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<li>Danbury <a href=" ">New St. Peter Cemetery</a> <li>Danbury <a href="cms05014">North Main Street Cemetery</a> <li>Danbury <a href="cms01014">Wooster Cemetery</a> <li>Darien <a href=" ">Spring Grove Cemetery</a> <li>Easton <a href="cms07687">Unknown location</a> <li>Easton <a href="cms06115">Easton Cemetery</a> <li>Fairfield <a href="cms07124">Unknown location</a> <li>Fairfield <a href="cms07579">East Cemetery</a> <li>Fairfield <a href="cms08178">Greenfield Hill Cemetery</a> <li>Fairfield <a href="cms05539">Oak Lawn Cemetery</a> <li>Fairfield <a href="cms01526">Old Burying Ground</a> <li>Southport, Fairfield <a href=" ">Unknown location</a> <li>Greenwich <a href=" ">First Congregational Church Cemetery</a> <li>Greenwich <a href=" ">New Burial Grounds Association Cemetery</a> <li>Greenwich <a href="cms01815">Putnam Cemetery</a> <li>Greenwich <a href="cms01309">St. Mary's Cemetery</a> <li>Greenwich <a href="cms06734">Union Cemetery</a> <li>Monroe <a href=" ">Monroe Center Cemetery</a> <li>New Canaan <a href="cms07009">Unknown location</a> <li>New Canaan <a href=" ">Lakeview Cemetery</a> <li>New Fairfield <a href=" ">Mountain View Cemetery</a> <li>Newtown <a href="cms03410">Newtown Cemetery</a> <li>Newtown <a href=" ">Taunton Cemetery</a> <li>Newtown <a href=" ">Zoar Cemetery</a> <li>Sandy Hook, Newtown <a href="cms07494">St. Rose Cemetery</a> <li>Norwalk <a href="cms07821">Unknown location</a> <li>Norwalk <a href="cms06700">East Norwalk Historical Cemetery</a> <li>Norwalk <a href="cms02536">Norwalk Cemetery</a> <li>Norwalk <a href="cms04821">Norwalk Union Cemetery</a> <li>Norwalk <a href="cms01124">Riverside Cemetery</a> <li>Norwalk <a href="cms03388">St. John's Cemetery</a> <li>Norwalk <a href="cms02584">St. Mary's Cemetery</a> <li>Norwalk <a href="cms02275">Union Cemetery</a> <li>Redding <a href="cms05371">Great Pasture Road Cemetery</a> <li>Ridgefield <a href=" ">Fairlawn Cemetery</a> <li>Ridgefield <a href="cms04801">Ridgefield Cemetery</a> <li>Ridgefield <a href=" ">Scott's Cemetery</a> <li>Ridgefield <a href=" ">Titicus Cemetery</a> <li>Shelton <a href="cms05989">Long Hill Cemetery</a> <li>Shelton <a href=" ">Riverside Cemetery</a> <li>Stamford <a href=" ">Northfield Cemetery</a> <li>Stamford <a href="cms01608">St. John's and St. Andrew's Episcopal Cemetery</a> <li>Stamford <a href=" ">Westover Cemetery</a> <li>Stamford <a href="cms00912">Woodland Cemetery</a> <li>Stratford <a href="cms02327">Congregational Burying Ground</a> <li>Stratford <a href="cms00730">Episcopal Cemetery</a> <li>Stratford <a href="cms06116">Putney Cemetery</a> <li>Stratford <a href="cms05712">St. Michael's Cemetery</a> <li>Stratford <a href=" ">Union Cemetery</a> <li>Trumbull <a href="cms05654">Gate of Heaven Cemetery</a> <li>Trumbull <a href=" ">Nichols Village Cemetery</a> <li>Trumbull <a href=" ">Tashua Burial Ground</a> <li>Weston <a href="cms07667">Coley Cemetery</a> <li>Weston <a href="cms04098">Emmanuel Church Cemetery</a> <li>Westport <a href="cms01761">Evergreen Cemetery</a> <li>Westport <a href="cms07734">Willowbrook Cemetery</a> <li>Wilton <a href="cms06114">Hillside Cemetery</a> <li>Wilton <a href="cms03703">St. Matthew's Cemetery</a> </ul> <hr> <a name="cms06719">Unknown Location</a> Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Alfred Baker Lewis (1897-c.1980) — also known as Alfred B. Lewis — of Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa.; Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass.; Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass.; Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/05-20.html">May 20, 1897</a>. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; secretary of Massachusetts Socialist Party, 1924-40; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Massachusetts</a>, 1926, 1928; Socialist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936; Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1944; vice-president, later president, Union Casualty <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance</a> company. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/naacp.html">NAACP</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aclu.html">American Civil Liberties Union</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">American Federation of Teachers</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ams-dem-action.html">Americans for Democratic Action</a>. Died about 1980 (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">about 83 years</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: Son of John Frederick Lewis and Anne Henrietta Rush (Baker) Lewis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/11-20.html">November 20, 1924</a>, to Lena Greenspan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/10-14.html">October 14, 1939</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis3.html#443.97.58">Eileen B. Lane</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Unknown Location</a> Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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 A. Judd (1853-1943) — also known as Fred A. Judd — of Redding, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/index.html">1853</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Redding, 1939-40. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/index.html">1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">about 90 years</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: Married to Hattie Mayhew, Louise W. Sanford and Martha Thompson.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Bethel Public Library Grounds</a> Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) — also known as P. T. Barnum; "Prince of Humbugs" — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/07-05.html">July 5, 1810</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Grocer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/auctioneer.html">auctioneer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; Entrepreneur, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">impressario</a>, museum owner, founder of the Barnum & Bailey <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">circus</a>, known as "The Greatest Show on Earth"; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1865-66, 1877-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1875-76. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/04-07.html">April 7, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 276 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms01742">Mountain Grove Cemetery</a>, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at <a href="#cms06030">Seaside Park</a>, Bridgeport, Conn.; statue at Bethel Public Library Grounds. <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 Philo Barnum and Irena (Taylor) Barnum; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#547.88.15">Philo Fairchild Barnum</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/11-08.html">November 8, 1829</a>, to Charity Hallet; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/09-16.html">September 16, 1874</a>, to Nancy Fish; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#088.18.66">Andrew Gould Chatfield</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#177.37.86">Almon Ferdinand Rockwell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#994.23.54">William Henry Barnum</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#208.69.98">Charles William Barnum</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#286.71.40">Samuel H. Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stilgenbauer-stockslager.html#592.99.74">Rhamanthus Menville Stocker</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/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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"> — Barnum <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Bridgeport, Connecticut</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of Barnum (incorporated 1887; annexed 1896 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-names.html">Denver, Colorado</a>), was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS P. T. Barnum (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California</a>; scrapped 1961) 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/P. T. Barnum">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/121/000056950">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056144">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/56">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=26697">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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 by P. T. Barnum: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252069021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0252069021&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Center Cemetery</a> Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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 Hamilton Reid (1854-1927) — also known as John H. Reid — of Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/index.html">1854</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hats.html">Hatter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Bethel, 1911-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bethel.html#2">warden (borough president) of Bethel, Connecticut</a>, 1911. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/index.html">1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at Center 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 Anna B. MacGregor.</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/43707376">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> Ethel A. Beebe (1811-1880) — of Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/10-11.html">October 11, 1811</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bethel.html#3">Bethel, Conn.</a>, 1857-61. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/12-16.html">December 16, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 66 days</a>). Interment at Center 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 Beebe and Polly (Ward) Beebe; married to Jane E. Crofut.</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/43708192">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> Eli Starr Barnum (1819-1895) — also known as Eli S. Barnum — of Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/07-01.html">July 1, 1819</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bethel.html#3">Bethel, Conn.</a>, 1854-56. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/06-21.html">June 21, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 355 days</a>). Interment at Center 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 Julia Barnum.</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/19761542">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 H. Hickok (b. 1845) — of Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Bound Brook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/SO-lived.html">Somerset County</a>, N.J. Born in Connecticut, December, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/index.html">1845</a>. Manager in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hats.html">hat factory</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bethel.html#2">warden (borough president) of Bethel, Connecticut</a>, 1896-97, 1904-09, 1917. Interment at Center 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 George Anson Hickok and Sarah Ann (Coley) Hickok; married to Caroline 'Carrie' Foster.</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/43256050">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Wolfpit Cemetery</a> Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1825 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2193681&">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> Abel Hoyt (1778-1833) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/03-01.html">March 1, 1778</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1830. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/06-08.html">June 8, 1833</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 99 days</a>). Interment at Wolfpit 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 Hoyt and Rachel (Benedict) Hoyt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/05-15.html">May 15, 1799</a>, to Amme Bailey; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/11-22.html">November 22, 1803</a>, to Phebe Young Osborn; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#235.05.44">Eli Thacher Hoyt</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</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/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/46124200">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01742">Mountain Grove Cemetery</a> 215 Dewey Street Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=163356&">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> Daniel Nash Morgan (1844-1931) — also known as Daniel N. Morgan — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/08-18.html">August 18, 1844</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Grocer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">dry goods merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1880-81, 1884-85; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1883; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 14th District, 1885-86, 1893; resigned 1893; Treasurer of the United States, 1893-97; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1898. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</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/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. While crossing a street, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">hit by an automobile</a>, was badly injured, and died twelve days later, in Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/05-30.html">May 30, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 285 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#180.11.27">Ezra Morgan</a> and Hannah (Nash) Morgan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/06-10.html">June 10, 1868</a>, to Medora Huganen Judson (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html#715.70.23">William A. Judson</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/37152.html">Morgan-Judson family</a> of Newtown and Bridgeport, Connecticut.</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> Isaac Sherman Jr. (1800-1849) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in November, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/index.html">1800</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/horsedrawn.html">Harness and saddle business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1836-37; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html#3">Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1841-45. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cholera.html">cholera</a>, in Freeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ST-died.html">Stephenson County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/05-22.html">May 22, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Sterling Sherman.</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/159413818">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> Robert Elliott DeForest (1845-1924) — also known as Robert E. DeForest — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Guilford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/02-20.html">February 20, 1845</a>. Democrat. Common pleas court judge in Connecticut, 1874-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1878-79, 1889-91; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1880; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 14th District, 1883-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1891-95; defeated, 1894. Died in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/10-01.html">October 1, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 224 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/10-18.html">October 18, 1871</a>, to Rebecca Bellows Marcy; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/declouet-degrow.html#804.54.08">Robert G. DeForest</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=D000190">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403302">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert E. De Forest">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/22047726">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> Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) — also known as P. T. Barnum; "Prince of Humbugs" — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/07-05.html">July 5, 1810</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Grocer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/auctioneer.html">auctioneer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; Entrepreneur, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">impressario</a>, museum owner, founder of the Barnum & Bailey <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">circus</a>, known as "The Greatest Show on Earth"; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1865-66, 1877-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1875-76. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/04-07.html">April 7, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 276 days</a>). Interment at Mountain Grove Cemetery; statue at <a href="#cms06030">Seaside Park</a>; statue at <a href="# ">Bethel Public Library Grounds</a>, Bethel, Conn. <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 Philo Barnum and Irena (Taylor) Barnum; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#547.88.15">Philo Fairchild Barnum</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/11-08.html">November 8, 1829</a>, to Charity Hallet; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/09-16.html">September 16, 1874</a>, to Nancy Fish; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#088.18.66">Andrew Gould Chatfield</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#177.37.86">Almon Ferdinand Rockwell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#994.23.54">William Henry Barnum</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#208.69.98">Charles William Barnum</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#286.71.40">Samuel H. Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stilgenbauer-stockslager.html#592.99.74">Rhamanthus Menville Stocker</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/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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"> — Barnum <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Bridgeport, Connecticut</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of Barnum (incorporated 1887; annexed 1896 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-names.html">Denver, Colorado</a>), was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS P. T. Barnum (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California</a>; scrapped 1961) 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/P. T. Barnum">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/121/000056950">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056144">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/56">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=26697">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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 by P. T. Barnum: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252069021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0252069021&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself</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> Civilion Fones (1836-1907) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Toronto, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ON-born.html">Ontario</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/10-01.html">October 1, 1836</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dentist.html">Dentist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1886-88. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. 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>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/09-20.html">September 20, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 354 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Christopher Fones and Sarah Ann (Marigold) Fones; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/10-21.html">October 21, 1863</a>, to Phebe E. Wright; father of Alfred Civilion Fones.</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/56975780">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 Henry Marigold (1858-1933) — also known as William H. Marigold — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Wallingford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/09-17.html">September 17, 1858</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1891-93; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 14th District, 1895-96; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html#3">Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1897-1914. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, in the Masonic <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">Home</a>, Wallingford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-died.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/10-08.html">October 8, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 21 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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: Married to Anne C. Henderson.</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/137553863">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> Ebenezer Seeley (1793-1866) — of New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Wilton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/04-09.html">April 9, 1793</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/newhaven.html">mayor of New Haven, Conn.</a>, 1832-33; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 4th District, 1834. Died in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/01-23.html">January 23, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 289 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer Seeley">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/159023342">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Nv41YGdCFaoC&pg=PA6"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/254/36.06.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="William D. Bishop"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Darius Bishop (1827-1904) — also known as William D. Bishop — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bloomfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/09-14.html">September 14, 1827</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1857-59; defeated, 1858, 1902; U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1859-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/CT.html">1860</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 10th District, 1866, 1877-78; president, New York, New Haven and Hartford <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, 1867-79; president, Naugatuck <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, 1855-67, 1885-1903; director, Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Steamboat</a> Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Bridgeport, 1871. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">chronic endocarditis</a>, in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/02-04.html">February 4, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 143 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at Mountain 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 Alfred Bishop and Mary (Ferris) Bishop; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/">1850</a> to Julia Ann Tomlinson (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlinson.html#233.13.75">Russell Tomlinson</a>); married to Susan Adele Washburne; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bishop.html#731.74.60">Henry Alfred Bishop</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bishop.html#235.10.88">Nathaniel Wheeler 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"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17249.html">Bishop-Tomlinson family</a> of Bridgeport, Connecticut.</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=B000491">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401471">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William D. Bishop">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5848401">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: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)</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> Elisha S. Abernethy (1806-1869) — of Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/index.html">1806</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Waterbury, 1833; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Connecticut</a>, 1853. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/06-04.html">June 4, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment at Mountain 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/145626987">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> Allan W. Paige (1854-1913) — of Huntington (now Shelton), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Sherman, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/02-28.html">February 28, 1854</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1882, 1891-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives</a>, 1891-92; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 21st District, 1905-06; defeated, 1906. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/07-27.html">July 27, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 149 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 O. Paige and Cornelia (Joyce) Paige; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/12-15.html">December 15, 1887</a>, to Elizabeth Downs.</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/30847910">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> Jesse Sterling (1778-1845) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Trumbull, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/07-27.html">July 27, 1778</a>. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html#3">Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1810-29. Died in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/06-13.html">June 13, 1845</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 321 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Esther (Sherwood) Sterling and Silvanus Sterling; married to Sarah Gregory.</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/150781868">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> Julius William Knowlton (1838-1921) — also known as Julius W. Knowlton — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Southbridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/11-28.html">November 28, 1838</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html#3">Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1875-86, 1889-92. Died in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/index.html">1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">about 82 years</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Seth Knowlton and Miriam (Dresser) Knowlton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/">1866</a> to Jane Elizabeth Fairchild.</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/102699265">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> Friend William Smith Jr. (1829-1917) — also known as Friend W. Smith, Jr. — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DE-born.html">Delaware County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/05-11.html">May 11, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/inventor.html">Inventor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html#3">Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1861-69. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/03-03.html">March 3, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 296 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Friend William Smith and Mary (Esmond) Smith; married to Angeline A. Weed.</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/114091648">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> Philo Fairchild Barnum (1806-1878) — also known as Philo F. Barnum — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/08-14.html">August 14, 1806</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html#3">Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1845-49. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/02-04.html">February 4, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 174 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Philo Barnum and Phebe 'Polly' (Fairchild) Barnum; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#801.26.62">Phineas Taylor Barnum</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/">1827</a> to Sally Taylor; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#088.18.66">Andrew Gould Chatfield</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#177.37.86">Almon Ferdinand Rockwell</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#994.23.54">William Henry Barnum</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#208.69.98">Charles William Barnum</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#286.71.40">Samuel H. Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stilgenbauer-stockslager.html#592.99.74">Rhamanthus Menville Stocker</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/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/47221618">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 Edward Dunham (1822-1884) — also known as James E. Dunham — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/12-03.html">December 3, 1822</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html#3">Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1872-75. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/09-08.html">September 8, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 280 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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: Married to Mary Justina Hurd.