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Elmer Ellsworth Adams (1861-1950) —
also known as Elmer E. Adams —
of Fergus Falls, Otter Tail
County, Minn.
Born in Waterbury, Washington
County, Vt., December
31, 1861.
Newspaper editor; banker; milling
business; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1905-10, 1915-16, 1919-20
(District 59 1905-10, District 50 1915-16, 1919-20); member of Minnesota
state senate 50th District, 1931-34, 1939-42; defeated, 1934.
Died in Otter Tail
County, Minn., June 24,
1950 (age 88 years, 175
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Minn.
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Joel Clarke Baker (1838-1904) —
also known as Joel C. Baker —
of Danby, Rutland
County, Vt.; Wallingford, Rutland
County, Vt.; Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt.
Born in Danby, Rutland
County, Vt., April
16, 1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
newspaper editor; director, Rutland National Bank;
director, Rutland Street
Railway Company; member of Vermont
state senate from Rutland County, 1886.
Episcopalian.
Died in Rutland
County, Vt., 1904
(age about
66 years).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Rutland, Vt.
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John Barrett (1866-1938) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Grafton, Windham
County, Vt.; Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Grafton, Windham
County, Vt., November
28, 1866.
Newspaper correspondent; newspaper editor; U.S.
Minister to Siam, 1894-98; Argentina, 1903-04; Panama, 1904-05; Colombia, 1905-06; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, as of 1894-98; director general, Pan American Union,
1907-20.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in a hospital
at Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham
County, Vt., October
17, 1938 (age 71 years, 323
days).
Interment at Grafton
Village Cemetery, Grafton, Vt.
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Orville Samuel Basford (1848-1926) —
also known as Orville S. Basford —
of Redfield, Spink
County, S.Dak.; Linneus, Linn
County, Mo.
Born in Shelburne, Chittenden
County, Vt., August
29, 1848.
Republican. Methodist
minister; postmaster;
South
Dakota Republican state chair, 1894-95; newspaper editor and
publisher; South Dakota State Insurance Commissioner, 1907.
Methodist.
Died in Redfield, Spink
County, S.Dak., October
27, 1926 (age 78 years, 59
days).
Interment at Greenlawn Cemetery, Redfield, S.Dak.
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George Henderson Blake (b. 1836) —
also known as George H. Blake —
of Sutton, Caledonia
County, Vt.; Barton, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Sutton, Caledonia
County, Vt., April
27, 1836.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
newspaper editor and publisher; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1872, 1876 (Sutton 1872, Barton
1876); member of Vermont
state senate from Orleans County, 1886; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1896.
Methodist.
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Noyes Burdick (1839-1917) —
also known as F. N. Burdick —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.; East Guilford, Guilford, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Guilford, Windham
County, Vt., September
14, 1839.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
newspaper editor; member
Dakota territorial council, 1883-84.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, from arteriosclerosis
and interstitial
nephritis, in Guilford, Windham
County, Vt., February
22, 1917 (age 77 years, 161
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Manhasset, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Thompson Edwin Burdick and Elizabeth 'Betsy' (Noyes) Burdick;
married, September
2, 1862, to Amelia Bowker; married to Nina Davis. |
| | | Epitaph: "Physician and
Friend." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Algar E. Carleton (b. 1872) —
of Essex Junction, Essex, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Williamstown, Orange
County, Vt., August
11, 1872.
Newspaper reporter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consular
Agent in Almeria, 1899-1910; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong, 1910-15; U.S. Vice Consul in Hong Kong, 1915-18; U.S. Consul in Batavia, 1918-19; Medan, 1919; Amoy, 1919-24; Hong Kong, 1924-25; Hull, 1925-29; San Salvador, 1929-32.
Burial location unknown.
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Henry C. Chipman (1784-1867) —
of Walterboro, Colleton
County, S.C.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Tinmouth, Rutland
County, Vt., July 25,
1784.
Whig. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; newspaper
editor; justice of
Michigan territorial supreme court, 1827-32; Wayne
County Criminal Court Judge, 1841-43.
Episcopalian.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 31,
1867 (age 82 years, 310
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Percival Wood Clement (1846-1927) —
of Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt.
Born in Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt., July 7,
1846.
Republican. Partner, Clement and Sons, marble
quarries; president, Rutland Railroad;
president, Bristol Railroad;
director, Clement National Bank;
newspaper publisher; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1892-93; mayor
of Rutland, Vt., 1897-99, 1911-12; member of Vermont
state senate, 1900-02, 1911-12; Governor of
Vermont, 1919-21; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Vermont, 1924.
Died January
9, 1927 (age 80 years, 186
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Rutland, Vt.
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Justin E. Colburn (c.1844-1878) —
Born in Vermont, about 1844.
Private secretary to U.S. Sen. William
Sprague, 1869; newspaper correspondent; U.S. Consul
General in Mexico City, 1878, died in office 1878.
Died, of consumption (tuberculosis),
in Mexico City (Ciudad de México), Distrito
Federal, December
2, 1878 (age about 34
years).
Interment at American
Cemetery, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal.
