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Index to Locations
Camden Unknown location
Camden Mountain View Cemetery
Hope Hope Cemetery
Rockland Achorn Cemetery
Thomaston Elm Grove Cemetery
Thomaston Thomaston Village
Cemetery
Unknown
Locations
Camden, Knox County, Maine
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William Pennell Snow (1907-1986) —
also known as William P. Snow —
of Maine.
Born in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 23,
1907.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Stockholm, as of 1938; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1959; Paraguay, 1961-67.
Died in Rockport, Knox
County, Maine, 1986
(age about
78 years).
Interment somewhere.
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James Crosby Hobbs (1879-1942) —
also known as J. Crosby Hobbs —
of Camden, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Hope, Knox
County, Maine, September
24, 1879.
Democrat. Knox
County Commissioner, 1907-12; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maine, 1908,
1936;
Knox
County Sheriff.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, February
18, 1942 (age 62 years, 147
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Relatives: Son
of James Philbrick Hobbs and Nancy Maria (Miller) Hobbs; married, October
8, 1910, to Annie Stewart Johnson. |
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Mountain View
Cemetery
Camden, Knox County, Maine
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Joseph Hall (1793-1859) —
of Camden, Knox
County, Maine; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Methuen, Essex
County, Mass., June 26,
1793.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; merchant;
postmaster at Camden,
Maine, 1830-33; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1833-37 (6th District 1833-35, 4th
District 1835-37); candidate for mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1849.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
31, 1859 (age 66 years, 188
days).
Interment at Mountain View Cemetery.
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Ephraim Knight Smart (1813-1872) —
of Belfast, Waldo
County, Maine.
Born in Searsport, Waldo
County, Maine, September
3, 1813.
Democrat. Member of Maine
state senate, 1841; U.S.
Representative from Maine 5th District, 1847-49, 1851-53; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1854; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1858.
Died in Camden, Knox
County, Maine, September
29, 1872 (age 59 years, 26
days).
Interment at Mountain View Cemetery.
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Hope
Cemetery
Hope, Knox County, Maine
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Joseph Dane (1778-1858) —
of Kennebunk, York
County, Maine.
Born in Beverly, Essex
County, Mass., October
25, 1778.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Maine at-large, 1820-23; member of Maine
state legislature, 1820.
Died in Kennebunk, York
County, Maine, May 1,
1858 (age 79 years, 188
days).
Interment at Hope Cemetery.
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Achorn
Cemetery
Old County Road
Rockland, Knox County, Maine
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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William Titcomb Cobb (1857-1937) —
also known as William T. Cobb —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, July 23,
1857.
Republican. Lime
manufacturing business; shipbuilder;
president and receiver, Bath Iron Works;
member of Maine
Governor's Council, 1889; Governor of
Maine, 1905-09; delegate
to Maine convention to ratify 21st amendment from Knox County,
1933.
Universalist.
Died in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, July 24,
1937 (age 80 years, 1
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Obadiah Gardner (1852-1938) —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born near Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich., September
13, 1852.
Democrat. Farmer; lumber
business; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1908; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1911-13; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maine, 1912;
delegate
to Maine convention to ratify 21st amendment from Knox County,
1933.
Universalist.
Member, Grange;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, July 24,
1938 (age 85 years, 314
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Charles Edgar Littlefield (1851-1915) —
also known as Charles E. Littlefield —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lebanon, York
County, Maine, June 21,
1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1885-88; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1887-88; Maine
state attorney general, 1889-92; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1892,
1896
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1899-1908; defeated
(People's), 1898; resigned 1908.
Died, from an embolism
ten days after surgery, in the Post-Graduate Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 2,
1915 (age 63 years, 315
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Nathan Allen Farwell (1812-1893) —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Unity, Waldo
County, Maine, February
24, 1812.
Republican. Member of Maine
state senate, 1853-54, 1861-62; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1860, 1863-64; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maine, 1864;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1864-65.
Died in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, December
9, 1893 (age 81 years, 288
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Edward Carleton Moran Jr. (1894-1967) —
also known as Edward C. Moran, Jr.; Carl
Moran —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, December
29, 1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; insurance
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine,
1924,
1936;
candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1928, 1930; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1933-37; member, U.S.
Maritime Commission, 1937-40.
Congregationalist.
Member, Grange;
Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, July 12,
1967 (age 72 years, 195
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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H. G. Berry (1824-1863) —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born August
27, 1824.
Democrat. Mayor
of Rockland, Maine, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
Killed
in battle at Chancellorville, Spotsylvania
County, Va., May 3,
1863 (age 38 years, 249
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Elm Grove
Cemetery
Thomaston, Knox County, Maine
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John Ruggles (1789-1874) —
of Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Westborough, Worcester
County, Mass., October
8, 1789.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1823-31; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1825-29, 1831; state
court judge in Maine, 1831-34; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1835-41.
Died in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, June 20,
1874 (age 84 years, 255
days).
Interment at Elm Grove Cemetery.
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Jonathan Cilley (1802-1838) —
of Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Nottingham, Rockingham
County, N.H., July 2,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1831-36; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1835-36; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1837-38; died in office
1838.
Killed
in a duel by
Representative William
J. Graves of Kentucky, on the Marlboro Pike, in Prince
George's County, Md., February
24, 1838 (age 35 years, 237
days).
Interment at Elm Grove Cemetery; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Thomaston Village
Cemetery
Thomaston, Knox County, Maine
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Henry Knox (1750-1806) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 25,
1750.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1789-94.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; American
Philosophical Society.
He brought 59 cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester, Mass.,
leading the British forces to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776.
Swallowed a small chicken bone that damaged his intestines,
and died three days later of peritonitis,
in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, October
21, 1806 (age 56 years, 88
days).
Interment at Thomaston Village Cemetery.
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Knox counties in Ill., Ind., Ky., Maine, Mo., Neb., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
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of Knoxville,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Knox (built 1941-42 at Terminal
Island, California; torpedoed and lost in the Indian
Ocean, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward Robinson (1796-1857) —
of Maine.
Born in Cushing, Knox
County, Maine, November
25, 1796.
Merchant;
banker;
shipbuilder;
member of Maine
state senate, 1836-37; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1838-39; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1842, 1843, 1844.
Died in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, February
19, 1857 (age 60 years, 86
days).
Interment at Thomaston Village Cemetery.
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