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William Franklin Anderson (1860-1944) —
also known as William F. Anderson —
of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Winter Park, Orange
County, Fla.
Born near Morgantown, Monongalia
County, Va. (now W.Va.), April
22, 1860.
Republican. Minister;
Methodist bishop of Chattanooga, Tenn., 1908-12, Cincinnati, Ohio,
1912-24, and Boston, Mass., 1924-32; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1924 ; acting president, Boston University, 1925-26.
Methodist.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Died in Buzzards Bay, Bourne, Barnstable
County, Mass., July 22,
1944 (age 84 years, 91
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Archibald James Carey (1868-1931) —
also known as Archibald J. Carey —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in slavery,
in Georgia, August
25, 1868.
Republican. School teacher
and principal; president, Edward Waters College,
Jacksonville, Fla., 1895; minister;
bishop;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 3rd District,
1920-22; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1924;
member, Chicago Civil Service Commission, 1927-29; indicted
in 1929 on charges
of accepting
bribes from job applicants; the case never came to trial.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry.
Died, from heart
disease, in Billings Memorial Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
23, 1931 (age 62 years, 210
days).
Interment at Lincoln
Cemetery, Blue Island, Ill.
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Betty Castor (b. 1941) —
of Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born in Glassboro, Gloucester
County, N.J., May 11,
1941.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state senate, 1977-78, 1983-86 (23rd District 1977-78, 21st
District 1983-86); candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Florida, 1978; Florida Commissioner of Education,
1986; President of of the University of South Florida, 1994;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 2004;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 2004.
Female.
Lutheran.
Member, League of Women
Voters; American
Association of University Women; Sierra
Club.
Inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of
Fame, 1996.
Still living as of 2004.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Joseph L. Bowe and Gladys Wright Bowe; married to Samuel
P. Bell III. |
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Fred Pierce Corson (1896-1985) —
also known as Fred P. Corson —
of Jackson Heights, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Cornwall, Lebanon
County, Pa.
Born in Millville, Cumberland
County, N.J., April
11, 1896.
Methodist
minister; president, Dickinson College, 1934-44; Methodist
Bishop of Philadelphia, 1944-68; offered prayer, Republican National
Convention, 1948,
1952;
offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1948.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Union
League; Rotary;
Kappa
Sigma; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage after a fall, in
St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla., February
16, 1985 (age 88 years, 311
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Corson and Mary (Payne) Corson; married 1922 to
Frances Blount Beaman. |
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John Adrian Delaney (b. 1956) —
also known as John Delaney —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., June 29,
1956.
Republican. Mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1995-2003; president, University of
North Florida.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2014.
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Julius Daniel Dreher (1846-1937) —
also known as Julius D. Dreher —
of Salem,
Va.
Born in Lexington, Lexington
County, S.C., October
28, 1846.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
president, Roanoke College, 1878-1903; U.S. Consul in Tahiti, 1906-10; Port Antonio, 1910-13; Toronto, 1913-15; Colón, 1915-24.
Died in Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla., October
9, 1937 (age 90 years, 346
days).
Interment at East Hill Cemetery, Salem, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John J. Dreher and Martha E. (Counts) Dreher; married 1906 to
Emiline Kirtland Richmond. |
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memorial |
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John Andrew Gregg (1877-1953) —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Wilberforce, Greene
County, Ohio; Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Eureka, Greenwood
County, Kan., February
18, 1877.
Republican. Pastor; missionary;
president, Edward Waters College, 1913-20; president,
Wilberforce University, 1920-24; bishop; offered prayer, Republican National Convention,
1940.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., February
17, 1953 (age 75 years, 365
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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Stephen Cornelius O'Connell (1916-2001) —
also known as Stephen C. O'Connell —
of Florida.
Born in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
22, 1916.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1955-67; appointed 1955; chief
justice of Florida state supreme court, 1966-67; first
Catholic to win a statewide election in Florida, 1956;
president, University of Florida, 1967-73.
Catholic.
Died, of cancer,
in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., April
13, 2001 (age 85 years, 81
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Willis Lucullus Palmer (1854-1912) —
also known as W. L. Palmer —
of Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Born December
13, 1854.
Lawyer;
president, Hamilton College; mayor
of Orlando, Fla., 1891-93.
Died October
30, 1912 (age 57 years, 322
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Orlando, Fla.
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Relatives: Son
of Jesse Alexander Palmer and Emily Geary (Cotton) Palmer; married to
Martha Bayne McAlister. |
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memorial |
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Donna Edna Shalala (b. 1941) —
also known as Donna E. Shalala —
of Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, February
14, 1941.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; university
professor; president, Hunter College, City University of
New York, 1980-88; chancellor, University of Wisconsin,
1988-92; U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993-2001;
president, University of Miami, 2001-15; U.S.
Representative from Florida 27th District, 2019-.
Female.
Lebanese
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission; American
Federation of Teachers.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 2011.
Still living as of 2019.
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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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