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Congressional Cemetery Burials in My Tree by Nancy on Scribd

 Fisk endorsement: Washington April 5th 

Gentleman- We witness the utility of your ornamental " Patent Metallic Burial Case " used to convey the remains of the late Hon. John C. Calhoun to the Congressional Cemetery, which impressed us with the belief that it is the best article known to us for transporting the dead to their final resting place.

With respect , We subscribe ourselves , yours etc.

{Signed} Henry Clay, Lewis Cass, Dan. Webster, Wm. R King, Jeff Davis, J.M. Berrien, J.Y. Mason, D.R. Atchinson, A.C. Green, Wm. P Mangum, Henry Dodge, D.S. Dickinson.

Similar testimonials might be added without number.

Daniel Webster was one of the famous people to endorse Fisk coffins and he was buried in one in Massachusetts in 1852. My guess would be Mister Fisk sent one to Boston and that a local undertaker handled the funeral. This article describes (in detail) how the body looked after being in a sealed metal coffin.

The Fisk company had burned in 1850 and RD Fisk died in 1852 so its unclear how the Fisk casket was obtained in Boston.

Gleason's Pictorial magazine of November 13 and 20, 1852 featuring images of Daniel Webster's Funeral  "THE REMAINS OF MR. WEBSTER IN HIS LIBRARY, AT MARSHFIELD, MASS." and  "THE METALLIC CASE" (You can see the metallic coffin on the caisson )

 

BROOKS, PRESTON SMITH, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Edgefield District, S.C., August 5, 1819; attended the common schools and was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C.; member of the State house of representatives in 1844; served in the Mexican War as captain in the Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses and served until his resignation on July 14, 1856 (March 4, 1853-July 14, 1856); resigned despite failed attempt to expel him for his assault upon Senator Charles Sumner; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Thirty-fourth Congress); reelected in a special election to the Thirty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation, sworn in August 1, 1856, and served until his death (August 1, 1856-January 27, 1857); had been reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress; died on January 27, 1857, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Willow Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C. 

 * Brooks was too tall for Fiske casket 

South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks’s Attack on Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts LINK

 RANTOUL, ROBERT, JR., a Senator and a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Beverly, Mass., August 13, 1805; attended the common schools and Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Mass.; graduated from Harvard University in 1826; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Salem; moved to South Reading in 1830, to Gloucester in 1832, and to Boston in 1838, and practiced law; member, State house of representatives 1835-1839; member of the commission to revise the laws of Massachusetts; member of the State board of education 1837-1842; United States district attorney for Massachusetts 1846-1849; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster and served from February 1 to March 3, 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1851, until his death in Washington, D.C., on August 7, 1852; interment in Central Cemetery, Beverly, Mass. 

 

Still looking for the congressional receipts 

 Undead Debates

The Senate chamber was occupied by the Senate from 1810-1859 before relocating to the new Senate wing. While the Senate was in this chamber, Senators Daniel Webster and Henry Clay (former Speaker of the House) gave many famous addresses, particularly surrounding the countries great debate regarding slavery and the future of the Union. These men are known as two of the greatest orators of the time. While neither of these men died in the Old Senate Chamber, there have been reported sightings of the ghosts of these Congressmen standing in front of the now-empty seats, moving and gesturing as if giving a speech.

MM White buried Clay and D Webster also used a Fisk coffin.

 

CAMPBELL, Brookins, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Washington County, Tenn., in 1808; attended the rural schools and was graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) at Lexington; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the State house of representatives 1835-1839, 1841-1846, and 1851-1853, and served as speaker in 1845; during the Mexican War was appointed by President Polk in 1846 an assistant quartermaster to the Army with the rank of major; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1853, until his death in Washington, D.C., December 25, 1853, without having qualified; interment in Providence Presbyterian Churchyard, Greene County, Tenn. 

 

 

 

NORRIS, MOSES, JR., a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Pittsfield, N.H., November 8, 1799; attended the public schools and the Pittsfield Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1828; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Barnstead; returned to Pittsfield in 1834; member, State house of representatives 1837-1840, 1842; member, State council 1841-1842; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); member, State house of representatives 1847-1848, and served as speaker; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death; chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirty-first Congress), Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Thirty-second Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-third Congress); died in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1855; interment in Floral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield, N.H.

 

was an attorney, politician and diplomat, serving as U.S. Representative from Texas. When the Republic of Texas was independent, he served in both houses of its legislature, and as Chargé d'Affaires of Texas to the United States. He served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives 1838–1843. He served in the Texas Senate 1843–1845. He was appointed Chargé d'Affaires of Texas to the United States in 1845 Upon the admission of Texas as a State into the Union, Kaufman was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress. He was reelected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses, serving from March 30, 1846, until 1851. He served as chairman of the Committee on Rules (Thirty-first Congress).Kaufman died from a heart attack in Washington, D.C., on January 31, 1851. Kaufman was originally interred in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC. In 1932 his remains were moved and he was reinterred in the Texas State Cemetery at Austin.

