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Sylvester John Abbott (1852-1923) —
also known as S. John Abbott —
of Milford, Kent
County, Del.
Born in Milford, Kent
County, Del., March
23, 1852.
Republican. Fruit
grower;
organizer of the C. D. Abbott & Company department
store; banker; member of Delaware
state senate from Kent County 5th District, 1899-1902.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Tall
Cedars of Lebanon.
Died, from chronic
nephritis and uremia,
in Milford, Sussex
County, Del., August
24, 1923 (age 71 years, 154
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Milford, Del.
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Archibald Alexander (1755-1822) —
of New
Castle County, Del.
Born in Augusta
County, Va., 1755.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; physician;
banker; member of Delaware
state senate from New Castle County, 1793-94, 1797-1800;
candidate for Governor of
Delaware, 1795; member of Delaware
state house of representatives, 1795; New
Castle County Prothonotary, 1801-05.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in New Castle
County, Del., September
12, 1822 (age about 67
years).
Interment at Immanuel
Churchyard, New Castle, Del.
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John Peckworth Allmond (1835-1912) —
also known as John P. Allmond —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Brandywine (now part of Wilmington), New Castle
County, Del., May 6,
1835.
Democrat. Grocer;
bank director; brick-making
business; mayor
of Wilmington, Del., 1878-82; vice-president, Peoples Railway Co.
(Peoples Trolley),
1901-12.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., March
24, 1912 (age 76 years, 323
days).
Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Ernest Victor Blendt (1903-1953) —
also known as Ernest V. Blendt —
of Smyrna, Kent
County, Del.
Born in Delaware, May 18,
1903.
Democrat. Farmer;
bank director; member of Delaware
state house of representatives from Kent County 1st District,
1941-42, 1953; died in office 1953; candidate for Delaware
state senate from Kent County 1st District, 1942.
Methodist.
Member, Lions; Odd
Fellows; Grange.
Died, in Delaware Hospital,
Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., August
4, 1953 (age 50 years, 78
days).e.
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Smyrna, Del.
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Jacob Broom (1752-1810) —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., October
17, 1752.
Surveyor;
postmaster at Wilmington,
Del., 1776-92; member of Delaware state legislature, 1784-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; banker; cotton mill
business.
Lutheran.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
25, 1810 (age 57 years, 190
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Alexander Peterson Corbit (1864-1923) —
also known as Alexander P. Corbit —
of Odessa, New Castle
County, Del.
Born February
20, 1864.
Republican. Member of Delaware
state house of representatives from New Castle County 13th
District, 1907-08, 1919-22; member of Delaware
state senate from New Castle County 6th District, 1909-12;
president, New Castle County National Bank; director, Delaware
Railroad.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Odessa, New Castle
County, Del., February
18, 1923 (age 58 years, 363
days).
Interment at Corbit Family Cemetery, Odessa, Del.
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Charles Irénée du Pont (1797-1869) —
also known as Charles I. du Pont —
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March
29, 1797.
Whig. Cloth
manufacturer; president, Farmers Bank of Delaware; an
organizer of the Delaware Railroad;
member of Delaware
state senate, 1841-44, 1853-56.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., January
31, 1869 (age 71 years, 308
days).
Interment at Du
Pont de Nemours Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Relatives: Son
of Victor Marie du Pont=de Nemours and Gabrielle Joséphine de
la Fite=de Pelleport; married, October
8, 1824, to Dorcas Montgomery Van Dyke (daughter of Nicholas
Van Dyke (1770-1826); granddaughter of Nicholas
Van Dyke (1738-1789)); married to Anne Ridgely (daughter of Henry
Moore Ridgely); great-grandfather of Francis
Victor du Pont; second great-grandfather of Eleuthere
Irenee du Pont; first cousin of Henry
DuPont; first cousin once removed of Henry
Algernon du Pont; first cousin twice removed of Thomas
Coleman du Pont, Alfred
Irénée du Pont, Pierre
Samuel du Pont, Francis
Irenee du Pont, Edward
Green Bradford Jr. and Elizabeth
Bradford du Pont Bayard; first cousin thrice removed of Henry
Belin du Pont Jr., Lammot
du Pont Copeland, Thomas
Francis Bayard III, Reynolds
du Pont and Alexis
Irenee du Pont Bayard; first cousin four times removed of Pierre
Samuel du Pont IV and Richard
Henry Bayard. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Eleuthere Irenee du Pont (1921-1994) —
also known as Eleuthere I. du Pont;
"Brud" —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 21,
1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
banker; insurance
executive; treasurer of
Delaware Republican Party, 1956; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Delaware, 1956.
Died, from a heart
attack in his office,
in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., March
29, 1994 (age 72 years, 312
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Francis Victor du Pont (1894-1962) —
also known as Francis V. du Pont; Frank V. du
Pont —
of Greenville, New Castle
County, Del.; Cambridge, Dorchester
County, Md.
