Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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Joel Barlow (1754-1812) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
24, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; chaplain;
writer;
poet;
lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Cadiz, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to France, 1811-12, died in office 1812.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held
prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of
U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S.
Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident.
Died, of pneumonia or exposure,
in Zarnowiec, Poland,
December
24, 1812 (age 58 years, 275
days).
Interment at Churchyard,
Zarnowiec, Poland; cenotaph at Great
Pasture Road Cemetery, Redding, Conn.
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Matthew Clay (c.1795-1827) —
of Alabama.
Born about 1795.
Member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1820-22; member of Alabama
state senate, 1825-27; died in office 1827.
Died, of pneumonia, February, 1827
(age about
32 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836) —
also known as Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y
Sáenz —
of Mérida, Yucatan;
La Porte, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Tecoh, Yucatan,
October
3, 1788.
Active in politics in Mexico, 1812-34; imprisoned
in 1814-17 by Mexican authorities over his advocacy
of democratic reforms; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Harrisburg, 1835;
delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Harrisburg, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836.
Died, of pneumonia, November
15, 1836 (age 48 years, 43
days).
Interment at de
Zavala Family Cemetery, La Porte, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Anastasio de Zavala=y=Velázquez and Maria Bárbara
Sáenz=y=Castro; married 1807 to Teresa
Correa=y=Correa; married, November
12, 1831, to Emily West. |
| | | Zavala County,
Tex. is named for him. |
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Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836) —
also known as Stephen F. Austin; "Father of
Texas" —
Born in Wythe
County, Va., November
3, 1793.
Member of Missouri
territorial legislature, 1814-19; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1832; took petition to Mexico City for the establishment of
Texas as a separate Mexican state, 1832; charged
with attempting
revolution, and imprisoned
until 1835; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1835; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1836; died in office 1836.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia, in Brazoria
County, Tex., December
27, 1836 (age 43 years, 54
days).
Original interment at Peach
Point Cemetery, Gulf Prairie, Tex.; reinterment in 1910 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses Austin and Maria (Brown) Austin. |
| | | Austin County,
Tex. is named for him. |
| | | The city
of Austin,
Texas, is named for
him. — Stephen F. Austin State
University, Nacogdoches,
Texas, is named for
him. — Austin College,
Sherman,
Texas, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Handbook
of Texas Online |
| | | Books about Stephen F. Austin: Gregg
Cantrell, Stephen
F. Austin : Empresario of Texas |
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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) —
also known as "Tippecanoe"; "Old
Tip"; "Farmer of North Bend";
"General Mum"; "Cincinnatus of the
West" —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley, Charles
City County, Va., February
9, 1773.
Whig. Secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1798-99; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800; Governor
of Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member of Ohio
state senate, 1819-21; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Ohio; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia, 1828-29; President
of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia or typhoid,
at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., April 4,
1841 (age 68 years, 54
days).
Interment at Harrison
Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison; brother of
Carter
Bassett Harrison; married, November
22, 1795, to Anna
Tuthill Symmes (daughter of John
Cleves Symmes); father of John
Scott Harrison; grandfather of Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); great-grandfather of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; second great-grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin once removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin twice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; second cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle and Harry
Flood Byrd; second cousin five times removed of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Robert
Monroe Harrison. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Harrison counties in Ind., Iowa, Miss. and Ohio are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Harrison,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
H. Harrison Taylor
— W.
H. H. Eba
— William
H. H. Clayton
— William
H. H. Allen
— William
H. H. Beadle
— William
H. H. Varney
— William
H. H. Cowles
— William
H. H. Stowell
— William
H. H. Miller
— William
H. H. Cook
— William
H. H. Flick
— William
H. Heard
— William
H. H. Llewellyn
— William
H. Harrison
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| | | Campaign slogan (1840): "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about William Henry Harrison:
Freeman Cleaves, Old
Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time —
Norma Lois Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — David
Lillard, William
Henry Harrison (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Daniel Dunklin (1790-1844) —
of Washington
County, Mo.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., January
14, 1790.
Democrat. Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1828-32; Governor of
Missouri, 1832-36.
Died of pneumonia, August
25, 1844 (age 54 years, 224
days).
Interment at Daniel
Dunklin Grave State Historic Site, Herculaneum, Mo.
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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.
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. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Edward Burleson (1798-1851) —
of Texas.
Born in Buncombe
County, N.C., December
15, 1798.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Mina, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Mina, 1835;
general in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence;
member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bastrop, Gonzales and Fayette,
1838-39; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1841-44; candidate for President
of the Texas Republic, 1844; member of Texas
state senate, 1846-51; died in office 1851.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of pneumonia, in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., December
26, 1851 (age 53 years, 11
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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James Sevier Conway (1798-1855) —
of Arkansas.
Born in Greene
County, Tenn., December
9, 1798.
Governor
of Arkansas, 1836-40.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Walnut Hill, Lafayette
County, Ark., March 3,
1855 (age 56 years, 84
days).
Interment at Conway
Cemetery State Park, Walnut Hill, Ark.
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Jedediah Morgan Grant (1816-1856) —
also known as Jedediah M. Grant; "Brigham's
Sledgehammer" —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Windsor, Broome
County, N.Y., February
21, 1816.
Mayor
of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1851-56; died in office 1856.
Mormon.
Died, of pneumonia, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, December
1, 1856 (age 40 years, 284
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Samuel Brenton (1810-1857) —
of Indiana.
Born in Gallatin
County, Ky., November
22, 1810.
Minister;
lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1838-39, 1840-41; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1851-53, 1855-57;
defeated, 1852; died in office 1857.
Methodist.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died, of pneumonia, in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., March
29, 1857 (age 46 years, 127
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Washington Ingersoll (1803-1860) —
also known as G. W. Ingersoll —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in New Gloucester, Cumberland
County, Maine, August
20, 1803.
Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1854-55; Maine
state attorney general, 1860; died in office 1860.
Died, of pneumonia, in Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, March 5,
1860 (age 56 years, 198
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Branch Jr. (1782-1863) —
of Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C.
Born in Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C., November
4, 1782.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1811, 1813-17, 1834; Governor of
North Carolina, 1817-20; federal
judge, 1822; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1823-29; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1829-31; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1831-33; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835; Governor
of Florida Territory, 1844-45.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia, in Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C., January
4, 1863 (age 80 years, 61
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Enfield, N.C.
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Samuel Houston (1793-1863) —
also known as Sam Houston —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex.
Born near Lexington, Rockbridge
County, Va., March 2,
1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1823-27 (at-large 1823-25, 7th
District 1825-27); Governor of
Tennessee, 1827-29; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Nacogdoches, 1833;
delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Augustine,
1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Refugio, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; President
of the Texas Republic, 1836-38, 1841-44; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-59; Governor of
Texas, 1859-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia, in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., July 26,
1863 (age 70 years, 146
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Huntsville, Tex.; statue erected 1925 at Herman
Park, Houston, Tex.
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Relatives:
Father of Andrew
Jackson Houston; second great-grandfather of Jean Houston Baldwin
(who married Marion
Price Daniel); third great-grandfather of Marion
Price Daniel Jr.; cousin *** of David
Hubbard. |
| | | Political family: Daniel-Houston
family of Texas. |
| | | Houston counties in Minn., Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Houston,
Texas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ships SS Sam Houston (built 1941, at Houston,
Texas; torpedoed and sunk 1942 in the Atlantic
Ocean) and SS Sam Houston II (built 1943 at the same
shipyard; scrapped 1959) were named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Houston
Justice
— Sam
H. Jones
— Sam
Houston Clinton, Jr.
— Sam
H. Melton, Jr.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Sam Houston: James L.
Haley, Sam
Houston — Marquis James, The
Raven : A Biography of Sam Houston — Randolph B.
Campbell, Sam
Houston and the American Southwest — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage — Jean Fritz, Make
Way for Sam Houston (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Simpson Harris Morgan (c.1821-1864) —
of Texas.
Born in Rutherford
County, Tenn., about 1821.
Representative
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1864; died in office 1864.
While en route to a session of the Confederate Congress, died of
pneumonia at Monticello, Drew
County, Ark., December
15, 1864 (age about 43
years).
Interment at Simpson
H. Morgan Memorial Park, Clarksville, Tex.
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David Funsten (1819-1866) —
of Virginia.
Born in Clarke
County, Va., October
14, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1844-45; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1863-65.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died of pneumonia, at Howard (now part of Tysons Corner), Fairfax
County, Va., April 6,
1866 (age 46 years, 174
days).
Interment at Ivy
Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
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John Jones Pettus (1813-1867) —
also known as John J. Pettus —
of Mississippi.
Born in Wilson
County, Tenn., October
9, 1813.
Governor
of Mississippi, 1854, 1859-63.
Slaveowner.
After the Civil War, as a Confederate
leader, amnesty was
refused to him, and he became a fugitive;
the manhunt continued until his death, from pneumonia, in
Pulaski County (part now in Lonoke
County), Ark., January
25, 1867 (age 53 years, 108
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Flat
Bayou Burial Ground, Near Wabbaseka, Jefferson County, Ark.
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George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867) —
also known as George W. Randolph —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., March
10, 1818.
Lawyer;
delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Richmond city, 1861;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Confederate
Secretary of War, 1862; after the collapse of the Confederacy,
fled
to Europe to avoid
capture; pardoned
in 1866.
Episcopalian.
Died of pulmonary pneumonia, near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., April 3,
1867 (age 49 years, 24
days).
Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr. and Martha
Jefferson Randolph; brother of Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who married Nicholas
Philip Trist); uncle of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; grandson of Thomas
Jefferson; granduncle of John
Gardner Coolidge; great-grandson of Archibald
Cary; second great-grandson of Richard
Randolph; first cousin of Francis
Wayles Eppes; first cousin once removed of Dabney
Carr, John
Wayles Eppes and Frederick
Madison Roberts; first cousin twice removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin thrice removed of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Dabney
Smith Carr; second cousin once removed of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall and Alexander
Keith Marshall; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph and Edith
Wilson; third cousin of Thomas
Marshall, John
Jordan Crittenden, Thomas
Turpin Crittenden, Robert
Crittenden, James
Keith Marshall and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin once removed of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, Alexander
Parker Crittenden, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Thomas
Theodore Crittenden, John
Augustine Marshall and Carter
Henry Harrison II; third cousin twice removed of Thomas
Theodore Crittenden Jr., William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; fourth cousin of Edmund
Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Jones Hardeman, Bailey
Hardeman, Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Benjamin
Earl Cabell and William
Henry Robertson. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on Confederate States $100 notes in 1862-64.
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Moses C. Martin (c.1811-1868) —
of Missouri.
Born in Kentucky, about 1811.
Member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1866-68; died in office 1868.
Baptist.
Died of pneumonia, in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., February
15, 1868 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) —
also known as Samuel F. B. Morse —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
27, 1791.
Artist;
inventor
of the telegraph;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1841; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1854.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 2,
1872 (age 80 years, 341
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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James Lawrence Orr (1822-1873) —
also known as James L. Orr —
of Anderson Court House, Anderson District (now Anderson, Anderson
County), S.C.
Born in Craytonville, Anderson
County, S.C., May 12,
1822.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844-48; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1849-59 (2nd District
1849-53, 5th District 1853-59); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1857-59; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Anderson, 1860-62;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1862; Senator
from South Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention, 1865; Governor of
South Carolina, 1865-68; district judge in South Carolina,
1868-70; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1872-73, died in office 1873.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia in St. Petersburg, Russia,
May
5, 1873 (age 50 years, 358
days).
Interment at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Anderson, S.C.
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Thomas Henry Selby (1820-1875) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 14,
1820.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1869-71.
Died, of pneumonia, in San
Francisco, Calif., June 17,
1875 (age 55 years, 34
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hiram C. Martin (1833-1876) —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born in Ohio, August
10, 1833.
Real
estate agent; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1869-70.
Died of typhoid
pneumonia, February
21, 1876 (age 42 years, 195
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Reed (1821-1877) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Washington, Washington
County, Pa., November
12, 1821.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of J.
Bowman Sweitzer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1874-76.
Died, from pneumonia and digestive
problems, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
17, 1877 (age 55 years, 97
days).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Enoch Mather Marvin (1823-1877) —
also known as Enoch M. Marvin —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Warren
County, Mo., June 12,
1823.
Democrat. Methodist
bishop; chaplain of the Confederate Army during the Civil War; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1876.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Died, of pneumonia, in St.
Louis, Mo., November
26, 1877 (age 54 years, 167
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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E. H. Kennedy (c.1840-1878) —
of Houston
County, Minn.
Born about 1840.
Member of Minnesota
state senate 10th District, 1859-60; served in the Union Army
during the Civil War; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 13, 1867.
Died, of pneumonia, in May, 1878
(age about
38 years).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Owatonna, Minn.
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Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (1791-1879) —
of New York.
Born in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
29, 1791.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1825-27; college
professor; president
of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University), 1840-50.
Slaveowner.
Died, of pneumonia, in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., February
24, 1879 (age 87 years, 87
days).
Interment at Old
Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
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Edwin Belcher (c.1838-1883) —
of Wilkes
County, Ga.; Macon, Bibb
County, Ga.; Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in Abbeville, Abbeville District (now Abbeville
County), S.C., about 1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Georgia
state house of representatives, 1868-72; postmaster at Macon,
Ga., 1873-75; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Georgia, 1876,
1880.
African
ancestry.
Died, from typhoid
pneumonia, in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., January
7, 1883 (age about 45
years).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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Edward T. Backhouse (1806-1884) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1806.
Fruit
merchant; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 3rd District, 1851; president,
Kings County Fire
Insurance Company, 1861-84.
Died, of pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
28, 1884 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Seth C. Hawley (1810-1884) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., February
10, 1810.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of New York
state assembly from Erie County, 1840-41; railroad
builder; U.S. Consul in Nassau, 1863; chief clerk, New York City Police
Department; the New York Times called him "the brains of the
department.".
English
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 1884 (age 74 years, 274
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Alfred W. Taliaferro (d. 1885) —
of San Rafael, Marin
County, Calif.
Born in Gloucester
County, Va.
Physician;
druggist;
member of California
state assembly 19th District, 1852-53; member of California
state senate, 1860.
Died, of pneumonia, 1885.
Interment at Mt.
Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, Calif.
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Epitaph: "His
virtue was generosity, his friends are legion, his enemies none
— one of nature's noblemen." |
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Lewis Alexander Brigham (1831-1885) —
also known as Lewis A. Brigham —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in New York Mills, Oneida
County, N.Y., January
2, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1877; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1879-81.
Died, from pneumonia, in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., February
19, 1885 (age 54 years, 48
days).
Interment at Old
Bergen Church Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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Azariah Boody (1815-1885) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Stanstead County, Quebec,
April
21, 1815.
Whig. U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1853; served as
president of the Wabash Railroad.
Died, from pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
18, 1885 (age 70 years, 211
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Henry Brewster Stanton (1805-1887) —
also known as Henry B. Stanton —
of Seneca Falls, Seneca
County, N.Y.
Born in Griswold, New London
County, Conn., June 27,
1805.
Journalist;
orator;
lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 25th District, 1850-51, 1851; resigned 1851.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
14, 1887 (age 81 years, 201
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Susan M. (Brewster) Stanton and Joseph Stanton; married, May 1,
1840, to Elizabeth
Smith Cady; fifth great-grandnephew of Robert
Treat; first cousin once removed of Nathan
Belcher; second cousin once removed of Erskine
Mason Phelps; second cousin four times removed of Waightstill
Avery; third cousin of Enoch
C. Chapman; third cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Mason, Edward
Wheeler Pendleton and Giles
Russell Taggart; third cousin twice removed of John
Adams, George
Champlin and John
Baldwin; fourth cousin of Albert
Gallup; fourth cousin once removed of David
Hough, John
Taintor, Roger
Taintor, John
Quincy Adams, Christopher
Grant Champlin, Solomon
Taintor, Daniel
Cady, Daniel
Packer, Jabez
Williams Huntington, Lorenzo
Burrows, Asa
Packer, Albert
Smith Gallup and Abial
T. Browning. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Fairbanks-Adams
family; Lenoir
family of North Carolina; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Samuel H. Blake (c.1807-1887) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born about 1807.
Republican. Banker; Maine
state attorney general, 1848; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maine, 1868.
Died of pneumonia, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
24, 1887 (age about 80
years).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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John Winthrop Jones (1817-1887) —
also known as J. Winthrop Jones —
of Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine; Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, February
14, 1817.
Democrat. School
teacher; merchant;
shipbuilder;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maine, 1860;
lumber
business.
Died, from pneumonia, in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., September
19, 1887 (age 70 years, 217
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Edmund Boyle (1836-1888) —
also known as Charles E. Boyle —
of Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., February
4, 1836.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; lawyer; Fayette
County District Attorney, 1863-65; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Fayette County, 1866-67;
candidate for Pennsylvania
state auditor general, 1868; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1876,
1880,
1888;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 21st District, 1883-87;
territorial court judge in Washington, 1888; died in office 1888.
Episcopalian.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Occidental Hotel,
Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
15, 1888 (age 52 years, 315
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, South Union Township, Fayette County, Pa.
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John Alexander Martin (1839-1889) —
also known as John A. Martin —
of Atchison, Atchison
County, Kan.
Born in Brownsville, Fayette
County, Pa., March
10, 1839.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1859; member of Kansas
state senate, 1859; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Kansas, 1860,
1868
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1880;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; postmaster at Atchison,
Kan., 1861-74; mayor
of Atchison, Kan., 1865; member of Republican
National Committee from Kansas, 1868-70, 1872-; Governor of
Kansas, 1885-89.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died of pleuro-pneumonia, in Atchison, Atchison
County, Kan., October
2, 1889 (age 50 years, 206
days).
Interment at Mt.
Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kan.
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Orlow W. Chapman (1832-1890) —
of Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Ellington, Tolland
County, Conn., 1832.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 24th District, 1868-71; U.S. Solicitor General,
1889-90; died in office 1890.
Died, of pneumonia and an ear
infection, in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1890 (age about 57
years).
Interment somewhere
in Binghamton, N.Y.
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Grattan H. Brundage (1834-1891) —
of Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y., 1834.
Farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Steuben County 1st District, 1891; died in
office 1891.
Died, from pneumonia, typhoid
fever, and heart
failure, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., March
29, 1891 (age about 56
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Giles Jared Patterson (1827-1891) —
of Chester, Chester
County, S.C.
Born in Spartanburg District (now Spartanburg
County), S.C., January
10, 1827.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; bank
director; member of South
Carolina state senate from Chester County, 1882-90; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1884.
Methodist.
Died, from pneumonia, in Chester, Chester
County, S.C., December
13, 1891 (age 64 years, 337
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Chester, S.C.
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Henry Gould Lewis (1820-1891) —
also known as Henry G. Lewis —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Cornwall, Litchfield
County, Conn., September
9, 1820.
Democrat. Lawyer; wheel
manufacturer; railroad
promoter; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New Haven, 1868; mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1870-76, 1883-84.
Died, from pneumonia, in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., December
25, 1891 (age 71 years, 107
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lewis and Sarah Ann (Calhoun) Lewis; brother of John
Calhoun Lewis; married, October
5, 1858, to Julia Wright Coley; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Brace; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Kimberly Brace; fourth cousin of Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875), Levi
Yale and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, James
Rood Doolittle, Russell
Sage, George
Bradley Kellogg, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918), Levi
Bacon Yale, Charles
Kellogg, Robert
Cleveland Usher and Charles
M. Hotchkiss. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Patrick McQuaid (c.1849-1892) —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Ireland,
about 1849.
Wholesale grain and
flour merchant; mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1886-87, 1888-91; active community leader
during the 1888 yellow fever epidemic; on June 17, 1890, he was brutally
assaulted by City Marshal Stephen Wiggins, who clubbed him
repeatedly on the head until he lost consciousness.
Died, of pneumonia, in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., February
21, 1892 (age about 43
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Laban Theodore Moore (1829-1892) —
also known as Laban T. Moore —
of Louisa, Lawrence
County, Ky.
Born in Wayne
County, Va. (now W.Va.), January
13, 1829.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 9th District, 1859-61; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1860.
Slaveowner.
Died, of pneumonia, at Catlettsburg, Boyd
County, Ky., November
9, 1892 (age 63 years, 301
days).
Interment at Ashland
Cemetery, Ashland, Ky.
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George Henry Sanderson (1824-1893) —
also known as George H. Sanderson —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1824.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1891-93.
Died, of pneumonia, February
1, 1893 (age about 68
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George de Benneville Keim (1831-1893) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Reading, Berks
County, Pa., January
18, 1831.
Democrat. Harness and
saddle business; candidate for mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1887.
Died, of pneumonia, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
10, 1893 (age 62 years, 51
days).
Interment at Charles
Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa.
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William Milo Stone (1827-1893) —
also known as William M. Stone —
of Knoxville, Marion
County, Iowa.
Born in Jefferson
County, N.Y., October
14, 1827.
Republican. District judge in Iowa, 1857-61 (11th District 1857-58,
6th District 1859-61); delegate to Republican National Convention
from Iowa, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Iowa, 1864-68; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1878-79.
A friend of President Abraham
Lincoln, he was present at Ford's Theater when Lincoln was shot,
and helped carry the injured president across the street.
Died of pneumonia, July 8,
1893 (age 65 years, 267
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Knoxville, Iowa.
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Claude Nicholas Riopelle (c.1845-1894) —
also known as Claude N. Riopelle —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born about 1845.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1869-70.
French
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in Grace Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., January
24, 1894 (age about 49
years).
Interment at Mt.
Elliott Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Eli Wentworth (1830-1894) —
of Milton, Strafford
County, N.H.
Born in Milton, Strafford
County, N.H., April 8,
1830.
Member of New
Hampshire state senate 6th District, 1860-62.
Died, from pneumonia, in Milton, Strafford
County, N.H., October
31, 1894 (age 64 years, 206
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel Needham (1822-1895) —
of Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., May 24,
1822.
Lawyer;
farmer;
aide (with rank of Colonel) to Gov. George
S. Boutwell, 1851-53; Massachusetts
Democratic state chair, 1853; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1854; member of
Vermont
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1857-58; member of
Vermont
state senate from Windsor County, 1859-61; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1866-67; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1868-69; director, Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co.;
trustee, John Hancock Life
Insurance Co.; director, Peterborough and Shirley Railroad.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons;
Humane
Society.
Died, of pneumonia, in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
20, 1895 (age 72 years, 272
days).
Interment at Groton
Cemetery, Groton, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Needham and Lydia (Breed) Needham; married, July 17,
1842, to Caroline A. Hall; married, October
7, 1880, to Ellen Mary Brigham. |
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Andrew Jackson Bentley (1827-1895) —
also known as Andrew J. Bentley —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., January
10, 1827.
Sailor;
shipbroker;
lumber
business; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1880; mayor
of New London, Conn., 1894.
Died, of pneumonia, March
18, 1895 (age 68 years, 67
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.
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Elisha Peyre Ferry (1825-1895) —
also known as Elisha P. Ferry —
of Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill.; Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Monroe
County, Mich., August
9, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; postmaster at Waukegan,
Ill., 1853-54; village
president of Waukegan, Illinois, 1856-57; mayor
of Waukegan, Ill., 1859; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Lake County,
1862; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Surveyor-General for Washington, 1871; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1872-80; vice-president, Puget Sound
National Bank; Governor of
Washington, 1889-93.
French
ancestry.
Died of pneumonia and congestive
heart failure, in Seattle, King
County, Wash., October
14, 1895 (age 70 years, 66
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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John Blackburne Woodward (1835-1896) —
also known as John B. Woodward —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 31,
1835.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; leather
business; importer
and exporter; Independent candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1885.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, National Rifle
Association; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died, from pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 7,
1896 (age 60 years, 281
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Woodward and Mary Barrow (Blackburne) Woodward; married, May 31,
1870, to Elizabeth Cook Blackburne. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: John B. Woodward: a
biographical memoir (1897) |
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George Tobey Anthony (1824-1896) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.
Born in Mayfield, Fulton
County, N.Y., June 9,
1824.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor of
Kansas, 1877-79; member of Kansas
state house of representatives, 1885.
Died, of pneumonia, Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., August
5, 1896 (age 72 years, 57
days).
Interment at Topeka
Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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Henry Addison Fletcher (1839-1897) —
also known as Henry A. Fletcher —
of Proctorsville, Cavendish, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Cavendish, Windsor
County, Vt., December
11, 1839.
Republican. Farmer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Cavendish, 1867-68, 1878-82;
member of Vermont
state senate from Windsor County, 1886-87; Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1890-92.
Baptist.
Died, of pneumonia, in Proctorsville, Cavendish, Windsor
County, Vt., 1897
(age about
57 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Mercer Beasley (1815-1897) —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1815.
Lawyer;
Whig candidate for mayor
of Trenton, N.J., 1851; chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1864-97; died in
office 1897.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
19, 1897 (age about 81
years).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.
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William Wirt Watkins (1826-1898) —
of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Jefferson
County, Tenn., April 1,
1826.
Lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state senate, 1856-60, 1866, 1878; delegate
to Arkansas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Arkansas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62.
Died, from pneumonia, in Harrison, Boone
County, Ark., January
15, 1898 (age 71 years, 289
days).
Interment at Carrollton Cemetery, Carrollton, Ark.
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Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898) —
also known as Theodore S. Fay —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Massachusetts; Berlin, Germany.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
10, 1807.
Newspaper
editor; novelist;
U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1853-61.
Died, from pneumonia, in Berlin, Germany,
November
24, 1898 (age 91 years, 287
days).
Interment at Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
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Calvin Stewart Brice (1845-1898) —
also known as Calvin S. Brice —
of Lima, Allen
County, Ohio.
Born in Denmark, Morrow
County, Ohio, September
17, 1845.
Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
active in railroad
law; president of railroad
companies; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1888;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Ohio, 1888; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1889-92; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1891-97.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
15, 1898 (age 53 years, 89
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Lima, Ohio.
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Willard B. Smith (1838-1899) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Orleans
County, N.Y., March 7,
1838.
Republican. Physician;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1878-80, 1887-88; defeated, 1888.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, of pneumonia, in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., 1899
(age about
61 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Ransom S. Smith and Emily B. (Burroughs) Smith; married, November
14, 1863, to Sarah F. North; married, October
5, 1898, to Jennie Phillips. |
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Hiram Miller Bledsoe (1825-1899) —
also known as Hiram M. Bledsoe —
of Pleasant Hill, Cass
County, Mo.
