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Herbert Brainerd (b. 1837) —
of St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt.
Born in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., December
25, 1837.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; railroad
business; steamboat
business; treasurer, St. Albans iron and steel works;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives from St. Albans, 1880; member of
Vermont
state senate from Franklin County, 1882.
Congregationalist.
Burial
location unknown.
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Eugene Noble Foss (1858-1939) —
also known as Eugene N. Foss —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in West Berkshire, Berkshire, Franklin
County, Vt., September
24, 1858.
Son of George Edmund Foss and Marcia Cordelia (Noble) Foss.
Democrat. Owner of cotton mills
and iron and steel works; active in banking and
railroads;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 14th District, 1910-11;
defeated, 1902 (Republican, 11th District), 1904 (Republican, 11th
District); resigned 1911; defeated, 1925 (5th District); Governor of
Massachusetts, 1911-14; defeated (Independent), 1913; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1912.
Baptist.
Member, Sigma
Phi.
Died September
13, 1939 (age 80 years, 354
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Carroll Peabody Pitkin (1851-1907) —
also known as Carroll P. Pitkin —
of Montpelier, Washington
County, Vt.
Born in Vermont, December
15, 1851.
Son of Perley Peabody Pitkin (1826-1891) and Caroline Matilda
(Templeton) Pitkin (1827-1883).
Lawyer;
treasurer of foundry; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Montpelier, 1888.
Died in 1907
(age about
55 years).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, Vt.
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William Henry Harrison Stowell (1840-1922) —
of Richmond,
Va.; Appleton, Outagamie
County, Wis.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.; Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.
Born in Windsor, Windsor
County, Vt., July 26,
1840.
Son of Sylvester Stowell and Fanny Chandler (Bowen) Stowell.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1871-77; Virginia
Republican state chair, 1872-73; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Virginia, 1876;
founder, secretary-treasurer, Fox River Pulp
Co., Atlas Paper
Co., Duluth Iron Steel Co.; president of Manufacturers Bank of
West Duluth, 1889-1895.
Episcopalian.
Died in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., April 27,
1922 (age 81 years, 275
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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