</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/79121055">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> Oscar Durland Tuthill (1877-1936) — also known as Oscar D. Tuthill — of Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/01-15.html">January 15, 1877</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">Dairy business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/greenwich.html">first selectman of Greenwich, Connecticut</a>, 1921-36; died in office 1936. Member, <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/redmen.html">Redmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Injured in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">automobile accident</a> in Briarcliff, N.Y., and died three days later, in Ossining <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Ossining, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/09-29.html">September 29, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 258 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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: Married to Jane Sherman.</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> Frederic A. Bartlett (1866-1936) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/index.html">1866</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Bridgeport, 1909-10; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 21st District, 1911-12, 1915-20; probate judge in Connecticut, 1930. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/index.html">1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">about 70 years</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Francis Bartlett and Angeline H. (Lewis) Bartlett.</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/47222058">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Nv41YGdCFaoC&pg=PA14"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/731/74.60.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Henry A. Bishop"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Alfred Bishop (1860-1934) — also known as Henry A. Bishop — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/12-04.html">December 4, 1860</a>. Democrat. Ticket agent, purchasing agent, and superintendent of several <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroads</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Bridgeport, 1886; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/CT.html">1888</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/CT.html">1912</a> (alternate); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Connecticut</a>, 1888; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1904; president, Clapp Fire Resisting Paint Co., Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Power</a> Co., and Reed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/paint-decor.html">Carpet</a> Co.; vice-president, Brady <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Brass</a> Co., Pacific <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Iron Works</a>, Connecticut National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>, and Consolidated <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telephone</a> Co.; director, Westchester <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/streetcars.html">Street Railway</a> Co., Western Union <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/telephone.html">Telegraph</a> Co.; director, Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/psi-upsilon.html">Psi Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>. Died in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/10-22.html">October 22, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 322 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bishop.html#254.36.06">William Darius Bishop</a> and Julia Ann (Tomlinson) Bishop; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bishop.html#235.10.88">Nathaniel Wheeler Bishop</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/02-06.html">February 6, 1883</a>, to Jessie Alvord Trubee; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlinson.html#233.13.75">Russell Tomlinson</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/17249.html">Bishop-Tomlinson family</a> of Bridgeport, Connecticut.</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/136056207">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: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Nv41YGdCFaoC&pg=PA210"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/052/38.47.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="George E. Somers"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Edwin Somers (1833-1915) — also known as George E. Somers — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/01-21.html">January 21, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/machinist.html">Machinist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/inventor.html">inventor</a>; superintendent, later president, Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Brass</a> Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Bridgeport, 1897. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/12-18.html">December 18, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 331 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Esther (Peck) Somers and Rufus Somers; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/">1858</a> to Sarah J. Noble; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/12-06.html">December 6, 1865</a>, to Fannie Elizabeth (French) Clark.</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/83836217">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: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Nv41YGdCFaoC&pg=PA154"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/630/15.79.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Henry Remer Parrott"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Remer Parrott (1829-1919) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/01-04.html">January 4, 1829</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">Express agent</a>; secretary-treasurer, later president, Parrott <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/paint-decor.html">Varnish</a> Company; vice-president, People's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Steamboat</a> Company of Bridgeport; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/CT.html">1888</a> (delegation secretary); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/CT.html">Connecticut Republican State Committee</a>, 1889. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/11-25.html">November 25, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 325 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Frederick Wells Parrott and Lucelia Ann (Remer) Parrott; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/10-17.html">October 17, 1854</a>, to Annie Jane Garland; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/02-18.html">February 18, 1903</a>, to Helen Reinders.</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/76511509">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: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)</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> Nathaniel Wheeler Bishop (1865-1920) — also known as Nathaniel W. Bishop — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/07-16.html">July 16, 1865</a>. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/CT.html">1916</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Despondent due to a lengthy illness, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stabbing.html">stabbed</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">himself</a> in the chest, and died soon afterward at Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/04-04.html">April 4, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 263 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bishop.html#254.36.06">William Darius Bishop</a> and Julia Ann (Tomlinson) Bishop; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bishop.html#731.74.60">Henry Alfred Bishop</a>; married to Annie Lucetta Warner; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tomlinson.html#233.13.75">Russell Tomlinson</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/17249.html">Bishop-Tomlinson family</a> of Bridgeport, Connecticut.</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/28229207">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 A. Rusling (1848-1921) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/index.html">1848</a>. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/CT.html">1896</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/index.html">1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Margaret Howell (Benedict) Rusling and John Rusling; married to Mary S. Lane and Julia Bishop Shelton; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rushern-russel.html#078.39.04">Robert Rusling</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rushern-russel.html#782.92.13">James Jacob Rusling</a>; first cousin once removed of Emily Wells Rusling (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bates.html#735.59.49">Arthur Laban Bates</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0260.html">Adams-Rusling family</a> (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/82341627">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> Jesse Milton Coburn (1853-1923) — also known as J. Milton Coburn — of South Norwalk (now part of Norwalk), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Pittsfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-born.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/03-27.html">March 27, 1853</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/norwalk.html#5">mayor of South Norwalk, Conn.</a>, 1898-99; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Norwalk, 1902. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died in Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/08-13.html">August 13, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 139 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Rev. Jesse Milton Coburn and Almira (Morse) Coburn; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/08-04.html">August 4, 1879</a>, to Abbie M. Cutler.</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> Baldwin Hasbrouck (1867-1923) — of Port Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-born.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/02-11.html">February 11, 1867</a>. Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Westchester County 2nd District, 1921. Died in Port Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/11-02.html">November 2, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 264 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Lucy Augusta (Baldwin) Hasbrouck and Jared Hasbrouck; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#186.41.07">Samuel Sherman</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0089.html">Cornell family</a> of New York (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/146359507">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Nv41YGdCFaoC&pg=PA32-IA1"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/386/33.42.jpg" width=70 height=99 border=0 alt="Isaac W. Birdseye"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isaac Washington Birdseye (1847-1927) — also known as Isaac W. Birdseye — of Shelton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Huntington (now Shelton), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/06-18.html">June 18, 1847</a>. Republican. Manufacturer of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">corsets</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/mil-ord-foreign-wars.html">Military Order of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. Died in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/10-06.html">October 6, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 110 days</a>). Entombed at Mountain 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 Joseph Birdseye and Caroline (Hubbell) Birdseye; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/05-04.html">May 4, 1880</a>, to Elizabeth Josephine 'Lizzie' Sherwood; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#132.02.73">Victory James Birdseye</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#167.73.63">Gershom Birdsey</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#972.80.44">Benjamin Hard</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#343.41.04">Eli Coe Birdsey</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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">Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)</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> David Sheldon Day (1880-1962) — also known as David S. Day — of Colchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-lived.html">New London County</a>, Conn.; Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Colchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/09-08.html">September 8, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; vice-president, Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">Storage</a> Warehouse Co.; secretary and director, Bead Chain <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">Manufacturing</a> Co.; director, Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Gas Light</a> Co.; director, American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Fabrics</a> Co.; director and member executive committee, Bridgeport <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Colchester, 1905-06. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/09-02.html">September 2, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 359 days</a>). Interment at Mountain 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 Erastus Sheldon Day and Catherine Gardner (Olmstead) Day; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/04-30.html">April 30, 1913</a>, to Natalie A. Cornwall.</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/82297998">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> Samuel Simons (1792-1847) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/index.html">1792</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Bridgeport, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1843-45. Died in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/01-13.html">January 13, 1847</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Original interment at Mountain Grove Cemetery; reinterment 1859 to unknown location. <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=S000425">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409919">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Simons">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7371749">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Old Stratfield Cemetery</a> Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> George W. Hubbell (d. 1831) — of Connecticut. Born in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PH-consuls.html ">Manila</a>, 1822-31, died in office 1831. Died in Manila, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PH-died.html">Philippines</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/05-03.html">May 3, 1831</a>. Interment at Old Stratfield Cemetery; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PH-buried.html# ">United States Embassy Grounds</a>, Manila, Philippines. <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 Capt. Ezekiel Hubbell.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Park Cemetery</a> 620 Lindley Street Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=103570&">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"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/982/89.08.jpg" width=70 height=123 border=0 alt="Jasper McLevy"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jasper McLevy (1878-1962) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/index.html">1878</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Carpenter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/roofing.html">roofing business</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Bridgeport, 1906, 1912, 1914, 1916; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a>, 1908 (at-large), 1920 (4th District), 1960 (4th District); delegate to Socialist National Convention from Connecticut, 1912, 1920; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1924, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1958; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1933-57; defeated, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1957, 1959; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1952, 1956. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Died in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/11-20.html">November 20, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">about 84 years</a>). Interment at Park 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 Mary Flynn; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/">1929</a> to Vida Stearns; uncle of Elizabeth Hutchinson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freemont-fremming.html#897.27.44">Irving C. Freese</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/Jasper McLevy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/30800823">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=28756">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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: New York Times, November 8, 1939</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06030">Seaside Park</a> Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) — also known as P. T. Barnum; "Prince of Humbugs" — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/07-05.html">July 5, 1810</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Grocer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/auctioneer.html">auctioneer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; Entrepreneur, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">impressario</a>, museum owner, founder of the Barnum & Bailey <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">circus</a>, known as "The Greatest Show on Earth"; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1865-66, 1877-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html">mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1875-76. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart failure</a>, in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/04-07.html">April 7, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 276 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms01742">Mountain Grove Cemetery</a>; statue at Seaside Park; statue at <a href="# ">Bethel Public Library Grounds</a>, Bethel, Conn. <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 Philo Barnum and Irena (Taylor) Barnum; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#547.88.15">Philo Fairchild Barnum</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/11-08.html">November 8, 1829</a>, to Charity Hallet; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/09-16.html">September 16, 1874</a>, to Nancy Fish; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#088.18.66">Andrew Gould Chatfield</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#177.37.86">Almon Ferdinand Rockwell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#994.23.54">William Henry Barnum</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#208.69.98">Charles William Barnum</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#286.71.40">Samuel H. Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stilgenbauer-stockslager.html#592.99.74">Rhamanthus Menville Stocker</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/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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"> — Barnum <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Avenue</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Bridgeport, Connecticut</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of Barnum (incorporated 1887; annexed 1896 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CO/de-names.html">Denver, Colorado</a>), was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS P. T. Barnum (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California</a>; scrapped 1961) 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/P. T. Barnum">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/121/000056950">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056144">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/56">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=26697">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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 by P. T. Barnum: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252069021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0252069021&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Central Cemetery</a> Federal Road Brookfield Center, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1961051&">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 Skidmore Thornhill (1864-1946) — also known as John S. Thornhill — of Brookfield Center, Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bridgewater, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/03-06.html">March 6, 1864</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/brookfield.html">first selectman of Brookfield, Connecticut</a>, 1904-07, 1910-15, 1919-21, 1924; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Brookfield, 1923-38; defeated, 1904 (Democratic), 1910, 1920; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 24th District, 1939-40. Died in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/12-29.html">December 29, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 298 days</a>). Interment at Central 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 Elizabeth Merriman (Skidmore) Thornhill and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thone-thornley.html#617.60.08">Samuel Thornhill</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/04-21.html">April 21, 1887</a>, to Anna Mae Tibbals.</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/90383055">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 Blackman Roe (1856-1932) — also known as William B. Roe — of Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Millerton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/08-05.html">August 5, 1856</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Civil engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/brookfield.html">first selectman of Brookfield, Connecticut</a>, 1898-1901, 1917; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Brookfield, 1901-02; probate judge in Connecticut, 1906-26. Died in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/08-07.html">August 7, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 2 days</a>). Interment at Central 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 Elizabeth (Blackman) Roe and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roe.html#886.77.47">Harvey Roe</a>; married to Mary Susan Clark.</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/91206642">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 Clark Joyce (1880-1928) — also known as D. Clark Joyce — of Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/10-15.html">October 15, 1880</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Brookfield, 1913-16; town treasurer. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/12-28.html">December 28, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at Central 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 D. Joyce and Sarah (Clark) Joyce; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#909.90.32">Charles Franklin Conger</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#317.28.00">James Lockwood Conger</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#065.35.89">Hugh Conger</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0054.html">King-Hazard family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0520.html">Rossell-Ellis-Conger-Richards family</a> of New Jersey; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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/89028419">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 Thornhill (1834-1890) — of Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in De Peyster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SL-born.html">St. Lawrence County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/03-03.html">March 3, 1834</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Brookfield, 1882. Died in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/01-06.html">January 6, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 309 days</a>). Interment at Central 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 Thornhill and Frances Thornhill; married to Elizabeth Merriman Skidmore; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thone-thornley.html#593.13.84">John Skidmore Thornhill</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/90382585">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> Harvey Roe (1823-1894) — of Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in North East, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/04-21.html">April 21, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Brookfield, 1868; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/brookfield.html">first selectman of Brookfield, Connecticut</a>, 1871-74, 1879-81. Died in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/01-17.html">January 17, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at Central 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 Abigail (Dunning) Roe and Alva Roe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/10-08.html">October 8, 1844</a>, to Mary Elizabeth Blackman; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roe.html#574.70.51">William Blackman Roe</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/91206014">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 Sherman (1828-1901) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/06-02.html">June 2, 1828</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; accompanied the ailing Vice President-elect, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/king9.html#368.59.94">William Rufus de Vane King</a>, on his visit to Cuba in 1853; probate judge in Connecticut, 1873; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 11th District, 1874. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/psi-upsilon.html">Psi Upsilon</a>. Died in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/10-22.html">October 22, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 142 days</a>). Interment at Central 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 Abel Sherman and Sarah 'Sally' (Bradley) Sherman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/06-10.html">June 10, 1860</a>, to Dona Mercedes Montejo; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harvie-hasenfratz.html#415.88.71">Baldwin Hasbrouck</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#652.15.91">Ezekiel Cornell</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/10001-0087.html">Durfee-Wanton family</a> of Newport, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0089.html">Cornell family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0054.html">King-Hazard family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0384.html">Hatfield-Cornell-Woolsey family</a> of New York (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/38336995">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> Norris Hatch (1867-1926) — of New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/index.html">1867</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/newfairfield.html">First selectman of New Fairfield, Connecticut</a>, 1911. Died in New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/index.html">1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">about 59 years</a>). Interment at Central 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 Russell Hatch and Betsey Irene (Wildman) Hatch; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#067.82.05">Charles Beers Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#710.88.38">Joseph Russell Hatch</a>; married to Anna May Morgan; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#094.84.42">David DeForest Wildman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#406.85.66">Rounsevelle Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#078.88.46">Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#402.76.60">Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#670.74.05">Ira R. Wildman</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/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/89787716">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 H. Camp (1862-1938) — of Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/02-19.html">February 19, 1862</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Brookfield, 1917-18. Died in Brookfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/index.html">1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Interment at Central 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 Wooster Camp and Eliza A. (Kenipe) Camp.