Born in Bourbon
County, Ky., April
25, 1825.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Missouri
state senate 17th District, 1893-96.
Died, from pneumonia, in Pleasant Hill, Cass
County, Mo., February
5, 1899 (age 73 years, 286
days).
Interment at Pleasant
Hill Cemetery, Pleasant Hill, Mo.; memorial monument at Depot Park, Pleasant Hill, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Hiram Miller Bledsoe (1797-1876) and Susan T. (Hughes) Bledsoe;
married 1868 to Mary
D. Harrison. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles Mali (1818-1899) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Verviers, Belgium,
1818.
Importing
business; Consul
for Belgium in New
York, N.Y., 1867-98.
Belgian
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 10,
1899 (age about 81
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Clarence Keeler (1851-1899) —
also known as John C. Keeler —
of Canton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Malone, Franklin
County, N.Y., February
17, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from St. Lawrence County 2nd District, 1891-92.
Died, from heart
disease and pneumonia, in a private
hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
19, 1899 (age 48 years, 244
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.; cenotaph at Evergreen
Cemetery, Canton, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Amanda (Russell) Keeler and Carlos Cook Keeler; married, February
28, 1878, to Ada H. Servis; married, September
6, 1888, to Mattie Howard Lynde; nephew of John
Leslie Russell; first cousin of Leslie
Wead Russell and Charles
Hazen Russell; second cousin twice removed of Calvin
Fillmore, Benjamin
Hard and Martin
Keeler; second cousin five times removed of Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Alfred
Walstein Bangs; third cousin once removed of Millard
Fillmore, Stephen
Hiram Keeler, Tracy
R. Bangs and Frank
D. Bangs; third cousin twice removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Bela
Edgerton, Heman
Ticknor and George
A. Bangs; third cousin thrice removed of William
Anson Floyd and Pierpont
Edwards; fourth cousin of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell and Anson
Foster Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Meigs, William
Whiting Boardman, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton, Daniel
Darling Whitney, Edwin
Olmstead Keeler, Burr
L. Castle, John
Leffingwell Randolph and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Guy Vernor Henry (1839-1899) —
also known as Guy V. Henry —
Born in Fort Smith, Sebastian
County, Ark., March 9,
1839.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; received the Medal
of Honor in 1893 for action at the Battle of Cold Harbor, June 1,
1864; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Puerto Rico.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1899 (age 60 years, 232
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William Seton Henry and Arietta Livingston (Thompson) Henry;
married 1864 to
Frances Wharton; married to Julia McNair; grandson of John
Vernon Henry and Gilbert
Livingston Thompson; grandnephew of Mangle
Minthorne Tompkins; great-grandson of Smith
Thompson, Daniel
D. Tompkins and Hannah
Tompkins; great-grandnephew of Caleb
Tompkins; second great-grandson of Jonathan
Griffin Tompkins; third great-grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin twice removed of Jacob
Livingston Sutherland; first cousin four times removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William
Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Enos
Thompson Throop, George
Bliss Throop, Hamilton
Fish and Israel
Thompson Hatch; second cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Edward
Livingston; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Israel
Dodd Condit, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joseph M. Bresler (1868-1900) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
26, 1868.
Consul
for Nicaragua in Detroit,
Mich., 1895-96, 1899-1900; Consul
for Central America in Detroit,
Mich., 1897-98; Consul
for Honduras in Detroit,
Mich., 1899.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, from pleuro-pneumonia, in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., March 6,
1900 (age 31 years, 345
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Kyte (1846-1900) —
of Fanwood, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1846.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1891-93; Union
County Sheriff, 1894-97; mayor of Fanwood, N.J., 1898-1900.
Died, from pneumonia, in Fanwood, Union
County, N.J., May 5,
1900 (age about 53
years).
Interment at Scotch Plains Baptist Church Cemetery, Scotch Plains, N.J.
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Edwin Parker (c.1830-1900) —
of Contra
Costa County, Calif.; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Compton, Quebec,
about 1830.
Contra
Costa County District Attorney; member of California
state assembly 1st District, 1883-85; superior court judge in
California, 1887-88.
Methodist.
Died, probably of pneumonia, in San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif., June 8,
1900 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Frederick Smyth (1832-1900) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in County Galway, Ireland,
1832.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1876;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1896-1900; died in office
1900.
Episcopalian;
later Catholic.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Suffered a debilitating attack
of vertigo, from which he never completely recovered, contracted
pneumonia, and died, in the Dennis Hotel,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
18, 1900 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Benjamin Douglas Silliman (1805-1901) —
also known as Benjamin D. Silliman —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., September
14, 1805.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County, 1838; delegate to Whig National
Convention from New York, 1839 (speaker); Whig candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1843; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, 1865-66;
Republican candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1873.
At the time of his death, he was the oldest practicing lawyer in New
York State, and the oldest graduate of Yale University.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
24, 1901 (age 95 years, 132
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901) —
also known as William M. Evarts —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
6, 1818.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1860;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; U.S.
Attorney General, 1868-69; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1877-81; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1885-91.
Member, Skull
and Bones.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
28, 1901 (age 83 years, 22
days).
Interment at Ascutney
Cemetery, Windsor, Vt.
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) —
also known as "Little Ben"; "Kid
Gloves" —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in North Bend, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
20, 1833.
Republican. Indiana
reporter of state courts, 1861-63, 1865-69; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1876; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1880;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1881-87; President
of the United States, 1889-93; defeated, 1892.
Presbyterian.
English
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Phi
Delta Theta.
Died of pneumonia, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
13, 1901 (age 67 years, 205
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Ramsey (Irwin) Harrison; married, October
20, 1853, to Caroline
Harrison; married, April 6,
1896, to Mary Scott (Lord) Dimmick (sister-in-law of Joseph
Benjamin Dimmick); father of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; grandson of William
Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Anna
Harrison; grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); grandnephew of Carter
Bassett Harrison; great-grandson of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and John
Cleves Symmes; first cousin twice removed of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin twice removed of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; third cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph, Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and Carter
Henry Harrison II; fourth cousin of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; fourth cousin once removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
H. Swig
— Ben
H. Waigand
— Ben
DeHart
|
| | | Campaign slogan: "Grandfather's hat
fits Ben." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Benjamin Harrison: Rita
Stevens, Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd President of the United States — Harry
J. Sievers, Benjamin
Harrison : Hoosier President: The White House and After,
1889-1901 — Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin
Harrison — Homer E. Socolofsky & Allan B. Spetter, The
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison — Susan Clinton, Benjamin
Harrison : Twenty-Third President of the United States (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Benjamin Harrison:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Isaac E. Messmore (1821-1902) —
of La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis.; Washington,
D.C.; Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ontario,
August
21, 1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1861; circuit judge in Wisconsin 6th Circuit,
1861-62; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; assistant
commissioner, U.S. Revenue Bureau; real estate
developer; newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Michigan, 1880
(member, Credentials
Committee); candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 6th District, 1894.
Died, from pneumonia, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
8, 1902 (age 80 years, 140
days).
Interment at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Daniel W. Guernsey (1835-1902) —
of Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan.; Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Stanford, Dutchess
County, N.Y., 1835.
Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Dutchess
County Judge, 1884-1892.
Died, of pleuro-pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1902 (age about 66
years).
Interment somewhere
in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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Tully Robinson Cornick (1853-1902) —
also known as Tully R. Cornick —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., December
12, 1853.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from Tennessee, 1896.
Died, from pneumonia, in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., August
2, 1902 (age 48 years, 233
days).
Interment at Old
Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Felix Campbell (1829-1902) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
28, 1829.
Democrat. Engineer;
banker;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1883-91 (4th District 1883-85, 2nd
District 1885-91).
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
8, 1902 (age 73 years, 253
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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James Valentine Wagner (1848-1903) —
also known as James V. Wagner —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
8, 1848.
Cashier, National Marine Bank; Honorary
Consul for Nicaragua in Baltimore,
Md., 1891-96; Honorary
Consul for Venezuela in Baltimore,
Md., 1901-03.
Died, from pneumonia, in Baltimore,
Md., January
31, 1903 (age 54 years, 84
days). Following his death, it was discovered
that he had embezzled
about $30,000 from the bank.
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Edwin Maxwell (1825-1903) —
also known as "Old Honesty" —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va.
Born in Weston, Lewis
County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 16,
1825.
Republican. Member of West
Virginia state senate, 1863-67, 1887-90 (4th District 1863-67,
3rd District 1887-90); West
Virginia state attorney general, 1866; judge of
West Virginia supreme court of appeals, 1867-72; candidate for
Governor
of West Virginia, 1884; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Harrison County, 1893-94,
1903; died in office 1903.
Died, from pneumonia, in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., February
5, 1903 (age 77 years, 204
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.
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George Calvin Codd (1829-1903) —
also known as George C. Codd —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Ireland,
May
24, 1829.
Republican. Postmaster at Detroit,
Mich., 1879-85.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died, from broncho-pneumonia and Bright's
disease, in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
28, 1903 (age 73 years, 280
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Stephen Richmond Small (1837-1903) —
also known as Stephen R. Small —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Gray, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
19, 1837.
Banker;
Consul
for Argentina in Portland,
Maine, 1884-1902.
Died, from pneumonia and chronic
nephritis, in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, March
10, 1903 (age 66 years, 19
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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Thomas Bond Haughawout (1845-1903) —
also known as T. B. Haughawout —
of Carthage, Jasper
County, Mo.
Born in Lafayette
County, Wis., October
14, 1845.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Jasper
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1881; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Missouri, 1896
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee).
Died, from pneumonia, in Carthage, Jasper
County, Mo., April
30, 1903 (age 57 years, 198
days).
Interment at Park Cemetery, Carthage, Mo.
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Frederic O. Macartney (c.1864-1903) —
Born about 1864.
Socialist. Unitarian
minister; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1900-03; died in office 1903.
Died, of pneumonia, May 25,
1903 (age about 39
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Francis Lincoln (1850-1903) —
also known as George F. Lincoln —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., February
16, 1850.
Lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Stettin, 1880-83; Aix-la-Chapelle, 1883-85; Antwerp, 1892-93; U.S. Consul General in Antwerp, 1898-1902.
Died, from pleuropneumonia, in Brussels, Belgium,
July
23, 1903 (age 53 years, 157
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819-1903) —
also known as Colin M. Ingersoll —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., March
11, 1819.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1851-55; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1860,
1876;
Adjutant
General of Connecticut, 1867-71.
Died, of pneumonia, in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., September
13, 1903 (age 84 years, 186
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Mason D. Chatterton (1835-1903) —
of Meridian Township, Ingham
County, Mich.; Mason, Ingham
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Mt. Holly, Rutland
County, Vt., August
3, 1835.
Republican. Lawyer; Ingham
County Circuit Court Commissioner, 1864-69; village
president of Mason, Michigan, 1872-73; Ingham
County Probate Judge, 1873-80; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1884;
president, Farmers' Bank,
1886-1903.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died, of pneumonia, in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., October
27, 1903 (age 68 years, 85
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Okemos, Mich.
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William McKendree Springer (1836-1903) —
also known as William M. Springer —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Sullivan
County, Ind., May 30,
1836.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1860-62; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1871-72; defeated, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1875-95 (12th District 1875-83,
13th District 1883-95); U.S.
District Judge for Indian Territory, 1895-99.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., December
4, 1903 (age 67 years, 188
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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Edward Shippen (1823-1904) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., November
16, 1823.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Argentina in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1872-88, 1892-95; Consul
for Chile in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1872-98; Consul
for Ecuador in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1873-97.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died, from pneumonia, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
14, 1904 (age 80 years, 119
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Joseph Galloway Shippen and Anna Maria (Buckley) Shippen;
married, June 29,
1849, to Augusta Chauncey Twiggs; grandnephew of Edward
Shippen (1729-1806); great-grandson of Edward
Shippen (1703-1781); great-grandnephew of William
Shippen; third great-grandson of Edward
Shippen (1639-1712); first cousin once removed of Bertha
Shippen Irving; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin
Chew and Thomas
Willing; second cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd; third cousin of George
Howard, John
Brown Francis, Benjamin
Chew Howard and Sophia
Dallas; third cousin once removed of John
Lee Carroll and Edward
Overton Jr.; third cousin twice removed of James
Rieman Macfarlane, John
Howell Carroll and Francis
Fisher Kane. |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph
family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Shippen-Middleton
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bache-Dallas
family of Pennsylvania and New York; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Carroll
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Philadelphia Times,
December 20, 1891 |
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William Russell Grace (1832-1904) —
also known as William R. Grace —
of Callao, Peru;
New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland,
May
10, 1832.
Democrat. Steamship
business; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1881-82, 1885-86; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1888.
Catholic.
First
Catholic mayor of New York.
Died, from pneumonia and kidney
problems, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
21, 1904 (age 71 years, 316
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Timothy John Campbell (1840-1904) —
also known as Timothy J. Campbell —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in County Cavan, Ireland,
January
8, 1840.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 6th District, 1868-73, 1875,
1883; member of New York
state senate 6th District, 1884-85; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1885-89, 1891-95 (8th District
1885-89, 1891-93, 9th District 1893-95); defeated, 1888 (County
Democratic, 8th District), 1894 (Independent, 9th District), 1896
(Gold Democratic, 9th District); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1888.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 7,
1904 (age 64 years, 90
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Jackson R. Decker (c.1862-1905) —
of Sparta, Sussex
County, N.J.
Born in Sparta, Sussex
County, N.J., about 1862.
Merchant;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1905; died in
office 1905.
Died, from typhoid
pneumonia, in Sparta, Sussex
County, N.J., January
8, 1905 (age about 43
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Littleton Pitts (1841-1905) —
also known as Frank L. Pitts —
of Monroe
County, Mo.
Born in Shelby
County, Mo., 1841.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
wounded in battle and lost his
right arm; Missouri
state treasurer, 1897-1901.
Died, from catarrhal pneumonia, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., February
4, 1905 (age about 63
years).
Interment at Walnut
Grove Cemetery, Paris, Mo.
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Relatives:
Married to Laura F. Boulware. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Souvenir of the Missouri
Legislature 1897 |
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John Wesley Wilcox (d. 1905) —
also known as John W. Wilcox; "The Mariposa
Blacksmith" —
of California.
Born in Kentucky.
Member of California
state assembly 5th District, 1863-67, 1871-73, 1875-77.
Died, of pneumonia, in San
Francisco, Calif., February
5, 1905.
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Wilson L. Cannon (d. 1905) —
of Dover, Kent
County, Del.
Member of Delaware
state senate; elected 1858; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Delaware, 1868
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Died, of pneumonia, in Dover, Kent
County, Del., February
9, 1905.
Interment at Lakeside
Cemetery, Dover, Del.
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Relatives:
Father of Annie Jump Cannon. |
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George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905) —
also known as George S. Boutwell —
of Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., January
28, 1818.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1842-50; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1851-53; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1860,
1864
(alternate); first
U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1862; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1863-69 (7th District 1863-69,
9th District 1869); U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1869-73; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1873-77.
Died, from pneumonia, in Groton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
27, 1905 (age 87 years, 30
days).
Interment at Groton
Cemetery, Groton, Mass.
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John Henninger Reagan (1818-1905) —
also known as John H. Reagan —
of Palestine, Anderson
County, Tex.
Born in Sevierville, Sevier
County, Tenn., October
8, 1818.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1847; district judge in Texas,
1852-57; U.S.
Representative from Texas, 1857-61, 1875-87 (1st District
1857-61, 1875-83, 2nd District 1883-87); delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate
Postmaster General, 1861-65; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1872,
1904
(Honorary
Vice-President); delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1887-91.
Methodist.
Arrested
by Union
troops in May 1865, along with Jefferson
Davis, and imprisoned
for several months.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia in Palestine, Anderson
County, Tex., March 6,
1905 (age 86 years, 149
days).
Interment at East
Hill Cemetery, Palestine, Tex.
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Henry Stetson (1857-1905) —
of Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., January, 1857.
Democrat. Hat
manufacturer; mayor of
Orange, N.J., 1898-1904; defeated in primary, 1904.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from pneumonia, in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., March
15, 1905 (age 48 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Napoleon Stetson and Mary (Leonard) Stetson; nephew of John B.
Stetson; first cousin of John
Batterson Stetson Jr.. |
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M. J. Burke (c.1857-1905) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Carleton County, Ontario,
about 1857.
Newspaper
work; U.S. Consul in St. Thomas, 1897-1905, died in office 1905.
Died, of pneumonia, in St. Thomas, Ontario,
March
15, 1905 (age about 48
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Orville Hitchcock Platt (1827-1905) —
also known as Orville H. Platt —
of Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Washington, Litchfield
County, Conn., July 19,
1827.
Republican. Lawyer; secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1857-58; member of Connecticut
state senate 6th District, 1861-62; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1864, 1869; Speaker of
the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1869; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1864,
1868;
U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1879-1905; died in office 1905.
Died, from pneumonia, in Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn., April
21, 1905 (age 77 years, 276
days).
Interment at Washington
Cemetery on the Green, Washington, Conn.
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William Wallace Armstrong (1833-1905) —
also known as William W. Armstrong —
of Columbiana
County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana
County, Ohio, March
18, 1833.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; secretary
of state of Ohio, 1863-65; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1868,
1876
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1880;
postmaster at Cleveland,
Ohio, 1887-91.
Died, from pneumonia, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, April
21, 1905 (age 72 years, 34
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery, Tiffin, Ohio.
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Joseph Schulum Jr. (d. 1906) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Cigar
manufacturer; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 12th District, 1896-98.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Tammany
Hall.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
4, 1906.
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Schulum. |
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William Emerson Barrett (1858-1906) —
also known as William E. Barrett —
of Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Melrose, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
29, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1887-93; Speaker of
the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1889-93; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1895-99;
defeated, 1893.
Died, from pneumonia, in West Newton, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
12, 1906 (age 47 years, 45
days).
Interment at Newton
Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
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Isaac Townsend Smith (1813-1906) —
also known as Isaac T. Smith —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
12, 1813.
Republican. Banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Consul-General
for Siam in New
York, N.Y., 1887-1903.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
30, 1906 (age 93 years, 18
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Wheeler (1823-1906) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), New Haven
County, Conn., February
11, 1823.
Democrat. Hotel
business; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1853-57; president,
New York City Department of Taxes and Assesments, 1872-80.
Episcopalian.
Died, from pneumonia, in the Hotel
Seville, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 1,
1906 (age 83 years, 49
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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William Hughes (1857-1906) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District 1906, but died before
election.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Royal
Arcanum; Elks.
Died, from pneumonia, following appendicitis
surgery, in St. Peter's Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
2, 1906 (age about 49
years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Frank Williams Hunt (1861-1906) —
also known as Frank W. Hunt —
of Lemhi
County, Idaho; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., December
16, 1861.
Democrat. Member of Idaho
state house of representatives, 1892; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; Governor of
Idaho, 1901-03; defeated, 1902; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Idaho, 1904
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Died, of pneumonia, in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, November
25, 1906 (age 44 years, 344
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Manuel F. Gonzalez (1839-1907) —
of Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.
Born in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., December
18, 1839.
Vice-Consul
for Brazil in Pensacola,
Fla., 1874-1902; Vice-Consul
for Portugal in Pensacola,
Fla., 1875-77.
Died, from pneumonia, in Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla., March 6,
1907 (age 67 years, 78
days).
Interment at St.
Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of Pedro 'Peter' Gonzalez and Gila (Bonifay) Gonzalez; married to
Kate Chapman. |
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memorial |
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Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848-1907) —
also known as B. F. Tilley —
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., March
29, 1848.
U.S. Navy commander; Governor of
American Samoa; court
martialed in 1901 on charges
of immorality
and drunkenness;
tried
and found not guilty.
Died, of pneumonia, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
18, 1907 (age 58 years, 354
days).
Interment at Naval
Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Md.
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Edmund Gibson Ross (1826-1907) —
also known as Edmund G. Ross —
of Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Ashland, Ashland
County, Ohio, December
7, 1826.
Republican. Delegate
to Kansas state constitutional convention, 1859; major in the
Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1866-71; candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1880; Governor
of New Mexico Territory, 1885-89.
Presbyterian.
Thought to have cast the deciding vote in the Senate to acquit
President Andrew
Johnson. His grandson, Edmund Fessenden Cobb, was an actor who
appeared in over 200 movies and serials including Citizen Kane
and The Last Hurrah.
Died, of pneumonia, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., May 8,
1907 (age 80 years, 152
days).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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John Lewis Waller (1850-1907) —
also known as John L. Waller —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.; Wyandotte (now part of Kansas City), Wyandotte
County, Kan.; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in slavery
in New
Madrid County, Mo., January
12, 1850.
Republican. Barber; lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Kansas; U.S. Consul in Tamatave, 1891-93; in March 1895, during France's military
takeover of Madagascar from the Hova monarchy, he was arrested
by French forces and tried in
a French military court, purportedly for the offense of corresponding
with (or spying
for) the Hovas, but more likely because the Queen of the Hovas had
granted him 2.5 square miles, rich with rubber and mahogany trees; sentenced
to twenty years in a French prison; his case became an international
cause celebre, and the U.S. government protested his imprisonment;
ultimately pardoned
in February 1896 by French president Félix Faure, and freed
after ten months in prison, in exchange for U.S. acquiesance to
French rule over Madagascar; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor.
Died, from pneumonia, in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
13, 1907 (age 57 years, 274
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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George Birch Abbott (1850-1908) —
also known as George B. Abbott —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brookfield, Orange
County, Vt., September
27, 1850.
Democrat. Lawyer; Kings
County Surrogate, 1889-1901; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1907-08; died in office 1908.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sigma
Phi; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died, from "blood poisoning" (infection),
and pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
10, 1908 (age 57 years, 136
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Franklin Abbott and Diancy (Pickering) Abbott; married,
November
20, 1878, to Eva Topping Reeve. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: Brooklyn (N.Y.) Daily
Eagle, February 10, 1908 |
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George Augustus Vare (1859-1908) —
also known as George A. Vare —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
7, 1859.
Republican. Contractor;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1892-96; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 1st District, 1897-1908; died in office 1908;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1904.
Died, from pneumonia and influenza,
in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
28, 1908 (age 49 years, 21
days).
Entombed at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Isaac DeGraff Toll (1818-1908) —
also known as Isaac D. Toll; "The
General" —
of Fawn River, St. Joseph
County, Mich.; Petoskey, Emmet
County, Mich.
Born in Glenville, Schenectady
County, N.Y., December
1, 1818.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from St. Joseph County, 1846;
member of Michigan
state senate 4th District, 1847; served in the Union Army during
the Civil War; village
president of Petoskey, Michigan, 1881-83; postmaster at Petoskey,
Mich., 1887.
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, from pneumonia, in Petoskey, Emmet
County, Mich., March
27, 1908 (age 89 years, 117
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Petoskey, Mich.
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John Conrad Baumberger (1832-1908) —
also known as J. C. Baumberger; Johann Conrad
Baumberger —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Dübendorf, Zürich, Switzerland,
January
10, 1832.
Wholesale
tobacco business; Consul
for Switzerland in Louisville,
Ky., 1883-87, 1895-1908.
Died, from pneumonia and influenza,
in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., April
27, 1908 (age 76 years, 108
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives:
Married to Maria Therese Muenchausen. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Louisville
Courier-Journal, August 8, 1897 |
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David Kawananakoa (1868-1908) —
also known as David La'amea Kahalepouli Kinoiki
Kawananakoa —
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, February
19, 1868.
Democrat. Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Hawaii Territory, 1900.
Hawaiian
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, at Hotel
Stewart, San
Francisco, Calif., June 2,
1908 (age 40 years, 104
days).
Entombed at Royal
Mausoleum, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Washington Hodges Timmerman (1832-1908) —
also known as W. H. Timmerman —
of Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., May 29,
1832.
Democrat. Physician;
farmer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; banker;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Edgefield County,
1882-83, 1890-91; resigned 1891; member of South
Carolina state senate from Edgefield County, 1891-93; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1892;
chair
of Edgefield County Democratic Party, 1892; Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1893-96; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Edgefield
County, 1895; South
Carolina state treasurer, 1897-1901; candidate for Governor of
South Carolina, 1902.
Baptist.
Member, Sons of
Temperance.
Died, from pneumonia, in Batesburg (now part of
Batesburg-Leesville), Lexington
County, S.C., July 14,
1908 (age 76 years, 46
days).
Interment at Timmerman Cemetery, Aiken County, S.C.
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Eugene Semple (1840-1908) —
of Oregon; Washington.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia
of American parents, June 12,
1840.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; Oregon
state printer, 1870-73; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1887-89; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1889.
Died, of pneumonia, in a rest
home at San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., August
28, 1908 (age 68 years, 77
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Wright
Crematory and Columbarium, Seattle, Wash.
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Alonson T. Dominy (1863-1908) —
of Beekmantown, Clinton
County, N.Y.
Born in Beekmantown, Clinton
County, N.Y., November
14, 1863.
Republican. Clinton
County Sheriff; member of New York
state assembly from Clinton County, 1907-08; died in office 1908.
Died, from appendicitis
and pneumonia, September
9, 1908 (age 44 years, 300
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ebenezer Madden Kerr (1841-1909) —
also known as E. M. Kerr —
of Elkton, Hickory
County, Mo.
Born in Marion
County, Ohio, August
30, 1841.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Missouri
state house of representatives from Hickory County, 1891-94,
1909; died in office 1909.
Methodist.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died, from pneumonia, in St. Mary's Hospital,
Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., February
27, 1909 (age 67 years, 181
days).
Interment at Lehman Cemetery, Elkton, Mo.
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Martyn Livingston Agens (1855-1909) —
also known as M. Livy Agens —
of Ludington, Mason
County, Mich.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., June 17,
1855.
Republican. Fruit
farmer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Mason County, 1905-09; died
in office 1909.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Grange;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, from spinal
meningitis and pneumonia, in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., March
30, 1909 (age 53 years, 286
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Ludington, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander Mason Agens and Georgia (Dean) Agens; married to Eva A.
Holmes. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edwin Jonathan McIntosh (1826-1909) —
also known as Jonathan McIntosh —
of Lodi, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Born in Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y., November
6, 1826.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of California
state assembly 16th District, 1880-81.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in Lodi, San Joaquin
County, Calif., April
19, 1909 (age 82 years, 164
days).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Woodbridge, Calif.
