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Albert Alonzo Ames (1842-1911) —
also known as Albert A. Ames —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Garden Prairie, Boone
County, Ill., January
18, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 5th District, 1867; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1876-77, 1882-84, 1886-89, 1901-02;
resigned 1902; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1886 (Democratic), 1896 (Independent); delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1888;
indicted
in 1902 on bribery
charges,
over a scheme to induce county commissioners to appoint his
secretary, Thomas R. Brown, Jr., as Sheriff.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
16, 1911 (age 69 years, 302
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Wesley Andrews (1849-1932) —
also known as John W. Andrews —
of Marshall, Lyon
County, Minn.; Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn.
Born in Russellville, Lawrence
County, Ill., April 6,
1849.
Son of Rev. John Redding Andrews (1813-1889) and Delilah (Armstrong)
Andrews (1823-1883).
Physician; member of Minnesota
state senate 8th District, 1915-18.
Died in Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn., May 18,
1932 (age 83 years, 42
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: John
Wesley |
| | | Relatives: Married 1878 to Jennie
Cornelia French (1858-1923). |
| | | Image source: Minnesota Legislative
Manual 1917 |
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A. Henry Arp —
of Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill.
Physician; mayor of
Moline, Ill., 1933-45.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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John A. Ascher —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Democrat. Physician; member of Nevada state legislature;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1926, 1930; mayor
of Freeport, Ill..
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Freeport, Ill.
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Alfred Babcock (1805-1871) —
of Gaines, Orleans
County, N.Y.; Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill.
Born in Hamilton, Madison
County, N.Y., April 15,
1805.
Whig. Physician; U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1841-43.
Died May 16,
1871 (age 66 years, 31
days).
Interment at Hope
Cemetery, Galesburg, Ill.
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Theodore J. Bluthardt (d. 1906) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Republican. Physician; U.S. Consul in Barmen, 1904-06, died in office 1906.
German
ancestry.
Died in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal), Germany,
January
14, 1906.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Cassidy (b. 1957) —
also known as Bill Cassidy —
of Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born in Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., September
28, 1957.
Republican. Physician; member of Louisiana
state senate 16th District, 2006-08; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 6th District, 2009-.
Christian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Erasmus B. Collins (1825-1866) —
of Indiana.
Born in Kentucky, 1825.
Physician; secretary of
state of Indiana, 1855-57; served in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
Died January
31, 1866 (age about 40
years).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Manteno, Ill.
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Charles Davison (b. 1858) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Lake
County, Ill., January
13, 1858.
Son of Peter Davison and Martha Maria (Whedon) Davison.
Physician; medical school
professor; University
of Illinois trustee; elected 1904.
Methodist.
Member, American Medical
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Burial
location unknown.
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Walter Louis Finn (1875-1936) —
also known as Walter L. Finn —
of Iuka, Marion
County, Ill.
Born in Marion
County, Ill., April 15,
1875.
Son of Alfred C. Finn and Art (Mercer) Finn.
Democrat. Physician; farmer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; mayor of Iuka, Ill.;
member of Illinois
state senate 42nd District, 1929-36; died in office 1936.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Izaak
Walton League.
Died in Iuka, Marion
County, Ill., November
7, 1936 (age 61 years, 206
days).
Interment at East
Lawn Cemetery, Salem, Ill.
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Frederic Webster Goding (b. 1858) —
also known as Frederic W. Goding —
of Rutland, La Salle
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Hyde Park, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 9,
1858.
Son of Alphonso Landon Goding and Lydia Mehitable (Chandler) Goding.
School
teacher; college
professor; physician; U.S. Consul in Newcastle, 1898-1908; Montevideo, 1908-12; U.S. Consul General in Guayaquil, 1914-24.
Interment at Goding
Cemetery, Livermore, Maine.
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George Morris Gray (1856-1958) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill., March 4,
1856.
Surgeon; mayor
of Kansas City, Kan., 1906-07.
Died August
12, 1958 (age 102 years,
161 days).
Interment at Quindaro
Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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M. W. Harrison —
of Collinsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Physician; mayor
of Collinsville, Ill., 1935-42.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Nelson Hawley (1810-1874) —
of New Hebron, Crawford
County, Ill.; Olney, Richland
County, Ill.
Born in Vermont, 1810.
Physician; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Crawford County,
1847.
Died in Middletown, Butler
County, Ohio, December
24, 1874 (age about 64
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Edward Inskeep (1851-1925) —
also known as James E. Inskeep —
of Mt. Carmel, Wabash
County, Ill.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., December
29, 1851.
Democrat. Physician; Wabash
County Coroner; Wabash
County Sheriff; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1912.
Died in Mt. Carmel, Wabash
County, Ill., July 9,
1925 (age 73 years, 192
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Mt. Carmel, Ill.
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Edward Michael Irwin (1869-1933) —
also known as Edward M. Irwin —
of New Athens, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born near Leasburg, Crawford
County, Mo., April 14,
1869.
Republican. School
teacher; physician; chair of
St. Clair County Republican Party, 1898-1924; St.
Clair County Coroner, 1904-08; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1920;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois 22nd District, 1925-31; defeated,
1930.
