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Brooks Adams (1848-1927) —
of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 24,
1848.
Son of Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886).
Lawyer;
author; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1917; candidate
for Massachusetts legislative seat.
Died February
13, 1927 (age 78 years, 234
days).
Interment at Mt.
Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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William Taylor Adams (1822-1897) —
also known as "Oliver Optic" —
of Dorchester (now part of Boston), Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Bellingham, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 30,
1822.
Son of Capt. Laban Adams and Catherine (Johnson) Adams.
School
teacher; author; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1869.
Died in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 27,
1897 (age 74 years, 240
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Dorchester, Boston, Mass.
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Frank Polipnick Anthony (b. 1922) —
also known as Frank Anthony —
of Stow, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Breckenridge, Wilkin
County, Minn., June 6,
1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
writer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1962.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion.
Still living as of 2004.
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Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) —
also known as Roger W. Babson; "The Seer of Wellesley
Hills" —
of Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., July 6,
1875.
Son of Nathaniel Babson (1850-1927) and Ellen (Stearns) Babson
(1850-1929).
Statistician;
economist;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1940.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Author of many books on business and religion; famed for
predicting the 1929 stock market crash; founder
of Babson Institute (now Babson College), in Wellesley, Mass.; Webber
College (now Webber International University), in Babson Park, Fla.,
and Utopia College (now defunct), in Eureka, Kan.
Died in Mountain Lake, Polk
County, Fla., March 5,
1967 (age 91 years, 242
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Willard Bartlett (1846-1925) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Uxbridge, Worcester
County, Mass., October
14, 1846.
Son of William Osborne Bartlett (prominent lawyer) and Agnes E. H.
(Willard) Bartlett.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Elihu
Root, 1869-83 and 1917-24; drama critic; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1884-1906; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1896-1906; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1906-16; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1913-16.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from heart
disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
17, 1925 (age 78 years, 95
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Osborne Bartlett (prominent lawyer) and Agnes E. H.
(Willard) Bartlett; married, October
26, 1870, to Mary Fairbanks Buffum; brother of Franklin
Bartlett. |
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Bruce Barton (1886-1967) —
also known as "Advertiser"; "The Advertising
King"; "The Great Repealer" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Robbins, Scott
County, Tenn., August 5,
1886.
Son of Rev. William E. Barton and Esther Treat (Bushnell) Barton.
Republican. Author; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1937-41; derided by
Franklin
Roosevelt as one of "Martin, Barton, and Fish", three Republican
opponents of his New Deal policies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1940; a founder of the Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn (BBDO) advertising
agency.
Congregationalist.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1967 (age 80 years, 334
days).
Interment at Rock
Hill Cemetery, Foxboro, Mass.
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Herman Bernstein (1876-1935) —
Born in Russia,
September
21, 1876.
Son of David Bernstein and Marie (Elsohn) Bernstein.
Author; translator; journalist;
founder and editor of The Day, Jewish daily newspaper;
published the "Willy-Nicky Correspondence," secret telegrams between
the Kaiser and the Czar, 1918; sued Henry
Ford for libel over anti-Semitic statements published in the
Dearborn Independent newspaper, and won a retraction; author of book
The History of a Lie (1921) which exposed "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion" as fraudulent; U.S. Minister to Albania, 1930-33.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Zionist
Organization of America.
Died in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., August
31, 1935 (age 58 years, 344
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Jr. (1908-1965) —
also known as Albert J. Beveridge, Jr. —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Manchester, Essex
County, Mass., August
21, 1908.
Son of Albert
Jeremiah Beveridge and Catherine Spencer (Eddy) Beveridge
(1881-1970).
Republican. Newspaper
reporter and columnist; radio
newscaster; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1936;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1941-45; served in the U.S. Army during World War
II; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1946.
Episcopalian.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
15, 1965 (age 56 years, 147
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Chester Bliss Bowles (1901-1986) —
also known as Chester Bowles —
of Essex, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., April 5,
1901.
Son of Charles Allen Bowles and Nellie (Harris) Bowles.
Democrat. Presidential Elector for Connecticut, 1940;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1948,
1956,
1960;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1949-51; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1951-53, 1963-69; Nepal, 1951-53; , 1961-63; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1959-61;
author.
Unitarian.
Member, Urban
League; Grange; Americans
for Democratic Action; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Essex, Middlesex
County, Conn., May 25,
1986 (age 85 years, 50
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Essex, Conn.
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James MacGregor Burns (b. 1918) —
also known as James M. Burns —
of Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., August 3,
1918.
