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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Cumberland County, Maine</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Pleasant Cemetery</a> <li>Standish <a href="cms03554">Hamlin Cemetery</a> <li>Windham <a href="cms00414">Town Cemetery</a> <li>Yarmouth <a href="cms06947">Riverside Cemetery</a> </ul> <hr> <a name="cms04111">Forest Hill Cemetery</a> Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Luther Franklin McKinney (1841-1922) — also known as Luther F. McKinney — of Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-lived.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H.; Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LI-born.html">Licking County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/04-25.html">April 25, 1841</a>. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Universalist minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/furniture.html">furniture merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Hampshire</a> 1st District, 1887-89, 1891-93; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New Hampshire</a>, 1892; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-diplomats.html ">Colombia</a>, 1893-96; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1898, 1899; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1907. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Universalist</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/07-30.html">July 30, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 96 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alexander McKinney and Elizabeth (Miller) McKinney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/08-01.html">August 1, 1870</a>, to Sharlie Paine Webb.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000526">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407518">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/mckinney-luther-franklin ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Henry Roes (1843-1903) — also known as John H. Roes — of Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/09-23.html">September 23, 1843</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/bridgton.html">Bridgton, Maine</a>, 1891-93. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/index.html">1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">about 59 years</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Roes and Sarah M. (Goodman) Roes.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/121438108">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04001">High Street Cemetery</a> Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nathaniel Swett Littlefield (1804-1882) — of Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Wells, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-born.html">York County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/09-20.html">September 20, 1804</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a>, 1841-43, 1849-51 (5th District 1841-43, 2nd District 1849-51); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1854. Died in Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/08-15.html">August 15, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 329 days</a>). Interment at High Street Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Littlefield and Hannah (Swett) Littlefield; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/09-05.html">September 5, 1827</a>, to Joanna Gibbs; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/littlebandit-livesay.html#172.34.47">Charles Edgar Littlefield</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000356">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406848">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6703052">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Edward Gibbs (1835-1899) — also known as Charles E. Gibbs — of Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/01-21.html">January 21, 1835</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/bridgton.html">Bridgton, Maine</a>, 1872-85. Died in Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/index.html">1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</a>). Interment at High Street Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/94965511">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00688">Pine Grove Cemetery</a> Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine Founded 1821 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) — also known as Joshua L. Chamberlain — of Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Brewer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-born.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/09-08.html">September 8, 1828</a>. Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1867-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, Bowdoin College; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html#O">U.S. Surveyor of Customs at Portland, Maine, Maine</a>, 1909-14; died in office 1914. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-historical-assoc.html">American Historical Association</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-honor.html">Medal of Honor</a> in 1893 for action as commander of the 20th Maine, at Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/02-24.html">February 24, 1914</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 169 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joshua Chamberlain and Sarah Dupree (Brastow) Chamberlain; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/12-07.html">December 7, 1855</a>, to Frances Caroline Adams.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/joshua-lawrence-chamberlain/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/21976/enlarge"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/105/10.34.jpg" width=70 height=94 border=0 alt="Robert P. Dunlap"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Pinckney Dunlap (1794-1859) — also known as Robert P. Dunlap — of Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/08-17.html">August 17, 1794</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1821-22; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1824-28, 1830-33; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gvcn.html">Maine Governor's Council</a>, 1829; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1834-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 2nd District, 1843-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html#3">U.S. Collector of Customs at Portland, Maine, Maine</a>, 1848-49; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/brunswick.html#2">Brunswick, Maine</a>, 1853-58. Died in Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/10-20.html">October 20, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 64 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Dunlap and Mary (Tappan) Dunlap; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/10-20.html">October 20, 1825</a>, to Lydia Chapman; uncle of Mabel Dunlap (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowell.html#954.44.58">James Russell Lowell</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/24935.html">Lowell-Dunlap family</a> of Massachusetts.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000543">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403651">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/robert-pinckney-dunlap/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert P. Dunlap">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19071">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Maine State Archives/Maine Historical Society</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Griswold Barrows (1821-1886) — also known as William G. Barrows — of Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Yarmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/01-12.html">January 12, 1821</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; probate judge in Maine, 1856-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1863-84. Died in Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/04-06.html">April 6, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 84 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39723322">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Orr (1772-1828) — of Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Bedford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-born.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1772/12-01.html">December 1, 1772</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 2nd District, 1817-19. Died in Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/09-03.html">September 3, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 277 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000102">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408359">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Jervis Gilman (1824-1901) — also known as Charles J. Gilman — of Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Exeter, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/RO-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/02-26.html">February 26, 1824</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/sthse.html">New Hampshire state house of representatives</a>, 1851; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1854; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 2nd District, 1857-59; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/ME.html">1860</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/02-05.html">February 5, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 344 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilman.html#659.66.45">John Taylor Gilman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilman.html#093.72.26">Nicholas Gilman</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1427.html">Gilman family</a> of Exeter, New Hampshire; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-2034.html">Wentworth-Gilman family</a> of New Hampshire (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000213">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404575">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Tewksbury Loring Swett (1846-1911) — also known as Tewksbury L. Swett; Tewksbury L. Sweat — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Arrowsic, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/SA-born.html">Sagadahoc County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/05-03.html">May 3, 1846</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Shipbroker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1880-1904; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1908. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">broncho-pneumonia</a>, in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/02-28.html">February 28, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 301 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Woodbury Swett and Lydia Weeks (Owen) Swett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/11-21.html">November 21, 1877</a>, to Alice Alney Hunt; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis-dawsey.html#896.84.54">Rufus R. Dawes</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis-dawsey.html#465.98.04">Charles Gates Dawes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis-dawsey.html#013.72.56">Rufus Cutler Dawes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis-dawsey.html#366.79.88">Beman Gates Dawes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis-dawsey.html#709.88.33">Henry May Dawes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1291.html">Dawes family</a> of Marietta, Ohio (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/41772129">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jotham Stone (1778-1823) — of Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Bath, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/SA-born.html">Sagadahoc County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/index.html">1778</a>. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/brunswick.html#2">Brunswick, Maine</a>, 1807-23. Died in Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/09-01.html">September 1, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">about 45 years</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Benjamin Stone and Rebecca (Littlefield) Stone; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/06-25.html">June 25, 1804</a>, to Bridget Walker; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/12-06.html">December 6, 1818</a>, to Nancy Whitwell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39405559">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles E. Townsend (1831-1920) — of Brunswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/10-27.html">October 27, 1831</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/brunswick.html#2">Brunswick, Maine</a>, 1884-87, 1891-96, 1900-04; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/ME.html">1896</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/05-30.html">May 30, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 216 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Burt Townsend and Lucy H. (Cook) Townsend; married to Viola Coombs.