</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/26599830">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 Beers Hatch (1855-1948) — also known as Charles B. Hatch — of New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Pomona Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PU-lived.html">Putnam County</a>, Fla. Born in New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/03-05.html">March 5, 1855</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/automfg.html">Carriage manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from New Fairfield; elected 1910. Died in Pomona Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PU-died.html">Putnam County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/02-21.html">February 21, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 353 days</a>). Interment at Central 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 Russell Hatch and Betsey Irene (Wildman) Hatch; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#710.88.38">Joseph Russell Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#189.52.74">Norris Hatch</a>; married to Evelyn Eudora Morgan; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#094.84.42">David DeForest Wildman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#406.85.66">Rounsevelle Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#078.88.46">Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#402.76.60">Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#670.74.05">Ira R. Wildman</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/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/89865169">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a> Brookfield Center, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Barzillai Bulkeley Kellogg (1818-1882) — also known as Barzillai B. Kellogg — of New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/12-25.html">December 25, 1818</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 11th District, 1858. Died in New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/07-18.html">July 18, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 205 days</a>). Interment at Laurel 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 Hanford Martin Kellogg and Sarah (Bulkeley) Kellogg; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/09-08.html">September 8, 1845</a>, to Emeline Johnson; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#747.56.87">David Munson Osborne</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#994.23.54">William Henry Barnum</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#032.33.79">Thomas Mott Osborne</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#062.67.77">Ellsworth Abraham Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#417.76.61">Charles Devens Osborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#039.21.18">Lithgow Osborne</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#208.69.98">Charles William Barnum</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#222.26.90">Daniel Chapin</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beardmore-beattie.html#532.12.12">Howkin Bulkley Beardslee</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#375.04.02">Jesse Hoyt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#667.79.10">Graham Hurd Chapin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html#361.75.00">Millard Ellsworth Lane</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York (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/48367078">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">New St. Peter Cemetery</a> Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Norman A. Buzaid (1923-1998) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/03-26.html">March 26, 1923</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1950; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/danbury.html#2">first selectman of Danbury, Connecticut</a>, 1961; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/CT.html">1968</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/arabic.html">Lebanese</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1998/10-08.html">October 8, 1998</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 196 days</a>). Interment at New St. Peter 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 Chicary Namy Buzaid and Josephine (Gabriele) Buzaid.</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/23767910">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05014">North Main Street Cemetery</a> Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Joseph Platt Cooke (1730-1816) — also known as Joseph P. Cooke; Joseph Platt Cook — of Connecticut. Born in Stratford (part now in Bridgeport), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/01-04.html">January 4, 1730</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; probate judge in Connecticut, 1776-1813; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1776, 1778, 1780-82, 1784; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut</a>, 1770, 1784-88; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stcn.html">Connecticut council of assistants</a>, 1784-1802. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/02-03.html">February 3, 1816</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 30 days</a>). Interment at North Main 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000733">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402855">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Platt Cooke">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01014">Wooster Cemetery</a> Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=103843&">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> Zalmon Wildman (1775-1835) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1775/02-16.html">February 16, 1775</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hats.html">Hat manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/danbury.html#4">Danbury, Conn.</a>, 1808-35; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1818-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1835; died in office 1835. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/12-10.html">December 10, 1835</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 297 days</a>). Interment at Wooster Cemetery; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <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 Ezekiel Wildman and Abigail (Hoyt) Wildman; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#402.76.60">Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/01-16.html">January 16, 1798</a>, to Mary Betts Dibble; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#235.05.44">Eli Thacher Hoyt</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#670.74.05">Ira R. Wildman</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#060.42.73">Abel Hoyt</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#094.84.42">David DeForest Wildman</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#067.82.05">Charles Beers Hatch</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#710.88.38">Joseph Russell Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#189.52.74">Norris Hatch</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#406.85.66">Rounsevelle Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#078.88.46">Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman</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/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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=W000463">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411620">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmon Wildman">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7371790">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 Hubbard Tweedy (1814-1891) — also known as John H. Tweedy — of Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-lived.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/11-09.html">November 9, 1814</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/trcn.html">Member Wisconsin territorial council</a>, 1842; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Wisconsin state constitutional convention</a>, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Wisconsin Territory</a>, 1847-48; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1848; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/milwaukee.html#2">Milwaukee, Wis.</a>, 1850-51; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1853. Died in Milwaukee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/MI-died.html">Milwaukee County</a>, Wis., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/11-12.html">November 12, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 3 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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/tuttrop-tye.html#684.56.22">Samuel Tweedy</a> and Ann (Burr) Tweedy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#118.98.50">Edgar S. Tweedy</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/06-08.html">June 8, 1848</a>, to Anna Maria Bird Fisher; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#701.62.43">Smith Tweedy</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#738.05.22">John Tweedy</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#155.59.54">Alfred Tweedy</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/12142.html">Tweedy family</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=T000441">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411009">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/14269390">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> Francis Emanuel Shober (1860-1919) — also known as Frank E. Shober — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/RO-born.html">Rowan County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/10-24.html">October 24, 1860</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 17th District, 1903-05; defeated, 1906. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/10-07.html">October 7, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 348 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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/shober-shorett.html#251.58.90">Francis Edwin Shober</a> and Josephine May (Wheat) Shober; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/04-11.html">April 11, 1882</a>, to Helen Lloyd Aspinwall (first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/roosevelt.html#876.28.99">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a>); second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robe-roberto.html#106.90.08">Daniel Roberdeau</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/10001-0658.html">Shober-Roosevelt-Wheat-Roberdeau family</a> of Salisbury, North Carolina (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=S000373">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409867">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7371796">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 Tweedy (1776-1868) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Nine Partners, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-born.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/03-08.html">March 8, 1776</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1820, 1824, 1856; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> at-large, 1826-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1833-35. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/07-01.html">July 1, 1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 115 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 Tweedy (1744-1820) and Anna (Smith) Tweedy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#701.62.43">Smith Tweedy</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/09-22.html">September 22, 1805</a>, to Ann Burr; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#118.98.50">Edgar S. Tweedy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#733.06.69">John Hubbard Tweedy</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#738.05.22">John Tweedy</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#155.59.54">Alfred Tweedy</a>; second great-grandfather of Anne Stuyvesant Tweedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/archibald-armstead.html#221.56.65">Philip Pendleton Ardery</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/12142.html">Tweedy family</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=T000442">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411010">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Tweedy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7371776">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> Smith Tweedy (1784-1862) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/09-22.html">September 22, 1784</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Bridgeport, 1827, 1829, 1833, 1836; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/bridgeport.html#3">Bridgeport, Conn.</a>, 1837-41. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-21.html">September 21, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 364 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 Tweedy (1744-1820) and Anna (Smith) Tweedy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#684.56.22">Samuel Tweedy (1776-1868)</a>; married to Mercy Patch; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#118.98.50">Edgar S. Tweedy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#733.06.69">John Hubbard Tweedy</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#738.05.22">John Tweedy</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#155.59.54">Alfred Tweedy</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/12142.html">Tweedy family</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/65837249">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> Frederick Seymour Wildman (1805-1893) — also known as Frederick S. Wildman — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/01-20.html">January 20, 1805</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/danbury.html#4">Danbury, Conn.</a>, 1835; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1854, 1856; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/CT.html">1856</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/trea.html">Connecticut state treasurer</a>, 1857-58; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 11th District, 1860. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/10-16.html">October 16, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 269 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a> and Mary Betts (Dibble) Wildman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/">1827</a> to Julia Ann Starr; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#402.76.60">Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#235.05.44">Eli Thacher Hoyt</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#670.74.05">Ira R. Wildman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#060.42.73">Abel Hoyt</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#094.84.42">David DeForest Wildman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#067.82.05">Charles Beers Hatch</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#710.88.38">Joseph Russell Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#189.52.74">Norris Hatch</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/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/54058749">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> Byron W. Austin (1887-1937) — of Miami, Dade County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DA-lived.html">Miami-Dade County</a>), Fla.; Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/index.html">1887</a>. Democrat. Elected <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/danbury.html">mayor of Danbury, Conn.</a> 1937, but died before taking office. Died, probably by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">suicide</a>, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/poison.html">carbon monoxide poisoning</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/in-cars.html">his car</a>, in the garage of his hunting lodge, in New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., about <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/04-01.html">April 1, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 Willis Austin.</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/28504615">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> Eli Thacher Hoyt (1793-1883) — also known as Eli T. Hoyt — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/09-25.html">September 25, 1793</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1833-34, 1849; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 11th District, 1844. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/08-13.html">August 13, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 322 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 Enos Hoyt and Sarah (Penfield) Hoyt; married to Mary Wildman; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paine.html#379.70.27">Robert Treat Paine</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#060.42.73">Abel Hoyt</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boardman.html#177.66.79">Elijah Boardman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bosa-bouckaert.html#919.29.03">William Bostwick</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lathem-lathrop.html#224.69.81">Samuel Lathrop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bosa-bouckaert.html#036.74.87">Daniel Warner Bostwick</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#747.56.87">David Munson Osborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#790.53.24">Dwight Arthur Silliman</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0065.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</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> Edgar S. Tweedy (1808-1893) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/05-23.html">May 23, 1808</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1845; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/CT.html">1860</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/CT.html">1880</a>; Honorary Secretary, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/officers.html">1856</a>. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/03-10.html">March 10, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 291 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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/tuttrop-tye.html#684.56.22">Samuel Tweedy</a> and Ann (Burr) Tweedy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#733.06.69">John Hubbard Tweedy</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/01-24.html">January 24, 1832</a>, to Ann Bishop; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/06-04.html">June 4, 1834</a>, to Elizabeth S. C. Belden; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#738.05.22">John Tweedy</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#701.62.43">Smith Tweedy</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#155.59.54">Alfred Tweedy</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/12142.html">Tweedy family</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/32124064">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> Phineas D. Crosby (c.1817-1891) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New York, about 1817. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/danbury.html#4">Danbury, Conn.</a>, 1841-44, 1870-76. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/08-30.html">August 30, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">about 74 years</a>). Interment at Wooster 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, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/09-01.html">September 1, 1840</a>, to Rebecca 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/32247002">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 Tweedy (1843-1912) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/08-25.html">August 25, 1843</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/CT.html">1872</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/danbury.html#4">Danbury, Conn.</a>, 1876-86, 1891-95; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1906. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/08-04.html">August 4, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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/tuttrop-tye.html#118.98.50">Edgar S. Tweedy</a> and Elizabeth (Belden) Tweedy; married to Laura B. Wildman and Susan Philip; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#733.06.69">John Hubbard Tweedy</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#684.56.22">Samuel Tweedy</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#701.62.43">Smith Tweedy</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttrop-tye.html#155.59.54">Alfred Tweedy</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/12142.html">Tweedy family</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/29752971">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> Orville Howard Northrop (1859-1941) — also known as Orville H. Northrop — of East Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/02-23.html">February 23, 1859</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/plumbing-heating.html">Plumber</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">tinsmith</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1910; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Died in East Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/11-20.html">November 20, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 270 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at Wooster 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 E. Northrop and Catharine (Keeler) Northrop; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/09-05.html">September 5, 1882</a>, to Clara Lepine Welby.</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/221071771">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> Matthew Beale Whittlesey (1766-1847) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/10-13.html">October 13, 1766</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1810. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/10-10.html">October 10, 1847</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 362 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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/whitten-wickware.html#134.48.84">John Whittlesey</a> and Mary (Beale) Whittlesey; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#524.50.03">Elisha Whittlesey</a>; married to Hannah White and Caroline Hallami; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#221.12.32">William Augustus Whittlesey</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/11148.html">Whittlesey family</a> of Connecticut.</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/46498658">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> David DeForest Wildman (1807-1852) — also known as David D. Wildman — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/08-05.html">August 5, 1807</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1837-38. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/05-31.html">May 31, 1852</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 300 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 Benajah Wildman and Rebecca (DeForest) Wildman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/05-19.html">May 19, 1829</a>, to Fanny Bishop; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#670.74.05">Ira R. Wildman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#402.76.60">Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#067.82.05">Charles Beers Hatch</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#710.88.38">Joseph Russell Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#189.52.74">Norris Hatch</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#406.85.66">Rounsevelle Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#078.88.46">Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</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/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/139303131">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> Sturges Selleck (1787-1871) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1787/05-15.html">May 15, 1787</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1823. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/08-24.html">August 24, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 101 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 Selleck and Catherine (Beatty) Selleck; married to Mary Chapman Hull; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/04-07.html">April 7, 1863</a>, to Betsey Ann Marshall Osborne; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#686.32.21">Ebenezer Lockwood</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#733.39.35">Daniel Lockwood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#559.30.97">Gold Selleck Silliman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#557.40.33">Benjamin Silliman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#919.42.00">Horatio Lockwood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#867.49.50">Hanford Nichols Lockwood</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#683.76.19">Charles Clapp Lockwood</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/63900639">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> Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman (1801-1877) — also known as Nathaniel H. Wildman — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/05-03.html">May 3, 1801</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1837, 1850. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/08-10.html">August 10, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 99 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 Ezekiel Wildman and Sarah (Hibbard) Wildman; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#670.74.05">Ira R. Wildman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#094.84.42">David DeForest Wildman</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#067.82.05">Charles Beers Hatch</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#710.88.38">Joseph Russell Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#189.52.74">Norris Hatch</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#406.85.66">Rounsevelle Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#078.88.46">Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman</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/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/133341871">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 Russell Hatch (1863-1919) — also known as Joseph R. Hatch — of New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/index.html">1863</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from New Fairfield; elected 1902, 1904. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/index.html">1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">about 56 years</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 Russell Hatch and Betsey Irene (Wildman) Hatch; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#067.82.05">Charles Beers Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#189.52.74">Norris Hatch</a>; married to Almira Hayes; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#094.84.42">David DeForest Wildman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#406.85.66">Rounsevelle Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#078.88.46">Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#402.76.60">Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#670.74.05">Ira R. Wildman</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/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/39839071">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> Stillman Stephen Light (1858-1933) — also known as Stillman Light — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Jefferson Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/11-13.html">November 13, 1858</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/plumbing-heating.html">Plumber</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1914. Died, in Danbury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/03-11.html">March 11, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 118 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 B. Light and Orpha Jane (Pinckney) Light; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purcell.html#228.61.46">John Cecil Purcell</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#054.67.62">Ezra Cornell</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#131.55.29">Israel Washburn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#081.76.93">Reuel Washburn</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#332.44.23">Alonzo Barton Cornell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schenk-schissler.html#524.82.69">Frederick C. Schilplin</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/10001-0089.html">Cornell family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0560.html">Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family</a> of New York (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/32824940">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> Ira R. Wildman (1850-1939) — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/02-03.html">February 3, 1850</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1910. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/01-31.html">January 31, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 362 days</a>). Interment at Wooster 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 David Smith Wildman and Eunice (Ambler) Wildman; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/">1878</a> to Emma Osborne Bailey; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#165.54.00">Zalmon Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#402.76.60">Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#138.71.79">Frederick Seymour Wildman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#094.84.42">David DeForest Wildman</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#259.69.16">Andrew Adams</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#485.50.85">George Winthrop Fairchild</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#125.18.82">Israel Coe</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#067.82.05">Charles Beers Hatch</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#710.88.38">Joseph Russell Hatch</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#189.52.74">Norris Hatch</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0119.html">Wildman family</a> of Danbury, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a> (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/32188924">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Spring Grove Cemetery</a> Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> William Nelson Demarest (1849-1937) — also known as William N. Demarest — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/10-24.html">October 24, 1849</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/paint-decor.html">Painter and paperhanger</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stamford, 1908, 1910. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/07-10.html">July 10, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 259 days</a>). Interment at Spring 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 Gilbert Demarest and Matilda (Nelson) Demarest; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/11-14.html">November 14, 1875</a>, to Eunice Evangeline Toms; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/">1929</a> to Florance A. Nearing; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/demaggio-demps.html#323.39.36">Andrew H. Demarest</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/10001-0526.html">Demarest family</a> of New York (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/127295782">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07687">Unknown Location</a> Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Roy T. Yates (1895-1960) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-lived.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Paterson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-born.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/08-08.html">August 8, 1895</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NJ.html">New Jersey Republican State Committee</a>, 1925-27; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/stsen.html">New Jersey state senate</a> from Passaic County, 1928-31; resigned 1931. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pat-ord-sons-am.html">Patriotic Order Sons of America</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">Shot</a> in the abdomen, on August 14, 1931, by Miss Ruth Cranmer, in her apartment in Manhattan, New York; this incident led to the discovery that Miss Cranmer, apparently his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">mistress</a>, had also received checks from the State of New Jersey; the New Jersey State Senate Judiciary committee began an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> into whether Sen. Yates should be <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeached</a>; but then he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, in Doctors <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/1960/03-08.html">March 8, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 213 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: Married to Elsie Southrope.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06115">Easton Cemetery</a> Easton, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> James Arthur Sherwood (1867-1944) — also known as J. Arthur Sherwood — of Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/05-08.html">May 8, 1867</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Easton, 1903-04; defeated, 1912, 1916; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/easton.html">first selectman of Easton, Connecticut</a>, 1907. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/04-24.html">April 24, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 352 days</a>). Interment at Easton Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07124">Unknown Location</a> Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> George Charles Hanson (1883-1935) — also known as George C. Hanson — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/10-11.html">October 11, 1883</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Engineer</a>; U.S. Deputy Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Shanghai</a>, 1911-12; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Chefoo</a>, 1912-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Dalny</a>, 1913-14; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Newchwang</a>, 1914; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Tientsin</a>, 1914-15; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Swatow</a>, 1915-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Chungking</a>, 1917-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Foochow</a>, 1918-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Harbin</a>, 1921-31; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Harbin</a>, 1931-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">Moscow</a>, 1934-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GC-consuls.html ">Salonika</a>, 1935, died in office 1935. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/alpha-delta-sigma.html">Alpha Delta Sigma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-tau-delta.html">Delta Tau Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-pol-soc-sci.html">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a>. Killed by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/suicide.html">self-inflicted</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/on-ships.html">aboard the steamship</a> President Polk, en route from Marseilles to New York, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/09-02.html">September 2, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 326 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: Son of Charles C. Hanson and Josephine (Stegkemper) Hanson.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07579">East Cemetery</a> Old Post Road Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Finette Benson Nichols (1864-1948) — also known as Finette B. Nichols — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/index.html">1864</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Fairfield, 1931-47. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/02-11.html">February 11, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">about 83 years</a>). Interment at East Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08178">Greenfield Hill Cemetery</a> Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) — of Augusta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/RI-lived.html">Richmond County</a>, Ga. Born in North Guilford, Guilford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1754/11-22.html">November 22, 1754</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1785; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia</a>, 1785, 1787-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> at-large, 1789-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Georgia</a>, 1799-1807; died in office 1807. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. One of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/univfound.html">founders</a>, and first <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, of Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/03-04.html">March 4, 1807</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 102 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00376">Rock Creek Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Greenfield 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 Michael Baldwin and Lucy (Dudley) Baldwin; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#387.80.86">Henry Baldwin</a>; brother of Ruth Baldwin (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barlow.html#672.48.02">Joel Barlow</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/13142.html">Baldwin family</a> of Connecticut.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Baldwin counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/BA.html">Ala.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BD.html">Ga.</a> are named for him.</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 Abraham Baldwin (built 1941 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-names.html">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>; scuttled 1976 as an artificial reef in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/MX-names.html">Gulf of Mexico</a>) 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=B000084">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401086">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham Baldwin">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2269">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05539">Oak Lawn Cemetery</a> 1530 Bronson Road Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1865 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1000492&">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> Stewart Brett McKinney (1931-1987) — also known as Stewart B. McKinney — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Westport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/01-30.html">January 30, 1931</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1967-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1971-87; died in office 1987; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/CT.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Bisexual</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aids.html">acquired immune deficiency syndrome</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/05-07.html">May 7, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 97 days</a>). Interment at Oak Lawn 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 Polk McKinney and Clare Louise (Brett) McKinney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/10-02.html">October 2, 1954</a>, to Lucy Cunningham; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mckinney.html#233.70.39">John P. McKinney</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">The Stewart B. McKinney <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Transportation Center</a> (built 1987), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Stamford, Connecticut</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Stewart B. McKinney <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">National Wildlife Refuge</a> (etablished 1972 as the Salt Meadow Wildlife Refuge; renamed 1987), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Fairfield</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-names.html">New Haven</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-names.html">Middlesex</a> counties, Connecticut, 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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000527">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407519">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart McKinney (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/104382968">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 Coughlin Shannon (1896-1980) — also known as James C. Shannon — of Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn.; Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/07-21.html">July 21, 1896</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1947-48; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/CT.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/CT.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1948-49; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/CT.html">Republican National Committee from Connecticut</a>, 1952; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1953-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/spju.html">justice of Connecticut state supreme court</a>, 1965-66. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/index.html">1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">about 83 years</a>). Interment at Oak Lawn 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://www.nga.org/governor/james-coughlin-shannon/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13985981">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> Calvin Goddard Child (1834-1880) — also known as Calvin G. Child — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Norwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/04-06.html">April 6, 1834</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Connecticut</a>, 1870-80; died in office 1880. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/09-28.html">September 28, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 175 days</a>). Interment at Oak Lawn 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 Asa Child and Alice Hart (Goddard) Child; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/09-17.html">September 17, 1858</a>, to Katherine Godfrey; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/godard-goder.html#674.92.02">Calvin Goddard</a>.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/464/49.56.jpg" width=70 height=114 border=0 alt="William L. Beers"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Leslie Beers (1904-1955) — also known as William L. Beers — of New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn.; Guilford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Guilford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/08-17.html">August 17, 1904</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/attygn.html">Connecticut state attorney general</a>, 1953-55; appointed 1953. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart ailment</a>, in Grace New Haven <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-died.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/01-14.html">January 14, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 150 days</a>). Interment at Oak Lawn 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 George Emerson Beers and Margaret (Lowry) Beers; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/05-30.html">May 30, 1924</a>, to Doris M. Kiernan.</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/172893742">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: Connecticut Register & Manual 1953</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> Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) — also known as Oliver G. Jennings — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/04-27.html">April 27, 1865</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/CT.html">1916</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Fairfield, 1923-24; director, U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Steel</a> Corporation; director, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Grocery Store</a> Products, Inc. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/skull-bones.html">Skull and Bones</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">bronchial pneumonia</a>, in the Harbor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">Sanitarium</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/10-13.html">October 13, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 169 days</a>). Interment at Oak Lawn 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 Oliver Burr Jennings and Esther Judson (Goodsell) Jennings; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/">1896</a> to Mary Dows Brewster; father of Benjamin Brewster Jennings; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</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/10422.html">Kennedy family</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/85280763">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> Oliver Cromwell Jennings (1864-1944) — also known as Oliver C. Jennings — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/index.html">1864</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/meat.html">Butcher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Fairfield, 1903-04. Died in Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/03-20.html">March 20, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">about 79 years</a>). Interment at Oak Lawn 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">Oliver Cromwell</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 Harriet Helen (Morris) Jennings and Horace Jennings; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/">1889</a> to Sarah Stewart 'Sadie' Forsyth; sixth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#024.71.41">Robert Treat</a>; seventh great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welles-wellmerling.html#111.95.76">Thomas Welles</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#929.47.54">Noah Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrell-merrifield.html#456.12.69">Nathaniel Merriam</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#733.39.35">Daniel Lockwood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#167.73.63">Gershom Birdsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#972.80.44">Benjamin Hard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#867.49.50">Hanford Nichols Lockwood</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#747.56.87">David Munson Osborne</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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/115060617">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01526">Old Burying Ground</a> Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Jonathan Sturges (1740-1819) — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/08-23.html">August 23, 1740</a>. Member of Connecticut state legislature, 1772; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut</a>, 1774; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stcn.html">Connecticut council of assistants</a>, 1786-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1789-93; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1792-1805. Slaveowner. Died in Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/10-04.html">October 4, 1819</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 42 days</a>). Interment at Old Burying Ground. <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: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#375.04.19">Lewis Burr Sturges</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=S001047">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410501">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan Sturges">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Unknown Location</a> Southport, Fairfield, Fairfield County, <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">First Congregational Church Cemetery</a> Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> William R. Lockwood (1831-1893) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/11-06.html">November 6, 1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stamford.html#3">first selectman of Stamford, Connecticut</a>, 1888-93. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/02-02.html">February 2, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 88 days</a>). Interment at First Congregational Church 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 Julia Ann (Peck) Lockwood and William A. Lockwood; married to Josephine Keeler.</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/113303813">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">New Burial Grounds Association Cemetery</a> Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Joseph E. Brush (1817-1886) — of Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/03-23.html">March 23, 1817</a>. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/greenwich.html#3">Greenwich, Conn.</a>, 1849-53, 1861-66, 1869-83. Died in Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/01-07.html">January 7, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at New Burial Grounds Association 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/162393039">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01815">Putnam Cemetery</a> Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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/708/45.98.jpg" width=70 height=118 border=0 alt="Prescott S. Bush"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972) — also known as Prescott S. Bush — of Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/05-15.html">May 15, 1895</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; director, Pan American <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/aviation.html">Airways</a>; director, Columbia <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">Broadcasting</a> System (CBS); delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/CT.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/CT.html">1956</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/CT.html">1960</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/CT.html">1964</a> (alternate); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1952-63; defeated, 1950. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/skull-bones.html">Skull and Bones</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung-cancer.html">lung cancer</a>, in the Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a> for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/10-08.html">October 8, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 146 days</a>). Interment at Putnam 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 Prescott Bush and Flora (Sheldon) Bush; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/08-06.html">August 6, 1921</a>, to Dorothy Walker; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#028.71.80">George Herbert Walker Bush</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#984.52.89">Barbara Pierce</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#874.74.60">George Walker Bush</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#154.84.01">Laura Lane Welch</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#670.03.91">John Ellis Bush</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#420.10.01">George Prescott Bush</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/10388.html">Bush family</a> of Texas and 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=B001167">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402109">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott Bush">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/501/000052345">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1778210">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=8035">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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">Critical books about Prescott Bush: Kitty Kelly, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385503245/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385503245&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty</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: Connecticut Register & Manual 1953</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> Townsend Scudder (1865-1960) — of Glen Head, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Northport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/07-26.html">July 26, 1865</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1899-1901, 1903-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1907-20, 1927-35; defeated, 1920; appointed 1927; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1921; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department, 1933. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/02-22.html">February 22, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/94.html">94 years, 211 days</a>). Interment at Putnam Cemetery; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y. <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 Townsend Scudder (1828-1874) and Sarah Maria (Frost) Scudder; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/06-03.html">June 3, 1891</a>, to Mary Dannat Thayer; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scudder.html#053.18.96">Henry Joel Scudder</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scudder.html#199.87.50">Henry Scudder</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scudder.html#565.78.49">Caleb Scudder</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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=S000202">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409707">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend Scudder">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7371828">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01309">St. Mary's Cemetery</a> North Street Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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/833/20.13.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="Albert P. Morano"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Paul Morano (1908-1987) — also known as Albert P. Morano — of Indian Harbor, Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Paterson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/PA-born.html">Passaic County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/01-18.html">January 18, 1908</a>. Republican. Congressional executive secretary to Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/austin.html#834.77.49">Albert E. Austin</a>, 1939-41, and Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/luce.html#138.98.56">Clare Boothe Luce</a>, 1943-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1951-59; defeated, 1958; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Republican National Convention, 1952. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Greenwich <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/12-16.html">December 16, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 332 days</a>). Interment at St. Mary's 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 Millicent Greco.</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=M000935">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407904">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert P. Morano">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: Connecticut Register & Manual 1953</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 Ryan (1840-1925) — of Port Chester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Tipperary, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/03-08.html">March 8, 1840</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Westchester County 2nd District, 1891-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 16th District, 1893-95; defeated, 1894. Died in Crescent City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PU-died.html">Putnam County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/02-18.html">February 18, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 347 days</a>). Interment at St. Mary's 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=R000561">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409517">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> William Laurence Tierney (1876-1958) — also known as William L. Tierney — of Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/08-06.html">August 6, 1876</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1931-33; defeated, 1932. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/04-13.html">April 13, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 250 days</a>). Interment at St. Mary's 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 Jeremiah Tierney and Mary Ann (Loughlin) Tierney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/07-14.html">July 14, 1904</a>, to Marian Irene Brady; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tierney.html#762.68.80">William Laurence Tierney Jr.</a>; first cousin of Margaret Elizabeth Tierney (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curran.html#395.59.77">James Joseph Curran</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/17516.html">Tierney family</a> of Greenwich, Connecticut.</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=T000267">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410840">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William L. Tierney">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> Michael L. Morano (1915-2000) — also known as "Mr. Highway Safety" — of Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/10-16.html">October 16, 1915</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1961-77; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1977-89. Died in Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/05-07.html">May 7, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 204 days</a>). Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Laurence Tierney Jr. (1907-1989) — also known as William L. Tierney, Jr. — of Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Rumson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-born.html">Monmouth County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/06-04.html">June 4, 1907</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1968-77. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died, in Greenwich <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1989/01-06.html">January 6, 1989</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 216 days</a>). Interment at St. Mary's 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/tierney.html#148.42.69">William Laurence Tierney</a> and Marian Irene (Brady) Tierney; married to Dorita 'Mary' Dillon.</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/17516.html">Tierney family</a> of Greenwich, Connecticut.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06734">Union Cemetery</a> Milbank Avenue Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> H. Allen Barton (1893-1947) — of Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/02-28.html">February 28, 1893</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 27th District, 1931-32; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Greenwich, 1932; editor of Connecticut Bar Journal, 1943-44. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Greenwich <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/02-05.html">February 5, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 342 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at Union Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Monroe Center Cemetery</a> Old Tannery Road Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1776 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=103478&">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> Charles B. Clarke (1802-1886) — of Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/10-08.html">October 8, 1802</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 10th District, 1867. