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Charles Beatty Alexander (1849-1927) —
also known as Charles B. Alexander —
of Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1849.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director and counsel for Equitable Life insurance
company; director of the Middletown & Unionville Railroad, the
Hocking Valley Railroad, and several banks;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916
(alternate), 1920;
member, New York State Board of Regents, 1913-27.
Presbyterian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1927 (age 77 years, 63
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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David Baird Jr. (1881-1955) —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., October
10, 1881.
Republican. Lumber
business; director, First Camden National Bank;
director, West Jersey & Seashore Railroad; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1929-30; candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1931.
Died in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., February
28, 1955 (age 73 years, 141
days).
Interment at Harleigh
Cemetery, Camden, N.J.
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Matthias William Baldwin (1795-1866) —
also known as Matthias W. Baldwin —
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., December
10, 1795.
Jeweler;
inventor;
locomotive manufacturer; abolitionist; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1837.
Died in Wissinoming, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
7, 1866 (age 70 years, 271
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at Philadelphia City Hall Grounds, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) —
also known as Kemp P. Battle —
of Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Louisburg, Franklin
County, N.C., December
19, 1831.
Lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; president, Chatham
Railroad during the Civil War; North
Carolina state treasurer, 1866-68; president,
University of North Carolina, 1876-91; historian.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., February
4, 1919 (age 87 years, 47
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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John Anderson Bensel (1863-1922) —
also known as John A. Bensel —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bernardsville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1863.
Democrat. Engineer;
worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad; in charge of
construction on New York City's North River waterfront,
1889-95; New York
state engineer and surveyor, 1911-14; major in the U.S. Army
during World War I.
Died, of myelitis,
in Bernardsville, Somerset
County, N.J., June 19,
1922 (age about 58
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Brownlee Bensel and Mary Maclay (Hogg) Bensel; married 1896 to Ella
Louise Day. |
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William Darius Bishop (1827-1904) —
also known as William D. Bishop —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J., September
14, 1827.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1857-59; defeated,
1858, 1902; U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1859-60; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1860;
member of Connecticut
state senate 10th District, 1866, 1877-78; president, New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 1867-79; president, Naugatuck
Railroad, 1855-67, 1885-1903; director, Bridgeport Steamboat
Company; lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Bridgeport, 1871.
Died, of chronic
endocarditis, in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
4, 1904 (age 76 years, 143
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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John Insley Blair (1802-1899) —
also known as John I. Blair —
of Blairstown, Warren
County, N.J.
Born in Warren
County, N.J., August
22, 1802.
Republican. Merchant;
postmaster;
manufacturer;
railroad builder; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1860,
1868;
candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1868.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Blairstown, Warren
County, N.J., December
2, 1899 (age 97 years, 102
days).
Interment at Gravel
Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Blair and Rachel (Insley) Blair; married, September
20, 1826, to Nancy Ann Locke; father of Emma Elizabeth
Blair. |
| | | The township
of Blairstown,
New Jersey, is named for
him. — The city
of Blair,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The city
of Blairstown,
Iowa, is named for
him. — Blair Hall, at Princeton University,
Princeton,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: King's Notable New
Yorkers of 1896-1899 |
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Rufus Blodgett (1834-1910) —
of Ocean
County, N.J.; Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Dorchester, Grafton
County, N.H., October
9, 1834.
Democrat. Superintendent, New Jersey Southern Railroad,
1874-84; founder and president, Citizens Bank of
Long Branch; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Ocean County, 1878-80;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1880
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1896;
U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1887-93; mayor
of Long Branch, N.J., 1893.
Died in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., October
3, 1910 (age 75 years, 359
days).
Interment at Village
Cemetery, Wentworth, N.H.
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Joseph Gardner Bradley (b. 1881) —
also known as J. G. Bradley —
of Dundon, Clay
County, W.Va.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., September
12, 1881.
Republican. Coal mining
magnate; organizer of Elk River Coal and Lumber Co.;
organizer of the Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad; director,
Central Iron
and Steel Co.; created the town of Widen, W.Va.; delegate to
Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1916,
1928;
chair
of Clay County Republican Party, 1917.
Episcopalian.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Browne (1875-1947) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
28, 1875.
Democrat. Physician;
mayor
of Princeton, N.J., 1916-23; resigned 1923; president, board of
trustees, Princeton Hospital,
1919-23; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1923-25; defeated,
1920, 1924; member, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, 1925-31;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Mercer County, 1936-39;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1940;
director, First National Bank of
Princeton; director, Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad.
