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• FamilySearch ID: L3S8-XGV
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 117289207
• Group: Veteran - Army
• Group: Veteran of War of 1812

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Sgt in The War of 1812

There were two memorials for James Creighton Churchill on Find A Grave since he was interred initially at Western Cemetery but later removed to Evergreen Cemetery.  Thanks to JJoyce for providing the following information: "James Churchill Sr. was removed to Evergreen, probably when his widow died in 1879."
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The Honorable James Creighton Churchill was the son of Thomas Churchill and Alice Creighton. He married Eliza Walker Osborne, the daughter of Rev. John Osborne, a Baptist minister, on January 8, 1809.
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The following is taken from The Churchill Family in America:

James Creighton Churchill (Thomas-5, Thomas-4, Barnabas-3, Joseph-2, John-1). Died in Portland, Me., Nov. 20, 1865.

His early life was passed in his native town where he received the usual common school education of that day. He evidently had experience also on ship-board, as he was in command of a vessel in his early manhood. He learned the trade of ship-carpenter and later engaged in ship-building at Portland, Me.

In the War of 1812, he served as a sergeant, in the 34th U.S. Infantry, Capt. David Sherman's Company. Was later appointed quartermaster, serving two enlistments consecutively, from May 13, 1814, to June 15, 1815, when he was honorably discharged at Portland, Maine.

After engaging in ship-building for a few eyars he became interested in the trade with the West Indies, then just beginning to attract the attention of Northern merchants. After a few voyages of investigation he combined with several associates and bought some sugar plantations near Cardenas, Cuba, which was soon made a port of entry, and established there the beginning of the large and prosperous business which later made Portland one of the most important seaports on the coast. He was thus a pioneer and leading spirit among the notable old-time Portland merchants.

He was public-spirited and influential in many directions. In 1828 he was elected one of the presidential electors, in the bitter contest waged between the parties, and he was known long after as "the star of the East," because of his solitary persistent vote for Andrew Jackson. In the political upheaval of 1834 he was Whig candidate for Congress, but the party was in the minority and he failed of election.

In 1844 he was elected mayor of Portland, and is remembered as one of the best and most popular of the city's old-time rulers.

He was a natural organizer of commercial enterprises, and in the agitation of the plan to connect Portland and Montreal by a railroad he was chief actor, and became treasurer of the old "Portland Company," organized for the manufacture of locomotives, cars, and railroad machinery, furnishing much of the rolling stock and running material of the old "Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad," now a part of the "Grand Trunk" system. He held the position of treasurer of the railroad till a short time before his death.

He was also chiefly instrumental in organizing the "Casco Iron Works," of which he was treasurer, while for many years he conducted an extensive insurance business, and to his last days attended promptly and faithfully to all his official duties.

He was a prominent Mason, a member of "Ancient Landmark Lodge No. 17, of Free and Accepted Masons." Was a Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Maine.

He is remembered in all his public relations and in his personal life as one of Portland's most useful and honored citizens.

His funeral service was held in the Pearl Street Universalist Church, of which society he was an honored member, and was attended by a great concourse of his fellow-citizens, Masonic brethren, and members of city, State, and national governments. Three of his personal friends, and prominent clergymen, officiated at the service: Revs. Dr. Bolles, George W. Quimby, and I. M. Atwood.

He married, in Portsmouth, at her father's house, Jan. 8, 1809, Eliza Walker Osborne, daughter of Rev. John Osborne, a Baptist minister, who officiated at the marriage ceremony. They lived for some time after marriage at Lee, and New Market, N.H., where their eldest child was born, and, after 1815, at Portland, Me.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.churchillfamilyi01chur/?c=160&sp=1&st=gallery

6th Generation. P. 108 - 111

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Group:
Veteran of the United States Army

Group:
Person who served in the War of 1812

James married Eliza Walker Osborne on 8 Jan 1809. Eliza was born on 20 Aug 1791 in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died on 27 Feb 1879 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine; was buried after 27 Feb 1879 in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 117288976

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Edwin married Mary Phipps Carter on 29 Sep 1834 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. Mary was born on 16 May 1812 in Newmarket, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died on 3 May 1863 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine; was buried after 3 May 1863 in Western Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edwin married Anna Wealtha Hoole on 28 Jun 1865 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. Anna (daughter of Joseph Hoole and Huldah Fisher) was born in 1833 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 30 Nov 1909 in Manhattan, New York County, New York; was buried after 30 Nov 1909 in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James married Harriet E. Hoole on 20 Dec 1838 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. Harriet (daughter of Joseph Hoole and Huldah Fisher) was born on 21 Sep 1817 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 5 Jan 1894 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; was buried after 5 Jan 1894 in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LYK4-D7N
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 117288950

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Edward married Emma Belle Blaine on 30 Jan 1871 in Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri. Emma (daughter of John Logan Blaine and Margaret DeWitt Bell) was born on 14 Oct 1845 in Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri; died on 24 Nov 1871 in Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri; was buried after 24 Nov 1871 in Bellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, St. Louis (city) County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LHTK-PFZ
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 199762247
• 1880 Census: 9 Nov 1880, Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri
• 1900 Census: 27 Jun 1900, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
• 1910 Census: 9 May 1910, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
• 1930 Census: 3 May 1930, Plainfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire

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From FindaGrave:

Author, Artist, Politician.

