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Pharmaceutical Industry Politicians in Massachusetts
including Druggists and Pharmacists

  Waldo Babson (1866-1941) — of Berlin, Coos County, N.H. Born in Rockport, Essex County, Mass., September 28, 1866. Democrat. Druggist; candidate for New Hampshire state senate 1st District, 1938. Died in Berlin, Coos County, N.H., February 17, 1941 (age 74 years, 142 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Sarah Elizabeth (Abbot) Babson and David Clifford Babson; married to Ada Emerson Bates; first cousin twice removed of Fitz James Babson; second cousin twice removed of John Babson; fourth cousin of Roger Ward Babson.
  Political family: Babson family of Massachusetts.
  Eugene A. Besson (b. 1855) — of Lynn, Essex County, Mass. Born in Lynn, Essex County, Mass., June 11, 1855. Republican. Pharmacist; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives Seventeenth Essex District, 1880; member of Massachusetts state senate First Essex District, 1894-95; mayor of Lynn, Mass., 1896. Burial location unknown.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Edward A. Bower (b. 1869) — of Methuen, Essex County, Mass. Born in Lawrence, Essex County, Mass., August 1, 1869. Republican. Druggist; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives Sixth Essex District, 1905-06. Burial location unknown.
  William Johnson Bullock (1864-1920) — also known as William J. Bullock — of New Bedford, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Fall River, Bristol County, Mass., January 31, 1864. Republican. Pharmacist; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1898-1903; member of Massachusetts state senate Third Bristol District, 1904-07; mayor of New Bedford, Mass., 1908-09; candidate for U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 16th District, 1912. Died in 1920 (age about 56 years). Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Hubbard Martin Bullock and Mira Sophia (Packard) Bullock; married 1890 to Ruea Matilda Howk; first cousin five times removed of Stephen Bullock; third cousin thrice removed of Nathaniel Bullock.
  Political family: Bullock family of Massachusetts (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Thomas Connor (1914-2000) — also known as John T. Connor; Jack Connor — Born in Syracuse, Onondaga County, N.Y., November 3, 1914. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1965-67. Catholic. Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi Kappa Psi. President and CEO of the Merck pharmaceutical company from 1955; chairman and CEO of Allied Chemical, 1967-79. Died, of cancer, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., October 6, 2000 (age 85 years, 338 days). Interment at Mosswood Cemetery, Cotuit, Barnstable, Mass.
  Relatives: Married to Mary O'Boyle.
  Epitaph: "Semper Fidelis"
  See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Joseph Curran (1864-1910) — also known as James J. Curran — of Holyoke, Hampden County, Mass. Born in Holyoke, Hampden County, Mass., June, 1864. Democrat. Druggist; mayor of Holyoke, Mass., 1896; defeated, 1893, 1894. Catholic. Irish ancestry. In early 1896, he was team captain of the first demonstration game of "mintonette" (later known as "volleyball"). Died in Holyoke, Hampden County, Mass., 1910 (age about 46 years). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Patrick C. Curran and Margaret (Manning) Curran; brother-in-law of Margaret Elizabeth Tierney (first cousin of William Laurence Tierney).
  Political family: Tierney family of Greenwich, Connecticut.
  Frank J. Donahue (1881-1979) — Born in 1881. Democrat. Pharmacist; secretary of state of Massachusetts, 1913-15; lawyer; superior court judge in Massachusetts, 1932-74. Died in 1979 (age about 98 years). Burial location unknown.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Clarence B. Emery (born c.1875) — of Terryville, Plymouth, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Westborough, Worcester County, Mass., about 1875. Republican. Druggist; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Plymouth, 1913-16; member of Connecticut state senate 32nd District, 1921-22. Burial location unknown.
  David Henshaw (1791-1852) — of Leicester, Worcester County, Mass. Born in Leicester, Worcester County, Mass., April 2, 1791. Democrat. Wholesale druggist; banker; insurance business; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1826; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1829-38; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1839; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1843-44. Member, Freemasons. Died in Leicester, Worcester County, Mass., November 11, 1852 (age 61 years, 223 days). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery, Leicester, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of David Henshaw (1744-1808) and Mary (Sargent) Henshaw; uncle of Andrew Isbell Henshaw; granduncle of Mary Montague 'Mollie' Henshaw (who married Harry Theophilus Toulmin); second cousin twice removed of Horace Boies; second cousin thrice removed of Herbert B. Boies.
  Political family: Henshaw-Torrey family of Claiborne, Alabama.
