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Par B. Anderson (b. 1868) —
also known as P. B. Anderson —
of Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio; Kane, McKean
County, Pa.; Caibarien, Cuba.
Born in Sweden,
March
27, 1868.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; lawyer; steamship
agent; banker;
sugar business; U.S. Consular Agent in Caibarien, 1903-17.
Swedish
ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Alexander Baldwin (1871-1946) —
also known as Henry A. Baldwin —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii; Makawao, Island of Maui, Maui
County, Hawaii.
Born in Paliuli, Island of Maui, Maui
County, Hawaii, January
12, 1871.
Republican. Sugar planter; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1912,
1920;
chair
of Maui County Republican Party, 1912-44; member of Hawaii
territorial senate, 1913-21, 1934-37; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Hawaii Territory, 1922-23; member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1933.
Member, Chi Phi.
Died in Paia, Island of Maui, Maui
County, Hawaii, October
8, 1946 (age 75 years, 269
days).
Interment at Makawao
Cemetery, Makawao, Island of Maui, Hawaii.
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William James Behan (1840-1928) —
also known as William J. Behan —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; White Castle, Iberville
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
25, 1840.
Son of John Holland Behan and Katherine (Walker) Behan.
General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; sugar
planter; merchant;
manufacturer;
grocery
business; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1882-84; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1896,
1900,
1908;
Louisiana
Republican state chair, 1900-12; Republican candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1904.
Irish
ancestry. Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died, from a heart
attack, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 4,
1928 (age 87 years, 222
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Charles Boettcher (1852-1948) —
of Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.; Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo.; Leadville, Lake
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Kölleda, Germany,
April
8, 1852.
Son of Frederick Boettcher and Susanna Boettcher.
Republican. Hardware
business; co-founder and vice-president, Great Western
Sugar Co.; co-founder and president Ideal Cement
Company; vice-president, Brown Palace Hotel
Company; real estate
investor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Colorado, 1916
(alternate), 1928.
German
ancestry.
Died, in his suite at the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver,
Colo., July 2,
1948 (age 96 years, 85
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Claudius Kedzie Boettcher (1875-1957) —
also known as Claude K. Boettcher —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., January
10, 1875.
Son of Charles
Boettcher and Fannie August (Cowan) Boettcher (1856-1952).
Republican. Packing
business; banker;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; chairman, Denver and
Intermountain Railway;
president, Brown Palace Hotel;
director, Great Western Sugar Co.; director, Denver Dry Goods
Co.; vice-president of several electric
utilities; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Colorado, 1936,
1944.
Episcopalian.
German
ancestry.
Died in Denver,
Colo., June 9,
1957 (age 82 years, 150
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Edward Cole Bryan (1919-1997) —
also known as Edward C. Bryan; Ed Bryan —
of Ewa, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii; Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, August
22, 1919.
Son of Kenneth Cole Bryan and Mary (Hayes) Bryan.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; surveyor;
electrical
engineer;
business
executive; delegate to
Hawaii state constitutional convention, 1950, 1968; Hawaii
Territory Republican Party chair, 1957-58; housing director, Ewa
Sugar Company; board member, St. Francis Hospital.
Member, Rotary; Freemasons;
Humane
Society.
Died in Johnson City, Washington
County, Tenn., May 27,
1997 (age 77 years, 278
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in Pacific Ocean.
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Relatives:
Married to Shada I. Pflueger (1923-1973). |
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Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) —
also known as "The Refrigerator"; "The Sly
Fox" —
of New York; Dummerston, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 11,
1894.
Son of George R. Bunker and Jean Polhemus (Cobb) Bunker.
Director and officer, National Sugar Refining Company;
director, American-Hawaiian Steamship
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1951-52; Italy, 1952-53; India, 1956-61; Nepal, 1956-59; , 1966-67, 1973-78; Vietnam, 1967-73.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of two Presidential
Medals of Freedom, in 1963 and in 1967.
Died, in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital,
Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., September
27, 1984 (age 90 years, 139
days).
Interment somewhere
in Dummerston, Vt.
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Donelson Caffery (1835-1906) —
of Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La.
