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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of Spencer
County, Ind.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865.
English
ancestry.
His election as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War;
determined to preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the
battlefield, freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing
this, redefined American nationhood.
Shot
by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April 15,
1865 (age 56 years, 62
days). He was elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans. His portrait appears on the U.S. penny
(one
cent coin) since 1909, and on the $5
bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait also
appeared on U.S. notes
and certificates of various denominations from $1
to $500.
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Married, November
4, 1842, to Mary Ann Todd (1818-1882; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter; sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of N. H.
R. Dawson); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln. See Porter-Edwards-Lincoln-Todd
family. |
| | | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay |
| | | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
Lincoln Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 (out of print) — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — Karen
Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Ninian Edwards (1775-1833) —
of Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill.; Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Montgomery
County, Md., March 17,
1775.
Son of Benjamin
Edwards.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1796-97; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1803; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1808; Governor of
Illinois Territory, 1809-18; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1818-24; Governor of
Illinois, 1826-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1832.
Baptist.
Died of cholera,
in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., July 20,
1833 (age 58 years, 125
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Belleville, Ill.; reinterment in 1855 at Oak Ridge Cemetery;
statue at Ninian
Edwards Plaza, Edwardsville, Ill.
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Shelby Moore Cullom (1829-1914) —
also known as Shelby M. Cullom —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Monticello, Wayne
County, Ky., November
22, 1829.
Son of Richard Northcraft Cullom and Elizabeth (Coffey) Cullom.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1856, 1860-61, 1872-74; Speaker of
the Illinois State House of Representatives, 1861, 1873;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1856;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 8th District, 1865-71; Governor of
Illinois, 1877-83; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1883-1913; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1904
(speaker),
1908.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
28, 1914 (age 84 years, 67
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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William Henry Bissell (1811-1860) —
of Illinois.
Born in Hartwick, Otsego
County, N.Y., April 25,
1811.
Son of Luther Bissell and Hannah Bissell.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1840; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1849-55 (1st District 1849-53, 8th
District 1853-55); Governor of
Illinois, 1857-60; died in office 1860.
Catholic.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., March 18,
1860 (age 48 years, 328
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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John Riley Tanner (1844-1901) —
also known as John R. Tanner —
of Illinois.
Born in Warrick
County, Ind., April 4,
1844.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Illinois
state senate, 1881; Illinois
state treasurer, 1887-89; Governor of
Illinois, 1897-1901.
Died May 23,
1901 (age 57 years, 49
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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William Jayne (1826-1916) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., October
8, 1826.
Mayor
of Springfield, Ill., 1859-61; member of Illinois
state senate, 1860-61; Governor of
Dakota Territory, 1861-63; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Dakota Territory, 1863-64.
Died, of apoplexy (stroke),
in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., March 20,
1916 (age 89 years, 164
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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William Joshua Allen (1829-1901) —
also known as William J. Allen —
of Metropolis, Massac
County, Ill.; Marion, Williamson
County, Ill.; Cairo, Alexander
County, Ill.; Carbondale, Jackson
County, Ill.
Born in Wilson
County, Tenn., June 9,
1829.
Son of Willis
Allen.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1855; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, 1855-59; circuit
judge in Illinois 26th Circuit, 1859-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1860,
1864,
1868,
1872,
1876,
1880,
1884;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Williamson and
Johnson counties, 1862; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1862-65 (9th District 1862-63, 13th
District 1863-65); delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 1st District,
1869-70; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Illinois, 1887-1901;
died in office 1901.
Died, of "grippe" (influenza),
in Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., January
26, 1901 (age 71 years, 231
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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James Carroll Robinson (1823-1886) —
also known as James C. Robinson —
of Marshall, Clark
County, Ill.
Born near Paris, Edgar
County, Ill., August
19, 1823.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1859-65, 1871-75 (7th District
1859-63, 11th District 1863-65, 8th District 1871-73, 12th District
1873-75); candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1864.
