The Political Graveyard: Coos County, N.H. (original) (raw)

Index to Locations

Evans Cemetery
Gorham, Coos County, New Hampshire
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| | Jesse Felt Libby (1857-1936) — also known as Jesse F. Libby — of Gorham, Coos County, N.H. Born in Locke's Mills, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, February 12, 1857.School principal; lawyer; real estate business; promoter, director, treasurer, Berlin Aqueduct Company and Cascade Light and Power Company; director, president, Lancaster and Jefferson Electric Light Company; director, Gorham National Bank; promoter, director, Berlin Street Railway; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1903, 1905.Congregationalist. Member, Theta Delta Chi; Freemasons;Odd Fellows. Died in 1936(age about 79 years). Interment at Evans Cemetery. |

Unknown Location
Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire

Old Cemetery
Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire
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| | John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853) — also known as John W. Weeks — of Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Born in Greenland, Rockingham County, N.H., March 31, 1781. Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New Hampshire state senate 12th District, 1826-29; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1829-33. Died in Lancaster, Coos County, N.H., April 3, 1853 (age 72 years, 3 days). Interment at Old Cemetery. Relatives: Son of John Weeks and Deborah (Brackett) Weeks; married, November 17, 1805, to Martha Weeks Brackett; married, March 15, 1821, to Persis de la Fayette Everett; granduncle of John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); great-granduncle of Charles Sinclair Weeks; first cousin once removed of Timothy Pickering; second cousin once removed of Dudley Leavitt Pickman; second cousin thrice removed of John Gardner Coolidge and Augustus Peabody Gardner; second cousin four times removed of John Lee Saltonstall; second cousin five times removed of Leverett Saltonstall, Richard Saltonstall, William Gurdon Saltonstall, William Amory Gardner Minot and John Lee Saltonstall Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Isaac Libbey and Eugene Harvey Libby; third cousin thrice removed of Llewellyn Libby, William F. Nason and Alvin Gardner Weeks; fourth cousin of Luther Walter Badger; fourth cousin once removed of Eleazer Pomeroy and Amos Tuck. Political families: Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians). See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page |

Summer Street Cemetery
Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire
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| Sinclair Weeks | Charles Sinclair Weeks (1893-1972) — also known as Sinclair Weeks — of Newton, Middlesex County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Born in West Newton, Newton, Middlesex County, Mass., June 15, 1893. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; banker; mayor of Newton, Mass., 1930-35; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1932,1940,1944,1948,1952,1956;Massachusetts Republican state chair, 1936-38; member of Republican National Committee from Massachusetts, 1940-53; Treasurer of Republican National Committee, 1941-44; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1944; appointed 1944; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1953-58.Unitarian. Member, Freemasons;Scottish Rite Masons; American Legion; Sons of the American Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati. Died, in the Rivercrest Nursing Home, Concord, Middlesex County, Mass., February 7, 1972 (age 78 years, 237 days). Interment at Summer Street Cemetery. Relatives: Son of Martha (Sinclair) Weeks and John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); married, December 4, 1915, to Beatrice Lee Dowse; married, January 3, 1948, to Jane (Tompkins) Rankin; married, August 22, 1968, to Alice Pauline (Requa) Low; grandson of John G. Sinclair; great-grandnephew of John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin four times removed of Timothy Pickering; third cousin twice removed of Dudley Leavitt Pickman; third cousin thrice removed of Nathan Read. Political families: Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians). Cross-reference: Maxwell M. Rabb See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial Image source: Eminent Americans (1954) |
| | Jared Warner Williams (1796-1864) — also known as Jared W. Williams — of Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Born in West Woodstock, Woodstock, Windham County, Conn., December 22, 1796. Democrat. Member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1830-31, 1835-36; member of New Hampshire state senate 12th District, 1832-35; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1837-41; Governor of New Hampshire, 1847-49; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1853-54; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1864. Died in Lancaster, Coos County, N.H., September 29, 1864 (age 67 years, 282 days). Interment at Summer Street Cemetery. | |
| | Irving Webster Drew (1845-1922) — also known as Irving W. Drew — of Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Born in Colebrook, Coos County, N.H., January 8, 1845.Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1880(member, Committee on Permanent Organization); member of New Hampshire state senate 1st District, 1883-84; delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1902, 1912; U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1918. Died in Montclair, Essex County, N.J., April 10, 1922 (age 77 years, 92 days). Interment at Summer Street Cemetery. | |
| | Ossian Ray (1835-1892) — of Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Born in Hinesburg, Chittenden County, Vt., December 13, 1835. Republican. Lawyer; Coos County Solicitor, 1862-72; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1868-69; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1872;U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire, 1879-80; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, 1881-85 (3rd District 1881-83, 2nd District 1883-85). Died in Lancaster, Coos County, N.H., January 28, 1892 (age 56 years, 46 days). Interment at Summer Street Cemetery. Relatives: Son of George W. Ray and Hannah (Greene) Ray; married, March 2, 1856, to Alice A. Fling; married, October 16, 1872, to Sally Emery (Small) Burnside; grandfather of Ossian Edward Ray; first cousin five times removed of William Greene; second cousin once removed of Clement Phineas Kellogg; second cousin four times removed of William Greene Jr.; third cousin once removed of Joel Burlingame; third cousin twice removed of Albert Collins Greene; third cousin thrice removed of Ray Greene; fourth cousin of Anson Burlingame; fourth cousin once removed of George Washington Greene, Andrew Clark Lippitt, Henry Lippitt, William Maxwell Greene, Dennison Franklin Holden and James Montgomery Burlingame. Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians). See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial | |
| | Henry Oakes Kent (1834-1909) — also known as Henry O. Kent — of Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Born in Lancaster, Coos County, N.H., February 7, 1834. Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; banker; newspaper editor and publisher; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1870; member of New Hampshire state senate 1st District, 1885-86; candidate for Governor of New Hampshire, 1894, 1896.Episcopalian. Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Freemasons. Died March 21, 1909 (age 75 years, 42 days). Interment at Summer Street Cemetery. | |
| | Jacob Benton (1814-1892) — of New Hampshire. Born in Waterford, Caledonia County, Vt., August 19, 1814. Republican. Member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1854-56; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1860;U.S. Representative from New Hampshire 3rd District, 1867-71. Died in Lancaster, Coos County, N.H., September 29, 1892 (age 78 years, 41 days). Interment at Summer Street Cemetery. | |
| | Irving A. Hinkley (d. 1950) — of Lancaster, Coos County, N.H. Democrat. New Hampshire state attorney general, 1923-24; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1928,1936; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Hampshire. Died in 1950. Interment at Summer Street Cemetery. | |

Wilder Cemetery
Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire
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| | Wesley Powell (1915-1981) — of Hampton Falls, Rockingham County, N.H. Born in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, N.H., October 13, 1915. Republican. Lawyer; administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Styles Bridges, 1940-43, 1946-49; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; candidate for U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, 1950, 1972 (Republican); Governor of New Hampshire, 1959-63; defeated in primary, 1956, 1962. Died in Hampton Falls, Rockingham County, N.H., January 6, 1981 (age 65 years, 85 days). Interment at Wilder Cemetery. |

Burns Cemetery
Whitefield, Coos County, New Hampshire

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