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Ira Walton Drew (1878-1972) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Hardwick, Caledonia
County, Vt., August
31, 1878.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; osteopath;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 7th District, 1937-39.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
12, 1972 (age 93 years, 165
days).
Interment at Whitemarsh
Memorial Park, Ambler, Pa.
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James Elliott (1775-1839) —
of Guilford, Windham
County, Vt.; Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt.; Newfane, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., August
18, 1775.
Author;
poet;
lawyer;
postmaster at Brattleboro,
Vt., 1801-03; U.S.
Representative from Vermont 2nd District, 1803-09; newspaper
publisher; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Windham
County Clerk of Court, 1817-35; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1818-19, 1837-38; Windham
County State's Attorney, 1837-39.
Died in Newfane, Windham
County, Vt., November
10, 1839 (age 64 years, 84
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vt.
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Henry C. Fisk (b. 1852) —
of Morrisville, Morristown, Lamoille
County, Vt.
Born in Morristown, Lamoille
County, Vt., July 22,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Morristown, 1886; member of
Vermont
state senate from Lamoille County, 1888.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Wallace H. Gilpin (b. 1883) —
of Barton, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Westfield, Orleans
County, Vt., November
19, 1883.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of Vermont
state senate from Orleans County, 1927.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Lester Greene (1870-1930) —
also known as Frank L. Greene —
of St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt.
Born in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., February
10, 1870.
Republican. General in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper editor; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Vermont, 1904
(alternate), 1908;
U.S.
Representative from Vermont 1st District, 1912-23; U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1923-30; died in office 1930; on February
15, 1924, while walking on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.,
he was shot
in the head by a prohibition agent chasing bootleggers.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; United
Spanish War Veterans; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Grange;
Rotary.
Died in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., December
17, 1930 (age 60 years, 310
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, St. Albans, Vt.
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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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Washington Irving Howard (1831-1899) —
of Steuben
County, Ind.; Rochester, Fulton
County, Ind.
Born in Jamaica, Windham
County, Vt., May 7,
1831.
Republican. Lawyer; hardware
dealer; member of Indiana
state senate, 1873; newspaper publisher; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1887; defeated, 1856.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Spencer, Owen
County, Ind., 1899
(age about
68 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Edmund Howe (1870-1956) —
also known as Frank E. Howe;
"Ginger" —
of Bennington, Bennington
County, Vt.
Born in Heath, Franklin
County, Mass., October
2, 1870.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Bennington, 1908, 1910;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1912-15; postmaster at Bennington,
Vt., 1923-33.
Episcopalian.
Died in Bennington, Bennington
County, Vt., July 20,
1956 (age 85 years, 292
days).
Interment at Park Lawn Cemetery, Bennington, Vt.
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Lyman Enos Knapp (1837-1904) —
also known as Lyman E. Knapp —
of Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt.
Born in Somerset, Windham
County, Vt., November
5, 1837.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; lawyer;
probate judge in Vermont, 1879-82; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1884-85; Governor
of Alaska District, 1889-93.
Congregationalist.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League; Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
9, 1904 (age 66 years, 339
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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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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Orsamus Cook Merrill (1775-1865) —
of Bennington, Bennington
County, Vt.
Born in Farmington, Hartford
County, Conn., June 18,
1775.
Democrat. Newspaper editor and publisher; lawyer;
postmaster at Bennington,
Vt., 1809-12; colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Vermont, 1817-20 (at-large 1817-19, 1st
District 1819-20); delegate
to Vermont state constitutional convention, 1822; probate judge
in Vermont, 1822-23; Bennington
County State's Attorney, 1823-25; member of Vermont
Governor's Council, 1824-27; member of Vermont
state senate, 1836; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1839.
Died in Bennington, Bennington
County, Vt., April
12, 1865 (age 89 years, 298
days).