Son of Robert Arthur Burns and Mildred Curry (Bunce) Burns.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; author; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1958.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Received Pulitzer
Prize in history, 1971.
Still living as of 1972.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Arthur Burns and Mildred Curry (Bunce) Burns; married 1942 to Janet
Rose Dismorr Thompson; married 1969 to Joan
Simpson Meyers. |
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Robert Granville Caldwell (b. 1882) —
of Texas; Belmont, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia
of American parents, August
31, 1882.
Son of Milton Etsil Caldwell and Susanna (Adams) Caldwell.
Democrat. College
professor; historian; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1933-37; Bolivia, 1937-39.
Member, American
Historical Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1915
to Edith Jones. |
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John Curtis Chamberlain (1772-1834) —
also known as "The Hermit" —
of Alstead, Cheshire
County, N.H.; Charlestown, Sullivan
County, N.H.; Honeoye Falls, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., June 5,
1772.
Lawyer;
poet; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1802-04, 1818; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1809-11.
Died in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., December
8, 1834 (age 62 years, 186
days).
Interment at Mt.
Albion Cemetery, Albion, N.Y.
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Albert Clark Chapin (1891-1950) —
also known as Albert C. Chapin —
of South Egremont, Egremont, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Sea Girt, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 14,
1891.
Son of Albert King Chapin (1850-1908) and Emily A. (Schenck) Chapin.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1917-18; Tientsin, 1918; Mukden, 1918; real estate
broker.
Died in Mendocino
County, Calif., December
28, 1950 (age 59 years, 228
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Washburn Child (1881-1935) —
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., August 5,
1881.
Son of Horace Walter Child and Susan Sawyer (Messinger) Child.
Lawyer;
author; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1921-24.
Died January
31, 1935 (age 53 years, 179
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Elliott (1775-1839) —
of Guilford, Windham
County, Vt.; Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt.; Newfane, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., August
18, 1775.
Author; poet; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Vermont 2nd District, 1803-09; newspaper
publisher; served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Windham
County Clerk of Court, 1817-35; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1818-19, 1837-38; Windham
County State's Attorney, 1837-39.
Died in Newfane, Windham
County, Vt., November
10, 1839 (age 64 years, 84
days).
Interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vt.
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William Gaston (b. 1899) —
of New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1899.
Son of William
Alexander Gaston.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
playwright; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1948.
Protestant.
Burial
location unknown.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) —
also known as Arthur S. Hardy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
13, 1847.
Son of Alpheus Hardy and Susan W. (Holmes) Hardy.
Civil
engineer; college
professor; author; editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
1893-95; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1897-99; Greece, 1899-1901; Romania, 1899-1901; Serbia, 1899-1901; Switzerland, 1901-03; Spain, 1902-05; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, 1897-99.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., March 14,
1930 (age 82 years, 213
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) —
also known as Nathaniel Hathorne —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 4,
1804.
Son of Nathaniel Hathorne.
Famed novelist and short story writer; U.S. Surveyor of Customs,
1846-49; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1853-57.
English
ancestry.
Died in Plymouth, Grafton
County, N.H., May 19,
1864 (age 59 years, 320
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.; statue at Hawthorne
Boulevard, Salem, Mass.
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Robert Welch Herrick (1868-1938) —
also known as Robert Herrick —
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 21,
1868.
Son of William Augustus Herrick.
Novelist; university
professor; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935-38; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, December
23, 1938 (age 70 years, 246
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Roger Sherman Hoar (1887-1963) —
also known as Roger S. Hoar; Ralph Milne
Farley —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.; South Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born April 8,
1887.
Son of Sherman
Hoar.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1911; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1916; served in
the U.S. Army during World War I; author; cartoonist;
inventor.
Died in South Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., October
10, 1963 (age 76 years, 185
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) —
of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont
County, Ohio, March 1,
1837.
Son of William Cooper Howells and Mary (Dean) Howells.
U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author; editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1872-81.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1920 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Cambridge
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Owen McMahon Johnson (1878-1952) —
also known as Owen Johnson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
27, 1878.
Son of Katharine (McMahon) Johnson and Robert
Underwood Johnson.
Democrat. Author; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1936, 1938.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., January
27, 1952 (age 73 years, 153
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Katharine (McMahon) Johnson and Robert
Underwood Johnson; married, May 23,
1901, to Mary Galt Stockly (died 1911); married, February
1, 1912, to Esther Ellen Cobb (singer, known as Mme. Cobina;
divorced 1917); married, July 2,
1917, to Cecile Denis de la Garde (died 1918); married, January
20, 1921, to Catherine Sayre Burton (died 1923); married, January
31, 1926, to Gertrude (Bovee) Le Boutillier. |
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Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943) —
also known as Bertha Knight —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., October
19, 1868.
