Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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Thomas Lynch Jr. (1749-1779) —
of South Carolina.
Born in South Carolina, August
5, 1749.
Member of South Carolina state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776.
While on an ocean
voyage to France, was lost at sea, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1779
(age about
29 years). His remains were not
recovered.
Memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Samuel Holden Parsons (1737-1789) —
Born in Lyme, New London
County, Conn., May 14,
1737.
Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
colonial assembly, 1762-74; general in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1784-85; justice of
Northwest Territory supreme court, 1788-89.
Drowned in a canoe
accident, near Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, November
17, 1789 (age 52 years, 187
days).
Cenotaph at Mortimer
Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Moses Cockrell (1767-1800) —
of Lee
County, Va.
Born in Augusta
County, Va., 1767.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1799-1800.
Dreamed one night that there was a white otter down in his salt well;
in the morning, he had himself lowered into the well in a basket; the
basket broke, and he fell to
his death, or perhaps drowned, in Lee
County, Va., 1800
(age about
33 years).
Interment somewhere in Lee County, Va.
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Nathaniel Williams Jr. (1742-1805) —
of Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., October
1, 1742.
Lawyer;
planter;
delegate
to North Carolina provincial congress, 1775.
Accidentally drowned while trying to ford a swollen stream, in
Rockingham
County, N.C., January
25, 1805 (age 62 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Sandford (1762-1808) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., 1762.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1800; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1802; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 4th District, 1803-07.
Slaveowner.
Drowned in the Ohio River near Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., December
10, 1808 (age about 46
years).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, Ky.
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James Carr (1777-1818) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, September
9, 1777.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1806-11; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 17th District, 1815-17.
Drowned in the Ohio River, at Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
24, 1818 (age 40 years, 349
days). His body was apparently not
recovered.
Cenotaph at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) —
also known as Jonathan Freeman —
of Edwards
County, Ill.
Born in Settle, Yorkshire, England,
January
23, 1764.
Secretary
of state of Illinois, 1824-25.
Anti-slavery writer
under the pseudonym "Jonathan Freeman".
While returning on horseback
from a visit to Robert
Owen, he drowned while fording the Fox River, Edwards
County, Ill., June 4,
1825 (age 61 years, 132
days).
Interment at New
Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Ind.; memorial monument at Courthouse
Grounds, Albion, Ill.
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George Washington Adams (1801-1829) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
April
12, 1801.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1826.
En route to New York City aboard the Benjamin Franklin, he
apparently killed
himself by jumping from the ship and drowning, in Long Island
Sound, June 9,
1829 (age 28 years, 58
days). His body washed ashore a few days later.
Interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
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Abner Hammond (1762-1829) —
of Georgia.
Born in Virginia, January
25, 1762.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; secretary
of state of Georgia, 1811-23.
Drowned, in Fishing Creek, near Milledgeville, Baldwin
County, Ga., July 9,
1829 (age 67 years, 165
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Baldwin County, Ga.; reinterment at
Memory
Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Charles Clement Johnston (1795-1832) —
of Virginia.
Born in Longwood, Prince
Edward County, Va., April
30, 1795.
U.S.
Representative from Virginia 22nd District, 1831-32; died in
office 1832.
Drowned near one of the docks in Alexandria,
Va., June 17,
1832 (age 37 years, 48
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert M. Coleman (1799-1837) —
also known as R. M. Coleman —
of Texas.
Born in Kentucky, 1799.
Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Mina, 1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Mina, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836.
Drowned in the Brazos River at Velasco, Brazoria
County, Tex., July 1,
1837 (age about 38
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Oliver Hillhouse Prince (1782-1837) —
also known as Oliver H. Prince —
of Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.
Born in Montville, New London
County, Conn., 1782.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1824; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1828-29.
Perished in the wreck of the
packet ship Home, in the North
Atlantic Ocean off Ocracoke Inlet, N.C., October
9, 1837 (age about 55
years); his remains were never
recovered.
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James Collinsworth (1806-1838) —
Born in Tennessee, 1806.
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, 1829-35; served
in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Brazoria, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; Attorney
General of the Texas Republic, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Brazoria, 1836; justice of
Texas Republic supreme court, 1837.
Member, Freemasons.
While a candidate
for the presidency of the Texas Republic, jumped
off a boat and drowned in Galveston
Bay, 1838
(age about
32 years).
Interment at Founders
Memorial Park, Houston, Tex.
