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Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family

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  Edwin Hickman Ewing (1809-1902) — of Tennessee. Born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., December 2, 1809. Whig. Lawyer; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1841-42; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1845-47; president, University of Nashville. Died in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tenn., April 24, 1902 (age 92 years, 143 days). Interment at Murfreesboro City Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
  Relatives: Son of Nathan E. Ewing (1776-1830) and Sarah (Hill) Ewing (1780-1855); brother of Andrew Ewing (1813-1864); granduncle of John Overton Pendleton and Harvey Watterson.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
  Harvey Magee Watterson (1811-1891) — also known as Harvey M. Watterson — of Tennessee. Born in Bedford County, Tenn., November 23, 1811. Democrat. Newspaper editor; lawyer; member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1835; U.S. Representative from Tennessee 9th District, 1839-43; member of Tennessee state senate, 1845-47; Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate, 1845-47. Died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., October 1, 1891 (age 79 years, 312 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Married to Talitha Black (1812-1884; sister-in-law of Stanley Matthews); father of Henry Watterson (1840-1921); grandfather of Harvey Watterson.
  Political families: Kidder family of Connecticut; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Andrew Ewing (1813-1864) — of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn. Born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., June 17, 1813. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1849-51; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1860. Died in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., June 16, 1864 (age 50 years, 365 days). Interment at Nashville City Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
  Relatives: Son of Nathan E. Ewing (1776-1830) and Sarah (Hill) Ewing (1780-1855); brother of Edwin Hickman Ewing; married to Rowena Josey Williams (1822-1903); father of Rebecca Ewing (1842-1929; who married Henry Watterson); grandfather of Harvey Watterson (1879-1908); granduncle of John Overton Pendleton.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family; Kidder family of Connecticut; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Stanley Matthews (1824-1889) — of Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, July 21, 1824. Republican. State court judge in Ohio, 1851; member of Ohio state senate, 1856; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1858-61; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1877-79; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-89; died in office 1889. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Washington, D.C., March 22, 1889 (age 64 years, 244 days). Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Johnson Matthews (1788-1852) and Isabella (Brown) Matthews (1804-1877); married, February 15, 1843, to Mary Ann Black (1821-1885; sister-in-law of Harvey Magee Watterson); father of Jane Matthews (1860-1949; who married Horace Gray (1828-1902)) and Grace Elizabeth Matthews (1864-1933; who married James Harlan Cleveland); grandfather of James Harlan Cleveland, Jr.; great-grandfather of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood; third cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Carter Henry Harrison II.
  Political families: Gray-Matthews family of Boston, Massachusetts; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Carter Henry Harrison (1825-1893) — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born near Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., February 15, 1825. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Illinois 2nd District, 1875-79; mayor of Chicago, Ill., 1879-87, 1893; died in office 1893; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1880, 1884; candidate for Governor of Illinois, 1884. Shot and killed at his home, by Patrick Eugene Prendergast, in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., October 28, 1893 (age 68 years, 255 days). Prendergast, who was defended by famed trial lawyer Clarence Darrow, was tried for murder, convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged. Interment at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Carter Henry Harrison (1796-1825) and Caroline Evaline (Russell) Harrison (1797-1875); married to Sophonisba Grayson Preston (1833-1876; great-grandniece of William Smallwood); father of Carter Henry Harrison II; grandson of William Russell (1758-1825); great-grandson of William Russell (1735-1793); great-grandnephew of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) and William Cabell; second great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell (1793-1862) and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge; first cousin twice removed of Thomas Jefferson, Carter Bassett Harrison, William Cabell, Jr., William Henry Cabell and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin thrice removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin of John Cabell Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William Lewis Cabell, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr., William Campbell Preston Breckinridge and George Craighead Cabell; second cousin once removed of Dabney Carr, John Scott Harrison, Edward Carrington Cabell, Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin Earl Cabell, Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge and Henry Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, George Nicholas, Beverley Randolph, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Nicholas, John Randolph of Roanoke and Earle Cabell; third cousin of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, John William Leftwich and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); third cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker, Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857), Stanley Matthews, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Russell Benjamin Harrison and Frederick Madison Roberts; third cousin twice removed of Burwell Bassett, John Gardner Coolidge and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); third cousin thrice removed of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; fourth cousin of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Peter Myndert Dox, Edmund Randolph and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker; fourth cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes, Fitzhugh Lee, Connally Findlay Trigg, John Augustine Marshall, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Bartow Hawes, William Welby Beverley and James Harlan Cleveland, Jr..
