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Frank Aldrich (b. 1850) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Pierpont, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, March 17,
1850.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; book
publisher; manager and electrician for the Hansen Battery Light and
Power Company, Washington, D.C., 1889-90; quartermaster-general
of the District of Columbia National Guard, 1890-92; invented
in 1893 and patented a railroad
car seal which became widely used; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1899-1900.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Harry Benedict (b. 1876) —
of Lake Linden, Houghton
County, Mich.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
24, 1876.
Son of Joseph Benedict and Hannah (Goldsmith) Benedict.
Democrat. Metallurgist;
worked for copper mining
companies; inventor, ammonia leaching process for copper;
director, Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis, 1919-23; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1920,
1928
(alternate).
Jewish.
Member, American
Chemical Society; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Rockwell Clough (b. 1844) —
also known as William R. Clough —
of Alton, Belknap
County, N.H.
Born in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., November
8, 1844.
Son of John Chesley Clough and Lydia Jane (Treddick) Clough.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
inventor; manufacturer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1896-1900; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1904.
Protestant.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star.
Burial
location unknown.
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Fillmore Condit (1855-1939) —
of Verona, Essex
County, N.J.; Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif.; Essex Fells, Essex
County, N.J.; Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Roseland, Essex
County, N.J., September
5, 1855.
Grocer;
invented and manufactured
the Condit refrigerator door fastener; Essex
County Freeholder; real estate
business; New York representative for Union Oil Company
of California; founder, Long Beach Community Hospital
1924; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1926-27.
Methodist.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
6, 1939 (age 83 years, 123
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Caldwell, N.J.
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Floyd J. Cook (b. 1883) —
of Medford, Jackson
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., March 16,
1883.
Republican. Manufacturer;
inventor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1928,
1932;
Oregon
Republican state chair, 1931.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial
location unknown.
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Peter Cooper (1791-1883) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1791.
Manufacturer,
inventor, philanthropist, creator of first
U.S. steam
locomotive; founder
of Cooper Union; Greenback candidate for President
of the United States, 1876.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 4,
1883 (age 92 years, 51
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Charles Francis Craver (1842-1925) —
of Grinnell, Poweshiek
County, Iowa; Harvey, Cook
County, Ill.; Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Franklinville, Gloucester
County, N.J., September
3, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1876.
Methodist.
One of the founders of Craver & Steele, farm equipment manufacturers;
invented the first
successful twelve-foot binder for cutting and binding small grain;
later, he was an oil producer
based in Oklahoma.
Died, of heart
trouble, in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., May 12,
1925 (age 82 years, 251
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Okla.
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James G. Cutler (1848-1927) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., April 24,
1848.
Son of John N. Cutler and Mary E. (Goold) Cutler.
Republican. Architect;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1896;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1896;
mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1904-07.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Union
League.
Patented the mail chute for tall buildings.
Died in 1927
(age about
79 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Deere (1804-1886) —
of Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill.
Born in Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt., February
7, 1804.
Son of William Rinold Deere and Sarah (Yates) Deere (1780-1826).
Blacksmith;
inventor of the first successful steel plow; founder of John
Deere & Company, manufacturers of farm
implements; president, National Bank of
Moline; mayor of
Moline, Ill., 1873-75.
Died in Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill., May 17,
1886 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Moline, Ill.; statue at John
Deere Historic Site, Grand Detour, Ill.
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George R. Dempster (1887-1964) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., 1887.
Democrat. Manufacturer;
inventor of Dempster Dumpster; mayor
of Knoxville, Tenn., 1952-55.
Died in 1964
(age about
77 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Henry Dern (1872-1936) —
also known as George H. Dern —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Dodge
County, Neb., September
8, 1872.
Son of John Dern and Elizabeth (Dern) Dern.
Democrat. General Manager of the Mercur Gold Mining and
Milling Company; joint inventor, with Theodore P. Holt, of the
Holt-Dern ore roaster; member of Utah state
senate, 1915-23; Governor of
Utah, 1925-33; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1933-36; died in office 1936; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1936.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, in a hospital,
of influenza
and kidney
failure, August
27, 1936 (age 63 years, 354
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Amos F. Dixon (b. 1877) —
of Stillwater Township, Sussex
County, N.J.
