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William Wallace Atterbury (1866-1935) —
also known as William W. Atterbury; "The Railroad
General" —
of Radnor, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind., January
31, 1866.
Republican. Railroad superintendent; president, American
Railway Association; during World War I, he was called on to
organize organized U.S. military railroad operations in
France; he was designated Director-General of Transportation for the
American Expeditionary Forces; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920
(speaker);
President, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1925-35.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Radnor, Delaware
County, Pa., September
20, 1935 (age 69 years, 232
days).
Interment at Old
St. David's Church Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
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Phil E. Baer (b. 1866) —
of Texarkana, Bowie
County, Tex.; Paris, Lamar
County, Tex.
Born in Peru, Miami
County, Ind., April
24, 1866.
Republican. Employed by Texas & Pacific Railway,
1882-1912, 1916-21; chair of
Bowie County Republican Party, 1898-1904; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Texas, 1912,
1916,
1920;
U.S.
Marshal.
Catholic.
Member, Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Severin Baer and Catherine (Weidner) Baer. |
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John Thomas Beasley (b. 1860) —
also known as John Beasley —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Sullivan, Sullivan
County, Ind., May 29,
1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1887-93; president, Indiana Gas
Utilities Co.; director, Terre Haute Savings Bank;
director, Indianapolis and Terre Haute Railway.
Baptist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Ephraim Beasley and Sarah (Williams) Beasley; married, November
5, 1885, to Cora E. Hoke. |
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Charles G. Brittingham (1868-1923) —
of Eldon, Miller
County, Mo.
Born in State Line, Warren
County, Ind., August
11, 1868.
Republican. Locomotive engineer; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention at-large, 1922-23;
appointed 1922; died in office 1923.
Died May 17,
1923 (age 54 years, 279
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alvan V. Burch (b. 1887) —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Crawford
County, Ill., May 27,
1887.
Republican. Railway conductor; merchant;
president, Blount Plow
Works; Indiana State Highway Commissioner, 1921-27; candidate for
mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1925; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1944;
Indiana
state auditor, 1944-48.
Methodist.
Member, Kiwanis;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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James Nelson Burnes (1827-1889) —
also known as James N. Burnes —
of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born in Marion
County, Ind., August
22, 1827.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
railroad executive; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Missouri; common pleas court judge in Missouri, 1868-72; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 4th District, 1883-89; died in
office 1889.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
23, 1889 (age 61 years, 154
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo.
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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.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; railroad builder; Iowa
Republican state chair, 1869-71; postmaster at Des
Moines, Iowa, 1871-79; 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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Charles Crocker (1822-1888) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
16, 1822.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
banker;
member of California
state assembly 9th District, 1861-62; one of the builders of the
Central Pacific Railroad; first president of the Southern
Pacific Railroad.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., August
14, 1888 (age 65 years, 333
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) —
also known as Eugene V. Debs —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
5, 1855.
Socialist. Locomotive fireman on the Terre Haute and
Indianapolis Railroad; secretary-treasurer
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885; founder in
1893 and president
(1893-97) of the American Railway Union; arrested
during a strike
in 1894 and charged
with conspiracy
to commit murder; the charges were dropped, but he was jailed
for six months for contempt
of court; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate for President
of the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),
1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was a
founder
of the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped to
organize all workers in "One Big Union"; convicted
under the Sedition
and Espionage Act for an anti-war
speech he made in 1918, and sentenced
to ten years in federal prison;
released in 1921.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Lindlahr Sanitarium,
Elmhurst, DuPage
County, Ill., October
20, 1926 (age 70 years, 349
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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David Maxwell Dunn (1818-1889) —
of Indiana.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ind., November
28, 1818.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1855; director, Logansport and
Pacific Railroad; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; trustee, Wabash and Erie Canal,
1865-67; U.S. Consul in Charlottetown, 1871-83; Valparaiso, 1883.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
20, 1889 (age 70 years, 265
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Hedford Dunn (1794-1854) —
also known as George H. Dunn —
of Indiana.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1794.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1828-29, 1832-34; candidate for
Indiana
state senate, 1831; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1837-39; Indiana
state treasurer, 1841-44; circuit judge in Indiana, 1847-50;
railroad promoter.
Died in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., January
12, 1854 (age 59 years, 58
days).