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William Beatty Rochester (1789-1838) —
also known as William B. Rochester —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., January
29, 1789.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Allegany and Steuben counties, 1816-18; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1821-23 (20th District 1821-23,
28th District 1823); candidate for Governor of
New York, 1826.
One of 128 people who perished on the the steam packet ship
Pulaski, en route from Charleston to Baltimore, when it
suffered a boiler
explosion and sank in the
North
Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, June 14,
1838 (age 49 years, 136
days); his remains were never
recovered.
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John Adams Cameron (1788-1838) —
also known as John A. Cameron —
of Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C.; Florida.
Born in Mecklenburg
County, Va., 1788.
Newspaper
editor; member of North
Carolina house of commons from Fayetteville, 1810-12, 1820; major
in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Consul in Veracruz, 1831-32; U.S.
District Judge for Florida, 1832-38.
Member, Freemasons.
Perished in the wreck of the
steamer Pulaski, off the coast of North Carolina, in the
North
Atlantic Ocean, June 14,
1838 (age about 49
years). His remains were probably
not recovered.
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Linn Banks (1784-1842) —
of Virginia.
Born in Culpeper County (part now in Madison
County), Va., January
23, 1784.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1812-38; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1817-38; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1838-41 (15th District 1838-39, 1st
District 1839-41, 13th District 1841).
Slaveowner.
Accidentally drowned while attempting to ford the Conway
River, near Wolftown, Madison
County, Va., January
13, 1842 (age 57 years, 355
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Madison County, Va.
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John W. Burchard (d. 1844) —
of Lansing Township, Ingham
County, Mich.
Supervisor
of Lansing Township, Michigan, 1844; died in office 1844.
Drowned, in Lansing Township, Ingham
County, Mich., April, 1844.
Burial location unknown.
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Douglass Houghton (1809-1845) —
of Michigan.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
21, 1809.
Geologist;
mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1842.
Drowned with four others, when a sudden
storm overturned
their boat, at Eagle Harbor, Keweenaw
County, Mich., October
13, 1845 (age 36 years, 22
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Stephen Allen (1767-1852) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born July 2,
1767.
Mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1821-24; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1826; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1829-32.
Killed when the steamboat
Henry Clay burned and
sank, killing about eighty passengers, in the Lower
Hudson River, next to what is now the Riverdale section of the
Bronx, July 28,
1852 (age 85 years, 26
days).
Entombed at New
York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Adolph Abeles (1817-1855) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Petchau, Bohemia (now Czechia),
April
3, 1817.
Merchant;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives; elected 1850.
Jewish.
On the inaugural run of the Pacific Railroad, from St. Louis to
Jefferson City, Mo., he was drowned when the bridge over the
Gasconade River collapsed,
sending the train into
the water, near Hermann, Gasconade
County, Mo., November
1, 1855 (age 38 years, 212
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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John B. Macy (1799-1856) —
of Fond du Lac, Fond du
Lac County, Wis.
Born in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., March
25, 1799.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1853-55.
Lost his life in the burning and
sinking of the steamer
Niagara, a few miles from Port Washington, Wisconsin, in Lake
Michigan, September
24, 1856 (age 57 years, 183
days). His remains were not
found.
Cenotaph at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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James Hamilton Jr. (1786-1857) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 8,
1786.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer; intendant
of Charleston, South Carolina, 1821-22; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1820; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 2nd District, 1822-29; Governor of
South Carolina, 1830-32.
Slaveowner.
While en route from New Orleans to Galveston, through some mishap, was
drowned in the Gulf of
Mexico, November
15, 1857 (age 71 years, 191
days). His remains were probably never
found.
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Esbon Blackmar (1805-1857) —
of Wayne
County, N.Y.
Born in Freehold, Greene
County, N.Y., June 19,
1805.
Merchant;
member of New York
state assembly from Wayne County, 1838, 1841; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1848-49.
Accidentally drowned in a well, in Newark, Wayne
County, N.Y., November
19, 1857 (age 52 years, 153
days).
Interment at Newark
Cemetery, Newark, N.Y.
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Louis Powell Harvey (1820-1862) —
also known as Louis P. Harvey —
of Shopiere, Rock
County, Wis.
Born in East Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., July 22,
1820.
Republican. Delegate
to Wisconsin state constitutional convention, 1847; member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1854-58; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Wisconsin, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee); secretary
of state of Wisconsin, 1860-62; Governor of
Wisconsin, 1862; died in office 1862.
