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George Ade (1866-1944) —
of Kentland, Newton
County, Ind.
Born in Kentland, Newton
County, Ind., February
9, 1866.
Republican. Author; humorist; newspaper
columnist; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1908.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Suffered a heart
attack, fell into a coma, and died, in Brook, Newton
County, Ind., May 16,
1944 (age 78 years, 97
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Kentland, Ind.
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James Solomon Barcus (1863-1920) —
also known as James S. Barcus —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Sullivan
County, Ind., March
18, 1863.
Publisher;
author; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1903-05.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., May 3,
1920 (age 57 years, 46
days).
Interment somewhere
in Terre Haute, Ind.
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862-1927) —
also known as Albert J. Beveridge —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Highland
County, Ohio, October
6, 1862.
Lawyer;
historian; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1899-1911; defeated, 1914 (Progressive),
1922 (Republican); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1900,
1904
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1908,
1920,
1924
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); Progressive candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1912; received the Pulitzer
Prize in Biography, 1920.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., April
27, 1927 (age 64 years, 203
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Henry Beveridge and Frances Eleanor (Parkinson) Beveridge;
married, November
24, 1887, to Katherine Maude Langsdale; married, August
7, 1907, to Catherine Spencer Eddy; father of Albert
Jeremiah Beveridge Jr.. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Albert J. Beveridge: The
Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation 1815-1835
(1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction 1800-1815
(1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman
1789-1801 (1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier, Lawmaker
(1916) — Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 (1928) — The
Art of Public Speaking (1924) — The
Meaning of the Times, and Other Speeches (1908) — The
Russian Advance (1904) — The
State of the Nation (1924) — What
Is Back of the War (1915) |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, December 1902 |
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge Jr. (1908-1965) —
also known as Albert J. Beveridge, Jr. —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Manchester, Essex
County, Mass., August
21, 1908.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter and columnist; radio
newscaster; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1936;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1941-45; served in the U.S. Army during World War
II; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1946.
Episcopalian.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
15, 1965 (age 56 years, 147
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) —
also known as Jonathan Freeman —
of Edwards
County, Ill.
Born in Settle, Yorkshire, England,
January
23, 1764.
Secretary
of state of Illinois, 1824-25.
Anti-slavery writer under the pseudonym "Jonathan Freeman".
While returning on horseback
from a visit to Robert
Owen, he drowned
while fording the Fox River, Edwards
County, Ill., June 4,
1825 (age 61 years, 132
days).
Interment at New
Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Ind.; memorial monument at Courthouse
Grounds, Albion, Ill.
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Culver Bryant Chamberlain (1900-1972) —
also known as Culver B. Chamberlain —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Princeton, Gibson
County, Ind., July 12,
1900.
Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Canton, 1923-25; Tientsin, 1925; Swatow, 1925-27; Shanghai, 1927-28; Yunnanfu, 1928-29; U.S. Consul in Yunnanfu, 1929-30; Harbin, 1931-32.
Assaulted
and beaten by Japanese soldiers in Mukden, China, January 1932.
Died April
12, 1972 (age 71 years, 275
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Norman H. Chamberlain and Ida (Ensminger)
Chamberlain. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport
application |
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Maurice Francis Egan (1852-1924) —
also known as Maurice F. Egan —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 24,
1852.
University
professor; author; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1907-17.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
15, 1924 (age 71 years, 236
days).
Interment at Old
Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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William Dudley Foulke (1848-1935) —
of Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J.; Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
20, 1848.
Lawyer;
writer; poet; reformer and woman suffrage advocate;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1883-86; member, U.S. Civil Service Commission,
1901-03; newspaper
editor.
Died in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., May 30,
1935 (age 86 years, 191
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Foulke and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke; married to Mary
Taylor Reeves. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, May 1902 |
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Jonathan W. Gordon (1820-1887) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Pennsylvania, August
13, 1820.
Republican. Lawyer; physician;
poet; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1856;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1857-60.
Died in 1887
(age about
66 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Gordon and Sarah (Walton) Gordon; married 1843 to
Catherine J. Overturf. |
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Ralph Waldo Gwinn (1884-1962) —
also known as Ralph W. Gwinn —
of Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., March
29, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer;
writer; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1945-59; defeated,
1940, 1942.
Methodist
or Christian
Reformed. Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Freemasons.
Died of a heart
attack, in Delray Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., February
27, 1962 (age 77 years, 335
days).
Interment at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Jerrold Eldon Hinshaw (1917-2003) —
also known as Jerry Eldon Hinshaw —
of Tontitown, Washington
County, Ark.
Born near Sheridan, Hamilton
County, Ind., January
15, 1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; poultry
farmer; cattle
raiser; real estate
business; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1964; member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1981-96; historian;
director, First State Bank,
Springdale, Ark.
Methodist.
Died in Tontitown, Washington
County, Ark., December
31, 2003 (age 86 years, 350
days).
Interment at Cave
Cemetery, Washington County, Ark.
