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Index to Locations
Bridgton Forest Hill Cemetery
Bridgton High Street Cemetery
Brunswick Pine Grove Cemetery
Cape Elizabeth Seaside Cemetery
Cumberland Unknown location
Falmouth Pine Grove Cemetery
Gorham Unknown location
Gorham Eastern Cemetery
Harrison Harrison Village Cemetery
Portland Unknown location
Portland Eastern Cemetery
Portland Evergreen Cemetery
Portland Pine Grove Cemetery
Portland Western Cemetery
South Portland Calvary Cemetery
South Portland Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery
Standish Hamlin Cemetery
Windham Town Cemetery
Yarmouth Riverside Cemetery
Forest Hill
Cemetery
Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine
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Luther Franklin McKinney (1841-1922) —
also known as Luther F. McKinney —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Newark, Licking
County, Ohio, April
25, 1841.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Universalist
minister; furniture
merchant; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1887-89, 1891-93;
candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1892; U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1893-96; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1898, 1899; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1907.
Universalist.
Died July 30,
1922 (age 81 years, 96
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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John Henry Roes (1843-1903) —
also known as John H. Roes —
of Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Maine, September
23, 1843.
Republican. Postmaster at Bridgton,
Maine, 1891-93.
Died in 1903
(age about
59 years).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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High Street
Cemetery
Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine
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Nathaniel Swett Littlefield (1804-1882) —
of Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Wells, York
County, Maine, September
20, 1804.
Democrat. Member of Maine
state senate, 1837; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1841-43, 1849-51 (5th District
1841-43, 2nd District 1849-51); member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1854.
Died in Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
15, 1882 (age 77 years, 329
days).
Interment at High Street Cemetery.
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Charles Edward Gibbs (1835-1899) —
also known as Charles E. Gibbs —
of Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine, January
21, 1835.
Republican. Postmaster at Bridgton,
Maine, 1872-85.
Died in Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine, 1899
(age about
64 years).
Interment at High Street Cemetery.
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Pine Grove
Cemetery
Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine
Founded 1821
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Robert Pinckney Dunlap (1794-1859) —
also known as Robert P. Dunlap —
of Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
17, 1794.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1821-22; member of Maine
state senate, 1824-28, 1830-33; member of Maine
Governor's Council, 1829; Governor of
Maine, 1834-38; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1843-47; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1848-49; postmaster.
Died in Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine, October
20, 1859 (age 65 years, 64
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) —
also known as Joshua L. Chamberlain —
of Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Brewer, Penobscot
County, Maine, September
8, 1828.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Maine, 1867-71; president,
Bowdoin College; U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1909.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion; American
Historical Association.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1893 for action as commander of the 20th Maine, at
Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863.
Died February
24, 1914 (age 85 years, 169
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Benjamin Orr (1772-1828) —
of Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Bedford, Hillsborough
County, N.H., December
1, 1772.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 2nd District, 1817-19.
Died in Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
3, 1828 (age 55 years, 277
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Charles Jervis Gilman (1824-1901) —
also known as Charles J. Gilman —
of Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Exeter, Rockingham
County, N.H., February
26, 1824.
Republican. Member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1851; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1854; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1857-59; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maine, 1860.
Died February
5, 1901 (age 76 years, 344
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Tewksbury Loring Swett (1846-1911) —
also known as Tewksbury L. Swett; Tewksbury L.
Sweat —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Arrowsic, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, May 3,
1846.
Democrat. Shipbroker;
Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in Portland,
Maine, 1880-1903; Vice-Consul
for Norway in Portland,
Maine, 1908.
Died, from broncho-pneumonia,
in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
28, 1911 (age 64 years, 301
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Charles E. Townsend (1831-1920) —
of Brunswick, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born October
27, 1831.
Republican. Postmaster at Brunswick,
Maine, 1885, 1891-95, 1901-03; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maine, 1896.
