Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica
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Forest Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Utica, New York.
[edit] Notable burials
- Ezekiel Bacon (1776-1870), represented Massachusetts's 12th congressional district from 1807 to 1813.
- William J. Bacon (1803-1889), represented New York's 23rd congressional district from 1877 to 1879.
- Samuel Beardsley (1790-1860), represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1831 to 1836, from 1843 to 1844.
- Alfred Conkling (1789-1874), represented New York's 14th congressional district from 1821 to 1823.
- Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888), represented New York in the United States Senate from 1867-1883.
- Harold Frederic (1856-1898), writer.
- James G. Grindlay (1840-1907), Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient.
- Thomas Hill Hubbard (1781-1857), represented New York's 17th congressional district from 1817 to 1819, and from 1821 to 1823.
- Ward Hunt (1810-1886), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1873 to 1882.
- Joseph Kirkland (congressman) (1770-1844), represented New York's 16th congressional district from 1821 to 1823. Mayor of Utica in 1832.
- James H. Ledlie (1832-1882), general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
- Orsamus B. Matteson, (1805-1889), represented New York's 20th congressional district from 1849 to 1851, and from 1853 to 1859.
- Rutger B. Miller (1805-1877), represented New York's 17th congressional district from 1836 to 1837.
- Ellis H. Roberts (1827-1918), served in the United States House of Representatives from 1871 to 1875.
- John Savage (1779-1863), Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1823 to 1836.
- Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), Governor of New York from 1853 to 1855 and from 1863 to 1865.
- James S. Sherman (1855-1912), Vice President of the United States from 1909-1912, who died in office.
- Charles A. Talcott (1857-1920), represented New York's 27th congressional district and New York's 33rd congressional district from 1911 to 1915. Mayor of Utica from 1902 to 1906.
- Edward W. Townsend (1855-1942), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1911 to 1913, and the 10th district from 1913-1915.[1]
- Benjamin Walker (representative) (1753-1818), represented New York's 9th congressional district from 1801-1803.
[edit] References
- ^ Edward Waterman Townsend biography, United States Congress. Accessed July 31, 2007.