Born in Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa., May 28,
1894.
Republican. Engineer;
member, Delaware State Highway Commission, 1922-49; president,
Equitable Trust Company of Wilmington; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Delaware, 1944,
1948;
member of Republican
National Committee from Delaware, 1952; Commissioner, U.S. Bureau
of Public Roads, 1953-56.
Died, from lung
cancer, in University Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., May 16,
1962 (age 67 years, 353
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Coleman du Pont (1863-1930) —
also known as T. Coleman du Pont —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., December
11, 1863.
Republican. Engineer;
president, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours Powder
Co., 1902-15; president, Central Coal and Iron Co.,
and other mining firms; director, Union National Bank; owner
of hotels;
Delaware
Republican state chair, 1904-12; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Delaware, 1908
(alternate), 1920
(speaker),
1924,
1928;
member of Republican
National Committee from Delaware, 1908-30; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1916;
U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1921-22, 1925-28; appointed 1921;
defeated, 1922; resigned 1928.
Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union
League.
Died, from cancer
of the larynx, in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., November
11, 1930 (age 66 years, 335
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Du
Pont de Nemours Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Seth Griffith Ellegood (d. 1945) —
also known as Seth G. Ellegood —
of Sing Sing (now Ossining), Westchester
County, N.Y.; Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Seaford, Sussex
County, Del.
Democrat. Banker; candidate for village
president of Sing Sing, New York, 1901.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
28, 1945.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Virginia Cobb and Anna Lambert. |
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Joseph Allen Frear Jr. (1903-1993) —
also known as J. Allen Frear, Jr. —
of Dover, Kent
County, Del.
Born in Rising Sun, Kent
County, Del., March 7,
1903.
Democrat. Banker; president, Kent General Hospital,
1947-51; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, 1948,
1952
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1956,
1960;
U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1949-61; member, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1961-63; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Delaware.
Member, American
Legion; Farm
Bureau; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Rotary;
Sigma
Nu.
Died January
15, 1993 (age 89 years, 314
days).
Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden, Del.
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John W. Gibson (1910-1976) —
of Michigan.
Born in Harrisburg, Saline
County, Ill., August
23, 1910.
Democrat. Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1945-49;; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1948;
chairman, U.S. Displaced Persons Commission, 1950-52; banker.
In 1957, was one of the first
owners of a McDonald's Hamburgers franchise in the Washington area.
Died, following a heart
attack, in a hospital
at Lewes, Sussex
County, Del., October
22, 1976 (age 66 years, 60
days).
Interment at Columbia
Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Joshua Taylor Heald (1821-1887) —
also known as Joshua T. Heald —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in New Castle, New Castle
County, Del., May 26,
1821.
Republican. Bookbinder;
real
estate developer; bank director; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Delaware, 1860,
1868;
President of the Wilmington City Railway Company, which built the
city's first trolley
line; later, he was president of the Wilmington and Western Railroad;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Delaware, 1870.
Died, from typhoid
fever, in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., July 23,
1887 (age 66 years, 58
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry Heald (1864-1939) —
also known as William H. Heald —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., August
27, 1864.
Republican. Bank examiner; lawyer;
postmaster at Wilmington,
Del., 1901-06; U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1909-13; banker.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., June 3,
1939 (age 74 years, 280
days).
Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Thomas Clayton Horsey (1879-1949) —
also known as T. Clayton Horsey —
of Denton, Caroline
County, Md.
Born in Greensboro, Caroline
County, Md., January
2, 1879.
Democrat. Banker; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1928.
Died in Dover, Kent
County, Del., November
10, 1949 (age 70 years, 312
days).
Interment at Greensboro Cemetery, Greensboro, Md.
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Charles Bell Houston (1845-1907) —
also known as Charles B. Houston —
of Millsboro, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Sussex
County, Del., December
30, 1845.
Democrat. Lumber
business; bank director; director, Delaware, Maryland &
Virginia Railroad;
member of Delaware
state senate from Sussex County, 1891-94.
Died, from a kidney
ailment, in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., June 25,
1907 (age 61 years, 177
days).
Interment at Millsboro
Cemetery, Millsboro, Del.
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Thomas James Keating (1829-1898) —
of Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Smyrna, Kent
County, Del., May 3,
1829.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Queen
Anne's County State's Attorney, 1860-76; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1867; Maryland
state comptroller, 1878-84; banker; chair of
Queen Anne's County Democratic Party, 1893.
Episcopalian.
Died in Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., June 1,
1898 (age 69 years, 29
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Michael Keating and Elizabeth Jane (Palmer) Keating; married 1862 to Sarah
F. Webster. |
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Preston Lea (1841-1916) —
of New Castle, New Castle
County, Del.; Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., November
12, 1841.
Republican. President, William Lea and Sons milling;
president, Union National Bank, vice-president, Farmers Mutual
Insurance
Company; director, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad;
Governor
of Delaware, 1905-09; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Delaware, 1908.