Died May 30,
1920 (age 88 years, 216
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Burt Townsend and Lucy H. (Cook) Townsend; married to Viola
Coombs. |
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memorial |
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Seaside
Cemetery
Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Maine
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Evelina Maria Mariner (1842-1924) —
also known as Evelina M. Mariner; Evelina Maria
Jordan —
of Bowery Beach, South Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland
County, Maine, April
12, 1842.
Postmaster at Bowery
Beach, Maine, 1887-91.
Female.
Died in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland
County, Maine, March 8,
1924 (age 81 years, 331
days).
Interment at Seaside Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine
Pine Grove
Cemetery
Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine
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Seneca Arthur Paul (1888-1973) —
also known as S. Arthur Paul —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Garland, Penobscot
County, Maine, October
5, 1888.
Honorary
Vice-Consul for Norway in Portland,
Maine, 1935-50.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
8, 1973 (age 85 years, 64
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Seneca M. Paul and Electa Jane (Stairs) Paul; married to Ruth
Elizabeth Nichols. |
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memorial |
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Unknown
Location
Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine
Eastern
Cemetery
Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine
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Donald Francis Snow (1877-1958) —
also known as Donald F. Snow —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, September
6, 1877.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Maine 4th District, 1929-33.
Died in Gorham, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
12, 1958 (age 80 years, 159
days).
Original interment at Evergreen Cemetery,
Portland, Maine; reinterment at Eastern Cemetery.
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James Mann (1822-1868) —
Born in Gorham, Cumberland
County, Maine, June 22,
1822.
Democrat. Member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1849-50; member of Maine
state senate, 1851-53; major in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1867-68; died in
office 1868.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., August
26, 1868 (age 46 years, 65
days).
Interment at Eastern Cemetery.
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Harrison Village
Cemetery
Harrison, Cumberland County, Maine
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Richard Stockman Cohen (1937-1998) —
also known as Richard S. Cohen —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., April 5,
1937.
Maine
state attorney general, 1979-80; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1981-93.
Died of Crohn's
disease, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
13, 1998 (age 61 years, 8
days).
Interment at Harrison Village Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
Eastern
Cemetery
224 Congress Street
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1973
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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John Holmes (1773-1843) —
of Alfred, York
County, Maine.
Born in Kingston, Plymouth
County, Mass., March
14, 1773.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1802-03, 1812; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1813-14; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1817-20; delegate
to Maine state constitutional convention, 1819; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1820-27, 1829-33; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-37; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1841-43; died in office 1843.
Died July 7,
1843 (age 70 years, 115
days).
Entombed at Eastern Cemetery; cenotaph at Parish Cemetery, Alfred, Maine.
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George Bradbury (1770-1823) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Falmouth, Barnstable
County, Mass., October
10, 1770.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1806-12; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15,
15th District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1820.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
7, 1823 (age 53 years, 28
days).
Interment at Eastern Cemetery.
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Daniel Ilsley (1740-1813) —
of Falmouth, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Falmouth, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 30,
1740.
Democrat. Distiller;
delegate
to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1793-94; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 15th District, 1807-09.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 10,
1813 (age 72 years, 345
days).
Interment at Eastern Cemetery.
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William Widgery (c.1753-1822) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Devon, England,
about 1753.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1787-93, 1795-97; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1788; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1794; member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1806-07; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 15th District, 1811-13; common
pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1813-21.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 31,
1822 (age about 69
years).
Interment at Eastern Cemetery.
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Mark Harris (1779-1843) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Ipswich, Essex
County, Mass., January
27, 1779.
Merchant;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1816; U.S.
Representative from Maine at-large, 1822-23; Maine
state treasurer, 1828, 1832-34; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1830.
Died March 2,
1843 (age 64 years, 34
days).
Interment at Eastern Cemetery.
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Andrew Titcomb Dole (1809-1866) —
also known as Andrew T. Dole —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Maine, 1809.
