This cache was placed for Chester's 300th anniversary celebration.
French Cemetery:
This cache is near the private French Family cemetery. There are many notable French family members, however this cache will only touch on a few..
Honorable Daniel French was an attorney who was born in Epping, but later moved to Chester. He was the town’s postmaster (1807-1839), Rockingham County Solicitor (1808), and New Hampshire Attorney General (1812-1815). French was married 3 times and fathered 11 children.
Benjamin Brown French was the eldest of Honorable Daniel French’s children. He joined the military and received the rank of major. Benjamin French moved to DC in 1833, where over the course of the next 35 years he was clerk of the U.S. Senate, president of Samuel F.B. Morse’s Telegraph Company (which later evolved into AT&T), Grand Master of the Knights Templers of the United States, and Grand Master of the Masons. He became the US Commissioner of Public Buildings during the Lincoln Adminstration and officiated the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument and Capitol Building. He was a confidant of Mary Lincoln and was in charge of Lincoln’s funeral.
Daniel Chester French (grandson of Honorable French) became known as one of America’s greatest sculptors. He created the seated Lincoln, which is on the back of the penny and his Concord Minuteman is used on all US savings bonds.