Original interment at Newtown
Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; reinterment at Greendale
Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
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William Grant Edens (1863-1957) —
also known as William G. Edens —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., November
27, 1863.
Republican. Railway conductor; banker;
president, Illinois Highway Improvement Association, 1912-20; leading
advocate for construction of hard surface roads; campaign manager for
U.S. Sen William
B. McKinley, 1920 and 1926; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1934.
Methodist.
Member, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen; American
Bankers Association; Knights
of Pythias; Moose.
Died, in the Villa St. Cyril old
age home, Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., November
14, 1957 (age 93 years, 352
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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Luther Thomas Ellsworth (1853-1914) —
also known as Luther T. Ellsworth —
of East Richfield, Summit
County, Ohio; Elkhart, Elkhart
County, Ind.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in West Richfield, Summit
County, Ohio, November
13, 1853.
Stockholder, directtor, and secretary of a gold mining
company; school
teacher; foreman of railway coaling station; U.S. Consul
in Puerto Cabello, 1898-1903; Cartagena, 1903-07; Chihuahua, 1907; Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, 1907-13.
Died in Summit
County, Ohio, July 2,
1914 (age 60 years, 231
days).
Interment at West Richfield Cemetery, Richfield, Ohio.
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Charles Warren Fairbanks (1852-1918) —
also known as Charles W. Fairbanks —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in a log
cabin near Unionville Center, Union
County, Ohio, May 11,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
general solicitor for Ohio Southern Railroad, and for the
Dayton and Ironton Railroad; president, Terre Haute and Peoria
Railroad; director and general solicitor, Cincinnati,
Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1896
(Temporary
Chair; speaker;
chair, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1900,
1904,
1912;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1897-1905; resigned 1905; Vice
President of the United States, 1905-09; defeated, 1916;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1908,
1916.
Died, from renal
failure, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., June 4,
1918 (age 66 years, 24
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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William Treyanne Francis (1870-1929) —
also known as William T. Francis —
of Minnesota.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
26, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
worked in legal department of railroad; member of Minnesota
Republican State Central Committee, 1914; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Minnesota; U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1927-29, died in office 1929; U.S. Consul General in
Monrovia, 1927-29, died in office 1929.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP;
Urban
League; Sigma
Pi Phi; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Died in Liberia,
July
15, 1929 (age 59 years, 111
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Putnam Goodrich (1864-1940) —
also known as James P. Goodrich —
of Winchester, Randolph
County, Ind.
Born in Winchester, Randolph
County, Ind., February
18, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
receiver, Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville Railroad;
director, Union Heat, Light
and Power Co.; Indiana
Republican state chair, 1901-10; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1904,
1908,
1920
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1924,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940;
member of Republican
National Committee from Indiana, 1912; Governor of
Indiana, 1917-21.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died August
15, 1940 (age 76 years, 179
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Leonard J. Hackney Jr. (b. 1855) —
of Shelbyville, Shelby
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Edinburg, Johnson
County, Ind., March
29, 1855.
Lawyer;
circuit judge in Indiana, 1888-93; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1893-99; general counsel, Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway.
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville, Ind.
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John Stewart Hopkins (1811-1882) —
also known as John S. Hopkins —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Truxton, Cortland
County, N.Y., October
28, 1811.
Merchant;
banker;
mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1853-56; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1861, 1867, 1879; president of
Evansville, Cairo & Memphis Packet
Company; president of First National Bank in
Evansville; director of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad.
Died in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., July 6,
1882 (age 70 years, 251
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1834 to Mary
Ann Parrett. |
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James Taber Loree (b. 1888) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., April 6,
1888.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I;
Railway official; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1932.
Catholic.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Leonor Fresnol Loree and Jessie (Taber) Loree; married, March
23, 1927, to Miriam G. Collins. |
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Robert P. McCardle (b. 1873) —
of Greensburg, Decatur
County, Ind.
Born June 19,
1873.
Democrat. Railway mail clerk;
chair
of Decatur County Democratic Party, 1942-44.
Presbyterian.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Dunkerson Orr (1917-2004) —
also known as Robert D. Orr —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
17, 1917.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1956;
chair
of Vanderburgh County Republican Party, 1965-67; member of Indiana
state senate; elected 1968; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana; elected 1972; Governor of
Indiana, 1981-89; board member, Amtrak (representing all
state governors); U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, 1989-92.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Rotary;
Jaycees.
