David Porter (1780-1843) — of Pennsylvania. Born in
1780.
Uncle of John
Porter Brown and George
A. Porter. Served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812;
captain of the United States frigate Essex, the the
first U.S. war vessel to carry the Stars and Stripes in a
naval battle, March 25, 1813; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1830-31; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Turkey, 1831-39; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1839-43, died in office 1843. Died in Constantinople
(now Istanbul), Turkey,
March
3, 1843. Interment at Woodlands
Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
John Porter Brown (d. 1872) — of Ohio. Born in Ohio.
Nephew of David
Porter. U.S. Consul in Constantinople, 1835-36; U.S. Consul General in Constantinople, 1857-59. Spoke Turkish, Arabic, and Farsi, and
is considered the first Orientalist in the U.S. Foreign
Service. Died in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey,
1872.
Burial
location unknown.
Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) — also known as
Daniel E. Sickles; "Devil Dan" — of New
York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1819. Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1847; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1856-57; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1857-61, 1893-95 (3rd District
1857-61, 10th District 1893-95); defeated, 1894; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1869-74. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic. Shot and killedPhilip
Barton Key, his wife's lover and the son of the author of the
national anthem, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C, 1859; charged
with murder,
but with the help of his attorney Edwin
M. Stanton, was acquitted after the first successful plea
of temporary insanity in U.S. legal history. Received the Medal
of Honor in 1897 for action at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2,
1863; lost a
leg in that battle; his amputated leg was displayed at the Army
Medical Museum, where he frequently visited it in later years. Died
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1914. Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) — Born in 1815.
U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1881-82, died in office 1882. Black. On
February 12, 1865, was the first black person to make a speech
to the U.S. House of Representatives. Died in Liberia,
February
13, 1882. Burial
location unknown.
John Stough Bobbs (1809-1870) — also known as
John S. Bobbs — of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind. Born in Green Village, Franklin
County, Pa., December
22, 1809. Republican. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1857-59; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1860;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Performed the
first gall-bladder surgery in the nation, 1867. Died in
Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 1,
1870. Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903) — also known as
Andrew H. Green; "Father of Greater New
York"; "Handy Andy" — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born near Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., October
6, 1820. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1880;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 13th District, 1894.
Protestant.
Guided creation of Central Park in New York, and Niagara State
Preserve (first state park in the U.S.); led crusade to
consolidate the five boroughs into today's New York City; helped
create the New York Public Library, the Bronx Zoo, and other cultural
institutions. Green Island, near Niagara Falls, is named for
him. Shot and
killed, by a murderer who mistook him for someone else, in front
of his home, on Park Avenue, New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
13, 1903. Interment at Rural
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
Josiah Cohen (b. 1840) — of Allegheny
County, Pa. Born in Plymouth, Cornwall, England,
November
29, 1840. Son of Henry Cohen and Rose Cohen; married, January
28, 1868, to Carrie Naumberg. Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Allegheny County Republican Party, 1882; Presidential Elector for
Pennsylvania, 1884;
orphan's court judge in Pennsylvania, 1901-07; common pleas court
judge in Pennsylvania 5th District, 1907-29. Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith. Among the founders of the Union of American Hebrew
Hebrew Congregations (denominational body, now the Union for Reform
Judaism); also a founder,
in 1875, of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Burial
location unknown.
Caroline Clyde Holt Holly (d. 1943) — also known as
Carrie Holly — of Colorado. Married to Charles
Frederick Holly. Member of Colorado state legislature, 1894. Female.
One of the first three women state legislators in the U.S.
Died in Castle Rock, Cowlitz
County, Wash., July 16,
1943. Cremated.
Lucy Louisa Flower (1837-1921) — also known as
Lucy L. Flower; Lucy L. Coues; "The Mother of
the Juvenile Court" — of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., May 10,
1837. Married, September
4, 1862, to James Monroe Flower; mother of Harriet Flower
(daughter-in-law of John
Villiers Farwell) and Elliott Flower (1863-1920; author).
Republican. School
teacher; social reformer; founder of nursing school; advocate for
the creation of a "parental court" to handle cases of delinquent
children; her efforts led to the world's first juvenile court
legislation, which created the Chicago Juvenile Court in 1899; University
of Illinois trustee; elected 1894. Female.
Lucy L. Flower Vocational High School, and Lucy Flower Park, both in
Chicago, were named for
her. Died in Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif., April 27,
1921. Burial
location unknown.
Henry Mason Wheeler (1854-1930) — of Grand Forks, Grand Forks
County, N.Dak. Born in 1854.
Physician;
mayor
of Grand Forks, N.Dak., 1917-18. Member, Freemasons.
He helped stop a bank robbery by the Jesse James gang, in Northfield,
Minnesota, September 7, 1876. He owned the first automobile
in Grand Forks. Died April 13,
1930. Interment somewhere
in Northfield, Minn.
George Lawson Sheldon (1870-1960) — also known as
George L. Sheldon — of Nehawka, Cass
County, Neb. Born in Nehawka, Cass
County, Neb., May 31,
1870. Son of Lawson
Sheldon and Julia A. (Pallord) Lawson; married 1895 to Rose
Higgins; father of George Lawson Sheldon, Jr. (1897-1918; died in
pneumonia epidemic) and Anson
Hoisington Sheldon. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during
the Spanish-American War; farmer; Governor of
Nebraska, 1907-09; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice
President, 1908;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1908;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Mississippi, 1956.
Member, Freemasons.
First native of Nebraska to serve as Governor. Died in
Mississippi, April 4,
1960. Interment at Greenville
Cemetery, Greenville, Miss.
Walter Perry Johnson (1887-1946) — also known as
Walter P. Johnson — of Germantown, Montgomery
County, Md. Born near Humboldt, Allen
County, Kan., November
6, 1887. Son-in-law of Edwin
Ewing Roberts. Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1940. Professional baseball
pitcher with Washington Senators, 1907-27; won 417 games, second only
to Cy Young; held major league record in career strikeouts (3508)
from 1921 until 1983; holds record for career shutouts (110) and
other records; was pitcher at the 1910 baseball game at which William
H. Taft became the first President to attend Opening Day;
also was manager of the Washington Senators and the Cleveland
Indians; elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. Died, of a brain
tumor in Georgetown Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
10, 1946. Interment at Union
Cemetery, Rockville, Md.
Helen Ring Robinson (d. 1923) — of Denver,
Colo. Democrat. Member of Colorado
state senate, 1913-16. Female.
First woman elected to Colorado Senate; second woman state
senator in the United States. Author of a minimum wage law for
women; also introduced a bill allowing women to serve as jurors. Died
in 1923.
Burial
location unknown.
Robert R. Church — of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn. Republican. Delegate to Republican National
Convention from Tennessee, 1900,
1912,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1940.
Black.
One of the founders, in 1916, of the Lincoln League, an
African-American political organization in western Tennessee. Burial
location unknown.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) — also known as
"Rebel Girl" — of New York. Born in Concord,
Merrimack
County, N.H., 1890.
Communist. Speaker and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the
World ("Wobblies") in 1906-28; one of the founders of the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which later expelled her for
being a Communist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1942 (at-large), 1954 (24th
District); convicted
under the anti-Communist
Smith Act, and sentenced
to three years in prison;
released in 1957; became National Chair of the Communist Party U.S.A.
in 1961. Female. Irish
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union. Died in Russia,
1964.
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