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Samuel June Barrows (1845-1909) —
also known as Samuel J. Barrows —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 26,
1845.
Republican. Secretary to William
H. Seward, 1867-69; pastor; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 10th District, 1897-99;
defeated, 1898.
Unitarian.
Died, of pneumonia, in Presbyterian Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
21, 1909 (age 63 years, 330
days).
Cremated.
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James Roach (c.1857-1909) —
of Joplin, Jasper
County, Mo.
Born about 1857.
Republican. Member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jasper County 3rd District,
1905-09; died in office 1909.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from typhoid
fever and pneumonia, in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., May 16,
1909 (age about 52
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Perry Henderson (1842-1909) —
also known as Henry P. Henderson —
of Mason, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Tully, Onondaga
County, N.Y., 1842.
Democrat. Lawyer; bank
director; candidate for mayor of
Mason, Mich., 1876; law partner of George
M. Huntington, 1881-88; justice of
Utah territorial supreme court, 1886-89; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Utah Territory, 1892.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died, from pneumonia, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, June 3,
1909 (age about 66
years).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Mason, Mich.
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Francis Wellington Cushman (1867-1909) —
also known as Francis W. Cushman; "Abe Lincoln of the
Pacific Coast" —
of Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Brighton, Washington
County, Iowa, May 8,
1867.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1899-1909 (at-large 1899-1909,
2nd District 1909); died in office 1909.
Died, of pneumonia, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 6,
1909 (age 42 years, 59
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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George F. Turrittin (1844-1909) —
of Winnemucca, Humboldt
County, Nev.; Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in County Donegal, Ireland,
February
22, 1844.
Republican. Member of Nevada
state house of representatives, 1880; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Nevada, 1896
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); mayor of
Reno, Nev., 1903-05.
Died, from pneumonia, in Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., August
26, 1909 (age 65 years, 185
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Henry Gaus (1840-1909) —
also known as Charles H. Gaus —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, September
1, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; druggist; mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1902-08; New York
state comptroller, 1909; died in office 1909.
German
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in a hunting
lodge on Long Lake, in the Laurentian Mountains, Quebec,
October
31, 1909 (age 69 years, 60
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Eugene Engley (1851-1910) —
of Colorado.
Born in Attleboro, Bristol
County, Mass., 1851.
Lawyer;
newspaper
publisher; Colorado
state attorney general, 1893-94.
Died, of pneumonia, in Alamosa, Alamosa
County, Colo., April
18, 1910 (age about 58
years).
Interment at Alamosa
Cemetery, Alamosa, Colo.
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Charles Willoughby Dayton (1846-1910) —
also known as Charles W. Dayton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
3, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 23rd District, 1881;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1893-97; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1904;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1907-10; defeated, 1901;
died in office 1910.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1910 (age 64 years, 65
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Clarence Lexow (1852-1910) —
of South Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
16, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of T.
Tileston Wells; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1890; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1892;
member of New York
state senate, 1894-98 (16th District 1894-95, 23rd District
1896-98); candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Police corruption in New York City; police corruption in New York
City; also chaired joint legislative committee which drafted the bill
creating New York City in its present boundaries, including the
then-separate city of Brooklyn.
Died, from pneumonia, in South Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., December
31, 1910 (age 58 years, 106
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Edward Baldwin Whitney (1857-1911) —
also known as Edward B. Whitney —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., August
15, 1857.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1909-11; defeated, 1904,
1906; appointed 1909; defeated, 1910; appointed 1910; died in office
1911.
Died, of pneumonia, in Cornwall, Litchfield
County, Conn., January
5, 1911 (age 53 years, 143
days).
Interment at Cornwall
Cemetery, Cornwall, Conn.
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John Henry Davidson (1841-1911) —
of Wheatland, Hickory
County, Mo.
Born near Bowling Green, Warren
County, Ky., June 26,
1841.
Democrat. Farmer; lawyer;
candidate for Missouri
state house of representatives, 1874, 1876; candidate for Missouri
state senate, 1886.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in El Dorado Springs, Cedar
County, Mo., February
10, 1911 (age 69 years, 229
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Alfred Love Davidson and Mary Jane (Adams) Davidson; married, January
24, 1869, to Mary F. Allen. |
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Tewksbury Loring Swett (1846-1911) —
also known as Tewksbury L. Swett; Tewksbury L.
Sweat —
of Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine.
Born in Arrowsic, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, May 3,
1846.
Democrat. Shipbroker;
Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in Portland,
Maine, 1880-1903; Vice-Consul
for Norway in Portland,
Maine, 1908.
Died, from broncho-pneumonia, in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, February
28, 1911 (age 64 years, 301
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Brunswick, Maine.
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Melville Reeves Hopewell (1845-1911) —
also known as Melville R. Hopewell —
of Tekamah, Burt
County, Neb.
Born in Monroe
County, Ind., March
27, 1845.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to Nebraska state constitutional convention, 1875; district judge
in Nebraska, 1887-96; Lieutenant
Governor of Nebraska, 1907-11; died in office 1911; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1908.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, May 2,
1911 (age 66 years, 36
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Charles Hopewell and Sara J. (Reeves) Hopewell; married,
October
20, 1874, to Harriet E. Nelson. |
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Edward Morse Shepard (1850-1911) —
also known as Edward M. Shepard —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 23,
1850.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Democratic Reform candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1901.
Died, of pneumonia, in Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., July 28,
1911 (age 61 years, 5
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Fairfield Dryden (1839-1911) —
also known as John F. Dryden —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Temple, Franklin
County, Maine, August
7, 1839.
Republican. Founder and president, Prudential Insurance
Company of America; director, U.S. Steel
Corporation; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1902-07; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Jersey, 1904.
Presbyterian.
Died, from pneumonia two weeks after surgery to remove gallstones,
in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., November
24, 1911 (age 72 years, 109
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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William Robeson Holloway (1836-1911) —
also known as William R. Holloway —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., December
6, 1836.
Republican. Printer;
lawyer;
private secretary to Gov. Oliver
P. Morton, 1861; newspaper
editor; postmaster at Indianapolis,
Ind., 1869-81; private secretary to Mayor Caleb
S. Denny, 1894-95; U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg, 1897-98; Halifax, as of 1904-06.
Died, of pneumonia, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
30, 1911 (age 75 years, 24
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Isaac Perry Cocke (1860-1912) —
also known as I. P. Cocke —
of Lee
County, Ga.; Dawson, Terrell
County, Ga.
Born in Burke
County, Ga., 1860.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1900,
1904
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee).
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died, from pneumonia and diabetes,
in Dawson, Terrell
County, Ga., January
23, 1912 (age about 51
years).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Dawson, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Perry Cock and Almeda Malvina (Griffin) Cock; married to
Minnie Huff. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Guy G. Major (1859-1912) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born October
19, 1859.
Republican. Mayor of
Toledo, Ohio, 1893-97.
Died, from pneumonia, at the New York Club, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
30, 1912 (age 52 years, 103
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
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Charles Earl Sapp (1859-1912) —
also known as Charles E. Sapp —
of Crescent Hill, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Missouri, February
15, 1859.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky,
1896,
1900;
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 5th Kentucky District,
1899-1901.
Republican boss of Louisville, allied with William
S. Taylor; indicted,
with two others, in March 1902, on federal charges
of extorting
payments from federal employees for political
contributions; pleaded
guilty in March 1903, and fined
$500 plus costs.
Died, from double pneumonia, in St.
Louis, Mo., March
10, 1912 (age 53 years, 24
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives:
Married to Nellie Williamson. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Louisville
Courier-Journal, March 11, 1912 |
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Clifford Stevens Walton (1861-1912) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Chardon, Geauga
County, Ohio, March 2,
1861.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Peru in Washington,
D.C., 1898-1902.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., May 15,
1912 (age 51 years, 74
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Albert Sidney Brookes (1870-1913) —
also known as Albert S. Brookes —
Born August
14, 1870.
Adjutant
General of New Mexico, 1910-13; died in office 1913.
Died, from pneumonia following gallstone
surgery, in Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., November
5, 1913 (age 43 years, 83
days).
Interment at Santa
Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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Relatives: Son
of Willis Swan Brookes and Elizabeth Elvira (Word)
Brookes. |
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memorial |
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Andrew Jackson Clements (1832-1913) —
also known as A. J. Clements —
of Tennessee.
Born in Clementsville, Clay
County, Tenn., December
23, 1832.
Physician;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 3rd District, 1861-63; member of
Tennessee state legislature, 1870.
Died, of pneumonia, in Central State Hospital (a mental
hospital where he was confined due to senility),
Lakeland, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
7, 1913 (age 80 years, 319
days).
Interment at Glasgow
Cemetery, Glasgow, Ky.
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Edgar Wilson (1861-1915) —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Armstrong
County, Pa., February
25, 1861.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer; banker; delegate
to Idaho state constitutional convention, 1890; Idaho
Republican state chair, 1892; U.S.
Representative from Idaho at-large, 1895-97, 1899-1901;
candidate for justice of
Idaho state supreme court, 1896.
Died, from pneumonia, in a hotel
room in Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, January
3, 1915 (age 53 years, 312
days).
Interment at Morris
Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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William M. Brown (1850-1915) —
of New Castle, Lawrence
County, Pa.
Born in Greenville, Mercer
County, Pa., September
20, 1850.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1876, 1880; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 47th District, 1897-1900; Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1903-07; elected U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 24th District 1914, but died
before taking office.
Died, from pneumonia, in the Hotel
McAlpin, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
31, 1915 (age 64 years, 133
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, New Castle, Pa.
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John B. Lynn (1840-1915) —
of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., January
26, 1840.
Mayor
of Winfield, Kan., 1878-80.
Died, of pneumonia, in Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan., February
14, 1915 (age 75 years, 19
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Winfield, Kan.
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Emmett Robinson Wooten (1878-1915) —
also known as Emmett R. Wooten —
of Kinston, Lenoir
County, N.C.
Born in Fort Barnwell, Craven
County, N.C., November
2, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Lenoir County,
1909-15; died in office 1915; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1915; died in
office 1915.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Odd
Fellows; Junior
Order.
Injured in an automobile
accident, suffered traumatic pneumonia, and died, in Rex
Hospital,
Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., February
27, 1915 (age 36 years, 117
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery, Kinston, N.C.
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Henry Bacon (1846-1915) —
of Goshen, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
14, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1886-89, 1891-93;
defeated, 1888 (15th District), 1892 (17th District); delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1892.
Died, of pneumonia, in Goshen, Orange
County, N.Y., March
25, 1915 (age 69 years, 11
days).
Interment at Slate
Hill Cemetery, Goshen, N.Y.
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Curtis Guild Jr. (1860-1915) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
2, 1860.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1884; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1896
(Convention
Vice-President); colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1903-06; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1906-09; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1908;
U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1911-13.
Member, Freemasons;
Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Forestry Association.
In 1907, John A. Steele came to the State House with a revolver, and
attempted
to kill Gov. Guild; he was subdued and arrested after shooting
two people.
Died, of pneumonia, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 6,
1915 (age 55 years, 63
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Albert Heminway Michelson (1878-1915) —
also known as Albert H. Michelson —
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., January
16, 1878.
U.S. Consular Agent in Charleroi, 1901-06; U.S. Consul in Turin, 1906-12; Hanover, 1912-15, died in office 1915.
Died, of pneumonia, in a hospital
at Cologne (Köln), Germany,
June
9, 1915 (age 37 years, 144
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Lawrence Burnett (1838-1916) —
also known as Henry L. Burnett; "Lightning Eyes
Burnett" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, December
26, 1838.
Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1898-1906.
Investigated the assassination of President Abraham
Lincoln, and helped prosecute the conspirators.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1916 (age 77 years, 9
days).
Interment at Slate
Hill Cemetery, Goshen, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Agnes Suffern Tailer. |
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John Joseph Brady (1853-1916) —
also known as John J. Brady —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
30, 1853.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1907-16; died in office
1916.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Ancient
Order of Hibernians; Elks.
Collapsed on a
train returning from Atlantic City, and brought home; died, a
week later, from pneumonia, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., January
7, 1916 (age 62 years, 130
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Loran Ludowick Lewis (1825-1916) —
also known as Loran L. Lewis —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Mentz, Cayuga
County, N.Y., May 9,
1825.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 31st District, 1870-73; candidate for Buffalo
superior court judge, 1877; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 8th District, 1883-95; president, Third
National Bank of
Buffalo; appointed in 1901 as defense counsel for Leon Czolgosz,
assassin of President William
McKinley.
Died, from pneumonia, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., March 8,
1916 (age 90 years, 304
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (1844-1916) —
also known as John H. Surratt, Jr. —
of Surrattsville (now Clinton), Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April
13, 1844.
Postmaster at Surrattsville,
Md., 1862-63; dismissed
as postmaster in 1863 for alleged disloyalty
to the Union; became a Confederate courier and spy; he
and others attempted to kidnap
President Abraham
Lincoln; later, the plot to kill the President and other
government officials was formulated at his mother's boarding house in
Washington; he denied involvement in the assassination, but fled
overseas; he was arrested
in Alexandria, Egypt, and sent back to the U.S.; tried in a Maryland
court in 1867 for his alleged involvement in the murder
plot, but the jury couldn't reach a verdict, and a mistrial was
declared; treasurer of a steamship
company.
Died, from pneumonia, in Baltimore,
Md., April
21, 1916 (age 72 years, 8
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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William Seward Whittlesey (1840-1917) —
also known as W. Seward Whittlesey —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 15,
1840.
Republican. Postmaster at Rochester,
N.Y., 1907-11.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, from pneumonia, in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., 1917
(age about
76 years).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Friend William Smith Jr. (1829-1917) —
also known as Friend W. Smith, Jr. —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Delaware
County, N.Y., May 11,
1829.
Republican. Inventor;
manufacturer;
bank
director; postmaster at Bridgeport,
Conn., 1861-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died, from pneumonia, in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., March 3,
1917 (age 87 years, 296
days).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Friend William Smith and Mary (Esmond) Smith; married to Angeline
A. Weed. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Shirley M. Crawford (1872-1917) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
5, 1872.
Republican. Actor;
newspaper
writer; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
law partner of Augustus
E. Willson; Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Louisville,
Ky., 1901-07; in February 1905, amidst a controversy over the
appointment of a new Colonel, a military court of inquiry was
convened to investigate
the officers of the First Kentucky regiment, including a Major and
six Captains, for willful
disobedience; all were releived of duty, but Capt. Crawford was
singled out as "an agitator and fomenter of strife, disloyal and
insubordinate to his superior officers," and ordered court-martialed;
secretary-treasurer and director, Kentucky-Arizona Copper
Company (engaged in mining and
smelting).
Hit by
a car while crossing a street, suffered a fractured leg and
pneumonia, and died two weeks later, in German Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., September
6, 1917 (age 45 years, 32
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at San
Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
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Theron Wilson Atwood (1854-1917) —
also known as Theron W. Atwood —
of Caro, Tuscola
County, Mich.
Born in White Oak, Ingham
County, Mich., January
3, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer; Tuscola
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1886-94; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Michigan, 1896,
1912;
member of Michigan
state senate 21st District, 1899-1902; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 21st District,
1907-08; instrumental in building an electric
railroad connecting Jackson, Lansing, and Owosso.
Died, from pneumonia and complications of appendicitis,
in Caro, Tuscola
County, Mich., September
27, 1917 (age 63 years, 267
days).
Entombed at Indianfields
Township Cemetery, Caro, Mich.
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John Daniel Crimmins (1844-1917) —
also known as John D. Crimmins —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 18,
1844.
Democrat. Contractor;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 12th District, 1894;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896,
1912
(alternate); candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Philanthropist.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
9, 1917 (age 73 years, 175
days).
Entombed at Corpus
Christi Monastery, Bronx, N.Y.
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David E. Thurber (1846-1917) —
of Ingersoll Township, Midland
County, Mich.; Midland, Midland
County, Mich.
Born in Canada,
January
28, 1846.
Democrat. Farmer;
president and secretary, Farmers Mutual Insurance
Association; coal
dealer; candidate for mayor
of Midland, Mich., 1909, 1912.
Methodist.
Died, from pneumonia, in Midland, Midland
County, Mich., November
19, 1917 (age 71 years, 295
days).
Interment at Midland
Cemetery, Midland, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married to Rebecca Horton; married, July 2,
1913, to Mrs. Samantha Oliver. |
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Augustus Peabody Gardner (1865-1918) —
also known as Augustus P. Gardner —
of Hamilton, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
5, 1865.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1900-01; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1902-17; resigned
1917; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1913; major in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Died, of pneumonia, while in the
military service at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., January
14, 1918 (age 52 years, 70
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Hughes (1872-1918) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland,
April
3, 1872.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; stenographer;
lawyer;
candidate for New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1901; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 6th District, 1903-05, 1907-12;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1912
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization; speaker),
1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); county judge in New Jersey, 1912; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1913-18; died in office 1918.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of sepsis
from a tooth
infection, complicated by bronchial pneumonia, in a hospital,
at Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., January
30, 1918 (age 45 years, 302
days).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Elbridge Jackson Broaddus (1835-1918) —
also known as Elbridge J. Broaddus —
of Chillicothe, Livingston
County, Mo.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., June 19,
1835.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Chillicothe, Mo., 1871-72, 1890-91; defeated, 1891; circuit
judge in Missouri 7th Circuit, 1874-80, 1891-1900; appointed 1891;
Greenback candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1878; Judge, Missouri
Kansas City Court of Appeals, 1901-12.
Died, from pneumonia, in Hobart, Kiowa
County, Okla., March 2,
1918 (age 82 years, 256
days).
Interment at Edgewood
Cemetery, Chillicothe, Mo.
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Emerson Bristol Terhune (1893-1918) —
also known as Emerson Terhune —
of Frederic, Crawford
County, Mich.; Buckley, Wexford
County, Mich.
Born in Peck, Sanilac
County, Mich., August
12, 1893.
Candidate for Michigan
state senate 28th District, 1914.
Died, from pneumonia, as a soldier
in the base hospital,
Camp Custer, Charleston Township, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., October
13, 1918 (age 25 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oakwood Cemetery, Frederic, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. William Gillespy Terhune and Deborah J. (Knisley)
Terhune. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Reynolds Clough (1875-1918) —
of Dover, Kent
County, Del.
Born in Delaware, May 10,
1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, 1912
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business).
Died, from pneumonia and influenza,
in Dover, Kent
County, Del., October
15, 1918 (age 43 years, 158
days).
Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden, Del.
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Michael Joseph Gill (1864-1918) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in New York, December
5, 1864.
Democrat. Glass
blower; glass
manufacturing business; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 12th District, 1914-15; defeated,
1898 (10th District), 1912 (12th District), 1916 (12th District).
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from influenza
and bronchial pneumonia, in St. John's Hospital,
St.
Louis, Mo., November
1, 1918 (age 53 years, 331
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Benjamin Matthias Richardson (1877-1918) —
also known as Benjamin M. Richardson; Ben
Richardson —
of Athens, Henderson
County, Tex.
Born in Athens, Henderson
County, Tex., March 2,
1877.
Democrat. Postmaster at Athens,
Tex., 1914-18.
Died, from double pneumonia, in Athens, Henderson
County, Tex., December
14, 1918 (age 41 years, 287
days).
Interment at Athens Cemetery, Athens, Tex.
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Henry M. Scales (1869-1918) —
of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born in Holly Springs, Marshall
County, Miss., March
13, 1869.
Lawyer;
real
estate and insurance
business; mayor
of Oklahoma City, Okla., 1907-10; resigned 1910.
Died, from pneumonia, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., December
15, 1918 (age 49 years, 277
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Campaign slogan
(1907): "Let The People Rule." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: City of Oklahoma
City |
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John Clay Cowin (1846-1918) —
also known as John C. Cowin —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Warrensville (now Warrensville Heights), Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
11, 1846.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nebraska, 1896
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Died, from broncho-pneumonia, in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., December
20, 1918 (age 72 years, 343
days).
Original interment at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb.; reinterment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Cowin and Margaret (Callow) Cowin; married 1869 to Ella
Leonora Benton. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James V. Coleman (c.1854-1919) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born about 1854.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1892,
1912
(speaker).
Died, of pneumonia, 1919
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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James B. Allen (1875-1919) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., January
13, 1875.
Democrat. Insurance
business; candidate for Missouri
state house of representatives from Jackson County 6th District,
1909.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia due to influenza,
in Bonaventure Hotel,
Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., February
15, 1919 (age 44 years, 33
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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William Patterson Borland (1867-1919) —
also known as William P. Borland —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Leavenworth, Leavenworth
County, Kan., October
14, 1867.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
professor; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 5th District, 1909-19; died in
office 1919.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in U.S. Army Field Hospital
No. 31, near Coblenz (Koblenz), Germany,
February
20, 1919 (age 51 years, 129
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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Emile Stanislas Brus (1847-1919) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Mazamet, France,
December
13, 1847.
Consular
Agent for France in Kansas
City, Mo.-Kan., 1900-07.
French
ancestry.
Died, from hypostatic pneumonia, in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., February
27, 1919 (age 71 years, 76
days).
Interment at Mt.
Washington Cemetery, Independence, Mo.
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Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919) —
also known as Roger A. Pryor —
of Petersburg,
Va.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Petersburg, Dinwiddie
County, Va., July 19,
1828.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1859-61; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1876,
1888;
common pleas court judge in New York, 1890-95; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1896-99.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
14, 1919 (age 90 years, 238
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849-1919) —
also known as Robert S. McCormick —
of Illinois.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., July 26,
1849.
Grain
brokerage business; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1901-02; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1902; Russia, 1902-05; France, 1905-07.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in a nursing
home at Hinsdale, DuPage
County, Ill., April
16, 1919 (age 69 years, 264
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Coit Spooner (1843-1919) —
also known as John C. Spooner; "The Tinker of
Legislation" —
of Hudson, St. Croix
County, Wis.; Madison, Dane
County, Wis.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., January
6, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
private and military secretary to Gov. Lucius
Fairchild; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1872; general solicitor, Omaha Railroad,
1880; law partner of Arthur
Loomis Sanborn; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1885-91, 1897-1907; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1888
(delegation chair), 1892
(delegation chair); candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, 1892.
Died, of pneumonia and apoplexy,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 11,
1919 (age 76 years, 156
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Frank L. Dowling (c.1865-1919) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1865.
Democrat. Borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1918-19; died in office 1919.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
27, 1919 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Philip Henry Dugro (1855-1920) —
also known as P. Henry Dugro —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
2, 1855.
Democrat. Lawyer; hotelier;
banker;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 14th District, 1879; U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1881-83; New York City
superior court judge, 1887-95; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1896-1920; died in office
1920.
Alsatian
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall; Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died, from pneumonia, in his apartment at the Savoy Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 1,
1920 (age 64 years, 151
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Eugene A. Philbin (1857-1920) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 24,
1857.
Democrat. Lawyer; New
York County District Attorney, 1900; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1913-20; appointed 1913;
died in office 1920.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
14, 1920 (age 62 years, 264
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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John Bogart (c.1836-1920) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1836.
Civil
engineer; New York
state engineer and surveyor, 1888-91.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
25, 1920 (age about 84
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Henry Bogart; married 1870 to Emma
Cherrington Jefferis. |
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) —
of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont
County, Ohio, March 1,
1837.
U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author;
editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1872-81.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1920 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Cambridge
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Alexander Samuel Bacon (1853-1920) —
also known as Alexander S. Bacon —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich., November
20, 1853.
Lawyer;
lecturer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 9th District, 1887; candidate
for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1906 (Independence League),
1915 (American); candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
vice-president and director, Webster Piano
Company.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Attorney for New York Gov. William
Sulzer at his impeachment trial in 1913.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 29,
1920 (age 66 years, 191
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Canandaigua, N.Y.
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George Romayne Salisbury (1863-1920) —
also known as George R. Salisbury —
of Schuylerville, Saratoga
County, N.Y.; Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y.
Born in Schuylerville, Saratoga
County, N.Y., August
10, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer; Saratoga
County District Attorney, 1899-1903; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 4th District, 1917-20; appointed 1917;
died in office 1920.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, from pneumonia, in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., September
24, 1920 (age 57 years, 45
days).
Interment at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Schuylerville, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Amos M. Salisbury and Lucinda E. (Welch) Salisbury; married 1897 to Emma
Ingalls; married 1899 to Jane
Brewer 'Jennie' Schermerhorn. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Arthur Loomis Sanborn (1850-1920) —
of Elkhorn, Walworth
County, Wis.; Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Brasher Falls, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., November
17, 1850.
Walworth
County Register of Deeds, 1875-79; lawyer; law
partner of John
C. Spooner; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, 1905-20;
died in office 1920.
Congregationalist.
Died, from pneumonia, in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., October
18, 1920 (age 69 years, 336
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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Joseph Nicola Francolini (1856-1920) —
also known as Joseph N. Francolini —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Corleto Perticara, Potenza, Italy,
March
29, 1856.
Progressive. Banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
14, 1920 (age 64 years, 260
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Biagio Francolini and Francesca (Galotti) Francolini; married,
September
17, 1897, to Marguerite Mackellar. |
| | | Epitaph: "An exemplary life he lived:
as a citizen gratuitiously he served the state many years: knighted
by the King of Italy with the Order ot St. Maurizio and Lazzaro for
attainments in a foreign field: in practice love for God and man was
his religion." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Casimiro Barela (1847-1920) —
of Denver,
Colo.; Trinidad, Las Animas
County, Colo.
Born in Embudo, Rio Arriba
County, N.M., March 4,
1847.
Newspaper
publisher; member of Colorado
state senate, 1877-1913; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Colorado, 1880
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1888;
Consul
for Mexico in Denver,
Colo., 1893-1903; Consul
for Costa Rica in Denver,
Colo., 1897-1903; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Colorado, 1912.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in Las Animas
County, Colo., December
18, 1920 (age 73 years, 289
days).
Interment at Catholic Cemetery, Trinidad, Colo.
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David Cyrus Cole (1848-1921) —
also known as Cyrus Cole —
of Hermosa, Custer
County, S.Dak.; Missoula, Missoula
County, Mont.; Silverton, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Lodi, Seneca
County, N.Y., 1848.
Member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 46th District, 1889-90.
Died, from pneumonia, in El Paso, El Paso
County, Tex., January
8, 1921 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Evergreen
Alameda Cemetery, El Paso, Tex.