Died, of "congestion of the brain" (presumably a stroke or
cerebral
hemorrhage), in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., November
3, 1886 (age 63 years, 76
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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William McKendree Springer (1836-1903) —
also known as William M. Springer —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Sullivan
County, Ind., May 30,
1836.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1860-62; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1871-72; defeated, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1875-95 (12th District 1875-83,
13th District 1883-95); U.S.
District Judge for Indian Territory, 1895-99.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., December
4, 1903 (age 67 years, 188
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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James Austin Connolly (1843-1914) —
also known as James A. Connolly —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., March 8,
1843.
Son of William Connolly and Margaret (Maguire) Connolly.
Republican. Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1873-76; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Illinois, 1876-85, 1889-93;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 17th District, 1895-99; defeated,
1886.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, of cerebral
hemorrhage, in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., December
15, 1914 (age 71 years, 282
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Loren Edgar Wheeler (1862-1932) —
also known as Loren E. Wheeler —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Havana, Mason
County, Ill., October
7, 1862.
Republican. Mayor
of Springfield, Ill., 1897-1901; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1900;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 21st District, 1915-23, 1925-27;
defeated, 1922, 1926.
Died, of pernicious
anemia, in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., January
8, 1932 (age 69 years, 93
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Ben Franklin Caldwell (1848-1924) —
of Chatham, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born near Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill., August 2,
1848.
Son of John Caldwell and Mary J. Caldwell.
Democrat. Banker; farmer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1882-86; member of Illinois
state senate, 1890-94; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1899-1905, 1907-09 (17th District
1899-1903, 21st District 1903-05, 1907-09); defeated, 1904; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1912.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of miocarditis,
in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., December
29, 1924 (age 76 years, 149
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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John Alexander McClernand (1812-1900) —
also known as John A. McClernand —
of Shawneetown, Gallatin
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Breckinridge
County, Ky., May 30,
1812.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; newspaper
publisher; Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1840,
1852;
member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1841-46, 1852-56; member of Illinois
state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1843-51, 1859-61 (2nd District
1843-51, 6th District 1859-61); general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1876
(Convention
President; member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker).
Died in 1900
(age about
88 years).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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John Todd Stuart (1807-1885) —
also known as John T. Stuart —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born near Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
10, 1807.
Lawyer;
law partner of Abraham
Lincoln; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1833-37; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1839-43, 1863-65 (3rd District
1839-43, 8th District 1863-65).
Died November
23, 1885 (age 78 years, 13
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Samuel Hubbel Treat (d. 1887) —
also known as Samuel H. Treat —
of Illinois.
Justice
of Illinois state supreme court, 1841-55.
Died March 27,
1887.
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Anthony Lausett Knapp (1828-1881) —
also known as Anthony L. Knapp —
of Jerseyville, Jersey
County, Ill.
Born in Middletown, Orange
County, N.Y., June 14,
1828.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state senate, 1859; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1861-65 (6th District 1861-63, 10th
District 1863-65).
Died May 24,
1881 (age 52 years, 344
days).
Original interment at Springfield Cemetery;
reinterment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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William Allen Northcott (1854-1917) —
also known as William A. Northcott —
of Greenville, Bond
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Murfreesboro, Rutherford
County, Tenn., January
28, 1854.
Son of Robert Saunders Northcott (Civil War general) and Mary
(Cunningham) Northcott.
Republican. Lawyer; Bond
County State's Attorney, 1882-92; Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1897-1905; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1904;
U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Illinois, 1905-14;
president, Inter-Ocean Casualty
Co.
Episcopalian.
Member, Modern
Woodmen of America; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons.
Died January
25, 1917 (age 62 years, 363
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Frank Stoddard Dickson (1876-1953) —
also known as Frank S. Dickson —
of Ramsey, Fayette
County, Ill.
Born in Hillsboro, Montgomery
County, Ill., October
6, 1876.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 23rd District, 1905-07; Adjutant
General of Illinois, 1910-22; appointed 1910.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
24, 1953 (age 76 years, 141
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Ninian Wirt Edwards (1809-1889) —
also known as Ninian W. Edwards —
of Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born April 15,
1809.