While on a trip to inspect Wisconsin troops after the battle of
Shiloh, during the Civil
War, fell off a
boat and drowned in the Tennessee River, near Pittsburg
Landing, Hardin
County, Tenn., April
19, 1862 (age 41 years, 271
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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S. L. Burritt (d. 1865) —
of Duval
County, Fla.
Elected delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Duval County
1865, but died before taking office.
Lost at sea in 1865.
Burial location unknown.
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Preston King (1806-1865) —
of Ogdensburg, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Ogdensburg, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., October
14, 1806.
Lawyer;
postmaster at Ogdensburg,
N.Y., 1833-41; member of New York
state assembly from St. Lawrence County, 1835-38; U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1843-47, 1849-53;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856
(member, Platform
Committee), 1860,
1864;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1857-63; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1865; died in office 1865.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
Tied bags of lead shot to his body, jumped
from the ferryboat Paterson, between New York and Hoboken, and
drowned in the Lower
Hudson River, November
12, 1865 (age 59 years, 29
days).
Interment at Ogdensburg
Cemetery, Ogdensburg, N.Y.
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Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) —
of Montana.
Born in Ireland,
August
3, 1823.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; secretary
of Montana Territory, 1865; Governor
of Montana Territory, 1865-66.
Fell from a steamboat
into the Missouri River and presumably drowned, at Fort
Benton, Chouteau
County, Mont., July 1,
1867 (age 43 years, 332
days). His body was never
found.
Statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Helena, Mont.
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Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873) —
also known as Rufus W. Peckham —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Rensselaerville, Albany
County, N.Y., December
20, 1809.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Lyman
Tremain; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1853-55; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1861-69; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1870-73; died in office 1873.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
En route to Europe on the steamer Ville du Havre, he was among
226 passengers and crew who perished when the steamer collided
with the Scottish sailing vessel Loch Earn, and sank, in
the North
Atlantic Ocean, November
22, 1873 (age 63 years, 337
days). His remains were never
found.
Cenotaph at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Charles Hutchins Doolittle (1816-1874) —
also known as Charles H. Doolittle —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Herkimer, Herkimer
County, N.Y., February
19, 1816.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Utica, N.Y., 1853; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 5th District, 1869-74; died in office 1874.
While sailing from New York to Europe on the steamer
Abyssinia, he was lost
overboard and presumed drowned, in North
Atlantic Ocean, May 21,
1874 (age 58 years, 91
days). His body was not recovered.
Cenotaph at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Kirkland C. Barker (1819-1875) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in East Schuyler, Herkimer
County, N.Y., September
8, 1819.
Mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1864-65.
Drowned, when the sailboat in which he was transporting
ballast-lead to his yacht Cora suddenly sank, in
the Detroit River near Amherstburg, Ontario,
May
20, 1875 (age 55 years, 254
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Benjamin F. Ferris (c.1806-1876) —
also known as B. F. Ferris; H. A. Johnson —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in New York, about 1806.
Justice of the Peace, 1853 to about 1860; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1865-66; banker.
While traveling under the pseudonym 'H. A. Johnson', aboard the
steamer Amador on the Sacramento River, he killed
himself by taking
poison, tying his feet together, and then jumping or falling
overboard to drown in the river, near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., May 20,
1876 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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William Tecumsah Avery (1819-1880) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Hardeman
County, Tenn., November
11, 1819.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1843; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1857-61; colonel in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Accidentally drowned in Ten Mile Bayou, Crittenden
County, Ark., May 22,
1880 (age 60 years, 193
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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Joseph I. Stein (d. 1880) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 20th District, 1877.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
One of dozens killed in the wreck of the
steamboat Seawanhaka, which burned and
sank in the East
River, June 28,
1880.
Interment at Linden
Hill Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y.
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Hiland R. Hulburd (1829-1880) —
of Great Neck, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Ohio, 1829.
Lawyer;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1867-72.
One of dozens killed in the wreck of the
steamboat Seawanhaka, which burned and
sank in the East
River, June 29,
1880 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Oak
Dale Cemetery, Urbana, Ohio.
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John W. Dwinelle (1816-1881) —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in New York, September
7, 1816.
Mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1866-67; member of California
state assembly 9th District, 1867-69.
While trying to board a ferryboat in the dark, he fell into
the water and drowned, at Port Costa, Contra
Costa County, Calif., January
28, 1881 (age 64 years, 143
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Stephen Coburn (1817-1882) —
of Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine.