Republican. Postmaster at Portland,
Maine, 1861-65.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
6, 1866 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Eastern Cemetery.
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Evergreen
Cemetery
Stevens Avenue
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1992
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Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902) —
also known as Thomas B. Reed; "Reed the Lion
Hearted" —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, October
18, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1868-69; member of Maine
state senate, 1870; Maine
state attorney general, 1870-72; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1877-99 (1st District 1877-83,
at-large 1883-85, 1st District 1885-99); resigned 1899; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1889-91, 1895-99; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1896.
Died December
7, 1902 (age 63 years, 50
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Nathan Clifford (1803-1881) —
of Newfield, York
County, Maine.
Born in Rumney, Grafton
County, N.H., August
18, 1803.
Democrat. Member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1830; Maine
state attorney general, 1834-37; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1839-43 (2nd District 1839-41, 3rd
District 1841-43); U.S.
Attorney General, 1846-48; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1848-49; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1858-81; died in office 1881.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry.
Died in Cornish, York
County, Maine, July 25,
1881 (age 77 years, 341
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Boscawen, Merrimack
County, N.H., October
16, 1806.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1832-33, 1840-41, 1845-46,
1853-54; U.S.
Representative from Maine 4th District, 1841-43; delegate to Whig
National Convention from Maine, 1848, 1852; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1854-64, 1865-69; died in office 1869; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1864-65.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
8, 1869 (age 62 years, 327
days).
Original interment at Western Cemetery;
reinterment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Presumably named
for: William
Pitt |
| | | Relatives: Son of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869) and Ruth (Green) Fessenden;
half-brother of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden and Joseph
Palmer Fessenden; married, April
23, 1832, to Ellen Maria Deering; father of James
Deering Fessenden, Francis
Fessenden and Samuel Fessenden (1841-1862; killed in Civil War);
uncle of Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden; granduncle of Charles
Milton Fessenden; third cousin of William
Fessenden Allen; third cousin once removed of Benjamin
Fessenden, John
Milton Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; fourth cousin of Ira A.
Locke, Walter
Fessenden and Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Bennet
Bicknell, Ira
Edgar Locke, Henry
Nichols Blake and Seth
Grosvenor Heacock. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William Pitt Fessenden:
Robert J. Cook, Civil
War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the
American Republic |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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George Foster Shepley (1819-1878) —
also known as George F. Shepley —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Saco, York
County, Maine, January
1, 1819.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1848-49, 1853-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maine, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1862; Governor of
Louisiana; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine,
1868;
Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the 1st Circuit, 1869-78; died in
office 1878.
Episcopalian.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 20,
1878 (age 59 years, 200
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Ether Shepley (1789-1877) —
of Saco, York
County, Maine.
Born in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
2, 1789.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1819; delegate
to Maine state constitutional convention, 1820; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1820-33; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1833-36; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1836-48; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1848-55.
Died in 1877
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Neal Dow (1804-1897) —
also known as "Napoleon of Temperance";
"Father of Prohibition"; "Grand Old Man in
the Temperance Cause" —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, March
20, 1804.
Tanning
business; mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1851, 1855; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1858-59; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1868;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1880.
Quaker.
During the Civil War was captured by Confederate forces, imprisoned,
and eventually exchanged for Confederate Gen. William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee, who was a Union prisoner.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, October
2, 1897 (age 93 years, 196
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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William Lebaron Putnam (1835-1918) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, May 26,
1835.
Democrat. Mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1869-70; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1892-1917.
Died February
5, 1918 (age 82 years, 255
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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William Widgery Thomas Jr. (1839-1927) —
also known as William W. Thomas, Jr. —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
26, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer;
brought Swedish colonists to northern Maine, 1870, founding community
of New Sweden; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1873-75; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1874-75; member of Maine
state senate, 1879; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Maine, 1880;
U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1883-85, 1889-94, 1898-1905.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in 1927
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Ezekiel Whitman (1776-1866) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in East Bridgewater, Plymouth
County, Mass., March 9,
1776.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1809-11, 1817-21 (7th District
1809-11, 2nd District 1817-21); member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1815-16; delegate
to Maine state constitutional convention, 1819; U.S.
