr and John
Wayles Eppes; first cousin four times removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin five times removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin once removed of Frederick
Madison Roberts; second cousin twice removed of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman and Dabney
Smith Carr; second cousin thrice removed of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall and John
Wingate Weeks (1781-1853); second cousin four times removed of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph and Beverley
Randolph; third cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, John
Jordan Crittenden, Thomas
Turpin Crittenden, Robert
Crittenden, James
Keith Marshall and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell and John
Forbes Kerry; fourth cousin of Edith
Wilson; fourth cousin once removed of Alexander
Parker Crittenden, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas
Theodore Crittenden, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II, John
Wingate Weeks (1860-1926) and John
Lee Saltonstall. |
| | 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 U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Timothy Fuller (1778-1835) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., July 11,
1778.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1817-25 (13th District
1817-19, 1st District 1819-25); member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1825-26; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1825-26.
Died in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
1, 1835 (age 57 years, 82
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Charles Lee Underhill (1867-1946) —
also known as Charles L. Underhill —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Richmond,
Va., July 20,
1867.
Republican. Blacksmith;
hardware
merchant; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1900; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1921-33.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1946 (age 78 years, 192
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Leopold Morse (1831-1892) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Wachenheim, Bavaria (now Germany),
August
15, 1831.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1876;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1877-85, 1887-89 (4th District
1877-83, 5th District 1883-85, 3rd District 1887-89); defeated, 1870,
1872.
Jewish.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
15, 1892 (age 61 years, 122
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Randolph Appleton Kidder (1913-1996) —
of Andover, Essex
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., July 6,
1913.
U.S. Vice Consul in Montreal, as of 1938-39; Sydney, as of 1940-41; U.S. Consul in Pará, as of 1944-46; U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, 1964-65.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
4, 1996 (age 82 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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William Appleton (1786-1862) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Brookfield, Worcester
County, Mass., November
16, 1786.
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1851-55, 1861 (1st District
1851-53, 5th District 1853-55, 1861); defeated, 1854, 1856.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., February
15, 1862 (age 75 years, 91
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881) —
also known as John G. Palfrey —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 2,
1796.
Republican. Secretary
of state of Massachusetts, 1844-48; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1847-49;
postmaster at Boston,
Mass., 1861-67.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
26, 1881 (age 84 years, 359
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Richard Fletcher (1788-1869) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Cavendish, Windsor
County, Vt., January
8, 1788.
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1837-39; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1848-53.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 21,
1869 (age 81 years, 164
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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John Forrester Andrew (1850-1895) —
also known as John F. Andrew —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Hingham, Plymouth
County, Mass., November
26, 1850.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1880-82; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1884-85; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1884;
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1886; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1889-93; defeated
(Democratic), 1892.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 30,
1895 (age 44 years, 185
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Artemas Ward Jr. (1762-1847) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Shrewsbury, Worcester
County, Mass., January
9, 1762.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1796-1800, 1811; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 1st
District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1818-19; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; state
court judge in Massachusetts, 1820-39.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
7, 1847 (age 85 years, 271
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Charles Hale (1831-1882) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 7,
1831.
Newspaper
editor; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1856-60, 1875-76; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1859; U.S.
Consul General in Alexandria, 1864-71; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1871-72; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, 1872-75.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 2,
1882 (age 50 years, 268
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Charles Franklin Sprague (1857-1902) —
also known as Charles F. Sprague —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Massachusetts, June 10,
1857.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1890; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1897-1901.
Died January
30, 1902 (age 44 years, 234
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
November
15, 1882.
Law
professor; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-62.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died the next day, in George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
22, 1965 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Samuel Hurd Walley (1805-1877) —
also known as Samuel H. Walley —
of Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass.
Born in Massachusetts, 1805.
Speaker
of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1844-46; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1853-55.
Died in 1877
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Nathan Appleton (1779-1861) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in New Ipswich, Hillsborough
County, N.H., October
6, 1779.
Merchant;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1815-16, 1821, 1823-24, 1827; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1831-33, 1842.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 14,
1861 (age 81 years, 281
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Appleton and Mary (Adams) Appleton; married, April
13, 1806, to Maria Theresa Gold; married, January
8, 1839, to Harriet Coffin Sumner; father of Francis Elizabeth
Appleton (who married of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); first cousin of
James
Appleton, William
Appleton and Nathan
Dane Appleton; first cousin once removed of John
Appleton (1804-1891), Jane
Pierce and John
Appleton (1815-1864); first cousin thrice removed of Arthur
Taggard Appleton; first cousin four times removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall and Randolph
Appleton Kidder; first cousin five times removed of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; second cousin once removed of Andrew
Adams; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Passmore Treadwell; third cousin twice removed of Robert
Odiorne Treadwell; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Willoughby Dayton; fourth cousin of John
Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas
Appleton and Leonard
White; fourth cousin once removed of John
James Appleton, Samuel
Finley Vinton, John
Larkin Payson and Alonzo
Sidney Upham. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Benjamin Franklin Hallett (1797-1862) —
also known as Benjamin F. Hallett —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., December
2, 1797.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1844, 1848; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1848-52; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1853-57; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856
(chair, Platform
Committee).
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
30, 1862 (age 64 years, 302
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809-1874) —
also known as Benjamin R. Curtis —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
4, 1809.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1849; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1851-57.
Episcopalian.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., September
15, 1874 (age 64 years, 315
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Curtis and Lois (Robbins) Curtis; married, May 8,
1833, to Eliza M. Woodward; married, January
5, 1846, to Anna Wroe Scollay; married, August
29, 1861, to Maria Malleville Allen; father of Anne Wroe Scollay
Curtis (who married Seth
Low). |
| | Political families: Choate
family of Salem, Massachusetts; White-Moffat
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Elisha Hunt Allen (1804-1883) —
also known as Elisha H. Allen —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in New Salem, Franklin
County, Mass., January
28, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1835-40, 1846-47; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1838; delegate to Whig
National Convention from Maine, 1839 (member, Committee on Permanent
Organization; member, Committee to Notify Nominees); U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1841-43; defeated, 1842;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1849-50; U.S. Consul in Honolulu, 1849-53; became a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii;
Minister of Finance for King Kamehameha III; member, Hawaii House of
Nobles, 1854-56; Kingdom of Hawaii Minister to the United States,
1856-83; chief justice, Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court, 1857-77.
Died suddenly from heart
disease, while attending a diplomatic reception
at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1883 (age 78 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel
Clesson Allen and Mary (Hunt) Allen; married 1828 to Sarah
Elizabeth Fessenden; married, March
11, 1857, to Mary Harrod Hobbes; father of William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second great-grandnephew of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second cousin of Gouverneur
Morris; second cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; second cousin twice removed of Oliver
Ellsworth, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of Chester
Ashley; third cousin once removed of Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Abijah
Blodget, Albert
Asahel Bliss and Philemon
Bliss; third cousin twice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr., Jonathan
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Josiah
Meigs, Daniel
Pitkin, Oliver
Morgan Hungerford, Judson
H. Warner and Josiah
Quincy; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr. and John
Davis Lodge; fourth cousin of Joseph
Churchill Strong, Theodore
Davenport, Chester
William Chapin, Harrison
Blodget, John
William Allen, William
Alfred Buckingham, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, George
Washington Wolcott, William
Dean Kellogg, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); fourth cousin once removed of James
Hillhouse, Jonathan
Brace, Martin
Chittenden, Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr., Timothy
Pitkin, James
Kilbourne, Amaziah
Brainard, Henry
Meigs, Charles
Jared Ingersoll, Joseph
Reed Ingersoll, Ralph
Isaacs Ingersoll, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Charles
Anthony Ingersoll, John
Adams Taintor, Henry
G. Taintor, Joseph
Pomeroy Root, Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, John
Hill Walbridge, Edward
Oliver Wolcott, Walter
Harrison Blodget, Henry
E. Walbridge, Edwin
W. Kellogg, Alfred
Wolcott and Samuel
Herbert Kellogg. |
| | 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 congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Wilson Candler (1828-1903) —
also known as John W. Candler —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
10, 1828.
