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Thomas Raymond Ball (1896-1943) —
also known as Thomas R. Ball —
of Old Lyme, New London
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; architect;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Old Lyme, 1927-38; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1939-41; defeated,
1940.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Institute of Architects; Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Grange;
Society of Colonial Wars.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Old Lyme, New London
County, Conn., June 16,
1943 (age 47 years, 124
days).
Interment at Duck
River Cemetery, Old Lyme, Conn.
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Isaac Washington Birdseye (1847-1927) —
also known as Isaac W. Birdseye —
of Shelton, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Huntington (now Shelton), Fairfield
County, Conn., June 18,
1847.
Republican. Manufacturer of corsets;
bank
director; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut.
Congregationalist.
Member, Society of Colonial Wars; Military
Order of Foreign Wars; Sons of
the Revolution; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
6, 1927 (age 80 years, 110
days).
Entombed at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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Henry Alfred Bishop (1860-1934) —
also known as Henry A. Bishop —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
4, 1860.
Democrat. Ticket agent, purchasing agent, and superintendent of
several railroads;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Bridgeport, 1886; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1912
(alternate); candidate for secretary
of state of Connecticut, 1888; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1904; president, Clapp Fire Resisting
Paint Co., Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey Power
Co., and Reed Carpet
Co.; vice-president, Brady Brass Co.,
Pacific Iron
Works, Connecticut National Bank, and
Consolidated Telephone
Co.; director, Westchester Street
Railway Co., Western Union Telegraph
Co.; director, Bridgeport Hospital.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Psi
Upsilon; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
22, 1934 (age 73 years, 322
days).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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Isaac W. Brooks (b. 1838) —
of Torrington, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Goshen, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
8, 1838.
Republican. Merchant;
banker;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Torrington, 1884, 1893-94; Speaker of
the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1893-94; member
of Connecticut
state senate 30th District, 1907-08.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars.
Burial location unknown.
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Melbert Brinkerhoff Cary (b. 1852) —
also known as Melbert B. Cary —
of Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Racine, Racine
County, Wis., July 23,
1852.
Democrat. Lawyer; Connecticut
Democratic state chair, 1898-1900; candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1902; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1908.
Member, Society of Colonial Wars.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Watson Cary and Isabel (Brinkerhoff) Cary; married, April
28, 1880, to Julia Metcalf. |
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Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862-1948) —
also known as Wilbur L. Cross —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn., April
10, 1862.
Democrat. University
professor; Governor of
Connecticut, 1931-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Connecticut, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1946.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa; Society of Colonial Wars.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., October
5, 1948 (age 86 years, 178
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Costello Lippitt (1842-1924) —
of Norwich, New London
County, Conn.
Born in East Killingly, Killingly, Windham
County, Conn., December
12, 1842.
Republican. Banker; mayor
of Norwich, Conn., 1908-10; Connecticut
state treasurer, 1911-13.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Society of Colonial Wars.
Died August
21, 1924 (age 81 years, 253
days).
Interment at Yantic
Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.
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Henry Gleason Newton (1843-1914) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Durham, Middlesex
County, Conn., June 5,
1843.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1885, 1895; trustee, Farmers' and
Mechanics' Savings Bank,
Middletown, Conn.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died March
21, 1914 (age 70 years, 289
days).
Interment at Durham Cemetery, Durham, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. Gaylord Newton and Nancy M. (Merwin) Newton; married 1885 to Dr.
Sarah Allen Baldwin. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Roberts (1853-1929) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
22, 1853.
Republican. President, Hartford Woven Wire
Mattress Company; director, Hartford Electric
Light Company; also director of several banks;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1899-1900; member
of Connecticut
state senate 1st District, 1901-02; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1903-05; Governor of
Connecticut, 1905-07.
Congregationalist.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars.
Died, from respiratory
failure, in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., May 1,
1929 (age 76 years, 99
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
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Herbert Livingston Satterlee (1863-1947) —
also known as Herbert L. Satterlee —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
31, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer;
private secretary for U.S. Senator William
M. Evarts, 1887-89; served in the U.S. Navy during the
Spanish-American War; counsel for Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad,
1898-1902; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1906-07; U.S.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1908-09; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1920.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Union
League; Navy
League; Society of Colonial Wars.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 14,
1947 (age 83 years, 256
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George LeRoy Bowen Satterlee and Sarah Bradley (Wilcox) Satterlee;
married, November
15, 1909, to Louisa Pierpont Morgan (daughter of J. Pierpont
Morgan); second great-grandnephew of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794) and Walter
Livingston; third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); third great-grandnephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin thrice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; first cousin four times removed of Philip
Peter Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin four times removed
of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler and Henry
Cruger; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; third cousin thrice removed of Hamilton
Fish; fourth cousin of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson
Murray Cutting; fourth cousin once removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr., John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Brockholst
Livingston. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Morris Woodruff Seymour (1842-1920) —
also known as Morris W. Seymour —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born October
6, 1842.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state senate, 1881-82 (10th District 1881, 14th District 1882);
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1888 (Democratic),
1896 (Gold Democratic).
Episcopalian.
Member, Society of Colonial Wars; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died October
27, 1920 (age 78 years, 21
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Bentley Weeks (1854-1935) —
also known as Frank B. Weeks —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
20, 1854.
Republican. Grain milling
business; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1909; Governor of
Connecticut, 1909-11; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1912,
1916.
Congregationalist.
Member, Society of Colonial Wars; Union
League.
Died October
2, 1935 (age 81 years, 255
days).
Interment at Indian
Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.
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