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William Cameron (1795-1877) —
of Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa.
Born in Maytown, Lancaster
County, Pa., October
18, 1795.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1860;
Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1876;
Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1876.
Died in Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa., September
10, 1877 (age 81 years, 327
days).
Interment at Lewisburg
Cemetery, Lewisburg, Pa.
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Simon Cameron (1799-1889) —
also known as "The Czar of
Pennsylvania" —
of Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Maytown, Lancaster
County, Pa., March 8,
1799.
Adjutant
General of Pennsylvania, 1829-30; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1845-49, 1857-61, 1867-77; resigned
1861, 1877; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1860;
U.S.
Secretary of War, 1861-62; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1862.
Member, Freemasons.
Died near Maytown, Lancaster
County, Pa., June 26,
1889 (age 90 years, 110
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) —
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, February
8, 1820.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
In 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta,
Georgia. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1891 (age 71 years, 6
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman (1787-1852) and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; married, May 1,
1850, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (1824-1888; daughter of Thomas
Ewing); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (1859-1915; who married Alexander
Montgomery Thackara); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (1842-1904; who
married Nelson
Appleton Miles) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married James
Donald Cameron); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield (1810-1875), Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
| | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Sherman
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Seymour-Chapin-Adams
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Politician named for him: W.
T. S. Rath
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| | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley
P. Hirshson, The
White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T.
Sherman |
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James Donald Cameron (1833-1918) —
also known as J. Donald Cameron —
of Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Middletown, Dauphin
County, Pa., May 14,
1833.
Republican. Banker; iron
manufacturer; president, Northern Central Railroad,
1863-74; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1868,
1880;
U.S.
Secretary of War, 1876-77; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1877-97; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1879-80.
Died in Lancaster
County, Pa., August
30, 1918 (age 85 years, 108
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (1833-1917) —
also known as Wayne MacVeagh —
of Chester
County, Pa.; Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Phoenixville, Chester
County, Pa., April
19, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer; Chester
County District Attorney, 1859-64; served in the Union Army
during the Civil War; Pennsylvania
Republican state chair, 1863; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1870-71; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1872; U.S.
Attorney General, 1881; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1893-97.
Methodist.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
11, 1917 (age 83 years, 267
days).
Interment at Church
of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Maj. John MacVeagh and Margaret (Lincoln) MacVeagh; brother of Franklin
MacVeagh; married, May 22,
1856, to Letitia Miner 'Letty' Lewis; married, December
27, 1866, to Virginia Rolette Cameron (daughter of Simon
Cameron); father of Charles
MacVeagh (1860-1931); grandfather of Lincoln
MacVeagh. |
| | Political family: MacVeagh
family of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (subset of the Three
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Epitaph: "Genial to his friends.
Enlightening to all. Keen eyed, clear spoken. He remembered, he
observed, he foresaw." |
| | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joseph Gardner Bradley (b. 1881) —
also known as J. G. Bradley —
of Dundon, Clay
County, W.Va.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., September
12, 1881.
Republican. Coal mining
magnate; organizer of Elk River Coal and Lumber Co.;
organizer of the Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad;
director, Central Iron and
Steel Co.; created the town of Widen, W.Va.; delegate to
Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1916,
1928;
chair
of Clay County Republican Party, 1917.
Episcopalian.
Burial
location unknown.
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