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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, Cambridge, Mass.
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Augustus Davis Ayling (1840-1918) —
also known as Augustus D. Ayling —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.; Centerville, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 28,
1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Adjutant
General of New Hampshire, 1879-1907.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand Army of the Republic; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died March 9,
1918 (age 77 years, 224
days).
Interment at Beechwood
Cemetery, Centerville, Barnstable, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of William L. Ayling and Margaret (Hurley) Ayling; married 1869 to
Elizabeth F. Cornish. |
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Fitz James Babson (1828-1893) —
also known as Fitz J. Babson —
of Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., February
14, 1828.
Republican. Building
contractor; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1858-60; served in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1869-85; president, National Fishery
Association.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Grand Army of the Republic.
Died in Middlefield, Hampshire
County, Mass., June 25,
1893 (age 65 years, 131
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Algernon Sidney Badger (1839-1905) —
also known as Algernon S. Badger —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
28, 1839.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War;
superintendent, New Orleans Metropolitan Police,
1870; postmaster at New
Orleans, La., 1878-79; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1879-85; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1880.
Episcopalian.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1905 (age 65 years, 193
days).
Entombed at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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William J. Briggs (1834-1887) —
of Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born February
2, 1834.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1886-87; died in office 1887.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic.
Fell to
his death while descending a ladder from the roof of the North
Pleasant Street school house, Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., August
13, 1887 (age 53 years, 192
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Morrill Ingalls Davis (1841-1930) —
of Kansas.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 2,
1841.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1901-03.
Methodist.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic.
Died in Turlock, Stanislaus
County, Calif., May 29,
1930 (age 89 years, 27
days).
Interment at Turlock
Cemetery, Turlock, Calif.
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Samuel Levis Gracey (1835-1911) —
also known as Samuel L. Gracey —
of Smyrna, Kent
County, Del.; Pawtucket, Providence
County, R.I.; Chelsea, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
8, 1835.
Methodist
minister; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Consul in Foochow, 1890-93, 1897-1911, died in office 1911.
Methodist.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic.
Died by suicide,
when he cut his
throat with a razor, in the West Newton Sanitarium,
West Newton, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
19, 1911 (age 75 years, 345
days).
Interment at Mt.
Moriah Cemetery, West Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Roger Sherman Greene (1840-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
14, 1840.
Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; justice of
Washington territorial supreme court, 1870-79; chief
justice of Washington territorial supreme court, 1879-87;
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1888; Prohibition candidate for
Governor
of Washington, 1890.
Baptist.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., February
17, 1930 (age 89 years, 65
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William H. I. Hayes (1848-1907) —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 21,
1848.
Republican. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Twenty-Fifth Middlesex District,
1893-99, 1902, 1904-07; died in office 1907.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Redmen;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died June 29,
1907 (age 59 years, 8
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John White Kimball (b. 1828) —
also known as John W. Kimball —
of Fitchburg, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Fitchburg, Worcester
County, Mass., February
27, 1828.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1864-65, 1872, 1888-91; postmaster;
Massachusetts
state auditor, 1892-1901.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Alpheus Kimball and Harriet (Stone) Kimball; married, July 15,
1851, to Almira Melissa Lesure. |
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John B. Lewis Jr. (b. 1841) —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Reading, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Wilmington, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
30, 1841.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; shoe
manufacturer; Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1901, 1922; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1907.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Grand Army of the Republic.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John B. Lewis and Threasa (Miller) Lewis; married 1864 to Hattie
A. Bancroft; married 1872 to Mary
U. Hawes. |
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1908 |
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Daniel Eugene McGinley (1845-1904) —
also known as Daniel E. McGinley —
of Cedarburg, Ozaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Saxonville, Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
3, 1845.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lumberman;
lost a
foot in a lumbering accident; school
teacher; candidate for Wisconsin
state assembly, 1894; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1896;
U.S. Consul in Athens, 1897-1904, died in office 1904.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic.
Died in Athens, Greece,
December
11, 1904 (age 59 years, 343
days).
Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery, Saukville, Wis.
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Walter A. Read (1842-1918) —
of Rhode Island.
Born in Blackstone, Worcester
County, Mass., July 6,
1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant;
member of Rhode
Island state senate, 1889-98; Rhode
Island general treasurer, 1899-1908.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic.
Died in 1918
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Acotes
Hill Cemetery, Chepachet, Glocester, R.I.
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Augustus Brown Reed Sprague (1827-1910) —
also known as Augustus B. R. Sprague —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., March 7,
1827.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; furniture
merchant; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1896-97.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., May 17,
1910 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Andrew Coolidge Stone (1839-1905) —
of Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Marlborough, Cheshire
County, N.H., May 16,
1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1880-82; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1884.
Congregationalist.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Grand Army of the Republic.
Died in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., February
26, 1905 (age 65 years, 286
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Roland Greene Usher (1823-1895) —
also known as Roland G. Usher —
of Lynn, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1823.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of
Lynn, Mass., 1866-69; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1868;
member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1870.
Member, Grand Army of the Republic.
Died in Medford, Middlesex
County, Mass., March 3,
1895 (age 72 years, 56
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass.
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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, Woburn, Mass.
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