Presbyterian.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., August
17, 1947 (age 71 years, 323
days).
Cremated.
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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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Benjamin F. Conley (1815-1886) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., March 1,
1815.
Republican. Mayor
of Augusta, Ga., 1857-59; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1868; member of Georgia
state senate, 1870-71; Governor of
Georgia, 1871-72; president, Macon and Augusta Railroad;
postmaster at Atlanta,
Ga., 1875-83; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Georgia, 1876.
Died in West End (now part of Atlanta), Fulton
County, Ga., January
10, 1886 (age 70 years, 315
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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Winthrop More Daniels (b. 1867) —
also known as Winthrop M. Daniels —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.; Saybrook, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, September
30, 1867.
University
professor; member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1914-23;
trustee of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 1935.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen Dumont (b. 1869) —
also known as Frederick T. F. Dumont —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Phillipsburg, Warren
County, N.J., March
17, 1869.
Construction engineer,
Pennsylvania Railroad, 1889-1901; banker;
U.S. Consul in Guadeloupe, 1911-12; Madrid, 1912-14; Florence, 1914-19; Dublin, 1919-20; U.S. Consul General in Frankfort, as of 1924; Havana, 1929-32.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Finley Dumont and Anna K. (Kline) Dumont; married, May 16,
1900, to Mary Wolfe. |
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Alexander H. Elder —
of Glen Ridge, Essex
County, N.J.
Lawyer;
general solicitor, Central Railroad of New Jersey; mayor
of Glen Ridge, N.J., 1940.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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John Milton Fessenden (1804-1883) —
also known as John M. Fessenden —
Born in Warren, Bristol
County, R.I., December
21, 1804.
Civil
engineer; worked on canals
and railroads; U.S. Consul in Dresden, 1850-54.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1883 (age 78 years, 49
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Fessenden and Abigail Miller (Child) Fessenden; married, May 21,
1834, to Mary Pierce Bumstead; married, June 25,
1868, to Sarah Ann Murphy; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake; third cousin of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin once removed of William
Pitt Fessenden, Walter
Fessenden, Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden, William
Fessenden Allen, Joseph
Palmer Fessenden and Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); third cousin twice removed of James
Deering Fessenden, Francis
Fessenden, Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin once removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Peter
Rawson Taft, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor and Charles
Grenfill Washburn. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Samuel Wesley Fordyce (1840-1919) —
also known as S. W. Fordyce —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Guernsey
County, Ohio, February
7, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; founder,
builder, president, receiver, and director of many railroads;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1884,
1892;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Arkansas, 1888; delegate to Gold Democrat
National Convention from Arkansas, 1896.
Scottish
and Dutch
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
3, 1919 (age 79 years, 177
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Edwin St. John Greble Jr. (1887-1946) —
also known as E. St. J. Greble, Jr. —
of West Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., November
9, 1887.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; railroad
executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1932.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
31, 1946 (age 59 years, 52
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Dudley Sanford Gregory (1800-1874) —
also known as Dudley S. Gregory —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
5, 1800.
Banker;
mayor
of Jersey City, N.J., 1838-40, 1841-42, 1858-60; delegate to Whig
National Convention from New Jersey, 1839 (member, Balloting
Committee); U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1847-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1860;
director of railroad companies.
Died in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
8, 1874 (age 74 years, 306
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Ogden Haggerty Hammond (1869-1956) —
also known as Ogden H. Hammond —
of Bernardsville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., October
13, 1869.
Republican. Real estate
business; director, First National Bank of
Jersey City; president, railway and real estate
development companies; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Somerset County, 1915-16;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1916,
1924
(alternate), 1932;
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1925-29.
Presbyterian.
Died October
29, 1956 (age 87 years, 16
days).
Interment at St.
Bernard's Cemetery, Bernardsville, N.J.
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Andrew Kessler Hay (1809-1881) —
also known as Andrew K. Hay —
of Winslow, Camden
County, N.J.
Born near Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
19, 1809.
Glass
manufacturing business; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 1st District, 1849-51; candidate
for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; president, Camden and
Atlantic Railroad, 1872-76.
Died in Winslow, Camden
County, N.J., February
7, 1881 (age 72 years, 19
days).
Interment at Colestown
Cemetery, Cherry Hill Township, Camden County, N.J.
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Samuel Hays (c.1835-1897) —
of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., about 1835.