Republican. Importer
and exporter; member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1881-83, 1889-91 (8th District
1881-83, 9th District 1889-91); defeated, 1890.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., March
16, 1903 (age 75 years, 34
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Peleg Coffin Jr. (1756-1805) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., November
3, 1756.
Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1780; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1793-95; Massachusetts
state treasurer, 1797-1801.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 6,
1805 (age 48 years, 123
days).
Original interment at Friends
Burial Grounds, Boston, Mass.; reinterment in 1833 at Mt. Auburn
Cemetery.
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William Everett (1839-1910) —
also known as "Piggy" —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
10, 1839.
Democrat. College
professor; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1893-95;
defeated, 1890 (6th District), 1892 (7th District); Gold Democratic
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1897.
Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., February
16, 1910 (age 70 years, 129
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Frederick Simpson Deitrick (1875-1948) —
also known as Frederick S. Deitrick —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in New Brighton, Beaver
County, Pa., April 9,
1875.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Fifth Middlesex District, 1905;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1913-15;
defeated, 1906 (8th District), 1908 (8th District), 1910 (8th
District), 1914 (8th District), 1916 (8th District), 1932 (9th
District).
Died in Middleton, Essex
County, Mass., May 24,
1948 (age 73 years, 45
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Asahel Stearns (1774-1839) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Massachusetts, 1774.
Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1815-17.
Died in 1839
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Edward Daniel Hayden (1833-1908) —
also known as Edward D. Hayden —
of Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
27, 1833.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1880; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1885-89; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1888.
Died in Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
15, 1908 (age 74 years, 324
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Albert Smith (1793-1867) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Hanover, Plymouth
County, Mass., January
3, 1793.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Maine 8th District, 1839-41; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1840.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 29,
1867 (age 74 years, 146
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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John Wiley Edmands (1809-1877) —
also known as J. Wiley Edmands —
of Newton Corner, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 1,
1809.
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1853-55;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts.
Died in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
31, 1877 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Selwyn Zadock Bowman (1840-1928) —
also known as Selwyn Z. Bowman —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Cohasset, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., May 11,
1840.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1870-71, 1873; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1876-77; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1879-83.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
30, 1928 (age 88 years, 142
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Robert Treat Paine Jr. (1866-1961) —
also known as Robert T. Paine, Jr. —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
9, 1866.
Democrat. Vice-chair of
Massachusetts Democratic Party, 1899; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1899, 1900.
Episcopalian.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
30, 1961 (age 95 years, 21
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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John McKeown Snow Williams (1818-1886) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Virginia, 1818.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1873-75.
Died in 1886
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Theodore Lyman (1833-1897) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
23, 1833.
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1883-85.
Died in Nahant, Essex
County, Mass., September
9, 1897 (age 64 years, 17
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Frank Dyer Chester (1869-1938) —
also known as Frank D. Chester —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newton Lower Falls, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
2, 1869.
Republican. School
teacher; U.S. Consul in Budapest, 1897-1904; U.S. Consul General in Budapest, 1904-08.
Unitarian.
Member, American
Society for International Law.
Died, in Boston City Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 14,
1938 (age 68 years, 194
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Thomas Hopkinson Eliot (1907-1991) —
also known as Thomas H. Eliot —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 14,
1907.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1941-43;
defeated, 1938, 1942, 1944.
Unitarian.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
14, 1991 (age 84 years, 122
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Grafton Dulany Cushing (1864-1939) —
also known as Grafton D. Cushing —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
4, 1864.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1904
(alternate), 1912;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1906-07; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1912-14; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1915-16.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 31,
1939 (age 74 years, 300
days).
Entombed at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Richmond,
Va., December
16, 1834.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1869-71; Labor Reform candidate
for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1871; municipal judge in Massachusetts,
1883.
African
ancestry.
First
Black graduate of Harvard Law School, 1869.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
19, 1886 (age 51 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Edwin Peabody Gerry (1846-1911) —
also known as E. Peabody Gerry —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Standish, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
2, 1846.
Republican. Physician;
candidate for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1903.
Died in Phillipston, Worcester
County, Mass., June 22,
1911 (age 64 years, 232
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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William Henry Lewis (1868-1949) —
also known as William H. Lewis; Bill Lewis —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berkley, Norfolk County (now part of Norfolk),
Va., November
28, 1868.
Republican. As a student at Harvard, was the first
Black All-American football player (1892-93); lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902.
Baptist;
later Catholic.
African
ancestry.
Died, of heart
failure, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1949 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Ashley Lewis and Josephine (Baker) Lewis; married, September
26, 1896, to Elizabeth Baker. |
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Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886) —
also known as Amos A. Lawrence —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 31,
1814.
Owner, Ipswich Mills, maker of cotton and
woollen
goods; abolitionist; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1858 (American), 1860 (Constitutional Union).
Episcopalian.
Died in Nahant, Essex
County, Mass., August
22, 1886 (age 72 years, 22
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Amos Lawrence and Sarah (Richards) Lawrence; married, March
31, 1842, to Sarah Elizabeth Appleton (daughter of William
Appleton); father of Susan Mason Lawrence (who married William
Caleb Loring); nephew of Luther
Lawrence and Abbott
Lawrence; great-grandfather of Leverett
Saltonstall and Richard
Saltonstall; second great-grandfather of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; first cousin of Samuel
Abbott Green; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Moore Bancroft; fourth cousin of Alonzo
M. Garcelon; fourth cousin once removed of John
Albion Andrew, Charles
Courtney Pinkney Holden, Ebenezer
Gregg Danforth Holden, Winfield
Scott Holden and Alonzo
Marston Garcelon. |
| | Political families: Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Woodbury-Holden
family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish
family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | The city
of Lawrence,
Kansas, is named for
him. — Lawrence University,
in Appleton,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward Franc Jones (1828-1913) —
also known as Edward F. Jones —
of Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., June 3,
1828.
Democrat. Dry goods
merchant; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; member
of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1865; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1886-91.
Died in Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y., August
4, 1913 (age 85 years, 62
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Horace Newton Fisher (1836-1916) —
also known as Horace N. Fisher —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
19, 1836.
Commission
merchant; Consul
for Chile in Boston,
Mass., 1876-1916.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
23, 1916 (age 80 years, 4
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Arthur Percy Cushing (1856-1930) —
also known as Arthur P. Cushing —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in North Scituate, Scituate, Plymouth
County, Mass., August
16, 1856.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Mexico in Boston,
Mass., 1887-1906; Consul
for Bolivia in Boston,
Mass., 1907-29; Honorary
Vice-Consul for Mexico in Boston,
Mass., 1911-14.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., December
13, 1930 (age 74 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Andrew Cutting (1841-1898) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
29, 1841.
Honorary
Consul for Argentina in Boston,
Mass., 1886-98.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
25, 1898 (age 56 years, 27
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Benjamin Cutler Clark (1800-1863) —
also known as Benjamin C. Clark —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
29, 1800.
Republican. Merchant;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1860; Consul
for Haiti in Boston,
Mass., 1860-63.
Died, from typhoid
fever, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
14, 1863 (age 63 years, 46
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Joseph Iasigi (1800-1877) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey,
August
20, 1800.
Merchant;
shipowner;
Consul
for Turkey in Boston,
Mass., 1864-77.
Armenian
ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 22,
1877 (age 76 years, 275
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Freeman Norton Blake (1822-1889) —
also known as Freeman N. Blake —
of Kansas.
