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Bill Weld

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Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts


    Francis Minot Weld

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    • Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 4th Generation
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    • Birth Date:
    • 17 Jan 1840 
    • Birth Location:
    • Dalton, Coos, New Hampshire 
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    • Death Date:
    • 31 Dec 1893 
    • Death Location:
    • Jamaica Plain (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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    • 11 Apr 1872 
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    • Union Civil War veteran

      Francis Minot Weld was commissioned as a surgeon in the Union Army and served in Gen. Grant's campaigns in 1864. He also served with Gen. Terry at Ft. Fisher followed by Gen.Sherman near Raleigh.

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  • Sources for Francis Minot Weld

    • 1 Boston Home Journal: An Illustrated Paper of Society and Travel, 1903, Vol. 59, No. 11, p. 8.
    • 3 Report of the Secretary of the Class of 1863 of Harvard College, June, 1903, to June, 1913, No. 8, Cambridge: The University Press (1913), 115.
    • 5 Bartholomew, George Wells, Jr., Record of the Bartholomew Family: Historical, Genealogical and Biographical, Austin, Texas: Published by the Compiler (1885), 308.
    • 6 Mohr, William F., ed., Who's Who in New York (City and State), 1914: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 6th Biennial Edition, New York: Who's Who in New York City and State, Inc. (1914), 755.
    • 8 Saunderson, Rev. Henry H., History of Charlestown, New Hampshire: The Old No. 4, Embracing the Part Borne by Its Inhabitants in the . . ., Claremont, New Hampshire: The Claremont Manufacturing Company (1875), 576.

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