Republican. Missouri
state treasurer, 1871-73; postmaster at St.
Louis, Mo., 1878-84; railroad president.
Died in Upper Montclair Heights, Essex
County, N.J., October
8, 1897 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert Hays and Mary (Dudgeon) Hays; married to Sarah Elizabeth
Morris. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article |
| | | Image source: Missouri State
Treasurer |
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Albert H. Holland (b. 1891) —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Morris
County Prosecutor of the Pleas, 1925; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1928;
common pleas court judge in New Jersey, 1928-43; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Morris County,
1947; director, Morristown & Erie Railroad; director,
Remington Arms Company.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Bell Houston (1845-1907) —
also known as Charles B. Houston —
of Millsboro, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Sussex
County, Del., December
30, 1845.
Democrat. Lumber
business; bank
director; director, Delaware, Maryland & Virginia
Railroad; member of Delaware
state senate from Sussex County, 1891-94.
Died, from a kidney
ailment, in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., June 25,
1907 (age 61 years, 177
days).
Interment at Millsboro
Cemetery, Millsboro, Del.
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Howard L. Kern (c.1886-1947) —
of West Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Charles City, Floyd
County, Iowa, about 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer; Puerto
Rico attorney general, 1915-19; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Puerto Rico, 1920;
assistant general attorney for International Telephone
and Telegraph,
1928-41; general counsel, Central Railroad of New Jersey,
1941-47.
Died in West Orange, Essex
County, N.J., May 12,
1947 (age about 61
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William A. Kindred (c.1849-1891) —
of Fargo, Cass
County, Dakota Territory (now N.Dak.).
Born in Morris
County, N.J., about 1849.
Civil
engineer; railroad builder; banker; mayor of
Fargo, N.Dak., 1882-83.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 8,
1891 (age about 42
years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Gore King (1791-1853) —
also known as James G. King —
of Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 8,
1791.
Whig. Banker;
president, Erie Railroad, 1835-37; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1849-51.
Died, from congestion of
the lungs, in Weehawken, Hudson
County, N.J., October
3, 1853 (age 62 years, 148
days).
Interment at Grace
Church Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.
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Charles A. Lighthipe (1824-1905) —
of Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., October
11, 1824.
Hat maker
and manufacturer of hat-forming
machines; director, Morris and Essex Railroad; director,
American Insurance
Company of Newark; organizer, Citizens Gas
Company of Newark; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1864-65.
Episcopalian.
Suffered a paralytic
stroke, and died two years later, in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., February
14, 1905 (age 80 years, 126
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward P. Meany (1854-1938) —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 13,
1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
vice-president, New Mexico Central and Southern Railway; one
of the organizers of the American Bell
Telephone Company, and counsel to American Telephone and
Telegraph Company; director, Colonial Life
Insurance Company of America; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New Jersey, 1896,
1900;
chair
of Morris County Democratic Party, 1914.
Irish
and English
ancestry.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., November
24, 1938 (age 84 years, 195
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Augustine Meany and Maria Lavina (Shannon) Meany; married
to Rosalie Behr; married 1923 to Andrie
Chesnal. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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James Scott Negley (1826-1901) —
also known as James S. Negley —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in East Liberty (now part of Pittsburgh), Allegheny
County, Pa., December
22, 1826.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general
in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 22nd District, 1869-75, 1885-87;
active in promotion and construction of railroads; president
of several railroad companies.
Swiss
ancestry. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., August
7, 1901 (age 74 years, 228
days).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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James Nelson Pidcock (1836-1899) —
also known as James N. Pidcock —
of Whitehouse Station, Hunterdon
County, N.J.
Born in White House, Hunterdon
County, N.J., February
8, 1836.
Democrat. Civil
engineer; built the Georgia Northern Railroad; member of
New
Jersey state senate from Hunterdon County, 1877-79; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1884,
1888;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1885-89.
Died in Whitehouse Station, Hunterdon
County, N.J., December
17, 1899 (age 63 years, 312
days).
Interment at Lebanon Reformed Church Cemetery, Lebanon, N.J.
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Horace Porter (1837-1921) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Huntingdon, Huntingdon
County, Pa., April
15, 1837.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; received
the Medal
of Honor for action at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863; executive
secretary to Pres. Ulysses
S. Grant, 1869-73; vice-president, Pullman Palace Car Co.
(railroad cars); president, New York West Shore & Buffalo
Railroad; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1892;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1897-1905.
