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. | |  Luther Lawrence (1778-1839) — of Lowell,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Groton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,September28, 1778.Lawyer;member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1812-22;Speaker ofthe Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1822;mayor ofLowell, Mass., 1838-39; died in office 1839.While showing a visitor around his woolen mill, he accidentallyfell intoa wheel pit, hit his head, and died soon after, in Lowell,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,April17, 1839 (age60 years, 201days).Interment atGrotonCemetery, Groton, Mass. | | William Appleton (1786-1862) — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Brookfield,WorcesterCounty, Mass.,November16, 1786.U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1851-55, 1861 (1st District1851-53, 5th District 1853-55, 1861); defeated, 1854, 1856.Died in Brookline,NorfolkCounty, Mass.,February15, 1862 (age75 years, 91days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. | | Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855) — of Massachusetts. Born in Groton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,December16, 1792.Whig.U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1835-37, 1839-40;U.S. Minister toGreat Britain, 1849-52.Unitarian.DiedAugust18, 1855 (age62 years, 245days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. | | Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886) — also known asAmos A. Lawrence — of Brookline,NorfolkCounty, Mass.Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,July 31,1814.Owner, Ipswich Mills, maker ofcotton andwoollengoods; abolitionist; candidate forGovernor ofMassachusetts, 1858 (American), 1860 (Constitutional Union).Episcopalian.Died in Nahant,EssexCounty, Mass.,August22, 1886 (age72 years, 22days).Interment atMt.Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.| |  Relatives: Sonof Amos Lawrence and Sarah (Richards) Lawrence; married,March31, 1842, to Sarah Elizabeth Appleton (daughter ofWilliamAppleton); father of Susan Mason Lawrence (who marriedWilliamCaleb Loring); nephew ofLutherLawrence andAbbottLawrence; great-grandfather ofLeverettSaltonstall andRichardSaltonstall; second great-grandfather ofWilliamLawrence Saltonstall; first cousin ofSamuelAbbott Green; third cousin twice removed ofCharlesMoore Bancroft andCharlesSumner Dana; fourth cousin ofAlonzoM. Garcelon; fourth cousin once removed ofJohnAlbion Andrew,CharlesCourtney Pinkney Holden,EbenezerGregg Danforth Holden,WinfieldScott Holden andAlonzoMarston Garcelon. | | | | Political families:Appleton#1 family of Boston, Massachusetts;Lawrence#2 family of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | ThecityofLawrence,Kansas, isnamed forhim. — LawrenceUniversity,inAppleton,Wisconsin, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | Samuel Abbott Green (1830-1919) — also known asSamuel Green — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Groton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,March16, 1830.Physician;colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War;mayor ofBoston, Mass., 1882-83.Died in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,December5, 1919 (age89 years, 264days).Interment atGrotonCemetery, Groton, Mass. | | William Caleb Loring (1851-1930) — of Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Beverly,EssexCounty, Mass.,August24, 1851.Lawyer;solicitor, New York and New EnglandRailroad,1881-85;justice ofMassachusetts state supreme court, 1899-1919.Englishancestry. Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Died in Prides Crossing, Beverly,EssexCounty, Mass.,September8, 1930 (age79 years, 15days).Burial location unknown.
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