Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine)

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location = 672 Stevens Ave.
Portland, Maine
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architect = Charles R. Goodell; Frederick A. Tompson
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Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery in Portland, Maine. With 239 acres of land, it is the largest cemetery in Maine. It was established in 1855. The Samuel Wilde Memorial Chapel, was a gift to the city as a place for anyone of any religion to hold memorial services.

Notable Interments

*John Appleton, U.S. Congressman, United States Assistant Secretary of State
*Carroll Lynwood Beedy, U.S. Congressman
*Asa William Henry Clapp, U.S. Congressman
*Nathan Clifford, United States Attorney General, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
*Neal S. Dow, Mayor of Portland, Maine, American Civil War Union General, candidate for President of the United States
*James D. Fessenden, American Civil War Union General
*Francis Fessenden, American Civil War Union General
*Samuel Fessenden, American Civil War Union Lieutenant, killed at the Second Battle of Bull Run
*Samuel C. Fessenden, U.S. Congressman
*Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden, U.S. Congressman
*William P. Fessenden, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury
*Frank Fixaris, SportscasterLavinia Gelineau-noted Iraq War widow from Romania who was murdered one year later by her own father. She is buried next to her husband-Chris Gelineau.
*Elbridge Gerry, U.S. Congressman
*Charles W. Goddard, playwright and screenwriter
*Robert Christian Hale, Lieutenant in World War I, U.S. Congressman
*Obed Hall, U.S. Congressman
*Asher Crosby Hinds, U.S. Congressman
*John Lynch, U.S. Congressman
*Charles Porter Mattocks, Union General in the American Civil War and Spanish-American War
*Charles B. Merrill, American Civil War Union General
*Joseph C. Noyes, U.S. Congressman
*John J. Perry, U.S. Congressman
*William Lebaron Putnam, Mayor of Portland, Maine
*Thomas Brackett Reed, U.S. Congressman
*Ether Shepley, U.S. Senator
*George Foster Shepley, American Civil War Union General
*Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith, U.S. Congressman
*Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, U.S. Congressman
*Sidney Warren Thaxter, American Civil War Union Major, Medal of Honor Recipient
*Henry Goddard Thomas, American Civil War Union General
*Charles W. Walton, U.S. Congressman
*Ansel Dyer Wass, American Civil War Union General
*George Warren West, American Civil War Union General

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=21043&CRid=89863& Find A Grave]
* [http://www.maine.rr.com/04/wilde/default.asp Information on the Samuel Wilde Memorial Chapel]