Index to Locations
Gorham Evans Cemetery
Lancaster Unknown location
Lancaster Old Cemetery
Lancaster Summer Street Cemetery
Lancaster Wilder Cemetery
Whitefield Burns Cemetery
Evans
Cemetery
Gorham, Coos County, New Hampshire
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Jesse Felt Libby (1857-1936) —
also known as Jesse F. Libby —
of Gorham, Coos
County, N.H.
Born in Locke's Mills, Greenwood, Oxford
County, Maine, February
12, 1857.
School
principal; lawyer; real estate
business; promoter, director, treasurer, Berlin Aqueduct Company
and Cascade Light and
Power Company; director, president, Lancaster and Jefferson Electric
Light Company; director, Gorham National Bank;
promoter, director, Berlin Street
Railway; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1903, 1905.
Congregationalist.
Member, Theta
Delta Chi; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in 1936
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Evans Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire
Old
Cemetery
Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire
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John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853) —
also known as John W. Weeks —
of Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H.
Born in Greenland, Rockingham
County, N.H., March
31, 1781.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New
Hampshire state senate 12th District, 1826-29; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1829-33.
Died in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., April 3,
1853 (age 72 years, 3
days).
Interment at Old Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John Weeks and Deborah (Brackett) Weeks; married, November
17, 1805, to Martha Weeks Brackett; married, March
15, 1821, to Persis de la Fayette Everett; granduncle of John
Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); great-granduncle of Charles
Sinclair Weeks; first cousin once removed of Timothy
Pickering; second cousin once removed of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; second cousin thrice removed of John
Gardner Coolidge and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; second cousin four times removed of John
Lee Saltonstall; second cousin five times removed of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall, William
Amory Gardner Minot and John
Lee Saltonstall Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Isaac
Libbey and Eugene
Harvey Libby; third cousin thrice removed of Llewellyn
Libby, William
F. Nason and Alvin
Gardner Weeks; fourth cousin of Luther
Walter Badger; fourth cousin once removed of Eleazer
Pomeroy and Amos
Tuck. |
| | Political families: Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Summer Street
Cemetery
Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire
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Charles Sinclair Weeks (1893-1972) —
also known as Sinclair Weeks —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H.
Born in West Newton, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 15,
1893.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in
the U.S. Army during World War I; banker; mayor of
Newton, Mass., 1930-35; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1932,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
Massachusetts
Republican state chair, 1936-38; member of Republican
National Committee from Massachusetts, 1940-53; Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1941-44; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1944; appointed 1944; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1953-58.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; American
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died, in the Rivercrest Nursing
Home, Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
7, 1972 (age 78 years, 237
days).
Interment at Summer Street Cemetery.
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Jared Warner Williams (1796-1864) —
also known as Jared W. Williams —
of Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H.
Born in West Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., December
22, 1796.
Democrat. Member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1830-31, 1835-36;
member of New
Hampshire state senate 12th District, 1832-35; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1837-41; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1847-49; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1853-54; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Hampshire, 1864.
Died in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., September
29, 1864 (age 67 years, 282
days).
Interment at Summer Street Cemetery.
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Irving Webster Drew (1845-1922) —
also known as Irving W. Drew —
of Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H.
Born in Colebrook, Coos
County, N.H., January
8, 1845.
Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1880
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); member of New
Hampshire state senate 1st District, 1883-84; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1902, 1912; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1918.
Died in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., April
10, 1922 (age 77 years, 92
days).
Interment at Summer Street Cemetery.
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Ossian Ray (1835-1892) —
of Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H.
Born in Hinesburg, Chittenden
County, Vt., December
13, 1835.
Republican. Lawyer; Coos
County Solicitor, 1862-72; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1868-69; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1872;
U.S.
Attorney for New Hampshire, 1879-80; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire, 1881-85 (3rd District 1881-83,
2nd District 1883-85).
Died in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., January
28, 1892 (age 56 years, 46
days).
Interment at Summer Street Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of George W. Ray and Hannah (Greene) Ray; married, March 2,
1856, to Alice A. Fling; married, October
16, 1872, to Sally Emery (Small) Burnside; grandfather of Ossian
Edward Ray; first cousin five times removed of William
Greene; second cousin once removed of Clement
Phineas Kellogg; second cousin four times removed of William
Greene Jr.; third cousin once removed of Joel
Burlingame; third cousin twice removed of Albert
Collins Greene; third cousin thrice removed of Ray
Greene; fourth cousin of Anson
Burlingame; fourth cousin once removed of George
Washington Greene, Andrew
Clark Lippitt, Henry
Lippitt, William
Maxwell Greene, Dennison
Franklin Holden and James
Montgomery Burlingame. |
| | 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 — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Oakes Kent (1834-1909) —
also known as Henry O. Kent —
of Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H.
Born in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., February
7, 1834.
Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; banker; newspaper
editor and publisher; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1870; member of New
Hampshire state senate 1st District, 1885-86; candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1894, 1896.
Episcopalian.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons.
Died March
21, 1909 (age 75 years, 42
days).
Interment at Summer Street Cemetery.
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Jacob Benton (1814-1892) —
of New Hampshire.
Born in Waterford, Caledonia
County, Vt., August
19, 1814.
Republican. Member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1854-56; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 3rd District, 1867-71.
Died in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., September
29, 1892 (age 78 years, 41
days).
Interment at Summer Street Cemetery.
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Irving A. Hinkley (d. 1950) —
of Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H.
Democrat. New
Hampshire state attorney general, 1923-24; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1928,
1936;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire.
Died in 1950.
Interment at Summer Street Cemetery.
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Wilder
Cemetery
Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire
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Wesley Powell (1915-1981) —
of Hampton Falls, Rockingham
County, N.H.
Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., October
13, 1915.
Republican. Lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Styles
Bridges, 1940-43, 1946-49; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in
World War II; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1950, 1972 (Republican); Governor of
New Hampshire, 1959-63; defeated in primary, 1956, 1962.
Died in Hampton Falls, Rockingham
County, N.H., January
6, 1981 (age 65 years, 85
days).
Interment at Wilder Cemetery.
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Burns
Cemetery
Whitefield, Coos County, New Hampshire
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