Born near Victoria, Knox
County, Ill., December
5, 1877.
Engineer
and executive in the Bell
System, 1902-40; granted more than 60 patents for
inventions; dairy farmer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1945-49; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Sussex County,
1947.
Member, Rotary; Freemasons;
Grange.
Burial
location unknown.
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Solomon Robert Dresser (1842-1911) —
also known as Solomon R. Dresser —
of Bradford, McKean
County, Pa.
Born in Litchfield, Hillsdale
County, Mich., February
1, 1842.
Son of Parker Dresser and Lydia (Cronkhite) Dresser.
Republican. Inventor; manufacturer;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 21st District, 1903-07.
Died in Bradford, McKean
County, Pa., January
21, 1911 (age 68 years, 354
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Bradford, Pa.
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George Eastman (1854-1932) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterville, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 12,
1854.
Son of George Washington Eastman (1815-1862) and Maria (Kilbourn)
Eastman (1821-1907).
Republican. Inventor; founder, Eastman Kodak Company;
philanthropist; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1928.
English
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March 14,
1932 (age 77 years, 246
days). His suicide
note was just six words: "My work is done. Why wait?".
Interment at Kodak
Park, Rochester, N.Y.
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Samuel Etheridge (1788-1864) —
Born in Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., April 15,
1788.
Miller;
inventor; member of Michigan
state senate 7th District, 1839-40.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Quincy, Branch
County, Mich., February
18, 1864 (age 75 years, 309
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married to Cynthia Maria Ingham (1806-1888). |
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F. B. Fenby (d. 1881) —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Inventor; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1864.
Died, from an infection,
1881.
Burial
location unknown.
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Gregory E. Fischer (b. 1958) —
also known as Greg Fischer —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
14, 1958.
Son of George Fischer and Mary Lee Fischer.
Democrat. Co-founder and president of SerVend International, and
co-inventor of a now widely used ice-beverage dispenser;
candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 2008; mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 2011-.
Still living as of 2012.
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Henry Ford (1863-1947) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., July 30,
1863.
Son of William Ford (1826-1905) and Mary (Litogot) Ford
(c.1839-1876).
Engineer;
inventor; founder, Ford Motor
Company, 1903; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1916;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and Belgian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Publisher, in 1919-27, of the Dearborn Independent newspaper,
which promoted anti-Semitic
ideas through articles such as "The International Jew: The World's
Problem," which were reprinted as pamphlets and books. In 1927, a libel
lawsuit against Ford over these writings led him to shut down
the paper and publicly recant
its contents.
Died, from a stroke, in
Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1947 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Ford
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Ford (1826-1905) and Mary (Litogot) Ford (c.1839-1876);
married, April 11,
1888, to Clara Jane Bryant (1866-1950); uncle of Clarence
M. Ford. |
| | | Cross-reference: James
Couzens — Herman
Bernstein — Alfred
J. Murphy — Martin
C. Ansorge |
| | | Personal motto:
"Efficiency." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Henry Ford: Douglas
Brinkley, Wheels
for the World : Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress,
1903-2003 — William A. Levinson, Henry
Ford's Lean Vision — Pat McCarthy, Henry
Ford : Building Cars for Everyone (for young
readers) — David Weitzman, Model
T : How Henry Ford Built a Legend (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Henry Ford: Max
Wallace, The
American Axis : Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the
Third Reich — Neil Baldwin, Henry
Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) —
also known as Silence Dogood; Poor Richard; Anthony
Afterwit; Alice Addertongue; Polly Baker; Harry
Meanwell; Timothy Turnstone; Martha Careful;
Caelia Shortface; "Benevolus" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
17, 1706.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to
Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S. Minister
to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President
of Pennsylvania, 1785; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented bifocal
glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. $100
bill; from 1948 to 1963, his portrait also appeared on the U.S.
half
dollar (50
cent coin).
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April 17,
1790 (age 84 years, 90
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at La
Arcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Relatives: Uncle
of Franklin
Davenport; great-grandfather of Mary Bache (who married Robert
John Walker) and Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867; physicist).
