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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Germany

Index to Locations Kreuzberg, Berlin Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof Dresden Alter Annenfriedhof Frankfurt am Main Unknown location Hanover Stadtfriedhof Engesohde Mainz Hauptfriedhof Mainz Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof Bergmannstrasse 42-44 Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany Founded 1844 See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898) — also known as Theodore S. Fay — of New York, New York County, N.Y.; Massachusetts; Berlin, Germany. Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., February 10, 1807. Newspaper editor; novelist; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1853-61. Died, from pneumonia, in Berlin, Germany, November 24, 1898 (age 91 years, 287 days). Interment at Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof.   Relatives: Married 1833 to Laura Gardenier (daughter of Barent Gardenier).   See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial Alter Annenfriedhof Dresden, Germany Politicians buried here:   Herman L. Page (1818-1873) — of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis. Born in Oneida County, N.Y., May 27, 1818. Democrat. Dry goods merchant; mayor of Milwaukee, Wis., 1859-60; insurance agent. Member, Odd Fellows. Died in Dresden, Germany, October 15, 1873 (age 55 years, 141 days). Interment at Alter Annenfriedhof.   Relatives: Son of Eli V. Page and Jane Page; married to Maria Camp and Cynthia Barker.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial Unknown Location Frankfurt am Main, Germany Politicians buried here:   Edward P. Salomon (1828-1909) — of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Prussia (now Germany), August 11, 1828. Republican. Lawyer; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, 1862-64; Governor of Wisconsin, 1862-64; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1868; candidate for New York City superior court judge, 1882. Jewish. Died in Frankfort (Frankfurt am Main), Germany, April 21, 1909 (age 80 years, 253 days). Interment somewhere.   Relatives: Cousin *** of Edward Selig Salomon.   See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial Stadtfriedhof Engesohde Hanover, Germany Politicians formerly buried here:   Henry Reed Rathbone (1837-1911) — Born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., July 1, 1837. Lawyer; major in the Union Army during the Civil War; on April 14, 1865, he was seated in the box at Ford's Theater with President Abraham Lincoln; when John Wilkes Booth shot the president, Rathbone attempted to apprehend Booth, and suffered knife wounds; subsequently his mental health deteriorated; U.S. Consul in Hanover, as of 1882-83. On December 23, 1883, he killed his wife, and stabbed himself in a suicide attempt; he was charged with murder, convicted, and found insane; he died more than 25 years later, in the Asylum for the Criminal Insane, Hildesheim, Germany, August 14, 1911 (age 74 years, 44 days). Original interment at Stadtfriedhof Engesohde; reinterment 1952 to unknown location.   Relatives: Step-son of Ira Harris (1802-1875); son of Jared Lewis Rathbone and Pauline (Pinney) Rathbone; brother of Jared Lawrence Rathbone; married, July 11, 1867, to Clara Hamilton Harris (daughter of Ira Harris (1802-1875)); father of Henry Riggs Rathbone; second cousin once removed of Daniel Burrows; second cousin thrice removed of Ezekiel Cornell; third cousin of Lorenzo Burrows; fourth cousin once removed of Ezra Cornell.   Political families: Cornell family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial Hauptfriedhof Mainz 15 Untere Zahlbacher Strasse Mainz, Germany Founded 1803 See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Walter Schumann (1870-1929) — Born in New York, New York County, N.Y., July 1, 1870. Iron and steel business; insurance broker; U.S. Consul in Mainz, 1897-1907. Died in Mainz, Germany, December 1, 1929 (age 59 years, 153 days). Interment at Hauptfriedhof Mainz.   Relatives: Son of Hugo Schumann and Elizabeth Schumann.

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