  Political families: Marshall-Harrison-Randolph-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Henry family of Virginia; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Bolling family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Robert E. Burke
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article
Horace Gray Horace Gray (1828-1902) — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 24, 1828. Lawyer; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1864-81; chief justice of Massachusetts supreme judicial court, 1873-81; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1881-1902; died in office 1902. Unitarian. Died in Nahant, Essex County, Mass., September 15, 1902 (age 74 years, 175 days). Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Horace Gray and Harriett (Upham) Gray; married to Jane Matthews (1860-1949; daughter of Stanley Matthews); descendant *** of William Gray (1750-1825).
  Political family: Gray-Matthews family of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Louis D. Brandeis
  See also federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1902
Henry Watterson Henry Watterson (1840-1921) — also known as "Marse Henry" — of Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky. Born in Washington, D.C., February 16, 1840. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; editor, Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876 (Temporary Chair), 1880 (member, Resolutions Committee; speaker), 1884, 1888 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1892; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1876-77; received the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, 1918. Methodist. Died in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., December 22, 1921 (age 81 years, 309 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Harvey Magee Watterson and Talitha (Black) Watterson (1812-1884); married to Rebecca Ewing (1842-1929; daughter of Andrew Ewing (1813-1864)); father of Harvey Watterson; first cousin once removed of James Harlan Cleveland, Jr.; first cousin twice removed of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood.
  Political families: Pendleton-Lee family; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: The Parties and The Men (1896)
  John Overton Pendleton (1851-1916) — also known as John O. Pendleton — of Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va. Born in Wellsburg, Brooke County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 4, 1851. Democrat. Candidate for West Virginia state senate, 1886; U.S. Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1889-90, 1891-95; defeated, 1895. Died in Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va., December 24, 1916 (age 65 years, 173 days). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling, W.Va.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Henry Pendleton and Margaret Campbell (Ewing) Pendleton (1829-1912); grandnephew of Edwin Hickman Ewing and Andrew Ewing; second great-grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Nathaniel Pendleton; second cousin of William Barret Pendleton and Harvey Watterson; second cousin twice removed of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; third cousin once removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton and George Hunt Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; fourth cousin of Francis Key Pendleton and Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton (1850-1914); fourth cousin once removed of Coleby Chew and Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro.
  Political family: Pendleton-Lee family (subset of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
Carter H. Harrison Carter Henry Harrison II (1860-1953) — also known as Carter H. Harrison — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., April 23, 1860. Democrat. Lawyer; real estate business; newspaper editor and publisher; mayor of Chicago, Ill., 1897-1905, 1911-15; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1900, 1916, 1920, 1932, 1936; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 1st Illinois District, 1933-44. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Sons of the American Revolution; Sons of the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; Veterans of Foreign Wars; American Legion; Society of Colonial Wars; Society of the War of 1812; Military Order of the World Wars. Died in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., December 25, 1953 (age 93 years, 246 days). Interment at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Carter Henry Harrison and Sophonisba Grayson (Preston) Harrison (1833-1876); married to Marguerite Stearns (1858-1887); married, December 14, 1887, to Edith Ogden (1862-1955; author); great-grandson of William Russell (1758-1825); great-grandnephew of Alfred William Grayson and Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell (1793-1862); second great-grandson of William Russell (1735-1793) and William Grayson; second great-grandnephew of Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791), William Cabell and William Smallwood; third great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin twice removed of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, William Lewis Cabell and George Craighead Cabell; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Jefferson, Carter Bassett Harrison, William Cabell, Jr., William Henry Cabell, William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Beverly Robinson Grayson; first cousin four times removed of Richard Bland, Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin once removed of John Cabell Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864), Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr., William Campbell Preston Breckinridge and Benjamin Earl Cabell; second cousin twice removed of Dabney Carr, John Scott Harrison and Edward Carrington Cabell; second cousin thrice removed of Theodorick Bland, Edmund Jenings Randolph, George Nicholas, Beverley Randolph, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Nicholas and John Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Levin Irving Handy, Desha Breckinridge, Henry Skillman Breckinridge and Earle Cabell; third cousin once removed of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, John William Leftwich and Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); third cousin twice removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Peyton Randolph (1779-1828), Henry St. George Tucker, Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and Stanley Matthews; third cousin thrice removed of Burwell Bassett and Samuel Nicholls Smallwood; fourth cousin of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Russell Benjamin Harrison, Henry De La Warr Flood, John Brady Grayson, Frederick Madison Roberts and Joel West Flood; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Peter Myndert Dox, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, John Gardner Coolidge, Harry Flood Byrd and William Henry Harrison (1896-1990).
