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Clarence Emir Allen (1852-1932) —
also known as Clarence E. Allen —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Girard Township, Erie
County, Pa., September
8, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
mining business; member of Utah
territorial House of Representatives, 1888-96; Salt
Lake County Clerk, 1890-93; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1892; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Utah, 1892,
1896
(member, Credentials
Committee); U.S.
Representative from Utah at-large, 1896-97.
Died in Escondido, San Diego
County, Calif., July 9,
1932 (age 79 years, 305
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Samuel Shaw Arentz (1913-1994) —
also known as Samuel S. Arentz; Sam Arentz —
of Pioche, Lincoln
County, Nev.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 9,
1913.
Republican. Mining engineer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Nevada, 1952
(member, Credentials
Committee; speaker).
Member, American
Legion; Lambda
Chi Alpha; Freemasons.
Died January
6, 1994 (age 80 years, 303
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Robert Raymond Barry (1915-1988) —
also known as Robert R. Barry —
of Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., May 15,
1915.
Republican. President, Plumas Mining Co.; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1959-65 (27th District 1959-63,
25th District 1963-65); defeated, 1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, Farm
Bureau; Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Redwood City, San Mateo
County, Calif., June 14,
1988 (age 73 years, 30
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Goode Blasdel (1825-1900) —
also known as Henry G. Blasdel —
of Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born near Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., January
29, 1825.
Republican. Farmer; merchant;
riverboat
captain; miller;
mining business; Governor of
Nevada, 1864-71.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., July 22,
1900 (age 75 years, 174
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Spruille Braden (1894-1978) —
of Riverdale, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elkhorn, Jefferson
County, Mont., March
13, 1894.
Mining engineer;
financier;
U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, 1939-42; Cuba, 1942-45; Argentina, 1945.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Arbitration Association; Navy
League; John
Birch Society.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Good Samaritan Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
10, 1978 (age 83 years, 303
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Hugh Henry Brown (1872-1975) —
also known as Hugh H. Brown —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Tonopah, Nye
County, Nev.
Born in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, May 4,
1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
represented railroads
and mining companies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Nevada, 1908,
1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920
(alternate).
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Judicature Society; Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died February
26, 1975 (age 102 years,
298 days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Andrew Jackson Bryant (1831-1888) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Effingham, Carroll
County, N.H., October
30, 1831.
Democrat. Gold miner; wholesale
liquor merchant; importer and dealer in safes and locks; insurance
business; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1875-79.
Jumped
or fell
from the ferry steamer Encinal, and drowned
in San
Francisco Bay, May 11,
1888 (age 56 years, 194
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Anthony Caminetti (1854-1923) —
of Jackson, Amador
County, Calif.
Born in Jackson, Amador
County, Calif., July 30,
1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; farmer;
mining business; Amador
County District Attorney, 1877-82; member of California
state assembly, 1883-85, 1897-1901 (16th District 1883-85, 15th
District 1897-1901); member of California
state senate, 1885-87, 1907-13; candidate for Presidential
Elector for California; U.S.
Representative from California 2nd District, 1891-95; defeated,
1894; proposed a bill in 1892 to eliminate Yosemite National Park;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1896;
U.S. commissioner of immigration 1913-21; he urged banning
immigration from countries he saw as the "Asian menace".
Italian
ancestry.
Died in Jackson, Amador
County, Calif., November
17, 1923 (age 69 years, 110
days).
Interment at Protestant
Cemetery, Jackson, Calif.
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Shirley M. Crawford (1872-1917) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
5, 1872.
Republican. Actor;
newspaper
writer; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
law partner of Augustus
E. Willson; Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Louisville,
Ky., 1901-07; in February 1905, amidst a controversy over the
appointment of a new Colonel, a military court of inquiry was
convened to investigate
the officers of the First Kentucky regiment, including a Major and
six Captains, for willful
disobedience; all were releived of duty, but Capt. Crawford was
singled out as "an agitator and fomenter of strife, disloyal and
insubordinate to his superior officers," and ordered court-martialed;
secretary-treasurer and director, Kentucky-Arizona Copper
Company (engaged in mining and smelting).
