M.M. White congressional burial: Orin Fowler (1791-1852)
Posted by Cunningb2 | Posted in Congressional burials , Undertaker | Posted on September 02, 2020
FOWLER, ORIN, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lebanon, Conn., July 29, 1791; pursued classical studies and attended Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.; was graduated from Yale College in 1814; studied theology and pursued extensive missionary work in the Valley of the Mississippi; finally settled as a minister in Plainfield, Conn., in 1820; moved to Fall River, Mass., in 1829, where he was installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in 1831; wrote a history of Fall River in 1841; served in the State senate in 1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 3, 1852; interment in the North Burial Ground, Fall River, Mass. A cenotaph exists for him in Washington, DC's Congressional Cemetery.
Payment from congress for funeral of Rep. Fowler to M.M. White