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Joel Barlow (1754-1812) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., March 24,
1754.
Son of Samuel Barlow and Esther (Hull) Barlow.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; writer; poet; U.S.
Consul in Cadiz, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to France, 1811-12, died in office 1812.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held
prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of
U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S.
Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident.
Died, of pneumonia
or exposure, in Zarnowiec, Poland,
December
24, 1812 (age 58 years, 275
days).
Interment at Churchyard,
Zarnowiec, Poland; cenotaph at Great
Pasture Road Cemetery, Redding, Conn.
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Thomas Marshall (1784-1835) —
Born in Richmond,
Va., July 21,
1784.
Son of John
Marshall and Mary Willis (Ambler) Marshall (1766-1831).
Delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829.
During a storm, he took shelter in the burned ruins of the
Baltimore County
Courthouse, and was struck in the head by a brick dislodged by
lightning; he suffered a fractured skull, and died a week
later, in Baltimore,
Md., June 29,
1835 (age 50 years, 343
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joshua Pilcher (1790-1843) —
of Missouri.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., March 15,
1790.
Son of Joshua Pilcher (1749-1810) and Nancy Pilcher.
Fur
trader; U.S. Consul in Chihuahua, 1825-27; Indian agent; Superintendent of Indian
Affairs.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of sickness resulting from exposure to the elements, in
St.
Louis, Mo., June 5,
1843 (age 53 years, 82
days).
Original interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; reinterment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Douglass Houghton (1809-1845) —
of Michigan.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
21, 1809.
Geologist;
mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1842.
Drowned
with four others, when a sudden storm overturned their
boat, at Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw
County, Mich., October
13, 1845 (age 36 years, 22
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Archibald McNeill (d. 1849) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Moore
County, N.C.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1808-09; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1811-13, 1820-21; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 7th District, 1821-23, 1825-27.
In 1849
he was captain of about one hundred men traveling from Texas to
California; struck by a desert sandstorm in what is now
Arizona, he and most of the men were killed; his remains were not
recovered.
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Chauncey M. Abbott (c.1821-1863) —
of Niles, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born about 1821.
Member of New York
state assembly from Cayuga County 2nd District, 1858-59; member
of New
York state senate 25th District, 1862-63; died in office 1863.
Worked outdoors at the polls on election day, 1863, and reportedly
became ill from "over-exertion and exposure to the inclemency of
the weather"; he died suddenly, of "neuralgia",
on November
11, 1863 (age about 42
years).
Interment at Westfall
Cemetery, Twelve Corners, N.Y.
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James Harvey Ralston (1807-1864) —
also known as James H. Ralston —
of Quincy, Adams
County, Ill.; Sacramento
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Austin, Lander
County, Nev.
Born in Bourbon
County, Ky., October
12, 1807.
Son of John Ralston and Elizabeth (Neely) Ralston.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; circuit
judge in Illinois 5th Circuit, 1837; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-39; Presidential Elector for
Illinois, 1840;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1841-45; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1841; member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1841-46; served in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1853-54; candidate for chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1856; delegate to
Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863.
Member, Freemasons.
Died after becoming lost in a snowstorm, in Nye
County, Nev., May 8,
1864 (age 56 years, 209
days).
Interment somewhere
in Austin, Nev.
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George W. Guess (c.1829-1868) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in North Carolina, about 1829.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; mayor of
Dallas, Tex., 1866-68.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of sunstroke, aboard a steamboat
on the Mississippi River, at a wharf in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., July 18,
1868 (age about 39
years).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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George Herbert Prouty (1862-1918) —
also known as George H. Prouty —
of Newport, Orleans
County, Vt.
Born in Newport, Orleans
County, Vt., March 4,
1862.
Son of John
Azro Prouty and Hannah Barker (Lamb) Prouty (1834-1865).
Republican. Lumber
business; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1896-97; member of Vermont
state senate, 1904; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1906-08; Governor of
Vermont, 1908-10; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Vermont, 1916.
Congregationalist.
Killed when the car in
which he was riding was hit by a
train, in dense fog, at a grade crossing near Waterville,
Quebec,
August
19, 1918 (age 56 years, 168
days).
Interment at East
Main Street Cemetery, Newport, Vt.
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Andrew Jackson Barchfeld (1863-1922) —
also known as Andrew J. Barchfeld —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., May 18,
1863.
Son of Henry Barchfeld and Mary (Neuenhagen) Barchfeld.
Republican. Physician;
president, South Side Hospital;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 32nd District, 1905-17;
defeated, 1902.
Member, American Medical
Association.
Killed when heavy snow caused a roof
collapse, at the Knickerbocker Theater,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 1922 (age 58 years, 255
days).
Interment at South
Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Richard Welsted Croker (1841-1922) —
also known as Richard Croker —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; County Dublin, Ireland.
Born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland,
November
23, 1841.
Son of Eyre Coote Croker (1800-1881) and Frances Laura (Welsted)
Croker (1807-1894).