Hit by
a car while crossing a street, suffered a fractured leg and pneumonia,
and died two weeks later, in German Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., September
6, 1917 (age 45 years, 32
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at San
Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
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Roy N. Davidson (1879-1944) —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Mahomet, Champaign
County, Ill., January
7, 1879.
Republican. Mining business; member of Arizona
territorial House of Representatives, 1907; secretary of
Arizona Republican Party, 1922-24, 1937; U.S. Collector of
Internal Revenue for Arizona, 1934.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., December
24, 1944 (age 65 years, 352
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married 1919 to Minnie
M. Lambert. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Arizona Republic,
November 2, 1938 |
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George Wrenshall Dent (1819-1899) —
Born January
30, 1819.
Miner; member of California
state senate, 1858; appraiser of customs at the port of San
Francisco.
Died in Lorin (now part of Berkeley), Alameda
County, Calif., January
17, 1899 (age 79 years, 352
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Stanly Alexander Easton (b. 1873) —
also known as Stanly A. Easton —
of Kellogg, Shoshone
County, Idaho; Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai
County, Idaho.
Born in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
County, Calif., April 2,
1873.
Republican. Mining business; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Idaho, 1916,
1920,
1928
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1932,
1940,
1944.
Burial location unknown.
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Harry Lane Englebright (1884-1943) —
also known as Harry L. Englebright —
of Nevada City, Nevada
County, Calif.
Born in Nevada City, Nevada
County, Calif., January
2, 1884.
Republican. Mining engineer;
U.S.
Representative from California 2nd District, 1926-43; died in
office 1943.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks; Eagles;
Redmen;
Native
Sons of the Golden West.
Died, of an acute heart
condition, at Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 13,
1943 (age 59 years, 131
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Nevada City, Calif.
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James Malcolm Gleaves (1852-1901) —
also known as James M. Gleaves —
of Shasta, Shasta
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Guernsey
County, Ohio, September
10, 1852.
Republican. School
teacher; mining engineer;
Shasta
County Surveyor; member of California
state senate 2nd District, 1895; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1896;
U.S. Surveyor-General for California, 1898-1901; died in office 1901.
Died, in Waldeck Sanatorium,
San
Francisco, Calif., November
27, 1901 (age 49 years, 78
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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James Owen Greenan (1888-c.1952) —
also known as J. O. Greenan —
of Mina, Mineral
County, Nev.; Tujunga, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Taunton, Bristol
County, Mass., January
3, 1888.
Republican. Mining engineer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Nevada, 1940.
Member, Theta
Delta Chi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., about 1952 (age about 64
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Hays Hammond (1855-1936) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; South
Africa; Washington,
D.C.; Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March
31, 1855.
Republican. Mining engineer;
worked on mines in Mexico and South Africa; worked for Cecil Rhodes;
in 1895, he took part in the Jameson raid, an attempt
to overthrow the Boer government in South Africa; was arrested
with other leaders and sentenced
to be hanged; his sentence was commuted, and he was eventually
released to return to the U.S.; candidate for Republican nomination
for Vice President, 1908;
chair, U.S. Coal Commission, 1922-23.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from coronary
occlusion, in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., June 8,
1936 (age 81 years, 69
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) —
also known as Herbert Hoover; "The Great
Engineer"; "The Grand Old Man" —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in West Branch, Cedar
County, Iowa, August
10, 1874.
Republican. Mining engineer;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1921-28; President
of the United States, 1929-33; defeated, 1932; speaker,
Republican National Convention, 1940,
1952,
1960.
Quaker.
Swiss
and Dutch
ancestry.
Inducted into the National Mining Hall of
Fame, Leadville, Colorado.
Died, of intestinal
cancer, in his suite at the Waldorf Towers Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1964 (age 90 years, 71
days).
