Find A Grave - Lowell

Abbott, Henry Livermore b. January 21, 1842 d. May 6, 1864
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A Harvard law student when the Civil War broke out, he joined the 4th Battalion of the Massachusetts Militia after the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, South Carolina. However, in August 1861, at the age of 19, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was known as the "Harvard Regiment" because most of its officers were either students or graduates of Harvard. The regiment became one of the better known...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cause of death: Killed in the Battle of the Wilderness
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Chapel Avenue, Lot 966
Allen, Charles Herbert b. April 15, 1848 d. April 20, 1934
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 8th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1885 to 1989. He also served as Massachusetts Prison Commissioner in 1897 and 1898, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the first McKinley Administation from 1898 to 1900, and as the first civil Governor of Puerto Rico from 1900 to 1902. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Ames, Adelbert b. October 31, 1835 d. April 13, 1933
Civil War Union Brigadier General, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, US Senator. Born in Rockland, Maine, as a youth he sailed on clipper ships. In 1856, he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, Virginia and graduated fifth in his class in 1861. Commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant in the 5th United States Regular Artillery, he was immediately sent to the battle lines in Virginia. He was badly wounded at the July 21, 1861 First Battle of Bull Run, but his heroic actions...[Read More]
Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: It
Ames, Butler b. August 22, 1871 d. November 6, 1954
US Congressman. Served as a Colonel in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1903 to 1913. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1897 to 1899. (Bio by: K)
Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Butler, Benjamin Franklin b. November 5, 1818 d. January 11, 1893
Civil War Union Major General, US Congressman, Massachusetts Governor. Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire. He graduated from Colby College in Maine in 1838. Butler started a law career but soon turned to politics. Butler married Sarah Hildreth in 1844. He was elected a Massachusetts state senator in 1859. In 1860, Butler was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention were he voted 57 times to nominate Jefferson Davis for President of the United States. After the...[Read More]
Hildreth Family Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: It
Dean, Benjamin b. August 14, 1824 d. April 9, 1897
US Congressman. A Democrat, he represented Massachusetts' 3rd District in the US House of Representatives for 11 months, from March 28, 1878 to March 3, 1879. Dean was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, and immigrated with his parents to Lowell, Massachusetts at age five. After attending Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845. From 1852 Dean had a thriving law practice in Boston and was prominent in local political and civic affairs. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Greenhalge, Frederic Thomas b. July 19, 1842 d. March 5, 1896
US Congressman, Massachusetts Governor. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 8th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1889 to 1891. Also served as Mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1880, Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives in 1885, and Governor of Massachusetts from 1894 to 1896. (Bio by: K)
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Oak Path, Lot 1453
Hallaren, Mary Agnes b. May 4, 1907 d. February 13, 2005
United States Army Officer. She was the former director of the Women's Army Corps (WACs), and the first woman to officially become an officer in the United States Army. She joined the WACs shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 and was rapidly promoted through the ranks. Throughout her career, she was a staunch supporter of the role of women in the military, believing that they could fill more than just traditional positions reserved for women, such as...[Read More] (Bio by: Steve Niederloh)
Saint Patrick Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Section HALLO- Lot 48-Yard 5F
Kerouac, Jack b. March 12, 1922 d. October 21, 1969
Author. The son of French Canadian immigrants who settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, he could not speak a word of English until age six and barely could upon entering Lowell High School. He managed to attend Columbia University and even played football but, after breaking a leg, the school and sports were ended and his start of a nomadic existence where he never stayed long in one place. His most famous work was "The Beat Generation" however, his book "On the Road" best mirrored his own life...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield (bad email))
Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Knapp, Chauncey Langdon b. February 26, 1809 d. May 31, 1898
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 8th District in the United States House of Represenatives, serving from 1855 to 1859. Also served as Secretary of the State of Vermont from 1836 to 1841. (Bio by: K)
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Ladd, Luther Crawford b. December 22, 1843 d. April 19, 1861
United States Civil War Soldier. He was one of the first four casualties of that war. After the Union surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861, and the following secession of eleven Southern states, President Abraham Lincoln put out a call for Union volunteers to defend Washington, DC. Among the troops who responded to that call was the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, who soon boarded trains to take them to the national capital. Upon arriving in Baltimore on April 19 (the eighty-sixth...[Read More] (Bio by: Eric Thomsen)
Ladd and Whitney Monument, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: In front of Lowell City Hall
Locke, John b. February 14, 1764 d. March 29, 1855
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 4th and 6th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1823 to 1829. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives in 1804, Delegate to the Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention in 1820, and Member of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1830. (Bio by: K)
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
McFarland, John C. b. 1840 d. October 3, 1881
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. His rank was Captain of the Forecastle in the Union Navy. His citation reads "Stationed at the wheel on board the flagship USS Harford during successful action against Fort Morgan, regel gunboats, and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. With his ship under terrific enemy shell-fire, McFarland performed his duties with skill and courage and, when the Lackawanna ran into his ship and every man at the wheel was in danger of being...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: [unmarked]
Rogers, Edith Nourse b. 1881 d. 1960
US Congresswoman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1925 until her death in 1960. (Bio by: K)
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Tennyson Ave, Lot 1305
Rogers, John Jacob b. August 18, 1881 d. March 28, 1925
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts' 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1913 until his death in 1925. (Bio by: K)
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Tennyson Ave, Lot 1305
Taylor, Charles A. b. 1836 d. April 19, 1861
United States Civil War Soldier. He was one of the first four casualties of that war. After the Union surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861, and the following secession of eleven Southern states, President Abraham Lincoln put out a call for Union volunteers to defend Washington, DC. Among the troops who responded to that call was the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, who soon boarded trains to take them to the national capital. Upon arriving in Baltimore on April 19 (the eighty-sixth...[Read More] (Bio by: Eric Thomsen)
Ladd and Whitney Monument, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: In front of Lowell City Hall
Taylor, Joseph d. February 24, 1914
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the Union Army as Private in Company E, 7th Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at Weldon Railroad, Virginia, on August 18, 1864. His citation reads "While acting as an orderly to a general officer on the field and alone, encountered a picket of three of the enemy and compeled their surrender." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Tsongas, Paul Efthemios b. February 14, 1941 d. January 18, 1997
US Senator from Massachusetts. Democratic Candidate for the Presidency and ran against Bill Clinton in 1992. His voice was widely imitated by such comedians as Billy Crystal and Al Franken.
Cause of death: leukemia
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Woodbine Path
Wentworth, Tappan b. 1802 d. 1875
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1853 to 1855. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Whitney, Addison O. b. October 30, 1839 d. April 19, 1861
United States Civil War Soldier. He was one of the first four casualties of that war. After the Union surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861, and the following secession of eleven Southern states, President Abraham Lincoln put out a call for Union volunteers to defend Washington, DC. Among the troops who responded to that call was the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, who soon boarded trains to take them to the national capital. Upon arriving in Baltimore on April 19 (the eighty-sixth...[Read More] (Bio by: Eric Thomsen)
Ladd and Whitney Monument, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: In front of Lowell City Hall

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