Born near Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La., September
10, 1835.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
sugar planter; delegate to
Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1879; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1892-93; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1892-1901.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
30, 1906 (age 71 years, 111
days).
Interment at Franklin
Cemetery, Franklin, La.
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Albert E. Carlton (born c.1862) —
of Cripple Creek, Teller
County, Colo.; Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in Indiana, about 1862.
Republican. Banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1916
(alternate), 1920;
sugar executive.
Burial
location unknown.
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Clarence Hyde Cooke (1876-1944) —
also known as Clarence H. Cooke —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, April 17,
1876.
Son of Charles M. Cooke and Anna Charlotte (Rice) Cooke (1853-1934).
Republican. Banker;
president or vice-president of plantation
and sugar companies; member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1912-28; Speaker
of Hawaii Territory House of Representatives, 1923-24, 1927-28;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1924.
Congregationalist.
Died August
23, 1944 (age 68 years, 128
days).
Interment at Kawaiaho
Church Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Channing Harris Cox (1879-1968) —
also known as Channing H. Cox —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
28, 1879.
Son of Charles Edson Cox and Evelyn Mary (Randall) Cox.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1910-18; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1915-18; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1919-21; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1921-25; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1924,
1928;
president, Old Colony Trust
Company; director, United Fruit Co.,
Revere Sugar Co., First National Bank of
Boston, Boston Herald Traveler (newspaper);
board member, Deaconess Hospital.
Episcopalian.
Member, Humane
Society; Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Died August
20, 1968 (age 89 years, 174
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Fred Lewis Crawford (1888-1957) —
also known as Fred L. Crawford —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born near Dublin, Erath
County, Tex., May 5,
1888.
Son of William Carroll Crawford and Mary Jane (Rape) Crawford.
Republican. Accountant;
builder, financier, and operator of beet sugar mills;
director, Michigan National Bank;
director, Petroleum
Transit Corporation; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 8th District, 1935-53; defeated in
primary, 1952.
Methodist.
Member, Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 13,
1957 (age 68 years, 343
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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George Howard Earle III (1890-1974) —
also known as George H. Earle —
of Haverford, Delaware
County, Pa.; Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Devon, Chester
County, Pa., December
5, 1890.
Son of George
Howard Earle, Jr. and Catherine Hansell (French) Earle
(1859-1937).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; sugar
business; U.S. Minister to Austria, 1933-34; Bulgaria, 1940-41; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1935-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Pennsylvania, 1936;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1938.
Episcopalian.
Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Tall
Cedars of Lebanon; Elks.
Died December
30, 1974 (age 84 years, 25
days).
Interment at Church
of the Resurrection Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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Robert Frazer, Jr. (1878-1947) —
of Salinas, Salinas
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
8, 1878.
Son of Robert Frazer and Elizabeth M. (McKibbin) Frazer.
Bank
employee; sugar cane planter;
U.S. Consul in Valencia, 1909-12; Malaga, 1912-14; Bahia, 1914-16; Kobe, 1916-20; U.S. Consul General in Calcutta, 1929; Mexico City, 1932; U.S. Minister to El Salvador, 1937.
Died in 1947
(age about
68 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward James Gay (1816-1889) —
also known as Edward J. Gay —
of Plaquemine, Iberville
Parish, La.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., February
3, 1816.
Democrat. Planter;
president, Louisiana Sugar Exchange, New Orleans; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1885-89; died in
office 1889.
Died in Iberville
Parish, La., May 30,
1889 (age 73 years, 116
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Alfred L. M. Gottschalk (1873-1918) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1873.
Son of L. G. Gottschalk and Louise de L. (Boucher) Gottschalk.
Newspaper
correspondent; sugar grower; U.S.
Consul in Callao, 1903-05; U.S. Consul General in Callao, 1905-06; Mexico City, 1906-08; , 1908-11; Rio de Janeiro, 1916-17.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
While en route from Bahia, Brazil to Baltimore on the U.S. Navy ship
Cyclops, during World War
I, he was one of 306 sailors and crew who perished
when the ship sank, in the
North
Atlantic Ocean, March, 1918
(age 45
years, 0 days); the wreckage was never
found.
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John Harvey Lowery (1860-1941) —
also known as J. H. Lowery —
of Donaldsonville, Ascension
Parish, La.
