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William Henry Bowdlear (1847-1920) —
also known as William H. Bowdlear —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Medway, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., July 16,
1847.
Beeswax importer; Consul
for Bolivia in Boston,
Mass., 1891-1900; member, Boston School Committee, 1896.
Died in Medway, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
31, 1920 (age 73 years, 107
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Augustus Bowdlear and Hannah (Hadley) Bowdlear; married,
October
25, 1870, to Harriet C. 'Hattie' Knight. |
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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, Cambridge, Mass.
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Samuel Hooper (1808-1875) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Marblehead, Essex
County, Mass., February
3, 1808.
Republican. Importing business; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1851-53; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1858; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1861-75 (5th District 1861-63,
4th District 1863-75); died in office 1875.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
14, 1875 (age 67 years, 11
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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, Cambridge, Mass.
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Gustaf Lundberg (1853-1922) —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Stockholm, Sweden,
February
14, 1853.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; iron
merchant; importer; Consul
for Denmark in Boston,
Mass., 1895-1922.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., 1922
(age about
69 years).
Burial location unknown.
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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, Newton, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean (Fraser) McKissock and William McKissock (1824-1860); married
to Hattie Marie Davenport. |
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James Otis (1826-1875) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
11, 1826.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; importer and
exporter; candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1872
(delegation chair); mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Unitarian.
Died, of diphtheria,
in San
Francisco, Calif., October
30, 1875 (age 49 years, 80
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Dudley Leavitt Pickman (1779-1846) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., 1779.
Shipowner;
importer and exporter; investor and stockholder in cotton and
woolen
mills and railroads;
financier;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1820.
Died November
4, 1846 (age about 67
years).
Interment at Harmony
Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
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Gustavo Preston (1856-1918) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Swampscott, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Arroyo
Municipio, Puerto Rico, August
1, 1856.
Sugar and
molasses importer; Consul
for Ecuador in Boston,
Mass., 1889-1907; Consul
for Argentina in Boston,
Mass., 1898.
Died, from stomach
cancer, in Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
15, 1918 (age 62 years, 14
days).
Interment at Swampscott Cemetery, Swampscott, Mass.
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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, Cambridge, Mass.
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John Randolph Wilder (1816-1879) —
also known as J. R. Wilder —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Leicester, Worcester
County, Mass., March
18, 1816.
Cotton
exporter; shipbroker;
Vice-Consul
for Russia in Savannah,
Ga., 1846-77.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., November
1, 1879 (age 63 years, 228
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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, Cambridge, Mass.
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