Died, of heart
disease, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
10, 2004 (age 86 years, 114
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Robert Bruce Fraser Peirce (1843-1898) —
also known as Robert B. F. Peirce —
of Crawfordsville, Montgomery
County, Ind.
Born in Laurel, Franklin
County, Ind., February
17, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1881-83; receiver of
Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railway.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
5, 1898 (age 55 years, 291
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Ind.
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Eugene Collins Pulliam (1889-1975) —
also known as Eugene C. Pulliam —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born, in a sod
dugout, in Grant
County, Kan., May 3,
1889.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; director, New York Central Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1952
(speaker),
1956.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., June 23,
1975 (age 86 years, 51
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Ind.
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Franklin Peleg Randall (1812-1892) —
also known as Franklin P. Randall —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Madison
County, N.Y., June 2,
1812.
School
teacher; lawyer;
railroad promoter; candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1845; member of Indiana
state senate, 1847-50; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; mayor
of Fort Wayne, Ind., 1859-64, 1869-73.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., May 23,
1892 (age 79 years, 356
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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John Coit Spooner (1843-1919) —
also known as John C. Spooner; "The Tinker of
Legislation" —
of Hudson, St. Croix
County, Wis.; Madison, Dane
County, Wis.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., January
6, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
private and military secretary to Gov. Lucius
Fairchild; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1872; general solicitor, Omaha Railroad,
1880; law partner of Arthur
Loomis Sanborn; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1885-91, 1897-1907; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1888
(delegation chair), 1892
(delegation chair); candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1892.
Died, of pneumonia
and apoplexy,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 11,
1919 (age 76 years, 156
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Frank A. Strehl (b. 1889) —
of Owensville, Gibson
County, Ind.
Born in Gibson
County, Ind., October
13, 1889.
Democrat. Railway station agent; insurance
business; chair of
Gibson County Democratic Party, 1932-44; president, Owensville Telephone
Corporation.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Order
of Railroad Telegraphers.
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Wigginton Thompson (1809-1900) —
also known as Richard W. Thompson —
of Bedford, Lawrence
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born near Culpeper Court House, Culpeper
County, Va., June 9,
1809.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1834-36; member of Indiana
state senate, 1836-38; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Indiana, 1839; candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1841-43, 1847-49 (2nd District
1841-43, 7th District 1847-49); candidate for Presidential Elector
for Indiana; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 7th Indiana
District, 1864-66; circuit judge in Indiana, 1867-69; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1868
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1876,
1888,
1896;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1877-80; chairman of the American
Committee of the Panama
Canal Company, 1881; director of the Panama Railroad
Company, 1881-88.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., February
9, 1900 (age 90 years, 245
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Marcus M. Towle (1841-1910) —
of Hammond, Lake
County, Ind.
Born in Danville, Rockingham
County, N.H., January
12, 1841.
Co-founder of the G. H. Hammond meat packing
plant, and of the city of Hammond; financed and built
railroads and port
facilities; mayor
of Hammond, Ind., 1884-88.
Died, in Longcliffe Asylum for
the Insane, Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., September
6, 1910 (age 69 years, 237
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Hammond, Ind.
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Albert Smith White (1803-1864) —
also known as Albert S. White —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Blooming Grove, Orange
County, N.Y., October
24, 1803.
Lawyer;
candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1832; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Indiana; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1837-39, 1861-63 (7th District
1837-39, 8th District 1861-63); U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1839-45; railroad president.
Died in Stockwell, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., September
4, 1864 (age 60 years, 316
days).
Interment at Greenbush
Cemetery, Lafayette, Ind.
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John T. Wilder (1830-1917) —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Greensburg, Decatur
County, Ind.; Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; Johnson City, Washington
County, Tenn.; Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Hunter, Greene
County, N.Y., January
31, 1830.
Republican. Millwright;
foundry
owner; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
manufacturer of railroad rails; railroad promoter; mayor
of Chattanooga, Tenn., 1871-72; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1876; postmaster at Chattanooga,
Tenn., 1877-82; hotel
owner.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., October
20, 1917 (age 87 years, 262
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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