Interment at Herbert
Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Clark Hoover and Hulda Randall (Minthorn) Hoover; married,
February
10, 1899, to Lou
Hoover; father of Herbert
Clark Hoover Jr.; distant cousin *** of Charles
Lewis Hoover. |
| | | Political family: Hoover
family of Palo Alto, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Horace
A. Mann — Walter
H. Newton — Christian
A. Herter — Lewis
L. Strauss — Clarence
C. Stetson |
| | | Hoover Dam
(built 1931-36 as Boulder Dam; renamed 1947), on the Colorado River
between Clark
County, Nevada, and Mohave
County, Arizona, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Glendale,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Des
Moines, Iowa, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in San Diego,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — Herbert Hoover High
School, in Elkview,
West Virginia, is named for
him. — The minor
planets (asteroids) 932 Hooveria (discovered 1920), and
1363 Herberta (discovered 1935), are named for
him. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1928): "A chicken in
every pot." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Herbert Hoover: The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson |
| | | Books about Herbert Hoover: Martin L.
Fausold, The
Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover — Joan Hoff Wilson, Herbert
Hoover : Forgotten Progressive — George H. Nash, Life
of Herbert Hoover : The Humanitarian, 1914-1917 —
George H. Nash, The
Life of Herbert Hoover : Masters of Emergencies,
1917-1918 — William E. Leuchtenburg, Herbert
Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933 — Glen
Jeansonne, The
Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933 —
Kendrick A. Clements, The
Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary,
1918-1928 — David Holford, Herbert
Hoover (for young readers) |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1965) |
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Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. (1903-1969) —
also known as Herbert Hoover, Jr. —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in London, England,
August
4, 1903.
Republican. Petroleum
geologist;
mining engineer;
inventor;
president, Aeronautical
Radio,
Inc., 1930; U.S. Undersecretary of State, 1954-57; director, Monsanto
Chemical
Company; director, Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation; director, Southern California Edison
Company; director, Hanna Mining Company; director, Pacific
Mutual Insurance
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1960.
Died, of cancer,
in Huntington Community Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 9,
1969 (age 65 years, 248
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mountain
View Cemetery, Altadena, Calif.
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Ezra Mills Lawton (1864-1931) —
also known as Ezra M. Lawton —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Ironton, Lawrence
County, Ohio, August
23, 1864.
Electrical
engineer;
mining business; U.S. Consular Agent in Oaxaca, 1908-13; U.S. Consul in Tegucigalpa, 1913-17, 1919-20; Nogales, 1917-18; Guatemala City, 1918-19; Sydney, 1923-27; Sao Paulo, 1929.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 26,
1931 (age 66 years, 307
days).
Entombed at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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William R. Maloney (1869-1937) —
of Alaska.
Born in Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah
County, Va., 1869.
Democrat. Miner; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1918.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., June 27,
1937 (age about 67
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Belle Campbell. |
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Lee Mantle (1851-1934) —
of Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont.
Born in Birmingham, England,
December
13, 1851.
Republican. Telegrapher;
newspaper
publisher; real
estate and mining business; member of Montana
territorial House of Representatives, 1882; mayor of
Butte, Mont., 1892; Montana
Republican state chair, 1892-94, 1904; U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1895-99; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Montana, 1896
(speaker),
1904,
1916
(alternate).
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
18, 1934 (age 82 years, 340
days).
Interment at Mt.
Moriah Cemetery, Butte, Mont.
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Henry Harrison Markham (1840-1923) —
also known as Henry H. Markham —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Wilmington, Essex
County, N.Y., November
16, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
gold and silver mining business; U.S.
Representative from California 6th District, 1885-87; Governor of
California, 1891-95.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, following a stroke,
in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
9, 1923 (age 82 years, 327
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Altadena, Calif.
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John Howard McLean (1860-1933) —
also known as John H. McLean —
of Iron Mountain, Dickinson
County, Mich.; Ironwood, Gogebic
County, Mich.
Born in Neenah, Winnebago
County, Wis., June 6,
1860.
Republican. Mining and railroad
executive; founder
of Iron Mountain Press newspaper;
Dickinson
County Treasurer, 1897-98; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1904.
Catholic;
later Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of a stroke,
in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 6,
1933 (age 72 years, 334
days).