Representative from Maine at-large, 1821-22; resigned 1822;
common pleas court judge in Maine, 1822-41; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1841-48; resigned 1848.
Died in East Bridgewater, Plymouth
County, Mass., August
1, 1866 (age 90 years, 145
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Henry Bradstreet Cleaves (1840-1912) —
also known as Henry B. Cleaves —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
6, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1876-77; Maine
state attorney general, 1880-84; Governor of
Maine, 1893-97.
Died June 22,
1912 (age 72 years, 137
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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John Appleton (1815-1864) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., February
11, 1815.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1848-49; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1851-53; U.S. Minister to
Russia, 1860-61.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
22, 1864 (age 49 years, 193
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John White Appleton and Sophia (Williams) Appleton; married 1840 to Susan
Lovering Dodge; nephew of James
Appleton and Nathan
Dane Appleton; first cousin once removed of Nathan
Appleton, William
Appleton, Elijah
Livermore Hamlin and Hannibal
Hamlin; first cousin thrice removed of Randolph
Appleton Kidder; second cousin of John
Appleton (1804-1891), Jane
Pierce, Charles
Hamlin and Hannibal
Emery Hamlin; second cousin once removed of Isaiah
Kidder Stetson; second cousin twice removed of Arthur
Taggard Appleton and Clarence
Cutting Stetson; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards, Leverett
Saltonstall and Richard
Saltonstall; second cousin four times removed of William
Lawrence Saltonstall; third cousin of Edward
Williams Hooker; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Aaron
Burr, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight and Henry
Waggaman Edwards; fourth cousin of Thomas
Passmore Treadwell; fourth cousin once removed of John
Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas
Appleton, Leonard
White, Jedediah
Sabin, Charles
Robert Sherman, Theodore
Davenport, Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland, Robert
Odiorne Treadwell and George
Pickering Bemis. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sprague
family of Providence, Rhode Island; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Shippen-Middleton
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S.
State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Samuel Wells (1801-1868) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Durham, Strafford
County, N.H., August
15, 1801.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-40; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maine, 1840;
justice
of Maine state supreme court, 1847-54; resigned 1854; Governor of
Maine, 1856-57.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 15,
1868 (age 66 years, 335
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Charles Wesley Walton (1819-1900) —
also known as Charles W. Walton —
of Deering, Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Maine, 1819.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1861-62; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1862-97.
Died in 1900
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Carroll Lynwood Beedy (1880-1947) —
also known as Carroll L. Beedy —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Phillips, Franklin
County, Maine, August
3, 1880.
Republican. Lawyer; Cumberland
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1917-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921-35; defeated, 1934.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Freemasons;
Elks; Kiwanis;
Moose.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
30, 1947 (age 67 years, 58
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Robert S. Hale (1889-1976) —
also known as Robert Hale —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
29, 1889.
Republican. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1923-30; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1929-30; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1943-59; defeated, 1958.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
30, 1976 (age 87 years, 1
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (1806-1876) —
of Maine.
Born in Brentwood, Rockingham
County, N.H., November
23, 1806.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1831; member of Maine
state senate, 1833; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1833-39 (2nd District 1833-35, 8th
District 1835-37, 6th District 1837-39); early promoter and financial
backer of the electric
telegraph.
Died in Deering (now part of Portland), Cumberland
County, Maine, October
14, 1876 (age 69 years, 326
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; re-entombed at
Evergreen Cemetery.