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/68398264">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Seaside Cemetery</a> Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Evelina Maria Mariner (1842-1924) — also known as Evelina M. Mariner; Evelina Maria Jordan — of Bowery Beach, South Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Cape Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/04-12.html">April 12, 1842</a>. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/southportland.html#5">Bowery Beach, Maine</a>, 1887-91. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Cape Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/03-08.html">March 8, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 331 days</a>). Interment at Seaside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Ignatius Jordan and Esther Maria Jordan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/06-11.html">June 11, 1860</a>, to Lewis Merrill Jordan; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/">1875</a> to James Mariner.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/121849070">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05923">Unknown Location</a> Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Eliphalet Greely — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">Mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1843-48. Interment somewhere. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Pine Grove Cemetery</a> Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Seneca Arthur Paul (1888-1973) — also known as S. Arthur Paul — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Garland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-born.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/10-05.html">October 5, 1888</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-consuls.html">Honorary Vice-Consul for Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1935-50. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/12-08.html">December 8, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 64 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Seneca M. Paul and Electa Jane (Stairs) Paul; married to Ruth Elizabeth Nichols.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/146037795">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06053">Unknown Location</a> Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Frederick Robie (1822-1912) — of Maine. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/08-12.html">August 12, 1822</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1883-87. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/02-03.html">February 3, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 175 days</a>). Interment somewhere. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#300.55.99">Levi Lincoln Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#019.12.46">Enoch Lincoln</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#954.69.03">Levi Lincoln</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1629.html">Lincoln family</a> of Worcester, Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1628.html">Lincoln family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-3118.html">Lincoln family</a> of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/frederick-robie/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00744">Eastern Cemetery</a> Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Donald Francis Snow (1877-1958) — also known as Donald F. Snow — of Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-lived.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine. Born in Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-born.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/09-06.html">September 6, 1877</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 4th District, 1929-33. Died in Gorham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/02-12.html">February 12, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 159 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms00431">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Portland, Maine; reinterment at Eastern Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Snow and Nellie Snow; married to Christine Lennox Pennell; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snow.html#400.10.24">William Pennell Snow</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000659">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410133">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Mann (1822-1868) — Born in Gorham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/06-22.html">June 22, 1822</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1849-50; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1851-53; major in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Louisiana</a> 2nd District, 1867-68; died in office 1868. Died in New Orleans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-died.html">Orleans Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/08-26.html">August 26, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 65 days</a>). Interment at Eastern Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000103">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407127">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Harrison Village Cemetery</a> Harrison, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Stockman Cohen (1937-1998) — also known as Richard S. Cohen — of Augusta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-lived.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine. Born in Brookline, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/04-05.html">April 5, 1937</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/attygn.html">Maine state attorney general</a>, 1979-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1981-93. Died of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gastrointestinal.html">Crohn's disease</a>, in Mount Sinai <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/04-13.html">April 13, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 8 days</a>). Interment at Harrison Village Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Devoted son husband and father."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard S. Cohen">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/155802944">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07778">Unknown Location</a> Portland, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01023">Eastern Cemetery</a> 224 Congress Street Portland, Cumberland County, Maine Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1973 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=89841&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Holmes (1773-1843) — of Alfred, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-lived.html">York County</a>, Maine. Born in Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-born.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1773/03-14.html">March 14, 1773</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1802-03, 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1813-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 1st District, 1817-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Maine state constitutional convention</a>, 1819; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Maine</a>, 1820-27, 1829-33; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1836-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1841-43; died in office 1843. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/07-07.html">July 7, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 115 days</a>). Entombed at Eastern Cemetery; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-buried.html# ">Parish Cemetery</a>, Alfred, Maine. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Sally Brooks; father-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodell-goodrell.html#951.17.83">Daniel Goodenow</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodell-goodrell.html#769.60.54">John Holmes Goodenow</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/14577.html">Goodenow-Holmes family</a> of Alfred, Maine.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Holmes (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-names.html">South Portland, Maine</a>; sold 1947, scrapped 1969) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000739">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405590">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6703071">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Bradbury (1770-1823) — of Massachusetts. Born in Falmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-born.html">Barnstable County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/10-10.html">October 10, 1770</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1806-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 15th District 1815-17); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1820. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/11-07.html">November 7, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 28 days</a>). Interment at Eastern Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000733">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401693">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6703075">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Ilsley (1740-1813) — of Falmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-lived.html">Barnstable County</a>, Mass. Born in Falmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/05-30.html">May 30, 1740</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/alcohol-biz.html">Distiller</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to Massachusetts convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1793-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 15th District, 1807-09. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/05-10.html">May 10, 1813</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at Eastern Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000009">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405871">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6703084">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Widgery (c.1753-1822) — of Massachusetts. Born in Devon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, about 1753. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1787-93, 1795-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention</a>, 1788; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1794; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gvcn.html">Massachusetts Governor's Council</a>, 1806-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 15th District, 1811-13; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1813-21. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/07-31.html">July 31, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at Eastern Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000444">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412184">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6703087">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Mark Harris (1779-1843) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Ipswich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/01-27.html">January 27, 1779</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1816; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> at-large, 1822-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/trea.html">Maine state treasurer</a>, 1828, 1832-34; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1830. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/03-02.html">March 2, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 34 days</a>). Interment at Eastern Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000248">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405126">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6703100">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Titcomb Dole (1809-1866) — also known as Andrew T. Dole — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/index.html">1809</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html#2">Portland, Maine</a>, 1861-65. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/08-06.html">August 6, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Interment at Eastern Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Daniel Dole and Katherine (Partridge) Dole; married to Sophia A. Fosdick; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#899.40.25">Albert Gallatin Dole</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/doi-donahower.html#146.03.31">Sanford Ballard Dole</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/101640353">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00431">Evergreen Cemetery</a> Stevens Avenue Portland, Cumberland County, Maine Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1992 <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2001696916/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/091/30.42.jpg" width=70 height=106 border=0 alt="Thomas B. Reed"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902) — also known as Thomas B. Reed; "Reed the Lion Hearted" — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/10-18.html">October 18, 1839</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1868-69; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1870; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/attygn.html">Maine state attorney general</a>, 1870-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a>, 1877-99 (1st District 1877-83, at-large 1883-85, 1st District 1885-99); resigned 1899; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1889-91, 1895-99; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/index.html">1896</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/12-07.html">December 7, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 50 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Brackett Reed .