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Prudent Beaudry (1818-1893) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Quebec,
1818.
Mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1874-76.
French Canadian ancestry.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
6, 1893 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges
Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec.
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John Toussaint Bernard (1893-1983) —
of Minnesota.
Born in Bastia, Corsica,
March
6, 1893.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1937-39.
French ancestry.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
6, 1983 (age 90 years, 153
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Horace Boies (1827-1923) —
of Hamburg, Erie
County, N.Y.; Waterloo, Black Hawk
County, Iowa; Palermo Township, Grundy
County, Iowa; Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Aurora, Erie
County, N.Y., December
7, 1827.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 3rd District, 1857; Governor of
Iowa, 1890-94; defeated, 1893; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1892;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 3rd District, 1902.
French and English
ancestry.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 4,
1923 (age 95 years, 118
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Waterloo, Iowa.
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Pedro de Alcantara Brazileiro de Saisset
(1829-1902) —
also known as Pedro de Saisset —
of San Jose, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Paris, France,
1829.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; Consular
Agent for France in San
Jose, Calif., 1886-1902.
French ancestry.
Died in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., March
16, 1902 (age about 72
years).
Entombed at Santa
Clara Mission Cemetery, Santa Clara, Calif.
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Clinton Peyre Ferry (1836-1909) —
also known as Clinton P. Ferry; "The Duke of
Tacoma" —
of Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., May 24,
1836.
Consular
Agent for France in Tacoma,
Wash., 1898-1903.
French ancestry.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., July 31,
1909 (age 73 years, 68
days).
Interment at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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Ormond Weyman Follin (1831-1902) —
also known as Ormond W. Follin —
of Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.; San Jose, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., August
27, 1831.
Language
teacher; Honorary
Vice-Consul for Guatemala in San
Diego, Calif., 1900-02.
French ancestry.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., October
28, 1902 (age 71 years, 62
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) —
also known as "The Pathfinder"; "The
Champion of Freedom" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813.
Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor
of Arizona Territory, 1878-81; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Episcopalian.
French ancestry.
Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890 (age 77 years, 173
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting (Pryor)
Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). |
| | | Political families: Benton
family of Missouri and Tennessee; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Selah
Hill |
| | | Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him. |
| | | Fremont Peak,
in Monterey
County and San Benito
County, California, is named for
him. — Fremont Peak,
in Coconino
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
California, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Ohio, is named for
him. — The city
of Fremont,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John C. Fremont (built 1941 at Terminal
Island, California; mined and wrecked in Manila
Bay, Philippines, 1945) was named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: John
F. Hill
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| | | Campaign slogan (1856): "Free Soil,
Free Men, Fremont." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by John C. Fremont: Memoirs
of My Life and Times |
| | | Books about John C. Fremont: Tom
Chaffin, Pathfinder:
John Charles Fremont and the Course of American
Empire — David Roberts, A
Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the
American West — Andrew Rolle, John
Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Auguste Fusenot (1851-1907) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in France,
February, 1851.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; dry goods
merchant; bank
director; Consular
Agent for France in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1898-1907.
French ancestry.
Died, from heart
failure, during stomach
surgery, in Paris, France,
May
27, 1907 (age 56 years, 0
days).
Interment at Père
la Chaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
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Image source:
Los Angeles Evening Express, May 28, 1907 |
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Van Heflin (1910-1971) —
also known as Emmett Evan Heflin Jr. —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Walters, Cotton
County, Okla., December
13, 1910.
Democrat. Actor;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1948.
Irish
and French ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Theta.
Suffered a heart
attack while swimming,
and died six weeks later, in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 23,
1971 (age 60 years, 222
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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Carlos Barreno Lastreto (1867-1957) —
also known as Carlos B. Lastreto; Charles B.
Lastreto —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Atherton, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., May 3,
1867.
Coffee
importer;
Vice-Consul
for Ecuador in San
Francisco, Calif., 1901-02.
Italian
and French ancestry.
Died, in St. Luke's Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., July 4,
1957 (age 90 years, 62
days).
Entombed at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Damien Marchessault (1818-1868) —
also known as Damien Marchesseau —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec,
April
1, 1818.
Democrat. Mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1859-60, 1861-65, 1867.
French Canadian ancestry.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, in the Council Room of Los Angeles City
Hall, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
20, 1868 (age 49 years, 294
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Mascarel (1816-1899) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Marseille, France,
1816.
Republican. Mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1865-66.
French ancestry.
Died in 1899
(age about
83 years).
Burial location unknown.
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