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Joseph Carter Abbott (1825-1881) —
also known as Joseph C. Abbott —
of New Hampshire; Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 15,
1825.
Republican. Newspaper editor; Adjutant
General of New Hampshire, 1855-61; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1868-71; member of Republican
National Committee from North Carolina, 1872-; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1874-77.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., October
8, 1881 (age 56 years, 85
days).
Original interment at National
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.; reinterment in 1887 at Valley
Cemetery, Manchester, N.H.
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Nathaniel Bradley Baker (1818-1876) —
also known as Nathaniel B. Baker —
of New Hampshire; Iowa.
Born in Henniker, Merrimack
County, N.H., September
29, 1818.
Lawyer;
newspaper publisher; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1850; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1854-55; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1859; Adjutant
General of Iowa, 1861-76.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, September
11, 1876 (age 57 years, 348
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Aaron Switzer Brown (1913-1969) —
also known as Aaron S. Brown —
of Bloomfield Hills, Oakland
County, Mich.; Lyme, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich., April
15, 1913.
Newspaper reporter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul
in Mexico City, 1937-38; U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, 1961-67.
Died February
22, 1969 (age 55 years, 313
days).
Interment somewhere
in Lyme, N.H.
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John Parker Hale Chandler Jr. (1911-2001) —
also known as John P. H. Chandler, Jr.; "Happy
Jack" —
of Warner, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
6, 1911.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1943; owner, Warner Ski
Area, 1946-62; member of New
Hampshire Governor's Council 5th District, 1953-59; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1956
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1960,
1972,
1980;
member of New
Hampshire state senate, 1961; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire, 1962.
United
Church of Christ. Member, Freemasons;
Grange.
Died, in Pleasant View Nursing
Home, Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., April
27, 2001 (age 89 years, 264
days).
Interment at New
Waterloo Cemetery, Warner, N.H.
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William Dwight Chandler (1863-1926) —
also known as William D. Chandler —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., February
3, 1863.
Republican. Newspaper editor; postmaster at Concord,
N.H., 1922-26.
Died in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., November
5, 1926 (age 63 years, 275
days).
Interment at Blossom
Hill Cemetery, Concord, N.H.
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William Eaton Chandler (1835-1917) —
also known as William E. Chandler —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., December
28, 1835.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1862-64, 1881; Speaker of
the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1863-64;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1868,
1880;
member of Republican
National Committee from New Hampshire, 1868-70, 1872-;
newspaper editor and publisher; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1876; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1882-85; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1887-89, 1889-1901; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1902.
Died in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., November
30, 1917 (age 81 years, 337
days).
Interment at Blossom
Hill Cemetery, Concord, N.H.
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Elias Hutchins Cheney (1832-1924) —
also known as Elias H. Cheney —
of Lebanon, Grafton
County, N.H.
Born in Holderness, Grafton
County, N.H., January
28, 1832.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1867; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1872;
member of New
Hampshire state senate 3rd District, 1885-86; U.S. Consul in Matanzas, 1892-94; La Paz, as of 1895-98; Curaçao, 1899-1914.
Died in Lebanon, Grafton
County, N.H., August
26, 1924 (age 92 years, 211
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Parsons B. Cogswell (c.1828-1895) —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born about 1828.
Newspaper publisher; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1872-73; mayor
of Concord, N.H., 1893-94.
Died October
28, 1895 (age about 67
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Channing Harris Cox (1879-1968) —
also known as Channing H. Cox —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
28, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1910-18; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1915-18; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1919-21; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1921-25; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1924,
1928
(speaker);
Honorary
Consul for Japan in Boston,
Mass., 1929; president, Old Colony Trust
Company; director, United Fruit
Co., Revere Sugar Co.,
First National Bank of
Boston, Boston Herald Traveler (newspaper); board member,
Deaconess Hospital.
Episcopalian.
Member, Humane
Society; Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Died August
20, 1968 (age 89 years, 174
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Charles Dudley Blake Fisk (b. 1850) —
also known as Charles D. B. Fisk —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Hooksett, Merrimack
County, N.H., February
17, 1850.
Republican. Clothing
merchant; newspaper publisher; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives Twenty-Fifth Suffolk District,
1905, 1907; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1908-09.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Dudley Blake Fisk and Mary (Ashton) Fisk; married to Susan E.
