Find A Grave - Hancock County

Brooks, Noah b. October 24, 1830 d. August 16, 1903
Journalist, Editor, Author. A close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was born and raised in Castine, Hancock County, Maine. By his own account, his childhood was a happy one. At age 17, he left Castine for Boston to further his education. At age 20, he was working for a Boston newspaper and had essays and sketches published. In 1856, he married Caroline Augusta Fellows of Salem, Massachusetts. They settled in Dixon, Illinois. That summer, he met Abraham Lincoln at a political rally in Ogle County...[Read More] (Bio by: Cindy K. Coffin)
Castine Cemetery, Castine, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Chamberlain, Thomas Davee b. 1841 d. August 12, 1896
Civil War Union Army Officer. He served with the 20th Maine regiment at many battles including Gettysburg. He was the brother of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Castine Cemetery, Castine, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Damrosch, Walter b. January 30, 1862 d. December 22, 1950
Conductor, composer, author, pianist and actor. Damrosch served as Wagnerian Director for the Metropolitan Opera from 1885 to 1891. He also conducted the New York Symphony and the New York Oratorio Society and produced many several Wagner Operas at Carnegie Hall between 1893 and 1894. In 1895 he organized the Damrosch Grand Opera Company and in 1900 he became staff conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. In 1903 he reorganized the New York Symphony and directed it until 1927 when he became...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Ledgelawn Cemetery, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Dewson, Mary b. February 18, 1874 d. October 1, 1962
Social Reformer. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1897. For 3 years she worked as a research economist for the Woman's Educational & Industrial Union of Boston, after which she became superintendent of the Massachusetts Girls' Parole Department (1900-12). In 1911, she served as secretary of the Commission on Minimum Wage Legislation for Massachusetts. She served as zone chief of the Bureau of Refugees of the American Red Cross in France, during World War I. She was then research...[Read More] (Bio by: Genet)
Cause of death: Stroke
Castine Cemetery, Castine, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Farnum, Dustin b. May 27, 1874 d. July 3, 1929
Stage and screen actor during the early days of motion pictures. One of Paramount Pictures first movie stars. Screen credits include "The Squaw Man" (1913), "Davy Crockett" (1916), "The Scarlet Pimpernell" (1917), "The Virginian" (1923), "Kentucky Days" (1924) "The Flaming Frontier" (1926) and many more. (Bio by: Sam Gindy)
Silver Lake Cemetery, Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Farrell, Eileen b. February 13, 1920 d. March 23, 2002
Opera Singer. Perhaps her generation's premiere dramatic soprano, she later became a renowned exponent of jazz and blues. The child of Vaudeville parents who had traveled as "The Singing O'Farrells", she learned to sing from her mother and was raised in a variety of northeastern locations before settling in Storrs, Connecticut. After graduating from high school in 1939 she received further vocal training in New York City then was signed by the CBS Radio Chorus; Eileen was too good to be a...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Castine Cemetery, Castine, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Fellows, Frank b. November 7, 1889 d. August 27, 1951
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maine's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1941 until his death in 1951. (Bio by: K)
Silver Lake Cemetery, Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Hale, Eugene b. June 9, 1836 d. October 27, 1918
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maine's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1869 to 1879. He was defeated in 1878. Also served as a Member of the Maine State House of Representatives from 1867 to 1868, and 1879 to 1880, Delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine in 1868, and United States Senator from Maine from 1881 to 1911.
Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Hale, Frederick b. October 7, 1874 d. September 28, 1963
US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1917 to 1941. Also served as a Member of the Maine State House of Representatives from 1905 to 1906, and Member of the Republican National Committee from Maine from 1912 to 1918.
Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Jarvis, Leonard b. 1781 d. 1854
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maine's 6th and 7th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1829 to 1837. (Bio by: K)
Hillside Cemetery, Surry, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Lord, Phillips Haynes b. July 13, 1902 d. October 19, 1975
Actor, Radio Personality. Born the son of a clergyman, he lived in Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts before attending Bowdoin College in Maine. While in college he established himself as an entrepreneur by developing several businesses. After he graduated he took the position of principle at Plainville High School in CT, becoming the youngest person ever to be principle in the United States at the time. He soon moved to New York City and became involded in radio. His creation of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Tracy G.)
Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, USA
McCarthy, Mary b. June 21, 1912 d. October 25, 1989
Author. She wrote the books, "The Company She Keeps" (1942), "The Oasis" (1949), "Cast A Cold Eye" (1950), "The Grove Of Academe" (1952), "A Charmed Life" (1955), "Sights And Spectacles 1932-1956" (1956), "Venice Observed" (1956), "Memoirs Of A Catholic Childhood" (1957), "The Stones Of Florence" (1959), "On The Contray" (1961), "The Group" (1962), "The Humanist In The Bathtub" (1964), "Report From Vietnam" (1967), "Hanoi" (1968), "The Writing On The Wall" (1970), "Winter Visitors" (1970), "The...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Castine Cemetery, Castine, Hancock County, Maine, USA
McMurtry, George Gibson b. November 6, 1876 d. November 22, 1958
Congressional Medal Of Honor recipient. Citation: As a Captain in WW I he commanded a battalion (the lost battalion), which was cut off and surrounded by the enemy and although wounded in the knee by shrapnel on 4 October and suffering great pain, he continued throughout the entire period to encourage his officers and men with a resistless optimism that contributed largely toward preventing panic and disorder among the troops, who were without food, cut off from communication with our lines. On...[Read More] (Bio by: Thom White)
Ledgelawn Cemetery, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Monteux, Pierre b. April 4, 1875 d. July 1, 1964
Orchestra Conductor. He came to attention as conductor for Sergei Diaghilev's "Ballet Russes" (1911 to 1914), where he led the world premieres of Igor Stravinsky's "Petrushka"(1911) and "The Rite of Spring"(1913), as well as Maurice Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloe"(1912). After World War I service with the French army, Monteux began his long association with the United States, conducting French repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera (1917 to 1919). He was music director of the Boston Symphony (1919 to...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Riverside Cemetery, Hancock, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Moore, Garry (Thomas Garrison Morfit) b. January 31, 1915 d. November 28, 1993
Actor. He is best remembered as the genial host of the television shows, "I've Got a Secret," "To Tell the Truth," and "The Garry Moore Show." Born Thomas Garrison Morfit, he originally worked as a radio comedian and writer under his birth name for WBAL in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1940, he changed his name to Garry Moore, as his original name was considered too difficult to pronounce. In 1949, CBS Radio gave him the "Garry Moore Show," a one-hour daily variety program which became very...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Emphysema
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Northeast Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Morison, Samuel Eliot b. 1887 d. 1976
Morison was a Harvard historian, noted for his numerous publications, particularly involving seafarers, and his OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. (Bio by: Rick Watson)
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Northeast Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Nevin, Ethelbert b. November 25, 1862 d. February 17, 1901
Composer, Pianist. Musically inclined from childhood, he studied piano in Boston and, abroad, in Dresden and Berlin. Having taught music in Paris, he turned to composing, living for extended periods in Berlin, Algiers, Florence, and Venice, which he used for inspiration for his compositions. He wrote many piano pieces which were popular in the early part of the twentieth centery. Among his most famous and popular songs were "May in Tuscany", "Narcissus", "The Rosary", and possibly his most...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Seaside Cemetery, Blue Hill, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Peters, John Andrew b. 1864 d. 1953
US Congressman. Elected to represent Maine's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1913 to 1922. Also served as a Member of the Maine State Legislature, and State Court Judge. (Bio by: K)
Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Tilden, Charles William b. May 7, 1832 d. March 12, 1914
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He served during the Civil War first as a Captain in the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry, then as Colonel and commander of the 16th Maine Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "faithful and meritorious services during the war". (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Castine Cemetery, Castine, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Plot: Lot 184
White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) b. July 11, 1899 d. October 1, 1985
Childrens's author, essayist. Before turning to writing books, Brooks worked as free-lance writer and a reporter and then he joined the New Yorker magazine in 1927. His many books include, "Charlotte'S Web" (1952), "Is Sex Necessary?" (1929), "The Elements of Style" (1935), "Stuart Little" (1945), "The Trumpet of The Swan" (1970), "Points My Compass" (1962), "The Second Tree From The Corner" (1954), "Letters of E.B. White" (1976) and "Poems And Sketches of E.B. White" (1981). In 1978 Brooks was...[Read More]
Brooklin Cemetery, Brooklin, Hancock County, Maine, USA

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