page_title: Lancaster, New Hampshire
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Lancaster, New Hampshire / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Louisa Dow Benton designed and gave the Benton Fountain to the city of Lancaster, New Hampshire in memory of her husband, Jacob Benton, a long-time resident.
context_page_description: Lancaster is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States, on the Connecticut River. The town is named after the city of Lancaster in England. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 3,507, the second largest in the county after Berlin. It is the county seat of Coos County and gateway to the Great North Woods Region. Lancaster, which includes the villages of Grange and South Lancaster, is home to Weeks State Park and the Lancaster Fair. Part of the White Mountain National Forest is in the eastern portion. The town is part of the Berlin, NH−VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.
  The primary settlement in town, where 1,725 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Lancaster census-designated place and is located at the junctions of U.S. Route 3 and U.S. Route 2, along the Israel River.
  Lancaster is the site of the "PorcFest" summer camp gathering of the Free State Project.
context_section_description: GG Allin, punk singer
  Jacob Benton, US congressman
  Louisa Dow Benton, linguist
  Edward E. Cross, Civil War era colonel
  Irving W. Drew, US senator
  William W. Field, Wisconsin legislator and farmer
  Benjamin F. Goss, Wisconsin legislator
  Edward D. Holton, Wisconsin legislator and businessman
  Chester Bradley Jordan, 48th governor of New Hampshire
  Ossian Ray, US congressman
  William C. Stokoe, an American linguist (1919-2000) "Father of all sign language linguists"
  John W. Weeks, US senator and Secretary of War
  Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce during Eisenhower Administration.
  Benjamin F. Whidden, first ambassador to Haiti
  Nathaniel White (1811–1880), businessman, social reformer, philanthropist, politician
  Jared W. Williams, US senator and congressman; 21st governor of New Hampshire
caption: Benton Fountain in Lancaster, designed by Jacob Benton's wife, Louisa, in her husband's memory.
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