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George Washington Fithian (1854-1921) —
also known as George W. Fithian —
of Newton, Jasper
County, Ill.
Born near Willow Hill, Jasper
County, Ill., July 4,
1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; Jasper
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1876-84; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 16th District, 1889-95; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916,
1920;
member of Illinois
Democratic State Central Committee, 1919.
Died of pneumonia, in a hospital
at Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., January
21, 1921 (age 66 years, 201
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Newton, Ill.
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Michael J. Dady (c.1850-1921) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1850.
Republican. Contractor;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916.
Died, of pneumonia, in St. Mary's Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 2,
1921 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Archibald Johnson Sampson (1839-1921) —
also known as Archibald J. Sampson; A. J.
Sampson —
of Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo.; Colorado; Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born near Cadiz, Harrison
County, Ohio, June 21,
1839.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Colorado
state attorney general, 1877-79; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1897-1905.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons.
Died, from acute
nephritis and pneumonia, in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., December
24, 1921 (age 82 years, 186
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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John Addie Donald (1857-1922) —
also known as John A. Donald —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland,
July
24, 1857.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; steamship
business; member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1917-21.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
13, 1922 (age 64 years, 173
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Thomas Carmody (1859-1922) —
of Penn Yan, Yates
County, N.Y.; New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Milo, Yates
County, N.Y., October
9, 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer; Yates
County District Attorney, 1889; chief examiner, New York State
Civil Service Commission, 1893-96; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1904,
1912;
New
York state attorney general, 1911-14; resigned 1914.
Catholic.
Died, of pneumonia, in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
22, 1922 (age 62 years, 105
days).
Interment at St.
Michael's Cemetery, Penn Yan, N.Y.
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George Sawter (1857-1922) —
of Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., 1857.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor and publisher; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Glauchau, 1895-96; U.S. Consul in Glauchau, 1896-99; Antigua, 1901-02.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 1,
1922 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Henry DeWitt Hotchkiss (1856-1922) —
also known as Henry D. Hotchkiss —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 2,
1856.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1886; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 9th District, 1894;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1912-22; died in office
1922; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme
Court, 1913-15.
Episcopalian.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 6,
1922 (age 65 years, 247
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Norwalk, Ohio.
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Benjamin Bosse (1875-1922) —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born November
1, 1875.
Democrat. Financier;
furniture
manufacturer; mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1914-22; died in office 1922; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1916
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); Indiana
Democratic state chair, 1922.
Lutheran.
Died, from pneumonia, in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., April 4,
1922 (age 46 years, 154
days).
Interment at Lutheran
Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Bosse and Carolyn Bosse; married to Anna
Schlensker. |
| | | Image source: City of
Evansville |
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Samuel Fallows (1835-1922) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Pendleton, Lancashire, England,
December
13, 1835.
Republican. Minister;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; Wisconsin
superintendent of public instruction, 1870-74; president,
Wesleyan University, 1874; bishop; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Methodist;
later Reformed
Episcopal Church. Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, from pneumonia, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
5, 1922 (age 86 years, 266
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Relatives:
Married to Lucy Bethia Huntington. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do with your might
what your hands find to do." |
| | | Epitaph: "He walked with God - God
took him." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Luke D. Stapleton (1869-1923) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
11, 1869.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1908-17; defeated, 1906;
appointed 1908; resigned 1917; Justice of the Appellate Division of
the New York Supreme Court, 1913-17.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
12, 1923 (age 53 years, 63
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Alexander Peterson Corbit (1864-1923) —
also known as Alexander P. Corbit —
of Odessa, New Castle
County, Del.
Born February
20, 1864.
Republican. Member of Delaware
state house of representatives from New Castle County 13th
District, 1907-08, 1919-22; member of Delaware
state senate from New Castle County 6th District, 1909-12;
president, New Castle County National Bank;
director, Delaware Railroad.
Died, of pneumonia, in Odessa, New Castle
County, Del., February
18, 1923 (age 58 years, 363
days).
Interment at Corbit Family Cemetery, Odessa, Del.
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Patrick Murphy Pearsall (c.1859-1923) —
of Jones
County, N.C.; New Bern, Craven
County, N.C.
Born in Taylor's Bridge, Sampson
County, N.C., about 1859.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1880; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1896.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., February
20, 1923 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New Bern, N.C.
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Louis Frisbie Payn (1835-1923) —
also known as Louis F. Payn —
of Chatham, Columbia
County, N.Y.
Born in Ghent, Columbia
County, N.Y., January
27, 1835.
Republican. Paper
manufacturer; founder of the Chatham Republican newspaper;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1872,
1892,
1896,
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920;
New York State Insurance Commissioner, 1897-1900.
Died, from pneumonia, in Chatham, Columbia
County, N.Y., March
19, 1923 (age 88 years, 51
days).
Interment at Chatham
Rural Cemetery, Chatham, N.Y.
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George Fremont Bickford (1889-1923) —
also known as George F. Bickford —
of Chehalis, Lewis
County, Wash.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., August
12, 1889.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Newchwang, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1914, 1914-15; Antung, 1914; Shanghai, 1915-17; U.S. Consul in Tsinanfu, 1918-19; Antung, as of 1920-21.
Died, from pneumonia, in Chehalis, Lewis
County, Wash., July 22,
1923 (age 33 years, 344
days).
Interment at Claquato Cemetery, Chehalis, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Fremont Bickford and Ada M. (Burrows) Bickford; married, April
28, 1915, to Edith Lillian Adgey Edgar. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport
application |
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Clinton Fillmore Irwin (1854-1923) —
also known as Clinton F. Irwin —
of Oklahoma; Elgin, Kane
County, Ill.
Born in Franklin Grove, Lee
County, Ill., January
1, 1854.
Justice
of Oklahoma territorial supreme court, 1899-1907; circuit judge
in Illinois 16th Circuit, 1913-19.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in Elgin, Kane
County, Ill., November
4, 1923 (age 69 years, 307
days).
Interment at Bluff
City Cemetery, Elgin, Ill.
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Edward Everett McCall (1863-1924) —
also known as Edward E. McCall —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
6, 1863.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1903-13; resigned 1913;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1913; chair, New York State Public
Service Commission, 1913-15; removed from
office in November, 1915, because he owned
stock in a company under commission jurisdiction; president, New
Jersey Life
Insurance Company, 1916.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
12, 1924 (age 61 years, 66
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Edward
Everett |
| | | Relatives: Son of John McCall and
Katherine McCall; brother of John A. McCall; married 1886 to Ella
Frances Gaynor. |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Daniel Charles Oliver (1865-1924) —
also known as Daniel C. Oliver —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
6, 1865.
Democrat. Dry goods
importer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 23rd District, 1915-16; U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1917-19.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
26, 1924 (age 58 years, 172
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924) —
also known as Julian S. Carr; Jule Carr —
of Durham, Durham
County, N.C.
Born in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., October
12, 1845.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
co-owner and president of the company which made "Bull Durham" tobacco;
founder of the Durham Cotton
Manufacturing Company and Durham Hosiery
Mills; involved in railroads,
utilities,
and banking;
mayor
of Durham, N.C., 1873; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from North Carolina, 1888,
1904,
1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916;
candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1900.
Methodist.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died, of pneumonia, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
29, 1924 (age 78 years, 200
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Maplewood
Cemetery, Durham, N.C.
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Francis Eddy Lambert (1860-1924) —
also known as Francis E. Lambert —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in St. Joseph
County, Ind., June 4,
1860.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1894-98; candidate for mayor
of South Bend, Ind., 1905; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1908.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died, from influenza
and pneumonia, in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., June 19,
1924 (age 64 years, 15
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Adolph Bernard Spreckels (1857-1924) —
also known as Adolph B. Spreckels —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
5, 1857.
Republican. President, Spreckels Sugar
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1884;
angered by an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, on
November 19, 1884, he shot
and badly wounded the paper's publisher, M.
H. de Young; arrested
and charged
with attempted
murder; pleaded temporary insanity; tried in
1885 and found not guilty; president, San Francisco and San Mateo Electric
Railway; vice-president, Western Sugar
Company; vice-president, Oceanic Steamship
Company.
German
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia and syphilis,
in San
Francisco, Calif., June 28,
1924 (age 67 years, 175
days).
Entombed at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Claus
Spreckels and Anna Christina (Mangels) Spreckels; brother of John
Diedrich Spreckels; married to Alma de
Bretteville. |
| | | Political family: Spreckels
family of San Francisco, California. |
| | | Spreckels Lake,
in Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, California, is named for
him. — The Spreckels Organ Pavilion, an outdoor performance
venue, in Balboa Park, San Diego,
California, is named for
him and his brother. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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David H. Lane (1840-1925) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1840.
Republican. Philadelphia city recorder, 1879-83; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1884,
1888,
1896,
1900,
1904,
1908.
In his will, he bequeathed $500 to every boy who was named for him
while he was alive; 26 qualified to receive the money.
Died, from pneumonia, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
24, 1925 (age about 84
years).
Entombed at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Lane and Isabella (Asher) Lane. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Philadelphia Inquirer,
February 7, 1909 |
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William Andrews Clark (1839-1925) —
also known as William A. Clark —
of Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont.
Born near Connellsville, Fayette
County, Pa., January
8, 1839.
Democrat. Banker; mine owner;
delegate
to Montana state constitutional convention, 1884, 1889; candidate
for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1888; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Montana, 1892,
1904;
U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1899-1900, 1901-07; resigned 1900.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 2,
1925 (age 86 years, 53
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Charles Allen Culberson (1855-1925) —
also known as Charles A. Culberson —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dadeville, Tallapoosa
County, Ala., June 10,
1855.
Democrat. Lawyer; Texas
state attorney general, 1890-94; Governor of
Texas, 1895-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Texas, 1896,
1904,
1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1899-1923.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March
19, 1925 (age 69 years, 282
days).
Interment at East
Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tex.
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Robert Marion LaFollette (1855-1925) —
also known as Robert M. LaFollette; "Fighting
Bob"; "Battling Bob" —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Primrose, Dane
County, Wis., June 14,
1855.
Lawyer;
Dane
County District Attorney, 1880-84; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 3rd District, 1885-91; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, 1896
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1904;
Governor
of Wisconsin, 1901-06; U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1906-25; died in office 1925; candidate
for Republican nomination for President, 1908,
1916;
Progressive candidate for President
of the United States, 1924.
French
ancestry.
Died of heart
disease complicated by asthma
and pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., June 18,
1925 (age 70 years, 4
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wis.
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James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925) —
also known as James B. Duke; "Buck";
"Tobacco King" —
of Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born near Durham, Durham
County, N.C., December
23, 1856.
Republican. Organizer and president, American Tobacco
Company, which monopolized the tobacco
industry until it was broken up in 1911; organizer of electric
power companies; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1904.
Left a large trust fund which supported Duke University.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
10, 1925 (age 68 years, 291
days).
Entombed at Duke
University Chapel, Durham, N.C.
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George Kirkpatrick Denton (1864-1926) —
also known as George K. Denton —
of Indiana.
Born near Sebree, Webster
County, Ky., November
17, 1864.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1917-19; candidate for
justice
of Indiana state supreme court, 1924.
Died, from pneumonia, in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., January
4, 1926 (age 61 years, 48
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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Henry Sherman Boutell (1856-1926) —
also known as Henry S. Boutell —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
14, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1884; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1897-1911 (6th District 1897-1903,
9th District 1903-11); delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1908;
U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1911-13; law
professor.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Loyal
Legion.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Sanremo, Italy,
March
11, 1926 (age 69 years, 362
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Westborough, Mass.
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William Virden Sipple (1847-1926) —
also known as William V. Sipple —
of Milford, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Delaware, October
22, 1847.
Republican. Stonecutter;
marble
dealer; postmaster at Milford,
Del., 1898-1903.
Methodist.
Died, from pneumonia, in Orlando, Orange
County, Fla., March
17, 1926 (age 78 years, 146
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Milford, Del.
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William S. Bergundthal (1855-1926) —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Powhattan, Champaign
County, Ohio, June 24,
1855.
Republican. Lumber
business; real estate
dealer; mayor of
Topeka, Kan., 1903-05.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from nephritis
and bronchial pneumonia, in Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan., March
23, 1926 (age 70 years, 272
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Sarah (Powell) Bergundthal and Benedict Bergundthal; married to
Leonora Neely. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Clark Work (1859-1926) —
of Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa.
Born in Dunbar Township, Fayette
County, Pa., February
8, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Fayette County Republican Party, 1893-95; orphan's court judge in
Pennsylvania, 1907-26; bank
director.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association.
Died, from pneumonia, in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., March
31, 1926 (age 67 years, 51
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, South Union Township, Fayette County, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of John Work and Sarah (McLaughlin) Work; married, April
16, 1903, to Elwina (Null) Fuller. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Book of Prominent
Pennsylvanians (1913) |
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Ernest H. Clinedinst (1884-1926) —
of Akron, Summit
County, Ohio.
Born in Virginia, September
23, 1884.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for mayor of
Akron, Ohio, 1921; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Died, from lobar pneumonia and "La Grippe" (influenza),
in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, April 6,
1926 (age 41 years, 195
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Burial Park, Fairlawn, Ohio; cenotaph at Emmanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery, New Market, Va.
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Martin Edward Trench (1869-1927) —
also known as Martin E. Trench —
Born in Dennison, Goodhue
County, Minn., November
30, 1869.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; served in
the U.S. Navy during World War I; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands; died in office 1927.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., January
6, 1927 (age 57 years, 37
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927) —
also known as Henry E. Huntington —
of Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.; San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y., February
27, 1850.
Republican. Owned and expanded the streetcar
and trolley system in Southern California; real estate
developer; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, from kidney
disease and pneumonia, in Lankenau Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 23,
1927 (age 77 years, 85
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Solon Huntington and Harriet (Saunders) Huntington; married 1873 to Mary
Alice Prentice; married 1913 to
Arabella Duval 'Belle' (Yarrington) Huntington. |
| | | The city
of Huntington
Beach, California, is named for
him. — The city
of Huntington
Park, California, is named for
him. — Huntington Lake,
in Fresno
County, California, is named for
him. — The Huntington Hotel
(built 1907 as Hotel Wentworth; expanded and reopened 1914 as the
Huntington Hotel; demolished 1989 and rebuilt; now Langham Huntington
hotel) in Pasadena,
California, is named for
him. — The Huntington Library,
Art
Museum, and Botanical
Gardens, on his former estate, in San
Marino, California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry E. Huntington (built 1943-44 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1961) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Harmon Liveright Remmel (1852-1927) —
also known as H. L. Remmel —
of Newport, Jackson
County, Ark.; Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Stratford, Fulton
County, N.Y., January
15, 1852.
Republican. Lumber
business; postmaster at Newport,
Ark., 1877-79; financier;
insurance
executive; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 1st District, 1884; member of Arkansas
Republican State Central Committee, 1884-1927; member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1887; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Arkansas, 1892,
1896
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924;
candidate for Governor of
Arkansas, 1894, 1896, 1900; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue
for Arkansas, 1897-1902, 1921-27; died in office 1927; Arkansas
Republican state chair, 1900-03, 1910-16, 1921-25; member of Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1912-24; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1916.
Died, from pneumonia, while recovering from a stroke,
in Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., October
14, 1927 (age 75 years, 272
days).
Interment at Oakland
and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park, Little Rock, Ark.
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Nathan Barnert (1838-1927) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Posen, Prussia (now Poznan, Poland),
September
20, 1838.
Democrat. Tailor;
clothing
manufacturer; real estate
business; mayor
of Paterson, N.J., 1883-86, 1889-90; philanthropist.
Jewish.
Died, of pneumonia, in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., December
23, 1927 (age 89 years, 94
days).
Interment at Mt.
Neboh Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Relatives:
Married to Miriam Phillips. |
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Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (1853-1928) —
also known as Woodbridge N. Ferris; "The Big Rapids
Schoolmaster"; "The Good Grey
Governor" —
of Big Rapids, Mecosta
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin near Spencer, Tioga
County, N.Y., January
6, 1853.
Democrat. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; founder and president,
Ferris Institute, later Ferris State University; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1892; candidate for
Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1902; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1907; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916,
1924;
Governor
of Michigan, 1913-16; defeated, 1904, 1920; president, Big Rapids
Savings Bank; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1923-28; died in office 1928; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1924.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March
23, 1928 (age 75 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland
View Cemetery, Big Rapids, Mich.
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Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1834-1928) —
also known as Chauncey M. Depew —
of Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
23, 1834.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1862-63; secretary
of state of New York, 1864-65; Westchester
County Clerk, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924;
Liberal Republican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1872; president, later chairman, New York
Central Railroad;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1888;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1899-1911.
French
Huguenot, Dutch,
and English
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Society
of the Cincinnati; Skull
and Bones.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1928 (age 93 years, 348
days).
Entombed at Hillside
Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Depew and Martha Minot (Mitchell) Depew; married, November
9, 1871, to Elise Hegeman; married, December
28, 1901, to May Palmer; second great-grandnephew of Roger
Sherman; second cousin twice removed of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar; second cousin four times removed of Aaron
Burr; third cousin once removed of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Robert Sherman and Merton
William Fairbank; third cousin thrice removed of Reuben
Bostwick Heacock; fourth cousin of John
Frederick Addis, Henry
de Forest Baldwin and Roger
Sherman Hoar; fourth cousin once removed of John
Adams Dix, Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman, Charles
Warren Fairbanks, Newton
Hamilton Fairbanks, John
Stanley Addis and Archibald
Cox. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village
of Depew, New
York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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Russell Harry Dunn (1873-1928) —
also known as Russell H. Dunn —
of Port Arthur, Jefferson
County, Tex.
Born in Texas, April
12, 1873.
Republican. U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1909-10, 1927; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Texas, 1916
(alternate), 1920;
real
estate agent.
Died, from cholecystitis
and post-operative aspiration pneumonia, in St. Joseph Hospital,
Houston, Harris
County, Tex., June 27,
1928 (age 55 years, 76
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Groves, Tex.
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Charles Arnette Towne (1858-1928) —
also known as Charles A. Towne —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz.
Born near Pontiac, Oakland
County, Mich., November
21, 1858.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1895-97; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1900-01; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1904;
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1905-07.
Died, from asthma
and pneumonia, in Southern Methodist Hospital,
Tucson, Pima
County, Ariz., October
22, 1928 (age 69 years, 336
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Memorial Park, Tucson, Ariz.
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William Charles Adamson (1854-1929) —
also known as William C. Adamson —
of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Ga.
Born in Bowdon, Carroll
County, Ga., August
13, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer;
city judge in Georgia, 1885-89; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Georgia; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 4th District, 1897-1917; Judge
of U.S. Customs Court, 1926-28.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arcanum; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, of pneumonia, in Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
3, 1929 (age 74 years, 143
days).
Interment at Carrollton
City Cemetery, Carrollton, Ga.
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Otto Tremont Bannard (1854-1929) —
also known as Otto T. Bannard —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
28, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
director, Niagara Fire
Insurance Co., Dolphin Jute
Mills, and Jersey United Gas and
Electric Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1908,
1912,
1916;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1909.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, on the ocean
liner President Cleveland, en route from Seattle to
Manila, in the North
Pacific Ocean, January
15, 1929 (age 74 years, 262
days).
Interment at Grove
Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of John W. Bannard and Eliza Landon (Stone) Bannard. |
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Oliver Carroll Clay (1849-1929) —
also known as Oliver C. Clay —
of Canton, Lewis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., May 27,
1849.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; farmer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Lewis County, 1919-22.
Died, from pneumonia, in Canton, Lewis
County, Mo., March 5,
1929 (age 79 years, 282
days).
Interment at Forest
Grove Cemetery, Canton, Mo.
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Sandford Hunt Brownlee (d. 1929) —
Newspaper
correspondent; member of Utah
state house of representatives, 1900.
Died, of pneumonia, in Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y., April 6,
1929.
Burial location unknown.
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Valentine Francis Remmel (1853-1929) —
also known as Valentine Remmel —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., March
10, 1853.
Socialist. Glass
worker; union
organizer; Socialist Labor candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1900.
German
ancestry.
Died, from lobar pneumonia, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., May 9,
1929 (age 76 years, 60
days).
Interment at South
Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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William Andrew Burkamp (1873-1929) —
also known as William A. Burkamp —
of Newport, Campbell
County, Ky.
Born in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., August
8, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928;
member of Kentucky
state senate, 1920.
German
ancestry.
Died, of lobar pneumonia and acute
myocarditis, in Fort Thomas, Campbell
County, Ky., November
6, 1929 (age 56 years, 90
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Southgate, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Burkamp and Mary (Underholz) Burkamp; married to Rose M.
Davidson. |
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Isaac Lee Patterson (1859-1929) —
also known as I. L. Patterson —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Benton
County, Ore., September
17, 1859.
Republican. Farmer; chair of
Marion County Republican Party, 1892; member of Oregon
state senate, 1895-98, 1919-21; Oregon
Republican state chair, 1924-26; Governor of
Oregon, 1927-29; died in office 1929; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1928.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Moose; Woodmen;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen; Rotary.
Died, from pneumonia, in Marion
County, Ore., December
21, 1929 (age 70 years, 95
days).
Entombed at Mount
Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem, Ore.
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Charles Phelps Taft (1843-1929) —
also known as Charles P. Taft; Charlie
Taft —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, December
21, 1843.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1871-73; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1895-97; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1900,
1908,
1912;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Philanthropist; owner, Chicago Cubs baseball
team.
Died, of pneumonia, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, December
31, 1929 (age 86 years, 10
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Sylvester Edwin Megargee (1847-1930) —
also known as S. Edwin Megargee —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
6, 1847.
Democrat. Lawyer; Consul
for Greece in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1900-03.
Catholic.
Died, from pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
17, 1930 (age 82 years, 195
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Sylvester Jacob Megarge and Annie Marie Byrne (Gaffney) Megarge;
married to Marie A. Preaut and Adalaide Concetta Piccioli; first
cousin once removed of Samuel
Megargee. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Harold Frederick Newhard (1877-1930) —
also known as Harold F. Newhard —
Born in Allentown, Lehigh
County, Pa., September
19, 1877.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Vladivostok, 1909-15; U.S. Vice Consul in Vladivostok, 1915-17.
Died, from pneumonia, in Shanghai, China,
March
9, 1930 (age 52 years, 171
days).
Cremated;
ashes originally interred at Bubbling Well Road Cemetery, Shanghai, China; reinterment to
unknown location.
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Stephen Hugh Claycomb (1847-1930) —
also known as Stephen H. Claycomb —
of Jasper
County, Mo.
Born in Missouri, August
11, 1847.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jasper County Western
District, 1885-86; member of Missouri
state senate 28th District, 1887-88; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1889-93.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage and pneumonia, in Joplin, Jasper
County, Mo., June 6,
1930 (age 82 years, 299
days).
Interment at Ozark
Memorial Park, Joplin, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of George W. Claycomb and Elizabeth Claycomb. |
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William Barnes Jr. (1866-1930) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Armonk, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
17, 1866.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1892-1914; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1896,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1920
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1899-1911;
New York
Republican state chair, 1911-14; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1912-16; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 28th District, 1915.
When Theodore
Roosevelt contended, in 1914, that Barnes was a crooked boss of
the Republican Machine, in league with the Democratic Machine, he
sued the former president for libel, and lost.
Died, of pneumonia, in Armonk, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 25,
1930 (age 63 years, 220
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930) —
also known as William B. Thompson —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia City, Madison
County, Mont., May 13,
1869.
Republican. Mining
magnate; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1916,
1920;
director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; director, Metropolitan
Life Insurance
Co.
Died, from pneumonia, June 27,
1930 (age 61 years, 45
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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John Thomas Morris Johnston Jr. (1856-1930) —
also known as John T. M. Johnston —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ashland, Boone
County, Mo., March
17, 1856.
Democrat. Merchant;
banker;
minister;
pastor, First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, Mo., 1887-97; chaplain
of Missouri Senate and Missouri State Prison; pastor, Delmar Avenue
Baptist Church, St. Louis, Mo., 1897-1907; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1904 ; college
professor; president, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City,
1910-14; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1916.
Baptist.
Died, from pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., September
9, 1930 (age 74 years, 176
days).
Interment at New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Ashland, Mo.
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Herbert Bronson Shonk (1881-1930) —
also known as Herbert B. Shonk —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Plymouth, Luzerne
County, Pa., October
28, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
business; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1923-30;
died in office 1930.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from pneumonia, following a heart
attack, in White Plains Hospital,
White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
26, 1930 (age 48 years, 333
days).
Interment at St.
James the Less Cemetery, Scarsdale, N.Y.
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Francis Everett Baldwin (1856-1930) —
also known as Francis E. Baldwin —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Otego, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
30, 1856.
Lawyer;
milk bottle
manufacturer; president, National Total Abstinence League; New York
Prohibition state chair, 1889-93; Prohibition candidate for Governor of
New York, 1894; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1906; Prohibition
candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1910; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1914; Prohibition candidate for judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1920.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary.
Died, from pneumonia, in Mentone (Menton), France,
December
19, 1930 (age 74 years, 111
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Henry Purcell (1848-1931) —
of Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y.
Born in Wilna, Jefferson
County, N.Y., October
13, 1848.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1904; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 5th District, 1911, 1914; appointed 1911;
defeated, 1911; appointed 1914; defeated, 1914; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Died, from pneumonia, in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., January
20, 1931 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
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John Payne Studley (c.1846-1931) —
also known as John P. Studley —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Sharon, Litchfield
County, Conn., about 1846.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of New Haven, Conn., 1901-07; candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1912.
Died, of pneumonia, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., January
20, 1931 (age about 85
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Enoch Payne Studley and Sarah Studley. |
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Alfred Rider Page (1859-1931) —
also known as Alfred R. Page —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill., October
7, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 19th District, 1905-08; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1910-23; resigned 1923;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1916-23; law partner of George
L. Ingraham, 1923-25.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Chi Psi;
Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in Southampton Hospital,
Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
3, 1931 (age 71 years, 119
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Page and Angeline (Rider) Page; married, April
27, 1886, to Elizabeth M. Rose. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1907 |
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Sam Baker Cook (1852-1931) —
also known as Sam B. Cook —
of Audrain
County, Mo.; Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Front Royal, Warren
County, Va., January
11, 1852.
Democrat. Banker; Missouri
Democratic state chair, 1896-1900; secretary
of state of Missouri, 1901-05; member of Missouri
state senate 27th District, 1917-20.