Member, Union
League.
Died May 29,
1921 (age 84 years, 44
days).
Interment at Old
First Methodist Churchyard, West Long Branch, N.J.
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Isaac Williamson Scudder (1816-1881) —
also known as Isaac W. Scudder —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., 1816.
Republican. Lawyer; Hudson
County Prosecutor of the Pleas, 1845-55; director and counsel for
railroad and canal
companies; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1873-75.
Died in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., September
10, 1881 (age about 65
years).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Elizabeth, N.J.
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William Joyce Sewell (1835-1901) —
also known as William J. Sewell —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland,
December
6, 1835.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War;
railroad executive; member of New
Jersey state senate from Camden County, 1873-81; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1900;
U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1881-87, 1895-1901; died in office 1901.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1896 for action at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863.
Died in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., December
27, 1901 (age 66 years, 21
days).
Interment at Harleigh
Cemetery, Camden, N.J.
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William Norton Shinn (1782-1871) —
of New Jersey.
Born in Burlington
County, N.J., October
24, 1782.
Democrat. Burlington
County Sheriff, 1825-28; member of New Jersey
State Council, 1829-31; New Jersey
Democratic state chair, 1832; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1833-37; director,
Camden & Amboy Railroad Company.
Died in Mt. Holly, Burlington
County, N.J., August
18, 1871 (age 88 years, 298
days).
Interment at Mt.
Holly Cemetery, Mt. Holly, N.J.
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Samuel Sloan (1817-1907) —
of New York.
Born in County Down, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), December
25, 1817.
Importing
business; member of New York
state senate 2nd District, 1858-59; president, Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 1867-99.
Episcopalian
or Christian
Reformed. Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died in Garrison, Putnam
County, N.Y., September
22, 1907 (age 89 years, 271
days).
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.; statue at Erie-Lackawanna Park, Hoboken, N.J.
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John Stevens III (1749-1838) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 26,
1749.
Lawyer;
inventor;
New
Jersey state treasurer, 1776-79; colonel in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; successfully advocated for the first
U.S. patent law (1790); innovated steam-powered ships and
locomotives; built railroads in New Jersey.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Bergen Township, Bergen County (part now in Hoboken, Hudson
County), N.J., March 6,
1838 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Stevens and Elizabeth (Alexander) Stevens; brother of Mary
Stevens (who married Robert
R. Livingston); married, October
17, 1782, to Rachel Cox; grandson of James
Alexander; great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster and Johannes
de Peyster; second great-granduncle of Robert
Reginald Livingston; first cousin of Philip
Peter Livingston; first cousin once removed of William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Johannes
DePeyster, William
Duer and Denning
Duer; first cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin four times removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; first cousin five times removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; first cousin six times removed of Hamilton
Fish, Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin once removed of Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Matthew
Clarkson and Henry
Rutgers; third cousin of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Philip
DePeyster. |
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family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Stevens (built 1942 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1962) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Goyn Talmadge (1801-1863) —
also known as Thomas G. Talmadge —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Somerset, Somerset
County, N.J., October
22, 1801.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1837; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1845; county judge in New York, 1846;
president, Broadway Railroad Company.
Died May 4,
1863 (age 61 years, 194
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Beekman Winthrop (1874-1940) —
of Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., September
18, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1904-07; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
1907-09; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1909-13; director,
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Lackawanna Steel Co.,
and National City Bank.
Died November
10, 1940 (age 66 years, 53
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Wright (1794-1866) —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Clarksville, Rockland
County, N.Y., November
13, 1794.
Democrat. Mayor of
Newark, N.J., 1841-43; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1843-47; president,
Morris and Essex Railroad, 1843-66; candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1847; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1853-59, 1863-66; died in office 1866;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1860.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., November
1, 1866 (age 71 years, 353
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Thomas Jones Yorke (1801-1882) —
also known as Thomas J. Yorke —
of Salem
County, N.J.
Born in Hancocks Bridge, Salem
County, N.J., March
25, 1801.
Whig. Merchant;
Salem
County Collector, 1830; common pleas court judge in New Jersey,
1833-34, 1845-54; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Salem County, 1835; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1837-39, 1841-43;
president, West Jersey Railroad, 1866-75; also president of
the Cape May & Millville Railroad.
Died in Salem, Salem
County, N.J., April 4,
1882 (age 81 years, 10
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Churchyard, Salem, N.J.
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