Born in Farmington Falls, Farmington, Franklin
County, Maine, June 1,
1822.
Lawyer;
member of Kansas
territorial legislature, 1857; member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1861; U.S. Consul in Fort Erie, 1865-69; Hamilton, 1869-73.
Died in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 19,
1889 (age 66 years, 352
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Joseph Andrew Iasigi (1848-1917) —
also known as Joseph A. Iasigi —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Massachusetts, January
15, 1848.
Consular
Agent for France in Boston,
Mass., 1873-77; Consul-General
for Turkey in Boston,
Mass., 1889-97; he failed to account for a trust fund, refused to
answer questions, and fled
to New York City; arrested
there in February 1897 and extradited
to Boston; charged
with embezzlement
of about $220,000; pleaded not guilty; tried and convicted
in November 1897; sentenced to 14-18 years in prison; pardoned
in 1909.
Armenian
and French
ancestry.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
24, 1917 (age 69 years, 9
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Oscar Anthony Iasigi (1846-1884) —
also known as Oscar Iasigi —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
18, 1846.
Importer
and exporter; treasurer, Vassalboro woolen mills;
Vice-Consul
for Turkey in Boston,
Mass., 1871-77; Consul-General
for Turkey in Boston,
Mass., 1877-84.
Armenian
and French
ancestry.
Perished
in the wreck
of the steamship SS City of Columbus, which hit a reef and
sank, in Vineyard
Sound, January
18, 1884 (age 37 years, 92
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Lawrence Bond (1853-1927) —
also known as Amos Lawrence Bond —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Hawaii, February
4, 1853.
Democrat. Lawyer; Honorary
Consul for Hawaiian Islands in Boston,
Mass., 1883-94; candidate for Massachusetts
state senate Second Middlesex District, 1895.
Died in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
8, 1927 (age 74 years, 246
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Charles Edgar Sanborn (1860-1905) —
also known as Charles E. Sanborn —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Greene, Androscoggin
County, Maine, April
29, 1860.
Partner in Chase & Sanborn (co-founded by his father in 1862), coffee
roasters and importers;
Consul
for Costa Rica in Boston,
Mass., 1889-96.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, at the Hotel
Tudor on Beacon Streeet, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
27, 1905 (age 44 years, 273
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Stephen Westcott Nickerson (1857-1917) —
also known as Stephen W. Nickerson —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Winthrop, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
12, 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer; Honorary
Vice-Consul for China in Boston,
Mass., 1903; Honorary
Consul for China in Boston,
Mass., 1905-08.
Died in Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
4, 1917 (age 60 years, 265
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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George Naum Prifti (1896-1965) —
also known as George N. Prifti —
of Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Revere, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Albania,
June
24, 1896.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; lawyer; Consul
for Albania in Boston,
Mass., 1926-35.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., July 26,
1965 (age 69 years, 32
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Theo Ford. |
| | Image source: Boston Globe, December
17, 1926 |
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Sewall Wester Abbott (1859-1943) —
also known as Sewall W. Abbott —
of Wolfeboro, Carroll
County, N.H.
Born in Tuftonboro, Carroll
County, N.H., April
11, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Wolfeboro Woolen Mills;
probate judge in New Hampshire, 1889-1921; member of New
Hampshire state senate, 1923-25; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Hampshire, 1924
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Upsilon; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Odd
Fellows; Grange;
Redmen;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Wolfeboro, Carroll
County, N.H., January
3, 1943 (age 83 years, 267
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Charles Francis Wyman (1836-1906) —
also known as Charles F. Wyman —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 16,
1836.
Importer;
commission
merchant; Vice-Consul
for Russia in Boston,
Mass., 1888-1906.
Congregationalist.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
29, 1906 (age 70 years, 197
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Henry Bowen Clark Greene (1800-1848) —
also known as Henry B. C. Greene —
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 3,
1800.
Physician;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1830.
Catholic.
Died in Saco, York
County, Maine, January
31, 1848 (age 47 years, 303
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Lemuel Williams (1782-1869) —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.; Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Fairhaven, Bristol
County, Mass., 1782.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1810.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., November
15, 1869 (age about 87
years).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Willis John Abbot (1863-1934) —
also known as Willis J. Abbot; Willis J.
Abbott —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.; Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., March
16, 1863.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; chairman of Henry
George's campaign for Mayor of New York City, 1898; director of
the Democratic National Press Bureau, 1900 and 1908; close friend and
spokesman of William
Jennings Bryan; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1903; editor, Christian Science
Monitor, 1922-27.
Christian
Scientist. Member, American
Economic Association.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 19,
1934 (age 71 years, 64
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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John Eliot Thayer Jr. (1887-1966) —
also known as John E. Thayer, Jr. —
of Lancaster, Worcester
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Lancaster, Worcester
County, Mass., August
19, 1887.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Tenth Worcester District,
1923-24; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1928.
Died in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., August
24, 1966 (age 79 years, 5
days).
Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John Eliot Thayer and Evelyn Duncan (Forbes) Thayer; married, April 6,
1911, to Katherine Lee Bayard Warren; great-grandnephew of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer; second great-grandson of Stephen
Van Rensselaer; second great-grandnephew of Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and Rensselaer
Westerlo; third great-grandson of Philip
John Schuyler; third great-grandnephew of Stephen
John Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer and Robert
Van Rensselaer; fourth great-grandson of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Stephanus
Bayard and Philip
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and William
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747) and Dirck
Ten Broeck; fifth great-grandnephew of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; sixth great-grandson of Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707), Robert
Livingston the Elder, Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Pieter
Van Brugh; sixth great-grandnephew of Johannes
Cuyler; seventh great-grandson of Dirck
Wesselse Ten Broeck; seventh great-grandnephew of Pieter
Stuyvesant; first cousin twice removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer; first cousin thrice removed of Philip
Schuyler and James
Alexander Hamilton; first cousin four times removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer and Edward
Philip Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802), Philip
P. Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, James
Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin six times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; second cousin thrice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston and Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second cousin four times removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, James
Parker, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; second cousin five times removed of James
Jay, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; third cousin of Bronson
Murray Cutting; third cousin once removed of Robert
Ray Hamilton; third cousin twice removed of Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer; third cousin thrice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, William
Duer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, John
Jay II, John
Cortlandt Parker and James
Adams Ekin; fourth cousin once removed of Robert
Reginald Livingston. |
| | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Politicians formerly
buried here: |
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Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in North Hampton, Rockingham
County, N.H., February
23, 1751.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-97 (4th District 1793-95,
1st District 1795-97); U.S.
Secretary of War, 1801-09; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1822-24.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., June 6,
1829 (age 78 years, 103
days).
Original interment in unknown location; subsequent interment in 1834
at Mt. Auburn Cemetery; reinterment in 1848 at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives:
Father of Henry
Alexander Scammell Dearborn. |
| | Dearborn County,
Ind. is named for him. |
| | The city
of Dearborn,
Michigan, is named for
him. — The Dearborn River,
in Lewis &
Clark and Cascade
counties, Montana, is named for
him. — Mount Dearborn, a former military
arsenal on an island in the Catawba River, Chester
County, South Carolina, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Dearborn (built 1942 at Portland,
Oregon; scrapped 1959) was named for
him. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
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Hugh Swinton Legaré (1797-1843) —
also known as Hugh S. Legaré —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., January
2, 1797.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1820-21, 1824-30; South
Carolina state attorney general, 1830-32; U.S. Charge d'Affaires
to Belgium, 1832-36; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 5th District, 1837-39; U.S.
Attorney General, 1841-43; died in office 1843.
Scottish
and French
Huguenot ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 20,
1843 (age 46 years, 169
days).
Original interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery; reinterment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Robert Bacon (1860-1919) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 5,
1860.
Republican. Financier;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1909; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1909-12; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1916; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War I.