Sparhawk; grandson of Ezra
Fisk; great-grandson of William
Fisk. |
| | | Political family: Fisk
family of Massachusetts. |
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Francis Durrell Flanders (1812-1881) —
also known as Francis D. Flanders —
of Malone, Franklin
County, N.Y.
Born in Salisbury, Merrimack
County, N.H., August
19, 1812.
Newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly from Franklin County, 1844; Franklin
County Clerk, 1853.
Died in Franklin
County, N.Y., January
27, 1881 (age 68 years, 161
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ezra Bartlett French (1810-1880) —
also known as Ezra B. French —
of Damariscotta, Lincoln
County, Maine.
Born in Landaff, Grafton
County, N.H., September
23, 1810.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1838-40; member of Maine
state senate, 1842-45; secretary
of state of Maine, 1845-50; newspaper editor; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1859-61.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
24, 1880 (age 69 years, 214
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Damariscotta, Maine.
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John Robert French (1819-1890) —
also known as John R. French —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.; Biddeford, York
County, Maine; Lake
County, Ohio; Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C.; Washington,
D.C.; Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Gilmanton, Belknap
County, N.H., May 28,
1819.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1858-59; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 1867-69;
Sergeant-at-Arms, U.S. Senate, 1869-79.
Died in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, October
2, 1890 (age 71 years, 127
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Edward J. Gallagher (b. 1890) —
of Laconia, Belknap
County, N.H.
Born in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., October
23, 1890.
Democrat. Newspaper publisher; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1912; mayor
of Laconia, N.H., 1937-39; vice-chair of
New Hampshire Democratic Party, 1939; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Hampshire, 1944
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); candidate for Presidential
Elector for New Hampshire; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Laconia 3rd
Ward, 1956.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Gallagher and Julian (Martin) Gallagher; married, January
27, 1914, to Etta Gates. |
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Horace Greeley (1811-1872) —
also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White
Hat" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
3, 1811.
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper;
U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1848-49; defeated
(Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1860;
after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for
Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for Jefferson
Davis; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1866-70; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; candidate for
New
York state comptroller, 1869; Democratic candidate for President
of the United States, 1872.
Died in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
29, 1872 (age 61 years, 300
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at City Hall Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Herald Square, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Zaccheus Greeley and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley; married, July 5,
1836, to Mary Y. Cheney; second cousin of Wallace
M. Greeley. |
| | | Cross-reference: Josiah
B. Grinnell |
| | | Greeley counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Greeley,
Colorado, is named for
him. — Horace Greeley High
School, in Chappaqua,
New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Horace Greeley, in Keweenaw
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Horace Greeley (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scuttled with obsolete ammunition in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Horace
G. Snover
— Horace
G. Knowles
— Horace
Greeley Dawson, Jr.
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| | | Personal motto: "Go West, young
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Horace Greeley: American
conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of
America, 1860-1865 (1869) — Recollections
Of A Busy Life |
| | | Books about Horace Greeley: Glyndon G.
Van Deusen, Horace
Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader — Harry J.
Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — Wilbur J. Granberg, Spread
the truth : The life of Horace Greeley — Doris Faber,
Horace
Greeley: The People's Editor — Coy F. Cross, Go
West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for
America — J. Parton, The
Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York
Tribune |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) —
also known as Arthur S. Hardy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
13, 1847.
Civil
engineer; college
professor; author;
editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, 1893-95; U.S. Minister
to Persia, 1897-99; Greece, 1899-1901; Romania, 1899-1901; Serbia, 1899-1901; Switzerland, 1901-03; Spain, 1902-05; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, 1897-99.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., March
13, 1930 (age 82 years, 212
days).
Interment at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Conn.
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George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864-1928) —
also known as George Harvey —
of Deal, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Peacham, Caledonia
County, Vt., February
16, 1864.
Newspaper reporter; New Jersey Insurance Commissioner,
1890-91; builder and president of electric
railroads, 1894-98; editor and publisher, North
American Review and Harper's Weekly; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1921-23.
Died, from a heart
attack and asthma,
in Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H., August
20, 1928 (age 64 years, 186
days).
Interment at Peacham
Cemetery, Peacham, Vt.
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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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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, Lancaster, N.H.
