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John E. Allen (b. 1866) —
of Westford, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Westford, Chittenden
County, Vt., 1866.
Republican. Farmer;
surveyor; superintendent
of schools; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Westford, 1910.
Congregationalist.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Marshall Anderson (1807-1881) —
also known as W. Marshall Anderson —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio; Circleville, Pickaway
County, Ohio.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
24, 1807.
Son of Richard Anderson and Sarah (Marshall) Anderson.
Lawyer;
explorer;
surveyor; candidate for Congress from Ohio.
Catholic.
Died in Ohio, January
7, 1881 (age 73 years, 349
days).
Interment at Oak
Dale Cemetery, Urbana, Ohio.
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Samuel Shaw Arentz (1879-1934) —
also known as Samuel S. Arentz; Ulysses
Arentz —
of Simpson (unknown
county), Nev.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
8, 1879.
Son of Andrew Charles Arentz and Mary M. (Shaw) Arentz.
Republican. Surveyor; engineer;
mining
superintendent; chief engineer for several Western railroads;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1921-23, 1925-33; defeated,
1932; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1922; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Nevada, 1928,
1932.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., June 17,
1934 (age 55 years, 160
days).
Interment at Masonic
Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nev.
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John Armstrong (1717-1795) —
also known as "Hero of Kittanny" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), October
13, 1717.
Son of James Armstrong .
Civil
engineer; surveyor; general in the Continental Army during
the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778-80.
Died in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., March 9,
1795 (age 77 years, 147
days).
Interment at Old
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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Horace J. Austin (1837-1891) —
of Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.
Born in Washington
County, N.Y., July 11,
1837.
Republican. Surveyor; served in the Union Army during the
Civil War; member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1865-67; member
Dakota territorial council, 1867-69, 1874-76; President
of the Dakota Territorial Council, 1867-68; member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 2nd District, 1891; died in
office 1891.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak., February
27, 1891 (age 53 years, 231
days).
Interment at Bluff
View Cemetery, Vermillion, S.Dak.
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Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893) —
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1822.
Son of George Beale and Emily (Truxton) Beale.
Surveyor; explorer;
led the experiment to use camels in the U.S. Army; during the Mexican
War, made six trips between Washington, D.C. and the Pacific coast,
relaying military information; thought to be the courier who brought
news to Washington of the discovery of gold in California; U.S.
Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1876-77.
Camp Beale (now Beale Air Force Base) is named for
him.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 22,
1893 (age 71 years, 77
days).
Interment somewhere
in Chester, Pa.
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John S. Bender (b. 1827) —
of Plymouth, Marshall
County, Ind.
Born near Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., January
26, 1827.
Son of Jacob Bender and Jane (Dobbs) Bender.
School
teacher; miller;
surveyor; Starke
County Clerk and Auditor; lawyer; newspaper
publisher.
Methodist.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob Bender and Jane (Dobbs) Bender; married 1855 to Maggie
Bowers (died 1856); married 1858 to Rachel
Houghton. |
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Harlan Page Bird (born c.1843) —
also known as Harlan P. Bird —
of Wausaukee, Marinette
County, Wis.
Born in Bradford
County, Pa., about 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; school
teacher; surveyor; bookkeeper;
lumber
business; merchant;
member of Wisconsin
state senate 1st District, 1903-10.
Burial
location unknown.
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Henry Williams Blodgett (1821-1905) —
of Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., July 21,
1821.
Surveyor; lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1852-54; member of Illinois
state senate, 1858-62; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 1870-92.
Died in Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill., February
9, 1905 (age 83 years, 203
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James D. Brackenrich (b. 1936) —
also known as J. D. Brackenrich —
of Lewisburg, Greenbrier
County, W.Va.
Born in Greenbrier
County, W.Va., January
23, 1936.
Son of James Brackenrich and Helen Brackenrich.
Democrat. Engineer;
surveyor; member of West
Virginia state senate 11th District, 1987-93; resigned 1993.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; National Rifle
Association.
Pleaded
guilty on May 1, 1996 to a misdemeanor charge of
filling
wetlands without a Clean Water Act permit.
Still living as of 1996.
