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Devere Allen (1891-1955) —
of Wilton, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., June 24,
1891.
Editor for various publications,
including The Nation; overseas correspondent for newspapers
and magazines;
author; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1932, 1934; Labor candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1938, 1940.
Member, War
Resisters League; League
for Industrial Democracy; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Federation of Teachers; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in a hospital
at Westerly, Washington
County, R.I., August
27, 1955 (age 64 years, 64
days).
Interment at Wheeler
Cemetery, North Stonington, Conn.
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Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Washington.
Born in Houstonia, Pettis
County, Mo., December
5, 1883.
Communist. Sawmill
worker; arrested
in Cleveland, 1919, on charges
of violating the state's criminal
syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; poet.
Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., July 18,
1982 (age 98 years, 225
days).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
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Joel Barlow (1754-1812) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
24, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; chaplain;
writer; poet; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Cadiz, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to France, 1811-12, died in office 1812.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held
prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of
U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S.
Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident.
Died, of pneumonia
or exposure,
in Zarnowiec, Poland,
December
24, 1812 (age 58 years, 275
days).
Interment at Churchyard,
Zarnowiec, Poland; cenotaph at Great
Pasture Road Cemetery, Redding, Conn.
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William Henry Bishop (1847-1928) —
also known as William H. Bishop —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Connecticut, January
7, 1847.
Novelist; university
professor; U.S. Consul in Palermo, 1905-08.
Died in Brooklyn, Windham
County, Conn., September
26, 1928 (age 81 years, 263
days).
Interment at Old Cemetery, East Haven, Conn.
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Chester Bliss Bowles (1901-1986) —
also known as Chester Bowles —
of Essex, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., April 5,
1901.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; advertising
business; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1948,
1956,
1960;
Governor
of Connecticut, 1949-51; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1951-53, 1963-69; Nepal, 1951-53; , 1961-63; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1959-61;
author.
Unitarian.
Member, Urban
League; Grange;
Americans
for Democratic Action; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Essex, Middlesex
County, Conn., May 25,
1986 (age 85 years, 50
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Essex, Conn.
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Heywood Campbell Broun (1888-1939) —
also known as Heywood Broun —
of New York; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Socialist. Sportswriter;
columnist for New York newspapers;;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1930; founder of
the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 and its first president;
expelled from Socialist Party in 1933.
Catholic.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
18, 1939 (age 51 years, 11
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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William Frank Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) —
also known as William F. Buckley, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1925.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1965.
Catholic.
Irish
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, Skull
and Bones.
Leader of the conservative movement; founder and editor of
National Review magazine;
author and lecturer; host of television
news show "Firing Line"; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on November 18, 1991.
Died, probably of diabetes
and emphysema,
in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
27, 2008 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St. Bernard Cemetery, Sharon, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Frank Buckley, Sr. and Aloise (Steiner) Buckley; brother
of James
Lane Buckley and Patricia Lee Buckley (who married Leo
Brent Bozell); married 1950 to
Patricia Alden Austin Taylor. |
| | | Political family: Buckley
family of New York and Connecticut. |
| | | Cross-reference: Frederic
R. Coudert, Jr. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Getting
It Right (2003) — God
and Man at Yale : The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
(1951) — Spytime
: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000) — Nearer,
My God : An Autobiography of Faith (1997) — The
Lexicon : A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word
Lover (1998) — Airborne
: A Sentimental Journey (1984) — In
Search of Anti-Semitism (1992) — Brothers
No More (1995) — Up
From Liberalism (1959) — The
Committee and its critics : a calm review of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (1962) — Elvis
in the Morning (2001) — Execution
eve, and other contemporary ballads (1975) — Four
reforms : a guide for the seventies (1973) — Gratitude
: reflections on what we owe to our country (1990) —
Nuremberg
: the reckoning (2002) — Overdrive
: a personal documentary (1983) — United
Nations Journal : A Delegate's Odyssey (1974) — The
unmaking of a mayor (1966) — Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero (2001) — The
Reagan I Knew (2008) |
| | | Fiction by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Stained
Glass : A Blackford Oakes Novel — Marco
Polo, If You Can : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Saving
the Queen : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — See
You Later, Alligator : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Tucker's
Last Stand : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Mongoose,
R.I.P. : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — A
Very Private Plot : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — High
Jinx : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Who's
on First : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — The
Redhunter : a novel based on the life of Senator Joe
McCarthy |
| | | Books about William F. Buckley, Jr.:
John B. Judis, William
F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives —
Lee Edwards, William
F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement — Carl T.
