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L'arbregénéalogique Dowling avec plus d'un demi-million de parents,contient des milliers de photos et GeneaStars.Nous sommes tousliés!
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William Wallace Crapo 1830-1926
Rebecca Folger Crapo 1833-1924 Married 29 November 1855, New Bedford, Bristol Co., MA, toWilliam Clark Durant 1827-ca 1883
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| Henry Howland Crapo, Gov. 1804-1869 |  (1825)2children |
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| Mary Ann Slocum 1805-1875 | (1825) 2children |
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Linked to: Timothy Michael Dowling, 6th cousin 6x removed
CRAPO, William Wallace, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Dartmouth, Mass., May 16, 1830; moved with his parents to New Bedford, Mass., in 1832; attended private and public schools of New Bedford, and was graduated from the local high school in 1845; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and later the Friends' Academy at New Bedford; was graduated from the latter institution in 1848 and from Yale College in 1852; studied law at Harvard Law School for one year; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in New Bedford; city solicitor of New Bedford 1855-1867; member of the State house of representatives in 1857; elected to the Forty- fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Buffington; reelected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from November 2, 1875, to March 3, 1883; chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency (Forty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in banking and in the manufacture of fine cotton goods; member of the Republican National Committee in 1884; appointed by Governor Wolcott in 1897 a member of the commission to revise street railway regulations; died in New Bedford, Mass., February 28, 1926; interment in the Rural Cemetery.
--- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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