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Albert N. Barber (1858-1940) —
of Esmond, Kingsbury
County, S.Dak.
Born in Davis Junction, Ogle
County, Ill., May 16,
1858.
Republican. Grain elevator
business; druggist; banker; lumber
merchant; member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 23rd District, 1911-12.
Died in Riverside, Riverside
County, Calif., August
29, 1940 (age 82 years, 105
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Memorial Park, Riverside, Calif.
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Thomas E. Caldecott (1878-1951) —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Chester, England,
July
27, 1878.
Pharmacist; mayor
of Berkeley, Calif., 1930-32.
Welsh
ancestry.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., July 23,
1951 (age 72 years, 361
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Carl Djerassi (1923-2015) —
of Portola Valley, San Mateo
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
October
29, 1923.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; university
professor; chemist
and pharmaceutical researcher;
helped develop the oral contraceptive pill; playwright;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Austrian
and Bulgarian
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Inducted into National Inventors Hall of
Fame, 1978.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., January
30, 2015 (age 91 years, 93
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Levi Richard Ellert (1857-1901) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., October
20, 1857.
Druggist; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1893-95.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., July 21,
1901 (age 43 years, 274
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Thomas D. Hamilton Jr. (c.1930-1994) —
also known as Tom Hamilton —
of Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Pecos, Reeves
County, Tex., about 1930.
Pharmacist; mayor
of Chula Vista, Calif., 1970-74.
Methodist.
Died, of diabetes
and strokes,
at Sharp Medical
Center, Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif., March
26, 1994 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Glen
Abbey Memorial Park, Bonita, Calif.
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George Albert Huscher (1865-1944) —
also known as George A. Huscher —
of Murray, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Windsor, Ontario,
September
1, 1865.
Socialist. Pharmacist; mayor of
Murray, Utah, 1912-15; candidate for secretary
of state of Utah, 1916.
Member, Eagles.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
1, 1944 (age 78 years, 153
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Fred B. Mack (b. 1890) —
of San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., December
7, 1890.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
druggist; dry goods
merchant; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1948.
Member, American
Legion; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Lewis Philip Ohliger (1843-1923) —
also known as Lewis P. Ohliger —
of Wooster, Wayne
County, Ohio.
Born in Rheinpfalz, Germany,
January
3, 1843.
Democrat. Wholesale druggist; grocer; Wayne
County Treasurer, 1875-79; trustee, Wooster and Lodi Railway;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; postmaster;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1892;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 16th District, 1892-93.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., January
9, 1923 (age 80 years, 6
days).
Interment at Wooster
Cemetery, Wooster, Ohio.
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Anthony Joseph Principi (b. 1944) —
also known as Anthony J. Principi —
of Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., April
16, 1944.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; lawyer;
staff director for U.S. Sen. Alan
Simpson, 1984-86; U.S.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2001-05; resigned 2005; lobbyist
for Pfizer drug company; chairman, QTC Management.
Still living as of 2014.
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Kent Doak Pursel (1904-1967) —
also known as Kent D. Pursel —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
7, 1904.
Republican. Pharmacist; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1948;
Alameda
County Supervisor, 1951-67.
Protestant.
Member, Elks.
Died August
15, 1967 (age 63 years, 220
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Ray LeGrande Riley (c.1874-1953) —
also known as Ray L. Riley —
of California; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1874.
Republican. Druggist; California
state controller, 1921-37; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1938.
Died in a hospital
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 19,
1953 (age about 79
years).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Robert George Talley (1929-1987) —
also known as Robert G. Talley —
of Thousand Oaks, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Wilmar (now part of Rosemead), Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
13, 1929.
Pharmacist; mayor
of Thousand Oaks, Calif., 1964-66.
Mormon.
Died in Ventura, Ventura
County, Calif., May 12,
1987 (age 57 years, 211
days).
Interment at Pierce
Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, Los Angeles,
Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Aurora Morine (Harrington) Talley and George Thomas Talley;
married, March
31, 1953, to Barbara Louise Hawke; married 1974 to Mary
Renee Bethancourt. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: City of Thousand
Oaks |
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Clarence E. Wagner (1896-1979) —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Antigo, Langlade
County, Wis., September
6, 1896.
Pharmacist; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1938-39, 1942-45.
German
ancestry.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 26,
1979 (age 82 years, 323
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Katherine (Scharmann) Wagner and Daniel Wagner. |
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