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Guy Garland Alway (1886-1959) —
also known as Guy G. Alway —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Clinton, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Born in Manistee
County, Mich., September
25, 1886.
Democrat. Physician; candidate for mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1923.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
21, 1959 (age 73 years, 87
days).
Interment at Los
Angeles National Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Alway and Ellen Elizabeth (Stinchcomb)
Alway. |
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memorial |
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Albert Alonzo Ames (1842-1911) —
also known as Albert A. Ames;
"Doc" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; California.
Born in Garden Prairie, Boone
County, Ill., January
18, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 5, 1867; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1876-77, 1882-84, 1886-89, 1901-02;
resigned 1902; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1886 (Democratic), 1896 (Independent); delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1888;
indicted
in 1902 on bribery
charges,
over a scheme to induce county commissioners to appoint his
secretary, Thomas R. Brown, Jr., as Sheriff.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
16, 1911 (age 69 years, 302
days). His body was reportedly donated to
science.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Ben Barton (1823-1898) —
of San Bernardino, San
Bernardino County, Calif.
Born near Greenville, Greenville District (now Greenville
County), S.C., June 8,
1823.
Democrat. Physician; postmaster at San
Bernardino, Calif., 1858-61; member of California
state assembly 1st District, 1862-63.
Baptist.
Died December
31, 1898 (age 75 years, 206
days).
Interment at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, Calif.
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Amerish Babulal Bera (b. 1965) —
also known as Ami Bera —
of Elk Grove, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 2,
1965.
Democrat. Physician; U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 2013-; defeated,
2010.
Unitarian-Universalist.
Indian
subcontinent ancestry.
Still living as of 2018.
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Carl Ferdinand Bertschinger (1868-1952) —
also known as Carl Bertschinger —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Winterthur, Switzerland,
February
24, 1868.
Democrat. Physician; Honorary
Vice-Consul for Switzerland in Chicago,
Ill., 1926; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1948.
Protestant.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died in El Cajon, San Diego
County, Calif., November
24, 1952 (age 84 years, 274
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Memorial Park, Escondido, Calif.
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Richard Green Buckingham (1816-1889) —
also known as R. G. Buckingham —
of Virginia; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
14, 1816.
Physician; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; mayor of
Denver, Colo., 1876-77.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
18, 1889 (age 72 years, 185
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Relatives: Son
of Gideon Buckingham and Marie Josephine (Crowley)
Buckingham. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Eustorgio Calderón (1860-1920) —
also known as Eustorjio Calderon —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Guatemala,
1860.
Physician; Consul
for Salvador in San
Francisco, Calif., 1895-96; Consul-General
for Central America in San
Francisco, Calif., 1897-98; Consul-General
for Honduras in San
Francisco, Calif., 1899-1902; Honorary
Consul for Honduras in San
Francisco, Calif., 1909-11.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., August
25, 1920 (age about 60
years).
Interment somewhere in Guatemala.
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Relatives:
Married to Josefina de Los Monteros. |
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Martha Maria Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) —
also known as Martha Hughes Cannon; Mattie Cannon;
Martha Maria Hughes —
of Utah; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Llandudno, Wales,
July
1, 1857.
Physician; member of Utah
state senate, 1897-1905.
Female.
Mormon.
First
woman state senator in the U.S.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 10,
1932 (age 75 years, 9
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Sheng Chang —
of Arcadia, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Physician; mayor
of Arcadia, Calif., 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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Henry Vance Clymer (1865-1934) —
also known as H. Vance Clymer —
of Yuma, Yuma
County, Ariz.; Fairfield, Solano
County, Calif.
Born in Marion
County, Ore., August
5, 1865.
Republican. Physician; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Arizona, 1912.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; American Medical
Association.
Died in Fairfield, Solano
County, Calif., October
4, 1934 (age 69 years, 60
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Perrin Coon (1822-1884) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Columbia
County, N.Y., September
30, 1822.
Physician; state court judge in California, 1856-60; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1863-67.
Presbyterian.
Died of heart
failure in the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, Calif., December
4, 1884 (age 62 years, 65
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Pedro José de Larralde (1880-1938) —
also known as Pedro J. de Larralde —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Venezuela,
May
15, 1880.
