Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn

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name =Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn


state =Massachusetts
district =Massachusetts's 10th congressional district
term_start =March 4, 1831
term_end =March 3, 1833
preceded =John Bailey
succeeded =William Baylies
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term_start3=1847
term_end3=1848
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order4=2nd Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts
term_start4=1847
term_end4=July 29, 1851 [Citation |Printed by Order of the City Council | year = 1909 | title = A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers | page = 327 | publisher = City of Boston Printing Department
location = Boston, MA | date = 1909]
predecessor4= John Jones Clarke
successor4= Samuel Walker
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spouse =Hannah Swett Lee
relations =A nephew was Civil War US General William Raymond Lee 1807-1891
children =Julia Maragretta Dearborn, William Dearborn, Henry George Raleigh
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alma_mater = The College of William and Mary
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Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (March 3 1783, Exeter, New Hampshire – July 29 1851, Portland, Maine) was an American lawyer, author, statesman and soldier.

He was the son of Henry Dearborn by his second wife and named for his father's friend Alexander Scammell. He attended the common schools and went to Williams College for two years and then graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1803.

He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Salem, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine (which was then a part of Massachusetts). In 1808 he oversaw the construction of Fort Preble and Fort Scammel in Portland Harbor. He replaced his father as the collector of customs in Boston from 1812-1829 and served as brigadier general commanding the Volunteers in the defenses of Boston Harbor during the War of 1812.

He was a delegate to the Massachusetts state constitutional convention in 1820. He was a member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives in 1829 and a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1830. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 10th District to the Twenty-second Congress (1831-1833). He was defeated running for reelection in 1832.

He was president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the author of many books. He died in Portland, Maine and is interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

The "dearborn", a light four-wheeled carriage with curtained sides, was named after him (he maintained such a carriage). [ [http://www.metaglossary.com/terms/dearborn MetaGlossary.com: Dearborn] ]

Dearborn married to Hannah Swett Lee daughter of Colonel William Raymond Lee 1745-1824 of Massachusetts-son in law of Dr Joseph Lemmon (Harvard 1735).
His nephew was Civil War US General William Raymond Lee 1807-1891.

Forest Hills Cemetery

In 1848, while he was Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Dearborn designed and founded the [http://www.foresthillstrust.org Forest Hills Cemetery] .

External links

*CongBio|D000179
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* [http://www.foresthillstrust.orgl Forest Hills Cemetery]

References

* [http://www.foresthillstrust.org/about_fhc/history.html History of the Forest Hills Cemetery]

USRepSuccessionBox
state=Massachusetts
district=10
before=John Bailey
after=William Baylies
years=March 4, 1831–March 31833