Daughter of Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia (Cutter) Knight.
Republican. Lecturer;
writer; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1926-28; defeated, 1928.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Member, Soroptimists;
League of
Women Voters.
First
woman mayor of a large American city.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
29, 1943 (age 75 years, 41
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) —
of Lake Zurich, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
25, 1870.
Son of Augustus Sidney Lovett and Elizabeth (Russell) Lovett.
University
professor; novelist; playwright; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41; removed from
office as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and barred
from federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, over
his ties to left-wing
and purportedly Communist
individuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and he
received about $2,000 in salary owed to him.
Atheist.
Died, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
8, 1956 (age 85 years, 45
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
22, 1819.
Writer, poet, critic, and abolitionist; U.S.
Minister to Spain, 1877-80; Great Britain, 1880-85.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died of cancer, in
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
12, 1891 (age 72 years, 171
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Francis Miltoun Mansfield (b. 1871) —
also known as Francis M. Mansfield; Francis
Miltoun —
of Paris, France.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., February
14, 1871.
Newspaper
correspondent; author; U.S. Consular Agent in Toulon, 1909-11; U.S. Vice Consul in Barcelona, 1913-14.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1898
to Blanche McManus. |
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Lauri Moilanen —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Finland.
Socialist. Editor; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1920.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Pinckney Holbrook Nason (1842-1937) —
also known as Charles P. H. Nason —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Newburyport, Essex
County, Mass., September
7, 1842.
Son of Rev. Elias Nason (1811-1887) and Myra Ann (Bigelow) Nason
(born 1814).
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; clergyman;
writer; lecturer;
U.S. Consul in Grenoble, 1901-11.
Presbyterian
or Congregationalist.
Died in 1937
(age about
94 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Oneal (1875-1962) —
also known as Jim Oneal —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.; Indiana; Massachusetts; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March 13,
1875.
Socialist. Editor; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from New York, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1920 (10th District), 1922 (7th
District), 1926 (2nd District), 1928 (7th District), 1931 (9th
District), 1932 (2nd District); candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1922, 1923;
candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1924; candidate for borough
president of Queens, New York, 1925, 1933.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
12, 1962 (age 87 years, 274
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Howard Payne (1791-1852) —
also known as John H. Payne —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1791.
Actor;
playwright; author of the lines which were later adapted as
the song "Home Sweet Home"; U.S. Consul in Tunis, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame, 1970.
Died in Tunis, Tunisia,
April
10, 1852 (age 60 years, 306
days).
Original interment at St.
George's Protestant Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883
at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965) —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., March 12,
1890.
Son of Grace (Goodale) Pelley (born 1861) and William George Apsey
Pelley (1867-1920).
Hollywood screenwriter in 1917-29 for about 12 films,
including The Light in the Dark and The Shock, both
starring Lon Chaney; founder (1933) and leader of the anti-Semitic
Silver Legion of America organization (the "Silver Shirts",
explicitly modeled after Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts); Christian
candidate for President
of the United States, 1936; arrested
in April 1942 and charged
with criminal
sedition; convicted
and sentenced
to fifteen years in prison;
released in 1950.
Died in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., July 1,
1965 (age 75 years, 111
days).
Interment at Crownland
Cemetery, Noblesville, Ind.
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Horace Remillard (b. 1885) —
Born in Roxbury (now part of Boston), Suffolk
County, Mass., August 5,
1885.
Translator; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Hankow, 1914; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1916; Swatow, 1917; U.S. Consul in Saigon, 1919-20; Rome, 1924; Tangier, 1926-29; Port Said, 1931-32.
Burial
location unknown.
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Onni Saari —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Finland.
Socialist. Editor; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1920.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817-1897) —
also known as A. W. Thayer —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.; Trieste, Austria (now Italy).
Born in Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
22, 1817.
Son of Alexander Thayer (1785-1825) and Susanna (Bigelow) Thayer
(1790-1845).
Writer; U.S. Consul in Trieste, 1864-66.
Died in Trieste, Austria (now Italy),
July
15, 1897 (age 79 years, 266
days).
Interment at Evangelical
Cemetery, Trieste, Italy.
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., December
17, 1807.
Poet; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1835.
Quaker.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in Hampton Falls, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
7, 1892 (age 84 years, 265
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Amesbury, Mass.
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