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Adams, Louisa Catherine b. February 12, 1775 d. May 5, 1852
Presidential First Lady. The wife of 6th United States President John Quincy Adams, she was born in London, England to an American father. She was education in a French convent school, met John Quincy Adams while he was a diplomat serving in England and were married three years later at a ceremony in London (her new father-in-law, John Adams, had just...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Adams Crypt, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Adams, Samuel b. September 27, 1722 d. October 2, 1803
Declaration of Independence Signer, Massachusetts Governor. The cousin to John Adams, second President of the United States, he was a leading speaker in the cause of American Independence. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a respected landowner and brewer, he attended Harvard College, graduating in 1740. Entering private business, he was never a success at it, and by 1764, he was deeply in debt. As poor a...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Adams, William Taylor b. July 30, 1822 d. March 27, 1897
Author. He gained popularity in the 19th century for his works for young boys and girls written under the pseudonym "Olive Optic". He published 126 books and over 1,000 short stories under the alias.
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Agassiz, Elizabeth b. December 5, 1822 d. June 27, 1907
Scientist. The wife of naturalist Louis Agassiz, she helped to organize and manage the Thayer Expedition to Brazil in 1865, and the Hassler Expedition to the Strait of Magellan in 1871. She co-wrote "A First Lesson in Natural History," "Seaside Studies in Natural History," and "A Journey in Brazil". She served as President of Radcliffe College from 1882 to 1899.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Agassiz, Louis b. May 28, 1807 d. December 12, 1873
Scientist. He was a paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and one of the founding fathers of the modern scientific tradition. Born in Montier, Switzerland, he was educated in the universities of Switzerland and Germany as a physician, when he immigrated to the United States in 1848, to accepted a professorship at Harvard. In 1859, he founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He urged the creation of a National Academy of Sciences, became a founding member in 1863 and was also appointed a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Agganis, Harry b. April 20, 1929 d. June 27, 1955
Major League Baseball Player. Known was the "Golden Greek", he was a promising, highly touted, popular multi-sport athlete while attending Boston University. His skills were such that he was drafted by the Boston Red Sox and football's Cleveland Browns, opting for baseball and the Red Sox when that team made a better offer. He spent 1953 with the Red Sox's Louisville, Kentucky farm team, where he hit 23 home runs and 109 RBIs, which was good enough to get him promoted to the parent club after...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Plot Z, Lot 75
Alcott, Abigail b. October 8, 1800 d. November 25, 1877
Literary Figure. She was the model for the matron character "Marmee" in the book "Little Women," written by her second daughter, Louisa May Alcott. Outspoken and passionate for the rights of others, she was one of the first female social workers in Boston, Massachusetts. She later met and married Amos Bronson Alcott on May 23, 1830, and the union...[Read More] (Bio by: Abigailworm)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Alcott, Amos Bronson b. November 29, 1799 d. March 4, 1888
Social Reformer, Religious Leader. He was the founder of the Transcendentalism movement in the United States. An innovative educator, he was a leading slavery abolitionist, a women's rights advocate, a founder of a vegan community, an architect and artist, and author of several books. He was the father of "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Alcott, Elizabeth Sewall b. June 24, 1835 d. March 14, 1858
Literary Figure. Known as "Lizzie" to her family, she was the model for the character "Beth" in the book "Little Women," penned by her sister, Louisa May Alcott. Described as quiet, gentle, and someone who took pleasure in helping her family and friends, in 1856 she contracted scarlet fever from a poor German family that her mother was caring for, but revived. However, the fever permanently weakened her, and she passed away...[Read More] (Bio by: Abigailworm)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Alcott, Louisa May b. November 29, 1832 d. March 6, 1888
Author. She is best known as the author of the novel "Little Women", which was published in 1869. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts, where her father, A. Bronson Alcott, was a noted educator and leader of a philosophical movement called transcendentalism. Her family friends and neighbors included the writers ...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Mercury Poisoning
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Alden, John b. 1598 d. September 12, 1687
American Colonial Figure. One of the charter members of the Plymouth Colony in America, he arrived on the first voyage of the "Mayflower". At the time of the sailing of the vessel in 1620 for America, he was about twenty-one years old. William Bradford, second governor of the colony, wrote that John Alden was "hired for a cooper, at South Hampton (England), where the ship victualed (brought on food for the voyage); and...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Alden, Priscilla b. 1602 d. 1685
American Colonial Figure. One of the charter members of the Plymouth Colony, arriving on the first voyage of the "Mayflower", her marriage to John Alden is the third known marriage in the Plymouth colony. Born in Dorking, Surrey, England, she was a young girl of 16 or 17 at the time of the sailing of the Mayflower in 1620 for America, when she arrived with her parents. When her parents died in the first winter ashore, in early 1621, a hard time when about half of the colony perished, she...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey b. November 11, 1836 d. March 19, 1907
Author, Poet, Editor. Aldrich was an only child and his father often moved the whole family as he followed business opportunities. Shortly after his birth, the family moved from New Hampshire to New York for four years, then to New Orleans for about three years. He would later fictionalize these experiences of his childhood in the book "The Story of a Bad Boy" (1870). In 1849, Aldrich returned to New Hampshire to prepare for college. His father's death later that year, however, inspired him to...[Read More] (Bio by: Midnightdreary)
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Alger, Cyrus b. November 11, 1781 d. February 4, 1856
Inventor. He was considered one of the best practical metallurgist of his time, with his numerous patents of improved processes in the continued advancement of ordnance. In 1809, he established the Cyrus Alger Iron Company in South Boston, Massachusetts and by 1850, his company was the largest foundry in the country. During the War of 1812, he supplied the government with large numbers of cannon balls and his works became famed for the excellent ordnance they manufactured. The first gun ever...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Union Cemetery, South Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Alger Jr., Horatio b. January 13, 1832 d. July 18, 1899
Author. Raised in a strict Calvinist home he attempted to follow in his father�s footsteps of being a clergyman but heeded the call to write instead. A native of Revere, Massachusetts he graduated from Harvard Divinity School having studied under the famed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His attempt to join the Union army was thwarted because he had asthma. Discouraged he left for...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Glenwood Cemetery, Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Allen, Charles b. August 9, 1797 d. August 6, 1869
US Congressman. Represented Massachusetts' 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1849 to 1853.
Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Section 16 along South Boundary Ave.
GPS coordinates: 42.2790985, -71.8028183 (hddd.dddd)
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
Allen, Elisha Hunt b. January 28, 1804 d. January 1, 1883
US Congressman. He was elected as a Whig to represent Maine's 1st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1841 to 1843. In 1869 he was appointed as the Kingdom of Hawaii's Minister to the United States and served 14 years in that capacity. He died in office in 1883 while attending a diplomatic reception at the White House in Washington, DC. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Allen, Frank G. b. October 6, 1874 d. October 9, 1950
Massachusetts Governor. Served as the Governor of Massachusetts from 1929 to 1931. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1921 to 1922, and 1923 to 1924, and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1925 to 1928. (Bio by: K)
Highland Cemetery, Norwood, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Allen, Frederick Lewis b. July 5, 1890 d. February 13, 1954
Author, Historian, and Magazine Editor. He is best remembered as an American historian of the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and received his primary education at Groton School, a private school in Groton, Connecticut. He enrolled in Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and graduated in 1912 with a Bachelor's Degree followed by a Master's Degree in 1913. He taught briefly at Harvard before becoming assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Cherry Avenue

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