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John Bigelow (1817-1911) —
of Highland Falls, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Malden, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
25, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; author;
U.S. Consul in Paris, 1861-64; U.S. Minister to France, 1865-66; secretary
of state of New York, 1876-77; executor of the estate of Samuel
J. Tilden.
Swedenborgian. English
ancestry.
Died, from a bladder
ailment, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
19, 1911 (age 94 years, 24
days).
Interment at Peacedale
Cemetery, Highland Falls, N.Y.
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Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain (1805-1861) —
also known as Ebenezer M. Chamberlain —
of Goshen, Elkhart
County, Ind.
Born in Orrington, Penobscot
County, Maine, August
20, 1805.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1835-38; member of Indiana
state senate, 1839-42; district judge in Indiana, 1843-52;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana; candidate for delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1853-55.
Swedenborgian.
Died in Goshen, Elkhart
County, Ind., March
14, 1861 (age 55 years, 206
days).
Interment at Oakridge
Cemetery, Goshen, Ind.
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Henry Stephen Clubb (1827-1921) —
also known as Henry S. Clubb —
of Grand Haven, Ottawa
County, Mich.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Colchester, Essex, England,
June
21, 1827.
Abolitionist; newspaper
publisher; founder and first president, Vegetarian Society of
America; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Michigan
state senate 29th District, 1873-74; pastor.
Swedenborgian.
Died, from chronic
gastritis and senile
debility, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
29, 1921 (age 94 years, 130
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Sharon, Pa.
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Charles William Dorsett (1850-1936) —
also known as Charles W. Dorsett —
of Minnesota.
Born in Sinclairville, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., September
28, 1850.
Lawyer;
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1904, 1906, 1916 (primary).
Swedenborgian.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., March
26, 1936 (age 85 years, 180
days).
Interment somewhere
in Minneapolis, Minn.
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William E. Hill (1835-1897) —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.
Born in Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y., 1835.
Republican. Sawmill
operator; sawmill
equipment manufacturer; mayor
of Kalamazoo, Mich., 1890, 1892-93; appointed 1892.
Swedenborgian.
Died, from apoplexy,
in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., October
18, 1897 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Julius Hotchkiss (1810-1878) —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.; Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., July 11,
1810.
Republican. Manufacturer of cotton
webbing and suspenders;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Waterbury, 1851; mayor
of Waterbury, Conn., 1853-54; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1867-69; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1870-71.
Swedenborgian.
Died in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., December
23, 1878 (age 68 years, 165
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Castle) Hotchkiss and Woodward Hotchkiss; married, April
29, 1832, to Melissa Perkins; father of M. Amelia Hotchkiss (who
married Charles
Green Rich Vinal); first cousin once removed of Hobart
L. Hotchkiss; second cousin of Gideon
Hotchkiss, Asahel
Augustus Hotchkiss and Giles
Waldo Hotchkiss; third cousin once removed of Harley
D. Hotchkiss; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Frisbee; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah
Abel, Calvin
Fillmore, Luther
Hotchkiss, Ambrose
Tuttle, Bela
Edgerton, Thaddeus
Betts, Henry
Ward Beecher, Philo
Beecher Buckingham and Arthur
H. Doolittle. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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Rollin Arthur Keyes (1854-1925) —
also known as Rollin A. Keyes —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
14, 1854.
Republican. Wholesale
grocer; director, National Bank of
the Republic, and City National Bank of
Evanston; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1908.
Swedenborgian.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April 3,
1925 (age 70 years, 110
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rollin Web Keyes and Abigail A. (Chandler) Keyes; married, October
4, 1876, to Katharine D. Officer. |
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William Rainey Marshall (1825-1896) —
also known as William R. Marshall —
of St. Croix Falls, Polk
County, Wis.; St. Anthony, Hennepin
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born near Columbia, Boone
County, Mo., October
17, 1825.
Member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1848; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 5th District, 1849; general
in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Minnesota, 1866-70; member of Minnesota
railroad and warehouse commission, 1874, 1876; appointed 1874,
1876.
Swedenborgian. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Succeeded in removing the word "white" (race) from the Minnesota
state constitution.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
8, 1896 (age 70 years, 83
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Malcolm Edwin Nichols (1876-1951) —
also known as Malcolm E. Nichols —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, May 8,
1876.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1907-09; member of Massachusetts
state senate Fifth Suffolk District, 1914, 1917-19; U.S.
Collector of Internal Revenue for Massachusetts, 1921-25; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1926-30; defeated, 1933, 1937, 1941.
Swedenborgian. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
7, 1951 (age 74 years, 275
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton (1850-1914) —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Effingham
County, Ga., June 26,
1850.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of Georgia state legislature, 1882-83; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1904
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1912
(speaker).
Swedenborgian.
Died in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
16, 1914 (age 63 years, 204
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Sewall (1835-1900) —
of Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine.
Born in Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, November
25, 1835.
Democrat. Shipbuilder;
part owner of the Bath Iron Works;
president, Maine Central Railroad;
director for other railroads;
president, Bath National Bank;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1876,
1880
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1888;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Maine, 1888-96; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1896.
Swedenborgian.
Suffered a stroke of
apoplexy and died three days later, in Phippsburg, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, September
5, 1900 (age 64 years, 284
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Bath, Maine.
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