Born in Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine, November
11, 1817.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Maine 5th District, 1861.
Drowned in the Kennebec River, at Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine, July 4,
1882 (age 64 years, 235
days).
Interment at Southside
Cemetery, Skowhegan, Maine.
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Oscar Anthony Iasigi (1846-1884) —
also known as Oscar Iasigi —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
18, 1846.
Importer
and exporter; treasurer, Vassalboro woolen mills;
Vice-Consul
for Turkey in Boston,
Mass., 1871-77; Consul-General
for Turkey in Boston,
Mass., 1877-84.
Armenian
and French
ancestry.
Perished in the wreck of the
steamship SS City of Columbus, which hit a reef and sank,
in Vineyard
Sound, January
18, 1884 (age 37 years, 92
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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A. C. Rand (1832-1885) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
31, 1832.
Republican. Mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1878-82.
Drowned in a boat explosion
on Lake Minnetonka, July 12,
1885 (age 52 years, 193
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Andrew Jackson Bryant (1831-1888) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Effingham, Carroll
County, N.H., October
30, 1831.
Democrat. Gold miner;
wholesale
liquor merchant; importer and dealer in safes and locks; insurance
business; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1875-79.
Jumped
or fell
from the ferry steamer Encinal, and drowned in San
Francisco Bay, May 11,
1888 (age 56 years, 194
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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William Terry (1824-1888) —
of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, August
14, 1824.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1871-73, 1875-77 (8th District
1871-73, 9th District 1875-77); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Virginia, 1880
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Slaveowner.
Drowned while trying to ford Reed Creek, near Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va., September
5, 1888 (age 64 years, 22
days).
Interment at East
End Cemetery, Wytheville, Va.
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James Thomas Stocker (1824-1889) —
also known as James T. Stocker —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; San Rafael, Marin
County, Calif.; Glenbrook, Douglas
County, Nev.; Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
County, Calif.
Born in Talbot
County, Md., October
3, 1824.
Carpenter;
member of California
state assembly 11th District, 1858-59; Marin
County Sheriff.
Drowned, in Tillamook Bay, near Tillamook, Tillamook
County, Ore., September
7, 1889 (age 64 years, 339
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Taylor Minor (1844-1889) —
also known as Thomas T. Minor —
of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born, of American parents, in Manepy, Ceylon (now Sri
Lanka), February
20, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
one of the founders of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Washington Territory,
1880;
mayor
of Port Townsend, Wash., 1880-83; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1887-88.
Member, Freemasons.
Last seen traveling by canoe to Whidbey Island, with others, on a duck huting
trip, and was never
heard from again; presumed drowned in a watercraft
accident, in Puget
Sound, December
2, 1889 (age 45 years, 285
days). His canoe was recovered, but his remains were not
found.
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Relatives: Son
of Eastman Strong Minor and Judith (Manchester) Minor; married, August
20, 1872, to Sarah Montgomery; grandfather of Thomas
Minor Pelly. |
| | | Political family: Moriarty-Minor
family of Seattle, Washington. |
| | | The T.T. Minor School
(built 1890, demolished 1940, rebuilt 1941, closed 2010, renovated
and reopened 2016), in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Minor Avenue,
in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Ray Hamilton (1851-1890) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1881, 1886-89;
in July 1889, while staying in Atlantic City, he was caught in a
national scandal,
after his wife, Eva, stabbed a nurse; she was arrested and tried; it
came out that Eva was still
married to another man, that she had bought a baby for $10 and
told Hamilton he was the father, to induce him to marry her; when
this was publicized,
Hamilton sued for divorce; as the case dragged on, he moved to
Wyoming to help a friend establish a hotel.
While on a hunting
trip, he drowned while attempting to ford the Snake River,
in Uinta County (part now in Teton
County), Wyo., August
23, 1890 (age 39 years, 158
days).
Original interment somewhere in Teton County, Wyo.; reinterment in 1892 at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Schuyler Hamilton and Cornelia (Ray) Hamilton; grandnephew of James
Alexander Hamilton; great-grandson of Alexander
Hamilton; great-grandnephew of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second great-grandson of Philip
John Schuyler; second great-grandnephew of Stephen
John Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer and Robert
Van Rensselaer; third great-grandson of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); fourth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandnephew of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; fifth great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fifth great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston the Elder; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792) and Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer; first cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Volkert
Petrus Douw, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, James
Livingston and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin five times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston and James
Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Peter
Samuel Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Matthew
Clarkson; third cousin once removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and John
Cortlandt Parker; third cousin thrice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay and William
Jay; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, John
Jacob Astor III, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Bronson
Murray Cutting. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edwards Bobo Murray (1854-1894) —
of Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C.
