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Thomas Hinds Duggan (1834-1865) —
of Texas.
Born in Claiborne
County, Miss., May 20,
1834.
Member of Texas
state senate, 1851-53, 1859-61 (23rd District 1851-53, 27th
District 1859-61); defeated, 1853 (23rd District), 1861 (25th
District).
Methodist.
Died, of chronic cystitis, in Guadalupe
County, Tex., December
26, 1865 (age 31 years, 220
days).
Interment at San
Geronimo Cemetery, Seguin, Tex.
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Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837-1892) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Anson
County, N.C., April 24,
1837.
Son of Andrew Polk and Sereba Autry Polk.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1860; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; delegate to
North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1866; newspaper
editor; North
Carolina commissioner of agriculture, 1877-80; national president
of the Farmers' Alliance.
Baptist.
Member, Grange.
Founder of Polkton, N.C. Elected to the North Carolina Agricultural
Hall
of Fame in 1957.
Died from a bladder hemorrhage, in Washington,
D.C., June 11,
1892 (age 55 years, 48
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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John Bigelow (1817-1911) —
of Highland Falls, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Malden, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
25, 1817.
Son of Asa Bigelow and Lucy (Isham) Bigelow.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; author;
U.S. Consul in Paris, 1861-64; U.S. Minister to France, 1865-66; secretary of
state of New York, 1876-77; executor of the estate of Samuel
J. Tilden.
Swedenborgian.
English
ancestry.
Died, from a bladder ailment, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
19, 1911 (age 94 years, 24
days).
Interment at Peacedale
Cemetery, Highland Falls, N.Y.
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Coursen Henry Albertson (1833-1913) —
also known as Coursen H. Albertson —
of Warren
County, N.J.
Born in Independence Township, Warren
County, N.J., March 26,
1833.
Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Warren County, 1879-81.
Presbyterian.
Died, of acute cystitis, in Warren
County, N.J., June 7,
1913 (age 80 years, 73
days).
Interment at Pequest
Union Cemetery, Great Meadows, N.J.
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Relatives:
Married to Sarah Clarissa White (daughter of John
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Victor Gustave Benson (1873-1939) —
also known as Victor Benson —
of Iron River, Iron
County, Mich.
Born in Sweden,
December
22, 1873.
Republican. Farmer; miller;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Iron County, 1939; defeated,
1936; died in office 1939.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, from a bladder ailment, in Sparrow Hospital,
Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., April 26,
1939 (age 65 years, 125
days).
Interment at Bates
Township Cemetery, Mapleton, Mich.
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