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George Birch Abbott (1850-1908) —
also known as George B. Abbott —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brookfield, Orange
County, Vt., September
27, 1850.
Son of Benjamin Franklin Abbott and Diancy (Pickering) Abbott.
Democrat. Lawyer; Kings
County Surrogate, 1889-1901; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1907-08; died in office 1908.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sigma Phi; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died, from blood
poisoning, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
10, 1908 (age 57 years, 136
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Henry Ellsworth Barbour (1877-1945) —
also known as Henry E. Barbour —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence
County, N.Y., March 8,
1877.
Son of William J. Barbour and Mary M. (Houston) Barbour.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1919-33; defeated,
1932.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma Phi.
Died in Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., March 21,
1945 (age 68 years, 13
days).
Interment at Belmont
Memorial Park, Fresno, Calif.
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Mortimer Elwyn Cooley (b. 1855) —
also known as Mortimer E. Cooley —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born near Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y., March 28,
1855.
Son of Albert Blake Cooley and Achsah Bennett (Griswold) Cooley.
Democrat. Engineer;
university
professor; served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American
War; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1924.
Member, Sigma Phi; Sigma
Xi; Freemasons;
American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Burial
location unknown.
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Marvin Robert Dee (1917-1975) —
also known as Doc Dee —
of Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
21, 1917.
Republican. Lawyer; engineer;
appraiser;
construction
executive; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 20th District, 1973-74.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sigma Phi.
Died January
11, 1975 (age 57 years, 143
days).
Interment at Oak
Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Eugene Noble Foss (1858-1939) —
also known as Eugene N. Foss —
of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in West Berkshire, Berkshire, Franklin
County, Vt., September
24, 1858.
Son of George Edmund Foss and Marcia Cordelia (Noble) Foss.
Democrat. Owner of cotton mills
and iron and
steel works; active in banking and
railroads;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 14th District, 1910-11;
defeated, 1902 (Republican, 11th District), 1904 (Republican, 11th
District); resigned 1911; defeated, 1925 (5th District); Governor of
Massachusetts, 1911-14; defeated (Independent), 1913; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1912.
Baptist.
Member, Sigma Phi.
Died September
13, 1939 (age 80 years, 354
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Nicholas Van Vranken Franchot (1855-1943) —
also known as N. V. V. Franchot —
of Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Morris, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
21, 1855.
Son of Richard
Hansen Franchot and Ann (Van Vranken) Franchot (1822-1881).
Republican. Lawyer; oil
producer; vice-president, Exchange National Bank of
Olean; director Electric
Light & Power Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1892,
1904;
mayor
of Olean, N.Y., 1894-98.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sigma Phi.
Died in Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., 1943
(age about
87 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Theodore Henry Hinchman (1869-1936) —
also known as Theodore H. Hinchman —
of Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 24,
1869.
Son of John Marshall Hinchman (1845-1905) and Ella Kate (Cropsey)
Hinchman (1846-1876).
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; engineer;
village
president of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, 1933-36; died in
office 1936.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma Phi; American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; American
Society of Civil Engineers.
Died in Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich., July 16,
1936 (age 67 years, 22
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Edward DeWitt Kinne (1842-1921) —
also known as Edward D. Kinne —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in DeWitt Center, Onondaga
County, N.Y., February
9, 1842.
Son of Julius
C. Kinne and Rachel (Wetherby) Kinne.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1875-77; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Washtenaw County 2nd
District, 1881-82; circuit
judge in Michigan 22nd Circuit, 1888-1917; president, First
National Bank, Ann
Arbor, Mich.; president, Washtenaw Gas Co.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Sigma Phi; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died July 25,
1921 (age 79 years, 166
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Michael Hubert O'Brien (b. 1878) —
also known as M. Hubert O'Brien —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., April 25,
1878.
Son of Michael W. O'Brien and Martha Frances (Watson) O'Brien.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Edwin
Denby; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1935 (Democratic primary), 1941
(primary).
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Knights
of Columbus; Sigma Phi.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
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George Wahr Sallade (1922-1997) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
16, 1922.
Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Washtenaw County 1st
District, 1955-60; defeated (Democratic), 1968; Democratic candidate
for Michigan
state senate 18th District, 1966, 1970; Democratic candidate for
U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1982; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1984.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Association
of Trial Lawyers of America; Freemasons;
Moose;
Rotary;
Phi
Alpha Delta; Sigma
Delta Chi; Sigma Phi.
Died June 18,
1997 (age 74 years, 214
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Earl Warren (1891-1974) —
also known as "Superchief" —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 19,
1891.
Son of Methias H. Warren and Chrystal (Hernlund) Warren.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Alameda
County District Attorney, 1925-39; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928
(alternate), 1932;
Temporary Chair, 1944;
California
Republican state chair, 1934-36; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1936-38; California
state attorney general, 1939-43; Governor of
California, 1943-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California, 1944;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1948; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-69; chair, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma Phi; Exchange
Club.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1981.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 9,
1974 (age 83 years, 112
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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