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Asher Crosby Hinds (1863-1919) —
also known as Asher C. Hinds —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Benton, Kennebec
County, Maine, February
6, 1863.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1911-17.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 1,
1919 (age 56 years, 84
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Clarence Hale (1848-1934) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Turner, Androscoggin
County, Maine, April
15, 1848.
Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1883-86; U.S.
District Judge for Maine, 1902-22; took senior status 1922;
senior judge, 1922-34.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, April 9,
1934 (age 85 years, 359
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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James Phinney Baxter (1831-1921) —
also known as James P. Baxter —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Gorham, Cumberland
County, Maine, March
23, 1831.
Republican. Author; mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1893-96, 1904-05.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 8,
1921 (age 90 years, 46
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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John Jasiel Perry (1811-1897) —
also known as John J. Perry —
of Oxford, Oxford
County, Maine.
Born in New Hampshire, 1811.
Republican. Member of Maine state legislature, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1855-57, 1859-61.
Died in 1897
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Josiah Hayden Drummond (1827-1902) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Winslow, Kennebec
County, Maine, August
30, 1827.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1857-58, 1869; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1858; member of Maine
state senate, 1859-60; Maine
state attorney general, 1860-63; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1864,
1884.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, October
25, 1902 (age 75 years, 56
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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John Lynch (1825-1892) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
19, 1825.
Republican. Newspaper
manager; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1862-64; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1865-73; brick and clay
tile manufacturer.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 21,
1892 (age 67 years, 153
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Obed Hall (1757-1828) —
of New Hampshire.
Born in Raynham, Bristol
County, Mass., December
23, 1757.
Democrat. Member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1801-02; common pleas
court judge in New Hampshire, 1800; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1811-13.
Slaveowner.
Died in Bartlett, Carroll
County, N.H., April 1,
1828 (age 70 years, 100
days).
Original interment at Garland
Ridge Cemetery, Near Bartlett, Carroll County, N.H.; reinterment
at Evergreen Cemetery.
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James Theodore Marriner (1892-1937) —
also known as J. Theodore Marriner; Ted
Marriner —
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 17,
1892.
U.S. Consul General in Beirut, 1935-37, died in office 1937.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Shot
and killed by
Mejardich Karayan, an Armenian who thought he had been denied a U.S.
visa, in Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon),
October
12, 1937 (age 45 years, 148
days). The killer was sentenced to death and hanged soon after.
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Joseph Cobham Noyes (1798-1868) —
of Eastport, Washington
County, Maine.
Born in Maine, 1798.
Whig. Merchant;
member of Maine state legislature, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Maine 5th District, 1837-39.
Died in 1868
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (1818-1898) —
also known as Lorenzo D. M. Sweat —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Parsonfield, York
County, Maine, May 26,
1818.
Democrat. Member of Maine
state senate, 1862; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1863-65; defeated, 1864,
1866; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1872;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Maine, 1872-76.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 26,
1898 (age 80 years, 61
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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George Melville Seiders (1844-1915) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Union, Knox
County, Maine, January
15, 1844.
Maine
state attorney general, 1901-04.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 26,
1915 (age 71 years, 131
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Elbridge Gerry (1813-1886) —
of Waterford, Oxford
County, Maine; Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Waterford, Oxford
County, Maine, December
6, 1813.
Democrat. Lawyer; Oxford
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1842-45; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1846; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1849-51.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, April
10, 1886 (age 72 years, 125
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Asa William Henry Clapp (1805-1891) —
of Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, March 6,
1805.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1847-49.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, March
22, 1891 (age 86 years, 16
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Holman Staples Melcher (d. 1905) —
also known as Holman S. Melcher —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Republican. Mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1889-91.
Died in 1905.
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Melvin Porter Frank (1841-1918) —
also known as Melvin P. Frank —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Gray, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
26, 1841.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1890; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1896; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maine, 1904
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1908.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, January
2, 1918 (age 76 years, 7
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Jacob McLellan —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Republican. Mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1863-65, 1868-69.