Bogus, Buckley:
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American
Conservatism |
| | | Critical books about William F. Buckley,
Jr.: David Miller, Chairman
Bill: A Biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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Donald Barr Chidsey (1902-1981) —
of Lyme, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., May 14,
1902.
Democrat. Novelist; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Lyme, 1948.
Died, in Lawrence Memorial Hospital,
New London, New London
County, Conn., March
17, 1981 (age 78 years, 307
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Marshall Chidsey and Catherine (Barr) Chidsey; married, December
29, 1921, to Sylvia Wellington Litchfield; married, March 9,
1935, to Eleanor Shirley Stewart; married 1944 to
Virginia Clark; first cousin five times removed of Noah
Phelps; second cousin twice removed of Ernest
Harvey Woodford; second cousin thrice removed of Amos
Pettibone; second cousin four times removed of Elisha
Phelps; third cousin once removed of Arthur
Burnham Woodford and Willis
Case Chidsey; third cousin twice removed of Asahel
Pierson Case; third cousin thrice removed of Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Norman
A. Phelps and John
Smith Phelps; fourth cousin once removed of Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler and Rowland
Case Kellogg. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Books by Donald Barr Chidsey: The
great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the
West — The
wars in Barbary: Arab piracy and the birth of the United States
Navy — The
Louisiana Purchase: The Story of the Biggest Real Estate Deal in
History — Sir
Humphrey Gilbert: Elizabeth's Racketeer — July
4, 1776: The dramatic story of the first four days of July,
1776 — Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson — And
Tyler Too — The
gentleman from New York: A life of Roscoe Conkling —
Sir
Walter Raleigh That Damned Upstart — The
Siege of Boston: an on-the-scene account of the beginning of the
American Revolution — The
Loyalists: the story of those Americans who fought against
independence — The
Battle of New Orleans — The
Day They Sank the Lusitania — The
California Gold Rush: an informal history — The
War with Mexico — Victory
at Yorktown — Andrew
Jackson, Hero — The
Spanish?American War: a behind-the-scenes account of the war in
Cuba — Lewis
and Clark: The Great Adventure — The
French and Indian War: an informal history — The
Panama Canal: an informal history of its concept, building, and
present status — The
American Privateers: a history — The
Great Separation: the story of the Boston Tea Party and the beginning
of the American Revolution — Shackleton's
Voyage — Marlborough:
the portrait of a conqueror — The
War in the North: an informal history of the American Revolution in
and near Canada — Goodbye
to Gunpowder: an informal history — Valley
Forge — The
World of Samuel Adams — On
and Off the Wagon: A Sober Analysis of the Temperance Movement from
the Pilgrims through Prohibition — Elizabeth
I: a great life in brief |
| | | Fiction by Donald Barr Chidsey: Panama
Passage — Fancy
Man — This
Bright Sword — Lord
of the Isles — Singapore
Passage — Captain
Adam — Reluctant
Cavalier — The
Legion of the Lost — The
Naked Sword — The
Pipes are Calling — Buccaneer's
Blade — Stronghold —
Captain
Bashful — The
Wickedest Pilgrim — Captain
Crossbones — Nobody
Heard the Shot |
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Charles Henry Stanley Davis (1840-1917) —
also known as Charles H. S. Davis —
of Meriden, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Goshen, Litchfield
County, Conn., March 2,
1840.
Democrat. Physician;
author; Egyptologist; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1873, 1885-86; mayor
of Meriden, Conn., 1887-88.
Died in 1917
(age about
77 years).
Interment at In Memoriam Cemetery, Wallingford, Conn.
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Sherman Day (1806-1884) —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
11, 1806.
Engineer;
historian; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1855-56; U.S. Surveyor General of California,
1868-71.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., December
14, 1884 (age 78 years, 307
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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George Allan England (b. 1877) —
also known as George A. England —
of Maine; Hampton, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Fort McPherson, Lincoln
County, Neb., February
9, 1877.
Socialist. Author; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1908; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1912.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. George Allen England and Hannah Pearl (Lyon)
England. |
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Howard Melvin Fast (1914-2003) —
also known as Howard Fast; "E. V.
Cunningham"; "Walter Ericson" —
of Teaneck, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
11, 1914.
Communist. Novelist; in 1950, suspected of sedition,
he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee,
where he refused to name fellow members of the Communist Party; convicted
of contempt
of Congress and sentenced to three months in prison;
awarded the Stalin
Peace Prize in 1953; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1952.
Jewish.
Died in Old Greenwich, Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
12, 2003 (age 88 years, 121
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Gaston (b. 1899) —
of New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1899.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
playwright; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1948.
