Notable Ashburnham Residents Born in Cambridge Grant
- Isaac Hill (1788–1851), a grandson of John Adams the Centenarian, NH State Representative, NH State Senator, Comptroller of the United States Treasury in the Andrew Jackson administration, U.S. Senator from NH, and Governor of New Hampshire
- Ivers Adams (1808–1890), Mass. State Representative, 1851
- Samuel G. Adams (1825–1886), Superintendent of Police for the City of Boston
- Ivers Whitney Adams (born 1838), founder of the Boston Red Stockings, first professional baseball team in Boston
- Melvin O. Adams (1847–1920), lawyer for Lizzie Borden
- Luther B. Adams (born 1829) and Andrew Jackson Adams (1828–1911), officers of the Boston Chair Manufacturing Company of Ashburnham, an aggressive innovator in mass production techniques and one of the three largest chair manufacturers in the United States in the third quarter of the nineteenth century
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