Died, from hypostatic pneumonia and coronary
artery disease, in Jefferson City, Cole
County, Mo., February
4, 1931 (age 79 years, 24
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of William Cook. |
| | | Image source: Missouri Official Manual
1917 |
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William M. Bowker (1865-1931) —
of Nevada, Vernon
County, Mo.
Born in Carthage, Hancock
County, Ill., May 2,
1865.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state senate 20th District, 1919-22; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Missouri, 1928.
Died, from chronic
bronchitis and bronchial pneumonia, in Nevada, Vernon
County, Mo., February
8, 1931 (age 65 years, 282
days).
Interment at Deepwood
Cemetery, Nevada, Mo.
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Sylvester Baker Sadler (1876-1931) —
of Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., September
29, 1876.
District judge in Pennsylvania 9th District, 1916-20; justice of
Pennsylvania state supreme court, 1921-31; died in office 1931.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of pneumonia, in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., March 1,
1931 (age 54 years, 153
days).
Interment at Carlisle
Mausoleum, Carlisle, Pa.
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William Francis Rhea (1858-1931) —
also known as William F. Rhea —
of Bristol,
Va.; Richmond,
Va.
Born in Washington
County, Va., April
20, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer; Washington
County Judge, 1880-85; member of Virginia
state senate, 1885-88; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 9th District, 1899-1903.
Died, from lobar pneumonia, in Richmond,
Va., March
23, 1931 (age 72 years, 337
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Nicholas Longworth (1869-1931) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
5, 1869.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives from Hamilton County, 1900;
defeated, 1897; member of Ohio
state senate, 1901; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1903-13, 1915-31;
defeated, 1912; died in office 1931; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1925-31; died in office 1931.
Died, of pneumonia, in Aiken, Aiken
County, S.C., April 9,
1931 (age 61 years, 155
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Augustus Everett Willson (1846-1931) —
also known as Augustus E. Willson —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Maysville, Mason
County, Ky., October
13, 1846.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of John
Marshall Harlan, and later, of Mr. Shirley
M. Crawford; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1884,
1888,
1892,
1904,
1908,
1916;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1892; Governor of
Kentucky, 1907-11; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1914.
Presbyterian.
Died, from lobar pneumonia, in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
24, 1931 (age 84 years, 315
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Giles Russell Taggart (1870-1931) —
also known as G. Russell Taggart —
of Washington,
D.C.; Woodbury, Gloucester
County, N.J.
Born in Clarksboro, Gloucester
County, N.J., July 20,
1870.
U.S. Consul in Cornwall, 1912-17; Fort William, 1917-20; Port Arthur, 1917-20; London, 1920-27; Belize City, 1927-30.
Seriously injured and suffered exposure during a hurricane,
contracted pneumonia, and died a few days later, in Belize
City, Belize,
September
15, 1931 (age 61 years, 57
days). His heroism in saving others' lives during the storm was
recognized in 1934 by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Interment at Mission
Burial Park South, San Antonio, Tex.
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Joseph Gray Armstrong (1867-1931) —
also known as Joseph G. Armstrong —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
2, 1867.
Republican. Mayor
of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1914-18; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916,
1920,
1924;
chair
of Allegheny County Republican Party, 1927.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died, of pneumonia, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
19, 1931 (age 64 years, 290
days).
Interment at South
Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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John Proctor Clarke (1856-1932) —
also known as J. Proctor Clarke —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Florence (Firenze), Italy,
of American parents, April
23, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1900-26; appointed 1900;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1905-26.
Member, Union
League; American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Murray Hill Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
12, 1932 (age 75 years, 264
days).
Interment somewhere
in Northampton, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Edwards Clarke and Mary (Proctor) Clarke; married, June 25,
1884, to Sarah M. Parker; married, July 8,
1924, to Ida (Hatch) Cambell. |
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John Wesley Langley (1868-1932) —
also known as John W. Langley —
of Prestonsburg, Floyd
County, Ky.; Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky.
Born in Floyd
County, Ky., January
14, 1868.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1886-90; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Kentucky, 1888,
1900,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 10th District, 1907-26; defeated,
1896; resigned 1926.
Convicted
in 1924 of conspiracy to transport
and sell liquor re-elected while his appeal was pending, but resigned
from Congress in 1926; sentenced
to a term in federal prison.
Granted clemency by President Calvin
Coolidge.
Died, of pneumonia, in Pikeville, Pike
County, Ky., January
17, 1932 (age 64 years, 3
days).
Interment at Langley
Cemetery, Middle Creek, Ky.
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Frank S. Gannon Jr. (c.1878-1932) —
of West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Island City (now part of Queens), Queens
County, N.Y., about 1878.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1921-22; appointed 1921;
defeated, 1921; appointed 1922; defeated, 1922; candidate for borough
president of Richmond, New York, 1925.
Died, from pneumonia, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., January
18, 1932 (age about 54
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank S. Gannon; married to Frances Foler. |
| | | Image source: Brooklyn Times Union,
January 19, 1932 |
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Arthur Newton Holden (1850-1932) —
also known as Arthur N. Holden —
of North Clarendon, Clarendon, Rutland
County, Vt.
Born in Shrewsbury, Rutland
County, Vt., April
23, 1850.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Clarendon, 1910.
Universalist.
Died, of pneumonia, in Clarendon, Rutland
County, Vt., January
31, 1932 (age 81 years, 283
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John H. Jordan (1848-1932) —
of Bedford, Bedford
County, Pa.
Born in Bedford, Bedford
County, Pa., July 13,
1848.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1900;
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1909-13.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Bedford, Bedford
County, Pa., February
21, 1932 (age 83 years, 223
days).
Interment at Bedford
Cemetery, Bedford, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Susan (Zembower) Jordon and John Reamer Jordon; married to Daisy
Huzzard. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Book of Prominent
Pennsylvanians (1913) |
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Richard Bartholdt (1855-1932) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Schleiz, Germany,
November
2, 1855.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1893-1915.
German
ancestry.
Died, from broncho-pneumonia, in St.
Louis, Mo., March
19, 1932 (age 76 years, 138
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Concordia
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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William Holt Gale (1864-1932) —
also known as William H. Gale —
of Washington,
D.C.; Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1864.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Plata, 1906-07; Malta, 1907-10; Colón, 1914-15; U.S. Consul General in Athens, 1910-14; Munich, 1915-17; Copenhagen, 1917-18; Hong Kong, 1920-24; Amsterdam, 1924-26; Budapest, 1926-29; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Greece, 1910.
Episcopalian.
Member, Theta
Xi.
Died, from pneumonia, in Rome, Italy,
April
27, 1932 (age 68 years, 92
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Alexander Cowan (1874-1932) —
also known as Alex Cowan —
of North Street, St. Clair
County, Mich.; Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born in Clyde Township, St. Clair
County, Mich., May 29,
1874.
Republican. Farmer; insurance
business; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from St. Clair County 1st
District, 1915-18, 1925-28; St.
Clair County Treasurer, 1919-22; member of Michigan
state senate 11th District, 1929-32; died in office 1932.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, from pneumonia, in Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich., October
12, 1932 (age 58 years, 136
days).
Burial location unknown.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer
and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Conrad Hasenflug (1863-1932) —
also known as "Cooney" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Frankfort (Frankfurt am Main), Germany,
February
27, 1863.
Democrat. Wholesale
produce business; saloon
owner; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 19th District, 1900-01; member
of New
York state senate 9th District, 1905-08; defeated, 1908.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Redmen.
Died, from pneumonia, in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
24, 1932 (age 69 years, 271
days).
Interment at Lutheran
All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Conrad Hasenflug and Elizabeth (Stickler) Hasenflug; brother of
Henry
Hasenflug Sr.. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1907 |
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Byron Harvey Combs (1853-1932) —
also known as Byron H. Combs —
of East Berkshire, Berkshire, Franklin
County, Vt.
Born in Richford, Franklin
County, Vt., June 17,
1853.
Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1898; member of Vermont
state senate, 1902.
Methodist.
Died, of complications of pneumonia, in East Berkshire,
Berkshire, Franklin
County, Vt., December
23, 1932 (age 79 years, 189
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, East Berkshire, Berkshire, Vt.
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Arthur Conrad Roach (1871-1932) —
also known as A. C. Roach; Arthur Cyrus
Roach —
of Sullivan
County, Mo.
Born in Reedy, Roane
County, W.Va., November
23, 1871.
Democrat. Merchant;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Sullivan County, 1931-32;
died in office 1932.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, while suffering from bronchial pneumonia and
arteriosclerosis,
in Research Hospital,
Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., December
30, 1932 (age 61 years, 37
days).
Interment at Thomas Union Cemetery, Harris, Mo.
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Harry P. Hynds (d. 1933) —
of Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Wyoming,
1932.
Died, of pneumonia, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., 1933.
Interment at Olivet
Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Robert Reyburn Butler (1881-1933) —
also known as Robert R. Butler —
of Condon, Gilliam
County, Ore.; The Dalles, Wasco
County, Ore.
Born in Butler, Johnson
County, Tenn., September
24, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Oregon; circuit judge in
Oregon, 1909-11; member of Oregon
state senate, 1913-17, 1925-28; U.S.
Representative from Oregon 2nd District, 1928-33; died in office
1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died of heart
disease and pneumonia, at Providence Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
7, 1933 (age 51 years, 105
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles, Ore.
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William Stryker Gummere (1852-1933) —
also known as William S. Gummere; "Dollar-A-Life
Gummere" —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., June 24,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
circuit judge in New Jersey, 1890; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1895-1901; appointed
1895; chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1901-33.
Died, of pneumonia, in St. Barnabas Hospital,
Newark, Essex
County, N.J., January
26, 1933 (age 80 years, 216
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
27, 1861.
Republican. Poet; lecturer;
speaker, Republican National Convention, 1920.
Female.
Died, from pleural pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
17, 1933 (age 71 years, 143
days).
Interment at Robinson
Cemetery, Warren town, Herkimer County, N.Y.
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Thomas Watt Gregory (1861-1933) —
also known as Thomas W. Gregory —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Crawfordsville (unknown
county), Miss., November
6, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1904
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President); U.S.
Attorney General, 1914-19.
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Died, of pneumonia, in his room at the Hotel
Pennsylvania, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
26, 1933 (age 71 years, 112
days).
Interment somewhere
in Austin, Tex.
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Robert Beecher Howell (1864-1933) —
also known as Robert B. Howell —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich., January
21, 1864.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War;
member of Nebraska
state senate, 1902-04; member of Republican
National Committee from Nebraska, 1912-24; candidate for Governor of
Nebraska, 1914; U.S.
Senator from Nebraska, 1923-33; died in office 1933.
Died, from pneumonia and a heart
attack, in Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., March
11, 1933 (age 69 years, 49
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Neb.
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Charles Nathaniel Haskell (1860-1933) —
also known as Charles N. Haskell —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.
Born in Leipsic, Putnam
County, Ohio, March
13, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; oil
business; delegate
to Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1906; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1907-11; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Oklahoma, 1928.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Skirvin Hotel,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., July 5,
1933 (age 73 years, 114
days).
Interment at Greenhill
Cemetery, Muskogee, Okla.
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Wilfred Eugene Harmon (1856-1933) —
also known as Wilfred E. Harmon —
of Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont.
Born in Fayette, Fulton
County, Ohio, February
7, 1856.
Republican. Telegraph
operator; school
teacher; superintendent
of schools; Montana
superintendent of public instruction, 1905-13; member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1920; Montana
state treasurer, 1925-29; secretary
of state of Montana, 1929-32.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from pneumonia, in Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont., August
15, 1933 (age 77 years, 189
days).
Interment at Sunset
Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Mont.
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John J. Coyle (1863-1933) —
of Mahanoy City, Schuylkill
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Port Carbon, Schuylkill
County, Pa., November
10, 1863.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1892-94; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 30th District, 1895-98; founder and president,
American Catholic Union, 1897-1933; president, Pennsylvania Mutual Life
Insurance Company, 1914-33 president, Bell Union Coal and
Mining Company, 1914-33.
Catholic.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Jefferson Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
4, 1933 (age 69 years, 298
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Coyle and Julia (Duffy) Coyle; married, December
29, 1885, to Mary Groody. |
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James Gordon (1858-1933) —
of Columbia, Boone
County, Mo.
Born in Columbia, Boone
County, Mo., February
26, 1858.
Physician;
mayor
of Columbia, Mo., 1919-23, 1931-33.
Died, from pneumonia, in Columbia, Boone
County, Mo., September
29, 1933 (age 75 years, 215
days).
Interment at Columbia
Cemetery, Columbia, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Watson Gordon and Mary (Samuels) Gordon; married to Mary Russell
Garth. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Lewis Heisler Ball (1861-1933) —
also known as L. Heisler Ball —
of Faulkland, New Castle
County, Del.; Marshallton, New Castle
County, Del.
Born near Stanton, New Castle
County, Del., September
21, 1861.
Republican. Physician;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, 1896,
1908
(alternate), 1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee); Delaware
state treasurer, 1899-1901; U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1901-03; defeated, 1902;
U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1903-05, 1919-25.
Died, from pneumonia, in Faulkland, New Castle
County, Del., October
18, 1933 (age 72 years, 27
days).
Interment at St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Melvin Alvah Traylor (1878-1934) —
also known as Melvin A. Traylor —
of Malone, Hill
County, Tex.; Ballinger, Runnels
County, Tex.; East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born, in a log
cabin near Breeding, Adair
County, Ky., October
21, 1878.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1928,
1932;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1932.
Died, of pneumonia, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
14, 1934 (age 55 years, 116
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of James Milton Traylor and Kitty (Harvey) Traylor; married to
Dorothy Arnold Yerby. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Cooper Procter (1862-1934) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Glendale, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
25, 1862.
Republican. President (1907-30) and chairman (1930-34), Proctor &
Gamble Company, where he established profit-sharing and pension
system; director, New York Central Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1916,
1924,
1928.
Episcopalian.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Holmes Hospital,
Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 2,
1934 (age 71 years, 250
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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William E. Whitecotton (1866-1934) —
also known as W. E. Whitecotton —
of Paris, Monroe
County, Mo.
Born in Ralls
County, Mo., December
26, 1866.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Monroe County, 1919-34; died
in office 1934.
Died, from hypostatic pneumonia, peritonitis,
and colon
cancer, in Research Hospital,
Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., September
9, 1934 (age 67 years, 257
days).
Interment at Sunset Hill Cemetery, Madison, Mo.
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Charles M. Boswell (1860-1934) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J., December
28, 1860.
Republican. Minister;
offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1900 ; corresponding secretary, Methodist Board of Home Missions and
Church Extension, 1906-17; corresponding secretary, Methodist
Episcopal Hospital,
1917-34; president, Ocean Grove Campmeeting Association, 1925-34.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from pneumonia, in Methodist Episcopal Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
20, 1934 (age 73 years, 357
days).
Interment at Westminster
Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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John Emory Andrus (1841-1934) —
also known as John E. Andrus; "The Millionaire
Strap-Hanger" —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
16, 1841.
Republican. School
teacher; pharmaceutical
manufacturer; investor in real
estate, mining
claims, and the Standard Oil
Company; owned considerable stock in railroads
and utilities;
director, New York Life Insurance
Co.; president, New York Pharmaceutical
Association; treasurer, Arlington Chemical
Co.; director, National Fuel Gas
Co.; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1904-05; defeated, 1901; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1904
(alternate), 1908;
U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1905-13; candidate
for Presidential Elector for New York.
Methodist.
Philanthropist who founded the Surna Foundation and the Julia Dyckman
Andrus Memorial (orphanage). Even when he was one of the nation's
wealthiest men, he still took the subway to work.
Died, of pneumonia, in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
26, 1934 (age 93 years, 313
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) —
also known as "The Great Dissenter" —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March 8,
1841.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; justice of
Massachusetts state supreme court, 1882-1902; chief
justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1899-1902; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1902-32; retired 1932.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1965.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March 6,
1935 (age 93 years, 363
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Amelia Lee (Jackson) Holmes;
married, June 17,
1872, to Fanny Bowditch Dixwell; nephew of Ann Susan Holmes (who
married Charles
Wentworth Upham). |
| | | Political families: Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts; Bell-Upham
family of New Hampshire; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Francis
Biddle — Laurence
Curtis — Lewis
Einstein — Erland
F. Fish |
| | | See also federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The
Common Law |
| | | Books about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:
Gary J. Aichele, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. : Soldier, Scholar, Judge — G.
Edward White, Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self —
Sheldon M. Novick, Honorable
Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Liva
Baker, The
Justice from Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell
Holmes — James Bishop Peabody, The
Holmes-Einstein Letters : Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and
Lewis Einstein 1903-1935 |
| | | Critical books about Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.: Albert W. Alschuler, Law
Without Values : The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice
Holmes |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, September 1902 |
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James E. Smith (d. 1935) —
also known as "The Stormy Petrel" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Phenix, West Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 15th District, 1899-1902;
assistant district attorney, New York County, 1910-22.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1935.
Interment at Holy
Rood Cemetery, Westbury, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Smith and Bridget (Moynihan) Smith; married to Sarah Quinn
(daughter of John
Quinn). |
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Warren Delano Robbins (1885-1935) —
of Fairhaven, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
3, 1885.
U.S. Minister to El Salvador, 1928; Canada, 1933-35.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 7,
1935 (age 49 years, 216
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Fairhaven, Mass.
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Harry Bennett Anderson (1879-1935) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Van Buren
County, Mich., November
5, 1879.
Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
Republican State Executive Committee, 1904-10; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Tennessee; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War I; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, 1926-35;
died in office 1935.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; American
Legion.
Died, from a heart
ailment and pneumonia, in Crook Sanitarium,
Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn., April 9,
1935 (age 55 years, 155
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis, Tenn.
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Louis A. Cuvillier (1871-1935) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fairfax
County, Va., February
4, 1871.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1907-09, 1911-13, 1920, 1922-33, 1935 (New York
County 30th District 1907-09, 1911-13, New York County 20th District
1920, 1922-33, 1935); defeated, 1909 (New York County 30th District),
1920 (New York County 20th District), 1933 (New York County 20th
District); died in office 1935; served in the U.S. Army during World
War I; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Tammany
Hall.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., May 18,
1935 (age 64 years, 103
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Ira Jennings Kellogg (1848-1935) —
also known as Ira J. Kellogg —
of Stockbridge, Ingham
County, Mich.; Mason, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Wheatfield Township, Ingham
County, Mich., December
25, 1848.
Democrat. Merchant;
Ingham
County Register of Deeds, 1897-98; mayor of
Mason, Mich., 1916-18; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Ingham County 2nd District,
1918.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Died, from pneumonia, in Mason, Ingham
County, Mich., December
9, 1935 (age 86 years, 349
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Mason, Mich.
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George W. Carroll (1855-1935) —
also known as "The Moneyless Millionaire of
Texas" —
of Beaumont, Jefferson
County, Tex.
Born in Mansfield, DeSoto
Parish, La., April
11, 1855.
Lumber
business; banker; oil
millionaire; philanthropist; Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Texas, 1902; Prohibition candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1904.
Baptist.
Died, of pneumonia, in Beaumont, Jefferson
County, Tex., December
14, 1935 (age 80 years, 247
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Beaumont, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank L. Carroll and Sarah (Long) Carroll; married 1877 to
Underhill Mixson. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: American Prohibition Year
Book 1912 |
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Morris Whitridge (1865-1935) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., August
4, 1865.
Investment
banker; importer;
Vice-Consul
for Denmark in Baltimore,
Md., 1896-97; Consul
for Denmark in Baltimore,
Md., 1898-1903.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from pneumonia, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., December
22, 1935 (age 70 years, 140
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Henry Hamilton Pulver (1843-1936) —
also known as Henry H. Pulver —
of Laingsburg, Shiawassee
County, Mich.
Born in Livingston
County, N.Y., September
2, 1843.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state senate 20th District, 1885-86; postmaster.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Laingsburg, Shiawassee
County, Mich., January
25, 1936 (age 92 years, 145
days).
Interment at Laingsburg Cemetery, Laingsburg, Mich.
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Roy Dikeman Chapin (1880-1936) —
also known as Roy D. Chapin —
of Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., February
23, 1880.
President, Hudson Motor Car
Company; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1932-33.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta.
Died, from pneumonia, in Henry Ford Hospital,
Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
16, 1936 (age 55 years, 358
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Rasmus Björn Anderson (1846-1936) —
also known as Rasmus B. Anderson —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Albion, Dane
County, Wis., January
12, 1846.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Wisconsin, 1868;
university
professor; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1885-89; newspaper
editor and publisher; insurance
executive; postmaster at Madison,
Wis., 1910.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., March 2,
1936 (age 90 years, 50
days).
Interment at Lake
Ripley Cemetery, Near Cambridge, Dane County, Wis.
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William Patton Kent (1857-1936) —
also known as William P. Kent —
of Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va.; Staunton,
Va.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Wytheville, Wythe
County, Va., March 8,
1857.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; livestock
raiser; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Virginia, 1896;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Consul
General in Guatemala City, 1906-09; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1906; candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1909; U.S. Consul in Newchwang, 1910-14; Leipzig, as of 1916-17; Berne, as of 1919; Belfast, 1920-23; Hamilton, 1923-24.
Protestant.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died, from pneumonia, in the Mount Alto Veterans Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., March 3,
1936 (age 78 years, 361
days).
Interment at East
End Cemetery, Wytheville, Va.
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Joseph Bancroft (1875-1936) —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Rockford (now part of Wilmington), New Castle
County, Del., May 18,
1875.
Democrat. Chemical
engineer;
executive, Joseph Bancroft & Sons chemical
manufacturing firm; director of railroads
and insurance
companies; candidate for Governor of
Delaware, 1924.
Quaker.
Member, American
Chemical Society; Theta
Xi; Freemasons;
Elks.
Injured in a fall down
stairs, and died a few days later, from pneumonia, in the
Homeopathic Hospital,
Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., May 6,
1936 (age 60 years, 354
days).
Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Jesse Isidor Straus (1872-1936) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 25,
1872.
Democrat. President, R. H. Macy & Co. department
stores; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1933-36.
Jewish.
Member, Sphinx.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
4, 1936 (age 64 years, 101
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) —
also known as Oliver G. Jennings —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
27, 1865.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1916;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Fairfield, 1923-24; director,
U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation; director, Grocery Store
Products, Inc.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Skull
and Bones.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in the Harbor Sanitarium,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1936 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Oak
Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Henry Clay Hall (1860-1936) —
also known as Henry C. Hall —
of Paris, France;
Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
3, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Colorado Springs, Colo., 1905-07; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1914-28.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Ashfield, Franklin
County, Mass., November
9, 1936 (age 76 years, 311
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Paul Edward Rapier (1875-1937) —
also known as Paul E. Rapier —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Alabama, August
28, 1875.
Democrat. Newspaper
advertising manager; alternate delegate to Gold Democrat National
Convention from Alabama, 1896; Consul
for Costa Rica in Mobile,
Ala., 1900-07; accountant.
Died, from pneumonia and diphtheria,
along with myocarditis,
in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
18, 1937 (age 61 years, 143
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Elihu Root (1845-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
15, 1845.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1883-85; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1899-1904; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904
(Temporary
Chair), 1912;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1905-09; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1909-15; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Union
League; American
Society for International Law; American Bar
Association; American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1912.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1937 (age 91 years, 358
days).
Interment at Hamilton
College Cemetery, Clinton, N.Y.
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Charles Fred Staebler (1861-1937) —
of Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., May 27,
1861.
Democrat. Farmer;
president, Ann Arbor Dairy; supervisor
of Ann Arbor Township, Michigan, 1918-19.
German
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia and senility,
in Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
8, 1937 (age 75 years, 257
days).
Interment at Bethlehem
Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Asa Torrence Wright (1872-1937) —
also known as Asa T. Wright —
of Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich.
Born August
4, 1872.
Mayor
of Owosso, Mich., 1917-26, 1932-35; defeated, 1926, 1928, 1935.
Died, from pneumonia, in Owosso, Shiawassee
County, Mich., April
23, 1937 (age 64 years, 262
days).
Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Owosso, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Wright and Rhoda (Orser) Wright; married to Mary Alta
Brown. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John F. Jameson (1879-1937) —
also known as Bud Jameson —
of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 12,
1879.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 16th District, 1911; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1920.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died of broncho-pneumonia, May 14,
1937 (age 58 years, 2
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Morgan Joseph O'Brien (1852-1937) —
also known as Morgan J. O'Brien —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
28, 1852.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1888-1906; resigned 1906;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1896-1906; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1912,
1920,
1924;
candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 16,
1937 (age 85 years, 49
days).
Entombed at Corpus
Christi Monastery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Grenville Temple Emmet (1877-1937) —
also known as Grenville T. Emmet —
of Katonah, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
2, 1877.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; law
partner of Franklin
D. Roosevelt, 1921-23; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1934-37; Austria, 1937, died in office 1937.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Hotel
Bristol, Vienna, Austria,
September
26, 1937 (age 60 years, 55
days).
Interment at St.
Matthew's Churchyard, Bedford, N.Y.
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Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (1878-1937) —
also known as Grayson M. P. Murphy —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
19, 1878.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; Commissioner
of the American Red Cross in Europe, 1917; financier;
director, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, Goodyear Tire
and Rubber
Company, Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, National Aviation
Corporation; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
18, 1937 (age 58 years, 303
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Frederick Hobbes Allen (1858-1937) —
also known as Frederick H. Allen —
of Pelham Manor, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, May 30,
1858.
Democrat. Lawyer; economist;
village
president of Pelham Manor, New York, 1904-06; chair of
Westchester County Democratic Party, 1904-14; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1908,
1920
(alternate); served in the U.S. Navy during World War I.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution; American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Died, from pneumonia, in Newport Hospital,
Newport, Newport
County, R.I., December
3, 1937 (age 79 years, 187
days).