Presbyterian.
English
ancestry. Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from infection
following surgery for mastoiditis,
in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1919 (age 58 years, 328
days).
Original interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery; reinterment at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
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Old Cambridge
Cemetery
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Francis Dana (1743-1811) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., June 13,
1743.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1777-78, 1784; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1778; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1780-83; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1785-1806; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1791-1806; delegate
to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
25, 1811 (age 67 years, 316
days).
Interment at Old Cambridge Cemetery.
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Isaiah Lewis Green (1761-1841) —
also known as Isaiah L. Green —
of Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., December
28, 1761.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1805-09, 1811-13.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
5, 1841 (age 79 years, 342
days).
Interment at Old Cambridge Cemetery.
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Pine Ridge
Cemetery
Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Horton H. Hilton (1869-1955) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
11, 1869.
Republican. Passenger
trainman; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Twenty-Fifth Middlesex District,
1904-05; member of Massachusetts
state senate Seventh Middlesex District, 1906.
Died December
18, 1955 (age 86 years, 7
days).
Interment at Pine Ridge Cemetery.
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St. Joseph
Cemetery
Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895) —
also known as E. Rockwood Hoar —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
21, 1816.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1846; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts,
1849-55; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1856
(member, Platform
Committee; speaker);
justice
of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1859-69; U.S.
Attorney General, 1869-70; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1873-75.
Died in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
31, 1895 (age 78 years, 344
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) —
also known as George F. Hoar —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
29, 1826.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1852; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1857; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1869-77 (8th District 1869-73,
9th District 1873-77); delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1876
(speaker),
1880,
1884,
1888;
U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904; died in office 1904.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., September
30, 1904 (age 78 years, 32
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) —
Born in Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H., April
20, 1850.
Sculptor;
member, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 1910-15; chair, U.S. Commission
of Fine Arts, 1912-15.
Died in Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass., October
7, 1931 (age 81 years, 170
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) —
also known as Nathaniel Hathorne —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 4,
1804.
Famed novelist
and short story writer;
U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1846-49; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1853-57.
English
ancestry.
Died in Plymouth, Grafton
County, N.H., May 19,
1864 (age 59 years, 320
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery; statue at Hawthorne
Boulevard, Salem, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke (Manning) Hathorne;
married, July 9,
1842, to Sophia Amelia Peabody (sister-in-law of Horace
Mann); great-grandfather of Olcott
Hawthorne Deming; second great-grandfather of Rust
Macpherson Deming; fourth cousin once removed of Daniel
Putnam Tyler. |
| | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York; Deming
family of Maryland and New York; Crowninshield-Adams
family of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | The borough
of Hawthorne,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | Fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The
House of Seven Gables — The
Scarlet Letter — Selected
Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| | Books about Nathaniel Hawthorne: Brenda
Wineapple, Hawthorne
: A Life — Luther S. Luedtke, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient — Raymona E.
Hull, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, the English Experience, 1853-1864 |
| | Image source: Project
Gutenberg |
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Sherman Hoar (1860-1898) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., July 30,
1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1891-93; U.S.
Attorney for Massachusetts, 1893-97.
Died October
7, 1898 (age 38 years, 69
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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William Whiting (1813-1873) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 3,
1813.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1864;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1873; died in
office 1873.
Died June 29,
1873 (age 60 years, 118
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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George Merrick Brooks (1824-1893) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., July 26,
1824.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1858; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1859; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1869-72; probate
judge in Massachusetts, 1872.
Died in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
22, 1893 (age 69 years, 58
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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Samuel Hoar (1778-1856) —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lincoln, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 18,
1778.
Whig. Lawyer; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1826, 1832-33; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1835-37; delegate
to Whig National Convention from Massachusetts, 1839 (speaker);
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1850.
Died in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
2, 1856 (age 78 years, 168
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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George Washington Wright (1816-1885) —
also known as George W. Wright —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Washington,
D.C.; Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass.
Born in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 4,
1816.
Merchant;
banker;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1850-51.
Died in Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., April 7,
1885 (age 68 years, 307
days).
Interment at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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Varnum
Cemetery
Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Joseph Bradley Varnum (1751-1821) —
also known as Joseph B. Varnum —
of Dracut, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Dracut, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
29, 1751.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1780-85; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1786-95, 1817-21; common pleas court judge in
Massachusetts, 1790; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1795-1811 (9th District
1795-97, at-large 1797-1805, 4th District 1805-11); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1807-11; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1811-17.
Died in Dracut, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
21, 1821 (age 70 years, 235
days).
Interment at Varnum Cemetery.
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Durham
Cemetery
Town House Road
Durham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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Henry Gleason Newton (1843-1914) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Durham, Middlesex
County, Conn., June 5,
1843.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1885, 1895; trustee, Farmers' and
Mechanics' Savings Bank,
Middletown, Conn.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died March
21, 1914 (age 70 years, 289
days).
Interment at Durham Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. Gaylord Newton and Nancy M. (Merwin) Newton; married 1885 to Dr.
Sarah Allen Baldwin. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Glenwood
Cemetery
Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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George Keverian (1931-2009) —
of Everett, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Everett, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 3,
1931.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1967-91; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1985-91;
candidate for Massachusetts
state treasurer, 1990.
Armenian
ancestry.
Died in Everett, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 6,
2009 (age 77 years, 276
days).
Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
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Woodlawn
Cemetery
Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Ernest William Roberts (1858-1924) —
also known as Ernest W. Roberts —
of Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in East Madison, Madison, Somerset
County, Maine, November
22, 1858.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1894-96; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1897-98; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1899-1917 (7th District
1899-1913, 9th District 1913-17); defeated, 1916.
Died in 1924
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Francis Ball Fay (1793-1876) —
also known as Francis B. Fay —
of Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Lancaster, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Southborough, Worcester
County, Mass., June 12,
1793.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1830-31, 1834-36, 1840; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1843-45, 1848, 1868; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1852-53; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856,
1864;
mayor
of Chelsea, Mass., 1857.
Died in South Lancaster, Lancaster, Worcester
County, Mass., October
6, 1876 (age 83 years, 116
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Henry Souther (1826-1891) —
of Ridgway, Elk
County, Pa.; Erie, Erie
County, Pa.; Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., March 5,
1826.
Republican. Lawyer; Elk
County Treasurer, 1847; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 18th District, 1856-58; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1860,
1868;
county judge in Pennsylvania, 1871.
English
ancestry.
Died in 1891
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Souther and Hepsie (Armisted) Souther; married 1850 to
Letitia Patterson; second cousin thrice removed of Marc
Hubbard Souther. |
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James Power (1835-1876) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in 1835.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1876.
Died in 1876
(age about
41 years).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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David Christopher Ahearn (1879-1925) —
also known as David C. Ahearn —
of Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Glenwood Springs, Garfield
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Rotherham, England,
November
4, 1879.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1910-11; trustee, Framingham Hospital,
1910-16; selectman, Framingham, 1912-13; pioneer in Colorado oil shale
industry; founder and president of the Yarg Producing & Refining
Corporation.
Catholic.
Member, Elks.
Crippled
as a boy, had minimal use of both legs, and used canes or crutches.
Died in Denver,
Colo., November
30, 1925 (age 46 years, 26
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Relatives: Son
of John Ahearn and Mary (Kerwin) Ahearn; married, December
27, 1909, to Jane Francis Shea. |
|
Edgell Grove
Cemetery
Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Charles Russell Train (1817-1885) —
also known as Charles R. Train —
of Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Massachusetts, 1817.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1847; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856
(Honorary
Secretary), 1864;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1859-63; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1872-79.
Died in 1885
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Edgell Grove Cemetery.
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Constantine Canaris Esty (1824-1912) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
26, 1824.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1872-73.
Died in Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
27, 1912 (age 88 years, 1
days).
