Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | |  Erastus Granger — of Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.Born in Connecticut. Postmaster atBuffalo,N.Y., 1804-18.Burial location unknown. | | Oliver Owen Forward (1781-1834) — also known asOliver Forward — of Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.Born in Simsbury,HartfordCounty, Conn.,December1, 1781.U.S.Collector of Customs at Buffalo, N.Y., New York, 1817; countyjudge in New York, 1817; member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Niagara counties,1819-20; member ofNew Yorkstate senate Western District, 1820-22;bankdirector.Died in Buffalo,ErieCounty, N.Y.,April27, 1834 (age52 years, 147days).Burial location unknown.| |  Relatives: Sonof Samuel Forward and Susannah (Holcombe) Forward; brother ofWalterForward andChaunceyForward; married to Sarah 'Sally' Granger (sister ofErastusGranger); granduncle ofChaunceyForward Black; first cousin thrice removed ofJosephWells Holcomb,BanksonTaylor Holcomb andThomasHolcomb Jr.; first cousin four times removed ofEdmondAlfred Holcomb; second cousin twice removed ofMarcusHensey Holcomb andBurtonEverett Hoskins; third cousin twice removed ofOliverEllsworth,JohnAllen,CharlesOgden Tappan,MartinHarris Holcomb andOrloErland Wadhams; third cousin thrice removed ofDanielChapin andLyleDonald Holcomb; fourth cousin ofHezekiahCase,OrsamusCook Merrill,TimothyMerrill,AbielCase,EdmundHolcomb,JairusCase,AnsonLevi Holcomb andWilliamGleason Jr.; fourth cousin once removed ofGaylordGriswold,JeremiahMason,ParmenioAdams,ElishaPhelps,LutherWalter Badger,HenryLeavitt Ellsworth,WilliamWolcott Ellsworth,AbijahBlodget,JohnWilliam Allen,OliverDwight Filley,FarrandFassett Merrill,NoahWebster Holcomb andLafayetteBlanchard Gleason. | | | | Political family:Forward-Blackfamily of Pennsylvania (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). |
| | Henry Black (1783-1841) — of Pennsylvania. Born near Somerset,SomersetCounty, Pa.,February25, 1783.Member ofPennsylvaniastate house of representatives, 1816-18; county judge inPennsylvania, 1820-40;U.S.Representative from Pennsylvania 18th District, 1841; died inoffice 1841.Scotch-Irishancestry.Died in Somerset,SomersetCounty, Pa.,November28, 1841 (age58 years, 276days).Intermentaprivate or family graveyard, Somerset County, Pa.; cenotaph atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Walter Forward (1786-1852) — of Pittsburgh,AlleghenyCounty, Pa.Born in East Granby,HartfordCounty, Conn.,January24, 1786.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from Pennsylvania, 1822-25 (14th District 1822-23,16th District 1823-25); defeated, 1824;delegateto Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1837-38;U.S.Secretary of the Treasury, 1841-43; U.S. Charge d'Affaires toDenmark, 1849-51; district judge in Pennsylvania, 1851.Methodist.Died in Pittsburgh,AlleghenyCounty, Pa.,November24, 1852 (age66 years, 305days).Interment atAlleghenyCemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.| | Relatives: Sonof Samuel Forward and Susannah (Holcombe) Forward; brother ofOliverOwen Forward andChaunceyForward; married,January12, 1808, to Henrietta Elizabeth 'Hetty' Barclay; granduncle ofChaunceyForward Black; first cousin thrice removed ofJosephWells Holcomb,BanksonTaylor Holcomb andThomasHolcomb Jr.; first cousin four times removed ofEdmondAlfred Holcomb; second cousin twice removed ofMarcusHensey Holcomb andBurtonEverett Hoskins; third cousin twice removed ofOliverEllsworth,JohnAllen,CharlesOgden Tappan,MartinHarris Holcomb andOrloErland Wadhams; third cousin thrice removed ofDanielChapin andLyleDonald Holcomb; fourth cousin ofHezekiahCase,OrsamusCook Merrill,TimothyMerrill,AbielCase,EdmundHolcomb,JairusCase,AnsonLevi Holcomb andWilliamGleason Jr.; fourth cousin once removed ofGaylordGriswold,JeremiahMason,ParmenioAdams,ElishaPhelps,LutherWalter Badger,HenryLeavitt Ellsworth,WilliamWolcott Ellsworth,AbijahBlodget,JohnWilliam Allen,OliverDwight Filley,FarrandFassett Merrill,NoahWebster Holcomb andLafayetteBlanchard Gleason. | | | | Political family:Forward-Blackfamily of Pennsylvania (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | The World War IILibertyshipSS Walter Forward (built 1943 atPortland,Oregon; scrapped 1961) wasnamed forhim. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —BillionGravesburial record |