Born in Newberry District (now Newberry
County), S.C., February
5, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; chair of
Anderson County Democratic Party, 1878-90; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Anderson County,
1878-84; involved in a dispute over alcohol prohibition in Anderson
County, which he supported; on September 15, 1885, in the public
square of Anderson, S.C., he was shot
at by John
Brown Moore, and fired
back, injuring Moore; charges
against him were dismissed; member of South
Carolina state senate from Anderson County, 1886-90.
Baptist.
Member, Sons of
Temperance.
Drowned while rescuing his daughter in a swimming pond,
Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C., July 7,
1894 (age 40 years, 152
days).
Interment at Silver Brook Cemetery, Anderson, S.C.
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James Henry Platt Jr. (1837-1894) —
also known as James H. Platt, Jr. —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Canada,
July
13, 1837.
Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1869-75.
Drowned in Green Lake, near Georgetown, Clear Creek
County, Colo., August
13, 1894 (age 57 years, 31
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Charles Daniel Sherwood (1833-1895) —
also known as Charles D. Sherwood —
of Rushford, Fillmore
County, Minn.; Sherwood, Franklin
County, Tenn.
Born in New Milford, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
18, 1833.
Republican. Physician;
lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1859-61, 1863 (District 9
1859-60, District 14 1861, 1863); postmaster;
Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1864-66.
Drowned, reportedly as a suicide,
in Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, Illinois, July 2,
1895 (age 61 years, 226
days).
Interment at Mound
Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, Ill.
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Rounsevelle Wildman (1864-1901) —
of California.
Born in Batavia, Genesee
County, N.Y., March
19, 1864.
U.S. Consul in Singapore, 1889-97; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1897-1901, died in office 1901.
En route from Hong Kong to San Francisco on the SS City of Rio de
Janeiro, he and his family were among 135 who perished
when the ship struck a reef in dense
fog, and quickly sank, in San
Francisco Bay, February
22, 1901 (age 36 years, 340
days); his remains were not
found.
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Otto Phillipp Max Adae (1840-1907) —
also known as Otto M. Adae —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Möckmühl, Germany,
September
26, 1840.
Consul
for Austria-Hungary in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1873-77.
German
ancestry.
Took his
own life by drowning, in San Diego
Bay, August
8, 1907 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Broer Baukes Haagsma (1831-1907) —
also known as B. B. Haagsma —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Schraard, Friesland, Netherlands,
May
16, 1831.
Dry goods
salesman; bookkeeper;
Consul
for Netherlands in St.
Louis, Mo., 1870-77, 1888-1903.
Dutch
ancestry.
Accidentally drowned in the Mississippi River at St.
Louis, Mo., August
28, 1907 (age 76 years, 104
days).
Interment at Valhalla
Cemetery, Bel-Nor, Mo.
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Joseph Henry Peirce (1870-1908) —
also known as Joseph H. Peirce —
Born in Messina, Sicily, Italy,
November
6, 1870.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Messina, 1900-06; newspaper
correspondent.
He and his family were among about 80,000 people killed during an earthquake
and tsunami, specifically, when his house collapsed,
in Messina, Sicily, Italy,
December
28, 1908 (age 38 years, 52
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Isidor Straus (1845-1912) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Otterberg, Bavaria (now Germany),
February
6, 1845.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1894-95.
Jewish.
One of the owners of the R. H. Macy & Co. department store in New
York.
Perished in the wreck of the
steamship Titanic, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, April
15, 1912 (age 67 years, 69
days); his body was subsequently recovered.
Originally entombed at Beth
El Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.; later interred at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at Straus
Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Lazarus Straus and Sara (Straus) Straus; brother of Oscar
Solomon Straus; married, July 12,
1871, to Ida Blum; father of Jesse
Isidor Straus; uncle of Nathan
Straus Jr.; grandfather of Stuart
Scheftel; granduncle of Ronald
Peter Straus. |
| | | Political family: Straus
family of New York City, New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Straus Hall (built 1926), a dormitory at
Harvard University,
Cambridge,
Massachusetts, is named for
him and his wife. — Straus Park
(established 1895 as Schuyler Square; renamed 1907 as Bloomingdale
Square; renamed 1915 as Straus Park), at Broadway and West End Avenue
in Morningside Heights, Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him and his wife. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Isidor Straus: June Hall
McCash, A
Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus |
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Solomon Luna (1858-1912) —
of Los Lunas, Valencia
County, N.M.