Interment at Beechwoods
Cemetery, New Rochelle, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Elisha
Hunt Allen and Mary Harrod (Hobbes) Allen; brother of William
Fessenden Allen; married, June 30,
1892, to Adele Livingston Stevens; grandson of Samuel
Clesson Allen; third great-grandnephew of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin four times removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second cousin once removed of Gouverneur
Morris; second cousin twice removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; second cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Ellsworth, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin four times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin once removed of Chester
Ashley; third cousin twice removed of Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth and Abijah
Blodget; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr., Jonathan
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Josiah
Meigs and Daniel
Pitkin; fourth cousin of Albert
Asahel Bliss and Philemon
Bliss; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph
Churchill Strong, Theodore
Davenport, Chester
William Chapin, Harrison
Blodget, John
William Allen, William
Alfred Buckingham, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, George
Washington Wolcott, William
Dean Kellogg, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Oliver
Morgan Hungerford, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919), Judson
H. Warner, Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900) and Josiah
Quincy. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles William Anderson (1866-1938) —
also known as Charles W. Anderson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Oxford, Butler
County, Ohio, April
28, 1866.
Republican. Newspaper
work; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 2nd New York
District, 1905-15; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920;
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 3rd New York District,
1922-34.
African
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1938 (age 71 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Anderson and Serena Anderson; married 1896 to Emma
L. Bonaparte. |
| | | Image source: New York Tribune, March
26, 1905 |
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Robert Stockwell Reynolds Hitt (1876-1938) —
also known as R. S. Reynolds Hitt —
of Mt. Morris, Ogle
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Paris, France,
June
7, 1876.
U.S. Minister to Panama, 1909-10; Guatemala, 1910-13.
Member, Psi
Upsilon.
Died, from pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., April
16, 1938 (age 61 years, 313
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Francis Dore (1881-1938) —
also known as John F. Dore —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
11, 1881.
Newspaper
work; lawyer; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1932-34, 1936-38.
Died, from complications of pneumonia and influenza,
Seattle, King
County, Wash., April
18, 1938 (age 56 years, 128
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Elon Huntington Hooker (1869-1938) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., November
23, 1869.
Progressive. Engineer;
founder and president, Hooker Electrochemical
Company; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Died, from pneumonia, in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 10,
1938 (age 68 years, 168
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.
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Andrew James Peters (1872-1938) —
also known as Andrew J. Peters —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 3,
1872.
Democrat. Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902; member of Massachusetts
state senate Eighth Suffolk District, 1904-05; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 11th District, 1907-14;
resigned 1914; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1914-18; mayor of
Boston, Mass., 1918-22; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Died, of pneumonia, June 26,
1938 (age 66 years, 84
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Thomas Theodore Crittenden Jr. (1863-1938) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born near Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., December
23, 1863.
Jackson
County Clerk, 1894-1900; mayor
of Kansas City, Mo., 1908-10.
Died, of bronchopneumonia, in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., July 31,
1938 (age 74 years, 220
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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John Barrett (1866-1938) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Grafton, Windham
County, Vt.; Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Grafton, Windham
County, Vt., November
28, 1866.
Newspaper
correspondent; newspaper
editor; U.S. Minister to Siam, 1894-98; Argentina, 1903-04; Panama, 1904-05; Colombia, 1905-06; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, as of 1894-98; director general, Pan American Union,
1907-20.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia, in a hospital
at Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham
County, Vt., October
17, 1938 (age 71 years, 323
days).
Interment at Grafton
Village Cemetery, Grafton, Vt.
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Albert W. Twiggar (c.1870-1938) —
of Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester
County, N.Y., about 1870.
Dentist;
village
president of Ossining, New York, 1923; Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; Law
Preservation candidate for New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1933; Law
Preservation candidate for New York
state senate 26th District, 1934.
Member, Rotary;
Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
30, 1938 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Dale
Cemetery, Ossining, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Walter Twiggar and Caroline (Tompkins) Twiggar; married to Augusta
Meeks. |
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Nathan Lieberman (c.1888-1939) —
also known as Leonard Madden —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1912;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1921; in March
1939, he was charged,
along with two others, over a stock
fraud scheme; he pleaded not guilty and was released on bail;
meanwhile, in a separate case, he was indicted
in Broome County.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, apparently of pneumonia, while attempting to kill
himself with poison,
in his room at the Tudor Hotel
(where he had registered under the assumed name "Leonard Madden"),
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
12, 1939 (age about 51
years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Wilson Sale (1869-1939) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., September
30, 1869.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state senate 31st District, 1904-11; Adjutant General of
Virginia, 1910-18, 1922-31; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Virginia.
Died, from pneumonia, in Fairfield, Rockbridge
County, Va., October
18, 1939 (age 70 years, 18
days).
Interment at St. Mary's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Goochland County, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Sarah Estaline (Templeton) Sale and William M. Sale; married 1909 to Edith
Dabney Tunis. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Livingston Farrand (1867-1939) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Brewster, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., June 14,
1867.
Physician;
anthropologist;
psychologist;
university
professor; president,
University of Colorado, 1914-19; chairman, Central Committee of the
American Red Cross, 1919-21; president,
Cornell University, 1921-37; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
French
Huguenot ancestry. Member, American
Public Health Association; American
Psychological Association.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1939 (age 72 years, 147
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Frederick Louis Carr (1873-1939) —
of Wilson, Wilson
County, N.C.
Born in Pitt
County, N.C., August
7, 1873.
Democrat. Farmer; bank
director; director, Wilson Cotton
Mills; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
North Carolina, 1904.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Died, from lobar pneumonia, in Wilson, Wilson
County, N.C., November
28, 1939 (age 66 years, 113
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Wilson, N.C.
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South Strong (1880-1939) —
of Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky.
Born in Lost Creek, Breathitt
County, Ky., July 23,
1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1912; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1912.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, of pneumonia, at Jackson, Breathitt
County, Ky., November
29, 1939 (age 59 years, 129
days).
Interment at Combs
Cemetery, Jackson, Ky.
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Heywood Campbell Broun (1888-1939) —
also known as Heywood Broun —
of New York; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Socialist. Sportswriter;
columnist
for New York newspapers;;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1930; founder of
the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 and its first president;
expelled from Socialist Party in 1933.
Catholic.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia, in the Harkness Pavilion of the
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
18, 1939 (age 51 years, 11
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Wyndham Robertson Meredith (1859-1940) —
also known as Wyndham R. Meredith —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., April 6,
1859.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from
Virginia, 1896.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, while suffering from pneumonia and heart
disease, in Johnston-Willis Hospital,
Richmond,
Va., January
12, 1940 (age 80 years, 281
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Frederick Leslie Hay (1856-1940) —
also known as Frederick L. Hay —
of Defiance, Defiance
County, Ohio.
Born in Girard, Erie
County, Pa., December
22, 1856.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor
of Defiance, Ohio, 1888-92, 1932-34; Defiance
County Probate Judge, 1893-97; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1900; common pleas court
judge in Ohio, 1912-18.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died, of pneumonia, in Defiance, Defiance
County, Ohio, February, 1940
(age 83
years, 0 days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Defiance, Ohio.
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Arthur A. Will (1871-1940) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 22,
1871.
Republican. Builder;
mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 1925-27.
Died, from pneumonia, in Pewee Valley, Oldham
County, Ky., October
8, 1940 (age 69 years, 139
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Frank J. Conway (c.1888-1940) —
of Derby, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Ansonia, New Haven
County, Conn., about 1888.
Democrat. Mayor of
Derby, Conn., 1923-28.
Died, from double pneumonia, in the New Haven General Hospital,
New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
21, 1940 (age about 52
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Roland N. Holsaple (1876-1940) —
also known as R. N. Holsaple —
of Litchfield, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Petoskey, Emmet
County, Mich.; Traverse City, Grand
Traverse County, Mich.; Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; South Dakota; Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; Minnesota; Cass City, Tuscola
County, Mich.
Born in Monroeville, Allen
County, Ind., April
11, 1876.
Republican. Minister;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1940.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Died, of pneumonia, in Pleasant Home Hospital,
Cass City, Tuscola
County, Mich., October
31, 1940 (age 64 years, 203
days).
Interment at Elkland
Township Cemetery, Near Cass City, Tuscola County, Mich.
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Jennie Tuttle Hobart (1849-1941) —
also known as Esther Jane Tuttle —
Born in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., April
30, 1849.
Second
Lady of the United States, 1897-99.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia, in Haledon, Passaic
County, N.J., January
8, 1941 (age 91 years, 253
days).
Entombed at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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George Bliss Agnew (1868-1941) —
also known as George B. Agnew —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1868.
Republican. Stockbroker;
director of mining
companies and railroads;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1900
(alternate), 1904
(alternate), 1908;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 27th District, 1903-06;
member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1907-10.
Presbyterian.
English,
French
Huguenot, Scottish,
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, of pneumonia, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 21,
1941 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Gifford Agnew and Mary Hervey (Bliss) Agnew; married 1908 to Emily
D. Gruban. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1907 |
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John Thomas Browne (1845-1941) —
also known as John T. Browne; "The Fighting
Irishman"; "Honest John" —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Ballylanders, County Limerick, Ireland,
March
23, 1845.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; grocer; mayor
of Houston, Tex., 1892-96; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1897-99, 1907.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
Died, of pneumonia, in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., August
19, 1941 (age 96 years, 149
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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James Alphonsus Hamill (1877-1941) —
also known as James A. Hamill —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., March
30, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1902-05; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1907-21 (10th District 1907-13,
12th District 1913-21); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1908,
1916;
corporation counsel of Jersey City, 1927-41.
Member, American Bar
Association; Elks.
Died, from pneumonia and thrombosis,
in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
15, 1941 (age 64 years, 260
days).
Interment at Holy
Name Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.
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Max Angus Templeton (1879-1942) —
also known as Max A. Templeton —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Mason, Ingham
County, Mich., June 20,
1879.
Mayor
of Lansing, Mich., 1933-41; defeated, 1940.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
16, 1942 (age 62 years, 241
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Mason, Mich.
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John W. Farley (1878-1942) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born March 4,
1878.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1916; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Tennessee, 1916
(alternate), 1924.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Freemasons.
Led drive to establish
the West Tennessee Normal School (now University of Memphis) in 1912.
Died, of pneumonia and severe arthritis,
November, 1942
(age 64
years, 0 days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr. (1892-1943) —
also known as Joseph W. Bailey, Jr. —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Gainesville, Cooke
County, Tex., December
15, 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas at-large, 1933-35; served in the U.S.
Marine Corps during World War II.
Presbyterian.
Died
in military service, of pneumonia following injuries he
suffered in a collision,
in the military hospital
at Camp Howze, near Gainesville, Cooke
County, Tex., July 17,
1943 (age 50 years, 214
days).
Original interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Gainesville, Tex.; reinterment in 1958 at Sparkman
Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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Francis Marion Taitt (1862-1943) —
also known as Francis M. Taitt —
of Chester, Delaware
County, Pa.
Born in Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J., January
3, 1862.
Republican. Episcopal
priest; bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, 1931-43;
offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1940.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from pneumonia, in Crozer Hospital,
Upland, Delaware
County, Pa., July 17,
1943 (age 81 years, 195
days).
Entombed at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Floyd W. Annabel (c.1886-1944) —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Howard, Steuben
County, N.Y., about 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 7th District, 1935; appointed 1935;
defeated, 1935.
Member, Rotary;
Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of pneumonia, in Bath Hospital,
Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y., January
13, 1944 (age about 58
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Olive Dutcher. |
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John J. Curley (c.1873-1944) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born about 1873.
Democrat. Grocer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928;
Boston city treasurer, 1932; chairman, Massachusetts Public Utilities
Commission, 1936.
Died, of pneumonia, in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 26,
1944 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Abraham Reuben Garver (1860-1944) —
of Tipp City, Miami
County, Ohio.
Born in Bethel Township, Clark
County, Ohio, December
20, 1860.
Republican. Member of Ohio
state senate, 1915-17.
Methodist.
German
ancestry.
Owned the Garver Furniture
Factory in Tipp City, Ohio.
Died, of pneumonia, in Tipp City, Miami
County, Ohio, October
30, 1944 (age 83 years, 315
days).
Interment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, Tipp City, Ohio.
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Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945) —
also known as Samuel M. Garland —
of Lebanon, Linn
County, Ore.
Born in Amherst, Amherst
County, Va., January
31, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
superintendent, Umatilla reservation Indian schools; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1904
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; Honorary
Vice-President); member of Oregon
state senate, 1917-25.
Suffered an accidental fall in
his home, sustained a chest injury, and died a week later from
hypostatic pneumonia, in Lebanon General Hospital,
Lebanon, Linn
County, Ore., November
3, 1945 (age 84 years, 276
days).
Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Lebanon, Ore.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. James Powell Garland and Lucy Virginia (Braxton) Garland;
married, October
12, 1892, to Isabella LeRoy Kirkpatrick; grandson of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880); great-grandson of David
Shepherd Garland; second great-grandnephew of Patrick
Henry; second cousin twice removed of Valentine
Wood Southall, William
Campbell Preston and John
Smith Preston; third cousin of Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Stephen
Valentine Southall, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; fourth cousin of Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge. |
| | | Political family: Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The Garland Bridge,
which takes Santiam Highway (US-20) over the South Santiam River, in
Linn
County, Oregon, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Clyde Barrie (1901-1945) —
also known as Cecil Burrows —
of Harlem, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bridgetown, Barbados,
October
11, 1901.
Republican. Baritone
singer for CBS radio; performed, Republican National Convention, 1940.
African
ancestry.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, in Harlem Hospital,
Harlem, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
4, 1945 (age 44 years, 54
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Percival Leon Burrows and Cecilia Burrows. |
| | | Image source: Tribune Photo
Archives |
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Elliott Northcott (1869-1946) —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., April
26, 1869.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of West Virginia
Republican State Executive Committee, 1900-08; West Virginia
Republican state chair, 1904-08; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, 1905-09,
1922-27; U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1909-10; Nicaragua, 1911; Venezuela, 1911-13; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1927-39.
Died, of pneumonia, in a hospital
at Arcadia, DeSoto
County, Fla., January
3, 1946 (age 76 years, 252
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Huntington, W.Va.
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William Bernard Barry (1902-1946) —
also known as William B. Barry —
of St. Albans, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in County Mayo, Ireland,
July
21, 1902.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1935-46 (2nd District 1935-45, 4th
District 1945-46); died in office 1946.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died, from pneumonia, in St. Vincent's Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1946 (age 44 years, 91
days).
Interment at Mount
St. Mary Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Frank Graham Finlayson (1864-1947) —
also known as Frank G. Finlayson —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia,
March
24, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1893-94; superior court judge in California,
1911-19; Judge,
California Court of Appeal, 1919-26; justice of
California state supreme court, 1926.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons.
Died, of pneumonia, at Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
9, 1947 (age 82 years, 322
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of James Ross Finlayson and Elizabeth (Goodsir) Finlayson; married,
July
10, 1895, to Agnes Thayer. |
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Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., April 2,
1862.
Republican. University
professor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1888;
President
of Columbia University, 1901-45; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1904,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928
(speaker),
1932;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1912; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920,
1928;
co-recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; blind
in his later years.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of bronchio-pneumonia, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1947 (age 85 years, 249
days).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Robert Lee Williams (1868-1948) —
also known as Robert L. Williams —
of Durant, Bryan
County, Okla.
Born near Brundidge, Pike
County, Ala., December
20, 1868.
Democrat. Methodist
minister; lawyer;
member of Democratic National Committee from Indian Territory,
1904-07; delegate
to Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1906; justice of
Oklahoma state supreme court, 1907-14; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker);
Governor
of Oklahoma, 1915-19; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, 1919-37; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, 1937-39.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia, at Wilson N. Jones Hospital,
Sherman, Grayson
County, Tex., April
10, 1948 (age 79 years, 112
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Durant, Okla.
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William Simon U'Ren (1859-1949) —
also known as W. S. U'Ren —
of Milwaukie, Clackamas
County, Ore.
Born in Lancaster, Grant
County, Wis., January
10, 1859.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1897-98; Independent candidate
for Governor of
Oregon, 1914.
Cornish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., March 8,
1949 (age 90 years, 57
days).
Entombed at Wilhelm's Portland Memorial, Portland, Ore.; memorial monument
at Clackamas County Courthouse Grounds, Oregon City, Ore.
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George Rivet Van Namee (1877-1949) —
also known as George R. Van Namee —
of Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., December
23, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer; chair of
Jefferson County Democratic Party, 1908-19; secretary of
New York Democratic Party, 1912-19; secretary to Gov. Alfred
E. Smith, 1919-20, 1922-23; member, New York State Public Service
Commission, 1923; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1928,
1932.
Catholic.
Died, from pneumonia, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1949 (age 71 years, 348
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Eugene Clinton Van Namee and Adele (Rivet) Van Namee; married to
Rose Fallon. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1924 |
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John R. A. Crossland (1864-1950) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born in 1864.
Republican. Physician;
U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1902-03; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Missouri, 1908
(alternate), 1916
(alternate), 1920,
1932
(alternate), 1936.
African
ancestry.
Died, from hypostatic pneumonia and senile
dementia, in the State Hospital,
St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., September
12, 1950 (age about 86
years).
Interment at Ashland
Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo.
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Charles Quinn Hildebrant (1864-1953) —
also known as Charles Q. Hildebrant —
of Wilmington, Clinton
County, Ohio.
Born in Wilmington, Clinton
County, Ohio, October
17, 1864.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 6th District, 1901-05; defeated, 1906;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1908,
1916;
secretary
of state of Ohio, 1915-17; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1926; mayor of Wilmington, Ohio, 1927-41.
Died of pneumonia, Wilmington, Clinton
County, Ohio, March
31, 1953 (age 88 years, 165
days).
Interment at Sugar
Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, Ohio.
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Daniel Thomas McCarty (1912-1953) —
also known as Dan McCarty —
of Florida.
Born in Fort Pierce, St. Lucie
County, Fla., January
18, 1912.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1937-41; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1941; served in the
U.S. Army during World War II; Governor of
Florida, 1953; defeated in primary, 1948; died in office 1953.
Died, of pneumonia following a heart
attack, in a hospital
at Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., September
28, 1953 (age 41 years, 253
days).
Interment at Palms
Cemetery, Near Ankona, St. Lucie County, Fla.
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Allen Clarence Wilcox (1860-1953) —
also known as Allen C. Wilcox —
of Swanzey, Cheshire
County, N.H.
Born in Swanzey, Cheshire
County, N.H., January
9, 1860.
Woodware
manufacturer; member of New
Hampshire state senate 14th District, 1907-08.
Died, from broncho-pneumonia, in Elliot Community Hospital,
Keene, Cheshire
County, N.H., December
31, 1953 (age 93 years, 356
days).
Interment at Mount Caesar Cemetery, Swanzey, N.H.
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Arthur Edson Blair Moody (1902-1954) —
also known as Blair Moody —
of Michigan.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
13, 1902.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1951-52; defeated, 1952, 1954; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1952
(chair, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business).
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, during his campaign
for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, of a heart
ailment and pneumonia, in University Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., July 20,
1954 (age 52 years, 157
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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William Bradley Umstead (1895-1954) —
also known as William B. Umstead —
of Durham, Durham
County, N.C.
Born in Mangum Township, Durham
County, N.C., May 13,
1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1933-39; North
Carolina Democratic state chair, 1945; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1946-48; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1948;
Governor
of North Carolina, 1953-54; died in office 1954.
Methodist.
Died, from arteriosclerotic
heart disease and congestive
heart failure, while also suffering from bronchopneumonia,
in Watts Hospital,
Durham, Durham
County, N.C., November
7, 1954 (age 59 years, 178
days).
Interment at Mt.
Tabor Church Cemetery, Mangum Township, Durham County, N.C.
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John Carl Williams Hinshaw (1894-1956) —
also known as Carl Hinshaw —
of Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 28,
1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; real
estate and insurance
business; U.S.
Representative from California, 1939-56 (11th District 1939-43,
20th District 1943-56); defeated, 1936; died in office 1956;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1948.
Died, of pneumonia and congestive
heart failure, in the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., August
5, 1956 (age 62 years, 8
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Robert Knox Hollifield (1868-1957) —
also known as Robert K. Hollifield —
of Forest City, Rutherford
County, N.C.
Born in Rutherford
County, N.C., January
20, 1868.
Republican. Lumberman;
postmaster at Forest
City, N.C., 1903-05.
Died, from pneumonia and cerebral
thrombosis, in Spindale, Rutherford
County, N.C., February
28, 1957 (age 89 years, 39
days).
Interment at Cool Springs Cemetery, Forest City, N.C.
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Otto Emanuel Haab (1880-1957) —
also known as Otto E. Haab —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Freedom Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., October
16, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Washtenaw County 1st
District, 1916.
Died, from colon
cancer, peritonitis
following surgery, and pneumonia, in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
15, 1957 (age 77 years, 30
days).
Interment at Bethlehem
Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Joseph Edward Davies (1876-1958) —
also known as Joseph E. Davies —
of Wisconsin; Washington,
D.C.; Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, Wis., November
29, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Wisconsin, 1912; law partner of Timothy
T. Ansberry; member, Federal Trade Commission, 1915-18; chair,
Federal Trade Commission, 1915-16; economic advisor to President Woodrow
Wilson at the Paris peace conference after World War I; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1918; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1936; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1936-38; Belgium, 1938-39; U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, 1938-39.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Upsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi.
Died, of bronchial pneumonia following a stroke,
in Washington,
D.C., May 9,
1958 (age 81 years, 161
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Sands Point, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., January
5, 1882.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter and editor; received the Pulitzer
Prize in 1917 for a series of articles titled "Inside the German
Empire"; executive editor, New York World, 1920-29; under his
leadership, the newspaper won a Pulitzer
Prize for meritorious public service in 1922, for reporting on
the Ku Klux Klan; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1932,
1936,
1940;
elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
English,
German,
and Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, following surgery for an intestinal
ailment, in Doctors Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 20,
1958 (age 76 years, 166
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Swope and Ida Swope; brother of Gerard B. Swope; married 1912 to
Margaret Honeyman Powell. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Davis Elkins (1876-1959) —
of Morgantown, Monongalia
County, W.Va.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
24, 1876.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
banker;
U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1911, 1919-25; delegate to Republican
National Convention from West Virginia, 1916;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Died, from bronchial pneumonia, cardio-renal
disease, and senility,
in Westbrook Sanatorium,
Richmond,
Va., January
5, 1959 (age 82 years, 346
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1944;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949; defeated, 1949; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1953-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1959.
Died of cancer
and pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., May 24,
1959 (age 71 years, 88
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Allen Macy Dulles and Edith F. (Foster) Dulles; brother of Allen
Welsh Dulles; married, June 26,
1912, to Janet Pomeroy Avery; grandson of John
Watson Foster; great-grandnephew of John
Welsh; third great-grandnephew of Joshua
Coit; first cousin twice removed of Langdon
Cheves Jr.; first cousin six times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin once removed of Samuel
Welsh; second cousin thrice removed of Robert
Coit Jr.; second cousin four times removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington and Abel
Huntington; second cousin five times removed of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin of Lewis
Wardlaw Haskell; third cousin twice removed of Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell and William
Brainard Coit; third cousin thrice removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, William
Woodbridge, Zina
Hyde Jr., Isaac
Backus, Theodore
Davenport, Henry
Titus Backus and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of John
Leffingwell Randolph. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Edward
Corsi |
| | | Washington Dulles International Airport
(opened 1962), in Loudoun
and Fairfax
counties, Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 13,
1951 |
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John Randolph Neal (1876-1959) —
also known as John R. Neal —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Rhea Springs, Rhea
County, Tenn., September
17, 1876.
Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1936 (Independent), 1938 (Independent),
1940 (Independent), 1942 (Independent), 1946 (Independent), 1954
(Democratic primary); Independent candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, 1954.
Chief defense counsel for John T. Scopes at the 1925 "Monkey Trial".
Died, from pneumonia, in a hospital
at Rockwood, Roane
County, Tenn., November
23, 1959 (age 83 years, 67
days).
Interment at Ault Cemetery, Postoak, Tenn.
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James Melton (1904-1961) —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Moultrie, Colquitt
County, Ga., January
2, 1904.
Republican. Professional
singer; actor;
performed, Republican National Convention, 1952.
Died, from lobar pneumonia, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
21, 1961 (age 57 years, 109
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Ocala, Fla.
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Henry Albon Bailey Jr. (1893-1961) —
also known as H. A. Bailey —
of Winooski, Chittenden
County, Vt.; South Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Winooski, Chittenden
County, Vt., January
22, 1893.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1921-24; mayor
of Winooski, Vt., 1922; member of Vermont
state senate, 1929-31; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Vermont, 1940.
Died, from broncho-pneumonia, uremia,
and Parkinson's
disease, in Fairfax, Franklin
County, Vt., July 20,
1961 (age 68 years, 179
days).
Interment at Greenmount
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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Robert Ephram Abell (1887-1963) —
also known as Robert E. Abell —
of Chester, Chester
County, S.C.
Born in Chester
County, S.C., October
12, 1887.
Democrat. Surgeon;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1940.
Died, from a suspected coronary
occlusion, due to emphysema
and pneumonia, in Memorial Hospital,
Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., March 9,
1963 (age 75 years, 148
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Chester, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Joshua L. Abell and Sophia (Erwin) Abell; married to Alice Hall
Glenn. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Gordon Hubert Butler (1889-1964) —
also known as Gordon H. Butler —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Scipio, Jennings
County, Ind., February
10, 1889.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; general
contractor; president, Polaris Concrete
Products Company; bank
director; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of
Minnesota
state senate, 1951-64 (57th District 1951-62, 61st District
1963-64); died in office 1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
American
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Rotary;
Elks; Eagles.
Died, of pneumonia, in St. Luke's Hospital,
Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., August
1, 1964 (age 75 years, 173
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Joseph Russell Knowland (1873-1966) —
also known as Joseph R. Knowland —
of Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Alameda, Alameda
County, Calif., August
5, 1873.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; member of California
state assembly, 1899-1903; member of California
state senate, 1903-04; U.S.
Representative from California, 1904-15 (3rd District 1904-13,
6th District 1913-15); candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1914; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1916
(alternate), 1920,
1928,
1932,
1944.
Died of pneumonia in Piedmont, Alameda
County, Calif., February
1, 1966 (age 92 years, 180
days).
Cremated.
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Milton B. Badt (1884-1966) —
of Elko, Elko
County, Nev.; Carson
City, Nev.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., July 8,
1884.
Lawyer;
district judge in Nevada, 1945-47; justice of
Nevada state supreme court, 1947-66; appointed 1947; died in
office 1966; chief
justice of Nevada state supreme court, 1951-52, 1957-59.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Elks; Rotary.
