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Frank William Boykin (1885-1969) —
also known as Frank W. Boykin —
of Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Bladon Springs, Choctaw
County, Ala., February
21, 1885.
Democrat. Manufacturer
of railway crossties; lumber and
timber business; shipbuilder; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 1st District, 1935-63; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee).
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Elks; Woodmen;
Moose.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
12, 1969 (age 84 years, 19
days).
Interment at Pine
Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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Marion Maxwell Caskie (b. 1890) —
also known as Marion M. Caskie —
of Alabama; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Remington, Fauquier
County, Va., July 29,
1890.
Democrat. Staff for Southern Railway
office in Washington, 1906-11; traffic manager for various
enterprises; general manager, state docks, Port of Mobile,
Ala.; vice-president, Waterman Steamship Co.; member,
Interstate Commerce Commission, 1935-40.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. James Maxwell Caskie and Olivia (Rixey) Caskie; married, December
4, 1912, to Helen Elizabeth Suess. |
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Thomas Henry Cullen (1868-1944) —
also known as Thomas H. Cullen —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
29, 1868.
Democrat. Marine insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 3rd District, 1896-98; member of
New
York state senate 3rd District, 1899-1918; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1919-44; died in
office 1944; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1940
(alternate); member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930-36; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 5th District, 1938.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 1,
1944 (age 75 years, 338
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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David Maxwell Dunn (1818-1889) —
of Indiana.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ind., November
28, 1818.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1855; director, Logansport and
Pacific Railroad;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; trustee, Wabash and
Erie Canal, 1865-67; U.S. Consul in Charlottetown, 1871-83; Valparaiso, 1883.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
20, 1889 (age 70 years, 265
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Milton Fessenden (1804-1883) —
also known as John M. Fessenden —
Born in Warren, Bristol
County, R.I., December
21, 1804.
Civil
engineer; worked on canals and railroads;
U.S. Consul in Dresden, 1850-54.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1883 (age 78 years, 49
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Fessenden and Abigail Miller (Child) Fessenden; married, May 21,
1834, to Mary Pierce Bumstead; married, June 25,
1868, to Sarah Ann Murphy; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake; third cousin of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin once removed of William
Pitt Fessenden, Walter
Fessenden, Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden, William
Fessenden Allen, Joseph
Palmer Fessenden and Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); third cousin twice removed of James
Deering Fessenden, Francis
Fessenden, Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin once removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Peter
Rawson Taft, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor and Charles
Grenfill Washburn. |
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family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Charles Ranlett Flint (1850-1934) —
also known as Charles R. Flint; "Father of
Trusts" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, January
24, 1850.
Shipping
business; shipowner; financier;
Consul
for Chile in New
York, N.Y., 1877-79; Consul-General
for Costa Rica in New
York, N.Y., 1891-96; in the 1890s, he consolidated groups of
smaller companies to form large corporations or "trusts": U.S. Rubber
(1892); American Chicle (chewing
gum) (1899); American Woolen
(1899); founder, in 1911, of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company, which later became International Busines Machines (IBM).
Died, in his room at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington,
D.C., February
26, 1934 (age 84 years, 33
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1837-1904) —
also known as Marcus A. Hanna; Mark Hanna;
"Dollar Mark" —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana
County, Ohio, September
24, 1837.
Republican. Partner in wholesale
grocery; head of M. A. Hanna and Co., coal
dealers; director, Globe Ship Manufacturing Co.;
president, Union National Bank;
president, Cleveland City Railroad
Co. president, Chapin Mining Co.;
Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1896-1904; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1896
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee; speaker);
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1897-1904; died in office 1904.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
15, 1904 (age 66 years, 144
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Will H. Parry (1864-1917) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 29,
1864.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; treasurer and manager, Moran
Shipbuilding Co., 1900-15; member, Federal Trade Commission,
1915-17; died in office 1917.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union
League.
Died, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., April
21, 1917 (age 52 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William M. Parry and Elizabeth (Gillette) Parry; married, January
15, 1891, to Harriet Phelps. |
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Seth Ledyard Phelps (1824-1885) —
of Maryland.
Born in 1824.
Agent, Pacific Mail Steamship Company; U.S. Commercial Agent
(Consul) in Acapulco, 1864; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1875-79; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1878-79; U.S.
Minister to Peru, 1883-85, died in office 1885.
Died in Lima, Peru,
June
24, 1885 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (1844-1916) —
also known as John H. Surratt, Jr. —
of Surrattsville (now Clinton), Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April
13, 1844.
Postmaster at Surrattsville,
Md., 1862-63; dismissed
as postmaster in 1863 for alleged disloyalty
to the Union; became a Confederate courier and spy; he
and others attempted to kidnap
President Abraham
Lincoln; later, the plot to kill the President and other
government officials was formulated at his mother's boarding house in
Washington; he denied involvement in the assassination, but fled
overseas; he was arrested
in Alexandria, Egypt, and sent back to the U.S.; tried in a Maryland
court in 1867 for his alleged involvement in the murder
plot, but the jury couldn't reach a verdict, and a mistrial was
declared; treasurer of a steamship company.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Baltimore,
Md., April
21, 1916 (age 72 years, 8
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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