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Tasker Lowndes Oddie (1870-1950) —
also known as Tasker L. Oddie —
of Nye
County, Nev.; Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
20, 1870.
Son of Henry Meigs Oddie and Ellen Gibson (Prout) Oddie.
Republican. Lawyer; real estate
business; mining
business; Nye
County District Attorney, 1900-02; member of Nevada
state senate, 1904-08; Governor of
Nevada, 1911-15; defeated, 1914, 1918; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1921-33; defeated, 1932, 1938; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nevada, 1940.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
17, 1950 (age 79 years, 120
days).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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John Henry Kinkead (1826-1904) —
also known as John H. Kinkead —
Born in Smithfield, Fayette
County, Pa., December
10, 1826.
Republican. Treasurer
of Nevada Territory, 1862-64; delegate to
Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863; Governor of
Nevada, 1879-83; Governor of
Alaska District, 1884-85.
Died in Carson
City, Nev., August
15, 1904 (age 77 years, 249
days).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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Reinhold Sadler (1848-1906) —
of Nevada.
Born in Czarnikau, Prussia (now Czarnkow, Poland),
January
10, 1848.
Lieutenant
Governor of Nevada, 1895-98; Governor of
Nevada, 1896-1903; Stalwart Silver candidate for U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1904.
German
ancestry.
Died in Eureka, Eureka
County, Nev., January
30, 1906 (age 58 years, 20
days).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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John Edward Jones (1840-1896) —
also known as John E. Jones —
of Nevada.
Born in Montgomeryshire, Wales,
December
5, 1840.
Governor
of Nevada, 1895-96; died in office 1896.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., April 10,
1896 (age 55 years, 127
days).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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Denver Sylvester Dickerson (1872-1925) —
also known as Denver S. Dickerson —
of Nevada.
Born in Millville, Shasta
County, Calif., January
24, 1872.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor; Lieutenant
Governor of Nevada, 1907-10; Governor of
Nevada, 1908-11; defeated, 1910.
Died November
28, 1925 (age 53 years, 308
days).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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Horace Franklin Bartine (1848-1918) —
also known as Horace F. Bartine —
of Nevada.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 21,
1848.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1889-93; defeated, 1894.
Died in Winnemucca, Humboldt
County, Nev., August
27, 1918 (age 70 years, 159
days).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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Charles Henry Bryan (1822-1877) —
also known as Charles H. Bryan —
of Marysville, Yuba
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., October
20, 1822.
Son of John
Alexander Bryan.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1854; justice of
California state supreme court, 1854-55; delegate to
Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863.
Died in Carson
City, Nev., May 14,
1877 (age 54 years, 206
days).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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James S. Slingerland (1834-1874) —
of Yuba
County, Calif.; Carson
City, Nev.
Born in 1834.
Member of California
state assembly 15th District, 1859-60; Lieutenant
Governor of Nevada, 1866-70.
Died in 1874
(age about
40 years).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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John Koontz (c.1909-1995) —
of Carson
City, Nev.
Born about 1909.
Democrat. Secretary of
state of Nevada, 1950; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Nevada, 1952
(alternate), 1956.
Died in 1995
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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Chauncey Noteware (born c.1827) —
of Nevada.
Born in New York, about 1827.
Delegate
to Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863; secretary of
state of Nevada, 1864.
Interment at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
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