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Relatives:
Married 1958
to Patricia Griffith. |
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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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William H. Cadwell (b. 1863) —
of New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Connecticut, 1863.
Democrat. Civil
engineer; surveyor; architect;
plumbing
supplies manufacturer; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from New Britain, 1906.
Burial
location unknown.
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Horace Carpenter (b. 1805) —
of Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Locke, Cayuga
County, N.Y., December
1, 1805.
Son of Ezra Carpenter (died 1841).
Carpenter;
surveyor; supervisor
of Pittsfield Township, Michigan, 1848-50; Washtenaw
County Treasurer, 1863-64.
Presbyterian.
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Caswell (1729-1789) —
of Dobbs County (part now in Lenoir
County), N.C.
Born in Harford County (part now in Baltimore
County), Md., August 3,
1729.
Lawyer;
surveyor; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1774; Governor of
North Carolina, 1776-80, 1785-87; delegate to
North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; member of
North
Carolina state senate, 1788.
Died in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., November
10, 1789 (age 60 years, 99
days).
Interment at Caswell
Memorial Cemetery, Kinston, N.C.
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Barzillai J. Chambers (1817-1895) —
of Cleburne, Johnson
County, Tex.
Born in Montgomery
County, Ky., December
5, 1817.
Son of Walker Chambers and Talitha Cumi (Mothershead) Chambers.
Surveyor; lawyer;
Greenback candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1880.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died September
16, 1895 (age 77 years, 285
days).
Interment at Cleburne
Memorial Cemetery, Cleburne, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Walker Chambers and Talitha Cumi (Mothershead) Chambers; married
1852 to
Susan Wood; married 1854 to Emma
Montgomery; married 1861 to Harriet
A. Killough. |
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Powell Clayton (1833-1914) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Bethel, Delaware
County, Pa., August 7,
1833.
Son of John Clayton and Ann (Clark) Clayton.
Republican. Engineer;
surveyor; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; planter;
president and general manager, Eureka Springs Railway;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1868-71; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1871-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1872,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1896
(speaker),
1908,
1912;
member of Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1872-74, 1896-1912; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1897-98; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1898-1905.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1914 (age 81 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Franklin Pierce Combest (1853-1909) —
also known as F. P. Combest —
of Phil, Casey
County, Ky.
Born in Casey
County, Ky., October
10, 1853.
Republican. Surveyor; school
teacher; banker; merchant;
president, Green River Woolen Mills;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives; elected 1892; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1908.
Member, Freemasons.
He and his brother Liberty Madison Combest incorporated the Green
River Telephone
Company.
Died in Phil, Casey
County, Ky., October
22, 1909 (age 56 years, 12
days).
Interment at Antioch
Christian Church Cemetery, Phil, Ky.
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George Whitney Cooke (b. 1856) —
of Bowman's Creek, Wyoming
County, Pa.; Johnson City, Washington
County, Tenn.
Born in Wyoming
County, Pa., October
3, 1856.
Engineer;
surveyor; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1891.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C.
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Relatives:
Married to Emma Florence Clark. |
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John Webster Davis (b. 1861) —
also known as John W. Davis —
of Fairlee, Orange
County, Vt.
Born in Fairlee, Orange
County, Vt., July 17,
1861.
Republican. Farmer;
surveyor; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Fairlee, 1906, 1910.
Protestant.
Burial
location unknown.
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Isaac Alger Fancher (b. 1833) —
also known as Isaac A. Fancher —
of Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich.
Born in Florida, Montgomery
County, N.Y., September
30, 1833.
Son of Jacob Schuyler Fancher and Eunice (Alger) Fancher.
Republican. Lawyer;
surveyor; postmaster;
railroad
promoter; Isabella
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1865-66, 1871-72; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Midland District, 1873-74;
member of Michigan
state senate 26th District, 1875-76; law partner of Peter
F. Dodds, 1875-82; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1878-80; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 21st Circuit, 1899.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Burial
location unknown.
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Leland Merritt Ford (1893-1965) —
also known as Leland M. Ford —
of Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Eureka, Eureka
County, Nev., March 8,
1893.
Son of James Green Ford and Anna L. (Ficklin) Ford.
Republican. Surveyor; rancher; real estate
broker; U.S.
