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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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Winston Churchill (1871-1947) —
of Cornish, Sullivan
County, N.H.; Plainfield, Sullivan
County, N.H.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., November
10, 1871.
Son of Edward Spaulding Churchill and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill.
Novelist; historian; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1903-05; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1904
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); Progressive candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1912.
Died in Winter Park, Orange
County, Fla., March 12,
1947 (age 75 years, 122
days).
Interment somewhere
in Plainfield, N.H.
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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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James Duane Squires (1904-1981) —
also known as J. Duane Squires —
of New London, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in North Dakota, 1904.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Hampshire, 1952,
1956,
1964.
Author of a four-volume history of New Hampshire.
Died in 1981
(age about
77 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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