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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Sprague family of Providence, Rhode Island</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist. <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/6268119530/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/675/84.63.jpg" width=70 height=78 border=0 alt="John Adams"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Adams (1735-1826) — also known as "His Rotundity"; "The Duke of Braintree"; "American Cato"; "Old Sink and Swim"; "The Colossus of Independence"; "Father of the American Navy" — of Quincy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1735/10-30.html">October 30, 1735</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts</a>, 1774-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-diplomats.html ">Netherlands</a>, 1781-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1785-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1789-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention</a>, 1820. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-acad-arts-sciences.html">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1900. Died in Quincy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-died.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/07-04.html">July 4, 1826</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 247 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-buried.html#cms07299">Hancock Cemetery</a>, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment in 1828 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-buried.html#cms02213">United First Parish Church</a>, Quincy, Mass.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</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 John Adams (1691-1761) and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/10-25.html">October 25, 1764</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#432.12.41">Abigail Quincy Smith</a> (aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/crampton-crandall.html#350.99.32">William Cranch</a>); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith9.html#336.33.33">William Stephens Smith</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#951.27.66">John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams6.html#194.84.36">Louisa Catherine Johnson</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams4.html#964.94.01">George Washington Adams</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams2.html#667.46.85">Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#686.41.46">John Quincy Adams (1833-1894)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#938.47.07">Brooks Adams</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams2.html#945.56.41">Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954)</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams8.html#433.61.01">Thomas Boylston Adams</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#061.33.60">Edward M. Chapin</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#403.46.98">Arthur Chapin</a>; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#643.28.78">Denwood Lynn Chapin</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams8.html#103.05.89">Samuel Adams</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#327.71.65">Joseph Allen</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#167.23.46">John Milton Thayer</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wells.html#453.52.89">William Vincent Wells</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bass.html#651.84.71">Lyman Kidder Bass</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayakawa-haydon.html#369.31.54">Daniel T. Hayden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bates.html#735.59.49">Arthur Laban Bates</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html#473.65.76">Almur Stiles Whiting</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#477.85.86">Charles Grenfill Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bass.html#203.86.66">Lyman Metcalfe Bass</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#257.28.91">Emerson Richard Boyles</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coffinburg-cohelan.html#446.92.43">Thomas Cogswell (1799-1868)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#998.41.69">Jeremiah Mason</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#067.03.43">George Bailey Loring</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coffinburg-cohelan.html#501.57.58">Thomas Cogswell (1841-1904)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otis.html#059.85.99">Asahel Otis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#791.00.17">Erastus Fairbanks</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#191.43.20">Charles Stetson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#673.35.18">Henry Brewster Stanton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams2.html#499.49.02">Charles Adams Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#416.90.03">Isaiah Stetson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#166.95.51">Joshua Perkins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#787.28.99">Eli Thayer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#598.26.24">Bailey Frye Adams</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <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>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#643.75.14">Caleb Stetson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#331.55.57">Oakes Ames</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#054.90.99">Oliver Ames Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wait-walberg.html#760.54.00">Benjamin W. Waite</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ames.html#911.07.67">Alfred Elisha Ames</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#713.64.48">George Otis Fairbanks</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#067.79.86">Austin Wells Holden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#357.41.81">Horace Fairbanks</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grossi-grout.html#484.12.67">Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yates.html#452.02.17">Joseph Washburn Yates</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#420.92.95">Franklin Fairbanks</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#906.07.86">Erskine Mason Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#540.60.75">Arthur Newton Holden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#019.52.27">John Alden Thayer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html#192.92.24">Irving Hall Chase</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#441.17.86">Isaiah Kidder Stetson</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#596.46.56">Giles Russell Taggart</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">Adams counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/AM.html">Idaho</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/AM.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/AD.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/AD.html">Neb.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/AD.html">Ohio</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AD.html">Pa.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/AD.html">Wash.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/AD.html">Wis.