Representative from California 16th District, 1939-43; defeated,
1942.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Kiwanis;
Elks; Eagles.
Died, of a heart
attack, at Santa Monica Hospital,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
27, 1965 (age 72 years, 264
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Santa Monica, Calif.
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Philip Hager, Jr. (1872-1966) —
of Hamlin, Lincoln
County, W.Va.
Born in Hamlin, Lincoln
County, W.Va., February
23, 1872.
Son of Rev. Philip Hager (died 1917) and Elizabeth Jane (Dalton)
Hager.
Republican. Surveyor; engineer;
lumber
business; director, Farmers and Merchants Bank;
member of West
Virginia state senate 5th District, 1921-24; chair of
Lincoln County Republican Party, 1922-24.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Hamlin, Lincoln
County, W.Va., 1966
(age about
94 years).
Interment at Lincoln
Memorial Cemetery, Hamlin, W.Va.
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Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) —
of Hampden, Penobscot
County, Maine; Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Paris, Oxford
County, Maine, August
27, 1809.
Republican. Farmer;
surveyor; compositor;
lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1836-41, 1847; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1837, 1839-40; U.S.
Representative from Maine 6th District, 1843-47; U.S.
Senator from Maine, 1848-57, 1857-61, 1869-81; Governor of
Maine, 1857; Vice
President of the United States, 1861-65; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1864,
1868;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1865-66; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1881-82.
Died in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, July 4,
1891 (age 81 years, 311
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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Merton Ray Hodge (1892-1967) —
also known as Merton R. Hodge —
of Burlington, Hartford
County, Conn.; Simsbury, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Burlington, Hartford
County, Conn., January
20, 1892.
Son of Philip Gaylord Hodge (1860-1930) and Lena (Alderman) Hodge
(1867-1964).
Democrat. Engineer;
surveyor; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Burlington; defeated, 1924;
elected 1934.
Died May 7,
1967 (age 75 years, 107
days).
Interment at Center Cemetery, Burlington, Conn.
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John Jackson (1809-1887) —
of Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in County Monaghan, Ireland,
1809.
Surveyor; merchant;
mayor
of Tampa, Fla., 1862.
Died November
4, 1887 (age about 78
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ephraim Kibbey (1756-1809) —
of Deerfield, Hamilton County (now South Lebanon, Warren
County), Ohio.
Born in Somers, Tolland
County, Conn., November
20, 1756.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;
surveyor; member of Northwest
Territory legislature, 1802; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1803-04.
Died in Deerfield, Hamilton County (now South Lebanon, Warren
County), Ohio, April 22,
1809 (age 52 years, 153
days).
Interment at Deerfield
Cemetery, South Lebanon, Ohio.
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James Kilbourne (1770-1850) —
of Worthington, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn., October
19, 1770.
Son of Josiah Kilbourne (1730-1814) and Anna (Neal) Kilbourne
(1734-1832).
Democrat. Surveyor; merchant;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1813-17; Presidential
Elector for Ohio, 1820;
member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1823.
Episcopalian.
Died April 9,
1850 (age 79 years, 172
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Church Burying Ground, Worthington, Ohio.
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Norman H. Macdonald (b. 1863) —
Born in New
Zealand, 1863.
Not U.S. citizen; surveyor; land
agent; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Apia, 1910-14.
Burial
location unknown.
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J. Hugh Malone (1944-2001) —
of Kenai, Kenai
Peninsula Borough, Alaska; Douglas, Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in Catskill, Greene
County, N.Y., January
22, 1944.
Son of F. J. Malone and Cate Malone.
Democrat. Surveyor; member of Alaska
state house of representatives 11th District, 1973-84; Speaker of
the Alaska State House of Representatives, 1977-78; Alaska
Commissioner of Revenue, 1986-90.
Main author of the Alaska Permanent Fund.
Hit by a large wave on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, fell, and
killed when his head struck rocks, near Riomaggiore, Italy,
March
7, 2001 (age 57 years, 44
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert P. Marren (1918-1990) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., March 10,
1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; civil
engineer; surveyor; candidate for New York
state senate 48th District, 1954; member of city council, Auburn,
N.Y., 1957-63.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in a hospital
at Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., January
26, 1990 (age 71 years, 322
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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William McFarland (1774-1840) —
of San Augustine, San
Augustine County, Tex.; Belgrade, Newton
County, Tex.