Protestant.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) —
also known as Arthur S. Hardy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
13, 1847.
Civil
engineer; college
professor; author; editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
1893-95; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1897-99; Greece, 1899-1901; Romania, 1899-1901; Serbia, 1899-1901; Switzerland, 1901-03; Spain, 1902-05; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, 1897-99.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., March
13, 1930 (age 82 years, 212
days).
Interment at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Conn.
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Charles C. Hemenway (born c.1884) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Springfield, Windsor
County, Vt., about 1884.
Democrat. Editor; member of Connecticut
state senate 2nd District, 1917-20.
Burial location unknown.
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Eliot Janeway (1913-1993) —
also known as Eliot Jacobstein; "Calamity
Janeway" —
of Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born January
1, 1913.
Democrat. Economist;
economic advisor to Presidents Franklin
Roosevelt and Lyndon
Johnson; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Redding, 1948; newspaper
columnist.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from diabetes
and heart
problems, in Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1993 (age 80 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) —
also known as Ann Clare Boothe; Clare Boothe
Brokaw —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
10, 1903.
Republican. Writer; journalist;
playwright; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944,
1948
(speaker),
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56.
Female.
Catholic.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1987 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Selah Merrill (1837-1909) —
of Andover, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Canton Center, Canton, Hartford
County, Conn., May 2,
1837.
Clergyman;
author; archaeologist;
U.S. Consul in Jerusalem, 1882-86, 1891-1905.
Congregationalist.
Died in Alameda
County, Calif., January
22, 1909 (age 71 years, 265
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Merrill and Lydia (Richards) Merrill; married, April
29, 1875, to Adelaide Brewster Taylor; first cousin once removed
of Greene
Carrier Bronson; first cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; second cousin once removed of John
Russell Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Hezekiah
Case; second cousin thrice removed of Noah
Phelps; third cousin once removed of Parmenio
Adams, George
Smith Catlin, Francis
William Kellogg and Edward
Russell Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Jason
Kellogg, Jonathan
Brace, Augustus
Pettibone, Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Elisha
Phelps, Timothy
Merrill, Rufus
Pettibone, Amos
Pettibone and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; fourth cousin of Asahel
Pierson Case, Hiram
Bidwell Case and Arthur
Tappan Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Luther
Walter Badger, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg, Theodore
Davenport, Alvan
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, William
Alfred Buckingham, Norman
A. Phelps, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, John
Smith Phelps, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Augustus
Herman Pettibone, Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903), Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler, Joseph
Wells Holcomb and William
Lucius Case. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) —
also known as Arthur Miller —
of Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
17, 1915.
Democrat. Playwright; author of such plays as "Death of a
Salesman" and "The Crucible"; received the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 1949; because he was suspected
of ties to Communist
organizations, his passport was
denied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his political
colleagues, and was found
guilty of contempt
of Congress in 1957; the conviction was overturned on appeal;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968.
Agnostic.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 116
days).
Interment at Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn.
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John Stephen Monagan (1911-2005) —
also known as John S. Monagan —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., December
23, 1911.
Democrat. Lawyer;
author; mayor
of Waterbury, Conn., 1943-47; defeated, 1947; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948,
1960,
1968;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 5th District, 1959-73; defeated,
1942, 1972.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
23, 2005 (age 93 years, 304
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855-1922) —
also known as Frederic C. Penfield —
of Connecticut; Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Connecticut, April
23, 1855.
Author; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in London, 1885-87; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1893-97; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1893-97; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1913-17.
Died June 19,
1922 (age 67 years, 57
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Penfield and Sophia (Young) Penfield; married 1892 to
Katharine Albert McMurdo Welles; married 1908 to Anne
(Weightman) Walker. |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary |
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Montgomery Schuyler Jr. (1877-1955) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., September
2, 1877.
Author; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1904-06; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1913; Salvador, 1921-25; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
stockbroker;
banker.
Episcopalian.
Died November
1, 1955 (age 78 years, 60
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Katherine Beeckman (Livingston) Schuyler and Montgomery Schuyler;
married, August
22, 1906, to Edith Lawver; second great-grandson of Valentine
Brother; third great-grandson of Robert
Gilbert Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin four times removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William
Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Hamilton
Fish and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Edward
Livingston; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Peter
Augustus Jay, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; fourth cousin of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; fourth cousin once removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1921) |
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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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John Trumbull (1750-1831) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Westbury, New Haven County (now Watertown, Litchfield
County), Conn., April
24, 1750.
Lawyer;
poet; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1801-19.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 10,
1831 (age 81 years, 16
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
also known as Adonijah S. Welch —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
12, 1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college
professor; author.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
14, 1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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