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Reuben Locke Haskell (1878-1971) —
also known as Reuben L. Haskell —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
5, 1878.
Son of Robert B. Haskell and Monrovia (Grayson) Haskell.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1908,
1920;
U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1915-19; defeated,
1912; county judge in New York, 1920-25; candidate in primary for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1921.
Member, American Bar
Association; Royal
Arcanum; Delta
Chi; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Moose.
Died in Westwood, Bergen
County, N.J., October
2, 1971 (age 92 years, 362
days).
Interment at Mt. Repose Cemetery.
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Peter Denoyelles (1766-1829) —
of Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y., 1766.
Member of New York
state assembly from Rockland County, 1801-03; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1813-15.
Died in Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y., May 6,
1829 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Mt. Repose Cemetery.
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Ira M. Hedges (1839-1902) —
of Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born July 31,
1839.
Delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 16th District, 1894.
Died April 9,
1902 (age 62 years, 252
days).
Interment at Mt. Repose Cemetery.
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Abraham P. Stephens (1796-1859) —
of New York.
Born in New York, 1796.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1851-53.
Died in 1859
(age about
63 years).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Arthur Sidney Tompkins (1865-1938) —
also known as Arthur S. Tompkins —
of Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Middleburgh, Schoharie
County, N.Y., August
26, 1865.
Son of Sidney Brooks Tompkins (1830-1901) and Mary Hazy Yocum
(Taylor) Tompkins (1834-1914).
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Rockland County Republican Party, 1888; member of New York
state assembly from Rockland County, 1890; Rockland
County Surrogate, 1893-98; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1899-1903; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 9th District, 1907-36; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1933.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., January
20, 1938 (age 72 years, 147
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Moses Gage Leonard (1809-1899) —
of New York.
Born in Stafford, Tolland
County, Conn., July 10,
1809.
Democrat. State court judge in New York, 1840; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1843-45.
Died March 20,
1899 (age 89 years, 253
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Joseph Johnson Hart (1859-1926) —
also known as Joseph J. Hart —
of Milford, Pike
County, Pa.
Born in Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., April 18,
1859.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 8th District, 1895-97.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 13,
1926 (age 67 years, 86
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Clarence Lexow (d. 1910) —
of South Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state senate, 1894-98 (16th District 1894-95, 23rd District
1896-98).
Died in 1910.
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Katharine Morton Ferris. |
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Son of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian.
French
ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John F.
Hill
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| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
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