Born October
18, 1858.
Republican. Member of Republican
National Committee from New Mexico Territory, 1896, 1908;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Mexico Territory,
1896
(member, Resolutions
Committee); delegate
to New Mexico state constitutional convention, 1910.
Reportedly fell into
a sheep dip vat and drowned, August
29, 1912 (age 53 years, 316
days).
Interment at Mt.
Calvary Cemetery, Albuquerque, N.M.
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William Walter Wedemeyer (1873-1913) —
also known as William W. Wedemeyer —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Washtenaw
County, Mich., March
22, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of Martin
J. Cavanaugh, from 1896; U.S. Consul in Georgetown, 1905; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1907; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1911-13; defeated,
1912; died in office 1913.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias.
Accidentally drowned in the harbor at Colón, Panama,
January
2, 1913 (age 39 years, 286
days); his remains were never
recovered.
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Frederick Van Dyne (1861-1915) —
Born in Palmyra, Wayne
County, N.Y., November
24, 1861.
U.S. Consul in Kingston, 1907-09; Lyon, 1915, died in office 1915.
While a passenger on the steamship Sant'Anna, en route from
New York to Naples, he jumped
overboard and was presumed drowned, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, April
21, 1915 (age 53 years, 148
days); his remains were not
recovered.
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Robert Ney McNeely (1883-1915) —
also known as Robert McNeely —
of Monroe, Union
County, N.C.
Born in Union
County, N.C., November
12, 1883.
Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1909-10; U.S. Consul in
Aden, 1915, died in office 1915.
While en route to Aden as a passenger on the British liner
Persia, he was one of 385 passengers and crew who
perished when the ship was hit by a German
torpedo, and sank, in
the Mediterranean
Sea, December
20, 1915 (age 32 years, 38
days). His body was apparently not
recovered.
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Alfred Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1873-1918) —
also known as Alfred L. M. Gottschalk —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1873.
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, 1916-18, died in office 1918.
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 passengers 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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Relatives: Son
of L. G. Gottschalk and Louise de L. (Boucher)
Gottschalk. |
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John Arthur Elston (1874-1921) —
also known as John A. Elston; J. A. Elston —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Woodland, Yolo
County, Calif., February
10, 1874.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California 6th District, 1915-21; died in
office 1921.
Killed
himself by drowning in the Potomac River, Washington,
D.C., December
15, 1921 (age 47 years, 308
days). In his suicide note, he wrote that he was "caught in a
chain of circumstances that spelled ruin.".
Cremated.
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Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (1886-1927) —
also known as Maurice E. Crumpacker —
of Oregon.
Born in Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind., December
19, 1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1925-27; died in office
1927.
Came to San Francisco with Nicholas
Longworth and others; left the group and was found by police,
sitting on a curb and claiming he had been poisoned
by someone trying to murder
him; deemed paranoid, taken to a hospital, and sedated; released at
his insistence; walking near the shoreline with a friend, he yelled
"Tell everybody good-bye!", jumped
into the water, and drowned, in San
Francisco Bay, July 24,
1927 (age 40 years, 217
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Samuel Hollister Jackson (1875-1927) —
also known as Hollister Jackson; Samuel Hollister
Jackson —
of Barre, Washington
County, Vt.
Born in Toronto, Ontario,
December
7, 1875.
Republican. Washington
County State's Attorney, 1904-06; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1906-07; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1927; died in office 1927.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias.
Drowned in a flood near his home, Barre, Washington
County, Vt., November
2, 1927 (age 51 years, 330
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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Frank Tetes Johns (1889-1928) —
also known as Frank T. Johns —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born February
23, 1889.
Socialist. Carpenter;
Industrial Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1920, 1922; Socialist
Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1924.
Interrupting an outdoor campaign
speech, he dove into the Deschutes River in an attempt to save a
10-year-old boy who had fallen in, but both drowned, in Bend,
Deschutes
County, Ore., May 20,
1928 (age 39 years, 87
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Blakeslee Law (1872-1929) —
also known as Charles B. Law —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Hannibal, Oswego
County, N.Y., February
5, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; state court judge in New York, 1916; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1924.