See Claiborne-Boggs
family. |
| | | Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Wade
— Benjamin
Franklin Wallace
— Benjamin
Cromwell Franklin
— Benjamin
Franklin Perry
— Benjamin
Franklin Robinson
— Benjamin
Franklin Massey
— Benjamin
Franklin Leiter
— Benjamin
Franklin Thomas
— Benjamin
F. Hall
— Benjamin
F. Angel
— Benjamin
Franklin Ross
— Benjamin
F. Flanders
— Benjamin
F. Bomar
— Benjamin
F. Mudge
— Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Loan
— Benjamin
F. Simpson
— Benjamin
Franklin Terry
— Benjamin
Franklin Junkin
— Benjamin
F. Partridge
— B.
F. Langworthy
— Benjamin
F. Harding
— B.
F. Whittemore
— Benjamin
Franklin Bradley
— Benjamin
Franklin Claypool
— Benjamin
Franklin Howey
— Benjamin
F. Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Rice
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
F. Hopkins
— Benjamin
F. Tracy
— Benjamin
F. Grady
— Benjamin
F. Farnham
— Benjamin
Franklin Meyers
— Benjamin
Franklin White
— Benjamin
Franklin Prescott
— Benjamin
F. Jonas
— B.
Franklin Fisher
— Benjamin
Franklin Potts
— Benjamin
F. Funk
— Benjamin
Joseph Franklin
— Benjamin
F. Marsh
— Benjamin
F. Heckert
— Benjamin
F. Howell
— Ben
Franklin Caldwell
— Benjamin
Franklin Tilley
— B.
F. McMillan
— Benjamin
F. Shively
— B.
Frank Murphy
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones, Jr.
— Benjamin
F. Welty
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones
— Benjamin
Franklin Boley
— Ben
Franklin Looney
— Benjamin
F. Bledsoe
— Benjamin
Franklin Williams
— Benjamin
Franklin Kelley
— Benjamin
Franklin Butler
— Benjamin
F. James
— Frank
B. Heintzleman
— Benjamin
F. Feinberg
— Ben
F. Cameron
— Ben
F. Blackmon
— B.
Frank Whelchel
— B. F.
Merritt, Jr.
— Ben
F. Hornsby
— Ben
Dillingham II
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Benjamin Franklin: The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An
Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place
(1744) |
| | | Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W.
Brands, The
First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin
Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A
Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of
America — Gordon S. Wood, The
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter
Isaacson, Benjamin
Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin
Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing
God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention
of America |
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Carlos French (1835-1903) —
of Seymour, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), New Haven
County, Conn., August 6,
1835.
Son of Raymond French (1805-1886) and Olive (Curtiss) French.
Democrat. Inventor; president and treasurer, Fowler Nail Co.;
vice-president, H. A. Matthews Manufacturing
Co.; director, Union Horse Shoe
Nail Co.; director, Second National Bank of New
Haven; director, New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1860, 1868; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1887-89; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1892.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Seymour, New Haven
County, Conn., April 14,
1903 (age 67 years, 251
days).
Interment at Seymour
Union Cemetery, Seymour, Conn.
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Raymond Earl Garvey (1893-1975) —
also known as Raymond E. Garvey —
of Ironwood, Gogebic
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
4, 1893.
Plumber;
inventor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1936 (Farmer-Labor),
1940 (Democratic primary), 1942 (Democratic primary); mayor
of Ironwood, Mich., 1936-38; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Gogebic County, 1939-40;
defeated in Democratic primary, 1934.
Catholic.
Member, Eagles.
Died in 1975
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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James Hartness (1861-1934) —
of Springfield, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., September
3, 1861.
Son of John Williams Hartness and Ursilla (Jackson) Hartness.
Engineer;
inventor; Governor of
Vermont, 1921-23.
Died February
2, 1934 (age 72 years, 152
days).
Interment at Summer
Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Vt.
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David S. Heebner (b. 1810) —
of Lansdale, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born June 25,
1810.
Son of Balthasar Heebner (1770-1848) and Susanna (Schultz) Heebner.
Republican. Inventor; manufacturer;
burgess
of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, 1873-74, 1876-79.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Balthasar Heebner (1770-1848) and Susanna (Schultz) Heebner;
married to Anna Derstein (died 1853) and Regina Schultz; father of William
D. Heebner. |
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George E. Hilton (b. 1846) —
of Fremont, Newaygo
County, Mich.
