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  Jefferson Beale Browne (b. 1857) — also known as Jefferson B. Browne — of Key West, Monroe County, Fla. Born in Key West, Monroe County, Fla., June 6, 1857. Democrat. Lawyer; postmaster at Key West, Fla., 1879; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1888; member of Florida state senate, 1891-95; U.S. Collector of Customs at Key West, Fla., Florida, 1893-97; receiver, Key West Electric Light and Street Car Co., 1898; member of Democratic National Committee from Florida, 1904-08; Democratic Presidential Elector for Florida, 1913; justice of Florida state supreme court, 1917-25; chief justice of Florida state supreme court, 1917-23; circuit judge in Florida, 1925. Congregationalist. Member, Sons of the American Revolution; Freemasons; Knights Templar; Elks. Interment at Key West Cemetery, Key West, Fla.
  Relatives: Son of Joseph Beverly Browne and Mary Nieves (Ximenez) Browne; married, June 19, 1889, to Frances Williams Atkinson; grandnephew of Fielding A. Browne.
  Political family: Browne family of Key West, Florida.
  James Fenimore Cooper Griggs (1862-1924) — also known as James F. C. Griggs — of Apalachicola, Franklin County, Fla. Born in Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga., August 21, 1862. Democrat. Half-owner of Apalachicola's electric light and telephone systems; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1912 (speaker), 1924 (alternate); U.S. Collector of Customs at Tampa, Fla., Florida, 1913-21. Member, Rotary. Died, from diabetes and heart disease, in Hendersonville, Henderson County, N.C., November 4, 1924 (age 62 years, 75 days). Interment at Chestnut Cemetery, Apalachicola, Fla.
  Presumably named for: James Fenimore Cooper
  Relatives: Son of William Maxwell Griggs and Elizabeth Britt (Henry) Griggs; married 1892 to Sarah G. Orman; second cousin of James Mathews Griggs.
  Epitaph: "Tho lost to sight, to memory dear."
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  George A. Robinson (1851-1908) — of Sayville, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Newmarket, Ontario, January, 1851. Republican. Physician; naturalized U.S. citizen; volunteer fire fighter; director, Sayville Electric Light and Power Company; member of New York state assembly from Suffolk County 2nd District, 1901-02. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Foresters; Royal Arcanum. Died in St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Fla., February 22, 1908 (age 57 years, 0 days). Interment somewhere in Islip, Long Island, N.Y.
  Relatives: Married to Amelia A. Foster.
  Sumner Wallace (1856-1920) — of Rochester, Strafford County, N.H. Born in Berwick, York County, Maine, March 7, 1856. Republican. Shoe manufacturer; director of banks, railroads, and electric utilities; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1885; member of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1899-1900; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1904; Republican Presidential Elector for New Hampshire, 1909. Member, Theta Delta Chi; Freemasons; Odd Fellows. Died, of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Lake Wales, Polk County, Fla., January 11, 1920 (age 63 years, 310 days). Interment at Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, N.H.
  Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Gowell Wallace and Sarah Esther (Greenfield) Wallace; brother of Albert Wallace; married, January 30, 1884, to Harriet Zerega Curtis; married, July 27, 1910, to Alice Frost (Coffin) Forbes; nephew of Edwin Wallace.
  Political family: Wallace family of Rochester, New Hampshire.
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