Born in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., May 8,
1774.
Son of Thomas McFarland and Hannah (Stuart) McFarland.
Surveyor; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of Ayish Bayou, 1832;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Belgrade, Newton
County, Tex., August
16, 1840 (age 66 years, 100
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas McFarland and Hannah (Stuart) McFarland; married to Ann
Singer (died 1817); father of Thomas
Stuart McFarland. |
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John J. McMahon (d. 1995) —
of Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Republican. Surveyor; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1952.
Died November
25, 1995.
Interment at Resurrection
Cemetery, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Mich.
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Edwin Leard Mechem (1912-2002) —
also known as Edwin L. Mechem; "Big
Ed" —
of New Mexico.
Born in Alamogordo, Otero
County, N.M., July 2,
1912.
Son of Edwin Mechem and Eunice (Leard) Mechem.
Republican. Surveyor; FBI
agent; lawyer;
member of New Mexico
state house of representatives, 1947-48; Governor of
New Mexico, 1951-55, 1957-59, 1961-62; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Mexico, 1952;
U.S.
Senator from New Mexico, 1962-64; defeated, 1964; U.S.
District Judge for New Mexico, 1970.
Died, of congestive
heart failure, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., November
27, 2002 (age 90 years, 148
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Edwin Atkins Merritt (1828-1916) —
also known as Edwin A. Merritt —
of Potsdam, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Sudbury, Rutland
County, Vt., February
26, 1828.
Surveyor; engineer;
member of New York
state assembly from St. Lawrence County 2nd District, 1860-61;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867-68; candidate
for New
York state treasurer, 1875; U.S. Collector of Customs,
1878-81; U.S. Consul General in London, 1882-85.
Died December
26, 1916 (age 88 years, 304
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Mitchell (1781-1849) —
of Bellefonte, Centre
County, Pa.
Born near Newport, Perry
County, Pa., March 8,
1781.
Democrat. Engineer;
surveyor; Centre
County Sheriff, 1818; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1822-23; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1825-29.
Died in Bridgewater, Beaver
County, Pa., August 3,
1849 (age 68 years, 148
days).
Interment at Old
Beaver Cemetery, Bridgewater, Pa.
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William Ellis Niblack (1822-1893) —
also known as William E. Niblack —
of Martin
County, Ind.; Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.
Born in Portersville, Dubois
County, Ind., May 18,
1822.
Democrat. Surveyor; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1849-50, 1863; member of Indiana
state senate, 1850-52; circuit judge in Indiana, 1854-57; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1857-61, 1865-75;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1864,
1868;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Indiana, 1864-72; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1877-89.
Scottish
and English
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 7,
1893 (age 70 years, 354
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Abijah O'Neall (1798-1874) —
of Montgomery
County, Ind.
Born in Newberry District (now Newberry
County), S.C., December
9, 1798.
Miller; merchant;
surveyor; farmer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1839-40; candidate for Indiana
state senate, 1849.
Quaker;
later Universalist.
Irish
ancestry.
Sheltered escaping slaves as part of the "Underground
Railroad" before the Civil War.
Died in 1874
(age about
75 years).
Original interment at Yountsville
Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Ind.; reinterment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Ind.
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James N. Paul (1839-1922) —
of St. Paul, Howard
County, Neb.
Born in Beaver
County, Pa., September
23, 1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
surveyor; newspaper
editor; lawyer;
member of Nebraska
state senate, 1885-86; district judge in Nebraska 11th District,
1901-17.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in St. Paul, Howard
County, Neb., March 9,
1922 (age 82 years, 167
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard Franklin Pettigrew (1848-1926) —
also known as Richard F. Pettigrew —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.
Born in Ludlow, Windsor
County, Vt., July 23,
1848.
Son of Andrew Pettigrew and Hannah B. (Sawtelle) Pettigrew.
Lawyer;
surveyor; real estate
business; member of Dakota
territorial House of Representatives, 1872; member
Dakota territorial council, 1877-79, 1885-86; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Dakota Territory, 1881-83; defeated, 1882;
U.S.