</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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Adams (second highest peak in the Northeast), in the White Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CO-names.html">Coos County, New Hampshire</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 John Adams (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; torpedoed and lost in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/PA-names.html">Coral Sea</a>, 1942) 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">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harper.html#363.62.06">John Adams Harper</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cameron.html#960.45.88">John A. Cameron</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/diperna-dix.html#242.75.21">John A. Dix</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fisher.html#719.15.50">John Adams Fisher</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#106.38.64">John A. Taintor</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html#066.36.02">John A. Gilmer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#187.98.39">John A. Perkins</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hyden-hyzer.html#427.78.01">John Adams Hyman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dalzell-damrow.html#214.36.17">John A. Damon</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lee5.html#568.42.90">John A. Lee</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanders.html#124.78.05">John A. Sanders</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hurn-hutchin.html#426.55.39">John Adams Hurson</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=A000039">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400699">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Adams">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/adams-john">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/222/000044090">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4131">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 about John Adams: John Ferling, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805045767/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805045767&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John Adams: A Life</a> — Joseph J. Ellis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393311333/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393311333&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams</a> — David McCullough, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743223136/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743223136&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John Adams</a> — Gore Vidal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300101716/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300101716&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson</a> — John Ferling, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195167716/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195167716&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800</a> — James Grant, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374113149/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374113149&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John Adams : Party of One</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: Portrait & Biographical Album of Washtenaw County (1891)</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 Brown (1736-1803) — of Rhode Island. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1736/01-27.html">January 27, 1736</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1782-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1799-1801. Slaveowner. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/09-20.html">September 20, 1803</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 236 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms00392">North Burial Ground</a>, Providence, R.I. <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 Browne and Hope (Power) Browne; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#880.81.46">Benjamin Brown</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#469.63.20">Daniel Parrish Witter</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#009.95.38">Arthur Taggard Appleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#276.56.23">William Sprague (1799-1856)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague (1830-1915)</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000927">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401882">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Brown (Rhode Island)">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> Benjamin Brown (1756-1831) — of Massachusetts. Born in Swansea, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/09-23.html">September 23, 1756</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1809, 1811-12, 1819; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 16th District, 1815-17. Died in Waldoboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/LI-died.html">Lincoln County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/09-17.html">September 17, 1831</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 359 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/LI-buried.html#cms02720">Waldoboro Cemetery</a>, Waldoboro, Maine. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000904">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401861">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> John Brown Francis (1791-1864) — of Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/05-31.html">May 31, 1791</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1821; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a>, 1831, 1845-56; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1833-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1840/RI.html">1840</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1844-45. Died in Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/08-09.html">August 9, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms00392">North Burial Ground</a>, Providence, R.I. <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 and Abigail (Brown) Francis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/">1822</a> to Anne Carter Brown; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/">1832</a> to Elizabeth (Francis) Harrison; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#096.57.01">Thomas Willing</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williard-willingham.html#921.55.52">Charles Willing</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#419.18.44">Edward Shippen (1703-1781)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#157.96.59">William Shippen</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#860.88.84">Edward Shippen (1639-1712)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#406.94.37">Charles Willing Byrd</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#393.56.68">Edward Shippen (1729-1806)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/overton-ovington.html#692.95.14">Edward Overton Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/macdougal-maciora.html#242.35.83">James Rieman Macfarlane</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shien-shlaudeman.html#461.40.05">Edward Shippen (1823-1904)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/irvine-irving.html#734.69.01">Bertha Shippen Irving</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000336">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404285">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-brown-francis/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Brown Francis">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> Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799-1887) — also known as Chauncey F. Cleveland — of Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/WI-lived.html">Windham County</a>, Conn. Born in Canterbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/WI-born.html">Windham County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/02-16.html">February 16, 1799</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 Hampton, 1826-29, 1832, 1835-36, 1838; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives</a>, 1835-36, 1863; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1842-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Connecticut</a> 3rd District, 1849-53; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/CT.html">1856</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/officers.html">Convention Vice-President</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/CT.html">1860</a>. Died in Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/WI-died.html">Windham County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/06-06.html">June 6, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 110 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/WI-buried.html#cms03016">South Cemetery</a>, Hampton, 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 Silas Cleveland and Lois (Sharpe) Cleveland; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/12-13.html">December 13, 1821</a>, to Diantha Hovey (first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burnette-burnley.html#134.52.56">Alfred Avery Burnham (1819-1879)</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/01-22.html">January 22, 1869</a>, to Helen Cornelia Litchfield; father of Delia Diantha Cleveland (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burnette-burnley.html#134.52.56">Alfred Avery Burnham (1819-1879)</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#162.64.73">Henry Sabin</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#697.11.06">Ira Chandler Backus</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paine.html#379.70.27">Robert