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Benjamin Preston Clark (1860-1939) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in West Roxbury, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., October
8, 1860.
President, Plymouth Cordage
Co.; dirctor, U.S. Smelting, Refining, and Mining Co.;
Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Boston,
Mass., 1897-1908; Consul
for Haiti in Boston,
Mass., 1909-39.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Bequeathed his private collection of 30,000 butterfly and moth
specimens to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
10, 1939 (age 78 years, 94
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Howard Aldridge Coffin (1877-1956) —
also known as Howard A. Coffin —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Middleboro, Plymouth
County, Mass., June 11,
1877.
Republican. Sales representative, Ginn & Company book
publishers, 1901-11; controller, Warren Motor Car
Company, 1911-13; regional manager, Firestone Tire
and Rubber
Company, 1913-18; secretary, Detroit Pressed Steel Company,
1918-21; assistant to president, Cadillac Motor Car
Company, 1921-25; vice-president, later president, White Star Oil
Refining Company, 1925-33; division manager, Socony-Vacuum Oil
Company, 1933; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1947-49; defeated,
1944, 1948.
Baptist.
Member, Rotary.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
28, 1956 (age 78 years, 262
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Charles H. Cole (b. 1871) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1871.
Democrat. Cashier and treasurer for several mining and
smelting companies; president of chemical
companies; Boston police commissioner, 1905-07; Boston fire
commissioner, 1912-14; Adjutant
General of Massachusetts, 1914-16; general in the U.S. Army
during World War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1924,
1928
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1932;
candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1928.
Unitarian.
Interment at Hingham
Cemetery, Hingham, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles H. Cole and Mary Lyon (Ball) Cole; married 1910 to Grace
F. Blanchard. |
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Edward Livingston Davis (1834-1912) —
also known as Edward L. Davis —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., April
22, 1834.
Lawyer;
manufacturer of ironwork, including railroad
wheels; director of banks and
railroads;
mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1874; defeated (Citizens), 1874; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1876.
Episcopalian.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., March 2,
1912 (age 77 years, 315
days).
Interment at Worcester
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
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Thomas Aspinwall Davis (1798-1845) —
also known as Thomas A. Davis —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., December
11, 1798.
Silversmith; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1845; died in office 1845.
Died November
22, 1845 (age 46 years, 346
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Eugene Noble Foss (1858-1939) —
also known as Eugene N. Foss —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in West Berkshire, Berkshire, Franklin
County, Vt., September
24, 1858.
Democrat. Owner of cotton
mills and iron and steel works; active in banking
and railroads;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 14th District, 1910-11;
defeated, 1902 (Republican, 11th District), 1904 (Republican, 11th
District); resigned 1911; defeated, 1925 (5th District); Governor of
Massachusetts, 1911-14; defeated (Independent), 1913; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1912.
Baptist.
Member, Sigma
Phi.
Died September
13, 1939 (age 80 years, 354
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Francis Calley Gray (b. 1890) —
also known as Francis C. Gray —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Chestnut Hill, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
22, 1890.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; banker;
director, U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.;
director, Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance
Co.; chairman, Massachusetts General Hospital;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1944.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Humane
Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Morris Gray and Flora (Grant) Gray; married, September
16, 1916, to Helen Rotch Bullard. |
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Harry Alfred Hanbury (1863-1940) —
also known as Harry A. Hanbury —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bristol, England,
January
1, 1863.
Republican. Founder of Hanbury Iron Works in Brooklyn;
candidate for New York
state senate, 1895; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1901-03; defeated,
1902.
Died in Methuen, Essex
County, Mass., August
22, 1940 (age 77 years, 234
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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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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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, Framingham, Mass.
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George Edward Powers (b. 1892) —
also known as George E. Powers —
of Watertown, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
15, 1892.
Sheet metal worker; candidate for borough
president of Queens, New York, 1929 (Workers), 1933 (Communist);
Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1930; in April 1932, he was arrested
at City Hall Park, during a demonstration
which was characaterized as "riot"; convicted
of unlawful assembly, but the sentence was suspended; also in 1932,
he was publicly accused
of taking part in an alleged Communist
conspiracy to cause bank failures in Chicago by spreading
rumors (in a "whispering campaign" of "anti-bank propaganda"); he
denied this; Communist candidate for chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1932; vice-president,
International Workers Order; Communist candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1934; Communist candidate
for New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1936;
following the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, he resigned from the
Communist Party, took part in anti-Communist organizations; at Earl
Browder's trial for passport fraud in 1940, he testified for the
prosecution; Liberal candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1948, 1950.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George E. Powers and Sarah Powers. |
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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.
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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 |
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William Henry Harrison Stowell (1840-1922) —
also known as William H. H. Stowell —
of Burkeville, Nottoway
County, Va.; Appleton, Outagamie
County, Wis.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.; Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in West Windsor, Windsor
County, Vt., July 26,
1840.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1871-77; Virginia
Republican state chair, 1872-73; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Virginia, 1876;
founder, secretary-treasurer, Fox River Pulp
Co., Atlas Paper
Co., Duluth Iron and Steel Co.; president of Manufacturers Bank of
West Duluth, 1889-1895.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., April
27, 1922 (age 81 years, 275
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Eliphalet Trask (1806-1890) —
of Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Monson, Hampden
County, Mass., January
8, 1806.
Whig. Foundry business; banker; mayor
of Springfield, Mass., 1855; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1856-57, 1862; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1858-61.
Universalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., December
9, 1890 (age 84 years, 335
days).
Interment at Springfield
Cemetery, Springfield, Mass.
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Richard Westacott (b. 1849) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
26, 1849.
Wholesale iron business; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in
London, 1897-1911; U.S. Vice Consul in London, as of 1916-17.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick August Westphal (b. 1895) —
also known as Fred A. Westphal —
of Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass., June 15,
1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; engineer;
steel executive; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Oklahoma, 1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Navy
League; Military
Order of the World Wars; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter John C. Westphal and Anna W. (Glesmann) Westphal; married,
June
24, 1922, to Olive Mitchell M. Blackman. |
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Horace C. Wilcox (1824-1890) —
of Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born January
24, 1824.
President, Meriden Britannia Company; president, Wilcox &
White Organ
Company; member of Connecticut
state senate, 1874, 1877; mayor
of Meriden, Conn., 1875-76.
Died August
27, 1890 (age 66 years, 215
days).
Interment at Wilcox Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Elisha B. Wilcox and Hepzibah (Cornwall) Wilcox; married to
Charlotte Smith and Ellen M. Parker. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Antonio Zerbone (1832-1917) —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Flores, Azores,
August
5, 1832.
Goldsmith; Vice-Consul
for Portugal in New
Bedford, Mass., 1883-99.
Portugese
ancestry.
Died, from cerebral
apoplexy, in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., January
5, 1917 (age 84 years, 153
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, New Bedford, Mass.
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