Alexander Keith McClung (1809-1855) — also known as
Alexander K. McClung; "The Black Knight of the
South" — of Mississippi. Born in Virginia, 1809.
Nephew of John
Marshall; son of William
McClung. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1849-51. Killed his opponents in a number of duels.
Shot
himself with a dueling pistol, in a hotel room at Jackson,
Hinds
County, Miss., March 23,
1855. Interment at Friendship
Cemetery, Columbus, Miss.
George Knox Shiel (1825-1893) — also known as
George K. Shiel — of Oregon. Born in Ireland,
1825.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Oregon at-large, 1861-63. While slightly
intoxicated, fell over a
railing, fourteen feet down into a window well, at the entrance to
the Hotel Williamett, broke his neck, and died, in Salem, Marion
County, Ore., December
12, 1893. Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Salem, Ore.
John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895) — also known as
John L. O'Sullivan — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born, of American parents, in the North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Gibraltar, November
15, 1813. Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1841-42; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1844;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Portugal, 1854; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1854-58. Episcopalian;
later Catholic.
Cofounder and editor of The United States Magazine
and Democratic Review, a journal that published the works of
Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, as well as political essays on
Jacksonian Democracy, 1837-46. Early advocate in 1840s for abolition
of the death penalty. Invented the term "manifest destiny" to explain
and justify the westward expansion of the United States. Took part in
the failed expedition of Narcisco Lopez to take Cuba from Spanish
rule; as a result, was charged
in federal court in New York with violation
of the Neutrality Act; tried and
acquitted in March 1852. Died, of influenza
and the effects of an earlier stroke, in
a residential hotel in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 24,
1895. Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
Edward Wilkerson (1853-1929) — of Kansas. Born in
Spring Hill, Washington Township, Warren
County, Ohio, 1853.
Member of Kansas state legislature. Died at the Denver Hotel,
Wilmington, Clinton
County, Ohio, 1929.
Interment at Miami
Cemetery, Waynesville, Ohio.
William Bross Lloyd (1875-1946) — also known as
William B. Lloyd; "The Millionaire Socialist"
— of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
27, 1875. Grandson of William
Bross; son of Henry Demarest Lloyd (social reformer, author) and
Jessie (Bross) Lloyd; married to Lola Maverick (divorced 1916) and
Madge Bird. Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1918; arrested
in downtown Chicago, 1918, for refusing to remove a red
flag from his limo; co-founder of Communist Labor Party, 1919; indicted
for sedition,
1920; represented at trial by
Clarence
Darrow; convicted,
sentenced
to 1-5 years in prison;
his sentence was commuted in 1922. Died, of cancer, in
the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 30,
1946. Cremated; ashes
scattered in North Atlantic Ocean.