Born in Plaquemine, Iberville
Parish, La., October
18, 1860.
Son of John Harvey Lowery (1834-1907) and Elizabeth (Carson) Lowery
(1835-1919).
Republican. Physician;
sugar grower;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1916
(alternate), 1920,
1940.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died, in Flint-Goodridge Hospital,
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
25, 1941 (age 80 years, 342
days).
Interment at Ascension
Catholic Cemetery, Donaldsonville, La.
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Relatives: Son
of John Harvey Lowery (1834-1907) and Elizabeth (Carson) Lowery
(1835-1919); married 1883 to
Elizabeth Conway (1867-1924); married, December
13, 1927, to Mary L. Brown (1907-1993). |
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Frank J. Migas (b. 1888) —
of East Chicago, Lake
County, Ind.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
28, 1888.
Democrat. Owner, Sweet Corn Candy Co., 1921-31;
vice-president, American State Bank of
Gary; deputy
sheriff; mayor
of East Chicago, Ind., 1939-51; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Indiana, 1940,
1948.
Catholic.
Member, Moose; Polish
National Alliance.
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Calumet City, Ill.
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Henry Thomas Oxnard (1860-1922) —
also known as Henry T. Oxnard —
of Oxnard, Ventura
County, Calif.; Upperville, Fauquier
County, Va.
Born in Marseille, France,
June
22, 1860.
Son of Thomas Oxnard and Louise Adeline (Brown) Oxnard.
Republican. President, later vice-president, American Beet
Sugar Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1908.
Oxnard, California, is named for
him.
Died, from a heart
attack, at the University Club, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 8,
1922 (age 61 years, 351
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, November
15, 1900, to Marie Pichon. |
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William L. Petriken (b. 1871) —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Muncy, Lycoming
County, Pa., February
17, 1871.
Republican. Sugar executive; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Colorado, 1924.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Eloise N. Delbridge. |
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John B. Smith (1887-1961) —
of Alma, Gratiot
County, Mich.
Born in Fairgrove, Tuscola
County, Mich., April 25,
1887.
Republican. Field man and superintendent, Michigan Sugar Co.;
farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Gratiot County, 1935-42;
member of Michigan
state senate 25th District, 1943-44; defeated in primary, 1944,
1958.
Died in 1961
(age about
74 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Walter Staley (1879-1969) —
also known as G. Walter Staley —
of Prichard, Wayne
County, W.Va.
Born in Wayne
County, W.Va., August
13, 1879.
Son of Charles E. 'Charley' Staley (1848-1893) and Belvedora
(Gilkeson) Staley (1851-1887).
Democrat. Confectionary merchant; chair of
Wayne County Democratic Party, 1940-49.
Died in Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va., August 2,
1969 (age 89 years, 354
days).
Interment at Staley Cemetery, Wayne County, W.Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles E. 'Charley' Staley (1848-1893) and Belvedora (Gilkeson)
Staley (1851-1887); married, December
26, 1900, to Sallie G. Wilkinson (1877-1911); married 1916 to Anna
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Henry Odin Tilton (b. 1885) —
also known as Henry O. Tilton —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Lexington, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 1,
1885.
Son of Josiah Odin Tilton and Hattie (French) Tilton.
Republican. Electrical
engineer;
local sales manager, General Electric; director, Stratton and Co.,
Concord, N.H.; director, New England Confectionary Co.,
Cambridge, Mass.; candidate for mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1933; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1952.
Congregationalist.
Member, Kappa
Sigma; Freemasons;
Grotto;
Rotary.
Burial
location unknown.
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Dwight Townsend (1826-1899) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
25, 1826.
Son of Walter Wilmot Townsend.
Democrat. Sugar refining business; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1864-65, 1871-73; telegraph
business.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1899 (age 73 years, 34
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William John White (1850-1923) —
also known as William J. White —
of West Cleveland (now part of Cleveland), Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Rice Lake, Ontario,
October
7, 1850.
Republican. Candy and chewing
gum manufacturer; mayor
of West Cleveland, Ohio, 1889; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 20th District, 1893-95.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, February
16, 1923 (age 72 years, 132
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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