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John Stocker Coffin Knowlton (1798-1871) —
also known as John S. C. Knowlton —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Hopkinton, Merrimack
County, N.H., December
11, 1798.
Newspaper editor and publisher; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1853-54; defeated (Independent), 1855;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1853; Worcester
County High Sheriff, 1856-71.
Died in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., June 10,
1871 (age 72 years, 181
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Franklin Knox (1874-1944) —
also known as Frank Knox —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1874.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper reporter; newspaper editor; major in the U.S.
Army during World War I; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Hampshire, 1920
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); candidate for nomination for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1924; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1936; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1940;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44; died in office 1944.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Legion.
Died, following a series of heart
attacks, in Washington,
D.C., April
28, 1944 (age 70 years, 118
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Frank Elmer Langley (1864-1938) —
also known as Frank E. Langley —
of Barre, Washington
County, Vt.
Born in Wilmot, Merrimack
County, N.H., October
6, 1864.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; mayor of
Barre, Vt., 1915, 1921-22; member of Vermont
state senate from Washington County, 1927; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Vermont, 1928,
1936.
Congregationalist.
Died in Barre, Washington
County, Vt., April
25, 1938 (age 73 years, 201
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James McLellan Langley (1894-1968) —
also known as James M. Langley —
of Bow, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Hyde Park, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
11, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1930; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1938;
president, Concord Hospital,
1944-50; delegate
to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Bow, 1956;
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1957-59.
Died in 1968
(age about
73 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas O. Marvin (b. 1867) —
of Massachusetts; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham
County, N.H., December
10, 1867.
Minister;
newspaper editorial writer;
member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1921-26.
Universalist.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Theta
Delta Chi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas E. O. Marvin and Anne Maria (Lippitt) Marvin; married, November
15, 1894, to Flora Myrick Sugden. |
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Nathan James Milliken (1821-1902) —
also known as Nathan J. Milliken —
of Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y.
Born in Keene, Cheshire
County, N.H., September
27, 1821.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; Ontario
County Clerk, 1865-67; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
York; postmaster at Canandaigua,
N.Y., 1890-94.
Died in Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y., November
26, 1902 (age 81 years, 60
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Canandaigua, N.Y.
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George Higgins Moses (1869-1944) —
also known as George H. Moses —
of Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Lubec, Washington
County, Maine, February
9, 1869.
Republican. Newspaper editor; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Hampshire, 1908
(alternate), 1916,
1928
(Permanent
Chair; chair, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee; speaker),
1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1944;
U.S. Minister to Greece, 1909-12; Montenegro, 1909-12; U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1918-33; defeated, 1932.
Congregationalist.
Died in Concord, Merrimack
County, N.H., December
20, 1944 (age 75 years, 315
days).
Interment at Franklin
Cemetery, Franklin, N.H.
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Chester Abbott Rowell (1844-1912) —
also known as Chester A. Rowell —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Woodsville, Haverhill, Grafton
County, N.H., August
17, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
newspaper publisher; member of California
state senate, 1880-82, 1899-1901, 1903-05; candidate for
Presidential Elector for California; member, University of California
Board of Regents, 1891-1912.; mayor of
Fresno, Calif., 1909-12; died in office 1912.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 9,
1912 (age 67 years, 266
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Chapel of the Light Columbarium, Fresno, Calif.; statue at Courthouse Park, Fresno, Calif.
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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, Portland, Maine.
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John Wentworth (1815-1888) —
also known as "Long John" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Sandwich, Carroll
County, N.H., March 5,
1815.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1843-51, 1853-55, 1865-67 (4th
District 1843-51, 2nd District 1853-55, 1st District 1865-67); mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1857-58, 1860-61; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Cook County,
1862.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
16, 1888 (age 73 years, 225
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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John Osborne Whitehouse (1817-1881) —
also known as John O. Whitehouse —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Strafford
County, N.H., July 19,
1817.
Democrat. Shoe
manufacturer; U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1873-77; newspaper
publisher.
Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
24, 1881 (age 64 years, 36
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) —
of Amesbury, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., December
17, 1807.
Poet;
newspaper editor; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1835; Liberty candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1842.
Quaker.
Member, American
Anti-Slavery Society.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in Hampton Falls, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
7, 1892 (age 84 years, 265
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Amesbury, Mass.
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