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• Billings, William    b. October 7, 1746  d. September 29, 1800
  Religious Choral Composer. He is considered by many to be the foremost representative of early American music and created a unique style with his hymns and anthems. He was blind in one eye with a withered arm and one leg shorter than the other. When he was only 14, his father died and he was forced to discontinue his formal schooling and he became a tanner by trade. He was self-trained in music, having never received any formal musical education. Nearly all of his works were written for a four-...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
  Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
   
• Higginson, Stephen    b. November 28, 1743  d. September 22, 1828
  Continental Congressman. Served as a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts in 1783. (Bio by: K)
  Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
   
• Palmer, Joseph   b. March 31, 1716  d. December 25, 1788
  Revolutionary War General. In the 1740s he emigrated to Germantown, Massachusetts, which is now part of Quincy. Palmer and his brother in law operated several businesses, including a textile mill, a glass works, a chocolate mill, a salt works and a spermacetti factory. (Spermacetti is a waxy substance inside the heads of sperm whales, and was used to make candles.) Palmer was a supporter of independence, was an active member of the militia, attaining the rank of Colonel, and served in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
   
• Sprague, Charles    b. October 26, 1791  d. January 21, 1875
  Poet. One of America's earliest native born poets, he worked over forty years for the Globe Bank and was often referred to as "The Banker Poet of Boston". Many of his odes and prologues were delivered at historical Boston events and his works were first published in 1841. He is the son of Boston Tea Party participant Samuel Sprague, and a descendent of Mayflower passenger, Richard Warren. He is the grandfather of American painters, Charles Sprague Pearce and William Houghton Sprague Pearce. (Bio by: Carolie McLaughlin)
  Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
   
• Stuart, Gilbert    b. December 3, 1755  d. July 9, 1828
  Artist. American portrait painter whose portrait of President George Washington has graced the United States one dollar bill for over a century. In his lifetime, painted over 1,000 portraits of famous people, from the first five presidents to many other socially prominent men and women of the Colonial Period. A large number of his portraits hang today in The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, many of which are incomplete as he was notorious for never finishing a commission. Toward...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
  Plot: [unmarked]
   
• Sullivan, James   b. April 22, 1744  d. December 10, 1808
  Continental Congressman, Massachusetts Governor. Served as a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts from 1782 to 1783. Also served as a State Court Judge in 1776, Massachusetts State Attorney General from 1790 to 1807, and Governor of Massachusetts from 1807 to 1808. (Bio by: K)
  Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
   

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