Died in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., January
30, 1933 (age 63 years, 291
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Belleville, Ill.
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Oscar Monroe Lanstrum (b. 1869) —
also known as Oscar M. Lanstrum; O. M.
Lanstrum —
of Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill., November
26, 1869.
Republican. Physician; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Montana, 1912;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1918; member of Republican
National Committee from Montana, 1924.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Logan (born c.1800) —
of Illinois.
Born in Ireland,
about 1800.
Physician; member of Illinois state legislature.
Interment at City
Cemetery, Murphysboro, Ill.
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Karl Albert Meyer (b. 1886) —
also known as Karl A. Meyer —
of Illinois.
Born in Gilman, Iroquois
County, Ill., September
28, 1886.
Democrat. Physician; surgeon; University
of Illinois trustee; elected 1938, 1944.
Member, American Medical
Association.
Burial
location unknown.
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George Washington Michell (b. 1876) —
also known as George W. Michell —
of Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.
Born in 1876.
Republican. Physician; psychiatrist;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1944.
Burial
location unknown.
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Calvin Crane Pendleton (1811-1873) —
also known as Calvin C. Pendleton —
of Nauvoo, Hancock
County, Ill.; Parowan, Iron
County, Utah.
Born in Hope, Knox
County, Maine, August
25, 1811.
Son of Job Pendleton (1782-1847) and Betsey (Crane) Pendleton
(1790-1859).
Physician; probate judge in Utah, 1853-55; member of Utah
territorial legislature, 1854; Iron
County Recorder, 1855-65.
Mormon.
Died in Parowan, Iron
County, Utah, April 21,
1873 (age 61 years, 239
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John A. Postlewaite (b. 1850) —
of Oquawka, Henderson
County, Ill.; Tarkio, Atchison
County, Mo.; Alexis, Mercer
County, Ill.
Born in Illinois, 1850.
Democrat. Physician; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1892;
banker.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Plaster Richmond (1811-1895) —
also known as John P. Richmond —
of Schuyler
County, Ill.
Born in Middletown, Frederick
County, Md., August
11, 1811.
Son of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond.
Democrat. Physician; minister; in
1840, he officiated at the first
Protestant wedding in what is now the state of Washington; in 1841,
he delivered the first
Fourth of July oration on the Pacific coast; member of Illinois
state senate, 1849-52, 1859-60; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1855-56; Presidential Elector for
Illinois, 1856;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Schuyler County,
1862; postmaster.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in South Dakota, August
28, 1895 (age 84 years, 17
days).
Interment at Tyndall
Cemetery, Tyndall, S.Dak.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond;
married 1835
to America Walker; married 1859 to Kitty
Gristy. |
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Joseph Herman Romig (1872-1951) —
also known as Joseph H. Romig; "Dog-Team
Doctor" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Edwards
County, Ill., September
3, 1872.
Son of Joseph Romig and Margaret (Ricksecker) Romig.
Physician; mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1937-38.
Moravian
ancestry.
Romig Junior High School, in Anchorage, is named for
him.
Died in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., 1951
(age about
78 years).
Original interment somewhere
in Colorado Springs, Colo.; reinterment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
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William Robert Roy (b. 1926) —
also known as Bill Roy —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.; Lenexa, Johnson
County, Kan.
Born in Illinois, February
23, 1926.
Democrat. Physician; U.S.
Representative from Kansas 2nd District, 1971-75; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1974, 1978; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kansas, 1984,
2004.
Still living as of 2004.
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Vespasian Smith (1818-1897) —
of Superior, Douglas
County, Wis.; Bayfield, Bayfield
County, Wis.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, Ohio, October
21, 1818.
Democrat. Physician; mayor of
Duluth, Minn., 1873-74; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1876-79.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
11, 1897 (age 78 years, 355
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1846
to Charlotte E. Neely. |
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Howard Lincoln Snyder (1878-1940) —
of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan.
Born in Eureka, Woodford
County, Ill., October
10, 1878.
Physician; mayor
of Winfield, Kan., 1921.
Member, Rotary.
Died in Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan., August
16, 1940 (age 61 years, 311
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Winfield, Kan.
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Andrew J. Toman (d. 1979) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Riverside, Cook
County, Ill.
Son of John
Toman.
Physician; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1940;
Cook
County Coroner, 1960-76; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1964.
Died August 2,
1979.
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, North Riverside, Ill.
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Erasmus Winslow —
of Niles, Berrien
County, Mich.; Peru, La Salle
County, Ill.
Merchant;
physician; village
president of Niles, Michigan, 1839.
Burial
location unknown.
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William James Yerby (1867-1950) —
also known as William J. Yerby —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Oldtown, Phillips
County, Ark., September
22, 1867.
Son of Robert Milton Yerby and Clementine Yerby.
Physician; U.S. Consul in Sierra Leone, 1906-15; Dakar, 1915-25; La Rochelle, 1925-26; Oporto, 1926-30; Nantes, 1930-32.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., 1950
(age about
82 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Cecilia Carolyn Kennedy (1880-1953). |
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