 

  
Payment from congress for funeral of Rep. Kaufman to M.M. White

 

 HARRIS, Sampson Willis, a Representative from Alabama; born in Elbert County, Ga., February 23, 1809; obtained his early education from his mother and was graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1828; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Athens, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives in 1834 and 1835; moved to Wetumpka, Ala., in 1838; elected solicitor of the eighth circuit in 1841; member of the State senate in 1844 and 1845; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1857); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1856; died in Washington, D.C., April 1, 1857; interment in Oconee Cemetery, Athens, Ga. There is a cenotaph in his memory at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC.

Congressional payment to Glossbrenner ( he was House Sergeant at Arms,  not quite sure why this was done) It may be because this was Masonic funeral and to M.M. White for funeral expenses.  

 

 

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 

 

 

ELMORE, FRANKLIN HARPER, a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina; born in Laurens District, S.C., October 15, 1799; graduated from the South Carolina College at Columbia in 1819; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Walterboro, S.C.; solicitor for the southern circuit 1822-1836; colonel on the staff of the Governor 1824-1826; elected as a State Rights Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James H. Hammond; reelected to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from December 10, 1836, to March 3, 1839; president of the Bank of the State of South Carolina 1839-1850; declined appointment by President James Polk as Minister to Great Britain; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John C. Calhoun and served from April 11, 1850, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 29, 1850; interment in First Presbyterian Churchyard, Columbia, S.C. 

   Congressional payments to M.M. White for  funeral.

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Thomas Jefferson Campbell (1786–1850) 

 was an American politician who represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. 

Biography 

Campbell was born in Rhea County, Tennessee in 1786, and he attended the public schools. 

Career

Assistant inspector general to Major General Cole's division of the East Tennessee Militia, Campbell served from September 14, 1813 to March 12, 1814. He was clerk of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819, in 1821, and from 1825 to 1831. He was a Representative from 1833 to 1837. Elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress, Campbell served from March 4, 1841 to March 3, 1843. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1842 for re-election to the Twenty-eighth Congress. He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses. 

Death 

M.M. White acts as undertaker, supplies Fisk & Raymond coffin and accompanies casket to TN

Campbell served from December 7, 1847 until his death in Washington, D.C. on April 13, 1850.

He is interred at Calhoun, Tennessee. 

Congressional record for payment to M.M. White  

This is a timeline and list of know burials/funerals and in many cases Fisk metallic caskets provided by Mathias M. White in Washington, District of Columbia from the years 1849- 1868.

In his many DC newspaper advertisement of the time M.M. White is listed as the District of Columbia's sole proprietor of Fisk airtight caskets.

I am going to do many individual posts for what I know of each deaths and burials including articles, congressional records, images etc. I have created a special label for Madison and Calhoun so you can read all I have on them and all the others are labeled 'congress' so you can read about the Speaker, Senators and Representatives he was undertaker to.

Timeline: MM White Undertaking - Known Congressional/Government Burials  

1848- Fisk receives patent for Fisk Metallic Burial Case 

1849- Fisk is displaying the caskets in the United State Congressional rotunda April 1849 

1849 -Former first lady, Dolley Madison died DC buried Congressional Cemetery (July 12, 1849) 

1850- Former Vice President John C. Calhoun died DC buried Congressional Cemetery and South Carolina (March 31, 1850) 

1850- Hon Thomas J. Campbell Clerk of the United States House of Representatives & U.S. Representative Tennessee (April 13, 1850)

1850- Hon. Franklin Elmore U.S. Representative and Senator SC died DC (May 29, 1850) 

1851- Hon. David S. Kaufman U.S. Representative died DC buried Congressional Cemetery (January 31, 1851) 

1852- Hon. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives Kentucky died DC National Hotel Penn. Ave. in his room (Room 116) (June 29, 1852) 

1852- Hon. Robert Rantoul Jr. U.S. Representative and Senator Massachusetts died DC (August 7, 1852) 

1853- Hon. Orin Fowler U.S. Representative Massachusetts died DC (September 3, 1852) 

1854- Hon. Brookins Campbell U.S. Representative Tennessee died DC (December 25, 1853) 

1854- Hon. Henry Augustus Muhlenberg U.S. Representative Pennsylvania died DC (January 9, 1854) 

1856- Hon. Moses Norris Jr. U.S. Representative New Hampshire died DC (January 11, 1855) 

1857- Hon. Preston Smith Brooks U.S. Representative SC died DC (January 27, 1857)

1858- Hon. Sampson W. Harris U.S. Representative Alabama died DC buried Congressional Cemetery (March 3, 1857) 

Other Known burials Congressional Cemetery  

1855- John Bruce (December 24th) 

1856- John Neal (January 12th) 

1857- Commodore John T. Newton (July 28th)  

Known burials Glenwood Cemetery  

1856- Benjamin Grenup 1st Fireman killed in line of duty (May 8) 

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Mathias M. White did not only acted as undertaker for his customers,  but also for his own family.  

Known Family Burials Congressional Cemetery 

1856- Unknown White child of MM White (August 28, 1856) 

1859- Andrew Bain child (Winnie, grandchild of MM) buries in Congressional Cemetery District of Columbia (July 28, 1859) 

1868- E.C. Merriam (In law of MM) buries in Congressional Cemetery District of Columbia (June 7, 1868)