Born in Leighton, Bedfordshire, England,
August
25, 1846.
Republican. Building
contractor; inventor; bee keeper;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Newaygo County, 1893-96;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan,
1900.
Burial
location unknown.
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Roger Sherman Hoar (1887-1963) —
also known as Roger S. Hoar; Ralph Milne
Farley —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.; South Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born April 8,
1887.
Son of Sherman
Hoar.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1911; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1916; served in
the U.S. Army during World War I; author; cartoonist;
inventor.
Died in South Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., October
10, 1963 (age 76 years, 185
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Herbert Clark Hoover, Jr. (1903-1969) —
also known as Herbert Hoover, Jr. —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.; San Marino, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in London, England,
August
4, 1903.
Son of Herbert
Clark Hoover and Lou (Henry) Hoover.
Republican. Petroleum geologist;
mining engineer;
inventor; president, Aeronautical
Radio,
Inc., 1930; U.S. Undersecretary of State, 1954-57; director, Monsanto
Chemical
Company; director, Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation; director, Southern California Edison
Company; director, Hanna Mining
Company; director, Pacific Mutual Insurance
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1960.
Herbert Hoover Jr. High School, in San Jose, Calif., is named for
him.
Died, of cancer, in
Huntington Community Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 9,
1969 (age 65 years, 248
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John F. Kane (c.1914-2007) —
of Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass., about 1914.
Son of James Kane and Ann (Mulligan) Kane.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;
inventor; songwriter;
mayor
of Fall River, Mass., 1952-57; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1952,
1956.
Died, in St. Patrick's Manor nursing
home, Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
24, 2007 (age about 93
years).
Interment at St.
Patrick's Cemetery, Fall River, Mass.
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Relatives:
Married to Mary M. Leddy. |
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Harvey Link (1824-1906) —
of Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Washington
County, Tenn., February
4, 1824.
Son of John Link (1777-1851) and Barbara (Harnsbarger) Link (died
1875).
Co-inventor of the "Robertson and Link Pattern Sheet and Proof
Measure System of Garment
Cutting"; physician;
member of Nebraska
territorial House of Representatives, 1867.
Died September
11, 1906 (age 82 years, 219
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lodian W. Lodian (b. 1866) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hartford
County, Conn., July 15,
1866.
Son of Kalos I. Lodian and Anita (Mana) Lodian.
Civil
engineer; metallurgist;
world traveler; inventor; claimed to be first
American to cross the Himalayan mountains, 1895; secretary,
international antisemitic convention, Paris, 1900; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 1st District, 1918
(Prohibition), 1921 (Prohibition), 1933 (Law Preservation);
Prohibition candidate for New York
state senate 12th District, 1922; Law Preservation candidate for
U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1932.
Burial
location unknown.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) —
also known as Cyrus H. McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., February
15, 1809.
Son of Robert McCormick (1780-1846) and Mary Ann 'Polly' (Hall)
McCormick.
Democrat. One of the inventors of the McCormick reaper, and
the founder of the farm
implement manufacturing company which became International
Harvester; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1862; member of Democratic
National Committee from Illinois, 1876.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 13,
1884 (age 75 years, 88
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Vernon Ream McMillan (1892-1968) —
also known as Vernon R. McMillan —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Morrill, Brown
County, Kan., September
15, 1892.
Founded sporting
goods business; invented the football face mask and the
basketball inflator; mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1943-48.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., December
1, 1968 (age 76 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) —
also known as Samuel F. B. Morse —
of New York.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 27,
1791.
Son of Jedidiah Morse.
Artist;
inventor of the telegraph;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1841; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1854.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 2,
1872 (age 80 years, 341
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Francis J. Plym (1869-1940) —
of Niles, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Sweden,
1869.
Republican. Architect;
inventor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Michigan, 1928.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in 1940
(age about
71 years).
Interment at Silverbrook
Cemetery, Niles, Mich.
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William Arthur Purtell (1897-1978) —
also known as William A. Purtell —
of West Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., May 6,
1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
inventor; business
executive; candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1950; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1952, 1953-59; appointed 1952;
defeated, 1958; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1956.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in West Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., May 31,
1978 (age 81 years, 25
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, West Hartford, Conn.