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/10-13.html">October 13, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 5 days</a>). Interment at Monroe Center 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/79466534">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07009">Unknown Location</a> New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> William Hollingsworth Attwood (1919-1989) — also known as William Attwood — of New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-born.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/07-14.html">July 14, 1919</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper correspondent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor and publisher</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GN-diplomats.html ">Guinea</a>, 1961-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/KY-diplomats.html ">Kenya</a>, 1964-66. He became <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">partially lame</a> due to polio he caught in Africa. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1989/04-15.html">April 15, 1989</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 275 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: Son of Frederic Attwood and Gladys (Hollingsworth) Attwood; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/06-22.html">June 22, 1950</a>, to Simone Cadgene.</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/William Attwood">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/attwood-william-hollingsworth">U.S. State Dept career summary</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 by William Attwood: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007DXMFK/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007DXMFK&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Still the Most Exciting Country</a> (1955) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060390689/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060390689&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Twilight Struggle : Tales of the Cold War</a> (1987) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CNJRU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000CNJRU&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Reds and the Blacks : A Personal Adventure</a> (1967)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Lakeview Cemetery</a> New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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://books.google.com/books?id=r7o-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/123/68.36.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Joseph F. Silliman"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Fitch Silliman (1840-1913) — also known as Joseph F. Silliman — of New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/02-07.html">February 7, 1840</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/excavation.html">stone crushing business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from New Canaan, 1901-02; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 26th District, 1909-10. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/index.html">1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at Lakeview 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/sigerson-silon.html#635.58.79">Joseph Silliman (c.1786-1850)</a> and Martha Ann (Mitchell) Silliman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/10-17.html">October 17, 1866</a>, to Caroline Hoyt; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#516.94.17">Joseph Silliman (1756-1829)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#763.72.14">William Leete</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#559.30.97">Gold Selleck Silliman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#557.40.33">Benjamin Silliman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#740.01.54">Benjamin Douglas Silliman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#790.53.24">Dwight Arthur Silliman</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#985.05.82">Enoch Woodbridge</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#048.03.47">Benjamin Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#742.80.84">William Woodbridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stratton.html#812.34.09">Jonathan Stratton</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/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0065.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York (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/30959698">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: Connecticut Legislative History and Souvenir (1909)</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 Silliman (1756-1829) — of New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/08-09.html">August 9, 1756</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from New Canaan, 1801. Died in Bedford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/09-28.html">September 28, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 50 days</a>). Interment at Lakeview 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 Robert Silliman and Anne (Cooke) Silliman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/11-23.html">November 23, 1785</a>, to Martha Leeds; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#635.58.79">Joseph Silliman (c.1786-1850)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#123.68.36">Joseph Fitch Silliman</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#763.72.14">William Leete</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#790.53.24">Dwight Arthur Silliman</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#559.30.97">Gold Selleck Silliman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#557.40.33">Benjamin Silliman</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#740.01.54">Benjamin Douglas Silliman</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#915.26.78">Emil Lockwood</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#985.05.82">Enoch Woodbridge</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#048.03.47">Benjamin Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#742.80.84">William Woodbridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stratton.html#812.34.09">Jonathan Stratton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#594.74.07">Frederick Augustus Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#668.08.14">Frederick Enoch Woodbridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#610.59.03">John Woodruff</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#115.72.55">Joseph Lyman Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#537.42.17">Roger Calvin Leete</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#073.50.89">George Douglas Perkins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#316.01.77">Timothy Lester Woodruff</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#567.11.01">Anson Foster Keeler</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#743.86.80">Elisha Phelps</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/44041972">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 Silliman (c.1786-1850) — of New Canaan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born about 1786. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from New Canaan, 1835. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/10-23.html">October 23, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</a>). Interment at Lakeview 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/sigerson-silon.html#516.94.17">Joseph Silliman (1756-1829)</a> and Martha (Leeds) Silliman; married to Martha Ann Mitchell; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#123.68.36">Joseph Fitch Silliman</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#763.72.14">William Leete</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#559.30.97">Gold Selleck Silliman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#557.40.33">Benjamin Silliman</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#790.53.24">Dwight Arthur Silliman</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#740.01.54">Benjamin Douglas Silliman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#985.05.82">Enoch Woodbridge</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#048.03.47">Benjamin Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#742.80.84">William Woodbridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stratton.html#812.34.09">Jonathan Stratton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#594.74.07">Frederick Augustus Tallmadge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#668.08.14">Frederick Enoch Woodbridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#610.59.03">John Woodruff</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/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0065.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York (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/44042477">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Mountain View Cemetery</a> New Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1926 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=103494&">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> Marshall Treadwell (1875-1958) — of New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/index.html">1875</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/newfairfield.html">first selectman of New Fairfield, Connecticut</a>, 1919-20; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from New Fairfield, 1921-22; defeated, 1918. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/index.html">1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">about 83 years</a>). Interment at Mountain View 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/44074107">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03410">Newtown Cemetery</a> Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> William Edmond (1755-1838) — of Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Woodbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1755/09-28.html">September 28, 1755</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1791-97, 1801-02; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1797-1801; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stcn.html">Connecticut council of assistants</a>, 1803-05; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1805-19. Died in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/08-01.html">August 1, 1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 307 days</a>). Interment at Newtown 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=E000052">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403747">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Edmond">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Taunton Cemetery</a> Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=103761&">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> Jonathan Starr Fairchild (c.1783-1826) — also known as Jonathan S. Fairchild — of Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born about 1783. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Newtown, 1824-25. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/11-07.html">November 7, 1826</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">about 43 years</a>). Interment at Taunton 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/43841761">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Zoar Cemetery</a> Berkshire Road Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1767 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1970724&">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> Luzon Burritt Morris (1827-1895) — also known as Luzon B. Morris — of Seymour, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn.; New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/04-16.html">April 16, 1827</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1855-56, 1870, 1876, 1880-81; probate judge in Connecticut, 1857-63; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 4th District, 1874; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1893-95; defeated, 1888, 1890. Died, of apoplexy (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/08-22.html">August 22, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 128 days</a>). Interment at Zoar 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: Father of Helen Harrison Morris (who married of Arthur Twining Hadley) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#862.02.31">Charles Gould Morris</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/luzon-burritt-morris/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzon B. Morris">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12649422">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 Gould Morris (1871-1961) — also known as Charles G. Morris — of Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Westville, Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/02-04.html">February 4, 1871</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">milk dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Newtown, 1919-20; defeated, 1920; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1924, 1926, 1928; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/CT.html">1928</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-pol-soc-sci.html">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-world-federalists.html">United World Federalists</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/index.html">1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">about 90 years</a>). Interment at Zoar 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/morris.html#257.67.19">Luzon Burritt Morris</a> and Eugenia L. (Tuttle) Morris; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/09-27.html">September 27, 1899</a>, to Elisabeth Woodbridge.</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/57968738">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=59924">OurCampaigns candidate detail</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 Hard (1779-1836) — of Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/02-08.html">February 8, 1779</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Newtown, 1825-26, 1828. Died in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/09-04.html">September 4, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 209 days</a>). Interment at Zoar 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 Niram Hard and Sarah Birdseye (Curtis) Hard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/12-17.html">December 17, 1801</a>, to Mabel Tomlinson; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#024.71.41">Robert Treat</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/welles-wellmerling.html#111.95.76">Thomas Welles</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#167.73.63">Gershom Birdsey</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#922.40.73">Gideon Hard</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#343.41.04">Eli Coe Birdsey (1799-1843)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell5.html#124.41.70">John Leslie Russell</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell6.html#625.36.81">Leslie Wead Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#014.46.35">Henry Merritt Hard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#733.63.64">Eli Coe Birdsey (1843-1929)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell2.html#450.95.89">Charles Hazen Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#153.32.70">John Clarence Keeler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#493.72.51">Arthur Julius Birdseye</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#966.73.28">Edward Henry Holden</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#132.02.73">Victory James Birdseye</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatch.html#444.86.31">Jethro Ayers Hatch</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allman-alsop.html#615.47.93">John Alsop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paine.html#379.70.27">Robert Treat Paine</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#779.42.84">Chauncey Goodrich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#850.68.26">Elizur Goodrich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#386.33.42">Isaac Washington Birdseye</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jennings.html#825.94.07">Oliver Cromwell Jennings</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrell-merrifield.html#456.12.69">Nathaniel Merriam</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#582.50.39">Reuben Bostwick Heacock</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#667.79.10">Graham Hurd Chapin</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#970.87.08">Ebenezer Hazard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#472.46.19">Elisha Hotchkiss Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#026.38.52">Henry Leavitt Ellsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#601.47.35">William Wolcott Ellsworth</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seymour.html#626.06.04">David Lowrey Seymour</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0086.html">Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington family</a> of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (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/44590645">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 Franklin Conger (1867-1947) — also known as Charles F. Conger — of Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Monroe, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/12-15.html">December 15, 1867</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/horsedrawn.html">Blacksmith</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Newtown; elected 1912. Died in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/11-21.html">November 21, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 341 days</a>). Interment at Zoar 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 F. Conger and Julia (Squiers) Conger; married to Mary E. Morrow; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/joyce.html#450.93.18">Daniel Clark Joyce</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#317.28.00">James Lockwood Conger</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#065.35.89">Hugh Conger</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rossdale-rotan.html#463.89.32">William Henry Rossell</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#123.53.84">Anson Griffith Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#499.43.84">Harmon Sweatland Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#541.81.62">Omar Dwight Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#220.73.42">Moore Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#087.79.44">Frederick Ward Conger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#398.98.93">Chauncey Stewart Conger (1838-1916)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#030.91.98">Abraham Bogart Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#000.02.26">Edwin Hurd Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#494.60.21">James W. Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#836.07.64">Franklin Barker Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#934.34.14">Benn Conger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#509.64.14">Chauncey Stewart Conger (1882-1963)</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/44590511">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07494">St. Rose Cemetery</a> Sandy Hook, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Michael J. Houlihan (c.1859-1925) — of Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Newtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., about 1859. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">Hotel-keeper</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1885; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 15th District, 1891-94; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1896; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CT.html">Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee</a>, 1901. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/09-20.html">September 20, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 years</a>). Interment at St. Rose Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07821">Unknown Locations</a> Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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/878/41.71.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="John F. O'Brien"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Francis O'Brien (1874-1939) — also known as John F. O'Brien — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/06-13.html">June 13, 1874</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/coajd.html">judge of New York Court of Appeals</a>, 1927-39; appointed 1927; died in office 1939. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/12-25.html">December 25, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 195 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: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/obrien2.html#575.46.20">Denis O'Brien</a> and Margaret (McCahill) O'Brien; married to Hilda Le Grand Lockwood.</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: New York Red Book 1936</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> Edwin Olmstead Keeler (1846-1923) — also known as Edwin O. Keeler — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/01-12.html">January 12, 1846</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Wholesale grocer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Norwalk, 1893-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/norwalk.html">mayor of Norwalk, Conn.</a>, 1893-94; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/CT.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee</a>); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1897-1900; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1901-03; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/CT.html">Connecticut Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1901. Member, <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/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/12-04.html">December 4, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 326 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: Son of Jonah Charles Keeler and Henrietta (Olmstead) Keeler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/05-13.html">May 13, 1868</a>, to Sarah Velina Whiting; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#049.29.31">Fred Lockwood Keeler</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#541.43.02">Martin Keeler</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#412.80.96">Stephen Hiram Keeler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#747.56.87">David Munson Osborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bandel-bankhead.html#612.92.69">Alfred Walstein Bangs</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#153.32.70">John Clarence Keeler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#032.33.79">Thomas Mott Osborne</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#567.11.01">Anson Foster Keeler</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0336.html">Bache-Dallas family</a> of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</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> Jeremiah T. Brooks (c.1819-1911) — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1819. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Police officer</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 15th District, 1898; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Helped to quell the New York City draft riots in 1863; founder of Prohibition Party organization in New York City, 1882. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/11-30.html">November 30, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">about 92 years</a>). Interment somewhere. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06700">East Norwalk Historical Cemetery</a> East Avenue Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Thomas Fitch — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/colgov.html">Colonial Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1754-66. Interment at East Norwalk Historical Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02536">Norwalk Cemetery</a> Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Orris Sanford Ferry (1823-1875) — also known as Orris S. Ferry — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Bethel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/08-15.html">August 15, 1823</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; probate judge in Connecticut, 1849; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 12th District, 1855-56; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1867-75; died in office 1875. Died in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/11-21.html">November 21, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 98 days</a>). Interment at Norwalk 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=F000094">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404051">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orris S. Ferry">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> Thomas Belden Butler (1806-1873) — also known as Thomas B. Butler — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Wethersfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-born.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/08-22.html">August 22, 1806</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Norwalk, 1832-33, 1837; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 12th District, 1838-39, 1848, 1852-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1849-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/spju.html">justice of Connecticut state supreme court</a>, 1861-70. Died in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/06-08.html">June 8, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at Norwalk 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 Frederick Butler and Mary (Belden) Butler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/03-14.html">March 14, 1831</a>, to Mary Phillips; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#062.20.35">Charles Kellogg</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#262.96.22">Alvan Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#785.33.52">Ensign Hosmer Kellogg</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#352.67.90">Orlando Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0037.html">Morris-Ingersoll family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0137.html">Morton family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (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=B001191">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402133">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas B. Butler">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> Homer Morrison Byington (1879-1966) — also known as Homer M. Byington — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/09-19.html">September 19, 1879</a>. U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Naples</a>, 1900-08; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Rome</a>, 1908-09; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Bristol</a>, 1909-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Leeds</a>, 1913-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Hull</a>, 1917-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Palermo</a>, 1919-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Naples</a>, 1920-21; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-consuls.html ">Naples</a>, 1923-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-consuls.html ">Antwerp</a>, as of 1935; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-consuls.html ">Montreal</a>, as of 1936-43. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">nursing home</a> at Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/07-07.html">July 7, 1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 291 days</a>). Interment at Norwalk 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 George Richmond Byington and Emma Marsalena (Morrison) Byington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/06-02.html">June 2, 1903</a>, to Jeannette Lindsley Gregory; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#202.61.28">Homer Morrison Byington Jr.</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#479.73.25">Aaron Homer Byington</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/14295.html">Byington family</a> of Norwalk, Connecticut.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04821">Norwalk Union Cemetery</a> Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Clark Bissell (1782-1857) — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Lebanon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/09-07.html">September 7, 1782</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Norwalk, 1829; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1829-39; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 12th District, 1842-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1847-49. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/09-15.html">September 15, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 8 days</a>). Interment at Norwalk Union 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://www.nga.org/governor/clark-bissell/">National Governors Association biography</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 Thomas Peach (1862-1921) — also known as Charles T. Peach — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Waterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/12-27.html">December 27, 1862</a>. Socialist. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">Printer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a>, 1904 (at-large), 1906 (4th District), 1910 (4th District), 1918 (5th District); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1908, 1920; delegate to Socialist National Convention from Connecticut, 1912, 1920. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/index.html">1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Interment at Norwalk Union 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 Peach and Sarah Ann Peach.