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Kenneth Ferguson Baldridge (1886-1971) —
also known as Kenneth F. Baldridge —
of Bloomfield, Davis
County, Iowa.
Born in Bloomfield, Davis
County, Iowa, May 25,
1886.
Son of David Franklin Baldridge and Margaret Jane (Ferguson)
Baldridge.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; postmaster; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 5th District, 1936.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Rotary.
Died in November, 1971
(age 85
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Hiram Pitt Bennet (1826-1914) —
of Glenwood, Mills
County, Iowa; Nebraska City, Otoe
County, Neb.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Carthage, Franklin
County, Maine, September
2, 1826.
Member
Nebraska territorial council, 1856; member of Nebraska
territorial House of Representatives, 1858; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Colorado Territory, 1861-65; secretary
of Colorado Territory, 1867; postmaster; member of Colorado
state senate, 1876.
Died November
11, 1914 (age 88 years, 70
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Frederick Elliott Biermann (1884-1968) —
also known as Fred Biermann —
of Decorah, Winneshiek
County, Iowa.
Born in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., March 20,
1884.
Son of E. E. Biermann and Martha Biermann.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
editor and publisher; postmaster; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Iowa, 1928,
1940;
U.S.
Representative from Iowa 4th District, 1933-39; defeated, 1938.
Agnostic.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., July 1,
1968 (age 84 years, 103
days); body
donated to Iowa Medical School.
Interment at Phelps
Cemetery, Decorah, Iowa.
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Beryl Franklin Carroll (1860-1939) —
also known as Beryl F. Carroll —
of Bloomfield, Davis
County, Iowa; Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Davis
County, Iowa, March 15,
1860.
Son of Willis Carroll and Christina Carroll.
Republican. School
teacher; livestock
dealer; newspaper
editor; Presidential Elector for Iowa, 1892;
candidate for Iowa state
house of representatives, 1893; member of Iowa state
senate, 1895-98; postmaster; Iowa state
auditor, 1903-09; Governor of
Iowa, 1909-13; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Iowa, 1912;
organizer and president, Provident Life
Insurance Company.
Methodist.
Died December
16, 1939 (age 79 years, 276
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Bloomfield, Iowa.
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James S. Clarkson (1842-1918) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., May 17,
1842.
Son of Elizabeth (Goudie) Clarkson and Coker
Fifield Clarkson.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; railroad
builder; Iowa
Republican state chair, 1869-71; postmaster; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1880-96; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1891-92; First Assistant U.S.
Postmaster General, 1889-90; U.S. Surveyor of Customs,
1902-10.
Assisted more than 500 escaping slaves en route to Canada via the
"underground railroad," 1856-62.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., May 31,
1918 (age 76 years, 14
days).
Interment somewhere
in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Andrew Jackson Felt (1833-1912) —
also known as Andrew J. Felt —
of Nashua, Chickasaw
County, Iowa; Seneca, Nemaha
County, Kan.
Born in East Victor, Ontario
County, N.Y., December
27, 1833.
Son of Warren Torry Felt (1809-1872) and Cynthia Amelia (Stowell)
Felt (1812-1855).
Republican. School
teacher; newspaper
editor; lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Iowa, 1868,
1872;
postmaster; banker;
Presidential Elector for Kansas, 1884;
Lieutenant
Governor of Kansas, 1889-93.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died June 27,
1912 (age 78 years, 183
days).
Interment at Seneca
City Cemetery, Seneca, Kan.
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Thompson Benton Ferguson (1857-1921) —
also known as Thompson B. Ferguson —
of Watonga, Blaine
County, Okla.
Born near Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, March 17,
1857.
Republican. Postmaster; Governor of
Oklahoma Territory, 1901-06; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma, 1907; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Oklahoma, 1916.
Methodist.
Died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., February
14, 1921 (age 63 years, 334
days).
Interment at Watonga
City Cemetery, Watonga, Okla.
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Harry Edward Hull (1864-1938) —
also known as Harry E. Hull —
of Williamsburg, Iowa
County, Iowa.
Born near Belvidere, Allegany
County, N.Y., March 12,
1864.
Son of Henry D. Hull and Isabel (Renwick) Hull.
Republican. Grain
business; mayor of Williamsburg, Iowa, 1889-1901;
postmaster; president, Williamsburg Telephone
Company; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1915-25.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
16, 1938 (age 73 years, 310
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Williamsburg, Iowa.