 | Chauncey Forward (1793-1839) — of Somerset,SomersetCounty, Pa.Born in Granby,HartfordCounty, Conn.,February4, 1793.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofPennsylvaniastate house of representatives, 1820-22; member ofPennsylvaniastate senate 22nd District, 1824-25;U.S.Representative from Pennsylvania 13th District, 1826-31;SomersetCounty Prothonotary and Recorder, 1831.Disciplesof Christ. Member,Freemasons.Died, fromtyphoidfever, in Somerset,SomersetCounty, Pa.,October19, 1839 (age46 years, 257days).Interment atAukenySquare Cemetery, Somerset, Pa.| | Relatives: Sonof Samuel Forward and Susannah (Holcombe) Forward; brother ofOliverOwen Forward andWalterForward; married to Rebecca Blair; father of Mary Forward (whomarriedJeremiahSullivan Black); grandfather ofChaunceyForward Black; first cousin thrice removed ofJosephWells Holcomb,BanksonTaylor Holcomb andThomasHolcomb Jr.; first cousin four times removed ofEdmondAlfred Holcomb; second cousin twice removed ofMarcusHensey Holcomb andBurtonEverett Hoskins; third cousin twice removed ofOliverEllsworth,JohnAllen,CharlesOgden Tappan,MartinHarris Holcomb andOrloErland Wadhams; third cousin thrice removed ofDanielChapin andLyleDonald Holcomb; fourth cousin ofHezekiahCase,OrsamusCook Merrill,TimothyMerrill,AbielCase,EdmundHolcomb,JairusCase,AnsonLevi Holcomb andWilliamGleason Jr.; fourth cousin once removed ofGaylordGriswold,JeremiahMason,ParmenioAdams,ElishaPhelps,LutherWalter Badger,HenryLeavitt Ellsworth,WilliamWolcott Ellsworth,AbijahBlodget,JohnWilliam Allen,OliverDwight Filley,FarrandFassett Merrill,NoahWebster Holcomb andLafayetteBlanchard Gleason. | | | | Political family:Forward-Blackfamily of Pennsylvania (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage | | | | Image source: Twentieth-Century Benchand Bar of Pennsylvania (1903) |
|  | Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1810-1883) — also known asJeremiah S. Black — of Somerset,SomersetCounty, Pa.;Washington,D.C.; York,YorkCounty, Pa.Born in Stonycreek Township,SomersetCounty, Pa.,January10, 1810.Democrat.Lawyer;district judge in Pennsylvania, 1842-51;chiefjustice of Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1851-54;U.S.Attorney General, 1857-60;U.S.Secretary of State, 1860-61;delegateto Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1873.Disciplesof Christ.Scotch-IrishandGermanancestry.Died in York,YorkCounty, Pa.,August19, 1883 (age73 years, 221days).Interment atProspectHill Cemetery, York, Pa. | | John Littleton Dawson (1813-1870) — also known asJohn L. Dawson — of Brownsville,FayetteCounty, Pa.; Uniontown,FayetteCounty, Pa.Born in Uniontown,FayetteCounty, Pa.,February7, 1813.Democrat.Lawyer;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania,1844,1848,1860,1868;U.S.Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1845-50;U.S.Representative from Pennsylvania, 1851-55, 1863-67 (18th District1851-53, 20th District 1853-55, 21st District 1863-67).His home in 1867-70 was "Friendship Hill," formerly the residence ofAlbertGallatin.Died in Springfield Township,FayetteCounty, Pa.,September18, 1870 (age57 years, 223days).Interment atChristEpiscopal Churchyard, Brownsville, Pa. | | Chauncey Forward Black (1839-1904) — also known asChauncey F. Black — of York,YorkCounty, Pa.Born in York,YorkCounty, Pa.,November24, 1839.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention fromPennsylvania,1880;LieutenantGovernor of Pennsylvania, 1883-87; candidate forGovernor ofPennsylvania, 1886.DiedSeptember2, 1904 (age64 years, 283days).Burial location unknown.
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