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Edgar Aldrich (1848-1921) —
of Littleton, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in Pittsburg, Coos
County, N.H., February
5, 1848.
Republican. Lawyer; Coos
County Solicitor, 1872-74, 1876-79; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1884-85; Speaker of
the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1885; U.S.
District Judge for New Hampshire, 1891-1921; died in office 1921;
delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1902.
English ancestry.
Died in Littleton, Grafton
County, N.H., September
15, 1921 (age 73 years, 222
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim C. Aldrich and Adeline Bedel (Haynes) Aldrich; married, October
7, 1872, to Louise M. Remick. |
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Oliver Ernesto Branch (b. 1847) —
also known as Oliver E. Branch —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Madison, Lake
County, Ohio, July 19,
1847.
Lawyer;
general counsel, Boston & Maine Railroad;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1887, 1889; U.S.
Attorney for New Hampshire, 1894-98.
English ancestry. Member, Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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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, Portland, Maine.
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Arthur Chester Cryan (1884-1950) —
also known as Arthur C. Cryan —
of Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H.
Born in Bethlehem, Grafton
County, N.H., August
15, 1884.
Republican. Express
agent; elected New
Hampshire state house of representatives from Lancaster 1938.
English ancestry.
Died in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., 1950
(age about
65 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Cryan and Minnie Elizabeth (Smith) Cryan; married, June 3,
1907, to Ruby Natalie Stone. |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) —
also known as Nathaniel Hathorne —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 4,
1804.
Famed novelist
and short story writer;
U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1846-49; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1853-57.
English ancestry.
Died in Plymouth, Grafton
County, N.H., May 19,
1864 (age 59 years, 320
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.; statue at Hawthorne
Boulevard, Salem, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke (Manning) Hathorne;
married, July 9,
1842, to Sophia Amelia Peabody (sister-in-law of Horace
Mann); great-grandfather of Olcott
Hawthorne Deming; second great-grandfather of Rust
Macpherson Deming; fourth cousin once removed of Daniel
Putnam Tyler. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York; Deming
family of Maryland and New York; Crowninshield-Adams
family of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The borough
of Hawthorne,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The
House of Seven Gables — The
Scarlet Letter — Selected
Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| | | Books about Nathaniel Hawthorne: Brenda
Wineapple, Hawthorne
: A Life — Luther S. Luedtke, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient — Raymona E.
Hull, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, the English Experience, 1853-1864 |
| | | Image source: Project
Gutenberg |
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James Frederick Joy (1810-1896) —
also known as James F. Joy —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Durham, Strafford
County, N.H., December
2, 1810.
Republican. Lawyer;
led, built, reorganized, or merged many railroad
companies, including the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the
Michigan Central; an incorporator of the St. Mary's Falls Ship
Canal Company, which built the first canal at Sault Ste. Marie in
1853-55; president of the Detroit Post-Tribune newspaper;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1861-62; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1880;
member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1881-85.
English ancestry.
Died September
24, 1896 (age 85 years, 297
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of James Joy and Sarah (Pickering) Joy; married 1841 to Martha
Alger Reed (daughter of John
Reed); married 1860 to Mary
Bourne. |
| | | Political family: Reed
family of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Charles Otis Nason (1828-1903) —
also known as Charles O. Nason —
of Moline, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt., September
20, 1828.
Republican. Superintendent of wood department, John Deere Co. Plow
Works; director and treasurer, Moline Plow
Works; treasurer, People's Power
Company; mayor of
Moline, Ill., 1887-89.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry.
Died in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., December
7, 1903 (age 75 years, 78
days).
Interment at Pleasant
Street Cemetery, Claremont, N.H.
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Samuel Shute (1662-1742) —
Born in England,
January
12, 1662.
Lawyer;
Colonial
Governor of Massachusetts, 1716-23; Colonial
Governor of New Hampshire, 1716-23.
English ancestry.
Died April
15, 1742 (age 80 years, 93
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Isaac William Smith (1825-1898) —
also known as Isaac W. Smith —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Hampstead, Rockingham
County, N.H., May 18,
1825.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1856;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1859-60; member of New
Hampshire state senate 3rd District, 1862-64; mayor
of Manchester, N.H., 1869; justice of
New Hampshire state supreme court, 1874, 1877-95; appointed 1874,
1877; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1889.
English ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., November
28, 1898 (age 73 years, 194
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Manchester, N.H.
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Andrew Coolidge Stone (1839-1905) —
of Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Marlborough, Cheshire
County, N.H., May 16,
1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Massachusetts
state senate, 1880-82; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1884.
Congregationalist.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., February
26, 1905 (age 65 years, 286
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph E. Watson (1860-1937) —
of Bronson, Branch
County, Mich.
Born in Center Sandwich, Sandwich, Carroll
County, N.H., July 8,
1860.
Republican. Merchant;
banker;
postmaster;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Branch County, 1919-24;
member of Michigan
state senate 9th District, 1925-28.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died March
20, 1937 (age 76 years, 255
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Webster (1782-1852) —
also known as "Black Dan"; "Defender of the
Constitution"; "Great Expounder of the
Constitution" —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Born in Salisbury (part now in Franklin), Merrimack
County, N.H., January
18, 1782.
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1813-17; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1820; candidate
for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1823-27; resigned
1827; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-41, 1845-50; candidate for President
of the United States, 1836; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1841-43, 1850-52; died in office 1852.
Presbyterian.
English ancestry.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Marshfield, Plymouth
County, Mass., October
24, 1852 (age 70 years, 280
days).
Interment at Winslow
Cemetery, Marshfield, Mass.; statue erected 1900 at Scott
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at State House Grounds, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Ebenezer Webster and Abigail (Eastman) Webster; married, May 29,
1808, to Grace Fletcher; second cousin once removed of Hiram
Augustus Huse; second cousin twice removed of Edwin
George Eastman; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake and John
Leffingwell Randolph; fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah
Sabin, Charles
Rowell and Amos
Tuck. |
| | | Political families: Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Vanderbilt-Tuck-Pickering-Webster
family; Eastman-Webster-Blake-Rowell
family; Vanderbilt-Colby-Burden-French
family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Webster counties in Ga., Iowa, Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Neb. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Daniel
Webster Wilder
— Daniel
W. Mills
— Daniel
W. Jones
— Daniel
Webster Comstock
— Daniel
W. Waugh
— Daniel
W. Tallmadge
— Daniel
Webster Heagy
— Daniel
W. Whitmore
— Daniel
W. Hamilton
— Daniel
W. Allaman
— Webster
Turner
— Dan
W. Turner
— Daniel
W. Hoan
— Daniel
W. Ambrose, Jr.
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appeared on the $10 U.S. note from the 1860s until the early 20th
century. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Daniel Webster: Robert
Vincent Remini, Daniel
Webster : The Man and His Time — Maurice G. Baxter, One
and Inseparable : Daniel Webster and the Union —
Robert A. Allen, Daniel
Webster, Defender of the Union — Richard N. Current,
Daniel
Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism —
Merrill D. Peterson, The
Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun — John
F. Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Leonard Wood (1860-1927) —
Born in Winchester, Cheshire
County, N.H., October
9, 1860.
Republican. Physician;
received the Medal
of Honor in 1898 for his actions during an Indian war in 1886;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; commander of
the "Rough Riders"; Military Governor of Cuba, 1899-1902; major
general in the Philippine-American War, 1902-06; first Army Chief of
Staff; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
Governor-General
of the Philippine Islands, 1921-27; died in office 1927.
English ancestry.
Died, following surgery for a brain
tumor, in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
7, 1927 (age 66 years, 302
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Carroll Davidson Wright (1840-1909) —
also known as Carroll D. Wright —
Born in Dunbarton, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 25,
1840.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate Sixth Middlesex District, 1872-73; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Massachusetts; chief, Massachusetts Bureau
of Statistics, 1873-88; in charge of the state census in 1875 and
1885, and the federal census for Massachusetts in 1880; U.S.
Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1905; university
professor; president,
Clark College, Worcester, Mass., 1902.
Unitarian.
English and Scottish
ancestry. Member, American
Economic Association; American
Statistical Association; American
Antiquarian Society.
Died February
20, 1909 (age 68 years, 210
days).
Burial location unknown.
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