</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen1.html#771.28.53">Amos L. Allen</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000128">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409107">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas B. Reed">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/692/000342663">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Thomas Reed: Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684823403/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684823403&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Kings Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American History</a> — James Grant, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416544933/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1416544933&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nathan Clifford (1803-1881) — of Newfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-lived.html">York County</a>, Maine. Born in Rumney, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/GR-born.html">Grafton County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/08-18.html">August 18, 1803</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/attygn.html">Maine state attorney general</a>, 1834-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a>, 1839-43 (2nd District 1839-41, 3rd District 1841-43); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1846-48; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MX-diplomats.html ">Mexico</a>, 1848-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1858-81; died in office 1881. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in Cornish, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-died.html">York County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/07-25.html">July 25, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 341 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clevenger-clime.html#872.99.66">Nathan Clifford (born 1867)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000518">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402653">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan Clifford">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/clifford-nathan ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/908/000180368">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8751749606/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/563/08.33.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="William Pitt Fessenden"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Boscawen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-born.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/10-16.html">October 16, 1806</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1832-33, 1840-41, 1845-46, 1853-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 4th District, 1841-43; delegate to Whig National Convention from Maine, 1848, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Maine</a>, 1854-64, 1865-69; died in office 1869; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1864-65. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/09-08.html">September 8, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 327 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms02586">Western Cemetery</a>; reinterment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">William Pitt</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#932.33.92">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869)</a> and Ruth (Green) Fessenden; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#169.05.58">Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#407.27.40">Joseph Palmer Fessenden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/04-23.html">April 23, 1832</a>, to Ellen Maria Deering; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis Fessenden</a> and Samuel Fessenden (1841-1862; killed in Civil War); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton Fessenden</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#212.82.38">John Milton Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#868.32.79">Aaron Kellogg</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#698.01.10">Ira A. Locke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#498.84.81">Walter Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#475.20.85">Bennet Bicknell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#749.64.75">Ira Edgar Locke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blais-blake.html#891.88.11">Henry Nichols Blake</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#487.84.54">Seth Grosvenor Heacock</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1369.html">Fessenden family</a> of Portland, Maine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1403.html">Fessenden family</a> of Maine and Massachusetts (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000099">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404056">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Pitt Fessenden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/447/000209817">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20359">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about William Pitt Fessenden: Robert J. Cook, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807137073/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807137073&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Foster Shepley (1819-1878) — also known as George F. Shepley — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Saco, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-born.html">York County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/01-01.html">January 1, 1819</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1848-49, 1853-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/ME.html">1860</a>; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/neworleans.html">mayor of New Orleans, La.</a>, 1862; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Louisiana</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/ME.html">1868</a>; Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the 1st Circuit, 1869-78; died in office 1878. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/07-20.html">July 20, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 200 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shepardson-shepley.html#075.32.56">Ether Shepley</a> and Anne (Foster) Shepley; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/">1844</a> to Lucy Ann Hayes; married to Helen Merritt Merrill.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2173&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/governor-george-foster-shepley/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21039">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/shepley-george-foster">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albion Keith Parris (1788-1857) — also known as Albion K. Parris — of Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-lived.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine; Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Hebron, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/01-19.html">January 19, 1788</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1813-14; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1814-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1815-18 (20th District 1815-17, 7th District 1817-18); resigned 1818; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Maine</a>, 1818-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Maine state constitutional convention</a>, 1819; probate judge in Maine, 1820-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1822-27; defeated, 1854; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Maine</a>, 1827-28; resigned 1828; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1828-36; resigned 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1852. Died suddenly, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart trouble</a>, in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/02-11.html">February 11, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 23 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Parris and Sarah (Pratt) Parris; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/">1810</a> to Sarah Whitman; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parler-parshall.html#352.05.17">Virgil Delphini Parris</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000079">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408489">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/albion-keith-parris/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion Parris">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7125172">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ether Shepley (1789-1877) — of Saco, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-lived.html">York County</a>, Maine. Born in Groton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/11-02.html">November 2, 1789</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1819; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Maine state constitutional convention</a>, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1820-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Maine</a>, 1833-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1836-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1848-55. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/01-15.html">January 15, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary (Gibson) Shepley and John Shepley; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/">1816</a> to Anna Foster; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shepardson-shepley.html#225.47.62">George Foster Shepley</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000334">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409831">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21041">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Neal Dow (1804-1897) — also known as "Napoleon of Temperance"; "Father of Prohibition"; "Grand Old Man in the Temperance Cause" — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/03-20.html">March 20, 1804</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/leather.html">Tanning business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1851, 1855; defeated (Democratic), 1888; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1858-59; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/ME.html">1868</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1880. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. During the Civil War was captured by Confederate forces, imprisoned, and eventually exchanged for Confederate Gen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee9.html#398.72.85">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</a>, who was a Union prisoner. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/10-02.html">October 2, 1897</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 196 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Josiah Dow and Dorcas (Allen) Dow; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/01-20.html">January 20, 1830</a>, to Maria Cornelia Durant Maynard; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dow.html#119.89.21">Frederick Neal Dow</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Neal Dow <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-names.html">Westerleigh, Staten Island, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cranfill-cravalho.html#047.61.24">Neil D. Cranmer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/becker.html#899.93.03">Neal Dow Becker</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bishop.html#099.76.66">Neal D. Bishop</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal S. Dow">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Lebaron Putnam (1835-1918) — also known as William L. Putnam — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Bath, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/SA-born.html">Sagadahoc County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/05-26.html">May 26, 1835</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">Mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1869-70; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1888; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit</a>, 1892-1917. