Pierce Manning Butler Young (1836-1896) — also known
as Pierce M. B. Young — of Cartersville, Bartow
County, Ga. Born in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., November
15, 1836. Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1868-69, 1870-75 (6th District
1868-69, 7th District 1870-75); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Georgia, 1876;
U.S. Minister to Guatamala, 1893-96; Honduras, 1893-96. Died in Presbyterian Hospital, New
York, New York
County, N.Y., July 6,
1896. Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Ga.
Robert Adams, Jr. (1849-1906) — also known as
Bertie Adams — of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
26, 1849. Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state senate, 1883-86; U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1889-90; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1893-1906; died in
office 1906; Drafted and introduced the declaration of war against
Spain in 1898. Author of act declaring war on Spain, 1898. Despondent
over heavy losses in stock speculation and the prospect of defeat at
the polls, he shot
himself with a pistol, in his rooms at the Metropolitan Club, and
died soon after in Emergency Hospital, Washington,
D.C., June 1,
1906. Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
Patrick Henry McCarren (c.1850-1909) — also known as
Patrick H. McCarren; "Friend of the Sugar
Trust" — of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y. Born in East Cambridge, Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass. Married to Kate Hogan (died 1883). Democrat. Cooper;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1882-83, 1889;
member of New York
state senate, 1890-93, 1896-1909 (4th District 1890-93, 7th
District 1896-1909); died in office 1909; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1904.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Political boss who dominated Brooklyn politics for twenty
years. Died, from intestinal
degeneration, complicated by appendicitis
and myocarditis,
in St. Catherine's Hospital, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
23, 1909. Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y.
Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) — also known as
Theodore N. Vail — of Lyndonville, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt. Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 16,
1845. First cousin of George
Vail; son of Davis Vail and Phebe (Quinby) Vail; married, August 3,
1869, to Emma Louisa Righter (1844-1905); married, July 27,
1907, to Mabel Rutledge Sanderson (died 1950). Republican.
General superintendent, U.S. Railway Mail Service, 1876-79;
president, American Telephone
and Telegraph
Co., 1885-89 and 1907-19; founder of Western Electric and of Bell
Labs; built an electric
railway system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1904; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1916.
Member, Union
League. Died, from kidney and
cardiac
complications, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
Md., April 16,
1920. Interment at Vail
Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, N.J.