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• Carpenter, Davis    b. 1799  d. 1878
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 29th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1853 to 1855. (Bio by: K)
  High Street Cemetery, Brockport, Monroe County, New York, USA
   
• Holmes, Elias Bellows    b. 1807  d. 1866
  US Congresman. Elected to represent New York's 28th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1845 to 1849. (Bio by: K)
  High Street Cemetery, Brockport, Monroe County, New York, USA
   
• Holmes (Hawes), Mary Jane (Mary Jane)    b. April 5, 1828  d. October 6, 1907
  Author. Born Mary Jane Hawes in Brookfield, Massachusetts where she taught in a district school at age thirteen. In 1852 she married lawyer, Daniel Holmes, and within a year moved to western New York where she wrote her first novel. "Tempest and Sunshine" was published in 1854 followed by "The English Orphans" in 1855. She became one of the first writers to be developed by the publishing firm of Street & Smith, her first serial story for them; "Marian Grey" in 1859 was rumored to have saved...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
  High Street Cemetery, Brockport, Monroe County, New York, USA
   

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