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/02-05.html">February 5, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 255 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Widgery Thomas Jr. (1839-1927) — also known as William W. Thomas, Jr. — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/08-26.html">August 26, 1839</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; brought Swedish colonists to northern Maine, 1870, founding community of New Sweden; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1873-75; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Maine State House of Representatives</a>, 1874-75; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1879; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/ME.html">1880</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-diplomats.html ">Sweden</a>, 1883-85, 1889-94, 1898-1905. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/index.html">1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">about 87 years</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Widgery Thomas and Elizabeth White (Goddard) Thomas; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/10-11.html">October 11, 1887</a>, to Dagmar Törnebladh; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/06-02.html">June 2, 1915</a>, to Mrs. Aina Törnebladh.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/thomas-william-widgery ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Scott Wilson (1870-1942) — of Woodfords, Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Falmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/01-11.html">January 11, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/attygn.html">Maine state attorney general</a>, 1913-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1918-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1925-29; resigned 1929; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit</a>, 1929-40. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/10-22.html">October 22, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 284 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Baker Wilson and Loemma Pearson (Leighton) Wilson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/12-24.html">December 24, 1895</a>, to Elizabeth M. Bodge; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/">1938</a> to Thelma Cony Dutton.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/118509730">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ezekiel Whitman (1776-1866) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in East Bridgewater, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-born.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/03-09.html">March 9, 1776</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1809-11, 1817-21 (7th District 1809-11, 2nd District 1817-21); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gvcn.html">Massachusetts Governor's Council</a>, 1815-16; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Maine state constitutional convention</a>, 1819; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> at-large, 1821-22; resigned 1822; common pleas court judge in Maine, 1822-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1841-48; resigned 1848. Died in East Bridgewater, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-died.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/08-01.html">August 1, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 145 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Hannah Mitchell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000421">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411580">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel Whitman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22549893">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Bradstreet Cleaves (1840-1912) — also known as Henry B. Cleaves — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/02-06.html">February 6, 1840</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1876-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/attygn.html">Maine state attorney general</a>, 1880-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1893-97. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/06-22.html">June 22, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 137 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Cleaves and Sophia (Bradstreet) Cleaves.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/henry-b-cleaves/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/41922058">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Pitt Preble (1783-1857) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in York Village, York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-born.html">York County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/11-27.html">November 27, 1783</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1814-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1820-28; resigned 1828; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-diplomats.html ">Netherlands</a>, 1830-31. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-11.html">October 11, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 318 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">William Pitt</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Esaias Preble and Lydia (Ingraham) Preble; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/">1813</a> to Nancy Gale Tucker; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/05-10.html">May 10, 1852</a>, to Sarah Ann Forsaith.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/preble-william-pitt ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/118940354">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Appleton (1815-1864) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Beverly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/02-11.html">February 11, 1815</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BV-diplomats.html ">Bolivia</a>, 1848-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 2nd District, 1851-53; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-diplomats.html ">Russia</a>, 1860-61. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/08-22.html">August 22, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 193 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John White Appleton and Sophia (Williams) Appleton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/">1840</a> to Susan Lovering Dodge; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#569.68.90">James Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#916.90.43">Nathan Dane Appleton</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#467.11.41">Nathan Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#071.08.10">William Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamlet-hammitt.html#027.69.91">Elijah Livermore Hamlin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamlet-hammitt.html#116.78.71">Hannibal Hamlin</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#285.40.78">Randolph Appleton Kidder</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton (1804-1891)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamlet-hammitt.html#922.55.58">Charles Hamlin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamlet-hammitt.html#373.70.22">Hannibal Emery Hamlin</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#441.55.71">Francis Henry Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#441.17.86">Isaiah Kidder Stetson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#009.95.38">Arthur Taggard Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#439.04.43">Clarence Cutting Stetson</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#037.90.62">Leverett Saltonstall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#428.87.28">Richard Saltonstall</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#818.86.92">William Lawrence Saltonstall</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooker.html#900.95.54">Edward Williams Hooker</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards4.html#127.62.71">Henry Waggaman Edwards</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunt.html#165.89.17">Jonathan Hunt</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#319.52.50">Thomas Passmore Treadwell</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#781.96.90">John Appleton (1758-1829)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#879.72.33">Thomas Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white6.html#351.36.54">Leonard White</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#006.76.40">Jedediah Sabin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#890.97.45">Chauncey Fitch Cleveland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#391.74.24">Robert Odiorne Treadwell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bellacosa-bendl.html#345.18.26">George Pickering Bemis</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1026.html">Appleton family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-2527.html">Appleton family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1776.html">Appleton family</a> of New Hampshire (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000268">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400907">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Appleton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/appleton-john">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21043">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Wells (1801-1868) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine; Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Durham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ST-born.html">Strafford County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/08-15.html">August 15, 1801</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1836-40; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1840/ME.html">1840</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1847-54; resigned 1854; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1856-57. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/07-15.html">July 15, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 335 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Louisa Ann Appleton.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/samuel-wells/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Wells">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/137322089">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Howard (1800-1877) — of Limerick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-lived.html">York County</a>, Maine; Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Brownfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/03-14.html">March 14, 1800</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-officials.html">York County Attorney</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1837-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1848-55; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1860; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1864, 1865; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#191.51.44">Sewall C. Strout</a>, 1855-64, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleage-clemente.html#398.32.91">Nathan Cleaves</a>, 1864-77. Died in Brownfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-died.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/12-10.html">December 10, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph Howard (1758-1851) and Rebecca (Gleason) Howard; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/">1826</a> to Maria Annette Dana (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dana.html#889.25.06">Judah Dana</a>); father of Caroline Elizabeth Howard (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleage-clemente.html#398.32.91">Nathan Cleaves</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1295.html">Dana-Ripley family</a> of Fryeburg, Maine (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Howard (judge)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/191851454">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Fox (1815-1881) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/06-09.html">June 9, 1815</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1862-63; resigned 1863; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Maine</a>, 1866-81; died in office 1881. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/12-14.html">December 14, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 188 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Fox and Lucy Jones (Oxnard) Fox; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/">1838</a> to Lucy Ellen Winslow; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/">1857</a> to Martha Trask.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/117866199">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/fox-edward">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Wesley Walton (1819-1900) — also known as Charles W. Walton — of Deering, Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Mexico, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/12-09.html">December 9, 1819</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 2nd District, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1862-97. