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• Chace, Elizabeth    b. December 9, 1806  d. December 12, 1899
  Abolitionist, Social Reformer. She was born on a Tuesday to the very prominent Quaker and abolitionist Arnold Buffum and his wife Rebecca Gould. She grew up primarily, on her grandparent's farm in Smithfield, Rhode Island and attended local schools. In 1824 she attended what is now the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island. The family moved to Fall River, Massachusetts in 1825. She married Samuel Buffington Chace on April 4, 1828 and would have 10 children, seven of which she would...[Read More] (Bio by: Matthew Fatale)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Child, Benjamin Ham    b. May 8, 1843  d. May 16, 1902
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Second Lieutenant in the Union Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor as a Corporal in Battery A, 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Light Artillery for action at Antietam, Maryland on September 17, 1862. His citation reads "Was wounded and taken to the rear, insensible, but when partialy recovered, Child insisted on returning to the battery and resumed command of his piece, so remaining until the close of the battle." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 161, Lot 14
   
• Corliss, George H.    b. June 2, 1817  d. February 21, 1888
  Inventor, Businessman. In 1841 he obtained a patent for an industrial sewing machine to manufacture footwear. In 1849 he obtained a patent for a valve gear, an improvement to the steam engine. In 1856 his continued improvements led him to found the Corliss Steam Engine Company. During the Civil War Corliss Steam Engines in the northern United States enabled the production of weapons and other items in far greater quantities than the Confederacy, enabling a Union victory. Corliss' achievements...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Davis, Thomas    b. December 18, 1806  d. July 26, 1895
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Rhode Island's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1853 to 1855. He also served as a Member of the Rhode Island State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Dorr, Thomas Wilson    b. November 5, 1805  d. December 27, 1854
  Rhode Island Governor. A well-respected Chepachet, Rhode Island lawyer, in 1842 he was duly elected Rhode Island's governor by the People's Party, However, incumbent Governor Samuel King had a problem when Dorr refused to step down from office. Intent on conducting business, Governor Dorr called the Rhode Island general assembly to convene on July 4, 1842. The ensuing power struggle prompted Governor King to order a general call to arms to put a stop to "Dorr's rebellion." King's troops marched...[Read More] (Bio by: R. Digati)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 215 Lot 2
   
• Dyer III., Elisha    b. November 29, 1839  d. November 29, 1906
  Rhode Island Governor from 1897 to 1900.
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 196 Lot 1
   
• Dyer IV., Elisha    b. October 23, 1862  d. June 2, 1917
  Prominent Member of the Exclusive "Four Hundred" of New York and Newport Society; Descendant of Notable Rhode Islanders. Son of General Elisha Dyer (1839-1906), a Governor of Rhode Island and Mayor of the City of Providence, and Nancy Anthony Viall Dyer (1842-1920); grandson of Elisha Dyer (1811-1890), also a Rhode Island Governor. A descendant of Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island Colony, and direct descendant of William and Mary Dyer who came from England, in 1635, to Boston;...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Bruce)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Dyer Family Lot, Section 196
   
• Eames, Benjamin Tucker    b. June 4, 1818  d. October 6, 1901
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Rhode Island's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1871 to 1879. He also served as a Member of the Rhode Island State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Foster, Theodore    b. April 29, 1752  d. January 13, 1828
  US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1790 to 1803. Also served as a Member of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives in 1776. (Bio by: K)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Gallup, Albert    b. January 30, 1796  d. November 5, 1851
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1837 to 1839. (Bio by: K)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Garvin, Lucius Fayette Clark    b. October 13, 1841  d. October 2, 1922
  Governor/Physician. Born on a Saturday to prominent East Tennessee University Professor James Garvin and Sarah Ann Gunn. He graduated from Amherst College in 1862 and almost immediately joined Company E of the 51st Mass. Vols. and served under General Foster, seeing action in North Carolina. After the war he studied medicine and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1867 and set up a practice in Lonsdale in Cumberland RI. Politically he was a Republican till 1876 when he switched to the...[Read More] (Bio by: Matthew Fatale)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 394 Lot 41
   
• Granger, Daniel Larned Davis    b. May 30, 1852  d. February 14, 1909
  US Congressman, Providence Mayor. Elected as a Democrat to represent Rhode Island's 1st District in the Fifty-eighth and two succeeding Congresses, he served from March 4, 1903 until his death in office. An 1874 graduate of Brown University, Granger earned a law degree at Boston University in 1877 and became a practicing attorney in his native Providence, Rhode Island. His solid record as Treasurer of Providence (1890 to 1901) won him two terms as the city's Mayor (1901 and 1902), followed by...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Green, Theodore Francis    b. October 2, 1867  d. May 19, 1966
  Rhode Island Governor. TF Green Airport in Rhode Island is named for him. Prior to Strom Thurmond, he held the record for being the oldest US Senator.
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 85
   
• Hoppin, William Warner    b. July 1, 1807  d. April 18, 1880
  Rhode Island Governor from 1854 to 1857.
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 192 Lot 4A
   
• James, Charles Tillinghast    b. September 15, 1805  d. October 17, 1862
  Major general, Rhode Island Militia; United States Senator from Rhode Island, 1851-1857; died from wounds received from the explosion of an experimental shell he was manufacturing.
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  GPS coordinates: 41.8485184, -71.3781815 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Jenckes, Thomas Allen    b. November 2, 1818  d. November 4, 1875
  US Congressman. Graduated from Brown University in 1838. Was admitted to the Rhode Island Bar in 1840. From 1840 to 1844 served as clerk for the Rhode Island State Legislature. Was Secretary to the 1842 State Constitutional Convention. Elected to the Rhode Island State Legislature and served from 1854 to 1857. Was also elected to US Congress, as a Republican, from the state of Rhode Island. Serving in the 38th thru the 41st Congresses. During his terms in Congress he served as the Chairman of...[Read More] (Bio by: Matthew Fatale)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 184, Location L, Lot 1A
   
• Jones, William    b. October 8, 1753  d. April 22, 1822
  Rhode Island Governor from 1811 to 1817.
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 204 Lot 7
   
• Ladd, Herbert W.    b. October 15, 1843  d. November 29, 1913
  Rhode Island Governor from 1889 to 1890 and 1891 to 1892.
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 77 Lot 3
   
• Lapham, Oscar   b. June 29, 1837  d. March 29, 1926
  US Congressman. Attended various schools around New England before graduating from Brown University in 1864. Served in the Civil War as First Lieutenant, Adjutant and Captain of the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers. Was admitted to the bar in May of 1867 and practiced in Providence. Served as in the Rhode Island State Senate 1887 to 1888. Ran unsuccessfully for the US Congress in 1882, 1886 and 1888. Defeated, incumbent Republican, Henry Joshua Spooner for Rhode Island's 1st District...[Read More] (Bio by: Matthew Fatale)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
   
• Lippitt, Charles Warren    b. October 8, 1846  d. April 4, 1924
  Rhode Island Governor. The son of another Rhode Island Governor, Henry Lippitt, he graduated from Brown University in 1865. He worked in the family textile manufacturing business and also as his father's chief of staff during his term as Governor from 1875 to 1877. He was the Republican Governor of Rhode Island from 1895 to 1897 and it was during his term, in 1896, that the cornerstone for the...[Read More] (Bio by: Jen Snoots)
  Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
  Plot: Group 260 Lot 1
   

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