Quaker.
Member, Union
League.
Died in New Castle, New Castle
County, Del., December
4, 1916 (age 75 years, 22
days).
Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Rufus D. Lingo Jr. (1867-1923) —
of Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Delaware, June 2,
1867.
Republican. Poultry
farmer; lumber and
timber business; member of Delaware
state house of representatives from Sussex County 6th District,
1903-06; bank director.
Died, from interstitial
nephritis, in Dagsboro, Sussex
County, Del., May 11,
1923 (age 55 years, 343
days).
Interment at Millsboro
Cemetery, Millsboro, Del.
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Jack Alan Markell (b. 1960) —
also known as Jack Markell —
of Newark, New Castle
County, Del.; Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Newark, New Castle
County, Del., November
26, 1960.
Democrat. Telecommunications
executive; banker; Delaware
state treasurer, 1999-2009; Governor of
Delaware, 2009-.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2016.
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Eleazer McComb (1740-1798) —
of Dover, Kent
County, Del.; Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Cumberland, Allegany
County, Md., August
11, 1740.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; merchant;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Delaware, 1783-84; Delaware
state auditor, 1787-93; bank director.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died, from yellow
fever, in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., December, 1798
(age 58
years, 0 days).
Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Calvin Robert McCullough (1902-1984) —
also known as Calvin R. McCullough —
of Holloway Terrace, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., September
29, 1902.
Democrat. Contractor;
bank director; member of Delaware
state house of representatives from New Castle County 10th
District, 1949-50; member of Delaware
state senate, 1955-80 (New Castle County 5th District 1955-64,
11th District 1965-72, 12th District 1973-80); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Delaware, 1968.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Moose.
Died, from cancer,
in Holloway Terrace, New Castle
County, Del., October
8, 1984 (age 82 years, 9
days).
Interment at Gracelawn Memorial Park, New Castle, Del.
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Henry Moore Ridgely (1779-1847) —
also known as Henry M. Ridgely —
of Dover, Kent
County, Del.
Born in Dover, Kent
County, Del., August
6, 1779.
Lawyer;
banker; U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1811-15; secretary
of state of Delaware, 1817-27; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1827-29.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Dover, Kent
County, Del., August
6, 1847 (age 68 years, 0
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Dover, Del.
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Robert Pyle Robinson (1869-1939) —
also known as Robert P. Robinson —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., March
28, 1869.
Republican. Banker; Governor of
Delaware, 1925-29; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Delaware, 1928,
1932.
Presbyterian.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., March 4,
1939 (age 69 years, 341
days).
Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Willard Saulsbury Jr. (1861-1927) —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Georgetown, Sussex
County, Del., April
17, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
banker; Delaware
Democratic state chair, 1900-06; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Delaware, 1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1908,
1912;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Delaware, 1908-20; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1913-19; defeated, 1918.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., February
20, 1927 (age 65 years, 309
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Dover, Del.
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David Wilmer Steele (1899-1940) —
also known as David W. Steele —
of Ocean View, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Sussex
County, Del., 1899.
Republican. Poultry
raiser; banker; member of Delaware
state senate from Sussex County 4th District, 1937-40; died in
office 1940.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Tall
Cedars of Lebanon.
While fishing
off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, he and his wife were killed in
an explosion
and fire aboard their cruiser,
the Lure, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, October
7, 1940 (age about 41
years).
Interment at Mariners Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Ocean View,
Del.
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Ralph Stone (b. 1868) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., November
20, 1868.
Republican. Lawyer;
studied law under U.S. Sen. Anthony
Higgins; practiced law with former U.S. Rep. Byron
M. Cutcheon; private and military secretary to Gov. Hazen
S. Pingree; banker; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1924-31.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Michigan Manual 1927 |
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Ebe Walter Tunnell (1844-1917) —
also known as E. W. Tunnell —
of Lewes, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Clarksville, Sussex
County, Del., December
31, 1844.
Democrat. Druggist; hardware
merchant; banker; member of Delaware
state house of representatives, 1871; Governor of
Delaware, 1897-1901; defeated, 1894.
Presbyterian.
Died in Lewes, Sussex
County, Del., December
13, 1917 (age 72 years, 347
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Church Cemetery, Lewes, Del.
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John Wales (1783-1863) —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 31,
1783.
Lawyer;
banker; secretary
of state of Delaware, 1845-49; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1849-51; one of the founders
of Newark College, now the University of Delaware.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., December
3, 1863 (age 80 years, 125
days).
Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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William Tharp Watson (1849-1917) —
also known as William T. Watson —
of Milford, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Milford, Sussex
County, Del., June 22,
1849.
Democrat. Banker; member of Delaware
state senate from Kent County, 1893-95; Governor of
Delaware, 1895-97.
Episcopalian.
Died in Milford, Sussex
County, Del., April
14, 1917 (age 67 years, 296
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Milford, Del.
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