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/01-24.html">January 24, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 46 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000112">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411290">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21134">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Carroll Lynwood Beedy (1880-1947) — also known as Carroll L. Beedy — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Phillips, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/08-03.html">August 3, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-officials.html">Cumberland County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1917-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1921-35; defeated, 1934. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-phi.html">Alpha Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-sigma-rho.html">Delta Sigma Rho</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/09-30.html">September 30, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 58 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Clarence E. Beedy and Myra Mildred (Page) Beedy; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/04-18.html">April 18, 1914</a>, to Dorothy W. Lathrop.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000307">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401300">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert S. Hale (1889-1976) — also known as Robert Hale — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/11-29.html">November 29, 1889</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/rhodes-scholars.html">Rhodes scholar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1923-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Maine State House of Representatives</a>, 1929-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1943-59; defeated, 1958. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/psi-upsilon.html">Psi Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/11-30.html">November 30, 1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 1 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#953.41.26">Clarence Hale</a> and Margaret (Rollins) Hale; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/04-20.html">April 20, 1922</a>, to Agnes Burke; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#613.37.90">Eugene Hale</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#099.44.25">Frederick Hale</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1211.html">Chandler-Hale family</a> of Portland, Maine (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000036">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404921">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Hale (Maine politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21136">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/22011/enlarge"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/034/12.13.jpg" width=70 height=110 border=0 alt="William Wirt Virgin"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Wirt Virgin (1823-1893) — of Norway, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-lived.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine; Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Rumford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/09-18.html">September 18, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1865-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1872-93; died in office 1893. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/01-23.html">January 23, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 127 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#991.28.86">William Wirt</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Peter Chandler Virgin and Sarah 'Sally' (Keyes) Virgin; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/">1851</a> to Sarah Hall Cole.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/132258659">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Maine State Archives/Maine Historical Society</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Emerson Bird (1847-1926) — also known as George E. Bird — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine; Yarmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/09-01.html">September 1, 1847</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1886-90; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1893-95; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1895 (Democratic), 1896; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1908-18; appointed 1908. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/01-19.html">January 19, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 140 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sarah (Emerson) Bird and Robert Alexander Bird; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/07-08.html">July 8, 1890</a>, to Harriet Leonard Williams.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/117061620">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.mainememory.net/artifact/21979/enlarge"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/761/22.50.jpg" width=70 height=94 border=0 alt="F. O. J. Smith"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith (1806-1876) — of Maine. Born in Brentwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/RO-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/11-23.html">November 23, 1806</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1831; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a>, 1833-39 (2nd District 1833-35, 8th District 1835-37, 6th District 1837-39); early promoter and financial backer of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">electric telegraph</a>. Died in Deering (now part of Portland), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/10-14.html">October 14, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 326 days</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; re-entombed at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000531">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410014">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Maine State Archives/Maine Historical Society</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Hawes Haskell (1842-1900) — also known as Thomas H. Haskell — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in New Gloucester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/05-18.html">May 18, 1842</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1884-1900; died in office 1900. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/09-24.html">September 24, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 129 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Peter Haskell and Betty (Hawes) Haskell; married to Elizabeth Parsons Whitman.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/118509358">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Asher Crosby Hinds (1863-1919) — also known as Asher C. Hinds — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Benton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-born.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/02-06.html">February 6, 1863</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1911-17. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/05-01.html">May 1, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 84 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Albert Dwelley Hinds and Charlotte (Flagg) Hinds; married to Harriet Louise Estey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000630">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405487">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asher Hinds">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21131">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Clarence Hale (1848-1934) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Turner, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/AN-born.html">Androscoggin County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/04-15.html">April 15, 1848</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1883-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for Maine</a>, 1902-22; took senior status 1922; senior judge, 1922-34. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/04-09.html">April 9, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 359 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Sullivan Hale and Betsey (Staples) Hale; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#613.37.90">Eugene Hale</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/03-11.html">March 11, 1880</a>, to Margaret Jordan Rollins; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#974.52.65">Robert S. Hale</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#099.44.25">Frederick Hale</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1211.html">Chandler-Hale family</a> of Portland, Maine (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=943&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence Hale">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/118214080">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/hale-clarence">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Phinney Baxter (1831-1921) — also known as James P. Baxter — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Gorham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/03-23.html">March 23, 1831</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1893-96, 1904-05. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/05-08.html">May 8, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 46 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Elihu Baxter and Sarah (Cone) Baxter; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baxter.html#282.87.73">Percival Proctor Baxter</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Clay Peabody (1838-1911) — also known as Henry C. Peabody — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Gilead, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/04-14.html">April 14, 1838</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; probate judge in Maine, 1880-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1900-11; died in office 1911. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arcanum.html">Royal Arcanum</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/03-29.html">March 29, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 349 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#084.40.12">Henry Clay</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Tarbell Peabody and Mercy Ingalls (Burbank) Peabody; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/">1867</a> to Ellen Adams.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/118884583">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Enoch Foster (1839-1913) — of Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-lived.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine. Born in Newry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/05-10.html">May 10, 1839</a>. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1884-98. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/11-15.html">November 15, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 189 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/128745882">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph White Symonds (1840-1918) — also known as Joseph W. Symonds — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Raymond, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/09-02.html">September 2, 1840</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; superior court judge in Maine, 1872; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1878-84; resigned 1884. Died in New Hampshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/09-28.html">September 28, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 26 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph Symonds and Isabella (Jordan) Symonds.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/119651267">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Jasiel Perry (1811-1897) — also known as John J. Perry — of Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-lived.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine. Born in New Hampshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/index.html">1811</a>. Republican. Member of Maine state legislature, 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 2nd District, 1855-57, 1859-61. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/index.html">1897</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">about 86 years</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000243">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408646">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Josiah Hayden Drummond (1827-1902) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Winslow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-born.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/08-30.html">August 30, 1827</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1857-58, 1869; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Maine State House of Representatives</a>, 1858; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1859-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/attygn.html">Maine state attorney general</a>, 1860-63; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1864/ME.html">1864</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/ME.html">1884</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/10-25.html">October 25, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 56 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Clark Drummond and Cynthia (Blackwell) Drummond; married to Elzada Rollins Bean.