  Political families: Marshall-Harrison-Randolph-Cabell family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Henry family of Virginia; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Bolling family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Robert E. Burke
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Library of Congress
  James Harlan Cleveland (1865-1906) — also known as Harlan Cleveland — of Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., January 21, 1865. Democrat. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1894-98; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1904. Died, from Bright's disease, in Glendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, December 24, 1906 (age 41 years, 337 days). Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Francis Landon Cleveland and Laura (Harlan) Cleveland (1835-1870); married to Grace Elizabeth Matthews (1864-1933; daughter of Stanley Matthews); father of James Harlan Cleveland, Jr.; nephew of John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911); grandson of James Harlan; grandfather of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood; first cousin of John Maynard Harlan; first cousin once removed of John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971); second cousin of Grover Cleveland; second cousin once removed of Richard Folsom Cleveland; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan Usher; third cousin once removed of John Palmer Usher and Robert Cleveland Usher; third cousin thrice removed of Ephraim Safford and Isaiah Kidder; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel Lord and Rollin Usher Tyler.
  Political family: Kidder family of Connecticut (subset of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  Harvey Watterson (1879-1908) — of Manhattan, New York County, N.Y. Born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., February 12, 1879. Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for New York state assembly, 1906. While trying to close a window in his law office, he fell through the window to his death 110 feet below, in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., November 11, 1908 (age 29 years, 273 days). Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
  Relatives: Son of Henry Watterson (1840-1921) and Rebecca (Ewing) Watterson (1842-1929); grandson of Harvey Magee Watterson and Andrew Ewing; grandnephew of Edwin Hickman Ewing; second cousin of John Overton Pendleton and James Harlan Cleveland, Jr.; second cousin once removed of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood.
  Political families: Kidder family of Connecticut; Ewing-Matthews-Watterson-Harrison family (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Harlan Cleveland, Jr. (1894-1950) — also known as James H. Cleveland — of Glendale, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Glendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 28, 1894. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1939. Died in Hamilton County, Ohio, March 21, 1950 (age 55 years, 205 days). Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Grace (Matthews) Cleveland (1864-1933) and James Harlan Cleveland; married to Elizabeth McLaren (1890-1958); uncle of Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood; grandson of Francis Landon Cleveland and Stanley Matthews; grandnephew of John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911); great-grandson of James Harlan; first cousin once removed of Henry Watterson and John Maynard Harlan; second cousin of Harvey Watterson and John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971); second cousin once removed of Grover Cleveland (1837-1908); second cousin thrice removed of Jonathan Usher; third cousin of Richard Folsom Cleveland; third cousin twice removed of John Palmer Usher and Robert Cleveland Usher; fourth cousin once removed of Carter Henry Harrison.
  Political families: Kidder family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood (1926-1960) — also known as Joseph W. Bloodgood — of Madison, Dane County, Wis. Born in Madison, Dane County, Wis., May 15, 1926. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; Dane County Coroner, 1951-54; lawyer; member of Wisconsin state assembly from Dane County 1st District, 1955-56; Dane County District Attorney, 1957-60; Dane County Family Court Judge, 1960. Died from suicide, by hanging himself with his belt, in a hospital shower room, in Madison, Dane County, Wis., July 7, 1960 (age 34 years, 53 days). Interment at Nashotah House Cemetery, Summit, Wis.
  Relatives: Son of Francis Joseph Bloodgood (1897-1961) and Jane Gray (Cleveland) Bloodgood (1899-1983); married, December 21, 1948, to Mary Elizabeth Peck (1922-2018); nephew of James Harlan Cleveland, Jr.; grandson of James Harlan Cleveland; great-grandson of Francis Landon Cleveland and Stanley Matthews; great-grandnephew of John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911); second great-grandson of James Harlan; first cousin twice removed of Henry Watterson and John Maynard Harlan; second cousin once removed of Harvey Watterson and John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971); second cousin twice removed of Grover Cleveland; second cousin four times removed of Jonathan Usher; third cousin once removed of Richard Folsom Cleveland (1897-1974); third cousin thrice removed of John Palmer Usher and Robert Cleveland Usher.
  Political families: Kidder family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Three Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
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