Died, from heart
disease and pneumonia, in a hospital
at Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., April 2,
1966 (age 81 years, 268
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Moris Badt and Lina (Posener) Badt; married, June 29,
1927, to Gertrude L. Nizze. |
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Garland Smith Garriss (1908-1968) —
also known as Garland S. Garriss —
of Troy, Montgomery
County, N.C.
Born in Margarettsville, Northampton
County, N.C., February
23, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1947-48, 1959-60, 1964-65.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary;
American
Legion.
Died, of pneumonia and colon
cancer, in Moore Regional Hospital,
Pinehurst, Moore
County, N.C., July 21,
1968 (age 60 years, 149
days).
Interment at Glendon
Christian Church Cemetery, Glendon, N.C.
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Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969) —
also known as Allen W. Dulles;
"Spymaster" —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., April 7,
1893.
Republican. Foreign Service officer; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1938; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1940;
director, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 1953-61; member,
President's Commission on the Assassination of President KNDY,
1963-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from influenza
and pneumonia, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 1969 (age 75 years, 296
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Randolph Fitzhugh Carroll (1901-1969) —
also known as Randolph F. Carroll —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
23, 1901.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Rotterdam, 1922-26; U.S. Consul in Bangkok, 1926-28; Rio de Janeiro, 1928-29.
Died, from pneumonia and heart muscle
degeneration, in Neulengbach, Austria,
March
4, 1969 (age 68 years, 9
days).
Interment somewhere in Neulengbach, Austria.
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Harry Richard Sheppard (1885-1969) —
also known as Harry R. Sheppard —
of Yucaipa, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., January
10, 1885.
Democrat. Railroad
worker; beverage
business; U.S.
Representative from California, 1937-65 (19th District 1937-43,
21st District 1943-53, 27th District 1953-63, 33rd District 1963-65);
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1940,
1944,
1956,
1960.
Member, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen.
Died of pneumonia at George Washington University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., April
28, 1969 (age 84 years, 108
days).
Interment at National
Memorial Park, Near Falls Church, Fairfax County, Va.
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George Dunlap Hopper (1889-1969) —
also known as George D. Hopper —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in Stanford, Lincoln
County, Ky., July 13,
1889.
Lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Stockholm, 1917-19; Rotterdam, 1920-23; Hamburg, 1923; Dunkirk, 1923-25; Antofagasta, 1925-29; Montreal, 1929-34; Casablanca, 1934-37; U.S. Consul General in Winnipeg, 1937-41; St. John's, 1941-45; Hong Kong, 1945-49.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Freemasons.
Died, from bronchopneumonia, in Brentwood Rehab
Center, Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., July 11,
1969 (age 79 years, 363
days).
Interment at Calvary Episcopal Church Cemetery, Fletcher, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of George Dunlap Hopper (1848-1913) and Katherine Elizabeth (Higgins)
Hopper; married, June 23,
1920, to Minnie Parker Durham; married, July 8,
1939, to Sue Cushing Hayes. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1918) |
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| |
Edgar Willard Hiestand (1888-1970) —
also known as Edgar W. Hiestand —
of Altadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
3, 1888.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California 21st District, 1953-63; defeated,
1962; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1960.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Rotary;
John
Birch Society.
Died, of a kidney
infection and pneumonia, at Huntington Memorial Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
19, 1970 (age 81 years, 259
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at San
Gabriel Cemetery, San Gabriel, Calif.
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Robert Elmer Hollifield (1902-1972) —
also known as Robert E. Hollifield —
of Forest City, Rutherford
County, N.C.
Born in North Carolina, May 1,
1902.
Republican. Postmaster at Forest
City, N.C., 1953-65 (acting, 1953-54).
Died, from pneumonia and Parkinson's
disease, in Rutherford Hospital,
Rutherfordton, Rutherford
County, N.C., March
24, 1972 (age 69 years, 328
days).
Interment at Cool Springs Cemetery, Forest City, N.C.
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Thomas John Moore (1903-1972) —
also known as Thomas J. Moore —
of Wilson, Wilson
County, N.C.
Born in Saratoga, Wilson
County, N.C., June 6,
1903.
Republican. Pharmacist;
delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, 1940,
1952
(alternate), 1956;
chair
of Wilson County Republican Party, 1952.
Died, from pneumonia, possibly with lung
cancer, in Wilson Memorial Hospital,
Wilson, Wilson
County, N.C., November
2, 1972 (age 69 years, 149
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Wilson, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Aurelius Milton Moore and Margaret Cornelia 'Maggie' (Owens)
Moore; married to Marjorie Smith. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Kemp Doughton Sr. (1884-1973) —
of Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C.
Born in Alleghany
County, N.C., May 18,
1884.
Banker;
farmer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1948-57; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1951-57.
Methodist.
Indicted
for bank
fraud in 1928; tried
and acquitted.
Died, of pneumonia, in a hospital
at Sparta, Alleghany
County, N.C., March
17, 1973 (age 88 years, 303
days).
Interment at Shiloh
Methodist Church Cemetery, Sparta, N.C.
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Ray Louis Forshee (1884-1974) —
also known as Ray L. Forshee —
of Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Michigan, March
19, 1884.
Democrat. Clothing
salesman; candidate for supervisor
of Pittsfield Township, Michigan, 1941.
Irish
and German
ancestry.
His legs were
amputated due to arteriosclerosis.
Died, of pneumonia, in Whitehall Convalescent
Center, Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
5, 1974 (age 89 years, 292
days).
Interment at St.
Thomas Catholic Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Luis Miller Dunckel (1899-1975) —
also known as Miller Dunckel —
of Three Rivers, St. Joseph
County, Mich.
Born in Springfield, Greene
County, Mo., February
11, 1899.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; automobile
wholesaler; member of Michigan
state senate 6th District, 1935-38; defeated in primary, 1932; Michigan
state treasurer, 1939-40; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1940.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
American
Legion; Eagles;
Moose;
Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died of pneumonia in 1975
(age about
76 years).
Interment at Eternal
Hills Memorial Park, Oceanside, Calif.
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Image source:
Michigan Manual 1939 |
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Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith (1898-1976) —
also known as Gerald L. K. Smith —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Pardeeville, Columbia
County, Wis., February
27, 1898.
Pastor;
orator;
political administrator and organizer for Huey P.
Long, 1934-35; as a white
supremacist, he joined and organized for William
Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirts of America, an organization modeled
directly on Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1942 (Republican primary), 1942; founder
of the America First party; charged
with sedition
in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi
conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; America First candidate for President
of the United States, 1944; founder of the Christian Nationalist
Crusade; advocated deportation from the U.S. of Jews and
African-Americans.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died, of pneumonia, in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
15, 1976 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at Christ
of the Ozarks Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) —
also known as Alice Lee Roosevelt; "Princess
Alice" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1884.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936,
1940
(speaker);
newspaper
columnist.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia, emphysema,
and cardiac
arrest, in Washington,
D.C., February
20, 1980 (age 96 years, 8
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Step-daughter of Edith
Roosevelt; daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt; half-sister of Theodore
Roosevelt Jr.; married, February
17, 1906, to Nicholas
Longworth; niece of Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; grandniece of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; grandaunt of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; great-grandniece of James
I. Roosevelt; second great-grandniece of William
Bellinger Bulloch; third great-granddaughter of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin once removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin thrice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alice Roosevelt Longworth:
Carol Felsenthal, Princess
Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth |
| | | Image source: Time magazine, February
7, 1927 |
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Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) —
also known as Manny Celler —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 6,
1888.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1923-73 (10th District 1923-45,
15th District 1945-53, 11th District 1953-63, 10th District 1963-73);
defeated (Liberal), 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1936,
1940,
1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; United
World Federalists; American
Jewish Congress; American
Jewish Committee; B'nai
B'rith.
Died, from pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
15, 1981 (age 92 years, 254
days).
Interment at Mt.
Neboh Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Robert Gerald Storey (1893-1981) —
also known as R. G. Storey —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Greenville, Hunt
County, Tex., December
4, 1893.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1928;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; director, Southwestern
Bell
Telephone Company; director and counsel of life
insurance companies.
Christian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kiwanis.
Died, from pneumonia and heart
disease, while suffering from senile
dementia, in a nursing
home at Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., January
16, 1981 (age 87 years, 43
days).
Interment at Restland
Memorial Park, Dallas, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Edith (Thomson) Storey and Frank Wilson Storey; married, July 26,
1917, to Frances Hazel Porter; married to Jewel Hope
Watson. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Eminent Americans
1954 |
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer,
director
of many motion
pictures; worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
4, 1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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Edward Brooke Lee (1892-1984) —
also known as E. Brooke Lee —
of Silver Spring, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
23, 1892.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; Maryland
state comptroller, 1920-22; secretary
of state of Maryland, 1923-25; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1928,
1940;
member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1927-30; Speaker of
the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1927-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1942.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, from pneumonia, in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., September
21, 1984 (age 91 years, 334
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Young Brown Sr. (1900-1985) —
also known as John Y. Brown, Sr. —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born near Geigers Lake, Union
County, Ky., February
1, 1900.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; school
principal; athletic
coach; lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1930-33, 1946-47, 1954-55,
1962-63, 1966-67 (76th District 1930-31, 75th District 1932-33, 49th
District 1946-47, 1954-55, 1962-63, 56th District 1966-67); defeated
in primary, 1973; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky at-large, 1933-35; defeated in
primary, 1980; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1936 (primary), 1942 (primary), 1946, 1948
(primary), 1960 (primary), 1966; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1936,
1948,
1964
(alternate), 1980;
candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1939.
Methodist;
later Christian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Elks; Phi
Kappa Tau; Phi
Alpha Delta; Kiwanis;
Freemasons.
Badly injured in an automobile
accident, which paralyzed his lower body, and died six months
later from pneumonia, in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., June 16,
1985 (age 85 years, 135
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Harley Walter Kidder (1901-1986) —
also known as Harley W. Kidder —
of Barre, Washington
County, Vt.
Born in Barre, Washington
County, Vt., January
18, 1901.
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Vermont 2nd District, 1928; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Vermont.
Died, from pneumonia, in Burlington Convalescent
Center, Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., March
28, 1986 (age 85 years, 69
days).
Entombed at Elmwood
Cemetery, Barre, Vt.
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Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1914-1986) —
also known as Jonathan B. Bingham; Jack
Bingham —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., April
24, 1914.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; secretary to New York
Governor W.
Averell Harriman, 1955-59; candidate for New York
state senate 29th District, 1958; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1965-83 (23rd District 1965-73,
22nd District 1973-83).
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Americans
for Democratic Action; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 3,
1986 (age 72 years, 70
days).
Interment at Woodbridge Cemetery, Salem, Conn.
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Richard Morford (c.1903-1986) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Onaway, Presque
Isle County, Mich., about 1903.
Presbyterian
minister; vice-chair of New York American Labor Party, 1945-49;
director, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1946-80;
this organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; tried in
federal court in Washington; convicted
in March 1948; his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court; convicted
again on re-trial; sentenced
to three months in prison and fined
$250.
Presbyterian.
Died, from pneumonia, in Madison, Dane
County, Wis., September
7, 1986 (age about 83
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Aileen Hutson. |
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Inzer B. Wyatt (1907-1990) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., March
29, 1907.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1962-77.
Died, of pneumonia and heart
failure, in New York
Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
17, 1990 (age 82 years, 294
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Hope Johnston. |
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Sigurd Anderson (1904-1990) —
of Webster, Day
County, S.Dak.
Born in Arendal, Norway,
January
22, 1904.
Republican. Lawyer; Day
County State's Attorney, 1939-40; served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II; South
Dakota state attorney general, 1947-51; member of South Dakota
Republican State Executive Committee, 1947-48; Governor of
South Dakota, 1951-55; member, Federal Trade Commission, 1955-64;
circuit judge in South Dakota, 1970.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Farm
Bureau; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Kiwanis;
Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Theta Phi; Pi
Kappa Delta.
Died, from prostate
cancer and pneumonia, in Lake Area Hospital,
Webster, Day
County, S.Dak., December
21, 1990 (age 86 years, 333
days).
Interment at Webster Cemetery, Webster, S.Dak.
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William T. Cowin (1901-1991) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
16, 1901.
Republican. Legal secretary to U.S. District Judge Grover
M. Moscowitz; lawyer;
assistant U.S. Attorney; served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World
War II; candidate for New York
state senate 13th District, 1956; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1966, 1969-76; defeated,
1963, 1964; appointed 1966; defeated, 1966.
Jewish.
Died, from pneumonia, in Long Island College Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
1, 1991 (age 89 years, 77
days).
Interment at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Leesburg, Fla.
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Victor Laurence August Christgau (1894-1991) —
also known as Victor Christgau —
of Austin, Mower
County, Minn.
Born in Austin, Mower
County, Minn., September
20, 1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; farmer;
member of Minnesota
state senate 5th District, 1927-29; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 1st District, 1929-33; defeated
(Independent), 1932.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, from pneumonia, in George Washington Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., October
10, 1991 (age 97 years, 20
days).
Interment at St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery, St. Paul Park, Minn.
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Frank G. Binswanger (1902-1991) —
of Elkins Park, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
12, 1902.
Republican. Real estate
broker; real estate
developer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1952
(alternate), 1956.
Died, from cancer,
heart
disease, and pneumonia, in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
1, 1991 (age 88 years, 354
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Raymond Richard Guest (1907-1991) —
also known as Raymond R. Guest —
of Front Royal, Warren
County, Va.; Bayard, Warren
County, Va.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
25, 1907.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia,
1940
(alternate), 1948;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of Virginia
state senate 24th District, 1948-53; U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, 1965-68.
Died of pneumonia, in Fredericksburg,
Va., December
31, 1991 (age 84 years, 36
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Gale William McGee (1915-1992) —
also known as Gale W. McGee —
of Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., March
17, 1915.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Wyoming, 1959-77; defeated, 1976; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Wyoming, 1976.
Died, of pneumonia, following surgery for a brain
aneurysm, in Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April 9,
1992 (age 77 years, 23
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Peter T. Farrell (1900-1992) —
of Corona, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
12, 1900.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Queens County 3rd District, 1930-36; member
of New
York state senate 3rd District, 1937-43; resigned 1943; Judge of
Queens County Court, 1943-61; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 11th District, 1961-76.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
9, 1992 (age 91 years, 363
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas F. Farrell and Mary (Fitzpatrick) Farrell; married, November
11, 1931, to Agnes M. Byrne. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Edmund Burke Jr. (1905-1993) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., February
5, 1905.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1941-43; attorney
for Texaco oil company.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., May 13,
1993 (age 88 years, 97
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edmund Burke and Mabel Jeannette (Rule) Burke; married, July 18,
1939, to Marion Hopkins McDonagh. |
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Dwight Bailey Merrill (1912-1993) —
also known as D. Bailey Merrill —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Hymera, Sullivan
County, Ind., November
22, 1912.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1953-55; defeated,
1954, 1956.
Died, from pneumonia following several strokes,
in Brentwood Convalescent
Center, Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., October
14, 1993 (age 80 years, 326
days).
Interment at Alexander
Memorial Park, Evansville, Ind.
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Henry W. Maier (1918-1994) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, February
7, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; insurance
business; member of Wisconsin
state senate 9th District, 1951-60; defeated, 1948; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1956; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Wisconsin; mayor
of Milwaukee, Wis., 1960-88; defeated, 1948.
Member, American
Legion; American
Federation of Teachers.
Died, of pneumonia, in Delafield, Waukesha
County, Wis., 1994
(age about
76 years).
Burial location unknown.
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David A. Hess (1908-1994) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Ladue, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in Cameron, Marshall
County, W.Va., March
29, 1908.
Democrat. Gas and oil
dealer; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis City 2nd District,
1933-42; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Missouri
state senate 2nd District, 1951-54; defeated in primary, 1954; real estate
developer.
Member, Disabled
American Veterans; American
Legion.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in St. John's Mercy Medical
Center, Creve Coeur, St. Louis
County, Mo., January
31, 1994 (age 85 years, 308
days).
Interment at Valhalla
Cemetery, Bel-Nor, Mo.
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Raymond Arthur Hare (1901-1994) —
also known as Raymond A. Hare —
of Goodman, Marinette
County, Wis.; Manchester, Delaware
County, Iowa; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va., April 3,
1901.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Constantinople, 1927-29; Paris, 1931-32; Cairo, 1931; Beirut, 1932-33; Teheran, as of 1933-34; U.S. Consul in Teheran, as of 1935; Cairo, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1950-53; Lebanon, 1953-54; Egypt, 1956-58; United Arab Republic, 1958-59; Turkey, 1961-65; U.S. Minister to Yemen, 1950-53, 1959-60.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., February
9, 1994 (age 92 years, 312
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Domenick Gabrielli (1912-1994) —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
13, 1912.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; county judge in New
York, 1957-61; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 7th District, 1961-72; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1972-82.
Died, of complications of pneumonia, at Villa Mary Immaculate
Nursing
Home, Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., March
25, 1994 (age 81 years, 102
days).
Interment somewhere
in Bath, N.Y.
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Richard A. Heyman (c.1935-1994) —
of Key West, Monroe
County, Fla.
Born about 1935.
Mayor
of Key West, Fla., 1983-85, 1987-89.
Gay.
One of the first
openly gay public officials.
Died of AIDS-related
pneumonia, September
16, 1994 (age about 59
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Chester Earl Holifield (1903-1995) —
also known as Chet Holifield —
of Montebello, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Mayfield, Graves
County, Ky., December
3, 1903.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940,
1944,
1948
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1952
(alternate; member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from California 19th District, 1943-74; resigned
1974.
Died, of pneumonia, in Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif., February
5, 1995 (age 91 years, 64
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jerauld Wright (1898-1995) —
also known as "Old Iron Heels"; "Old
Stoneface"; "El Supremo" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., June 4,
1898.
U.S. Navy Admiral; U.S. Ambassador to China (Taiwan), 1963-65.
Died, from pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., April
27, 1995 (age 96 years, 327
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Philip Wilson Bonsal (1903-1995) —
also known as Philip W. Bonsal —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 22,
1903.
Executive in overseas telephone
companies; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, 1938; U.S. Consul in Madrid, as of 1947; Barcelona, as of 1947; U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1955-57; Bolivia, 1957-59; Cuba, 1959-60; Morocco, 1961-62.
Died, while ill with pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., June 28,
1995 (age 92 years, 37
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Serrano Villard (1900-1996) —
also known as Henry S. Villard; Harry
Villard —
of New York.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
30, 1900.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Teheran, 1929-31; U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro, 1935-36; U.S. Minister to Libya, 1952; U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, 1960-61; Mauritania, 1960.
Died of pneumonia, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
21, 1996 (age 95 years, 297
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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MacNeil Mitchell (1905-1996) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 18,
1905.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1938-46 (New York County 10th District 1938-44,
New York County 1st District 1945-46); member of New York
state senate 20th District, 1947-64; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1960,
1964.
Member, Phi
Gamma Delta; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died of pneumonia at New York
Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
17, 1996 (age 91 years, 152
days).
Interment at Salisbury
Cemetery, Salisbury, Conn.
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Cecil F. Poole (1914-1997) —
of California.
Born in Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala., July 25,
1914.
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of California, 1961-69; Judge
of U.S. District Court, 1976-79; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1979-96.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Urban
League.
Died, of complications of pneumonia, in a nursing
home at San Rafael, Marin
County, Calif., 1997
(age about
82 years).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a
private or family graveyard, Sonoma County, Calif.
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Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) —
of Kew Gardens, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
19, 1913.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; advertising
business; candidate for New York
state assembly from Queens County 5th District, 1937; member of
New
York state senate, 1941-54 (2nd District 1941-44, 4th District
1945-54); U.S.
Representative from New York, 1959-73 (4th District 1959-63, 6th
District 1963-73); defeated, 1954; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York.
Jewish.
Member, Elks; B'nai
B'rith; Moose; Knights
of Pythias; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died from complications of pneumonia, at Southampton Hospital,
Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
10, 1997 (age 83 years, 52
days).
Interment at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Paul Efthemios Tsongas (1941-1997) —
also known as Paul E. Tsongas —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
14, 1941.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1975-79; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1979-85; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1992.
Greek
ancestry.
Died of liver
damage caused by cancer
treatment, and pneumonia, at Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
18, 1997 (age 55 years, 339
days).
Interment at Lowell
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
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Curt Flood (1938-1997) —
also known as Charles Curtis Flood —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Houston, Harris
County, Tex., January
18, 1938.
Democrat. Professional baseball
player in 1959-71; sued to overturn the reserve clause and make
players free agents; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1988.
African
ancestry.
Died, from throat
cancer and pneumonia, in UCLA Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
20, 1997 (age 59 years, 2
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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Frank Mariano Tejeda (1945-1997) —
also known as Frank Tejeda —
of Texas.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
2, 1945.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1977-86; member of Texas
state senate, 1987-92; U.S.
Representative from Texas 28th District, 1993-97; died in office
1997; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1996.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Died of brain
cancer and pneumonia, in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., January
30, 1997 (age 51 years, 120
days).
Interment at Fort
Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Tex.
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Ural Alexis Johnson (1908-1997) —
also known as U. Alexis Johnson —
of Washington,
D.C.; California.
Born in Falun, Saline
County, Kan., October
17, 1908.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Seoul, as of 1938; Rio de Janeiro, as of 1943; U.S. Consul in Yokohama, as of 1947; U.S. Consul General in Yokohama, as of 1949; U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1953-58; Thailand, 1958-61; Japan, 1966-69; , 1973-77.
Survived a car
bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam.
Died, of pneumonia, in Rex Convalescent
Center, Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., March
24, 1997 (age 88 years, 158
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Judson Francis Haggerty (1925-1997) —
also known as Judson F. Haggerty —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Franklin, Johnson
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
19, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1949-50; chair of
Marion County Democratic Party, 1962-64; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1964,
1968
(alternate).
Unitarian.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from cardiac
arrest while suffering from pneumonia, in Franklin, Johnson
County, Ind., April 5,
1997 (age 72 years, 17
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Elsie M. (Buyher) Haggerty and Walter Francis Haggerty; married,
December
8, 1947, to Peggy Jane Hammon; married, April
28, 1971, to Beverly Ann Chalfant. |
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Leo Brent Bozell (1926-1997) —
also known as L. Brent Bozell —
of Maryland.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., January
19, 1926.
Republican. Co-founded the Young Americans for Freedom; speechwriter
for Joseph
R. McCarthy and Barry
M. Goldwater; candidate for Maryland
state house of delegates, 1958; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1964.
Catholic.
Member, Young
Americans for Freedom.
Died, of pneumonia, at a nursing
home in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., April
15, 1997 (age 71 years, 86
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Patrick Layton Paulsen (1927-1997) —
also known as Pat Paulsen —
Born in South Bend, Pacific
County, Wash., July 6,
1927.
Actor;
comedian;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1968,
1972,
1976,
1992;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1996.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Ill with colon
and brain
cancer, he died of complications from pneumonia and kidney
failure, in Tijuana, Baja
California, April
24, 1997 (age 69 years, 292
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Benson Ellison Lane Timmons III (1916-1997) —
also known as Benson E. L. Timmons; Lane
Timmons —
of Florida.
Born in Sapulpa, Creek
County, Okla., 1916.
Rhodes
scholar; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign
Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, 1963-67.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of a stroke he
suffered while recovering from pneumonia, at Southampton Hospital,
Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 11,
1997 (age about 80
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Emmet Clarie (1913-1997) —
also known as T. Emmet Clarie —
of Danielson, Killingly, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Goodyear, Killingly, Windham
County, Conn., January
1, 1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Killingly, 1937-43; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1948;
U.S.
District Judge for Connecticut, 1961-82.
Died of viral pneumonia, at Day Kimball Hospital,
Putnam, Windham
County, Conn., September
24, 1997 (age 84 years, 266
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Danielson, Killingly, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas C. Clarie and Kathryn (Burns) Clarie; married to Gertrude
Reynolds. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Emerson Moss (1915-1997) —
also known as John E. Moss —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Hiawatha, Carbon
County, Utah, April
13, 1915.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1949-52; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960,
1964;
U.S.
Representative from California 3rd District, 1953-78.
Died, from complications of asthma
and pneumonia, in a hospital
at San
Francisco, Calif., December
5, 1997 (age 82 years, 236
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Lawrence Alioto (1916-1998) —
also known as Joseph L. Alioto —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., February
12, 1916.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1968-76; candidate for Governor of
California, 1974.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Indicted
in 1971 on federal charges
of bribery,
conspiracy, and mail fraud; acquitted in 1972.
Died, of prostate
cancer and pneumonia, in San
Francisco, Calif., January
29, 1998 (age 81 years, 351
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.; cenotaph at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Samuel William Yorty (1909-1998) —
also known as Samuel W. Yorty; Sam Yorty;
"Traveling Sam" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., October
1, 1909.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly, 1936, 1948; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1940 (primary), 1954; served in the U.S.
Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1951-55 (14th District 1951-53,
26th District 1953-55); mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1961-73; defeated, 1945, 1973, 1981;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
talk
show host.
Died of pneumonia, following a stroke,
in Studio City, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
1998 (age 88 years, 247
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Floyd Kirk Haskell (1916-1998) —
also known as Floyd K. Haskell —
of Colorado.
Born in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., February
7, 1916.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1965-69; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1973-79; defeated, 1978.
Member, Common
Cause.
Died of pneumonia, a complication of a brain hemorrhage which
resulted from a fall on an
icy sidewalk, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1998 (age 82 years, 199
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (1907-1998) —
also known as Lewis F. Powell, Jr. —
of Virginia.
Born in Suffolk,
Va., September
19, 1907.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; member,
Virginia state constitutional commission, 1967-68; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1972-87.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died of pneumonia, in Richmond,
Va., August
25, 1998 (age 90 years, 340
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Albert Walter Johnson (1906-1998) —
also known as Albert W. Johnson —
of McKean
County, Pa.
Born in Smethport, McKean
County, Pa., April
17, 1906.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from McKean County, 1947-63; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 23rd District, 1963-77;
defeated, 1976.
Member, Moose.
Died, of complications of pneumonia, at Boca Raton Community
Hospital,
Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla., September
1, 1998 (age 92 years, 137
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Worth Dennis (1912-1999) —
also known as David W. Dennis —
of Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in Washington,
D.C., June 7,
1912.
Republican. Member of Indiana state legislature, 1950; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1969-75.
Died, of pneumonia, in Reid Hospital,
Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., January
6, 1999 (age 86 years, 213
days).
Interment at Earlham
Cemetery, Richmond, Ind.