Treat Paine</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sacks-saintaubin.html#380.89.20">Ephraim Safford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#639.15.77">Isaiah Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#166.95.51">Joshua Perkins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#209.91.18">Edward Green Bradford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#284.13.80">Stafford Canning Cleveland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#598.26.24">Bailey Frye Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#002.51.58">Orestes Cleveland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanborn.html#385.50.86">Lee Randall Sanborn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miles.html#955.11.22">Nelson Appleton Miles</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#227.57.84">Lyman Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#158.77.27">Ezra Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#285.37.65">David Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html#377.00.16">Augustus Sabin Chase</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#553.26.11">Marden Sabin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/spalding.html#108.49.42">Joseph Spalding</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#885.50.11">Edward Green Bradford II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sanborn.html#475.43.08">James L. Sanborn</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html#192.92.24">Irving Hall Chase</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#562.58.99">Edward Green Bradford Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#140.98.32">Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#641.06.99">Grover Fredrick Cleveland</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#322.93.90">Jonathan Usher</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#006.76.40">Jedediah Sabin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#727.59.76">Caleb Blodgett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payson-pealy.html#251.85.17">John Larkin Payson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#191.43.20">Charles Stetson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sacks-saintaubin.html#243.98.46">James Safford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#399.01.14">Luther Kidder</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#416.90.03">Isaiah Stetson</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#732.81.53">Elijah Hunt Mills</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#769.86.18">Alvan Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#008.76.09">Francis Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#522.94.96">Ira Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#423.50.87">Arba Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#508.69.75">Joseph Souther Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#500.01.05">Pascal Paoli Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#595.80.64">Jefferson Parish Kidder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#045.74.35">John Palmer Usher</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barnhardt-barratt.html#994.23.54">William Henry Barnum</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#256.23.03">Francis Landon Cleveland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#293.74.00">Delos Abiel Blodgett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payson-pealy.html#503.11.58">Charles Payson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#275.88.50">Isaac Newton Blodgett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sacks-saintaubin.html#475.89.66">Robert Crawford Safford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#872.69.91">Abner Coburn Cleveland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#735.11.63">Robert Cleveland Usher</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#441.17.86">Isaiah Kidder Stetson</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/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <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=C000511">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402646">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/chauncey-fitch-cleveland/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauncey Fitch Cleveland">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7370178">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 Sprague (1799-1856) — of Warwick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, R.I. Born in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/11-03.html">November 3, 1799</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives</a>, 1832-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> at-large, 1835-37; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1838-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1842-44; candidate for Presidential Elector for Rhode Island. Died in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-died.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/10-19.html">October 19, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 351 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms00375">Swan Point Cemetery</a>, Providence, R.I. <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 Anna (Potter) Sprague and William Sprague (1773-1836); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/12-23.html">December 23, 1821</a>, to Mary Waterman; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague (1830-1915)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#837.04.94">Charles Arthur Sprague</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (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=S000746">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410214">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-sprague-2/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Sprague III">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5561">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Appleton (1804-1891) — of Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-lived.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine. Born in New Ipswich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/HI-born.html">Hillsborough County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/07-12.html">July 12, 1804</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spju.html">justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1852-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Maine state supreme court</a>, 1862-83. Died in Bangor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-died.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/02-07.html">February 7, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 210 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-buried.html#cms00527">Mt. Hope Cemetery</a>, Bangor, Maine. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Appleton (1763-1849) and Elizabeth (Peabody) Appleton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/">1834</a> to Sarah Newcomb Allen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/">1876</a> to Annie Greely; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#467.11.41">Nathan Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#569.68.90">James Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#071.08.10">William Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#916.90.43">Nathan Dane Appleton</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#009.95.38">Arthur Taggard Appleton</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton (1815-1864)</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#037.90.62">Leverett Saltonstall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#428.87.28">Richard Saltonstall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#285.40.78">Randolph Appleton Kidder</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#818.86.92">William Lawrence Saltonstall</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#469.63.20">Daniel Parrish Witter</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#319.52.50">Thomas Passmore Treadwell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#166.95.51">Joshua Perkins</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#985.05.82">Enoch Woodbridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#781.96.90">John Appleton (1758-1829)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#879.72.33">Thomas Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white6.html#351.36.54">Leonard White</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#391.74.24">Robert Odiorne Treadwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#073.50.89">George Douglas Perkins</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bingham.html#595.36.76">Albert Lemando Bingham</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/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts (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> Jane Pierce (1806-1863) — also known as Jane Means Appleton — Born in Hampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/RO-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/03-12.html">March 12, 1806</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1853-57. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Andover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/12-02.html">December 2, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 265 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-buried.html#cms01312">Old North Cemetery</a>, Concord, N.H. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Jesse Appleton and Elizabeth (Means) Appleton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/11-19.html">November 19, 1834</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#149.58.71">Franklin Pierce</a> (son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#650.75.45">Benjamin Pierce</a>); first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton (1804-1891)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#467.11.41">Nathan Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#569.68.90">James Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#071.08.10">William Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#916.90.43">Nathan Dane Appleton</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#009.95.38">Arthur Taggard Appleton</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#928.28.53">John Forbes Kerry</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton (1815-1864)</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#037.90.62">Leverett Saltonstall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#428.87.28">Richard Saltonstall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#285.40.78">Randolph Appleton Kidder</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#818.86.92">William Lawrence Saltonstall</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#469.63.20">Daniel Parrish Witter</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/francis.html#112.89.40">John Brown Francis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#319.52.50">Thomas Passmore Treadwell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#166.95.51">Joshua Perkins</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#278.52.40">Edward Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biddle.html#737.88.95">Charles Biddle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodall-woodburn.html#985.05.82">Enoch Woodbridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#781.96.90">John Appleton (1758-1829)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#879.72.33">Thomas Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white6.html#351.36.54">Leonard White</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#391.74.24">Robert Odiorne Treadwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#073.50.89">George Douglas Perkins</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bingham.html#595.36.76">Albert Lemando Bingham</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane Pierce">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19666">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=34110">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8750627187/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/050/48.29.jpg" width=70 height=93 border=0 alt="Salmon P. Chase"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) — also known as Salmon P. Chase; "Old Mr. Greenbacks" — of Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio. Born in Cornish, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/SU-born.html">Sullivan County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/01-13.html">January 13, 1808</a>. Republican. Liberty candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 1st District, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Ohio</a>, 1849-55, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Ohio</a>, 1856-60; candidate for Republican nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/index.html">1856</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/index.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1861-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1864-73; died in office 1873. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/05-07.html">May 7, 1873</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 114 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-buried.html#cms00470">Spring Grove Cemetery</a>, Cincinnati, Ohio. <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 Ithamar Chase and Janette Chase; married to Eliza Ann Smith; father of Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html#616.63.28">Dudley Chase</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/denison.html#855.45.10">Dudley Chase Denison</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0247.html">Chase family</a> of Vermont (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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/CS.html">Chase County, Kan.</a> is 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">Chase Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at Harvard <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> Business School, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</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 Salmon P. Chase (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 1960) 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">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborn.html#384.25.81">Chase S. Osborn</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">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on various U.S. currency, including $1 and $10 notes in the 1860s, and the $10,000 bill from 1918 to 1946.</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=C000332">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402473">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/salmon-portland-chase/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon P. Chase">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/808/000031715">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/192">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=35274">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 about Salmon P. Chase: Frederick J. Blue, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873383400/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0873383400&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Salmon P. Chase : A Life in Politics</a> — John Niven, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195046536/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195046536&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Salmon P. Chase : A Biography</a> — Albert B. Hart, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0781253691/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0781253691&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Salmon P. Chase</a> — Doris Kearns Goodwin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743270754/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743270754&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) — of Indianapolis, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/MA-lived.html">Marion County</a>, Ind.; Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-lived.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y. Born in Litchfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/06-24.html">June 24, 1813</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">orator</a>; abolitionist; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to New York state constitutional convention</a> 2nd District, 1867; in 1872, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">accused</a> of an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">adulterous affair</a> with Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of a friend of his; Beecher's church conducted an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> and declared him innocent; in 1874, Elizabeth Tilton's husband Theodore sued Beecher; a highly-publicized months-long <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">trial</a> took place in 1875; the jury was unable to reach a verdit. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died in Brooklyn, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-died.html">Kings County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/03-08.html">March 8, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html#cms00142">Green-Wood Cemetery</a>, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/KI-buried.html# ">Cadman Plaza Park</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 Lyman Beecher and Roxana Ward (Foote) Beecher; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/08-03.html">August 3, 1837</a>, to Eunice White Bullard; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html#687.65.88">George Buckingham Beecher</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#698.25.10">Jonathan Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#454.15.83">Ebenezer Elmer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#932.85.97">Eli Elmer</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#075.86.53">Erastus Wolcott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#701.74.56">Oliver Wolcott Sr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#880.58.18">Leveret Brainard</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#282.32.11">Amaziah Brainard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#986.53.99">Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#247.44.62">Roger Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#175.15.85">John Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#425.37.47">Frances Payne Bolton</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#868.32.79">Aaron Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#222.26.90">Daniel Chapin</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#659.80.35">Oliver Payne Bolton</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttle.html#282.14.92">Ambrose Tuttle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#853.72.96">Joseph H. Elmer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#907.26.47">George Frederick Stone</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#039.79.42">Gaylord Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#924.72.11">Luther Walter Badger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#316.08.43">Daniel Kellogg</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/allen5.html#161.25.92">John William Allen</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/chertov-childers.html#163.86.53">Charles Francis Chidsey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodcock-woodley.html#843.00.87">Ernest Harvey Woodford</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#673.80.64">Samuel Russell Chidsey</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>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0015.html">Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family</a> of Virginia (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">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html#871.92.96">Henry W. Beecher</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 World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Henry Ward Beecher (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1969) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Ward Beecher">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/71">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 Thayer (1819-1899) — of Worcester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-lived.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass. Born in Mendon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/06-11.html">June 11, 1819</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1853-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 9th District, 1857-61; defeated, 1872; delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/OR.html">1860</a>. Died in Worcester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-died.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/04-15.html">April 15, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-buried.html#cms00948">Hope Cemetery</a>, Worcester, Mass. <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 Cushman Ferdinando Thayer and Miranda (Pond) Thayer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/08-06.html">August 6, 1845</a>, to Caroline Maria Capron; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#019.52.27">John Alden Thayer</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/humphries-hunsinger.html#617.29.24">Ralph Waldo Hungerford</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wood8.html#358.63.70">Staley N. Wood</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#675.84.63">John Adams</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#167.23.46">John Milton Thayer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gareche-garlak.html#952.86.76">James Abram Garfield</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#951.27.66">John Quincy Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#732.81.53">Elijah Hunt Mills</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#067.03.43">George Bailey Loring</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#242.70.35">Alexander Wheelock Thayer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aldredge-aleshire.html#838.80.64">William Aldrich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#061.33.60">Edward M. Chapin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gareche-garlak.html#821.53.26">Harry Augustus Garfield</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gareche-garlak.html#033.89.47">James Rudolph Garfield</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/10001-0194.html">Davis family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000145">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410727">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli Thayer">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7505496">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> Augustus Brown Reed Sprague (1827-1910) — also known as Augustus B. R. Sprague — of Worcester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-lived.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass. Born in Ware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/HM-born.html">Hampshire County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/03-07.html">March 7, 1827</a>. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/furniture.html">furniture merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/worcester.html">mayor of Worcester, Mass.</a>, 1896-97. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/loyal-legion.html">Loyal Legion</a>. Died in Worcester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-died.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/05-17.html">May 17, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 71 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-buried.html#cms00382">Worcester Rural Cemetery</a>, Worcester, Mass. <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 Lee Sprague and Lucia (Snow) Sprague; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/12-23.html">December 23, 1846</a>, to Eliza Jane Rice; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/">1891</a> to Mary Jennie Barbour; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#276.56.23">William Sprague (1799-1856)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#675.84.63">John Adams</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague (1830-1915)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#787.28.99">Eli Thayer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#837.04.94">Charles Arthur Sprague</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/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0027.html">Adams-Baldwin family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0072.html">Fairbanks-Adams family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0146.html">Ames family</a> of North Easton, Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0392.html">Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan family</a> of Dexter, Michigan; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of 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/97573626">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 Sprague (1830-1915) — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Narragansett, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/WA-lived.html">Washington County</a>, R.I. Born in Cranston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/09-12.html">September 12, 1830</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Rhode Island</a>, 1860-63; resigned 1863; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Rhode Island</a>, 1863-75. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">meningitis</a>, in Paris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-died.html">France</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/09-11.html">September 11, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 364 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms00375">Swan Point Cemetery</a>, Providence, R.I. <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 Amasa Sprague and Fanny Francis (Morgan) Sprague; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/11-12.html">November 12, 1863</a>, to Katherine Jane 'Kate' Chase (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chase.html#050.48.29">Salmon Portland Chase</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/03-08.html">March 8, 1883</a>, to Dora Inez Calvert; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#276.56.23">William Sprague (1799-1856)</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#837.04.94">Charles Arthur Sprague</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (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/coker-coldwell.html#043.04.49">Justin E. Colburn</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=S000747">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410216">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-sprague/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Sprague IV">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6004305">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 Buckingham Beecher (1841-1925) — also known as George B. Beecher — of Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio; Hillsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HI-lived.html">Highland County</a>, Ohio. Born in Zanesville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-born.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/09-07.html">September 7, 1841</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 1876. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Hillsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HI-died.html">Highland County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/04-01.html">April 1, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 206 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HI-buried.html#cms01686">Hillsboro Cemetery</a>, Hillsboro, Ohio. <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 Beecher and Sarah Sturges (Buckingham) Beecher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/11-20.html">November 20, 1873</a>, to Ann Price 'Nannie' O'Hara; nephew of Harriet Beecher Stowe and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html#826.34.49">Henry Ward Beecher</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#698.25.10">Jonathan Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#454.15.83">Ebenezer Elmer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#932.85.97">Eli Elmer</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#075.86.53">Erastus Wolcott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#701.74.56">Oliver Wolcott Sr.</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#880.58.18">Leveret Brainard</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bragaw-brancato.html#282.32.11">Amaziah Brainard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#986.53.99">Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#247.44.62">Roger Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#175.15.85">John Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttle.html#282.14.92">Ambrose Tuttle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellwein-elmer.html#853.72.96">Joseph H. Elmer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stone.html#907.26.47">George Frederick Stone</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bola-bonbright.html#425.37.47">Frances Payne Bolton</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/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0489.html">Bolton-Whitney-Brainard-Wolcott family</a> of Ohio and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0421.html">Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family</a> of Connecticut (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/66676625">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/469/63.20.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="Daniel P. Witter"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Parrish Witter (1852-1930) — also known as Daniel P. Witter — of Berkshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TI-lived.html">Tioga County</a>, N.Y. Born in Richford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TI-born.html">Tioga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/07-02.html">July 2, 1852</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Tioga County, 1896-1900, 1916-29. Died in Berkshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TI-died.html">Tioga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/01-09.html">January 9, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 191 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TI-buried.html# ">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Berkshire, 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 Asa Witter and Delia (Torrey) Witter; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/03-01.html">March 1, 1876</a>, to Sarah M. Belden; first cousin six times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#459.87.70">William Greene</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#931.69.74">Samuel Austin Gager</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scotten-scruton.html#954.23.04">Abel Madison Scranton</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/greenaway-greenhut.html#245.04.04">William Greene Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams1.html#259.69.16">Andrew Adams</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beardmore-beattie.html#532.12.12">Howkin Bulkley Beardslee</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/strong.html#154.07.62">John Strong</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/avery.html#425.18.26">Waightstill Avery</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#732.81.53">Elijah Hunt Mills</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hapgood-hardie.html#922.40.73">Gideon Hard</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beadle-beales.html#530.93.34">George Mortimer Beakes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#348.93.66">Chauncey C. Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#488.81.57">Cornelia Cole Fairbanks</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barc-barhite.html#657.31.50">Llewellyn James Barden</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/b-babbush.html#051.78.02">Elijah Babbitt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#037.05.10">Albert Bliss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#166.95.51">Joshua Perkins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupper-durgin.html#861.84.85">Bradford Kirk Durfee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beadle-beales.html#595.78.82">Samuel Willard Beakes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupper-durgin.html#415.28.56">Charles W. Durfee</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, 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/21411059">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: New York Red Book 1924</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> Menzo Clinton Beardsley (1859-1946) — also known as Menzo C. Beardsley — of White Plains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y.; Elmira, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CE-lived.html">Chemung County</a>, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-lived.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y. Born in Catharine (now Watkins Glen), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SY-born.html">Schuyler County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/10-05.html">October 5, 1859</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance agent</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a>, 1902 (19th District), 1910 (33rd District); Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1911 (Chemung County), 1914 (Chemung County), 1920 (Queens County 4th District); candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Died in Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-died.