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Benjamin Calvin Bubar, Jr. (1917-1995) —
also known as Ben Bubar —
of Maine.
Born in 1917.
Ordained minister; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1939-42; Prohibition candidate
for President
of the United States, 1976, 1980.
Baptist.
Died in 1995
(age about
78 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles S. Cummings (b. 1856) —
of Rockland, Knox
County, Maine; Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine; Auburn, Androscoggin
County, Maine.
Born in Gorham, Coos
County, N.H., September
25, 1856.
Son of Hiram T. Cummings and Eliza A. (Cloudman) Cummings.
Republican. School
teacher; pastor; Androscoggin
County Sheriff, 1903-04; insurance
business; mayor of
Auburn, Maine, 1922-25.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Kiwanis.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Hiram T. Cummings and Eliza A. (Cloudman) Cummings; married 1882 to Carrie
A. Neff; married 1886 to Addie
F. Larrabee; married 1903 to Mildred
E. Davis. |
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Joshua Cushman (1761-1834) —
of Winslow, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Halifax, Plymouth
County, Mass., April 11,
1761.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; pastor; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1810; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1811-12; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1819-21; U.S.
Representative from Maine at-large, 1821-25; member of Maine
state senate, 1828; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1834.
Congregationalist.
Died in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
27, 1834 (age 72 years, 291
days).
Interment at State
of Maine Burial Ground, Augusta, Maine.
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Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882) —
also known as Samuel Fessenden —
of Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New Gloucester, Cumberland
County, Maine, March 7,
1815.
Republican. Pastor, Second Congregational Church, Thomaston,
Maine, 1837-56; lawyer;
candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1846, 1847, 1848; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1861-63; U.S. Consul in
SAINT John, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1880.
Congregationalist.
Died in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., April 18,
1882 (age 67 years, 42
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
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Isaac Smith Kalloch (1832-1887) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Rockland, Knox
County, Maine, July 10,
1832.
Pastor; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1879-81.
Indicted
for adultery,
in East Cambridge, Mass., 1857; tried,
but the jury was unable to agree on a verdict. Shot and
wounded, on August 23, 1879, by newspaper editor Charles DeYoung.
A few months later, before DeYoung was to be tried for the shooting,
Kalloch's son, I. M. Kalloch, shot and killed DeYoung in his office.
Died, of diabetes,
in Whatcom (now part of Bellingham), Whatcom
County, Wash., December
9, 1887 (age 55 years, 152
days).
Interment at Bayview
Cemetery, Bellingham, Wash.
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Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864) —
of Princeton, Bureau
County, Ill.
Born in Albion, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
6, 1811.
Son of Elizabeth Gordon (Pattee) Lovejoy (1772-1857) and Rev. Daniel
Lovejoy (1776-1833).
Republican. Minister; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1854-56; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1856
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1857-64 (3rd District 1857-63, 5th
District 1863-64); died in office 1864.
Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 25,
1864 (age 53 years, 79
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Princeton, Ill.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Luther Franklin McKinney (1841-1922) —
also known as Luther F. McKinney —
of Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.; Bridgton, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Newark, Licking
County, Ohio, April 25,
1841.
Son of Alexander McKinney and Elizabeth (Miller) McKinney.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Universalist minister; furniture
merchant; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1887-89, 1891-93;
candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1892; U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1893-96; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1898, 1899; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1907.
Universalist.
Died July 30,
1922 (age 81 years, 96
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Bridgton, Maine.
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