Son of Ninian
Edwards.
Democrat. Illinois
state attorney general, 1834-35; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-41, 1849-53; member of Illinois
state senate, 1845-49; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Sangamon County,
1847; Illinois
superintendent of public instruction, 1854-57.
Died September
2, 1889 (age 80 years, 140
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Isham N. Haynie (c.1822-1866) —
of Alexander
County, Ill.
Born about 1822.
Republican. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1850; common pleas court judge in
Illinois, 1857; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1860;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 9th District, 1862; served in the
Union Army during the Civil War; Adjutant
General of Illinois, 1865-66; appointed 1865; died in office 1866.
Was present in Peterson's Boarding House when Abraham
Lincoln died.
Died May 21,
1866 (age about 44
years).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Ozias Mather Hatch (1814-1893) —
also known as Ozias M. Hatch —
of Pike
County, Ill.
Born in 1814.
Member of Illinois state legislature; secretary of
state of Illinois, 1857-65.
Died in 1893
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Erastus Newton Bates (1828-1898) —
also known as Erastus N. Bates —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Centralia, Marion
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Plainfield, Hampshire
County, Mass., February
29, 1828.
Delegate
to Minnesota state constitutional convention, 1857; member of Minnesota
state senate 4th District, 1857-58; lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1866-67; Illinois
state treasurer, 1869-73.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., May 29,
1898 (age 70 years, 0
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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William Butler —
of Sangamon
County, Ill.
Illinois
state treasurer, 1859-63.
Camp Butler, Missouri, is named for
him.
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Earle Benjamin Searcy (b. 1887) —
also known as Earle B. Searcy —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Palmyra, Macoupin
County, Ill., May 14,
1887.
Son of James
Buchanan Searcy.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; real estate
broker; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 45th District, 1921-23; member of
Illinois
state senate 45th District, 1923-45; clerk of the Illinois
supreme court; elected 1944.
Christian.
Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Disabled
American Veterans.
One of the founding members of the American Legion.
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Stephen Trigg Logan (1800-1880) —
also known as Stephen T. Logan —
of Barren
County, Ky.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Franklin
County, Ky., February
24, 1800.
Son of David Logan and Mary (Trigg) Logan.
Republican. Lawyer; Barren
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1822-32; circuit judge in Illinois,
1835-40; law partner of Abraham
Lincoln, 1841-44; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1843-47, 1855-56; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Sangamon County,
1847; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1860.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., July 24,
1880 (age 80 years, 151
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Vincent Y. Dallman —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1924,
1932,
1936,
1956,
1960;
U.S. Collector of Internal
Revenue for the 8th Illinois District, 1941-51.
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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William M. Vicars (1906-1959) —
of Pontiac, Livingston
County, Ill.
Born in Braidwood, Will
County, Ill., October
20, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1935-45; candidate for Illinois
state auditor of public accounts, 1944; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1948
(alternate), 1952.
Died in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., February
14, 1959 (age 52 years, 117
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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John Pope Cook (1825-1910) —
also known as John P. Cook —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.; Ransom, Hillsdale
County, Mich.
Born in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., June 12,
1825.
Son of Daniel
Pope Cook and Julia (Edwards) Cook.
Mayor
of Springfield, Ill., 1855; Sangamon
County Sheriff, 1856; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War.
Died in Ransom, Hillsdale
County, Mich., October
12, 1910 (age 85 years, 122
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Jacob Bunn, Jr. (1864-1926) —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., October
21, 1864.
Son of Jacob Bunn (1814-1897; industrialist) and Elizabeth (Ferguson)
Bunn.
Republican. President, Illinois Watch Co. (watch manufacturers);
president, Sangamo Electric Co.; president, Springfield Marine Bank;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1924.
Died, from cirrhosis of
the liver, in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., May 10,
1926 (age 61 years, 201
days).
Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Married to Mildred Jeffress. |
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