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Mills Edwin Godwin Jr. (1914-1999) —
also known as Mills E. Godwin, Jr. —
of Suffolk,
Va.
Born in Nansemond County, Va. (now part of Suffolk,
Va.), November
19, 1914.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1948-52; member of Virginia
state senate 5th District, 1952-61; Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia, 1962-66; Governor of
Virginia, 1966-70, 1974-78.
Christian.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Rotary.
Died of complications of pneumonia, January
30, 1999 (age 84 years, 72
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, Va.
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Frank Minis Johnson Jr. (1918-1999) —
also known as Frank M. Johnson, Jr. —
of Jasper, Walker
County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Haleyville, Winston
County, Ala., October
30, 1918.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1948;
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1953-55; U.S.
District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, 1955-; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1979-81; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-92.
Legendary for civil rights decisions; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1995.
Died of pneumonia, in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., July 23,
1999 (age 80 years, 266
days).
Interment at Hill
Crest City Cemetery, Haleyville, Ala.
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William G. Kirkland (1913-1999) —
of Huntington Park, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
29, 1913.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; civil
engineer; mayor
of Huntington Park, Calif., 1952.
Died, of pneumonia, in a hospital
in Martin
County, Fla., December
15, 1999 (age 86 years, 77
days).
Buried at sea in North Atlantic Ocean.
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Relatives: Son
of James Allen Kirkland and Nora (Stevens) Kirkland; married, January
15, 1938, to Anna Dudley. |
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Henry Hammill Fowler (1908-2000) —
also known as Henry H. Fowler; Joe Fowler —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Roanoke,
Va., September
5, 1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1956,
1960
(alternate); U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Kappa Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, of pneumonia, in a nursing
home at Falls
Church, Va., January
3, 2000 (age 91 years, 120
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Mack Johnson Fowler and Bertha (Browning) Fowler; married, October
19, 1938, to Trudye Pamela Hathcote. |
| | | Fowler House (office buiding, built 1940,
named for Fowler in the 1960s, renamed Connell House 2003), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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David W. Williams (1910-2000) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March
20, 1910.
Republican. Lawyer;
municipal judge in California, 1956-62; superior court judge in
California, 1963-69; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of California, 1969-81.
African
ancestry.
First
Black federal judge west of the Mississippi.
Died, of pneumonia, at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 6,
2000 (age 90 years, 47
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lucy Phelps Patterson (c.1932-2000) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., about 1932.
Republican. Social
worker; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 24th District, 1982.
Female.
Methodist.
African
ancestry.
First
Black woman ever elected to Dallas city council.
Died, of pneumonia, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., June 15,
2000 (age about 68
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Wallace H. Savage (1912-2000) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born November
21, 1912.
Democrat. Mayor of
Dallas, Tex., 1949-51; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1952;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 5th District, 1954.
Died, of pneumonia and a stroke,
in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., June 20,
2000 (age 87 years, 212
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Merle C. Hufford (c.1909-2000) —
also known as "Hula Hips" —
of Port Townsend, Jefferson
County, Wash.
Born in Milton-Freewater, Umatilla
County, Ore., about 1909.
Republican. Member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1947-49; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington, 1948.
Died, of pneumonia, in Puyallup, Pierce
County, Wash., August
6, 2000 (age about 91
years).
Interment at Milton-Freewater
Cemetery, Milton-Freewater, Ore.
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Sidney Richard Yates (1909-2000) —
also known as Sidney R. Yates —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
27, 1909.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 9th District, 1949-63, 1965-99;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1962; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1964,
1996.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association.
Died, of kidney
failure and complications of pneumonia, in Sibley Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., October
5, 2000 (age 91 years, 39
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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Walter Patrick McConaughy Jr. (1908-2000) —
also known as Walter P. McConaughy, Jr. —
of Montevallo, Shelby
County, Ala.
Born in Montevallo, Shelby
County, Ala., September
11, 1908.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tampico, 1930-33; U.S. Consul in Kobe, as of 1938; Shanghai, 1948-50; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1950-52; U.S. Ambassador to Burma, 1957-59; South Korea, 1959-61; Pakistan, 1962-66; China (Taiwan), 1966-74.
Died, of pneumonia, November
10, 2000 (age 92 years, 60
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Vliet Lindsay (1921-2000) —
also known as John V. Lindsay —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1921.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1959-65; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1960,
1964;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1966-73; defeated in Republican primary,
1969; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1972;
candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1980.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease and pneumonia, in Hilton Head Island, Beaufort
County, S.C., December
19, 2000 (age 79 years, 25
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery of St. John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.
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Maurice Schechter (1904-2001) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; University City, St. Louis
County, Mo.; Creve Coeur, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., June 27,
1904.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis City 5th District,
1935-40; member of Missouri
state senate 13th District, 1961-76; defeated, 1956.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
B'nai
B'rith.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Missouri Baptist Medical
Center, Town and Country, St. Louis
County, Mo., January
31, 2001 (age 96 years, 218
days).
Interment at Chesed
Shel Emeth Cemetery No. 2, Creve Coeur, Mo.
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Rosemary DeCamp (1910-2001) —
Born in Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz., November
14, 1910.
Democrat. Actress;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia, in Torrance, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
20, 2001 (age 90 years, 98
days).
Cremated.
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Gordon R. Hahn (1919-2001) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Kindersley, Saskatchewan,
April
5, 1919.
Republican. Real estate
business; member of California
state assembly, 1947-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California.
Christian.
Died, of respiratory
failure from pneumonia, in Torrance, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
29, 2001 (age 81 years, 358
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jaime Benitez=Rexach (1908-2001) —
also known as Jaime Benitez —
of San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Born in Vieques, Vieques
Municipio, Puerto Rico, October
29, 1908.
Lawyer;
university
professor; chancellor
of the University of Puerto Rico, 1942-66; president
of the Puerto Rico University System, 1966-71; Resident
Commissioner to U.S. Congress from Puerto Rico, 1973-77;
defeated, 1976; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Puerto Rico, 1976.
Puerto
Rican ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico, May 30,
2001 (age 92 years, 213
days).
Interment at Cementerio
de Santa Maria Magdalena, Santa Maria, Puerto Rico.
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Robert Moody McKinney (1910-2001) —
also known as Robert M. McKinney —
of New Mexico.
Born in Shattuck, Ellis
County, Okla., August
28, 1910.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; newspaper
publisher; U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1961-63.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
During World War II, he helped develop the Tiny Tim rocket, which was
used against German tanks in the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944.
Editor and publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper
for 52 years.
Died, of pneumonia, at New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 24,
2001 (age 90 years, 300
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Marshall Bagley Sr. (1927-2001) —
also known as Richard M. Bagley, Sr.; Dick
Bagley —
of Hampton,
Va.
Born in Hampton,
Va., May 14,
1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1966-85.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary;
Freemasons;
Jesters;
Shriners;
Omicron
Delta Kappa; American
Legion; Elks.
Died, of pneumonia, at a hospital
in Newport
News, Va., December
13, 2001 (age 74 years, 213
days).
Interment at St. John's Church Cemetery, Hampton, Va.
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Edwin McCammon Martin (1908-2002) —
also known as Edwin M. Martin —
of Ohio; Paris, France.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, May 21,
1908.
Economist;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1964-68.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations; Audubon
Society; Phi
Delta Theta; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., January
12, 2002 (age 93 years, 236
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Byron Raymond White (1917-2002) —
also known as Byron R. White;
"Whizzer" —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Fort Collins, Larimer
County, Colo., June 8,
1917.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1960;
Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-93.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Professional football
player for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1938 and for the Detroit Lions
in 1940; lead the league in rushing both years; his $15,800 salary
was then the highest ever paid a player in the National Football
League.
Died, of complications from pneumonia, in Denver,
Colo., April
15, 2002 (age 84 years, 311
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St.
John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, Colo.
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Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002) —
also known as Patsy T. Mink; "Patsy
Pink" —
of Waipahu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii; Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Paia, Island of Maui, Maui
County, Hawaii, December
6, 1927.
Democrat. Member of Hawaii
territorial House of Representatives, 1956-58; member of Hawaii
territorial senate, 1958-59; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Hawaii, 1960,
1980,
1996,
2000;
member of Hawaii
state senate, 1962-64; U.S.
Representative from Hawaii, 1965-77, 1990-2002 (at-large 1965-71,
2nd District 1971-77, 1990-2002); died in office 2002; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Hawaii, 1976; candidate for Governor of
Hawaii, 1986; candidate for mayor
of Honolulu, Hawaii, 1988.
Female.
Protestant.
Asian/Pacific
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 2003.
Died, of pneumonia, at the Straub Clinic and Hospital,
Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, September
28, 2002 (age 74 years, 296
days).
Interment at National
Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Island of Oahu,
Hawaii.
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Walter Hubert Annenberg (1908-2002) —
also known as Walter H. Annenberg —
of Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., March
13, 1908.
Vice-president of his father's company, which published the Racing
Form and other newspapers;
he and his father were indicted
for tax
evasion in 1939, but the charges against him were dismissed as
part of a plea bargain; inherited the company when his father died;
founder of Seventeen and TV Guide; owner of radio and
television stations; philanthropist; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1969-74.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Newcomen
Society; Phi
Sigma Delta; Sigma
Delta Chi; Zeta
Beta Tau.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1986.
Died, of pneumonia, in Wynnewood, Montgomery
County, Pa., October
1, 2002 (age 94 years, 202
days).
Interment at Sunnyland
Estate, Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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William Henry Mauldin (1921-2003) —
also known as Bill Mauldin —
of New York.
Born in Mountain Park, Otero
County, N.M., October
29, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Cartoonist,
starting in the Army during World War II; worked as an editorial
cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times
newspapers,
winning the Pulitzer
Prize for editorial cartooning in 1945 and 1959; appeared as an
actor
in two 1951 movies: Teresa and The Red Badge of
Courage; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1956.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease and pneumonia, in a nursing
home at Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif., January
22, 2003 (age 81 years, 85
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Frank Edward Moss (1911-2003) —
also known as Frank E. Moss; Ted Moss; "The
Conscience of the Senate" —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Holladay, Salt Lake
County, Utah, September
23, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1952
(alternate), 1972;
candidate for Governor of
Utah, 1956; U.S.
Senator from Utah, 1959-77; defeated, 1976.
Mormon.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions.
Died, from pneumonia, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, January
29, 2003 (age 91 years, 128
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Milford Frank Vanik (1906-2003) —
also known as Mel Vanik —
of Bellevue, King
County, Wash.
Born July 29,
1906.
Aeronautical
engineer;
mayor
of Bellevue, Wash., 1977-78.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, at Cascade Vista Convalescent
Center, Redmond, King
County, Wash., January
30, 2003 (age 96 years, 185
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Karen Morley (1909-2003) —
also known as Mildred Linton —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ottumwa, Wapello
County, Iowa, December
12, 1909.
Actress;
her career ended in 1947, when she was blacklisted
as a suspected
Communist; American Labor candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1954.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
2003 (age 93 years, 86
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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William Thacher Longstreth (1920-2003) —
also known as W. Thacher Longstreth —
of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Haverford, Delaware
County, Pa., November
4, 1920.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; advertising
business; candidate for mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1955, 1971.
Quaker.
Member, Urban
League.
Died, of a pulmonary
embolism, while hospitalized for pneumonia and suffering
from Parkinson's
disease, in Naples Community Hospital,
Naples, Collier
County, Fla., April
11, 2003 (age 82 years, 158
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Luis Alberto Ferré (1904-2003) —
also known as Luis A. Ferré; "Don
Luis" —
of Ponce, Ponce
Municipio, Puerto Rico.
Born in Ponce, Ponce
Municipio, Puerto Rico, February
17, 1904.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Puerto
Rico, 1964;
Governor
of Puerto Rico, 1969-73.
French
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia and respiratory
failure, in a hospital
at San Juan, San Juan
Municipio, Puerto Rico, October
21, 2003 (age 99 years, 246
days).
Interment somewhere
in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Ramona Lee Etta Barnes (1938-2003) —
also known as Ramona Barnes —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Pikeville, Bledsoe
County, Tenn., July 7,
1938.
Republican. Member of Alaska
state house of representatives, 1979-84, 1987-2000; defeated,
2000; Speaker of
the Alaska State House of Representatives, 1993-94.
Female.
Died, of pneumonia, in Providence Alaska Medical
Center, Anchorage,
Alaska, November
26, 2003 (age 65 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alphonzo Edward Bell Jr. (1914-2004) —
also known as Alphonzo Bell —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
19, 1914.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
president, Bell Oil
Company, 1947-59; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1956;
California
Republican state chair, 1956-59; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1956-59; U.S.
Representative from California, 1961-77 (16th District 1961-63,
28th District 1963-75, 27th District 1975-77); candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1969; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1976.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in St. John's Hospital,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
25, 2004 (age 89 years, 219
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) —
also known as Ronald Reagan; "Dutch";
"The Gipper"; "The Great
Communicator"; "The Teflon President";
"Rawhide" —
of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Tampico, Whiteside
County, Ill., February
6, 1911.
Republican. Worked as a sports
broadcaster
in Iowa in the 1930s, doing local radio broadcast
of Chicago Cubs baseball
games; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professional actor
in 1937-64; appeared in dozens of films
including Kings Row, Dark Victory, Santa Fe
Trail, Knute Rockne, All American, and The Winning
Team; president of
the Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52, 1959-60; member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1964-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
California, 1967-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1968,
1976;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; President
of the United States, 1981-89; on March 30, 1981, outside the
Washington Hilton hotel, he and three others were shot
and wounded by John Hinkley, Jr.; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1993.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Lions; American
Legion; Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from pneumonia and Alzheimer's
disease, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
2004 (age 93 years, 120
days).
Interment at Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan; married, January
25, 1940, to Jane Wyman; married, March 4,
1952, to Nancy Davis (born 1923; actress)
and Nancy
Davis (1921-2016); father of Maureen
Elizabeth Reagan. |
| | | Political family: Reagan
family of Bel Air and Simi Valley, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Katherine
Hoffman Haley — Dana
Rohrabacher — Donald
T. Regan — Henry
Salvatori — L.
William Seidman — Christopher
Cox — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Bay
Buchanan — Edwin
Meese III |
| | | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
(opened 1941; renamed 1998), in Arlington,
Virginia, is named for
him. — Mount
Reagan (officially known as Mount Clay), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade Center, in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Ronald Reagan: Ronald
Reagan : An American Life |
| | | Books about Ronald Reagan: Lou Cannon,
President
Reagan : The Role of a Lifetime — Lou Cannon, Governor
Reagan : His Rise to Power — Peter Schweizer, Reagan's
War : The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph
Over Communism — Lee Edwards, Ronald
Reagan: A Political Biography — Paul Kengor, God
and Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life — Mary Beth
Brown, Hand
of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald
Reagan — Edmund Morris, Dutch:
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan — Peggy Noonan, When
Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan — Peter
J. Wallison, Ronald
Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His
Presidency — Dinesh D'Souza, Ronald
Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary
Leader — William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero — Craig Shirley, Reagan's
Revolution : The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It
All — Richard Reeves, President
Reagan : The Triumph of Imagination — Ron Reagan, My
Father at 100 — Newt & Callista Gingrich & David N.
Bossie, Ronald
Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny — William F. Buckley,
The
Reagan I Knew — Chris Matthews, Tip
and the Gipper: When Politics Worked |
| | | Critical books about Ronald Reagan:
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking
Through History: America in the Reagan Years — William
Kleinknecht, The
Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street
America |
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Samuel Schwartzkopf (1916-2004) —
also known as Sam Schwartzkopf —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., January
12, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor
of Lincoln, Neb., 1967-75; defeated, 1975.
Died, from complications related to a stroke,
diabetes,
and pneumonia, June 5,
2004 (age 88 years, 145
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
City of Lincoln |
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Paul Henry Nitze (1907-2004) —
also known as Paul H. Nitze —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
16, 1907.
U.S. Ambassador to , 1986-89.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1985.
Died, of pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., October
19, 2004 (age 97 years, 277
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Charles County, Md.
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Robert Takeo Matsui (1941-2005) —
also known as Robert T. Matsui —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., September
17, 1941.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-2005 (3rd District 1979-93,
5th District 1993-2005); died in office 2005; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1988
(speaker),
1996,
2000,
2004.
Methodist.
Japanese
ancestry. Member, Rotary;
Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, of pneumonia and myelodysplastic
syndrome, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., January
1, 2005 (age 63 years, 106
days).
Interment at East
Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, Calif.
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Harry Hunter MacLaughlin (1927-2005) —
Born in Breckenridge, Wilkin
County, Minn., August
9, 1927.
Lawyer;
law partner of Walter
F. Mondale, 1957-60; justice of
Minnesota state supreme court, 1972-77; U.S.
District Judge for Minnesota, 1977-92; took senior status 1992.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Edina, Hennepin
County, Minn., May 3,
2005 (age 77 years, 267
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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George Crews McGhee (1912-2005) —
also known as George C. McGhee —
of Texas.
Born in Waco, McLennan
County, Tex., March
10, 1912.
Rhodes
scholar; geologist;
oil
producer; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Turkey, 1952-53; Germany, 1963-68; , 1968-69.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from pneumonia, in Loudoun Hospital
Center, Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., July 4,
2005 (age 93 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Ross Roybal (1916-2005) —
also known as Edward R. Roybal —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., February
10, 1916.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1954; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1956,
1960,
1964,
1988
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from California, 1963-93 (30th District 1963-75,
25th District 1975-93).
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus; Optimist
Club.
Died, from respiratory
failure and pneumonia, in Huntington Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
24, 2005 (age 89 years, 256
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clarence A. Boonstra (1914-2006) —
of Michigan; Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., January
5, 1914.
Economist;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1967-69; U.S. Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, 1970-74.
Died, from pneumonia, in Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla., March
20, 2006 (age 92 years, 74
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006) —
also known as Caspar W. Weinberger; Cap Weinberger;
"Cap the Knife" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Hillsborough, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., August
18, 1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of California
state assembly, 1953-56; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); California
Republican state chair, 1964; member, Federal Trade Commission,
1969-70; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1970; chair, Federal Trade
Commission; director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1973-75; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1981-87.
Episcopalian.
Jewish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1987. To forestall any prosecution
for alleged misdeeds in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, he
was pardoned
by President George
Bush in 1992.
Died, of kidney
ailments and pneumonia, in Eastern Maine Medical
Center, Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine, March
28, 2006 (age 88 years, 222
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Iona Station, Ontario,
October
15, 1908.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist;
university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.
Died, of pneumonia, in Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April
29, 2006 (age 97 years, 196
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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Winthrop Paul Rockefeller (1948-2006) —
also known as Win Paul Rockefeller —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
17, 1948.
Republican. Rancher; Arkansas
Republican state chair, 1994; Lieutenant
Governor of Arkansas, 1996-2006; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 2004.
Methodist.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Died, from a blood
disorder and complications of pneumonia, in Little Rock,
Pulaski
County, Ark., July 16,
2006 (age 57 years, 302
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924-2006) —
also known as Pat Lawford; Patricia Helen
Kennedy —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 6,
1924.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1960;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Female.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia, in a hospital
at Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 2006 (age 82 years, 134
days).
Interment at Southampton
Cemetery, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; sister of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.), Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; married, April
24, 1954, to Peter
Lawford; mother of Christopher Lawford; aunt of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967); granddaughter of Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) and John
Francis Fitzgerald. |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joel Thomas Broyhill (1919-2006) —
also known as Joel T. Broyhill —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Hopewell,
Va., November
4, 1919.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; taken
prisoner by the German forces in the Battle of the Bulge; escaped
after six months; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1953-75; defeated,
1974; delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1960,
1964.
Lutheran.
Member, Optimist
Club; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Amvets;
Reserve
Officers Association; Freemasons;
Moose;
Elks; Eagles;
Izaak
Walton League; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Died, of congestive
heart failure and pneumonia, in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., September
24, 2006 (age 86 years, 324
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Calvin William Verity Jr. (1917-2007) —
also known as C. William Verity —
Born in Middletown, Butler
County, Ohio, January
26, 1917.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; chief executive officer,
Armco (steel
industry), 1971-82; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1987-89.
Episcopalian.
Died, of pneumonia, in Beaufort, Beaufort
County, S.C., January
3, 2007 (age 89 years, 342
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Calvin William Verity, Sr. and Elizabeth (O'Brien)
Verity. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
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Robert Frederick Drinan (1920-2007) —
also known as Robert F. Drinan; "Our Father Who Art In
Congress" —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
15, 1920.
Democrat. Catholic
priest; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1971-81 (3rd District 1971-73,
4th District 1973-81); delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1972;
law
professor.
Catholic.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died, from pneumonia and congestive
heart failure, in Sibley Memorial Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
28, 2007 (age 86 years, 74
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Steven Boghos Derounian (1918-2007) —
also known as Steven B. Derounian —
of Roslyn, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria,
April
6, 1918.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1953-65 (2nd District 1953-63, 3rd
District 1963-65); defeated, 1964, 1966; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1956
(alternate), 1960
(alternate), 1964;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1969-81.
Episcopalian.
Armenian
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., April
17, 2007 (age 89 years, 11
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Parren James Mitchell (1922-2007) —
also known as Parren J. Mitchell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., April
29, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 7th District, 1971-87; defeated in
primary, 1968.
Episcopalian.
African
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia, in Greater Baltimore Medical
Center, Baltimore,
Md., May 28,
2007 (age 85 years, 29
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Anne Claghorn Longstreth (c.1921-2008) —
also known as Anne C. Longstreth; Nancy Longstreth;
Anne Strawbridge Claghorn —
of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born about 1921.
Republican. Real estate
agent; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1960.
Female.
Died, of pneumonia, in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
10, 2008 (age about 87
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Orin Lehman (1920-2008) —
also known as "Father Nature" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born January
14, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; injured during
the Battle of the Bulge and lost a
leg; newspaper
publisher; chairman, Colgreen Broadcasting
Group, owner of radio
stations; founder, Just One Break, Inc., not-for-profit
employment service for people with disabilities; campaign manager, John
J. Burns for Lieutenant Governor, 1962; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1964;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1966; producer
of several popular off-Broadway plays; New York State Commissioner of
Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, 1975-93.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on
Foreign Relations; Urban
League; NAACP.
Died, of pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
22, 2008 (age 88 years, 39
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Sumiko Biderman (1924-2009) —
also known as Su Biderman; Sumiko Fujii —
of McLean, Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Hayward, Alameda
County, Calif., June 10,
1924.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia,
1996,
2000
(alternate).
Female.
Japanese
ancestry.
Died, of postobstructive pneumonia, in Virginia Hospital
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., March 2,
2009 (age 84 years, 265
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Rutaro Fujii; married 1948 to Albert
D. Biderman. |
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John Logan Cashin Jr. (1928-2011) —
also known as John L. Cashin, Jr. —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala., April
16, 1928.
Democrat. Dentist;
candidate for mayor
of Huntsville, Ala., 1964; National Democratic candidate for Governor of
Alabama, 1970.
African
ancestry.
Convicted
of theft
and perjury
in 1982; served 17 months in federal
prison.
Died, of renal
failure and pneumonia, in Specialty Hospital
of Washington-Hadley, Washington,
D.C., March
21, 2011 (age 82 years, 339
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (1930-2011) —
also known as Lawrence Eagleburger; Larry Eagleburger;
"The Eagle" —
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., August
1, 1930.
Republican. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1977-81; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1992-93; director, Phillips Petroleum
corporation, 1993-2000.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Died, of pneumonia, in the University of Virginia Medical
Center, Charlottesville,
Va., June 4,
2011 (age 80 years, 307
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Abramson (1920-2012) —
also known as Eddie Abramson —
of Howard Beach, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
21, 1920.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of New York
state assembly 32nd District, 1973-90; defeated in primary, 1990;
Majority Whip, 1985-90.
Jewish.
Died, from pneumonia and kidney
failure, in Chiangmai, Thailand,
May
10, 2012 (age 91 years, 232
days).
Interment somewhere in Israel.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Abramson and Mollie Abramson; married 1948 to Gloria
Schwartz. |
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy;
Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1960; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
Bisexual.
Novelist,
playwright,
essayist,
screenwriter,
appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 31,
2012 (age 86 years, 302
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John P. Quimby (1935-2012) —
of San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif.; Rialto, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz., February
12, 1935.
Democrat. Radio
announcer; disabled
by polio, and used steel braces or a wheelchair; member of California
state assembly 72nd District, 1963-74; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1968;
on August 23, 1970, he was shot
in the chest with a pellet gun by his 15-year-old son, following an
argument.
Died, from complications of pneumonia, in a hospital
near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., December
23, 2012 (age 77 years, 315
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (1924-2013) —
also known as Frank R. Lautenberg —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.; Secaucus, Hudson
County, N.J.; Cliffside Park, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., January
23, 1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; executive with
Automatic
Data Processing, a payroll services company; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1982-2001, 2003-13; died in office 2013;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee.
Died, from viral pneumonia, while suffering with stomach
cancer, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 3,
2013 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Stephen Foley (1929-2013) —
also known as Thomas S. Foley; Tom Foley —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., March
26, 1929.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Washington 5th District, 1965-95; defeated,
1994; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1989-95; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Washington, 1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988;
U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1997-2001.
Member, Grange;
Elks; Moose; Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Died, from pneumonia and complications of a stroke,
in Washington,
D.C., October
18, 2013 (age 84 years, 206
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William A. Allain (1928-2013) —
also known as Bill Allain —
of Mississippi.
Born in Washington, Adams
County, Miss., February
14, 1928.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; Mississippi
state attorney general, 1979-83; Governor of
Mississippi, 1984-88.
Catholic.
Died, from pneumonia, in St. Dominic Hospital,
Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., December
2, 2013 (age 85 years, 291
days).
Interment at Natchez
City Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.
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Andrew Lindsay Lewis Jr. (1931-2016) —
also known as Drew Lewis —
of Schwenksville, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
3, 1931.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
Republican State Committee, 1964-66, 1970-73; chair of
Montgomery County Republican Party, 1965-68; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1968,
1972;
candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1974; member of Republican
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 1976-82; U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1981-83.
Died, from dementia
and pneumonia, in a nursing
home at Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz., February
10, 2016 (age 84 years, 99
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Lindsay Lewis and Lucille (Bricker) Lewis; married, June 1,
1950, to Marilyn S. Stoughton. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
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