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/08-23.html">August 23, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 322 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CE-buried.html#cms00442">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Elmira, 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 James E. Beardsley and Letitia P. (Coe) Beardsley; married to Florence May Capitola Patterson; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <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/99722667">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=270186">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> Walter Keene Linscott (1872-1933) — also known as Walter K. Linscott — of Independence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Kan. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/04-14.html">April 14, 1872</a>. U.S. Consular Agent in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/VR-consuls.html ">Coatzacoalcos</a>, as of 1898-99. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">cerebral hemorrhage</a>, in Yates Center, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/WO-died.html">Woodson County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/01-19.html">January 19, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 280 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JA-buried.html#cms03210">Holton Cemetery</a>, Holton, Kan. <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 Shepard Keene Linscott and Josephine Maria (Mallett) Linscott; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/09-23.html">September 23, 1899</a>, to Josephine Bowman Tingley; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beardmore-beattie.html#635.44.84">Menzo Clinton Beardsley</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#276.56.23">William Sprague (1799-1856)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html#826.34.49">Henry Ward Beecher</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#890.97.45">Chauncey Fitch Cleveland</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#837.04.94">Charles Arthur Sprague</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague (1830-1915)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html#687.65.88">George Buckingham Beecher</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (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">Epitaph: "Among Familiar Names To Rest."</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/31564509">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> Sidney Smythe Linscott (1883-1968) — also known as Sidney S. Linscott — of Erie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/NE-lived.html">Neosho County</a>, Kan. Born in Holton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JA-born.html">Jackson County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/11-20.html">November 20, 1883</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/KS.html">1944</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>. Died in Erie, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/NE-died.html">Neosho County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/04-12.html">April 12, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 144 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JA-buried.html#cms03210">Holton Cemetery</a>, Holton, Kan. <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 Shepard Keene Linscott and Josephine Maria (Mallett) Linscott; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/10-08.html">October 8, 1913</a>, to Laura Irene Tribble; father of Sidney Smythe Linscott, Jr.; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beardmore-beattie.html#635.44.84">Menzo Clinton Beardsley</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#276.56.23">William Sprague (1799-1856)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html#826.34.49">Henry Ward Beecher</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#890.97.45">Chauncey Fitch Cleveland</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#837.04.94">Charles Arthur Sprague</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague (1830-1915)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beechem-beesley.html#687.65.88">George Buckingham Beecher</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (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/26691713">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> Arthur Taggard Appleton (1884-1961) — also known as Arthur T. Appleton — of Dublin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CH-lived.html">Cheshire County</a>, N.H. Born in Dublin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CH-born.html">Cheshire County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/05-08.html">May 8, 1884</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/electrician.html">Electrical contractor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/gvcn.html">New Hampshire Governor's Council</a> 4th District; elected 1938. Died in Dublin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CH-died.html">Cheshire County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/08-16.html">August 16, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 100 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <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 Francis Appleton and Lillian Gertrude (Jones) Appleton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/09-26.html">September 26, 1908</a>, to Alice Ethel Fox; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#793.53.13">John Appleton (1804-1891)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pierce.html#151.29.74">Jane Pierce</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#467.11.41">Nathan Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#569.68.90">James Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#071.08.10">William Appleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#916.90.43">Nathan Dane Appleton</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton (1815-1864)</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown5.html#745.58.78">John Brown</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#791.00.17">Erastus Fairbanks</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#357.41.81">Horace Fairbanks</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#420.92.95">Franklin Fairbanks</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#166.00.80">John Mason Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#037.90.62">Leverett Saltonstall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#428.87.28">Richard Saltonstall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#285.40.78">Randolph Appleton Kidder</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0052.html">Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (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> Charles Arthur Sprague (1887-1969) — also known as Charles A. Sprague — of Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA-lived.html">Marion County</a>, Ore. Born in Lawrence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/DO-born.html">Douglas County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/11-12.html">November 12, 1887</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Oregon</a>, 1939-43. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-delta-chi.html">Sigma Delta Chi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died in Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA-died.html">Marion County</a>, Ore., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1969/03-13.html">March 13, 1969</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 121 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MA-buried.html#cms08032">Mount Crest Abbey Mausoleum</a>, Salem, Ore. <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 Allen Sprague and Caroline (Glasgow) Sprague; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/08-08.html">August 8, 1912</a>, to Blanche Chamberlain; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#276.56.23">William Sprague (1799-1856)</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#304.54.75">Walter Keene Linscott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/linnan-littell.html#639.49.15">Sidney Smythe Linscott</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#601.84.02">Augustus Brown Reed Sprague</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sprague.html#115.12.91">William Sprague (1830-1915)</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/10001-0123.html">Sprague family</a> of Providence, Rhode Island (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">Charles A. 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