Interment at Old
Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of James Merrill and Jerusha (Seymour) Merrill; brother of Timothy
Merrill; married, August
18, 1805, to Mary 'Polly' Robinson (daughter of Jonathan
Robinson); uncle of Farrand
Fassett Merrill; fourth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of Jason
Kellogg; second cousin once removed of Aaron
Kellogg, Silas
Dewey Kellogg and William
Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923); second cousin twice removed of William
Pitt Kellogg and William
Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Collins Kellogg and Henry
Theodore Kellogg; second cousin four times removed of Irene
Ellis Murphy; third cousin of Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842) and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; third cousin once removed of Josiah
Cowles, Thomas
Seymour, Moses
Seymour, Luther
Walter Badger, Elisha
Hotchkiss Jr., Greene
Carrier Bronson, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875), Alvan
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, John
Russell Kellogg, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, George
Smith Catlin, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Francis
William Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg and Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903); third cousin twice removed of Orlando
Kellogg, William
Dean Kellogg, Stephen
Wright Kellogg, George
Bradley Kellogg, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918), Arthur
Tappan Kellogg, Selah
Merrill, Rowland
Case Kellogg, Arthur
Burnham Woodford and Benjamin
Baker Merrill; third cousin thrice removed of William
Lucius Case, Frank
Billings Kellogg, Clement
Phineas Kellogg, Edward
Russell Kellogg, Edward
Stanley Kellogg, Franklin
Warren Kellogg and Donald
Barr Chidsey; fourth cousin of Daniel
Chapin, Abel
Merrill, Gaylord
Griswold, Jeremiah
Mason, Stephen
Daniel Tilden, Morris
Woodruff, Horatio
Seymour (1778-1857), Elisha
Phelps, Henry
Seymour, Oliver
Owen Forward, Daniel
Upson, Walter
Forward and Chauncey
Forward; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Hezekiah
Case, Joseph
Churchill Strong, Calvin
Frisbie, Amaziah
Brainard, DeGrasse
Maltby, Samuel
Clement Fessenden, Henry
Taintor, Silas
Wright Jr., John
Adams Dix, Marshall
Chapin, Graham
Hurd Chapin, David
Lowrey Seymour, John
Arnold Rockwell, Origen
Storrs Seymour, Daniel
Rose Tilden, George
Catlin Woodruff, Norman
A. Phelps, Thomas
Henry Seymour, Lewis
Bartholomew Woodruff, Horatio
Seymour (1810-1886), Hezekiah
Cook Seymour, John
Smith Phelps, George
Seymour, Russell
Sage, Howkin
Bulkley Beardslee, McNeil
Seymour, Ayres
Phillips Merrill, Lucretia
Garfield and Henry
William Seymour. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Daniel Azro Millington (1823-1891) —
of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan.
Born in Hubbardton, Rutland
County, Vt., May 16,
1823.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; newspaper editor; postmaster;
mayor
of Winfield, Kan., 1875-76.
Died of heart
failure, in Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan., May 7,
1891 (age 67 years, 356
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Winfield, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Solomon Millington and Clarinda (Richardson) Millington; married,
May
16, 1848, to Mary Ann Smith. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Bill Bottorff, Winfield
historian |
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Charles Emerson Nash (1838-1904) —
also known as Charles E. Nash —
of Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Montpelier, Washington
County, Vt., October
11, 1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
newspaper publisher; mayor
of Augusta, Maine, 1876-79.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons.
Died in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, February
25, 1904 (age 65 years, 137
days).
Interment at Hallowell
Cemetery, Hallowell, Maine.
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David Olmsted (1822-1861) —
also known as David Olmstead —
of Clayton
County, Iowa; Belle Prairie, Morrison
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Fairfax, Franklin
County, Vt., May 5,
1822.
Democrat. Newspaper work; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Clayton County,
1846; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1854-55.
Died in Fairfax, Franklin
County, Vt., February
2, 1861 (age 38 years, 273
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Howard Paul (1826-1890) —
also known as George H. Paul —
of Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.; Kenosha, Kenosha
County, Wis.; Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Danville, Caledonia
County, Vt., March
14, 1826.
Democrat. Lawyer;
postmaster at Burlington,
Vt., 1849; Kenosha,
Wis., 1853-61; Milwaukee,
Wis., 1885-89; mayor
of Kenosha, Wis., 1857-59; newspaper editor; superintendent
of schools; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Wisconsin, 1872;
Wisconsin
railroad commissioner, 1874-76; member of Democratic
National Committee from Wisconsin, 1876; member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1878-81.
Died in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., May 18,
1890 (age 64 years, 65
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Horace Rublee (1829-1896) —
of Wisconsin.
Born in Berkshire, Franklin
County, Vt., August
19, 1829.
Republican. School
teacher; newspaper reporter; Wisconsin
Republican state chair, 1859-69, 1877-79; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Wisconsin, 1868;
U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1869-76; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Switzerland, 1876.
Died in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., October
19, 1896 (age 67 years, 61
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Charles Seymour (b. 1821) —
of La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis.
Born in Vermont, 1821.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; postmaster at La
Crosse, Wis., 1871-82; U.S. Consul in Canton, as of 1884-97.
Burial location unknown.
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David K. Simonds (b. 1839) —
of Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt.
Born in Peru, Bennington
County, Vt., 1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; postmaster;
newspaper editor; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Manchester, 1886; member of
Vermont
state senate from Bennington County, 1888.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Albert N. Swain (b. 1828) —
of Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Reading, Windsor
County, Vt., July 12,
1828.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; postmaster;
delegate
to Vermont state constitutional convention, 1870; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Rockingham, 1872, 1876;
member of Vermont
state senate from Windham County, 1886.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Ella C. Taylor (b. 1867) —
also known as Ella Canfield —
of Traer, Tama
County, Iowa.
Born in Arlington, Bennington
County, Vt., April 1,
1867.
Republican. Newspaper writer and editor; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1924.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Galen Canfield and Maria L. (Hyatt) Canfield; married, February
23, 1887, to Elmer E. Taylor, Sr. |
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George Willard (1824-1901) —
of Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Bolton, Chittenden
County, Vt., March
20, 1824.
Republican. Episcopal
priest; college
professor; newspaper editor; member of Michigan
state board of education, 1857-62; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1864-73; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Calhoun County 3rd District,
1867-68; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1867; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1872;
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1873-77.
Episcopalian.
Died in Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., March
26, 1901 (age 77 years, 6
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, Mich.
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