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John A. Alderdice —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Newspaper publisher; mayor
of Wilmington, Del., 1853-54.
Burial location unknown.
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William H. Conner —
of Delaware.
Socialist. Newspaperman; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1918; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Delaware, 1920; candidate for Governor of
Delaware, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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William T. Croasdale (c.1845-1891) —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., about 1845.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; County Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1890.
Died in Sullivan
County, N.Y., August
9, 1891 (age about 46
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Columbus P. Evans —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Whig. Newspaper editor; mayor
of Wilmington, Del., 1851-52.
Burial location unknown.
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William Gilpin (1813-1894) —
of Colorado.
Born in New Castle
County, Del., October
4, 1813.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; explorer;
major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor
of Colorado Territory, 1861-62; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Colorado Territory, 1862.
Run over by a horse and
buggy, and later died as a result, in Denver,
Colo., January
20, 1894 (age 80 years, 108
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Levin Irving Handy (1861-1922) —
also known as L. Irving Handy —
of Newark, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Berlin, Worcester
County, Md., December
24, 1861.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; Kent
County Superintendent of Free Schools, 1887-90; lawyer; Delaware
Democratic state chair, 1892-96; newspaper editorial writer; lecturer;
U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1897-99; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Delaware, 1900,
1904
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; speaker),
1908;
candidate for Delaware
state attorney general, 1904.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., February
3, 1922 (age 60 years, 41
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Smyrna, Del.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. William Collins Handy and Marie (Breckinridge) Handy;
married, January
25, 1887, to Mary Corbit Bell; nephew of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr. and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; grandson of Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; grandnephew of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge, William
Campbell Preston and John
Smith Preston; great-grandson of John
Breckinridge and Francis
Smith Preston; great-grandnephew of James
Patton Preston; second great-grandson of William
Preston and William
Campbell; second great-grandnephew of William
Cabell and Patrick
Henry; first cousin of Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; first cousin once removed of John
Cabell Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864); first cousin twice removed of James
Douglas Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
McDowell, John
Buchanan Floyd and George
Rogers Clark Floyd; first cousin thrice removed of William
Cabell Jr. and William
Henry Cabell; second cousin of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge and Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925); second cousin once removed of Carter
Henry Harrison, William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin twice removed of Valentine
Wood Southall, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, Samuel
Meredith Garland (1802-1880) and Edward
Carrington Cabell; third cousin of Benjamin
Earl Cabell and Carter
Henry Harrison II; third cousin once removed of John
William Leftwich, Stephen
Valentine Southall and Earle
Cabell; third cousin thrice removed of Daniel
Carroll and Charles
Carroll of Carrollton; fourth cousin of Samuel
Meredith Garland (1861-1945); fourth cousin once removed of Reuben
Handy Meriwether. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Autobiographies and
Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899) |
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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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Edward A. Miller (b. 1859) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Smyrna, Kent
County, Del., August
30, 1859.
Democrat. Newspaper compositor; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 21st District, 1903-04.
German
ancestry. Member, Typographical
Union.
Burial location unknown.
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Alfred Wells (1814-1867) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Dagsboro, Sussex
County, Del., May 27,
1814.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper publisher; Tompkins
County District Attorney, 1845-47; Tompkins
County Judge, 1847-51; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1859-61.
Died in Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y., July 18,
1867 (age 53 years, 52
days).
Interment at Ithaca
City Cemetery, Ithaca, N.Y.
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