Physician; Honorary
Consul for Venezuela in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1927-38.
In grief over the death of his wife a year earlier, he killed
himself, by carbon
monoxide poisoning, inside his garage, in Hollywood, Los Angeles,
Los
Angeles County, Calif., August
8, 1938 (age 58 years, 85
days).
Interment somewhere
in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Image source:
Los Angeles Times, Agust 9, 1938 |
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Thomas Foster —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Democrat. Physician; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1855-56.
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Edgar Fowler (1898-1978) —
also known as Frank E. Fowler —
of Astoria, Clatsop
County, Ore.
Born in Pendleton, Umatilla
County, Ore., June 10,
1898.
Republican. Physician; surgeon; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War II; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Oregon, 1952.
Member, American Medical
Association.
Died in Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego
County, Calif., December
18, 1978 (age 80 years, 191
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William McKendree Gwin (1805-1885) —
also known as W. M. Gwin —
of Mississippi; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near Gallatin, Sumner
County, Tenn., October
9, 1805.
Democrat. Physician; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1841-43; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1849; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-55, 1857-61.
Engaged in a duel
with J.
W. McCorkle, June 1, 1853; there were no injuries; twice arrested
for alleged disloyalty
during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
3, 1885 (age 79 years, 329
days).
Entombed at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Carl Christian Hansen (1863-1929) —
also known as Carl C. Hansen —
of Modesto, Stanislaus
County, Calif.; Lakawn (now Lampang), Thailand;
Bangkok, Thailand.
Born in Bornholm, Denmark,
May
15, 1863.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; physician; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul
General in Bangkok, 1909-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Bangkok, as of 1916-29.
Died, of intestinal
cancer, in Bangkok, Thailand,
August
1, 1929 (age 66 years, 78
days).
Interment at Christian
Cemetery, Lampang, Thailand.
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John William Harville (1824-1875) —
also known as John W. Harville —
of California.
Born in Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H., June 20,
1824.
Physician; member of California
state assembly 17th District, 1860-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., March 2,
1875 (age 50 years, 255
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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George Fredrick Johnson (1873-1955) —
also known as George F. Johnson —
of Green River, Henry
County, Ill.; East Moline, Rock
Island County, Ill.; Montalvo, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Cobden, Union
County, Ill., March
25, 1873.
Democrat. Physician; mayor
of East Moline, Ill., 1907-13, 1917-23, 1925-27; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Died in Montalvo, Ventura
County, Calif., August
6, 1955 (age 82 years, 134
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Moline, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of George W. Johnson and Emma Alice (Armstrong) Johnson; married, November
14, 1896, to Anna Martha Schulze. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: The Daily Times
(Davenport, Iowa), July 11, 1936 |
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F. Richard Jones —
also known as Dick Jones —
of Fullerton, Orange
County, Calif.
Physician; mayor
of Fullerton, Calif., 1999-2001.
Still living as of 2004.
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Joseph Edwin Lowes (1848-1905) —
also known as Joseph E. Lowes —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born near Brantford, Ontario,
July
25, 1848.
Republican. Physician; president, Dayton Lighting
Company; led the building of streetcar
lines around Dayton; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Ohio, 1896
(alternate), 1900,
1904.
English
ancestry.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 24,
1905 (age 56 years, 303
days).
Entombed at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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Joseph Lafayette Ludwig (1909-1988) —
also known as J. Lafe Ludwig —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in North Dakota, June 12,
1909.
Republican. Physician; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1960
(alternate), 1964.
Died in California, January
19, 1988 (age 78 years, 221
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Ludwig and Magdalena Ludwig. |
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Frederick A. MacDougal (d. 1878) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Democrat. Physician; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1876-78; died in office 1878.
Died November
16, 1878.
Burial location unknown.
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William Edward Magill (1847-1928) —
also known as William E. Magill —
of West Bay City (now part of Bay City), Bay
County, Mich.; Bangor Township, Bay
County, Mich.; Glendale, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Port Stanley, Ontario,
November
3, 1847.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; physician; surgeon; mayor
of West Bay City, Mich., 1881-82; Bay
County Treasurer.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 29,
1928 (age 80 years, 208
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Ross T. McIntire —
of Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif.