Democrat. Railroad
mechanic; charged
with the murder
of a political enemy in 1874; tried and
found not guilty; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1888,
1892.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Leader of Tammany Hall from 1886 until 1901.
Suffered exposure during a snowstorm, was ill for months, and
subsequently died, in County Dublin, Ireland,
April
29, 1922 (age 80 years, 157
days).
Original interment at Glencairn
House Grounds, County Dublin, Ireland; reinterment in 1939 at Kilgobbin
Cemetery, County Dublin, Ireland.
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Relatives: Son
of Eyre Coote Croker (1800-1881) and Frances Laura (Welsted) Croker
(1807-1894); married, November
1, 1873, to Elizabeth Frazer (1853-1914); married, November
26, 1914, to Bula Benton Edmonson (1884-1957). |
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Woltman |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, February 1902 |
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Samuel Brashear Avis (1872-1924) —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Harrisonburg,
Va., February
19, 1872.
Son of Braxton D. Avis and Harriet Elizabeth (Wilson) Avis.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 3rd District, 1913-15; delegate
to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1916.
Episcopalian.
Killed by lightning in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., June 8,
1924 (age 52 years, 110
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Spring Hill, W.Va.
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William Louis Day (1876-1936) —
also known as William L. Day —
of Canton, Stark
County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Canton, Stark
County, Ohio, August
13, 1876.
Son of William
Rufus Day and Mary Elizabeth (Schaefer) Day.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, 1908-11; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, 1911-14.
Lutheran.
Died, from a heart
attack aggravated by hot weather, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, July 15,
1936 (age 59 years, 337
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Orlando Fleming Barnes (1856-1937) —
also known as Orlando F. Barnes —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Mason, Ingham
County, Mich., November
7, 1856.
Son of Orlando
Mack Barnes and Amanda F. (Fleming) Barnes.
Democrat. Mayor of
Lansing, Mich., 1882-83; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 6th District, 1886; candidate for Michigan
land commissioner, 1910; president, Roscommon State Bank.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias.
While traveling south on U.S. 27 during icy conditions, his
car skidded and collided
with an oncoming truck; he was brought to a nearby Civilian
Conservation Corps camp, where he died the same evening, in Roscommon
County, Mich., January
13, 1937 (age 80 years, 67
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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George Henry Heinke (1882-1940) —
also known as George H. Heinke —
of Nebraska City, Otoe
County, Neb.
Born near Dunbar, Otoe
County, Neb., July 22,
1882.
Republican. Lawyer; Otoe
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1919-23, 1927-35; U.S.
Representative from Nebraska 1st District, 1939-40; died in
office 1940.
Injured in an automobile
collision during a snowstorm, and died a week later in a
hospital
at Morrilton, Conway
County, Ark., January
2, 1940 (age 57 years, 164
days).
Interment at Wyuka
Cemetery, Nebraska City, Neb.
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Ernest Lundeen (1878-1940) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Wayzata, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Beresford, Union
County, S.Dak., 1878.
Son of Rev. Charles H. Lundeen and Christina (Peterson) Lundeen.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
member of Minnesota state legislature; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1912
(alternate), 1916;
U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1917-19, 1933-37 (5th District
1917-19, at-large 1933-35, 3rd District 1935-37); defeated
(Independent), 1920; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1928; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1937-40; defeated, 1923 (Republican
primary), 1930 (Farmer-Labor); died in office 1940.
Methodist.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
One of 25 passengers and crew killed in the crash of
a Pennsylvania Central Airlines transport plane, bound from
Washington to Pittsburgh, during an intense storm, near
Lovettsville, Loudoun
County, Va., August
31, 1940 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Fort
Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Earl Wilcox Snell (1895-1947) —
also known as Earl Snell —
of Arlington, Gilliam
County, Ore.
Born near Olex, Gilliam
County, Ore., July 11,
1895.
Republican. Secretary of
state of Oregon, 1935-43; Governor of
Oregon, 1943-47; died in office 1947.
While flying to southern Oregon on a hunting
trip, along with Secretary of State Robert
S. Farrell, Jr. and State Senate President Marshall
E. Cornett, was killed when the small plane
crashed in stormy weather near Dog Lake, Lake
County, Ore., October
28, 1947 (age 52 years, 109
days).
Interment at Belcrest
Memorial Park, Salem, Ore.
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Robert S. Farrell, Jr. (c.1906-1947) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born about 1906.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon,
1940,
1944;
secretary
of state of Oregon, 1943-47; died in office 1947.
While flying to southern Oregon on a hunting
trip, along with Gov. Earl
Snell and State Senate President Marshall
E. Cornett, was killed when the small plane
crashed in stormy weather, near Dog Lake, Lake
County, Ore., October
28, 1947 (age about 41
years).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Marshall E. Cornett (c.1899-1947) —
of Klamath Falls, Klamath
County, Ore.
Born about 1899.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1944;
member of Oregon
state senate, 1947; died in office 1947.
