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Birth	:	6 Oct 1833 Franklin, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death	:	2 Dec 1869 New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
Burial	:	City Mills Historical Cemetery, Franklin, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.1079100, -71.3700600
Description	:	Journalist and Civil war Union spy. Albert Deane Richardson, journalist and author, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, October 6, 1833, the son of Elisha Richardson and his second wife, Harriet Blake. He attended the public schools of Franklin, then Holliston Academy, and afterwards taught school for a few terms. In 1851 he went to Pittsburgh where he worked on a newspaper, wrote a farce which was produced by Barney Williams, and himself appeared on the stage a few times. In 1852 he went to Cincinnati where he wrote for the Daily Unionist and various other newspapers for five years. In... Read More	Journalist and Civil war Union spy. Albert Deane Richardson, journalist and author, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, October 6, 1833, the son of Elisha Richardson and his second wife, Harriet Blake. He attended the public schools of Franklin, then Holliston Academy, and afterwards taught school for a few terms. In 1851 he went to Pittsburgh where he worked on a newspaper, wrote a farce which was produced by Barney Williams, and himself appeared on the stage a few times. In 1852 he went to Cincinnati where he wrote for the Daily Unionist and various other newspapers for five years. In April, 1855, he married Mary Louise Pease of Cincinnati, and by her had five children. In 1857 he went to Sumner, Kansas, and acted as correspondent for the Boston Journal. He was secretary to the legislature for a while, and in 1859 accompanied Horace Greeley and Henry Villard to Pike's Peak, then at the height of the gold excitement. He returned by himself through the then rather unknown southwestern territories, and wrote up his travels for the journals. With Thomas W. Knox and George West he edited, in 1860, The Western Mountaineer of Golden City, Colorado. After that he went to New York and was on the staff of the New York Daily Tribune, going for them to New Orleans as secret correspondent to report on the conditions in the South just before the Civil War. The next year he was their chief war correspondent, and on the third of May, 1863, with two other reporters, he attempted to run the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg but was captured and spent a year and a half in Confederate prisons. On December 18, 1864, he and one of the other correspondents escaped from the Salisbury, N. C., prison, and four weeks later reached Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, and the Union lines. During his imprisonment his wife and infant daughter had died in Massachusetts. In 1865 "The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon and the Escape" was published, and in 1866 "Beyond the Mississippi," an unusually well written and interesting description of the western territories. In 1868 "A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant" appeared. In 1867 he became acquainted with Abby Sage (Mrs. Daniel McFarland),(1) and his attentions to her, after she had separated from her husband, led the latter to attempt to kill him, March 13, 1869. Mrs. McFarland obtained a divorce October 31, 1869, and upon learning of this McFarland, on the 25th of November, 1869, shot Richardson in the Tribune office. Richardson died a week later, but a few days before his death on the second of December, 1869, he was united in marriage to Mrs. McFarland by the Rev. Hen Ward Beecher. McFarland, after a trial lasted about eight weeks, was, on May 10, 1870, acquitted of murder on the grounds of insanity, although the evidence seemed to show that the murder was premeditated. After his death, Abby Sage Richardson published a book entitled "Garnered Sheaves from the writings of Albert D. Richardson," which contains a memoir and a portrait. An excerpt from "Beyond the Mississippi" is given in Vol. I, page 22. Taken from this website: http://www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp/richardson_albert.html Provided by Martha D.

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Albert Deane Richardson's memorial is located at: City Mills Historical Cemetery, Franklin, Norfolk County, USA.
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Albert Deane Richardson death on 2 Dec 1869 in New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
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Latitude: 42.1079100
Longitude: -71.3700600

Family Members:

Parent

Elisha Richardson Jr.

(1790 - 1866)

Harriet Blake Richardson

(1795 - 1891)

Spouse

Abby Marie Sage

(1847 - 1900)

Mary Louise Pease Richardson

(1836 - 1864)

Children

Maude Louise Richardson

(1853 - 1877)

Freddie Loomis Richardson

(1858 - 1858)

Mary Louisa Richardson

(1863 - 1864)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. City Mills Historical Cemetery
Franklin, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1079100, -71.3700600

2. Saint Marys Cemetery
Franklin, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0878716, -71.4084778

3. Union Street Cemetery
Franklin, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0833015, -71.4057999

4. Oakland Cemetery
Medway, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1444100, -71.3971700

5. Saint Josephs Cemetery
Medway, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1486015, -71.3930969

6. Norfolk Cemetery
Norfolk, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1207600, -71.3099300

7. Louise Johnson Memorial Cemetery
Wrentham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0758500, -71.3232300

8. Pine Grove Cemetery
Norfolk, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1309800, -71.3079200

9. Wrentham Center Cemetery
Wrentham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0681600, -71.3257000

10. Trinity Episcopal Cemetery
Wrentham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0663590, -71.3253290

11. Evergreen Cemetery
West Medway, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1456030, -71.4230580

12. Prospect Hill Cemetery
Millis, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1672800, -71.3660200

13. Pondville Cemetery
Norfolk, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0854800, -71.2950000

14. North Bellingham Cemetery
Bellingham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1172300, -71.4592090

15. Oak Hill Cemetery
Bellingham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1162700, -71.4602500

16. Mount Saint Marys Abbey Cemetery
Wrentham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0409000, -71.3928200

17. Revolutionary War Memorial
Walpole, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1369800, -71.2836800

18. Plains Cemetery
Walpole, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1380997, -71.2835999

19. Sheldonville Cemetery
Wrentham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0360000, -71.3843500

20. Union Cemetery
Bellingham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0839800, -71.4703100

21. Center Cemetery
Bellingham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0842000, -71.4707600

22. Gerould Cemetery
Wrentham, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0285600, -71.3493400

23. Terrace Hill Cemetery
Walpole, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.1075800, -71.2587300

24. Foxborough State Hospital Cemetery
Foxborough, Norfolk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.0807740, -71.2637560