Stoughton, Massachusetts One Place Study

Location: Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Massachusetts United_States

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Contents 1 Stoughton, Massachusetts One Place Study 1.1 Name 1.2 Geography 1.2.1 Cemeteries 1.3 History 1.4 Population 1.4.1 First Families of Stoughton (18th century) 1.4.2 Notables 2 Sources

Stoughton, Massachusetts One Place Study

The Square Looking South, 1908

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• Wikidata: Item Q2536859, en:Wikipedia

Name

Geography

Continent: North America

Country: United States of America

State/Province: Massachusetts

County: Norfolk

GPS Coordinates: 42.125, -71.102778

Elevation: 71.0 m or 232.9 feet

Cemeteries

• Dry Pond Cemetery
• Evergreen Cemetery
• Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
• Maplewood Cemetery
• Marshall - Bird Cemetery
• Methodist Meeting House Cemetery
• Pearl Street Cemetery
• Porter Family Cemetery
• Pride of Brockton Cemetery

History

Population

First Families of Stoughton (18th century)

• Rev. Jedediah Adams (1710-1799)
• Stephen Billings (1691-1767)
• Benjamin Bird (1717-1786)
• Rev. Joel Briggs (1757-1828)
• Thomas Doty (1704-1795)
• Rev. Samuel Dunbar (1704-1783)
• John Fenno (ca. 1660 - ca. 1740)
• Thomas Glover (1723-1811)
• Jonathan Jordan (ca. 1685-1745)
• Rev. Joseph Morse (1671-1732)
• Lazarus Pope (1715-1750)
• Dr. Ralph Pope (1705-1750)
• Robert Redman (1694-1760)
• Rev. Edward Richmond (1767-1842)
• Isaac Stearns (1665-1741)
• George Talbot (1688-1760)
• David Tilden (1685-1756)
• Samuel Waters (ca. 1703-1750)
• John Wentworth (ca. 1676-1772)
• John Withington (ca. 1683-1772)

Notables

• Supply Belcher (1751-1836), composer
• Joe Allen, author
• John Bailey, congressman
• Forrest Bird, aviator, inventor and biomedical engineer
• Doris Holmes_Blake, entomologist
• Elmer Hewitt_Capen, college president
• Ruth G._Capen, chemist for the Bureau of Agriculture
• Bill Chamberlain, Major League Baseball player
• Thomas H._Collins, U.S. Coast Guard Commandant
• Mo Cowan, U.S. senator for Massachusetts
• Mary Morse (Baker) Eddy (1821-1910), religious leader
• Jacob French, composer
• Ed Gill, Major League Baseball player
• Richard Gridley (1710-1796), soldier and army engineer
• Roger Lee_Hall, musicologist and composer
• Jonathan Hausman, rabbi of Ahavath Torah Congregation and political activist
• Edwin Arthur_Jones, composer
• Kerry Keating, basketball coach
• Ryan LaCasse, football player
• Robert Lanza, medical doctor and researcher
• Ed McGuinness, comic book artist
• Lori McKenna, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter
• Shawn Phelan, actor
• Henry Lillie Pierce (1825-1896), mayor of Boston
• Bertha Reynolds, social worker
• Niccola Sacco, of Sacco and_Vanzetti
• Deborah (Sampson) Gannett (1760-1827), female soldier of the Revolution
• William Henry Harrison Seeley (abt.1840-1914), first foreigner awarded the Victoria Cross
• Roger Sherman (1721-1793), statesman
• Jason Tankerley, singer/songwriter of the band Energy
• T. J._Thyne, actor
• Kenny Wormald, dancer, actor, television personality

Sources

• Endicott, Frederic. The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths and Intentions of Marriage, in the Town of Stoughton (William Bense, Canton, Mass., 1896)