Baptist.
Member, Union
League.
Died while swimming
(presumably drowned) at his summer home on Kattskill Bay, near
Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., September
15, 1929 (age 57 years, 222
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Jordan, N.Y.
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Hans Adolph Aune (1878-1931) —
also known as Hans A. Aune; H. A. Aune —
of Baldwin, St. Croix
County, Wis.; Osseo, Trempealeau
County, Wis.
Born in Baldwin, St. Croix
County, Wis., December
19, 1878.
School
teacher and principal; superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1931; died in office 1931.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Killed
himself by drowning in Lake Monona, Madison, Dane
County, Wis., February
25, 1931 (age 52 years, 68
days). He left a note saying, "You will find my body in the lake
east of the Capitol," but it was not found until almost two months
later.
Interment at Woodside Cemetery, Baldwin, Wis.
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William Edwin Schaak (1872-1934) —
also known as William E. Schaak —
of Lebanon, Lebanon
County, Pa.
Born in South Londonderry Township, Lebanon
County, Pa., July 30,
1872.
Democrat. Lawyer;
postmaster at Lebanon,
Pa., 1913-17; chair of
Lebanon County Democratic Party, 1927.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Elks; Eagles.
Died, from an accidental drowning, while swimming in Lake
Conewago, South Londonderry Township, Lebanon
County, Pa., June 27,
1934 (age 61 years, 332
days).
Interment at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Elias Kettering Schaak and Mary Louise (Erb) Schaak; married, November
24, 1896, to Elizabeth Behney. |
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James Robert Hogg (1863-1934) —
also known as Jim Hogg —
of Poplar Bluff, Butler
County, Mo.
Born in Jennings
County, Ind., January
4, 1863.
Republican. Farmer; meat
merchant; distillery
owner; produced Jim Hogg's Corn
Whiskey; Butler
County Sheriff, 1892-96, 1902-06, 1920-24; mayor
of Poplar Bluff, Mo., 1897-99.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Fell into the Black River, and drowned, in Poplar Bluff, Butler
County, Mo., July 12,
1934 (age 71 years, 189
days).
Interment at Poplar
Bluff City Cemetery, Poplar Bluff, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Marion Hogg and Mary Belle (Winslow) Hogg; married, September
5, 1880, to Ida Dillard (1864-1888; divorced); married, December
13, 1884, to Susan S. 'Susie' Klutts; married, November
19, 1887, to Ida Dillard (1864-1888; died); married, December
7, 1889, to Clara Catherine Smith; married, August
14, 1914, to Naoma Ruth Hawas. |
| | | Epitaph: "Peace be thy silent
slumber." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George W. Borowitz (1870-1938) —
of Wausau, Marathon
County, Wis.
Born in Germany,
December
7, 1870.
Tailor;
mayor
of Wausau, Wis., 1935-38.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Catholic
Order of Foresters; Eagles;
Elks.
While on a hunting and
fishing trip, he and three other men from Wausau (N. P. Beck,
Herman Belter, and J. William Delaney) drowned when their boat
capsized, in Island Lake, Vilas
County, Wis., November
12, 1938 (age 67 years, 340
days). The overturned boat was found two days later; the bodies
were recovered from the lake the following April.
Interment at St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery, Wausau, Wis.
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Relatives: Son
of Michael Borowitz and Hulda (Lambs) Borowitz; married, January
20, 1899, to Josephine Kroupa. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Appleton (Wis.)
Post-Crescent, November 14, 1938 |
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John W. Speakman (1900-1942) —
of Danville, Vermilion
County, Ill.
Born in Vermilion
County, Ill., March 5,
1900.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives; elected 1936, 1938; member of Illinois
state senate 22nd District; elected 1940.
Member, Freemasons.
Drowned when his boat
capsized, June 7,
1942 (age 42 years, 94
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Danville, Ill.
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Carl Frederick Zeidler (1908-1942) —
also known as Carl Zeidler; "Singing Mayor";
"Boy Mayor" —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., January
4, 1908.
Mayor
of Milwaukee, Wis., 1940-42; resigned 1942; served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II.
Killed
when the munitions ship La
Salle was struck by torpedos, exploded,
and sank, about 350 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope,
in the Indian
Ocean, November
7, 1942 (age 34 years, 307
days); his remains were never
found.
Cenotaph at Forest
Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis.
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Arthur A. Shonbeck (1878-1945) —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in 1878.