Interment at Fort
Howard Memorial Park, Green Bay, Wis.
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Philip Murray (1886-1952) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Blantyre, Scotland,
May
25, 1886.
Democrat. Miner; president,
local union of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 1905; district
president in 1912; vice-president
in 1917; chairman,
Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC); (SWOC), 1935-42, and president of
the successor United Steelworkers of America, 1942-52 president,
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1940; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1940,
1944,
1952.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., November
9, 1952 (age 66 years, 168
days).
Interment at St.
Ann's Cemetery, Castle Shannon, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of William Murray and Rose (Layden) Murray. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Tasker Lowndes Oddie (1870-1950) —
also known as Tasker L. Oddie —
of Nye
County, Nev.; Reno, Washoe
County, Nev.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
20, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer; real estate
business; mining business; Nye
County District Attorney, 1900-02; member of Nevada
state senate, 1904-08; Governor of
Nevada, 1911-15; defeated, 1914, 1918; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1921-33; defeated, 1932, 1938; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Nevada, 1924,
1928
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1932,
1940
(alternate).
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
17, 1950 (age 79 years, 120
days).
Interment at Lone
Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nev.
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Ben Wilson Olcott (1872-1952) —
also known as Ben W. Olcott; B. W. Olcott —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.; Redlands, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born in Keithsburg, Mercer
County, Ill., October
15, 1872.
Republican. Miner; secretary
of state of Oregon, 1911-20; appointed 1911; resigned 1920; Governor of
Oregon, 1919-23; defeated, 1922; president, American Savings Bank, Long
Beach, 1923.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 21,
1952 (age 79 years, 280
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mount
Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem, Ore.
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Merritt E. Paddock (1867-1937) —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Prophetstown, Whiteside
County, Ill., June 3,
1867.
Mining engineer;
mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1933-34.
Member, Elks.
Died in May, 1937
(age 69
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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John R. Pollock (b. 1865) —
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., May 22,
1865.
Mining business; hotel
manager; U.S. Consular Agent in Fernie, 1901-08; U.S. Vice Consul in Fernie, 1908-11.
Burial location unknown.
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William Sharon (1821-1885) —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Smithfield, Jefferson
County, Ohio, January
9, 1821.
Republican. Lawyer; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; banker;
mining business; real estate
business; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1875-81.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
13, 1885 (age 64 years, 308
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Henry Clifford Stuart (1864-1952) —
also known as Henry C. Stuart; "Stuart
X" —
of Denver,
Colo.; Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
10, 1864.
Mining engineer;
real
estate investor; author;
director-general, Guaremala Central Railroad;
U.S. Vice Consul General in Guatemala City, 1885-86; U.S. Consul General in Guatemala City, 1893.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., May 21,
1952 (age 87 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (1830-1898) —
also known as Adolph Sutro —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Germany,
April
29, 1830.
Cigar and
tobacco merchant; promoted and led the construction of the Sutro
Tunnel, to drain water from the silver mines of the Comstock
Lode in Nevada; real estate
investor; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1895-97.
Jewish.
German
ancestry.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., August
8, 1898 (age 68 years, 101
days).
Interment at Home
of Peace Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Robert Whitney Waterman (1826-1891) —
also known as Robert W. Waterman —
of Geneva, Kane
County, Ill.; Wilmington, Will
County, Ill.; California.
Born in Fairfield, Herkimer
County, N.Y., December
15, 1826.
Postmaster;
newspaper
publisher; involved in silver and gold mining; president,
San Diego, Cuyamaca & Eastern Railway;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1887; Governor of
California, 1887-91.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., April
12, 1891 (age 64 years, 118
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Jacob Yost (1853-1933) —
of Staunton,
Va.; Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Staunton,
Va., April 1,
1853.
Republican. Printer;
civil
engineer; mayor
of Staunton, Va., 1886-87; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1887-89, 1897-99;
mining business.
Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., January
25, 1933 (age 79 years, 299
days).
Interment at Thornrose
Cemetery, Staunton, Va.
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