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Samuel William Raymond (1872-1950) —
also known as Samuel W. Raymond —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Born in Fairfield Township, Lenawee
County, Mich., March 23,
1872.
Son of Samuel Raymond and Rebecca (Burgess) Raymond.
Democrat. Farmer; automobile
dealer; banker;
inventor; member of Michigan
state senate 19th District, 1933-34; defeated, 1926.
Episcopalian.
Swiss
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in 1950
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Adrian, Mich.
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Hezekiah Bradley Smith (1816-1887) —
also known as Hezekiah B. Smith —
of Smithville, Burlington
County, N.J.
Born in Bridgewater, Windsor
County, Vt., July 24,
1816.
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 2nd District, 1879-81; member of
New
Jersey state senate from Burlington County, 1883-85.
Took out more than forty patents for original inventions.
Died in Smithville, Burlington
County, N.J., November
3, 1887 (age 71 years, 102
days).
Interment at Pine
Street Cemetery, Mt. Holly, N.J.
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Ingebert J. Thomsen (b. 1873) —
also known as I. J. Thomsen —
of Minden, Kearney
County, Neb.
Born in North Albid, Denmark,
August
4, 1873.
Son of Peter H. Thomsen and Marie (Johansen) Thomsen.
Republican. Farmer;
inventor of Nu-Matic horse
collar; Kearney
County Clerk, 1916-23; postmaster;
real
estate dealer; abstractor;
chair
of Kearney County Republican Party, 1940.
Presbyterian.
Danish
ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Daniel Tomlinson (1776-1863) —
of Brookfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Newbury (now Brookfield), Fairfield
County, Conn., 1776.
Son of Joseph Tomlinson.
Inventor; manufacturer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Brookfield, 1828; member of
Connecticut
state senate at-large, 1829.
Died in Brookfield, Fairfield
County, Conn., 1863
(age about
87 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Lucia (Ruggles) Holman. |
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William Erastus Upjohn (1853-1932) —
also known as William E. Upjohn —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.
Born in 1853.
Son of Dr. Uriah Upjohn.
Physician;
inventor of the "friable pill" to make medicines more
digestible; founder of the Upjohn Pill and Granule Company, which
later became the The Upjohn Company; mayor
of Kalamazoo, Mich., 1918.
Died in 1932
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Mountain
Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Uriah Upjohn; married to Rachel Babcock and Carrie (Sherwood)
Gilmore. |
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Samuel Matthews Vauclain (1856-1940) —
also known as Samuel M. Vauclain —
of Rosemont, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 18,
1856.
Son of Andrew Constant Vauclain and Mary Ann (Campbell) Vauclain.
Republican. Locomotive
manufacturer; inventor; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920.
French
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; American
Philosophical Society.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Rosemont, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
4, 1940 (age 83 years, 262
days).
Interment at Church
of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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Webster Wagner (1817-1882) —
of Palatine Bridge, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born in Palatine Bridge, Montgomery
County, N.Y., October
2, 1817.
Republican. Railway
station agent; inventor; founder of the Wagner Car
Company, makers of sleeping cars and "drawing room" cars for railroad
passenger service; member of New York
state assembly from Montgomery County, 1871; member of New York
state senate, 1872-82 (15th District 1872-79, 18th District
1880-82); died in office 1882; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1880.
German
ancestry.
Killed in a railroad
accident on the Hudson River Railroad, at Spuyten Duyvil, New
York County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., January
13, 1882 (age 64 years, 103
days).
Interment at Palatine
Bridge Cemetery, Palatine Bridge, N.Y.
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Charles Ames Washburn (1822-1889) —
also known as Charles A. Washburn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, March 16,
1822.
Son of Israel
Washburn.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee); Presidential Elector for California, 1860;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Paraguay, 1861-63; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1863-68; novelist;
invented an early typewriter.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1889 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Cyrenus Wheeler, Jr. (1817-1899) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Michigan, March 17,
1817.
Son of Thirza (Evans) Wheeler.
Republican. Inventor and manufacturer of agricultural
implements; mayor of
Auburn, N.Y., 1881-86, 1889-90.
English
ancestry.
Died March 25,
1899 (age 82 years, 8
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thirza (Evans) Wheeler; married to Harriet Trumbull, Susan Tracy
and Jane Barker. |
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