James Carr (September 9, 1777 – August 24, 1818), son of U.S. Congressman Francis Carr , was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine , then a District of Massachusetts .
9-1074: James , Jim , or Jimmy Carr may refer to: Government [ edit ] James Carr (Massachusetts politician) (1777–1818), U.S. Congressman James Dickson Carr (1868–1920), American assistant district attorney James G. Carr (born 1940), American federal judge James R. Carr , Kentucky politician Jim Carr (1951–2022), Canadian politician Sports [ edit ] James Carr (wrestler) (1955–2013), American Olympic wrestler Jimmy Carr (American football) (1933–2012), American football player Jimmy Carr (footballer) (1893–1980), Scottish footballer and bowls player Others [ edit ] J. L. Carr (1912–1994), known as Jim, English novelist James Carr (singer) (1942–2001), American soul singer Jimmy Carr (bookmaker) (1864–1942), South Australian bookmaker James W. Carr (born 1948), American educator Jim Carr (education) (born 1969), American technologist Jimmy Carr (born 1972), English comedian [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
18-705: A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1806–1811) for the District of Maine. Carr was elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth United States Congress (1815–1817), the second person from Bangor to occupy that office (following his father). Carr was drowned in the Ohio River on August 24, 1818. While traveling with his family on a steamboat, his 9-year-old daughter Mary fell overboard just below Louisville, Kentucky , and Carr entered
27-508: A member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine) Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine , is the second oldest garden cemetery in
36-627: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Carr (Massachusetts politician) Carr was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts , on September 9, 1777. He attended Phillips Exeter and Byfield Academies, and then went to sea as clerk on the U.S.S. Crescent. He served two years as secretary to the United States Consul at Algiers . He then joined his parents (who had migrated to Bangor, Maine ), engaging in mercantile pursuits and serving as
45-577: The National Register of Historic Places . Purchased in July 1834, the land consisted of 50-acre (20 ha) of Lot 27, which was set along State Street – at the time known as County Road and later the "Road to Orono" – and the Penobscot River . It did not include all of the cemetery's central hill; instead, it cut across the crest of the hill and met up with what would later be Mount Hope Avenue. The land
54-613: The United States. It was designed by architect Charles G. Bryant in 1834 and built by the Bangor Horticultural Society soon after, the same year that Bangor was incorporated as a city. The cemetery was modeled after Mount Auburn Cemetery (1831) in Boston, Massachusetts . Bangor was at that time a frontier boom-town, and much of its architecture and landscaping was modeled after that of Boston. The site has been listed on
63-404: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Carr&oldid=1199120180 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
72-486: The water in a failed attempt to save her. Neither of their bodies were ever recovered, though a memorial to Carr was erected at Bangor's Mount Hope Cemetery . Carr was married to Betsey Stelle Jarvis, who migrated to Illinois along with two brothers following the tragedy on the river. The Carrs remained a prominent mercantile and political family in Bangor despite James' death (see Francis Carr ). This article about
81-411: Was approximately 660 by 3,300 feet (200 by 1,010 m) with the longer side extending north–south along State Street. Approximately 12-acre (4.9 ha) was to be set aside for horticultural activities, and the rest of the land was to be used as a cemetery. This was the preferred resting ground for Bangor's 19th- and early-20th-century elite. The cemetery includes the gravesites of Hannibal Hamlin ,
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