Senator from South Dakota, 1889-1901; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Dakota, 1904,
1908.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak., October
5, 1926 (age 78 years, 74
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Sioux Falls, S.Dak.
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William Polke (c.1775-1843) —
of Knox
County, Ind.
Born in Brooke
County, Va. (now W.Va.), about 1775.
Farmer;
surveyor; member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1814-15; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana
state senate, 1816-21; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1822; probate judge in Indiana, 1829-31.
Baptist.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., April 26,
1843 (age about 68
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Adam L. Roof (1810-1885) —
of Lyons, Ionia
County, Mich.
Born in New York, February
22, 1810.
Lawyer;
surveyor; Ionia
County Register of Deeds; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Ionia District, 1845; member
of Michigan
state senate 7th District, 1849-50.
Died January
26, 1885 (age 74 years, 339
days).
Interment at Lyons
Township Cemetery, Lyons, Mich.
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Thomas F. Schweigert (1917-2001) —
of Petoskey, Emmet
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., September
29, 1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; forester;
surveyor; member of Michigan
state senate, 1961-70 (29th District 1961-64, 37th District
1965-70).
Christian
Scientist. Member, Freemasons;
Kiwanis;
Elks; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, of respiratory
failure, at Northern Michigan Hospital,
Petoskey, Emmet
County, Mich., 2001
(age about
83 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert V. Short (b. 1823) —
of Yamhill
County, Ore.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1823.
Republican. Surveyor; delegate
to Oregon state constitutional convention from Yamhill County,
1857.
Burial
location unknown.
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Daniel Smith (1748-1818) —
of Hendersonville, Sumner
County, Tenn.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., October
29, 1748.
Son of Henry Smith (1715-1791) and Sarah (Crosby) Smith (1718-1756).
Democrat. Surveyor; served in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; delegate to
North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1789; delegate to
Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1798-99, 1805-09; resigned 1809.
Died near Hendersonville, Sumner
County, Tenn., June 16,
1818 (age 69 years, 230
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Sumner County, Tenn.
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John William Smith (1792-1845) —
also known as John W. Smith; William John Smith;
"El Colorado" —
of Ralls
County, Mo.; San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Virginia, March 4,
1792.
Son of John Smith and Isabel Smith.
Ralls
County Sheriff and Tax Collector, 1823-26; merchant;
surveyor; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1837-38, 1840-41, 1842-44; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1842-45; died in office
1845.
Catholic.
In 1836, he was the last messenger from the Alamo, San Antonio Tex.,
before it fell to the Mexican Army in the battle there.
Died, probably of pneumonia,
in Washington, Washington
County, Tex., January
12, 1845 (age 52 years, 314
days).
Original interment at Washington-on-the-Brazos
State Park, Washington, Tex.; reinterment at Washington
Cemetery, Washington, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of John Smith and Isabel Smith; married 1821 to Harriet
Stone; married 1830 to Maria
de Jesús Delgado Curbelo. |
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article |
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Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) —
also known as "Mad Anthony" —
of Chester
County, Pa.; Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Chester
County, Pa., January
1, 1745.
Son of Isaac Wayne (1699-1774) and Elizabeth (Eddings) Wayne.
Surveyor; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1774-80, 1784; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate to
Georgia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1791-92.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Fort Presque Isle (now Erie), Erie
County, Pa., December
15, 1796 (age 51 years, 349
days).
Original interment at Garrison
Hill, Erie, Pa.; reinterment in 1809 at Old
St. David's Churchyard Cemetery, Radnor, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Wayne (1699-1774) and Elizabeth (Eddings) Wayne; married 1766 to Mary
Penrose; father of Isaac
Wayne (1772-1852). |
| | | Wayne counties in Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa. and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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H. Laban White, Jr. (b. 1916) —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va.
Born in Spencer, Roane
County, W.Va., May 1,
1916.
Son of H. Laban White, Sr. and Nannie Leigh (Cox) White.
Democrat. School
teacher; surveyor; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Harrison County, 1957-68;
Speaker
of the West Virginia State House of Delegates, 1965-67.
Baptist.
Member, Elks; Moose; Lions; American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Amvets; Reserve
Officers Association.
Still living as of 1968.
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