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John Miller Baer (1886-1970) —
of North Dakota.
Born in Black Creek, Outagamie
County, Wis., March 29,
1886.
Civil
engineer; farmer; cartoonist;
postmaster; U.S.
Representative from North Dakota 1st District, 1917-21; defeated
(Non-Partisan League), 1920.
Congregationalist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
18, 1970 (age 83 years, 326
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md.
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Frank Brown (1846-1920) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born near Sykesville, Carroll
County, Md., August 8,
1846.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1876-78; postmaster; Governor of
Maryland, 1892-96; president, Baltimore Street
Railway Lines.
Presbyterian.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., February
3, 1920 (age 73 years, 179
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John Brown Kimberly (b. 1855) —
also known as John B. Kimberly —
of Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County (now part of Hampton),
Va.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
31, 1855.
Son of William H. Kimberly and Ann (Brown) Kimberly.
Republican. Merchant;
hotel
owner; steamship
agent; postmaster; director of banks and
electric
railways; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1912,
1916,
1924.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial
location unknown.
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Abraham G. Mayers (1809-1870) —
of Fort Smith, Sebastian
County, Ark.
Born in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., 1809.
Postmaster; candidate for Representative
from Arkansas in the Confederate Congress 2nd District, 1861.
Died, from consumption,
in Fort Smith, Sebastian
County, Ark., 1870
(age about
61 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Daniel Richard Randall (b. 1864) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.; Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., December
25, 1864.
Son of Alexander Randall and Elizabeth P. (Blanchard) Randall.
Republican. Lawyer; Anne
Arundel County State's Attorney, 1900-04; chair of
Anne Arundel County Republican Party, 1907-09; postmaster.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Phi
Kappa Psi.
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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