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS J. H. Drummond (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BA-names.html">Panama City, Florida</a>; wrecked and scrapped 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah Hayden Drummond">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/98498026">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Lynch (1825-1892) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/02-19.html">February 19, 1825</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper manager</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1862-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1865-73; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/masonry.html">brick and clay tile manufacturer</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/07-21.html">July 21, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 153 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Ellen Clements Barker; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/">1885</a> to Anne (Spring) Weston (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spriggs-springweiler.html#034.00.87">Samuel Evans Spring</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spriggs-springweiler.html#367.22.73">Isaac Spring</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spriggs-springweiler.html#464.10.65">Andrew Spring</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/41511.html">Spring family</a> of Brownfield and Portland, Maine.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000531">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407015">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Obed Hall (1757-1828) — of New Hampshire. Born in Raynham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/12-23.html">December 23, 1757</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/sthse.html">New Hampshire state house of representatives</a>, 1801-02; common pleas court judge in New Hampshire, 1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Hampshire</a> at-large, 1811-13. Slaveowner. Died in Bartlett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CA-died.html">Carroll County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/04-01.html">April 1, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 100 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CA-buried.html#cms03753">Garland Ridge Cemetery</a>, Near Bartlett, Carroll County, N.H.; reinterment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000064">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404949">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Theodore Marriner (1892-1937) — also known as J. Theodore Marriner; Ted Marriner — Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/05-17.html">May 17, 1892</a>. U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LN-consuls.html ">Beirut</a>, 1935-37, died in office 1937. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">killed</a> by Mejardich Karayan, an Armenian who thought he had been denied a U.S. visa, in Beirut, Syria (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LN-died.html">Lebanon</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/10-12.html">October 12, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 148 days</a>). The killer was sentenced to death and hanged soon after. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Harriet Cram (Thorpe) Marriner.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/118673144">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Cobham Noyes (1798-1868) — of Eastport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, Maine. Born in Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/index.html">1798</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of Maine state legislature, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 5th District, 1837-39. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/index.html">1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000165">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408246">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (1818-1898) — also known as Lorenzo D. M. Sweat — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Parsonfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-born.html">York County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/05-26.html">May 26, 1818</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleage-clemente.html#398.32.91">Nathan Cleaves</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1862; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1863-65; defeated, 1864, 1866; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/ME.html">1872</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/ME.html">Democratic National Committee from Maine</a>, 1872-76. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/07-26.html">July 26, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 61 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">Lorenzo de'Medici</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001100">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410552">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Melville Seiders (1844-1915) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Union, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/01-15.html">January 15, 1844</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/attygn.html">Maine state attorney general</a>, 1901-04. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/05-26.html">May 26, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 131 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elbridge Gerry (1813-1886) — of Waterford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-lived.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine; Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Waterford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/12-06.html">December 6, 1813</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-officials.html">Oxford County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1842-45; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1849-51. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/04-10.html">April 10, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 125 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gerry.html#546.21.44">Elbridge Gerry</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Peter Gerry and Mary 'Polly' (Cutler) Gerry; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/11-22.html">November 22, 1849</a>, to Anna St. Clair Jenness (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jenkinson-jenning.html#754.32.87">Richard Jenness</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/43900.html">Jenness family</a> of Deerfield, New Hampshire.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000138">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404508">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge Gerry (Maine politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21129">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Asa William Henry Clapp (1805-1891) — of Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/03-06.html">March 6, 1805</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 2nd District, 1847-49. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/03-22.html">March 22, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 16 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000413">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402552">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Augustus Strout (1863-1935) — also known as Charles A. Strout — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-12.html">July 12, 1863</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">Mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1910. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/12-01.html">December 1, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 142 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stroock-stryker.html#191.51.44">Sewall C. Strout</a> and Octavia Jane Perry (Shaw) Strout; married to Jennie May Higgins.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/58434822">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Holman Staples Melcher (d. 1905) — also known as Holman S. Melcher — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">Mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1889-91. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/index.html">1905</a>. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Melvin Porter Frank (1841-1918) — also known as Melvin P. Frank — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Gray, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/12-26.html">December 26, 1841</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1890; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1896; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/ME.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/ME.html">1908</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/01-02.html">January 2, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 7 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alpheus Frank and Naomi (Stimson) Frank; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/10-05.html">October 5, 1869</a>, to Susan Augusta Humphrey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/63331329">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob McLellan — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">Mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1863-65, 1868-69. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Fessenden (1839-1906) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/03-18.html">March 18, 1839</a>. Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; suffered a battlefield injury which resulted in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">leg amputation</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1876-77. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/01-02.html">January 2, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#563.08.33">William Pitt Fessenden</a> and Ellen Maria (Deering) Fessenden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a> and Samuel Fessenden (1841-1862; killed in Civil War); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#169.05.58">Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#407.27.40">Joseph Palmer Fessenden</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#932.33.92">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton Fessenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#212.82.38">John Milton Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#698.01.10">Ira A. Locke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#498.84.81">Walter Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1369.html">Fessenden family</a> of Portland, Maine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1403.html">Fessenden family</a> of Maine and Massachusetts (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis Fessenden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20356">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/710/64.32.jpg" width=70 height=114 border=0 alt="Charles F. Libby"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Freeman Libby (1844-1915) — also known as Charles F. Libby — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Limerick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-born.html">York County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/01-31.html">January 31, 1844</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1882-83; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1889-92; counsel, director, president, Portland <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">Street Railway</a>; also involved with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">steamship</a> companies. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died in Cape Elizabeth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/06-03.html">June 3, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 123 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Brackett Libby and Hannah Catherine (Morrill) Libby; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/12-06.html">December 6, 1869</a>, to Alice W. Bradbury; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewison-lifshitz.html#183.80.60">Ira Saywood Libby</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewison-lifshitz.html#094.42.66">Jesse Felt Libby</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#718.99.36">Guy A. Brackett</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/137153164">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: National Cyclopedia of American Biography (1910)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Ellingwood Marrett (1854-1922) — also known as James E. Marrett — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine; Cumberland Center, Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/04-07.html">April 7, 1854</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-consuls.html">Consul for Uruguay</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1892-1908, 1915-22. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/02-08.html">February 8, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 307 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Louise Otis (Small) Marrett and Orlando Melville Marrett; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/">1881</a> to Sarah Jane Potter.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/118672856">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Spring (1819-1876) — of Buenos Aires, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-lived.html">Argentina</a>; Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Brownfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/05-21.html">May 21, 1819</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html">Consul for Argentina</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1869-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-consuls.html">Consul for Uruguay</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1871-76. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/07-14.html">July 14, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spriggs-springweiler.html#367.22.73">Isaac Spring</a> and Susan (Osgood) Spring; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/07-12.html">July 12, 1845</a>, to Susan S. Bradbury; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spriggs-springweiler.html#034.00.87">Samuel Evans Spring</a>; first cousin of Anne Spring (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lynch.html#779.46.65">John Lynch</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/41511.html">Spring family</a> of Brownfield and Portland, Maine.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/119607768">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Richmond Small (1837-1903) — also known as Stephen R. Small — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Gray, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/02-19.html">February 19, 1837</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html">Consul for Argentina</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1884-1902. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">chronic nephritis</a>, in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/03-10.html">March 10, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 19 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Lois (Pennell) Small and Stephen Small; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/08-18.html">August 18, 1861</a>, to Margaret Emma Morrill; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/small.html#773.94.80">Clarence W. Small</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/119476738">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Clark H. Barker (c.1840-1905) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born about 1840. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html#2">Portland, Maine</a>, 1884-85, 1900-05. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/01-21.html">January 21, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">about 65 years</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/128735148">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Evans Spring (1812-1884) — also known as Samuel E. Spring — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Brownfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-born.html">Oxford County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/05-15.html">May 15, 1812</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UR-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Uruguay</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1876-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html">Consul for Argentina</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1876-82. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/08-08.html">August 8, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 85 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/OX-buried.html# ">Pine Grove Cemetery</a>, Brownfield, Maine. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Josiah Spring and Ann (Evans) Spring; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spriggs-springweiler.html#367.22.73">Isaac Spring</a>; married to Elizabeth Bangs Bean and Zilpah Wadsworth Barker; father of Anne Spring (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lynch.html#779.46.65">John Lynch</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spriggs-springweiler.html#464.10.65">Andrew Spring</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/41511.html">Spring family</a> of Brownfield and Portland, Maine.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/160558995">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Clarence W. Small (1865-1938) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/12-21.html">December 21, 1865</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html">Consul for Argentina</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1903-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Argentina</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1906-19. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/05-29.html">May 29, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 159 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/small.html#044.50.41">Stephen Richmond Small</a> and Margaret Emma (Morrill) Small; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/05-16.html">May 16, 1888</a>, to Myrtie Belle Gammon.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/119476131">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Palmer Fessenden (1831-1909) — also known as Joseph P. Fessenden — of Lewiston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/AN-lived.html">Androscoggin County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/09-27.html">September 27, 1831</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/lewiston.html#2">Lewiston, Maine</a>, 1861-70. Died in Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/03-26.html">March 26, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 180 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#932.33.92">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869)</a> and Deborah (Chandler) Fessenden; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#563.08.33">William Pitt Fessenden</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#169.05.58">Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton Fessenden</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#212.82.38">John Milton Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#050.35.14">Richard Bradford Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#923.53.36">Arthur William Coolidge</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#868.32.79">Aaron Kellogg</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#698.01.10">Ira A. Locke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#498.84.81">Walter Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#475.20.85">Bennet Bicknell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#749.64.75">Ira Edgar Locke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blais-blake.html#891.88.11">Henry Nichols Blake</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#487.84.54">Seth Grosvenor Heacock</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/117811419">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Deering Fessenden (1833-1882) — also known as James D. Fessenden — Born in Westbrook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/09-28.html">September 28, 1833</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1872-74. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/11-18.html">November 18, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 51 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#563.08.33">William Pitt Fessenden</a> and Ellen Maria (Deering) Fessenden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis Fessenden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/11-05.html">November 5, 1856</a>, to Frances Cushing Greeley; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#169.05.58">Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#407.27.40">Joseph Palmer Fessenden</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#932.33.92">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton Fessenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#212.82.38">John Milton Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#698.01.10">Ira A. Locke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#498.84.81">Walter Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1369.html">Fessenden family</a> of Portland, Maine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1403.html">Fessenden family</a> of Maine and Massachusetts (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Deering Fessenden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20357">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nathan Cleaves (1835-1892) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Bridgton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/01-09.html">January 9, 1835</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner at different times of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/swanton-swede.html#705.31.09">L. D. M. Sweat</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#816.97.78">Joseph Howard</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html#O">U.S. Surveyor of Customs at Portland, Maine, Maine</a>, 1891; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/ME.html">1892</a> (delegation chair). Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/09-05.html">September 5, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 240 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Cleaves and Sophia (Bradstreet) Cleaves; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/">1865</a> to Caroline Elizabeth Howard (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howard.html#816.97.78">Joseph Howard</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dana.html#889.25.06">Judah Dana</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1295.html">Dana-Ripley family</a> of Fryeburg, Maine (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/41922096">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Everett Philbrook (1861-1930) — also known as Edward E. Philbrook — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Haverhill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/02-05.html">February 5, 1861</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/ME.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html#O">U.S. Surveyor of Customs at Portland, Maine, Maine</a>, 1922-30; died in office 1930. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-spanish-war-vets.html">United Spanish War Veterans</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/01-04.html">January 4, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 333 days</a>). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/everett.html#682.37.80">Edward Everett</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Marie D. 'Mari' (Haskell) Philbrook and David Towle Philbrook; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/09-24.html">September 24, 1883</a>, to Annie A. Fay; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/06-19.html">June 19, 1922</a>, to Alice Gertrude (Gallagher) Reagan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/108558735">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Donald Francis Snow (1877-1958) — also known as Donald F. Snow — of Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-lived.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine. Born in Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-born.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/09-06.html">September 6, 1877</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 4th District, 1929-33. Died in Gorham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/02-12.html">February 12, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 159 days</a>). Original interment at Evergreen Cemetery; reinterment at <a href="#cms00744">Eastern Cemetery</a>, Gorham, Maine. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Snow and Nellie Snow; married to Christine Lennox Pennell; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snow.html#400.10.24">William Pennell Snow</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000659">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410133">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Pine Grove Cemetery</a> 672 Stevens Avenue Portland, Cumberland County, Maine See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=90367&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Woodbury H. Polleys (1817-1885) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/12-17.html">December 17, 1817</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Ship captain</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BB-consuls.html ">Barbados</a>, as of 1880; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-consuls.html ">San Juan de los Remedios</a>, as of 1884. Died by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>, in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/11-11.html">November 11, 1885</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 329 days</a>). Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Polleys, Jr. and Mary (Woodbury) Polleys; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/03-06.html">March 6, 1842</a>, to Sarah Whitehouse.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/98285598">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02586">Western Cemetery</a> Portland, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Prentiss Mellen (1764-1840) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Sterling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/10-11.html">October 11, 1764</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Massachusetts</a>, 1818-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1820-34. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/12-31.html">December 31, 1840</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 81 days</a>). Interment at Western Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Mellen and Rebecca (Prentice) Mellen; married to Sarah Hudson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000636">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407623">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7217884">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nicholas Emery (1776-1861) — of Parsonfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/YO-lived.html">York County</a>, Maine; Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Exeter, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/RO-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/09-04.html">September 4, 1776</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1834-41. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/08-24.html">August 24, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 354 days</a>). Interment at Western Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Noah Emery, Jr. and Jane (Hale) Emery; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/">1807</a> to Ann Taylor Gilman (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilman.html#659.66.45">John Taylor Gilman</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilman.html#312.65.73">Nicholas Gilman</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1427.html">Gilman family</a> of Exeter, New Hampshire; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-2034.html">Wentworth-Gilman family</a> of New Hampshire (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39520986">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Longfellow (1775-1849) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Gorham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1775/06-23.html">June 23, 1775</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1814; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> at-large, 1823-25; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1826. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/08-02.html">August 2, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 40 days</a>). Interment at Western Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000430">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406921">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8751749606/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/563/08.33.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="William Pitt Fessenden"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Boscawen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-born.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/10-16.html">October 16, 1806</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/sthse.html">Maine state house of representatives</a>, 1832-33, 1840-41, 1845-46, 1853-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 4th District, 1841-43; delegate to Whig National Convention from Maine, 1848, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Maine</a>, 1854-64, 1865-69; died in office 1869; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1864-65. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/09-08.html">September 8, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 327 days</a>). Original interment at Western Cemetery; reinterment at <a href="#cms00431">Evergreen Cemetery</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">William Pitt</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#932.33.92">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869)</a> and Ruth (Green) Fessenden; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#169.05.58">Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#407.27.40">Joseph Palmer Fessenden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/04-23.html">April 23, 1832</a>, to Ellen Maria Deering; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis Fessenden</a> and Samuel Fessenden (1841-1862; killed in Civil War); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton Fessenden</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#212.82.38">John Milton Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#868.32.79">Aaron Kellogg</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#698.01.10">Ira A. Locke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#498.84.81">Walter Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beucher-biddis.html#475.20.85">Bennet Bicknell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/locke.html#749.64.75">Ira Edgar Locke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blais-blake.html#891.88.11">Henry Nichols Blake</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#487.84.54">Seth Grosvenor Heacock</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1369.html">Fessenden family</a> of Portland, Maine; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1403.html">Fessenden family</a> of Maine and Massachusetts (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000099">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404056">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Pitt Fessenden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/447/000209817">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20359">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about William Pitt Fessenden: Robert J. Cook, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807137073/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807137073&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Calvary Cemetery</a> South Portland, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/198/20.70.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="John H. Dooley"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Henry Dooley (1869-1939) — also known as John H. Dooley — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-born.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/12-20.html">December 20, 1869</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">Printer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/ME.html">treasurer of Maine Democratic Party</a>, 1928; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/ME.html">Maine Democratic state chair</a>, 1930-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html#3">U.S. Collector of Customs at Portland, Maine, Maine</a>, 1933-39; died in office 1939. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anc-ord-hibernians.html">Ancient Order of Hibernians</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/12-15.html">December 15, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 360 days</a>). Interment at Calvary Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Peter Dooley and Catherine (McHugh) Dooley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/06-23.html">June 23, 1891</a>, to Honora 'Hannah' Cassidy.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/160415361">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Portland Evening Express, December 15, 1939</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Henry Flaherty (1866-1940) — also known as Thomas H. Flaherty — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/04-20.html">April 20, 1866</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-consuls.html">Consul for Cuba</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1905-08. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/09-21.html">September 21, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 154 days</a>). Interment at Calvary Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Patrick Flaherty and Anna (Manning) Flaherty; married to Elizabeth Cragin.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ernest de Beaufort Le Prohon (1855-1928) — also known as Ernest Le Prohon — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Maine, March, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/index.html">1855</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Commission merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html">Consular Agent for France</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1887-1928; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-consuls.html">Honorary Vice-Consul for Spain</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-consuls.html">Portland, Maine</a>, 1894-98. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Canadian</a> ancestry. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/09-22.html">September 22, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Calvary Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Philip Le Prohon and Lucy Helen (Greene) Le Prohon; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/05-26.html">May 26, 1877</a>, to Anna Chadbourne Smith; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#372.97.58">Henry Bowen Clark Greene</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/144330765">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08348">Mt. Pleasant Cemetery</a> South Portland, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles E. West (b. 1871) — of South Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine; Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in South Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/10-20.html">October 20, 1871</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/southportland.html">Mayor of South Portland, Maine</a>, 1914-18. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Interment at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles L. West and Pamelia (Simmons) West; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/07-19.html">July 19, 1899</a>, to Elizabeth Loring.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03554">Hamlin Cemetery</a> Standish, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Simon Moulton Hamlin (1866-1939) — also known as Simon M. Hamlin — of Standish, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine; South Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Standish, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/08-10.html">August 10, 1866</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/southportland.html">mayor of South Portland, Maine</a>, 1933-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 1st District, 1935-37; defeated, 1936; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/ME.html">1936</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Universalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Died in South Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/07-27.html">July 27, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 351 days</a>). Interment at Hamlin Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Cotton Hamlin and Abby Moulton (Hasty) Hamlin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/07-16.html">July 16, 1893</a>, to Luetta Higgins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/07-22.html">July 22, 1902</a>, to Anne Wilson (Brackett) Hitchings; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/12-15.html">December 15, 1934</a>, to Evelyn (Field) Ward.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000122">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405004">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00414">Town Cemetery</a> Windham, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Anderson (1792-1853) — of Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Born in Windham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-born.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/07-30.html">July 30, 1792</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1823; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 2nd District, 1825-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Maine</a>, 1833-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html">mayor of Portland, Maine</a>, 1833, 1842; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/portland.html#3">U.S. Collector of Customs at Portland, Maine, Maine</a>, 1837-41, 1843-48. Died in Portland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/08-21.html">August 21, 1853</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 22 days</a>). Interment at Town Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000193">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400848">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06947">Riverside Cemetery</a> Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Howard Davies — of Yarmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-lived.html">Cumberland County</a>, Maine. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a> 2nd District, 1919-20. 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