</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/58521286">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=204528">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01124">Riverside Cemetery</a> 81 Riverside Avenue Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1886 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=103604&">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"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT87"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/768/62.74.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Ebenezer J. Hill"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ebenezer J. Hill (1845-1917) — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Redding, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/08-04.html">August 4, 1845</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber merchant</a>; president, Norwalk <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Gas Light</a> Co.; vice-president, National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> of Norwalk; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/CT.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/CT.html">1908</a> (alternate); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 13th District, 1887-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1895-1913, 1915-17; defeated, 1912; died in office 1917. Died in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/09-27.html">September 27, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at Riverside 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=H000591">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405453">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer J. Hill">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7374818">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: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)</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> Levi Warner (1831-1911) — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Wethersfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-born.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/10-10.html">October 10, 1831</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1876-79. Died in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/04-12.html">April 12, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 184 days</a>). Interment at Riverside 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: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warner-warnock.html#292.30.04">Samuel Larkin Warner</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=W000155">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411328">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi Warner">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7374826">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> Abner Woodruff Sibal (1921-2000) — also known as Abner W. Sibal — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Ridgewood, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/04-11.html">April 11, 1921</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1956-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1961-65; defeated, 1964, 1966; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/CT.html">1964</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/01-27.html">January 27, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 291 days</a>). Interment at Riverside 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=S000395">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409889">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner W. Sibal">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8057202">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> Nelson Taylor (1821-1894) — of Stockton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SJ-lived.html">San Joaquin County</a>, Calif.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; South Norwalk, Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in South Norwalk, Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/06-08.html">June 8, 1821</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/stsen.html">California state senate</a>, 1850-56; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 5th District, 1865-67; defeated, 1860, 1866. Died in South Norwalk, Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/01-16.html">January 16, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 222 days</a>). Interment at Riverside 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=T000096">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410679">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6902302">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> Le Roy Donnelly Downs (1900-1970) — also known as Le Roy D. Downs — of South Norwalk, Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/04-11.html">April 11, 1900</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; Norwalk City Clerk, 1933-40; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1941-43; defeated, 1942; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/norwalk.html">mayor of Norwalk, Conn.</a>, 1949. Died in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/01-18.html">January 18, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 282 days</a>). Interment at Riverside 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=D000475">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403584">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le Roy D. Downs">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7374832">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> Nehemiah Candee (1870-1941) — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Easton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/index.html">1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Norwalk, 1917-20; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 26th District, 1921-22, 1939-40. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/index.html">1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">about 71 years</a>). Interment at Riverside 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell-cannington.html#231.51.50">Annie Candee</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">Epitaph: "One Who Loved His Fellow Men."</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/80168243">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> Annie Candee (1868-1956) — also known as Annie Chunn — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/index.html">1868</a>. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/CT.html">1928</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/dar.html">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/index.html">1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">about 88 years</a>). Interment at Riverside 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell-cannington.html#589.89.25">Nehemiah Candee</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">Epitaph: "Beloved Wife and Mother."</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/80168216">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03388">St. John's Cemetery</a> Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Former-Norwalk-Mayor-Donald-Irwin-dies-4655026.php"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/456/08.11.jpg" width=70 height=117 border=0 alt="Donald J. Irwin"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Donald Jay Irwin (1926-2013) — also known as Donald J. Irwin — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Rosario, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-born.html">Argentina</a> of American parents, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/09-07.html">September 7, 1926</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1959-61, 1965-69; defeated, 1960, 1968; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CT.html">1960</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/CT.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/trea.html">Connecticut state treasurer</a>, 1961-63; appointed 1961; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/norwalk.html">mayor of Norwalk, Conn.</a>, 1971-75. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jaycees.html">Jaycees</a>. Died in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2013/07-07.html">July 7, 2013</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 303 days</a>). Interment at St. John's 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 Montrose Wellington Irwin and Marion (Reynolds) Irwin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/08-23.html">August 23, 1952</a>, to Mary Stapleton.</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=I000039">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405896">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald J. Irwin">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: Stamford (Conn.) Advocate, July 10, 2013</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> Jeremiah Donovan (1857-1935) — of South Norwalk, Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-18.html">October 18, 1857</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tavern-biz.html">Saloon keeper</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Norwalk, 1903-04; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 26th District, 1905-08, 1911-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1913-15; defeated, 1914, 1916; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/norwalk.html">mayor of Norwalk, Conn.</a>, 1917-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/CT.html">1920</a>. Died in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/04-22.html">April 22, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 186 days</a>). Interment at St. John's 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=D000422">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403535">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Donovan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7374860">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02584">St. Mary's Cemetery</a> Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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/607/98.28.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="Brien McMahon"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Brien McMahon (1903-1952) — also known as James O'Brien Mahon — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/10-06.html">October 6, 1903</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/CT.html">1932</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/CT.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/CT.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/CT.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/CT.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/CT.html">1952</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1945-52; died in office 1952. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/07-28.html">July 28, 1952</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 296 days</a>). Interment at St. Mary's 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=M000559">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407551">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brien McMahon">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: Connecticut Register and Manual 1950</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02275">Union Cemetery</a> Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Thaddeus Betts (1789-1840) — of Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Norwalk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/02-04.html">February 4, 1789</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Norwalk, 1815, 1830; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1828, 1831 (at-large 1828, 12th District 1831); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1832-33, 1834-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1839-40; died in office 1840. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/04-07.html">April 7, 1840</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 63 days</a>). Interment at Union Cemetery; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <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 Maltby Betts and Lucretia (Gregory) Betts; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/">1815</a> to Antoinette Cannon; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#600.87.10">Abraham Davenport (1715-1789)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#570.26.19">Abraham Davenport (1767-1837)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fringer-frosh.html#518.79.69">Philip Frisbee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#733.39.35">Daniel Lockwood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#559.30.97">Gold Selleck Silliman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#557.40.33">Benjamin Silliman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#902.41.90">DeGrasse Maltby</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#867.49.50">Hanford Nichols Lockwood</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/root.html#087.15.51">Joseph Pomeroy Root</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#686.32.21">Ebenezer Lockwood</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#939.26.26">Aaron Kitchell</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#541.43.02">Martin Keeler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#317.28.00">James Lockwood Conger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#740.01.54">Benjamin Douglas Silliman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#176.74.70">Homer Nichols Lockwood</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#919.42.00">Horatio Lockwood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yadkin-yarrow.html#147.74.00">Ira Yale</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#330.21.97">Gideon Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#126.06.30">Asahel Augustus Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#412.80.96">Stephen Hiram Keeler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#769.70.05">Julius Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hotchkiss-hougen.html#372.80.00">Giles Waldo Hotchkiss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#000.59.60">Samuel DeWitt Maltby</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#538.47.53">Benjamin Josiah Maltby</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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=B000428">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401414">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus Betts">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05371">Great Pasture Road Cemetery</a> Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://npgportraits.si.edu/eMuseumNPG/code/emuseum.asp?rawsearch=ObjectID/,/is/,/23226/,/false/,/false&newprofile=CAP&newstyle=single"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/672/48.02.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="Joel Barlow"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joel Barlow (1754-1812) — of Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-lived.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn. Born in Redding, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1754/03-24.html">March 24, 1754</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">chaplain</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">writer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">poet</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-consuls.html ">Cadiz</a>, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AG-consuls.html ">Algiers</a>, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1811-12, died in office 1812. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S. Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">exposure</a>, in Zarnowiec, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-died.html">Poland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/12-24.html">December 24, 1812</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 275 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PL-buried.html#cms05370">Churchyard</a>, Zarnowiec, Poland; cenotaph at Great Pasture Road 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 Barlow and Esther (Hull) Barlow; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/12-26.html">December 26, 1779</a>, to Ruth Baldwin (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#492.98.88">Abraham Baldwin</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/13142.html">Baldwin family</a> of Connecticut.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Joel Barlow <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Redding, Connecticut</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">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel Barlow">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/barlow-joel ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/506/000048362">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6688639">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 Joel Barlow: Peter P. Hill, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597976822/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1597976822&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Joel Barlow, American Diplomat and Nation Builder</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 Portrait Gallery</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Fairlawn Cemetery</a> Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1077244&">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> George Pratt Ingersoll (1861-1927) — also known as George P. Ingersoll — of Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/04-24.html">April 24, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1910; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/TH-diplomats.html ">Siam</a>, 1917-18. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html">Delta Psi</a>. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/02-24.html">February 24, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 306 days</a>). Interment at Fairlawn 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/ingersoll.html#236.98.89">Colin Macrae Ingersoll</a> and Julia Harriet (Pratt) Ingersoll; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/11-03.html">November 3, 1891</a>, to Alice Witherspoon; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#767.56.05">Charles Roberts Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pratt.html#260.29.22">George Watson Pratt</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#970.95.77">Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pratt.html#399.44.38">Zadock Pratt</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#199.05.27">Charles Anthony Ingersoll</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#877.33.50">Jonathan Ingersoll</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#918.45.60">Jared Ingersoll</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#524.16.25">Charles Jared Ingersoll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#083.89.11">Joseph Reed Ingersoll</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#050.76.07">Charles Edward Ingersoll</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#761.44.25">Laman Ingersoll</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0037.html">Morris-Ingersoll family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (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://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/ingersoll-george-pratt ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86449273">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> Harvey Platt Bissell (1866-1930) — also known as Harvey P. Bissell — of Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Morris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/09-27.html">September 27, 1866</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">Druggist</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Ridgefield, 1901-02; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 24th District, 1915-20; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/CT.html">1920</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/comp.html">Connecticut state comptroller</a>, 1921-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/CTcc nBR">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1923-28. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/04-06.html">April 6, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 191 days</a>). Interment at Fairlawn 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 Flora Randall.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "This tablet is erected as a testimonial to a true public servant and patriot by those with whom he lives in memory."</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/69828739">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 I. Abbott (1857-1932) — of Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/index.html">1857</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Ridgefield; elected 1902. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/index.html">1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">about 75 years</a>). Interment at Fairlawn 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/86336176">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04801">Ridgefield Cemetery</a> Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> George Edward Lounsbury (1838-1904) — also known as George E. Lounsbury — of Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Pound Ridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/05-07.html">May 7, 1838</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">Manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 12th District, 1895-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1899-1901. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/08-16.html">August 16, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 101 days</a>). Interment at Ridgefield 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 Delia Ann (Scofield) Lounsbury and Nathan Lounsbury; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/louanner-louwet.html#958.46.35">Phineas Chapman Lounsbury</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#573.15.35">George Lounsbury Rockwell</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/11521.html">Lounsbury family</a> of Ridgefield, Connecticut.</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/george-edward-lounsbury/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/589/000209959">NNDB dossier</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> Phineas Chapman Lounsbury (1841-1925) — also known as Phineas C. Lounsbury — of Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/01-10.html">January 10, 1841</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/leather.html">boot and shoe manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1874; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1887-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ridgefield.html#2">warden (borough president) of Ridgefield, Connecticut</a>, 1904. Died in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/06-22.html">June 22, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 163 days</a>). Interment at Ridgefield 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 Delia Ann (Scofield) Lounsbury and Nathan Lounsbury; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/louanner-louwet.html#834.26.25">George Edward Lounsbury</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/">1867</a> to Jennie Wright; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#573.15.35">George Lounsbury Rockwell</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/11521.html">Lounsbury family</a> of Ridgefield, Connecticut.</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/phineas-chapman-lounsbury/">National Governors Association biography</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> Philip Burr Bradley — of Connecticut. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Connecticut state legislature, 1790. Interment at Ridgefield Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Scott's Cemetery</a> North Salem Road Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1876 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2322336&">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> Peter P. Cornen (1815-1893) — of Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/03-13.html">March 13, 1815</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil producer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 11th District, 1867; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Ridgefield, 1871. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/03-23.html">March 23, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at Scott's 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/41766979">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> Lewis H. Bailey (1818-1899) — of Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/index.html">1818</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hotel-biz.html">innkeeper</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 11th District, 1875. Died in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/07-30.html">July 30, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">about 81 years</a>). Interment at Scott's 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/41767024">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 Oscar Seymour (1833-1911) — also known as William O. Seymour — of Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/10-16.html">October 16, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">civil engineer</a>; chief engineer, New York, New Haven and Hartford <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; probate judge in Connecticut, 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; Connecticut state railroad commissioner; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Ridgefield, 1911; died in office 1911. Died in Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/01-24.html">January 24, 1911</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at Scott's 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 (Betts) Seymour and William Wells Seymour; married to Rebecca Mary Sproull.</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/41752938">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Titicus Cemetery</a> Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> William Harrison Bradley (1848-1929) — also known as William H. Bradley — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill.; Ridgefield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Galena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/JD-born.html">Jo Daviess County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/06-03.html">June 3, 1848</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">Importer</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-consuls.html ">Nice</a>, 1889-93; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Tunstall</a>, 1897-1903; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Manchester</a>, 1903-05, 1906-07; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">Manchester</a>, 1905-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/QB-consuls.html ">Montreal</a>, 1907-17. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/09-17.html">September 17, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 106 days</a>). Interment at Titicus 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 Henry Bradley and Idea Sophronia (Strong) Bradley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/09-24.html">September 24, 1873</a>, to Mary Capen Gray; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/11-13.html">November 13, 1883</a>, to Carolina Lawson.</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/152693262">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05989">Long Hill Cemetery</a> Shelton, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Henry Shelton Sanford (1823-1891) — Born in Woodbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/06-15.html">June 15, 1823</a>. U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-diplomats.html ">Belgium</a>, 1861-69. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/05-21.html">May 21, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 340 days</a>). Interment at Long 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanford.html#301.99.57">Nehemiah Curtis Sanford</a> and Nancy Bateman (Shelton) Sanford; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/09-21.html">September 21, 1864</a>, to Gertrude Ellen Dupuy; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanford.html#992.79.32">John Sanford</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/10988.html">Sanford family</a> of Woodbury, Connecticut.</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/SE-names.html">Sanford, Florida</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Henry S. Sanford (built 1943-44 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/DU-names.html">Jacksonville, Florida</a>; scrapped 1970) 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/Henry Shelton Sanford">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/sanford-henry-shelton ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Riverside Cemetery</a> Shelton, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Daniel Seymour Brinsmade (1845-1912) — also known as Daniel S. Brinsmade — of Shelton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Trumbull, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/02-17.html">February 17, 1845</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Civil engineer</a>; chief engineer, treasurer, and president, Ousatonic <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Water Power</a> Company; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Huntington, 1882. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/09-07.html">September 7, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 203 days</a>). Interment at Riverside 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 Stiles Brinsmade and Catherine (Mallette) Brinsmade; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/">1870</a> to Jeanette S. Pardee.