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Francis Fessenden (1839-1906) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, March
18, 1839.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; suffered
a battlefield injury which resulted in a leg
amputation; lawyer; mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1876-77.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, January
2, 1906 (age 66 years, 290
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Charles Freeman Libby (1844-1915) —
also known as Charles F. Libby —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Limerick, York
County, Maine, January
31, 1844.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1882-83; member of Maine
state senate, 1889-92; counsel, director, president, Portland Street
Railway; also involved with steamship
companies.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland
County, Maine, June 3,
1915 (age 71 years, 123
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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James Ellingwood Marrett (1854-1922) —
also known as James E. Marrett —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine; Cumberland Center, Cumberland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Cumberland, Cumberland
County, Maine, April 7,
1854.
Lumber
business; Consul
for Uruguay in Portland,
Maine, 1892-1908, 1915-22.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
8, 1922 (age 67 years, 307
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Louise Otis (Small) Marrett and Orlando Melville Marrett; married
1881 to
Sarah Jane Potter. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Andrew Spring (1819-1876) —
of Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Brownfield, Oxford
County, Maine, May 21,
1819.
Consul
for Argentina in Portland,
Maine, 1869-72; Consul
for Uruguay in Portland,
Maine, 1871-76.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 14,
1876 (age 57 years, 54
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Stephen Richmond Small (1837-1903) —
also known as Stephen R. Small —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Gray, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
19, 1837.
Banker;
Consul
for Argentina in Portland,
Maine, 1884-1902.
Died, from pneumonia
and chronic
nephritis, in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, March
10, 1903 (age 66 years, 19
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Clark H. Barker (c.1840-1905) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born about 1840.
Republican. Postmaster at Portland,
Maine, 1884-85, 1900-05.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, January
21, 1905 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Samuel Evans Spring (1812-1884) —
also known as Samuel E. Spring —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Brownfield, Oxford
County, Maine, May 15,
1812.
Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Portland,
Maine, 1876-77; Consul
for Argentina in Portland,
Maine, 1876-82.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
8, 1884 (age 72 years, 85
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery; cenotaph at Pine Grove Cemetery, Brownfield, Maine.
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Clarence W. Small (1865-1938) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
21, 1865.
Consul
for Argentina in Portland,
Maine, 1903; Vice-Consul
for Argentina in Portland,
Maine, 1906-19.
Died May 29,
1938 (age 72 years, 159
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Joseph Palmer Fessenden (1831-1909) —
also known as Joseph P. Fessenden —
of Lewiston, Androscoggin
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
27, 1831.
Republican. Physician;
postmaster at Lewiston,
Maine, 1861-70.
Died in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., March
26, 1909 (age 77 years, 180
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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James Deering Fessenden (1833-1882) —
also known as James D. Fessenden —
Born in Westbrook, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
28, 1833.
Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1872-74.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
18, 1882 (age 49 years, 51
days).
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Donald Francis Snow (1877-1958) —
also known as Donald F. Snow —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, September
6, 1877.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Maine 4th District, 1929-33.
Died in Gorham, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
12, 1958 (age 80 years, 159
days).
Original interment at Evergreen Cemetery; reinterment at Eastern Cemetery, Gorham, Maine.
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Pine Grove
Cemetery
672 Stevens Avenue
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Woodbury H. Polleys (1817-1885) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
17, 1817.
Ship
captain; U.S. Consul in Barbados, as of 1880; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in San Juan de los Remedios, as of 1884.
Died by suicide,
in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
11, 1885 (age 67 years, 329
days).
Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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Western
Cemetery
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Prentiss Mellen (1764-1840) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Massachusetts, 1764.
U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1818-20; chief
justice of Maine state supreme court, 1820-34.
Died in 1840
(age about
76 years).
Interment at Western Cemetery.
