Clawson - Woodstown Baptist Burial Ground - Woodstown, NJ
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N 39° 38.923 W 075° 19.614
18S E 471953 N 4388820
Grave site of US Representative from NJ 1st District from 1885-1859, serving 2 terms, one in the Opposition Party, the second as a Republican.
Waymark Code: WM93PQ
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 06/23/2010
Views: 3
Beautiful broken column with ivy. Centerpiece of the Clawson family plot, also marking the remains of his wife Martha.
From the Biographical Directory of the US Congress:
CLAWSON, Isaiah Dunn, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Woodstown, Salem County, N.J., March 30, 1822; attended Delaware College, Newark, Del., and Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.; was graduated from Princeton College in 1840 and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1843; commenced the practice of medicine in Woodstown, N.J.; member of the State house of assembly in 1854; elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for renomination in 1858; resumed the practice of medicine in Woodstown, N.J., where he died on October 9, 1879.
Headstone/Monument Text:
ISAIAH D. CLAWSON
Born March 30th 1822
Died October 9th 1879
MARTHA W. wife of
I.D. CLAWSON
Born May 31st 1831
Died October 7th 1917
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