</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/81131944">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Northfield Cemetery</a> North Street & Franklin Street Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1787 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1019853&">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 Davenport (1752-1830) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1752/01-16.html">January 16, 1752</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1776; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stamford.html#4">Stamford, Conn.</a>, 1787-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a>, 1799-1817 (at-large 1799-1805, 2nd District 1805-07, at-large 1807-09, 3rd District 1809-11, at-large 1811-17). Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/11-28.html">November 28, 1830</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 316 days</a>). Interment at Northfield 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/davenport.html#600.87.10">Abraham Davenport (1715-1789)</a> and Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>; married to Mary Sylvester Welles; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#570.26.19">Abraham Davenport (1767-1837)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berryhill-betz.html#318.75.04">Thaddeus Betts</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/root.html#087.15.51">Joseph Pomeroy Root</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a> and <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/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards4.html#127.62.71">Henry Waggaman Edwards</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#492.07.22">Evert Harris Kittell</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#594.09.65">John Foster Dulles</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#661.62.14">Allen Welsh Dulles</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#494.45.40">Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#939.26.26">Aaron Kitchell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#286.71.40">Samuel H. Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#729.62.14">Zina Hyde Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#855.99.20">Nathaniel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#026.00.76">James Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#578.27.47">Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#115.72.55">Joseph Lyman Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#089.34.88">Peter Buell Porter Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#454.18.53">Elisha Mills Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#742.80.84">William Woodbridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#525.38.95">Isaac Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockson-bronrott.html#446.38.88">John Hall Brockway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#614.71.17">Henry Titus Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#209.91.18">Edward Green Bradford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#462.32.81">Ulysses Simpson Grant</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#850.34.66">Robert Coit Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#532.00.49">Collins Dwight Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#063.41.35">George Milo Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#300.28.98">Thomas Worcester Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#964.75.12">Alonzo Mark Leffingwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lathem-lathrop.html#058.29.17">Abial Lathrop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooker.html#900.95.54">Edward Williams Hooker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/waterman.html#957.86.08">Alexander Hamilton Waterman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#587.44.91">Matthew Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#073.50.89">George Douglas Perkins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/comte-conditt.html#811.79.86">Elias Mulford Condit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#781.68.07">Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#885.50.11">Edward Green Bradford II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#144.42.40">Frederick Dent Grant</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#500.19.17">Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#713.93.60">William Barret Ridgely</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#416.38.08">Charles Edward Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#102.01.36">Clement Phineas Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#645.80.14">Herman Arod Gager</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#475.20.08">William Brainard Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#616.27.89">John Sedgwick Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#301.16.25">Edward Warden Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#308.16.83">John Leffingwell Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed4.html#123.20.81">George Leffingwell Reed</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodward.html#807.46.34">Blanche M. Woodward</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#779.42.84">Chauncey Goodrich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#850.68.26">Elizur Goodrich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#788.84.18">Hezekiah Case</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams7.html#433.52.89">Parmenio Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttle.html#282.14.92">Ambrose Tuttle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#375.04.02">Jesse Hoyt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#002.57.43">Abiel Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#138.27.81">Charles Phelps Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#177.15.53">Jairus Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#087.76.51">John Arnold Rockwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell5.html#124.41.70">John Leslie Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George Washington Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#904.82.30">Almon Case</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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=D000075">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403213">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Davenport (Connecticut politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6078551">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 Davenport (1758-1797) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1758/10-12.html">October 12, 1758</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1785; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stcn.html">Connecticut council of assistants</a>, 1790-96; common pleas court judge in Connecticut, 1792; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1796-97; died in office 1797. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/08-03.html">August 3, 1797</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 295 days</a>). Interment at Northfield 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/davenport.html#600.87.10">Abraham Davenport (1715-1789)</a> and Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/05-07.html">May 7, 1777</a>, to Abigail Fitch; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/11-06.html">November 6, 1790</a>, to Mehitable Coggeshall; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#570.26.19">Abraham Davenport (1767-1837)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berryhill-betz.html#318.75.04">Thaddeus Betts</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/root.html#087.15.51">Joseph Pomeroy Root</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a> and <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/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards4.html#127.62.71">Henry Waggaman Edwards</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#492.07.22">Evert Harris Kittell</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#594.09.65">John Foster Dulles</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#661.62.14">Allen Welsh Dulles</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#494.45.40">Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#939.26.26">Aaron Kitchell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#286.71.40">Samuel H. Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#729.62.14">Zina Hyde Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#855.99.20">Nathaniel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#026.00.76">James Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#578.27.47">Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#115.72.55">Joseph Lyman Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#089.34.88">Peter Buell Porter Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#454.18.53">Elisha Mills Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#742.80.84">William Woodbridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#525.38.95">Isaac Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockson-bronrott.html#446.38.88">John Hall Brockway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#614.71.17">Henry Titus Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#209.91.18">Edward Green Bradford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#462.32.81">Ulysses Simpson Grant</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#850.34.66">Robert Coit Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#532.00.49">Collins Dwight Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#063.41.35">George Milo Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#300.28.98">Thomas Worcester Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#964.75.12">Alonzo Mark Leffingwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lathem-lathrop.html#058.29.17">Abial Lathrop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooker.html#900.95.54">Edward Williams Hooker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/waterman.html#957.86.08">Alexander Hamilton Waterman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#587.44.91">Matthew Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#073.50.89">George Douglas Perkins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/comte-conditt.html#811.79.86">Elias Mulford Condit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#781.68.07">Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#885.50.11">Edward Green Bradford II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#144.42.40">Frederick Dent Grant</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#500.19.17">Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#713.93.60">William Barret Ridgely</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#416.38.08">Charles Edward Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#102.01.36">Clement Phineas Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#645.80.14">Herman Arod Gager</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#475.20.08">William Brainard Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#616.27.89">John Sedgwick Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#301.16.25">Edward Warden Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/randolph.html#308.16.83">John Leffingwell Randolph</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reed4.html#123.20.81">George Leffingwell Reed</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodward.html#807.46.34">Blanche M. Woodward</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#779.42.84">Chauncey Goodrich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#850.68.26">Elizur Goodrich</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#788.84.18">Hezekiah Case</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams7.html#433.52.89">Parmenio Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttle.html#282.14.92">Ambrose Tuttle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#375.04.02">Jesse Hoyt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#002.57.43">Abiel Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#138.27.81">Charles Phelps Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#177.15.53">Jairus Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#087.76.51">John Arnold Rockwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell5.html#124.41.70">John Leslie Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George Washington Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#904.82.30">Almon Case</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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=D000073">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403211">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Davenport (Connecticut congressman)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6639679">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.stamfordhistory.org/dav_abraham1.htm"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/600/87.10.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Abraham Davenport"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Abraham Davenport (1715-1789) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1715/06-06.html">June 6, 1715</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stcn.html">Connecticut council of assistants</a>, 1776-83. Famed for his decisive response during the "Dark Day," May 19, 1780, when all-day darkness in New England led many to think that the end of the world was at hand. In the state council meeting in Hartford, he said, "I am against adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought." <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#625.76.59">John Greenleaf Whittier</a> wrote a poem about this incident in 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John F. Kennedy</a> referenced Davenport's actions in speeches during the 1960 presidential campaign. Died in Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/11-20.html">November 20, 1789</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 167 days</a>). Interment at Northfield 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 Davenport (1669-1731) and Elizabeth (Morris) Davenport; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1750/11-16.html">November 16, 1750</a>, to Elizabeth Huntington; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/08-08.html">August 8, 1776</a>, to Martha (Coggeshall) Fitch; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport (1752-1830)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#570.26.19">Abraham Davenport (1767-1837)</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berryhill-betz.html#318.75.04">Thaddeus Betts</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/root.html#087.15.51">Joseph Pomeroy Root</a>; fourth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#939.26.26">Aaron Kitchell</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#209.91.18">Edward Green Bradford</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/comte-conditt.html#811.79.86">Elias Mulford Condit</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#885.50.11">Edward Green Bradford II</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mansfield.html#950.90.42">Isaac Edwin Mansfield</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stiles.html#606.37.50">Frank L. Stiles</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#579.73.10">John Henry Blakeslee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blakeley-blancke.html#869.41.90">George Newbury Blakeslee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#562.58.99">Edward Green Bradford Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#140.98.32">Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard</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/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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/Abraham Davenport">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33362149">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: Stamford 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> Abraham Davenport (1767-1837) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/10-30.html">October 30, 1767</a>. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stamford.html#4">Stamford, Conn.</a>, 1796-1822. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/06-06.html">June 6, 1837</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 219 days</a>). Interment at Northfield 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 Silas Davenport and Mary (Webb) Davenport; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/">1793</a> to Polly Brown; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#600.87.10">Abraham Davenport (1715-1789)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berryhill-betz.html#318.75.04">Thaddeus Betts</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/root.html#087.15.51">Joseph Pomeroy Root</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#559.30.97">Gold Selleck Silliman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#557.40.33">Benjamin Silliman</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#939.26.26">Aaron Kitchell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#740.01.54">Benjamin Douglas Silliman</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seldenright-semrow.html#788.87.85">Judson Franklin Selleck</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#209.91.18">Edward Green Bradford</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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/14885123">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> Theodore Davenport (1792-1884) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/01-16.html">January 16, 1792</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stamford, 1825. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/09-09.html">September 9, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 237 days</a>). Interment at Northfield 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/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a> and Mary Sylvester (Welles) Davenport; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/05-09.html">May 9, 1833</a>, to Harriet Grant Chesebrough; father of Helen Matilda Davenport (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#600.87.10">Abraham Davenport (1715-1789)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#570.26.19">Abraham Davenport (1767-1837)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards4.html#127.62.71">Henry Waggaman Edwards</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berryhill-betz.html#318.75.04">Thaddeus Betts</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/root.html#087.15.51">Joseph Pomeroy Root</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#285.40.78">Randolph Appleton Kidder</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buckalew-buckles.html#579.32.42">William Alfred Buckingham</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#939.26.26">Aaron Kitchell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#286.71.40">Samuel H. Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen8.html#349.75.29">Samuel Clesson Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#106.38.64">John Adams Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#503.96.56">Henry G. Taintor</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#652.15.91">Ezekiel Cornell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#492.07.22">Evert Harris Kittell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#514.32.62">Henry Vance Clymer</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#594.09.65">John Foster Dulles</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#661.62.14">Allen Welsh Dulles</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#729.62.14">Zina Hyde Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronson.html#437.89.78">Greene Carrier Bronson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#855.99.20">Nathaniel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#026.00.76">James Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#578.27.47">Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#115.72.55">Joseph Lyman Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#405.41.29">Elisha Hunt Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#089.34.88">Peter Buell Porter Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#454.18.53">Elisha Mills Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morris.html#026.73.35">Gouverneur Morris</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#152.06.17">Jonathan Brace</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#779.42.84">Chauncey Goodrich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodrich.html#850.68.26">Elizur Goodrich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#788.84.18">Hezekiah Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#632.14.15">James Kilbourne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#742.80.84">William Woodbridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#525.38.95">Isaac Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockson-bronrott.html#446.38.88">John Hall Brockway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#614.71.17">Henry Titus Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#209.91.18">Edward Green Bradford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#462.32.81">Ulysses Simpson Grant</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#850.34.66">Robert Coit Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#532.00.49">Collins Dwight Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#063.41.35">George Milo Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merrill.html#247.17.45">Selah Merrill</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyde.html#300.28.98">Thomas Worcester Hyde</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#964.75.12">Alonzo Mark Leffingwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lathem-lathrop.html#058.29.17">Abial Lathrop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woody-worthey.html#029.39.77">Rodolph A. Woolsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#232.62.06">Frederick Hobbes Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooker.html#900.95.54">Edward Williams Hooker</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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/11861465">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01608">St. John's and St. Andrew's Episcopal Cemetery</a> Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1678280&">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> James Stevens (1768-1835) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford (part now in New Canaan), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1768/07-04.html">July 4, 1768</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1804-05, 1808-10, 1814-15, 1817-18; probate judge in Connecticut, 1819; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1819-21; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stamford.html#4">Stamford, Conn.</a>, 1822-29. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/04-04.html">April 4, 1835</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 274 days</a>). Interment at St. John's and St. Andrew's Episcopal 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=S000882">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410344">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Stevens (Connecticut)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7376572">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Westover Cemetery</a> Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Daniel Lockwood (1769-1857) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1769/01-21.html">January 21, 1769</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stamford, 1822-24. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-08.html">October 8, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 260 days</a>). Interment at Westover 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 Lockwood (1735-1807) and Mary (Bellamy) Lockwood; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/05-09.html">May 9, 1802</a>, to Sally Jessup; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/04-11.html">April 11, 1830</a>, to Sally Palmer; married to Lydia Provost; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#867.49.50">Hanford Nichols Lockwood</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#686.32.21">Ebenezer Lockwood</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berryhill-betz.html#318.75.04">Thaddeus Betts</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conduit-conkling.html#317.28.00">James Lockwood Conger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#176.74.70">Homer Nichols Lockwood</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jennings.html#825.94.07">Oliver Cromwell Jennings</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#849.17.06">Alfred Collins Lockwood</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#919.42.00">Horatio Lockwood</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/seldenright-semrow.html#388.69.24">Sturges Selleck</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#091.17.71">Alsop Hunt Lockwood</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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/16139062">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00912">Woodland Cemetery</a> Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5643443636/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/546/14.88.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="Homer S. Cummings"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Homer Stillé Cummings (1870-1956) — also known as Homer S. Cummings — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/04-30.html">April 30, 1870</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/CT.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/CT.html">1904</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/CT.html">1920</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/CT.html">1924</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/CT.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/CT.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/CT.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/CT.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/CT.html">1948</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CT.html">Democratic National Committee from Connecticut</a>, 1900-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/index.html">Chairman of Democratic National Committee</a>, 1919-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stamford.html">mayor of Stamford, Conn.</a>, 1900-02, 1904-06; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1902; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/index.html">Vice-Chair of Democratic National Committee</a>, 1913-19; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1916; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/index.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1933-39; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut. <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/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</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/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/09-10.html">September 10, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 133 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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 Uriah C. Cummings and Audie Schuyler (Stillé) Cummings; married to Cecilia Waterbury.</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/Homer S. Cummings">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/361/000167857">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">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> Truman Smith (1791-1884) — of Litchfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-lived.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Roxbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/11-27.html">November 27, 1791</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Litchfield, 1831-32, 1834; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a>, 1839-43, 1845-49 (5th District 1839-43, 4th District 1845-49); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1849-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#z">federal judge</a>, 1862. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/05-03.html">May 3, 1884</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 158 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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: Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith6.html#568.92.10">Nathaniel Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith6.html#819.71.53">Nathan Smith</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/11037.html">Smith family</a> of Woodbury, Connecticut.</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=S000621">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410096">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman Smith">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 Thomas Minor (1815-1889) — also known as William T. Minor — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/10-03.html">October 3, 1815</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 12th District, 1854; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1855-57; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CU-consuls.html ">Havana</a>, 1864-65; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1864/CT.html">1864</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/10-13.html">October 13, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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://www.nga.org/governor/william-thomas-minor/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6268132874/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/773/17.29.jpg" width=70 height=82 border=0 alt="Stewart L. Woodford"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stewart Lyndon Woodford (1835-1913) — also known as Stewart L. Woodford — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/09-03.html">September 3, 1835</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1867-68; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1870; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/NY.