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Bernhard Martin Jacobsen (1862-1936) —
also known as Bernhard M. Jacobsen —
of Clinton, Clinton
County, Iowa.
Born in Klixbüll, Germany,
March
26, 1862.
Son of Boh Jacobsen and Magdelena (Tadsen) Jacobsen.
Democrat. Merchant;
postmaster; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1931-36; died in office
1936.
Lutheran.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Eagles.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., June 30,
1936 (age 74 years, 96
days).
Interment at Springdale
Cemetery, Clinton, Iowa.
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Frank Webster Mahin (b. 1851) —
also known as Frank W. Mahin —
of Clinton, Clinton
County, Iowa.
Born in Muscatine, Muscatine
County, Iowa, November
6, 1851.
Son of Jacob Mahin and Elizabeth (Hare) Mahin.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; postmaster; U.S. Consul in Reichenberg, 1897-1902; Nottingham, 1902-10; Amsterdam, 1910-13, 1915-24.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1879
to Abbie A. Cadle. |
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Carleton Miller (b. 1877) —
of Manila, Philippines.
Born in Jackson
County, Iowa, August
19, 1877.
Postal clerk; school
teacher; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Nagasaki, 1907-11.
Burial
location unknown.
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Zoe S. Nabers (1887-1964) —
also known as Zoe Skinner —
of Fort Madison, Lee
County, Iowa.
Born in Truro, Madison
County, Iowa, July 10,
1887.
Daughter of George Newell Skinner (1853-1925) and Laura Luella
(Rankin) Skinner (1865-1945).
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Iowa, 1920;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 1st District, 1940; postmaster.
Female.
Died in Fort Madison, Lee
County, Iowa, July 22,
1964 (age 77 years, 12
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Theodore Herman Nabers (born 1883). |
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S. L. Potter (b. 1858) —
of Butler, Day
County, S.Dak.; Webster, Day
County, S.Dak.
Born in Howard
County, Iowa, March 1,
1858.
Republican. Postmaster; grain dealer;
member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 34th District, 1903-06.
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
South Dakota Legislative Manual, 1903 |
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Bertil Mathias Rasmusen (b. 1862) —
also known as Bertil M. Rasmusen —
Born in Roland, Story
County, Iowa, November
20, 1862.
Employed in the railway
mail service, 1889-99; later in the postal services of
Cuba and the Philippines; U.S. Consular Agent in Stavanger, 1903-05; U.S. Consul in Stavanger, 1905-10; Bergen, 1910-14; Gothenberg, 1916-17; Moncton, 1919-27.
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry P. Scholte (1805-1868) —
of Pella, Marion
County, Iowa.
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands,
September
25, 1805.
Republican. Preacher;
joined the dissenters from the national church of the Netherlands; tried in
1834 for teaching
heresy, expelled
from the church, fined,
and imprisoned;
helped organize a group which emigrated to Iowa in 1847; lawyer;
postmaster; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Iowa, 1860.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died August
25, 1868 (age 62 years, 335
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Pella, Iowa.
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Albert Winfield Swalm (1845-1922) —
also known as Albert W. Swalm —
of Grand Junction, Greene
County, Iowa; Oskaloosa, Mahaska
County, Iowa; Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Womelsdorf, Berks
County, Pa., November
30, 1845.
Son of John E. Swalm and Elizabeth (Christ) Swalm.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor and publisher; postmaster; U.S. Consul in Montevideo, 1897-1903; Southampton, 1903-19; Hamilton, 1919-22, died in office 1922.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Hamilton, Bermuda,
August
24, 1922 (age 76 years, 267
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Robert John Thompson (b. 1865) —
also known as Robert J. Thompson —
Born in La Porte City, Black Hawk
County, Iowa, October
15, 1865.
School
teacher; railway
mail clerk; newspaper
editor; president and manager, National Recording Safe Company;
U.S. Consul in Hanover, 1906-11; Aix-la-Chapelle, 1914.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Montreux, Switzerland.
Interment at Village
Cemetery, Vevey, Switzerland.
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Theodore B. Werner (1892-1989) —
also known as "Dates" —
of Rapid City, Pennington
County, S.Dak.
Born in Ossian, Winneshiek
County, Iowa, June 2,
1892.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; printing
business; postmaster; mayor
of Rapid City, S.Dak., 1929-30; U.S.
Representative from South Dakota 2nd District, 1933-37; defeated,
1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Dakota,
1944.
Died in 1989
(age about
97 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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