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Jay C. Huston —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Indiana.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1917-18, 1920-21; Nanking, as of 1919; U.S. Consul in Tientsin, as of 1924; Hankow, as of 1926; Canton, as of 1927; Shanghai, as of 1929-32.
Burial location unknown.
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Margaret Hill McCarter (1860-1938) —
also known as Margaret Hill —
of Kansas.
Born in Carthage, Rush
County, Ind., May 2,
1860.
Republican. Novelist; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1920.
Female.
Died in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., August
31, 1938 (age 78 years, 121
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery
County, Ind., December
9, 1866.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
Democratic State Committee, 1930-32; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1933-35; Venezuela, 1935; Nicaragua, 1938-41; novelist; poet.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Gamma Delta.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
21, 1947 (age 81 years, 12
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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James Oneal (1875-1962) —
also known as Jim Oneal —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.; Indiana; Massachusetts; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
13, 1875.
Socialist. Editor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1918 (7th District), 1920 (10th
District), 1920 (10th District), 1922 (7th District), 1926 (2nd
District), 1928 (7th District), 1931 (9th District), 1932 (2nd
District); delegate to Socialist National Convention from New York,
1920; candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1922, 1923;
candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1924; candidate for borough
president of Queens, New York, 1925, 1933.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
12, 1962 (age 87 years, 274
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) —
also known as Robert D. Owen —
of New Harmony, Posey
County, Ind.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
November
9, 1801.
Democrat. Farmer;
author; newspaper
editor; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836-39, 1851-52; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1843-47; defeated,
1839, 1847; candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Two Sicilies, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to Two Sicilies, 1854-58.
Scottish
and Welsh
ancestry.
Aided his father in the establishment of the New Harmony social
experiment.
Died in Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., June 24,
1877 (age 75 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Village
Cemetery, Lake George, N.Y.; reinterment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, New Harmony, Ind.
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William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965) —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., March
12, 1890.
Hollywood screenwriter in 1917-29 for about 12 films,
including The Light in the Dark and The Shock, both
starring Lon Chaney; founder (1933) and leader of the anti-Semitic
Silver Legion of America organization (the "Silver Shirts",
explicitly modeled after Adolf
Hitler's Brownshirts); Christian candidate for President
of the United States, 1936; arrested
in April 1942 and charged
with criminal
sedition; convicted
and sentenced
to fifteen years in prison;
released in 1950.
Died in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., July 1,
1965 (age 75 years, 111
days).
Interment at Crownland
Cemetery, Noblesville, Ind.
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Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1839-1901) —
also known as Gilbert A. Pierce —
of Porter
County, Ind.; Illinois; North Dakota; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in East Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., January
11, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer; journalist;
newspaper
editor; author; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1869; Governor
of Dakota Territory, 1884-86; U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1889-91; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1893.
Died at the Lexington Hotel,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
15, 1901 (age 62 years, 35
days).
Interment at Adams
Cemetery, Valparaiso, Ind.
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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) —
also known as Booth Tarkington —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., July 29,
1869.
Republican. Novelist; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1903-04.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize in fiction, 1919, for The Magnificent Ambersons and
in 1922 for Alice Adams.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 19,
1946 (age 76 years, 294
days).
Entombed at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Stevenson Tarkington and Elizabeth (Booth) Tarkington;
brother-in-law of Ovid
Butler Jameson; married, June 18,
1902, to Laura Louisa Fletcher; married 1912 to
Susannah Kiefer Robinson; nephew of Newton
Booth; uncle of John
Tarkington Jameson and Donald
Ovid Butler Jameson; grandnephew of William
Clayborne Tarkington; first cousin of Fenton
Whitlock Booth. |
| | | Political family: Booth-Tarkington-Jameson
family of Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| | | Tarkington Hall, at Purdue University,
in West
Lafayette, Indiana, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Booth Tarkington: The
Gentleman from Indiana (1899) — In
The Arena : Stories of Political Life (1905) |
| | | Fiction by Booth Tarkington: The
Turmoil — Alice
Adams — Penrod
and Sam — The
Magnificent Ambersons — Penrod —
Seventeen —
Gentle
Julia — Ramsey
Milholland — The
Conquest of Canaan — The
Two Vanrevels — Harlequin
and Columbine — The
Beautiful Lady — Monsieur
Beaucaire — The
Gibson Upright — The
Guest of Quesnay — His
Own People — Women —
Beasley's
Christmas Party |
| | | Books about Booth Tarkington: James L.
Woodress, Booth
Tarkington : Gentleman from Indiana — Keith J.
Fennimore, Booth
Tarkington |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, December
21, 1925 |
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Lewis Wallace (1827-1905) —
also known as Lew Wallace —
of Crawfordsville, Montgomery
County, Ind.
Born in Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., April
10, 1827.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of
Indiana
state senate, 1857-59; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1870; Governor
of New Mexico Territory, 1878-81; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1881-85; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1896
(member, Resolutions
Committee).
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons.
Author of Ben-Hur.
Died of stomach
cancer at Crawfordsville, Montgomery
County, Ind., February
15, 1905 (age 77 years, 311
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Ind.
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