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/NY.html">1880</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/NY.html">1908</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 3rd District, 1873-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York</a>, 1877-83; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1897-98. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-psi.html">Delta Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/02-14.html">February 14, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 164 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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 Curtis Woodford and Susan (Terry) Woodford; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-15.html">October 15, 1857</a>, to Julia Evelyn Capen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/09-26.html">September 26, 1900</a>, to Isabel Hansen; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tanner.html#725.67.35">Frederick Chauncey Tanner</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=W000713">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411865">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart L. Woodford">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/woodford-stewart-lyndon ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7376565">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: William C. Roberts, Leading Orators (1884)</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> Schuyler Merritt (1853-1953) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/12-16.html">December 16, 1853</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/manufacturing.html">Manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention</a>, 1902; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/CT.html">1908</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/CT.html">1916</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1917-31, 1933-37; defeated, 1930, 1936. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/04-01.html">April 1, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/99.html">99 years, 106 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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/merritt.html#720.78.24">Matthew Franklin Merritt</a> and Mariah (Shaw) Merritt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/10-21.html">October 21, 1879</a>, to Frances Hannah Hoyt.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Merritt <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Parkway</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-names.html">Fairfield County, Connecticut</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">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000663">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407649">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuyler Merritt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7256982">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 Clement Fessenden (1815-1882) — also known as Samuel Fessenden — of Thomaston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-lived.html">Knox 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/1815/03-07.html">March 7, 1815</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Pastor</a>, Second Congregational Church, Thomaston, Maine, 1837-56; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maine</a>, 1846, 1847, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 3rd District, 1861-63; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NB-consuls.html ">Saint John</a>, 1879-81. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/04-18.html">April 18, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 42 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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#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 to Mary Abigail Grosvenor Abbe; father 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>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis Fessenden</a>; grandfather 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 family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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=F000097">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404054">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7376552">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 Fessenden (1847-1908) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Rockland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/04-12.html">April 12, 1847</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stamford, 1875, 1879, 1895-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives</a>, 1895-96; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/CT.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/CT.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/CT.html">1884</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/CT.html">1888</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/CT.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/speakers.html">speaker</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Secretary of Republican National Committee</a>, 1884-88; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/CT.html">Republican National Committee from Connecticut</a>, 1896; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/CT.html">Connecticut Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1901; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1905-08. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/01-07.html">January 7, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 270 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a> and Mary Abigail Grosvenor (Abbe) Fessenden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/">1873</a> to Helen Matilda Davenport (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#563.08.33">William Pitt Fessenden</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>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton 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#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis 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>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>, <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>.</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0073.html">Eastman family</a> (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/13253159">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> Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden (1855-1921) — also known as Oliver G. Fessenden — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Rockland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/12-25.html">December 25, 1855</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stamford.html">mayor of Stamford, Conn.</a>, 1897. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/07-20.html">July 20, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 207 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a> and Mary Abigail Grosvenor (Abbe) Fessenden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908)</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/06-14.html">June 14, 1882</a>, to Virginia I. Weed; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#412.09.27">Charles Milton Fessenden</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#563.08.33">William Pitt Fessenden</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#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis 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>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#289.82.40">Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903)</a>, <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>.</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0073.html">Eastman family</a> (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/121721463">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> Matthew Franklin Merritt (1815-1896) — also known as M. Franklin Merritt — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Flushing (now part of Queens), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/03-02.html">March 2, 1815</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 12th District, 1859. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/05-10.html">May 10, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 69 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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 Nehemiah M. Merritt and Phebe (Thorne) Merritt; married to Mariah Shaw; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/merritt.html#949.17.32">Schuyler Merritt</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/Matthew F. Merritt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20302907">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 Davenport Lockwood (1877-1949) — also known as Charles D. Lockwood — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/11-11.html">November 11, 1877</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stamford; elected 1912; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/CT.html">1916</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/CT.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to Connecticut convention to ratify 21st amendment</a> at-large, 1933. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-xi.html">Sigma Xi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/12-06.html">December 6, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 25 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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 Lockwood and Helen (Davenport) Lockwood; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/10-13.html">October 13, 1906</a>, to Gertrude Bell.</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/125356385">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> Martin E. Weed (1840-1918) — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/11-29.html">November 29, 1840</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">Commercial traveler</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stamford, 1906. Died in Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/05-26.html">May 26, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 178 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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 Weed and Maria E. (Andrews) Weed; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/">1869</a> to Lydia M. Nichols; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#375.04.02">Jesse Hoyt</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockwood.html#867.49.50">Hanford Nichols Lockwood</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/10001-0006.html">Conger family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0453.html">Lockwood-Lanning family</a> of New Jersey (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/28302244">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 Milton Fessenden (1883-1955) — also known as C. Milton Fessenden — of Stamford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/08-28.html">August 28, 1883</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/CT.html">1916</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/01-11.html">January 11, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 136 days</a>). Interment at Woodland 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 Virginia (Weed) Fessenden and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#503.27.61">Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/06-05.html">June 5, 1915</a>, to Anna P. Barkley; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#105.04.84">Joshua Abbe Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#676.38.19">Samuel Fessenden</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#718.48.51">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#563.08.33">William Pitt Fessenden</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>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#932.33.92">Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#110.90.31">James Deering Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#275.91.62">Francis Fessenden</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>; third cousin thrice 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>.</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0073.html">Eastman family</a> (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/121721581">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02327">Congregational Burying Ground</a> Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Gideon Tomlinson (1780-1854) — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/12-31.html">December 31, 1780</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of Connecticut state legislature, 1817; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1819-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1827-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1831-37. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/10-08.html">October 8, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 281 days</a>). Interment at Congregational Burying Ground. <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 Lydia Ann Wells.</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=T000300">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410873">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/gideon-tomlinson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon Tomlinson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7371814">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> David Plant (1783-1851) — of Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/03-29.html">March 29, 1783</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stratford, 1819-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives</a>, 1819-20; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> at-large, 1821-23; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1823-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1827-29. Died in Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/10-18.html">October 18, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 203 days</a>). Interment at Congregational Burying Ground. <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=P000375">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408769">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David Plant">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7374701">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> Robert Fairchild (1775-1835) — of Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1775/01-19.html">January 19, 1775</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stratford, 1822-23, 1829, 1832; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a>, 1825, 1831 (at-large 1825, 10th District 1831). Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/07-11.html">July 11, 1835</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 173 days</a>). Interment at Congregational Burying Ground. <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/20847395">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00730">Episcopal Cemetery</a> Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819) — of Connecticut. Born in Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1727/10-07.html">October 7, 1727</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut</a>, 1784-87; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stcn.html">Connecticut council of assistants</a>, 1786-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Connecticut</a>, 1789-91. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/11-14.html">November 14, 1819</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 38 days</a>). Interment at Episcopal 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=J000182">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406077">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Samuel Johnson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/734/000196146">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06116">Putney Cemetery</a> Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Frank E. Blakeman (1857-1923) — of Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/12-31.html">December 31, 1857</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stratford, 1903-04. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>. Died in Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-died.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/02-18.html">February 18, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 49 days</a>). Interment at Putney Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05712">St. Michael's Cemetery</a> Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Adrian William Maher (1902-1985) — also known as Adrian W. Maher — of Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/10-05.html">October 5, 1902</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/CT.html">Connecticut Democratic state chair</a>, 1944-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Connecticut</a>, 1945-53. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/fed-bar-assoc.html">Federal Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/04-15.html">April 15, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 192 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's 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 J. Maher and Mary F. (Mallon) Maher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/12-31.html">December 31, 1928</a>, to Rose Florence Dorgan.</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 T. King (1875-1926) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-born.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/03-30.html">March 30, 1875</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/CT.html">1912</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/CT.html">1916</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/CT.html">1920</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/CT.html">Connecticut Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1922. Died in Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/05-13.html">May 13, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 44 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Union Cemetery</a> Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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/857/52.33.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="Oscar Peterson, Jr."></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Oscar Peterson Jr. (1891-1963) — of Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Wallingford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/07-25.html">July 25, 1891</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/landtitle.html">Abstract and title business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Stratford; elected 1946; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 25th District, 1953. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/redmen.html">Redmen</a>. Died in Stratford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/03-30.html">March 30, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 248 days</a>). Interment at Union 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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/">1912</a> to Malda Gendron; father of Norval Oscar Peterson.</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/90183654">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: Connecticut Register & Manual 1953</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05654">Gate of Heaven Cemetery</a> Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Margaret Connors Driscoll (c.1915-2000) — of Bridgeport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn.; Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born about 1915. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 4th District, 1944; juvenile court judge in Connecticut, 1959-78; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1978-85. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lwv.html">League of Women Voters</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2000/05-16.html">May 16, 2000</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">about 85 years</a>). Interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Nichols Village Cemetery</a> Cemetery Road Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1850 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2132107&">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> Franklin P. Ambler (1825-1865) — of Trumbull, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/02-17.html">February 17, 1825</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 10th District, 1861. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/05-25.html">May 25, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 97 days</a>). Interment at Nichols 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">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10464485">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Tashua Burial Ground</a> Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Granville Elijah Dunning (1835-1918) — also known as Granville E. Dunning — of Long Hill, Trumbull, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/09-14.html">September 14, 1835</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/leather.html">Boot and shoe manufacturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/trumbull.html">first selectman of Trumbull, Connecticut</a>, 1899-1901. Died in Trumbull, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/12-25.html">December 25, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 102 days</a>). Interment at Tashua Burial Ground. <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 Marie (Bennett) Dunning and Granville Dunning; married to Georgiana Sherman.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07667">Coley Cemetery</a> Route 57 Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Matthew Bulkley (1811-1895) — of Weston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Weston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/08-27.html">August 27, 1811</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; founder and headmaster, Weston Boarding School; Weston Town Clerk; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 10th District, 1857, 1875; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/CT.html">1868</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/10-30.html">October 30, 1895</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 64 days</a>). Interment at Coley Cemetery. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04098">Emmanuel Church Cemetery</a> Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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 Marshall Harlan (1899-1971) — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/05-20.html">May 20, 1899</a>. <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 Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit</a>, 1954-55; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1955-71. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/12-29.html">December 29, 1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 223 days</a>). Interment at Emmanuel Church 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/marshall.html#411.97.48">John Marshall</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/harlan.html#688.34.47">John Maynard Harlan</a> and Elizabeth Palmer (Flagg) Harlan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/11-10.html">November 10, 1928</a>, to Ethel (Andrews) Murphy; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harlan.html#804.17.52">James S. Harlan</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harlan.html#581.37.64">John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harlan.html#629.46.64">James Harlan</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#770.37.91">James Harlan Cleveland</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#547.41.02">James Harlan Cleveland Jr.</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#123.19.22">Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boude-bowe.html#879.28.67">Michael Boudin</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.nndb.com/people/793/000118439">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 John Marshall Harlan: Tinsley E. Yarbrough, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195060903/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195060903&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John Marshall Harlan : Great Dissenter of the Warren Court</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01761">Evergreen Cemetery</a> Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Samuel Burr Sherwood (1767-1833) — also known as Samuel B. Sherwood — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Weston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1767/11-26.html">November 26, 1767</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a>, 1809; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stcn.html">Connecticut council of assistants</a>, 1816; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> at-large, 1817-19. Slaveowner. Died in Westport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/04-27.html">April 27, 1833</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 152 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=S000357">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409853">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel B. Sherwood">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07734">Willowbrook Cemetery</a> 395 Main Street Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut Founded 1847 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=103833&">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> Josiah Taylor Marean (1842-1922) — also known as Josiah T. Marean — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BO-born.html">Broome County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/04-30.html">April 30, 1842</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1900-12. Died in Winter Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/02-08.html">February 8, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 284 days</a>). Interment at Willowbrook 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 Chester Marean and Arvilla (Taylor) Marean; married to Elizabeth Richards.</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/49841311">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 Robert Bayes (1876-1964) — also known as William R. Bayes — of Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Wauseon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/07-29.html">July 29, 1876</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; president, Kings Highway Savings <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>; president, Brooklyn National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Life Insurance</a> Co.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn7.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 8th District, 1915; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/nysc.html">Justice of New York Supreme Court</a> 2nd District, 1922, 1933, 1940; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/NY.html">1924</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cr21.html">delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment</a>, 1933; justice, New York City Court of Special Sessions, 1935-46. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-theta.html">Phi Delta Theta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died in Gloversville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/11-28.html">November 28, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 122 days</a>). Interment at Willowbrook 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 Isaac E. Bayes and Fannie A. (Guilford) Bayes; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/09-07.html">September 7, 1904</a>, to Mabel Ross.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06114">Hillside Cemetery</a> Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Bernard Ryan, Sr. — of Albion, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OL-lived.html">Orleans County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OL-parties.html">Chair of Orleans County Democratic Party</a>, 1927; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/NY.html">1928</a>; Judge of New York Court of Claims, 1940. Interment at Hillside 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-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fite-fitzgarrald.html#684.02.38">William Cochrane Fitts</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ryan.html#709.49.82">William Fitts Ryan</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/11877.html">Ryan family</a> of Albion and New York City, New York.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03703">St. Matthew's Cemetery</a> Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut <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> Lindley Hoag Hadley (1861-1948) — also known as Lindley H. Hadley — of Bellingham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WH-lived.html">Whatcom County</a>, Wash. Born near Sylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/PA-born.html">Parke County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/06-19.html">June 19, 1861</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Washington</a> 2nd District, 1915-33; defeated, 1932. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Died in Wallingford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-died.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/11-04.html">November 4, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 138 days</a>). 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