Democrat. Physician; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 30th District, 1954; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1956.
He was President Franklin
D. Roosevelt's personal physician.
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Alan S. Nakanishi —
of Lodi, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Republican. Physician; mayor of
Lodi, Calif., 2000-01; member of California
state assembly 10th District, 2002-.
Japanese
ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Arturo Pallais (1876-1961) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Nicaragua,
August
27, 1876.
Physician; surgeon; Honorary
Consul for Honduras in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1931; Honorary
Consul for Nicaragua in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1935.
Died in 1961
(age about
84 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Enoch Homer Pardee (1826-1896) —
also known as Enoch H. Pardee —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Greece, Monroe
County, N.Y., April 1,
1826.
Republican. Physician; member of California
state assembly 9th District, 1871-73; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1876-78; member of California
state senate, 1880.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., September
21, 1896 (age 70 years, 173
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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George Cooper Pardee (1857-1941) —
also known as George C. Pardee —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., July 25,
1857.
Physician; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1893-95; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1900,
1904,
1912,
1924;
Governor
of California, 1903-07; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California; candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Kiwanis;
Native
Sons of the Golden West.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., September
1, 1941 (age 84 years, 38
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Gregory Phelan (b. 1856) —
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., May 22,
1856.
Physician; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Bordeaux, 1882-89; Brussels, 1889-1905.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Herman Romig (1872-1951) —
also known as Joseph H. Romig; "Dog-Team
Doctor" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Edwards
County, Ill., September
3, 1872.
Physician; mayor
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1937-38.
Moravian
ancestry.
Died in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., 1951
(age about
78 years).
Original interment somewhere
in Colorado Springs, Colo.; reinterment at Anchorage
Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Chester Abbott Rowell (1844-1912) —
also known as Chester A. Rowell —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Woodsville, Haverhill, Grafton
County, N.H., August
17, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
physician; newspaper
publisher; member of California
state senate, 1880-82, 1899-1901, 1903-05; candidate for
Presidential Elector for California; member, University of California
Board of Regents, 1891-1912.; mayor of
Fresno, Calif., 1909-12; died in office 1912.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 9,
1912 (age 67 years, 266
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Chapel of the Light Columbarium, Fresno, Calif.; statue at Courthouse Park, Fresno, Calif.
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William Monroe Salisbury (1865-1928) —
also known as W. M. Salisbury —
of Ashland, Boyd
County, Ky.
Born in Carter
County, Ky., December
25, 1865.
Physician; mayor
of Ashland, Ky., 1914-17, 1921-25.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., February
25, 1928 (age 62 years, 62
days).
Interment at Ashland
Cemetery, Ashland, Ky.
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Alexander Sharp (1825-1901) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Richmond,
Va.; Washington,
D.C.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Newville, Cumberland
County, Pa., July 29,
1825.
Republican. Physician; postmaster at Richmond,
Va., 1865-69.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
2, 1901 (age 76 years, 96
days).
Interment at San
Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
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Benjamin McLaine Spock (1903-1998) —
also known as Benjamin Spock —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., May 2,
1903.
Won an Olympic
gold medal in rowing at the 1924 Paris games; physician;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; author of
influential book, Baby and Child Care; People's candidate for
President
of the United States, 1972; People's candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976.
Member, United
World Federalists.
Died in La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif., March
15, 1998 (age 94 years, 317
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai (b. 1952) —
also known as Ahimsa Sumchai —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born May 19,
1952.
Physician; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 2007.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2007.
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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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Stephen P. Teale (b. 1916) —
of West Point, Calaveras
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., 1916.
Democrat. Physician; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1956,
1960
(alternate), 1964;
member of California
state senate, 1958-66.
Member, Lions.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph H. Thayer —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Physician; candidate in primary for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1941, 1949.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Richard White —
Physician; candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Still living as of 1972.
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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949) —
also known as Ray L. Wilbur —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Boonesborough (now Boone), Boone
County, Iowa, April
13, 1875.
Republican. Physician; dean of
Stanford University Medical School, 1911-16; president
of Stanford University, 1916-43; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1928;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1929-33.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Medical
Association; Newcomen
Society.
Died in Stanford, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 26,
1949 (age 74 years, 74
days).
Interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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