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Politicians in Nautical and Maritime Trades in Alabama
including Shipbuilding and Fishing

Frank William Boykin (1885-1969) — also known as Frank W. Boykin — of Mobile, Mobile County, Ala. Born in Bladon Springs, Choctaw County, Ala., February 21, 1885. Democrat. Manufacturer of railway crossties; lumber and timber business; shipbuilder; U.S. Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1935-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1944 (member, Platform and Resolutions Committee). Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Order of the Eastern Star; Shriners; Elks; Woodmen; Moose. Died in Washington, D.C., March 12, 1969 (age 84 years, 19 days). Interment at Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.   Relatives: Son of James Clark Boykin and Glo Emenia (Ainsworth) Boykin; married, December 31, 1913, to Ocllo Gunn.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Marion Maxwell Caskie (b. 1890) — also known as Marion M. Caskie — of Alabama; Washington, D.C. Born in Remington, Fauquier County, Va., July 29, 1890. Democrat. Staff for Southern Railway office in Washington, 1906-11; traffic manager for various enterprises; general manager, state docks, Port of Mobile, Ala.; vice-president, Waterman Steamship Co.; member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1935-40. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Dr. James Maxwell Caskie and Olivia (Rixey) Caskie; married, December 4, 1912, to Helen Elizabeth Suess.   Louis Donald (1861-1928) — of Mobile, Mobile County, Ala. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, December 22, 1861. Shipbroker; steamship agent; Vice-Consul for Denmark in Mobile, Ala., 1902-07; Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway in Mobile, Ala., 1903; Vice-Consul for Norway in Mobile, Ala., 1906-07. Scottish ancestry. Died, from chronic nephritis, in Saint John Home for Incurables, Saint John, New Brunswick, March 17, 1928 (age 66 years, 86 days). Interment at Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, New Brunswick.   Relatives: Son of Rev. William Donald and Louisa Agnes (Wilson) Donald; married 1890 to Edith Dawson.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Patrick J. Lyons (b. 1850) — also known as Pat J. Lyons — of Mobile, Mobile County, Ala. Born in Mobile, Mobile County, Ala., January 16, 1850. Steamboat captain; steamboat owner; wholesale grocer; bank vice-president; mayor of Mobile, Ala., 1904-11, 1913-14, 1915-16, 1917-18. Catholic. Irish ancestry. Member, Elks. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Thomas Lyons and Johanna Lyons.   Almur Stiles Whiting (1889-1959) — also known as Almur S. Whiting — of Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn.; Mobile, Mobile County, Ala. Born in Wausau, Marathon County, Wis., March 2, 1889. Republican. Shipyard paymaster; lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1944, 1952 (alternate). Died in Mobile, Mobile County, Ala., February 5, 1959 (age 69 years, 340 days). Interment at Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.   Relatives: Son of Welcome Wilmarth Whiting and Medora Nancy (Stiles) Whiting; married to Erna Louise Rakowsky; second cousin twice removed of Isaac Backus and John Milton Thayer; second cousin four times removed of Samuel Adams and John Adams; third cousin of Arthur Laban Bates; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph Allen and John Quincy Adams; fourth cousin of Emor L. Calkins; fourth cousin once removed of Adin Ballou Capron.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Fairbanks-Adams family; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan family of Dexter, Michigan; Pike family of Lubec, Maine; Adams-Rusling family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Epitaph: "He still lives in our hearts."   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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