Interment at Edgell Grove Cemetery.
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Thomas Chalmers —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Member of New
Hampshire state senate 17th District, 1913-14.
Interment at Edgell Grove Cemetery.
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John R. Macomber (1875-1955) —
of Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
1, 1875.
Republican. Investment
banker; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924;
director, U.S. Smelting,
Refining, and Mining Co.
treasurer, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Unitarian.
Member, Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Exchange
Club.
Died in 1955
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Edgell Grove Cemetery.
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Groton
Cemetery
Chicopee Row
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905) —
also known as George S. Boutwell —
of Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
28, 1818.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1842-50; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1851-53; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1860,
1864
(alternate); first
U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1862; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1863-69 (7th District 1863-69,
9th District 1869); U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1869-73; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1873-77.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
27, 1905 (age 87 years, 30
days).
Interment at Groton Cemetery.
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Samuel Abbott Green (1830-1919) —
also known as Samuel Green —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., March
16, 1830.
Physician;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1882-83.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
5, 1919 (age 89 years, 264
days).
Interment at Groton Cemetery.
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Luther Lawrence (1778-1839) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
28, 1778.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1812-22; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1822; mayor of
Lowell, Mass., 1838-39; died in office 1839.
While showing a visitor around his woolen mill, he accidentally fell into
a wheel pit, hit his head, and died soon after, in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
17, 1839 (age 60 years, 201
days).
Interment at Groton Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Lawrence and Susanna (Parker) Lawrence; brother of Abbott
Lawrence; married, June 19,
1805, to Lucy Bigelow; uncle of Amos
Adams Lawrence and Samuel
Abbott Green; second great-granduncle of Leverett
Saltonstall and Richard
Saltonstall; third great-granduncle of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Moore Bancroft; third cousin once removed of Alonzo
M. Garcelon; third cousin twice removed of John
Albion Andrew, Charles
Courtney Pinkney Holden, Ebenezer
Gregg Danforth Holden, Winfield
Scott Holden and Alonzo
Marston Garcelon; third cousin thrice removed of John
Forrester Andrew, Henry
Hersey Andrew, Charles
Wayne Holden and Gordon
Woodbury. |
| | Political families: Chandler-Hale
family of Portland, Maine; Lee-Randolph
family; Woodbury-Holden
family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts; Starkweather-Pendleton
family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Samuel Dana (1767-1835) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 26,
1767.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1800; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1814-15.
Died in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
20, 1835 (age 68 years, 147
days).
Interment at Groton Cemetery.
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William Amos Bancroft (b. 1855) —
also known as William Bancroft —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
26, 1855.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1883-85; mayor
of Cambridge, Mass., 1893-97; general in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; president, Boston Elevated Railway
from 1899.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Interment at Groton Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles B. Bancroft; married 1878 to Mary
Shaw. |
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Daniel Needham (1822-1895) —
of Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., May 24,
1822.
Lawyer;
farmer;
aide (with rank of Colonel) to Gov. George
S. Boutwell, 1851-53; Massachusetts
Democratic state chair, 1853; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1854; member of
Vermont
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1857-58; member of
Vermont
state senate from Windsor County, 1859-61; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1866-67; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1868-69; director, Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co.;
trustee, John Hancock Life
Insurance Co.; director, Peterborough and Shirley Railroad.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
Humane
Society.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
20, 1895 (age 72 years, 272
days).
Interment at Groton Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James Needham and Lydia (Breed) Needham; married, July 17,
1842, to Caroline A. Hall; married, October
7, 1880, to Ellen Mary Brigham. |
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Town
Cemetery
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Endicott Peabody (1920-1997) —
also known as "Chub" —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.; Hollis, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., February
15, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council 3rd District, 1955-56; candidate for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1956, 1958; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1960,
1964,
1968;
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1963-65; defeated, 1960; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1966; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1986.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Legion; Elks.
Died, from leukemia,
in Hollis, Hillsborough
County, N.H., December
1, 1997 (age 77 years, 289
days).
Interment at Town Cemetery.
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Lake Grove
Cemetery
Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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George Addison Whiting (1827-1903) —
also known as George A. Whiting —
of California.
Born in Holliston, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
20, 1827.
Member of California
state assembly 12th District, 1871-73.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of heart
disease, in Holliston, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
14, 1903 (age 75 years, 359
days).
Interment at Lake Grove Cemetery.
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St. John's
Cemetery
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Forestvale
Cemetery
Hudson, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Argeo Paul Cellucci (1948-2013) —
also known as Paul Cellucci —
of Hudson, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Hudson, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
24, 1948.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1977-85; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1985-91; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1988;
Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1991-97; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1997-2001; U.S. Ambassador to Canada, 2001-05.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, in Hudson, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 8,
2013 (age 65 years, 45
days).
Interment at Forestvale Cemetery.
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Lewis Dewart Apsley (1852-1925) —
also known as Lewis D. Apsley —
of Hudson, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Northumberland, Northumberland
County, Pa., September
29, 1852.
Republican. Founder and president of Apsley Rubber Co.
(later Firestone-Apsley), manufacturers of rubber clothing;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1893-97; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1904.
Died, in a private American hospital,
Colón, Panama,
April
11, 1925 (age 72 years, 194
days).
Interment at Forestvale Cemetery.
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Munroe
Cemetery
Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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Charles Hudson (1795-1881) —
of Westminster, Worcester
County, Mass.; Lexington, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marlborough, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
14, 1795.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Universalist
minister; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1828-33; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1833-39; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1839-41; delegate to Whig National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1839; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1841-49; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856.
Universalist.
Died in Lexington, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 4,
1881 (age 85 years, 171
days).
Interment at Munroe Cemetery.
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Old Burying
Ground
Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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William Eustis (1753-1825) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 10,
1753.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1788-94; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1801-05, 1820-23 (at-large
1801-05, 1st District 1820-23); U.S.
Secretary of War, 1809-13; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1814-18; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1823-25; defeated, 1820, 1821, 1822; died in
office 1825.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
6, 1825 (age 71 years, 241
days).
Interment at Old Burying Ground.
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Westlawn
Cemetery
Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
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George Augustus Sanderson (1863-1932) —
of Ayer, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Littleton, Middlesex
County, Mass., July 1,
1863.
Republican. Middlesex
County District Attorney, 1902-07; superior court judge in
Massachusetts, 1907-24; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1924-32.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in 1932
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Westlawn Cemetery.
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Hildreth
Cemetery
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
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Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893) —
also known as Benjamin F. Butler; "The Bold and
Bilious Benjamin"; "Beast
Butler" —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Deerfield, Rockingham
County, N.H., November
5, 1818.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1853; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1859; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1867-75, 1877-79 (5th District
1867-73, 6th District 1873-75, 7th District 1877-79); defeated, 1874;
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1883-84; defeated, 1859 (Democratic), 1860
(Democratic), 1878 (Butler Democrat), 1879 (Butler Democrat), 1883
(Democratic); Greenback candidate for President
of the United States, 1884.
Died while attending court
in Washington,
D.C., January
11, 1893 (age 74 years, 67
days).
Interment at Hildreth Cemetery.
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Adelbert Ames (1835-1933) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, October
31, 1835.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Mississippi, 1868-70, 1874-76; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1870-74; general in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1894 for action in the Battle of Bull Run, July 21,
1861.
Died in Ormond (now Ormond Beach), Volusia
County, Fla., April
12, 1933 (age 97 years, 163
days).
Interment at Hildreth Cemetery.
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Butler Ames (1871-1954) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
22, 1871.
Republican. Engineer;
manufacturer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1897-99; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1903-13;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1916,
1920,
1928.
Died in Tewksbury, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
6, 1954 (age 83 years, 76
days).
Interment at Hildreth Cemetery.