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Albion Keith Parris (1788-1857) —
also known as Albion K. Parris —
of Paris, Oxford
County, Maine; Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Hebron, Oxford
County, Maine, January
19, 1788.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1813-14; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1814-15; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1815-18 (20th District
1815-17, 7th District 1817-18); resigned 1818; U.S.
District Judge for Maine, 1818-20; delegate
to Maine state constitutional convention, 1819; probate judge in
Maine, 1820-21; Governor of
Maine, 1822-27; defeated, 1854; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1827-28; resigned 1828; justice of
Maine state supreme court, 1828-36; resigned 1836; mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1852.
Died suddenly, of heart
trouble, in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
11, 1857 (age 69 years, 23
days).
Interment at Western Cemetery.
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Stephen Longfellow (1775-1849) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Gorham, Cumberland
County, Maine, June 23,
1775.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Maine at-large, 1823-25; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1826.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
2, 1849 (age 74 years, 40
days).
Interment at Western Cemetery.
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buried here: |
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William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Boscawen, Merrimack
County, N.H., October
16, 1806.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1832-33, 1840-41, 1845-46,
1853-54; U.S.
Representative from Maine 4th District, 1841-43; delegate to Whig
National Convention from Maine, 1848, 1852; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1854-64, 1865-69; died in office 1869; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1864-65.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
8, 1869 (age 62 years, 327
days).
Original interment at Western Cemetery; reinterment at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Presumably named
for: William
Pitt |
| | | Relatives: Son of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869) and Ruth (Green) Fessenden;
half-brother of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden and Joseph
Palmer Fessenden; married, April
23, 1832, to Ellen Maria Deering; father of James
Deering Fessenden, Francis
Fessenden and Samuel Fessenden (1841-1862; killed in Civil War);
uncle of Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden; granduncle of Charles
Milton Fessenden; third cousin of William
Fessenden Allen; third cousin once removed of Benjamin
Fessenden, John
Milton Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; fourth cousin of Ira A.
Locke, Walter
Fessenden and Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Bennet
Bicknell, Ira
Edgar Locke, Henry
Nichols Blake and Seth
Grosvenor Heacock. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William Pitt Fessenden:
Robert J. Cook, Civil
War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the
American Republic |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Calvary
Cemetery
South Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Ernest de Beaufort Le Prohon (1855-1928) —
also known as Ernest Le Prohon —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Maine, March, 1855.
Commission
merchant; Consular
Agent for France in Portland,
Maine, 1887-1928; Honorary
Vice-Consul for Spain in Portland,
Maine, 1894-98.
French
Canadian ancestry.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, September
22, 1928 (age 73 years, 0
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery
South Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Charles E. West (b. 1871) —
of South Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine; Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in South Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, October
20, 1871.
Republican. Mayor
of South Portland, Maine, 1914-18.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Interment at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles L. West and Pamelia (Simmons) West; married, July 19,
1899, to Elizabeth Loring. |
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Hamlin
Cemetery
Standish, Cumberland County, Maine
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Simon Moulton Hamlin (1866-1939) —
also known as Simon M. Hamlin —
of Standish, Cumberland
County, Maine; South Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Standish, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
10, 1866.
Democrat. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; mayor
of South Portland, Maine, 1933-34; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1935-37; defeated, 1936;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1936.
Universalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Lions.
Died in South Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 27,
1939 (age 72 years, 351
days).
Interment at Hamlin Cemetery.
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Town
Cemetery
Windham, Cumberland County, Maine
| Politicians buried
here: |
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John Anderson (1792-1853) —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Windham, Cumberland
County, Maine, July 30,
1792.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state senate, 1823; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1825-33; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1833-37; mayor
of Portland, Maine, 1833, 1842; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1837-41, 1843-48.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
21, 1853 (age 61 years, 22
days).
Interment at Town Cemetery.
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Riverside
Cemetery
Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Howard Davies —
of Yarmouth, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Republican. Member of Maine
state senate 2nd District, 1919-20.
Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
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