While flying to southern Oregon on a hunting
trip, along with Gov. Earl
Snell and Secretary of State Robert
S. Farrell, Jr. was killed with the small plane
crashed in stormy weather, near Dog Lake, Lake
County, Ore., October
28, 1947 (age about 48
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Manuel Herrick (1876-1952) —
Born in Ohio, 1876.
U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1918 (Independent), 1922 (Republican primary), 1924 (Republican
primary), 1926 (Republican primary), 1928 (Republican primary), 1930
(Republican primary); candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from California, 1948.
Disappeared
during a Sierra blizzard, January
11, 1952 (age about 75
years), while on a trip to his mining claim; his body was found
six weeks later, in a snowbank near Quincy, Plumas
County, Calif.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Quincy
Cemetery, Quincy, Calif.
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Albert Denis Cash (1897-1952) —
also known as Albert D. Cash —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
21, 1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1940;
mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1948-51.
Was fishing
when a freak storm overturned his
boat and drowned
him, on a lake in Michigan, August 2,
1952 (age 54 years, 347
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Kimber Cornellus Sigler (1894-1953) —
also known as Kim Sigler; "The White
Knight" —
of Hastings, Barry
County, Mich.; Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Schuyler, Colfax
County, Neb., May 2,
1894.
Democratic candidate for Michigan
state attorney general, 1928; candidate in Republican primary for
Michigan
state senate 8th District, 1942; Governor of
Michigan, 1947-48; defeated (Republican), 1948; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1948.
Member, Rotary.
While flying his airplane on a foggy night, collided
with a television broadcast tower; he and three passengers died in
the crash, near Augusta, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., November
30, 1953 (age 59 years, 212
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hastings, Mich.
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Harvey L. Schwamm (c.1905-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Riverdale, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born about 1905.
Republican. Real estate
broker; banker;
candidate for New York
state senate 15th District, 1938, 1940; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1940;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; Presidential Elector for
New York, 1952,
1956.
Jewish.
Killed when a Northeast Airlines plane, landing in heavy fog,
crashed
and burned,
about 300 yards short of the airport
runway, in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., August
15, 1958 (age about 53
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1924
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Gordon Evans Dean (1905-1958) —
also known as Gordon E. Dean —
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
28, 1905.
Son of Rev. John Marvin Dean.
Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; law
professor; member, U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission, 1949-53; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, 1950-53.
Killed when a Northeast Airlines plane, landing in heavy fog,
crashed
and burned,
about 300 yards short of the airport
runway, in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., August
15, 1958 (age 52 years, 230
days).
Interment at Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Md.
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Donald Grant Nutter (1915-1962) —
also known as Donald G. Nutter —
of Montana.
Born November
28, 1915.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; Montana
Republican state chair, 1958-60; Governor of
Montana, 1961-62; died in office 1962.
En route from Helena to Cut Bank, he was killed, along with five
others, when the twin-engine C-47 plane crashed
into a mountain and burned,
during a snowstorm, near Wolf Creek, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont., January
25, 1962 (age 46 years, 58
days).
Interment at Sidney
City Cemetery, Sidney, Mont.
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Walter Edwin Alessandroni (1914-1966) —
also known as Walter E. Alessandroni —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
27, 1914.
Son of Joseph Alessandroni and Sally Alessandroni.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1959-61; Pennsylvania
state attorney general, 1963-66; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1964.
Italian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Legion.
As a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, was flying to a planned campaign
speech in a twin-engine Aztec plane, in rainy and snowy
weather, when the plane
crashed near Connellsville, Fayette
County, Pa., May 8,
1966 (age 51 years, 132
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1935
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Dracos A. Dimitry, Jr. (1922-1973) —
also known as Drake Dimitry —
of Royal Oak, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born November
24, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate in
primary for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1956.
Owner of Heights Mfg. Co., which built antenna towers.
Injured in an automobile
collision on icy roads near Almont, Mich., and died soon
after in Mt. Clemens, Macomb
County, Mich., March 23,
1973 (age 50 years, 119
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Ronald Harmon Brown (1941-1996) —
also known as Ronald H. Brown —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born August 1,
1941.
Democrat. Chairman of
Democratic National Committee, 1989-93; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1993-96; died in office 1996.
African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League.
Killed in a plane
crash, during a storm, in Croatia,
April
3, 1996 (age 54 years, 246
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Euclid Rains, Sr. (c.1921-2000) —
also known as T. Euclid Rains —
of Alabama.
Born about 1921.
Broom
manufacturer; member of Alabama
state house of representatives 26th District, 1979-91.
Methodist.
Member, Lions.
Became blind
when he lost both eyes in an accident with a pair scissors as a boy.
He was the only totally blind baseball coach in
Little League history.
Killed in an automobile
accident, when the car in which he was a passenger went off a
bridge in heavy rain, near Geraldine, Marshall
County, Ala., August
27, 2000 (age about 79
years).
Interment at Asbury
Methodist Church Cemetery, Near Albertville, Marshall County, Ala.
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