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Gardner Whitman Pearson (1869-1953) —
also known as Gardner W. Pearson —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
4, 1869.
Lawyer;
postmaster at Lowell,
Mass., 1894-98; Adjutant
General of Massachusetts, 1911-14, 1916-17; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1920.
Died June 23,
1953 (age 83 years, 292
days).
Interment at Hildreth Cemetery.
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Lowell
Cemetery
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
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Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (1842-1896) —
also known as Frederic T. Greenhalge —
of Massachusetts.
Born in England,
July
19, 1842.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1885; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1889-91;
defeated, 1890; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1894-96; died in office 1896.
Died March 5,
1896 (age 53 years, 230
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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Thomas Talbot (1818-1886) —
of Massachusetts.
Born September
7, 1818.
Republican. Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1873-75; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1874-75, 1879-80; defeated, 1874.
Died October
6, 1886 (age 68 years, 29
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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Paul Efthemios Tsongas (1941-1997) —
also known as Paul E. Tsongas —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
14, 1941.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1975-79; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1979-85; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1992.
Greek
ancestry.
Died of liver
damage caused by cancer
treatment, and pneumonia,
at Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
18, 1997 (age 55 years, 339
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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Edith Nourse Rogers (1881-1960) —
also known as Edith Frances Nourse —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, 1881.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1925-60; died in
office 1960.
Female.
Congregationalist;
later Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion Auxiliary.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1998.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
10, 1960 (age about 79
years).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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Charles Herbert Allen (1848-1934) —
also known as Charles H. Allen —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
15, 1848.
Republican. Lumber
business; banker;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1881-82; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1883; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1885-89;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1891; Massachusetts state prison commissioner,
1897-98; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1898-1900; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1900-01.
Died in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
20, 1934 (age 86 years, 5
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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John Jacob Rogers (1881-1925) —
also known as John J. Rogers —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
18, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1913-25; died in
office 1925; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1924.
Congregationalist.
Sponsor and longtime advocate of legislation to reform the U.S.
foreign service, finally enacted in 1924.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1925 (age 43 years, 222
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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John Locke (1764-1855) —
of Ashby, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Hopkinton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
14, 1764.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1804; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1823-29 (4th District 1823-25,
6th District 1825-29); member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1830.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
29, 1855 (age 91 years, 43
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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Chauncey Langdon Knapp (1809-1898) —
Born in Berlin, Washington
County, Vt., February
26, 1809.
Secretary
of state of Vermont, 1836-41; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1855-59.
Died May 31,
1898 (age 89 years, 94
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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Tappan Wentworth (1802-1875) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Dover, Strafford
County, N.H., February
24, 1802.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1848-49, 1865-66; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1851, 1859-60, 1863-64; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1853-55; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1864.
Died in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 12,
1875 (age 73 years, 108
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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Benjamin Dean (1824-1897) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England,
August
14, 1824.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1864;
member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1878-79.
Died in South Boston, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 9,
1897 (age 72 years, 238
days).
Interment at Lowell Cemetery.
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St. Patrick's
Cemetery
Gorham Street
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
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George T. Ashe (1905-1975) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
6, 1905.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Fifteenth Middlesex District,
1935-40; mayor of
Lowell, Mass., 1940-42; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1940.
Catholic.
Indicted
on bribery
charges in March, 1942, in connection with sales of equipment and
supplies to the city through a dummy company; tried
and convicted
in October, and sentenced
to one year in jail; in December, he pleaded
guilty to a separate charge of accepting a $1,000 bribe
from a construction contractor, dropped his appeal of the other
conviction, and immediately went to jail.
Died in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., May, 1975
(age 70
years, 0 days).
Interment at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
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Charles H. Slowey (1887-1964) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., 1887.
Democrat. Insurance
business; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Fourteenth Middlesex District,
1917-26, 1929-30; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924,
1932;
mayor
of Lowell, Mass., 1932-33; postmaster at Lowell,
Mass., 1935-56.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; Elks.
Died in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
10, 1964 (age about 76
years).
Interment at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
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Charles R. Santos (1923-1990) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., March
15, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; meat
business; postmaster at Lowell,
Mass., 1967-79 (acting, 1967-68).
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from complications of heart
surgery, in University Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 11,
1990 (age 67 years, 118
days).
Interment at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Santos and Mary Santos; married to Ruth E.
Cassidy. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Michael H. Hoar —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924.
Interment at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
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Unknown
Locations
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) —
also known as P. J. Kennedy —
of Massachusetts.
Born in East Boston, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
14, 1858.
Democrat. Liquor
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1896;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1890; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1900.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 18,
1929 (age 71 years, 124
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Relatives: Son
of Patrick Kennedy and Bridget (Murphy) Kennedy; married, November
23, 1887, to Mary Augusta Hickey; father of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr.; grandfather of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Patricia
Kennedy Lawford, Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; great-grandfather of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967). |
| | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Tony A. Garofano —
of Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.; Saugus, Essex
County, Mass.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Thirteenth Essex District,
1923-24; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1932.
Interment somewhere.
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Forest Dale
Cemetery
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
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Harvey Lincoln Boutwell (1860-1928) —
of Malden, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Meredosia, Morgan
County, Ill., April 5,
1860.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1895-98.
Member, Ancient
Order of United Workmen; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Malden, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
4, 1928 (age 67 years, 305
days).
Interment at Forest Dale Cemetery.
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Holy Cross
Cemetery
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
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Peter Francis Tague (1871-1941) —
also known as Peter F. Tague —
of Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 4,
1871.
Democrat. Chemist;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1897-98, 1913-14; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1899-1900; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1915-19,
1919-25; defeated (Independent), 1918, 1924; candidate for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1917; postmaster at Boston,
Mass., 1935-41 (acting, 1935-37).
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
17, 1941 (age 70 years, 105
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Torbert Hart Macdonald (1917-1976) —
also known as Torbert H. Macdonald —
of Malden, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Everett, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 6,
1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1955-76 (8th District 1955-63,
7th District 1963-76); died in office 1976; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 21,
1976 (age 58 years, 350
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Thomas Aloysius Flaherty (1898-1965) —
also known as Thomas A. Flaherty —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
21, 1898.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1935-37; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1937-43.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
27, 1965 (age 66 years, 127
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John Andrew Sullivan (1868-1927) —
also known as John A. Sullivan —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 10,
1868.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1900-01; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1903-07.
Died in 1927
(age about
59 years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Maurice F. Ahearn (1880-1971) —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born April
27, 1880.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1916,
1924;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1920.
Died, in a nursing
home at Marlborough, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
17, 1971 (age 91 years, 234
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Manuel Pedro Furtado=d'Almeida (1845-1914) —
also known as Manuel P. Furtado=d'Almeida; Visconde de
Valle da Costa —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Ponta Delgada, Azores,
1845.
Consul
for Portugal in Boston,
Mass., 1891-1903.
Catholic.
Portugese
ancestry.
Died in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
16, 1914 (age about 69
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Clementina Maria Anna Poto Langone (1896-1964) —
also known as Clementina Langone —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 30,
1896.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1936,
1940,
1944,
1948.
Female.
Died, at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
20, 1964 (age 67 years, 326
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Alexander I. Rorke (d. 1967) —
of New York.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Lawyer;
orator;
as assistant district attorney for New York County, 1916-21, he
prosecuted many cases against left wing political and labor union
leaders; Judiciary candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1935.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died, in French Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
27, 1967.
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Immaculate
Conception Cemetery
Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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John Joseph Mitchell (1873-1925) —
also known as John J. Mitchell —
of Marlborough, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marlborough, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 9,
1873.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Twenty-First Middlesex District,
1903-05; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1907-08; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1910-11, 1913-15 (4th District
1910-11, 13th District 1913-15); defeated, 1908 (4th District), 1912
(13th District), 1914 (13th District).