One of the most popular novelists of the early 20th century, he is sometimes referred to as "the other Winston Churchill" or "the American Winston Churchill."

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on November 10, 1871, the son of Emma Bell Blaine and Edward Spalding Churchill. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1894. After a brief stint as the editor of the Army and Navy Journal, he left the Navy to become editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1895, but toward the end of that year he married a wealthy woman, Mabel Harlakenden Hall, and left the magazine to devote himself to his writing.

His first novel was "Mr. Keegan's Elopement," first published as a magazine serial in 1896, followed by "The Celebrity" in 1898. His next novel, "Richard Carvel," was a phenomenonal best seller, selling millions of copies and making him a famous writer.

The British Winston Churchill would thereafter sign his name as "Winston Spencer Churchill" or "Winston S. Churchill," and later "Sir Winston Churchill," to distinguish himself from the American writer, whose novel "Richard Carvel" had also sold well in Great Britain.

"The Crisis" (1901) and "The Crossing" (1904), were also very successful novels. He also wrote dramatizations of his novels for the stage. In 1899 he moved into a mansion he had built, "Harlakenden House," near Cornish, New Hampshire, and became involved with the Cornish Art Colony, where his friends included Maxfield Parrish. His watercolor landscape paintings are well-regarded and can be found in a number of museum collections. His novels often reflected his political views and he became involved in politics and was elected to two terms in the New Hampshire state legislature, but was unsuccessful when he sought the Republican nomination for Governor in 1906. In 1912 he was nominated a candidate for Governor by Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party, but did not win the election and never sought public office again. In 1918 he published a non-fiction book about his tours of World War I battlefields.

Thereafter he had a crisis of faith, stopped writing and removed himself from public life, re-emerging twenty years later to quietly publish his views on religion in "The Uncharted Way" (1940). "Harlakenden House" had been destroyed by fire in 1923. It is notable because it had been leased to Woodrow Wilson for several years prior to World War I, and had served as the Summer White House from 1913 to 1915. The Churchills purchased "Windfield House" on nearby Freeman Road, furnishing it with items saved from the fire.

Mabel Churchill died in 1945 and Winston died two years later, while on vacation in Winter Park, Florida. They are buried in the Churchill Cemetery on the Windfield House grounds. One of their three children, Creighton Churchill, was a noted writer and consultant on wine.
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From Sandra Pabis Ticci, September 2025:

Rented Harlankenden House to President Wilson during summer of 1913. President Wilson  returned in 1914, but First Lady Wilson dies in August 1914, shortening their stay. Wilson returns in 1915. Churchills live near by? Possibly in Parish Estate.

1923 Harlakenden House burns to the ground.

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1880 Census:
ED 345, p. 8
28 Pine Street
Gazzan, James B    W  M  47   Head    Md   Clerk, U.S. P Office   PA  PA  PA
---, Louisa M            W  F  44   Wife      Md                                  KY  KY  KY
---, Joseph               W  M 19   Son       S     At School                 MO  PA  KY
Blaine, Sarah           W  F  23  Sis-i-L    S                                    MO  KY  PA
Churchill, Winston    W  M   8  Nephew  S     At School                MO  ME  MO
... 3 servants

1900 Census:
ED 246, sheet 9B
Churchill, Winston    Head  W  M  Nov  1871  28  Md  5          MO  ME  MO   Author
---, Mabel H              Wife   W  F  Sept 1873  26  Md  5 1  1   MO  PA  MO
---, Mabel H               Dau   W  F  July  1897   2   S               NY  MO  MO
... 4 servants

1910 Census:
ED 311, sheet 13A
Churchill, Winston   Head  M  W  38  M1  14         MO  MO  MO   Novelist
---, Mabel                Wife   F  W  37  M1  14  2  2  MO  MO  MO
---, Mabel                Dau    F  W  12  S                 NY   MO  MO
---, John                  Son    M  W   6  S                 MA  MO  MO
Gazzan, Louisa       Aunt   F  W  75  Wd       1  1  KY  KY   MO
... 7 servants

1930 Census:
ED 17, sheet 9B
Churchile, Winston    Head  M  W  58  Md  23  MO  ME  MO   Author - Books
---, Mabel                  Wife   F  W  56  Md  22   CT   PA  MO
---, Creighton              Son  M  W  17  S           NH  MO  CT

Winston married Mabel Harlakenden Hall on 22 Oct 1895 in Saint Louis, St. Louis (city) County, Missouri. Mabel (daughter of George Duffield Hall, Sr. and Lucretia Pope "Louise" Allen) was born on 5 Sep 1873 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 26 May 1945 in Plainfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire; was buried after 26 May 1945 in Churchill Cemetery, Plainfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]