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Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1865-1945) — also known as Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor; Hobart Chatfield Taylor; Hobart C. Taylor — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., March 24, 1865. Author; novelist; biographer; Consul for Spain in Chicago, Ill., 1892-98. Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Society of Colonial Wars. Died in Montecito, Santa Barbara County, Calif., January 16, 1945 (age 79 years, 298 days). Interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.   Relatives: Son of Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide S. (Chatfield) Taylor; married, June 19, 1890, to Rose Farwell (daughter of Charles Benjamin Farwell); married 1920 to Estelle (Barbour) Stillman; second cousin of Nathan Summers Beardslee; second cousin once removed of Glover Wheeler Cable; third cousin once removed of Benjamin Pulaski Chatfield and Alton Farrel; third cousin twice removed of Truman Hotchkiss; fourth cousin once removed of Andrew Gould Chatfield and Henry Ward Beecher.   Political families: Otis family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Boutwell Dunlap (1877-1930) — of San Francisco, Calif. Born in Sacramento, Sacramento County, Calif., November 14, 1877. Democrat. Lawyer; historian; nominated for U.S. Representative from California 1st District 1904, but withdrew before election; Vice-Consul for Argentina in San Francisco, Calif., 1909-30. Member, Kappa Sigma; Delta Chi; Society of Colonial Wars; American Political Science Association; American Historical Association. Died in his room at the Graystone Hotel, San Francisco, Calif., December 22, 1930 (age 53 years, 38 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Old Auburn Cemetery, Auburn, Calif.   Relatives: Son of William Dunlap and Sarah Jane (Robinson) Dunlap. Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II (1889-1943) — also known as W. S. Van Dyke; "One-Take Woody" — of West Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in San Diego, San Diego County, Calif., March 21, 1889. Democrat. Child actor in vaudeville; director of dozens of movies, 1917-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1940. Christian Scientist. Member, Society of Colonial Wars. Ill with cancer, he died by suicide, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 5, 1943 (age 53 years, 321 days). Interment at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.   Relatives: Son of W. S. Van Dyke and Laura (Winston) Van Dyke; married, February 26, 1935, to Ruth Mannix; cousin *** of Henry van Dyke.   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: New York Times, February 6, 1943

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