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William Pennell Snow (1907-1986) —
also known as William P. Snow —
of Maine.
Born in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 23,
1907.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Stockholm, 1938; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1959; Paraguay, 1961-67.
Died in 1986
(age about
78 years).
Interment somewhere.
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James Crosby Hobbs (1879-1942) —
also known as J. Crosby Hobbs —
of Camden, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Hope, Knox
County, Maine, September
24, 1879.
Son of James Philbrick Hobbs (1835-1904) and Nancy Maria (Miller)
Hobbs (1843-1907).
Democrat. Knox
County Commissioner, 1907-12; Knox
County Sheriff; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maine, 1936.
Died, of a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, February
18, 1942 (age 62 years, 147
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Obadiah Gardner (1852-1938) —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born near Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich., September
13, 1852.
Son of John Gardner and Mary (Stevens) Gardner.
Democrat. Farmer; lumber
business; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1908; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1911-13; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maine, 1912;
delegate
to Maine convention to ratify 21st amendment from Knox County,
1933.
Universalist.
Member, Grange; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, July 24,
1938 (age 85 years, 314
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Nathan Allen Farwell (1812-1893) —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Unity, Waldo
County, Maine, February
24, 1812.
Republican. Member of Maine
state senate, 1853-54, 1861-62; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1860, 1863-64; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maine, 1864;
U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1864-65.
Died in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, December
9, 1893 (age 81 years, 288
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Charles Edgar Littlefield (1851-1915) —
also known as Charles E. Littlefield —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Lebanon, York
County, Maine, June 21,
1851.
Member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1885; Maine
state attorney general, 1889-92; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Maine, 1896;
U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1899-1908; defeated
(People's), 1898; resigned 1908.
Died in New York, May 2,
1915 (age 63 years, 315
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Edward Carleton Moran, Jr. (1894-1967) —
also known as Edward C. Moran, Jr. —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, December
29, 1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; insurance
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine,
1924,
1936;
candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1928, 1930; U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1933-37.
Congregationalist.
Member, Grange; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, July 12,
1967 (age 72 years, 195
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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H. G. Berry (1824-1863) —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine.
Born August
27, 1824.
Democrat. Mayor
of Rockland, Maine, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
Killed
in battle at Chancellorville, Spotsylvania
County, Va., May 3,
1863 (age 38 years, 249
days).
Interment at Achorn Cemetery.
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Henry Knox (1750-1806) —
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 25,
1750.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1789-94.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
He brought 59 cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester, Mass.,
leading the British forces to evacuate Boston on March 17, 1776.
Swallowed a small chicken bone that damaged his intestines,
and died three days later of peritonitis,
in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, October
21, 1806 (age 56 years, 88
days).
Interment at Elm Grove Cemetery.
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John Ruggles (1789-1874) —
of Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Westborough, Worcester
County, Mass., October
8, 1789.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1823-31; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1825-29, 1831; state
court judge in Maine, 1831-34; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1835-41.
Died in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, June 20,
1874 (age 84 years, 255
days).
Interment at Elm Grove Cemetery.
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Jonathan Cilley (1802-1838) —
of Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Nottingham, Rockingham
County, N.H., July 2,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1831-36; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1835-36; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1837-38; died in office
1838.
Killed in a duel by
Representative William
J. Graves of Kentucky, on the Marlboro Pike, in Prince
George's County, Md., February
24, 1838 (age 35 years, 237
days).
Interment at Elm Grove Cemetery; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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