Democrat. Gold miner;
implement
dealer; oil
business; farmer;
candidate for mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1924; trustee, Alaska Agricultural College
and School of Mines (now University of Alaska), 1925-33; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1932,
1944
(member, Credentials
Committee; member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee; member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee); Alaska
Territory Democratic Party chair, 1934-37.
Drowned in a river when his pickup
truck went off the road, near Ophir, Yukon-Koyukuk
census area, Alaska, June 20,
1945 (age about 66
years).
Interment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Relatives:
Married to Ann Peckenpaugh. |
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Clarence A. Dahle (1894-1949) —
also known as "Whiff" —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., January
22, 1894.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 57, 1933-36; member of
Minnesota
state senate 57th District, 1937-49; died in office 1949.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta; Freemasons;
Elks.
During a fishing
trip, he drowned while swimming
off an island in Lake Kabetogama, St. Louis
County, Minn., July 26,
1949 (age 55 years, 185
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications, publisher
of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; there
were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,
self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widely
accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500
million copies were printed and sold; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried
and convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days). Possibly suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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Albert Denis Cash (1897-1952) —
also known as Albert D. Cash —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
21, 1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1940;
mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1948-51.
Catholic.
Was fishing
when a freak
storm overturned his
boat and drowned him, on a lake in Michigan, August
2, 1952 (age 54 years, 347
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Endicott Stebbins (1905-1973) —
also known as Henry E. Stebbins —
of Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Milton, Norfolk
County, Mass., June 16,
1905.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, 1959-66; Uganda, 1966-69.
Apparently fell from
the deck of the ocean liner Leonardo da Vinci, and
drowned, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, March
28, 1973 (age 67 years, 285
days). His body was apparently never
found.
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Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) —
also known as Max Rafferty —
of La Canada (now part of La Canada Flintridge), Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Alabama.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 9,
1917.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; superintendent
of schools; newspaper
columnist;
California
superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1968; dean,
Education Department, Troy State University, 1971-82.
Episcopalian.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary.
Drowned when his car went
off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike
County, Ala., June 13,
1982 (age 65 years, 35
days).
Interment at Green
Hills Cemetery, Troy, Ala.
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Renz L. Jennings (1899-1983) —
also known as Lorenzo Jennings —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Taylor, Navajo
County, Ariz., August
5, 1899.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Arizona
state house of representatives, 1931-32; Maricopa
County Attorney, 1933-34; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arizona, 1934, 1964; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arizona, 1942; superior court judge in
Arizona, 1949-60; justice of
Arizona state supreme court, 1960-64; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Arizona, 1960,
1968
(alternate).
Mormon.
Member, Eagles;
Moose;
Woodmen
of the World.
Suffered a heart
attack in his swimming
pool, and drowned, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., February
11, 1983 (age 83 years, 190
days).
Interment at Phoenix Memorial Park & Mortuary, Phoenix, Ariz.
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Bertram Thomas Combs (1911-1991) —
also known as Bert T. Combs —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.
Born in Manchester, Clay
County, Ky., August
13, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Judge,
Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1951-55; state court judge in
Kentucky, 1957-59; Governor of
Kentucky, 1959-63; defeated, 1955, 1971; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kentucky, 1960,
1964;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Kentucky, 1966; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1967-70.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Order of
the Coif; Phi
Delta Phi.
Drowned when his automobile
was washed from the roadway into the Red River, during a flood, near
Rosslyn, Powell
County, Ky., December
4, 1991 (age 80 years, 113
days).
Interment at Beech
Creek Cemetery, Manchester, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen Gibson Combs and Martha (Jones) Combs; married, June 15,
1937, to Mabel Hall. |
| | | The Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway,
which runs through Clark,
Powell,
Wolfe,
Morgan,
and Magoffin
counties in Kentucky, is named for
him. — Bert T. Combs Lake,
in Clay
County, Kentucky, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — NNDB
dossier |
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James Benjamin Payton (1943-1994) —
also known as James Payton —
of Sylacauga, Talladega
County, Ala.
Born June 12,
1943.
Mayor
of Sylacauga, Ala., 1984-94; died in office 1994.
Drowned while swimming
to retrieve a radio-controlled miniature boat, in Lake Howard,
Sylacauga, Talladega
County, Ala., July 28,
1994 (age 51 years, 46
days).
Interment at Fort Williams Cemetery, Sylacauga, Ala.
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