H. Gardner Ainsworth (b. 1917) — Born in Charleston,
Charleston
County, S.C., March 15,
1917. Son of Walden Lee Ainsworth (Vice Admiral) and Katharine
(Gardner) Ainsworth; married, August
25, 1940, to Helen Louise Reed. Foreign Service officer; U.S.
Vice Consul in San Salvador, 1943. Member, Society of the Cincinnati.
Still living as of 1964.
Larz Anderson (1866-1937) — of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C. Born in Paris, France
of American parents, August
15, 1866. Son of Gen. Nicholas Longworth Anderson and Elizabeth
Coles (Kilgour) Anderson; married to Isabel Perkins Anderson
(author). Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1911-12; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1912-13. Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Society of the Cincinnati. Died in White Sulphur
Springs, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., April 13,
1937. Interment at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Joel Barlow (1754-1812) — of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn. Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., March 24,
1754. Son of Samuel Barlow and Esther (Hull) Barlow; married 1781 to Ruth
Baldwin (sister of Abraham
Baldwin). Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; writer; poet; U.S.
Consul in Cadiz, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to France, 1811-12, died in office 1812. Member, Society of
the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held
prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of
U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S.
Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident. Died, of pneumonia
or exposure,
in Zarnowiec, Poland,
December
24, 1812. Interment at Churchyard,
Zarnowiec, Poland; cenotaph at Great
Pasture Road Cemetery, Redding, Conn.
William Perry Clements, Jr. (b. 1917) — also known
as William P. Clements, Jr. — of Texas. Born April 13,
1917. Republican. Governor of
Texas, 1979-83, 1987-91; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 1988.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Kappa
Alpha Order. Still living as of 1998.
William Heath (1737-1814) — Born in Roxbury (now
part of Boston), Suffolk
County, Mass., March 7,
1737. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1791-92; probate judge in Massachusetts, 1793-1810.
Member, Society of the Cincinnati. Died in Roxbury (now part
of Boston), Suffolk
County, Mass., January
24, 1814. Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
Henry Knox (1750-1806) — Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 25,
1750. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1789-94. Member, Society of the
Cincinnati. He brought 59 cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to
Dorchester, Mass., leading the British forces to evacuate Boston on
March 17, 1776. Swallowed a small chicken bone that damaged his
intestines, and died three days later of peritonitis,
in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, October
21, 1806. Interment at Elm
Grove Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine. Knox counties in Ill., Ind., Ky., Maine, Mo., Neb., Ohio, Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him.