Died September
13, 1925 (age 52 years, 127
days).
Interment at Immaculate Conception Cemetery.
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Maplewood
Cemetery
Pleasant Street
Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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Harrie Clifton Hunter (1869-1932) —
also known as Harrie C. Hunter —
of Marlborough, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Marlborough, Middlesex
County, Mass., March
16, 1869.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
pharmacist;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1901-02; member of Massachusetts
state senate Fifth Middlesex District, 1905-06; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1912.
Died in Marlborough, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
13, 1932 (age 63 years, 181
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Oak Grove
Cemetery
Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Arthur Daniel Healey (1889-1948) —
also known as Arthur D. Healey —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
29, 1889.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1933-42;
defeated, 1922, 1924, 1928; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1942-48; died in office 1948.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Eagles;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
16, 1948 (age 58 years, 262
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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William Cushing Wait (1860-1935) —
also known as William C. Wait —
of Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Charlestown, Middlesex County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., December
18, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1902-23; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1923-34.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Geographic Society; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
28, 1935 (age 74 years, 41
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Walter Edward Lawrence (1905-1967) —
also known as Walter E. Lawrence —
of Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
8, 1905.
Civil
engineer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1939-44; mayor
of Medford, Mass., 1944-50.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Moose; Kiwanis.
Died April 9,
1967 (age 61 years, 122
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of George Bertram Lawrence and Della (Chievney) Lawrence; married, June 19,
1930, to Helen Jones. |
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Salem Street
Burial Ground
Salem Street
Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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John Brooks (1752-1825) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 4,
1752.
Physician;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1785-86; delegate
to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1791; Adjutant
General of Massachusetts, 1812-16; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1816-23.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 1,
1825 (age 72 years, 301
days).
Interment at Salem Street Burial Ground.
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Timothy Bigelow (1767-1821) —
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., April
30, 1767.
Speaker
of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1805-06,
1808-10, 1812-20.
Died in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 18,
1821 (age 54 years, 18
days).
Entombed at Salem Street Burial Ground.
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Wyoming
Cemetery
Melrose, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (1820-1891) —
also known as Daniel W. Gooch —
of Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Wells, York
County, Maine, January
8, 1820.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1852; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1858-65, 1873-75 (7th District
1858-63, 6th District 1863-65, 5th District 1873-75); resigned 1865;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1868.
Died in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
11, 1891 (age 71 years, 307
days).
Interment at Wyoming Cemetery.
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Angier Louis Goodwin (1881-1975) —
also known as Angier L. Goodwin —
of Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Fairfield, Somerset
County, Maine, January
30, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Melrose, Mass., 1921-23; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1925-28; member of Massachusetts
state senate Fourth Middlesex District, 1929-41; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1943-55;
defeated, 1954; member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations,
1954-55.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Grange;
Zeta
Psi.
Died in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 20,
1975 (age 94 years, 141
days).
Interment at Wyoming Cemetery.
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Dell Park
Cemetery
163 Pond Street
Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Founded 1849
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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Henry Wilson (1812-1875) —
also known as Jeremiah Jones Colbaith —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Farmington, Strafford
County, N.H., February
16, 1812.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1841-42; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1844-46, 1850-52; delegate to Whig National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1848; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1852; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; candidate
for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1853; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1855-73; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1856 ;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1868;
Vice
President of the United States, 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Congregationalist.
Died, of a stroke,
in the U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., November
22, 1875 (age 63 years, 279
days).
Interment at Dell Park Cemetery.
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Charles Quincy Tirrell (1844-1910) —
also known as Charles Q. Tirrell —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Sharon, Norfolk
County, Mass., December
10, 1844.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1872; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1881-82; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Massachusetts; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1901-10; died in
office 1910.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died July 31,
1910 (age 65 years, 233
days).
Interment at Dell Park Cemetery.
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John Brooks Fairbanks (1822-1897) —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Medfield, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 27,
1822.
Postmaster;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1874-75.
Died in 1897
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Dell Park Cemetery.
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Louis Arthur Coolidge (1861-1925) —
also known as Louis A. Coolidge —
of Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
8, 1861.
Republican. Newspaper
correspondent; private secretary to U.S. Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge, 1888-91; assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury,
1908; treasurer and director, United Shoe
Machinery Corporation, 1909; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from liver
sclerosis, in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 31,
1925 (age 63 years, 235
days).
Interment at Dell Park Cemetery.
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George Chandler Fairbanks (1852-1931) —
also known as George C. Fairbanks —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1852.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1909.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows.
Died April
23, 1931 (age 79 years, 107
days).
Interment at Dell Park Cemetery.
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St. Patrick's
Cemetery
Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
East Parish
Burying Ground
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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William Jackson (1783-1855) —
of Newton Corner, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
2, 1783.
Candle
maker; soap
manufacturer; banker; newspaper
publisher; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1829-32; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1833-37; early
promoter of railroads;
president, American Missionary Society, 1846-54.
Died in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
27, 1855 (age 71 years, 178
days).
Interment at East Parish Burying Ground.
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Newton
Cemetery
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Founded 1855
Politicians buried
here: |
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Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818-1895) —
also known as Alexander H. Rice —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
30, 1818.
Republican. Mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1856-58; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1859-67 (4th District 1859-63,
3rd District 1863-67); Governor of
Massachusetts, 1876-79.
Died July 22,
1895 (age 76 years, 326
days).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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William Claflin (1818-1905) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Milford, Worcester
County, Mass., March 6,
1818.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1849-52; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1860-61; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1860,
1864,
1868;
member of Republican
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1866-; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1868-72; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1866-69; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1869-72; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1877-81.
Died in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
5, 1905 (age 86 years, 305
days).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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William Hull (1753-1825) —
Born in Derby, New Haven
County, Conn., June 24,
1753.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1798-1805; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1805-12; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812.
Following his surrender of Detroit to the British in 1812, was found
guilty by a court-martial
of cowardice,
neglect
of duty, and unofficerlike
conduct, and sentenced
to death; President Madison accepted this decision but remitted the
sentence.
Died in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
29, 1825 (age 72 years, 158
days).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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William Emerson Barrett (1858-1906) —
also known as William E. Barrett —
of Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
29, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1887-93; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1889-93; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1895-99;
defeated, 1893.
Died, from pneumonia,
in West Newton, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
12, 1906 (age 47 years, 45
days).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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Samuel Leland Powers (1848-1929) —
also known as Samuel L. Powers —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cornish, Sullivan
County, N.H., October
26, 1848.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1901-05 (11th District
1901-03, 12th District 1903-05).
Died in 1929
(age about
80 years).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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Maynard W. Hutchinson (1885-1963) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Allston, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
15, 1885.
Republican. Shoe
manufacturer; investment
banker; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1936;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1954-61.
Died in Chestnut Hill, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
12, 1963 (age 77 years, 362
days).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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Charles Hall Adams (1853-1938) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 6,
1853.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1885-94; Consul-General
for Liberia in Boston,
Mass., 1894-1907; Consul
for Nicaragua in Boston,
Mass., 1899-1907; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Boston,
Mass., 1905-07; in May 1909, he and another lawyer were charged
with conspiring to obtain
unclaimed deposits at Suffolk Savings Bank by inventing
fictitious heirs; pleaded not guilty.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 5,
1938 (age 85 years, 121
days).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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William McKissock (1850-1925) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Massachusetts, August
28, 1850.
Shipping
broker; Consul
for Argentina in Boston,
Mass., 1898-1902; Vice-Consul
for Argentina in Boston,
Mass., 1906-19.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., December
17, 1925 (age 75 years, 111
days).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean (Fraser) McKissock and William McKissock (1824-1860); married
to Hattie Marie Davenport. |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Arthur Clarence Walworth (1844-1920) —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
29, 1844.
