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Post Office Politicians in Rhode Island

Benjamin Earl Bowen (1801-1878) — also known as Benjamin E. Bowen — of Holland Patent, Oneida County, N.Y.; Mexico, Oswego County, N.Y. Born in Coventry, Kent County, R.I., January 15, 1801. Republican. Physician; surgeon; postmaster; member of New York state assembly from Oswego County 3rd District, 1862; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1868. Died in Mexico, Oswego County, N.Y., March 12, 1878 (age 77 years, 56 days). Interment at Mexico Village Cemetery, Mexico, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Stephen Bowen and Rebecca (Hill) Bowen; married, May 14, 1829, to Julia Haskin; third cousin twice removed of Costello Lippitt and Clayton Harvey Deming; fourth cousin once removed of Andrew Clark Lippitt, Henry Lippitt and Sabin L. Sayles.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Benjamin Fessenden (1797-1881) — of Cumberland, Providence County, R.I. Born in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Mass., June 13, 1797. Cotton goods manufacturer; member of Rhode Island state house of representatives, 1855-56; Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1855-56; member of Rhode Island state senate, 1869-70; postmaster. Unitarian; later Baptist. Died January 6, 1881 (age 83 years, 207 days). Interment at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.   Relatives: Son of William Fessenden and Martha (Freeman) Fessenden; brother of Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; married, December 13, 1821, to Mary Wilkinson; nephew of Nathaniel Freeman Jr.; first cousin once removed of Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903); first cousin thrice removed of Samuel Allyne Otis; second cousin once removed of Walter Fessenden; second cousin twice removed of Harrison Gray Otis; third cousin of Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), John Milton Fessenden and Reuben Eaton Fenton; third cousin once removed of William Pitt Fessenden, Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden, William Fessenden Allen and Joseph Palmer Fessenden; third cousin twice removed of Asahel Otis, James Deering Fessenden, Henry Nichols Blake, Francis Fessenden, Joshua Abbe Fessenden, Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908), Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden and Desda Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin of James Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Peter Rawson Taft, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Asa H. Otis and Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Robert Scott Hirst (1922-1994) — of Hopkinton, Washington County, R.I. Born in Hopkinton, Washington County, R.I., April 1, 1922. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to Rhode Island state constitutional convention, 1955; member of Rhode Island Republican State Central Committee, 1950; postmaster. Member, Freemasons; Veterans of Foreign Wars. Died in Providence, Providence County, R.I., March 22, 1994 (age 71 years, 355 days). Interment at First Hopkinton Cemetery, Ashaway, Hopkinton, R.I.   Relatives: Son-in-law of James Bard Bill; father of Scott Bill Hirst.   Political family: Bill family of Connecticut.   Henry O. Wood (1837-1925) — of Swansea, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Rhode Island, 1837. Merchant; postmaster; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1870. Episcopalian. Died in Swansea, Bristol County, Mass., October 27, 1925 (age about 88 years). Burial location unknown.

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