  See also Wikipedia article
  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, Marlborough, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Clifton David Hunter and Lillian Abbie Hunter.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Merchant W. Huxford (1798-1877) — of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Ind. Born in Conway, Franklin County, Mass., 1798. Druggist; mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., 1845-49. Died in 1877 (age about 79 years). Interment at Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
  Edwin F. Leonard (1862-1931) — of Springfield, Hampden County, Mass. Born in Belmont, Belknap County, N.H., July 15, 1862. Republican. Druggist; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives Third Hampden District, 1906-07; mayor of Springfield, Mass., 1921-24; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928. Member, Odd Fellows. Died in November, 1931 (age 69 years, 0 days). Burial location unknown.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Frederick William Mansfield (1877-1958) — also known as Frederick W. Mansfield — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in East Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 26, 1877. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; pharmacist; lawyer; Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1910 (primary), 1916, 1917; Massachusetts state treasurer, 1914-15, 1941; defeated, 1914; mayor of Boston, Mass., 1934-38; defeated, 1929. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars; American Bar Association; Ancient Order of Hibernians; Knights of Columbus; Foresters; United Spanish War Veterans. Died, in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 6, 1958 (age 81 years, 225 days). Interment at Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Michael Read Mansfield and Catherine (McDonough) Mansfield; married, June 29, 1904, to Helena Elizabeth Roe; father of Walter Roe Mansfield.
  Nathan Read (1759-1849) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass.; Belfast, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Warren, Worcester County, Mass., July 2, 1759. School teacher; apothecary; iron foundry business; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1800-03; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1803. Died near Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, January 20, 1849 (age 89 years, 202 days). Interment at Grove Cemetery, Belfast, Maine.
  Relatives: Son of Reuben Read and Tamsen (Meacham) Read; married to Elizabeth Jeffrey; great-grandfather of Charles Kirk Tilden; first cousin twice removed of John Hill Walbridge and Henry E. Walbridge; second cousin once removed of John Adams Dix; second cousin twice removed of Charles Otis Nason; third cousin of Jabez Upham and George Baxter Upham; third cousin once removed of Timothy Bigelow, Rufus Heaton, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, James Phineas Upham and John Ogden Bigelow; third cousin twice removed of Cheney Ames, Leonard Ames Jr., Edgar Weeks, John Wingate Weeks and Alexander Cook Thayer; third cousin thrice removed of William Greene Dows, Bernard Forrest Bemis, John A. Weeks and Charles Sinclair Weeks; fourth cousin of Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy and John Prescott Bigelow; fourth cousin once removed of Gideon Hard, Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor and Alvarus Payson Adams.
  Political families: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Upham family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
  Abner Wheelock Rice (1848-1910) — also known as A. Wheelock Rice — of Hudson, Columbia County, N.Y. Born in Wayland, Middlesex County, Mass., May 28, 1848. Republican. Druggist; candidate for mayor of Hudson, N.Y., 1884. Died in Hudson, Columbia County, N.Y., April 3, 1910 (age 61 years, 310 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Edward Rice and Sara Griffin (Reeves) Rice; married 1870 to Alice Chamberlain Uhler.
  Levi M. Snow (b. 1841) — of Fairhaven, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Mattapoisett, Plymouth County, Mass., April 19, 1841. Druggist; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives Sixth Bristol District, 1900-01, 1906. Burial location unknown.
  Henry Hinckley Stafford (1833-1911) — also known as Henry H. Stafford — of Marquette, Marquette County, Mich.; Mt. Vernon, Westchester County, N.Y.; Newton, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., January 6, 1833. Republican. Druggist; mayor of Marquette, Mich., 1871; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Marquette County 1st District, 1877-78. Died in Newton, Middlesex County, Mass., April 26, 1911 (age 78 years, 110 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Granduncle by marriage of Randolph Appleton Kidder.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan family of Dexter, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Edmond Patrick Talbot (b. 1884) — also known as Edmond P. Talbot — of Fall River, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Tingwick, Quebec, April 21, 1884. Democrat. Druggist; mayor of Fall River, Mass., 1923-26, 1929-30; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928 (alternate), 1936, 1944; candidate for U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 14th District, 1944. French Canadian ancestry. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Charles Talbot and Celina (Vidal) Talbot; married, September 11, 1905, to Alma Marie Louise Beaupre.
  Silas F. Taylor — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Danville, Va. Democrat. Druggist; member of Massachusetts Democratic State Committee, 1928-48; candidate for Presidential Elector for Massachusetts; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956. Baptist. African ancestry. Member, Alpha Phi Alpha; Elks; Freemasons; Shriners. Burial location unknown.
  Edward Henry Willey (1883-1958) — also known as Edward H. Willey — of South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., December 7, 1883. Republican. Druggist; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928; bank director. Catholic. Died in South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., August 11, 1958 (age 74 years, 247 days). Interment at St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Elias Cornelius Willey and Mary Ann (Dodwell) Willey; married, December 31, 1912, to Agnes K. Harrington; third cousin thrice removed of Calvin Willey.
  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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