Mechanical
engineer; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1886-87.
Congregationalist.
Died, from heart
disease, in Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 23,
1920 (age 76 years, 55
days).
Interment at Newton Cemetery.
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St. Mary's
Cemetery
Newton Lower Falls, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Josiah Gardner Abbott (1814-1891) —
also known as Josiah G. Abbott —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Needham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Chelmsford, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
1, 1814.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1836-37; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1841-42; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; superior
court judge in Massachusetts, 1855-58; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1864,
1876
(speaker),
1880,
1888;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1876-77;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1878.
Died in Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 2,
1891 (age 76 years, 213
days).
Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Forest Glen
Cemetery
Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Arthur William Coolidge (1881-1952) —
also known as Arthur W. Coolidge —
of Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Woodfords, Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, October
13, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1937-40; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1941-46; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1947-49; defeated, 1948; candidate for
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1950.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Theta
Delta Chi; Freemasons.
Died in Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
22, 1952 (age 70 years, 101
days).
Interment at Forest Glen Cemetery.
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William H. Dolben (1878-1948) —
of Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
23, 1878.
Republican. Real estate
business; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council 4th District, 1922; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924.
Died in 1948
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Forest Glen Cemetery.
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Laurel Hill
Cemetery
Lowell Street
Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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Katherine Graham Howard (1898-1986) —
also known as Katherine G. Howard; Katherine Montague
Graham; Mrs. Charles P. Howard —
of Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Guyton, Effingham
County, Ga., September
30, 1898.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1944
(alternate), 1948,
1952
(Convention
Secretary; speaker),
1956
(alternate); member of Republican
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1945-53; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1948-53.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, League of Women
Voters; Colonial
Dames.
Died in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., January
26, 1986 (age 87 years, 118
days).
Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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Charles Pagelsen Howard (1887-1966) —
also known as Charles P. Howard —
of Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Tewksbury, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
26, 1887.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; served in
the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Massachusetts
state senate Seventh Middlesex District, 1923-25; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924
(alternate), 1928;
president, Blackstone Savings
Bank, Boston, 1940-42; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War
II.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Political Science Association; American
Society for Public Administration; Military
Order of the World Wars; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Rotary.
Died in Beachmont, Revere, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 2,
1966 (age 78 years, 188
days).
Interment at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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Pine Hill
Cemetery
Tewksbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Richard Manning Russell (1891-1977) —
also known as Richard M. Russell —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 3,
1891.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; mayor
of Cambridge, Mass., 1930-36; defeated, 1939; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1935-37;
defeated, 1936 (9th District), 1950 (6th District).
Member, American
Legion; Elks; Eagles.
Died in Essex, Essex
County, Mass., February
27, 1977 (age 85 years, 361
days).
Interment at Pine Hill Cemetery.
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Hillside
Cemetery
Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Walter Fessenden (1813-1884) —
of Townsend, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
20, 1813.
Democrat. Cooper; postmaster;
banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1856,
1860;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1861.
Died in Townsend, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
28, 1884 (age 70 years, 130
days).
Interment at Hillside Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Fessenden (1772-1837) and Lavina (Stevens) Fessenden;
married, February
6, 1838, to Harriet Elizabeth Lewis; second cousin once removed
of Benjamin
Fessenden (1797-1881) and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin of Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); third cousin once removed of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869) and John
Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin of William
Pitt Fessenden, Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden, William
Fessenden Allen and Joseph
Palmer Fessenden; fourth cousin once removed of Ira A.
Locke, James
Deering Fessenden, Henry
Nichols Blake, Francis
Fessenden, Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden. |
| | 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 |
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Forest Glade
Cemetery
Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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John Anthony Volpe (1908-1994) —
also known as John A. Volpe —
of Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Nahant, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Wakefield, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
8, 1908.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1952
(alternate), 1956
(alternate), 1960
(alternate), 1972,
1988;
Governor
of Massachusetts, 1961-63, 1965-69; defeated, 1962; resigned
1969; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1968;
U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1969-73; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1973-77.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died September
11, 1994 (age 85 years, 277
days).
Interment at Forest Glade Cemetery.
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Lakeside
Cemetery
Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Harry Irving Thayer (1869-1926) —
also known as Harry I. Thayer —
of Wakefield, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Pembroke, Plymouth
County, Mass., September
10, 1869.
Republican. Leather
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1925-26; died in
office 1926.
Died in Wakefield, Middlesex
County, Mass., March
10, 1926 (age 56 years, 181
days).
Interment at Lakeside Cemetery.
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Grove Hill
Cemetery
Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Nathaniel Prentice Banks (1816-1894) —
also known as Nathaniel P. Banks; "The Bobbin
Boy" —
of Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
30, 1816.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1849-52; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1851-52; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1853-57, 1865-73, 1875-79,
1889-91 (7th District 1853-57, 6th District 1865-73, 5th District
1875-79, 1889-91); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1856-57; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1858-61; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; received one electoral vote for Vice-President, 1872;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1874.
Died in Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
1, 1894 (age 78 years, 214
days).
Interment at Grove Hill Cemetery.
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George Pickering Bemis (1838-1916) —
also known as George P. Bemis —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
15, 1838.
Republican. Mayor of
Omaha, Neb., 1892-96.
Died in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., December
11, 1916 (age 78 years, 271
days).
Interment at Grove Hill Cemetery.
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Calvary
Cemetery
686 Washington Street
Winchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
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Michael Joseph McEttrick (1848-1921) —
also known as Michael J. McEttrick —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 22,
1848.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1885-91, 1906-07, 1913; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1892, 1908; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1893-95;
defeated, 1894.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
31, 1921 (age 73 years, 192
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Wildwood
Cemetery
Winchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
here: |
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Samuel Walker McCall (1851-1923) —
also known as Samuel W. McCall —
of Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in East Providence, Bedford
County, Pa., February
28, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1888-89, 1892; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1888,
1900,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1893-1913; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1916-19; defeated, 1914.
Died November
4, 1923 (age 72 years, 249
days).
Interment at Wildwood Cemetery.
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Calvary
Cemetery
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Politicians buried
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Thomas H. Duffy (1880-1969) —
also known as "Plucky Duffy" —
of Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in County Armagh, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), March 8,
1880.
Democrat. Champion boxer,
competed in U.S. and Europe; freight conductor for Boston & Maine Railroad;
mayor
of Woburn, Mass., 1925-27; defeated, 1927; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 14,
1969 (age 89 years, 67
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1902 to Alice
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Bernard J. Golden —
of Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Democrat. Mayor of
Woburn, Mass., 1921-22; defeated, 1922; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924.
Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Montefiore
Cemetery
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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Hyman Mann (1898-1972) —
also known as Honey Mann; Hyman Manevitch —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1898.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1930.
Jewish.
Died, in the Veterans Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 16,
1972 (age 74 years, 12
days).
Interment at Montefiore Cemetery.
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Pride of Boston
Cemetery
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Woodbrook
Cemetery
100 Salem Street
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Founded 1845
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Benjamin Franklin Whittemore (1824-1894) —
also known as B. F. Whittemore —
of Darlington
County, S.C.; Montvale, Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Malden, Middlesex
County, Mass., May 18,
1824.
Republican. Minister;
chaplain;
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1868
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Darlington
County, 1868; member of South
Carolina state senate from Darlington County, 1868, 1870-77;
resigned 1868, 1877; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1868-70;
resigned 1870; censured
by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1870 for selling
an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Montvale, Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
25, 1894 (age 69 years, 252
days).
Interment at Woodbrook Cemetery.
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Edwin Frances Wyer (1832-1926) —
also known as Edwin F. Wyer —
of Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., September
28, 1832.
Republican. Postmaster at Woburn,
Mass., 1899-1916.
Died in Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
25, 1926 (age 93 years, 150
days).
Interment at Woodbrook Cemetery.
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