Index to Locations
Cedarville Cedarville Cemetery
Freeport Unknown location
Freeport City Cemetery
Freeport Freeport City Cemetery
Freeport Oakland Cemetery
Cedarville
Cemetery
Cedarville, Stephenson County, Illinois
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Jane Addams (1860-1935) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cedarville, Stephenson
County, Ill., September
6, 1860.
Progressive. Social
worker; sociologist;
lecturer;
woman suffrage activist; pacifist; delegate to Progressive National
Convention from Illinois, 1912; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Illinois; received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931.
Female.
Presbyterian
or Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Lesbian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Civil
Liberties Union; Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom; NAACP.
Died, from cancer,
in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 21,
1935 (age 74 years, 257
days).
Interment at Cedarville Cemetery.
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John Huy Addams (1822-1881) —
also known as John H. Addams —
of Cedarville, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Sinking Spring, Berks
County, Pa., July 12,
1822.
Republican. Owner of Cedar Creek Mill, which produced lumber and
flour;
dirctor, Illinois Central Railroad;
president, Second National Bank of
Freeport, Illinois; member of Illinois
state senate, 1855-61, 1863-71 (4th District 1855-61, 22nd
District 1863-71); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Illinois, 1868
(member, Credentials
Committee; speaker).
Died, of appendicitis,
in a hotel at
Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis., August
17, 1881 (age 59 years, 36
days).
Interment at Cedarville Cemetery.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications, publisher
of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; there
were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,
self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widely
accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500
million copies were printed and sold; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried
and convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned
in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days). Possibly suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.
Interment at Cedarville Cemetery.
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Location
Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois
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John Wilson Shaffer (1827-1870) —
also known as J. Wilson Shaffer —
of Utah.
Born in Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa., July 5,
1827.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; Governor
of Utah Territory, 1870; died in office 1870.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, October
31, 1870 (age 43 years, 118
days).
Interment somewhere.
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City
Cemetery
Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois
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Thomas Johnston Turner (1815-1874) —
also known as Thomas J. Turner —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Trumbull
County, Ohio, April 5,
1815.
Democrat. Lawyer;
probate judge in Illinois, 1842; postmaster;
newspaper
publisher; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1847-49; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1854; mayor
of Freeport, Ill., 1855; colonel in the Union Army during the
Civil War; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 56th District,
1869-70.
Died in Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., April 4,
1874 (age 58 years, 364
days).
Interment at City Cemetery.
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Freeport City
Cemetery
Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois
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Smith Dykins Atkins (1835-1913) —
also known as Smith D. Atkins —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Horseheads, Chemung
County, N.Y., June 9,
1835.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1896;
postmaster at Freeport,
Ill., 1901.
Died in Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill., March
27, 1913 (age 77 years, 291
days).
Interment at Freeport City Cemetery.
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Oakland
Cemetery
Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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William Richard Johnson (1875-1938) —
also known as William R. Johnson —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Rock Island, Rock Island
County, Ill., May 15,
1875.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1925-33.
Died January
2, 1938 (age 62 years, 232
days).
Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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Horatio Chapin Burchard (1825-1908) —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Marshall, Oneida
County, N.Y., September
22, 1825.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives 56th District, 1863-67; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1869-79 (3rd District 1869-73, 5th
District 1873-79); director of the U.S. Mint, 1879-85.
Died in Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill., May 14,
1908 (age 82 years, 235
days).
Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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Marvin F. Burt (1905-1983) —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill., November
20, 1905.
Lawyer;
bank
director; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1945-52; member of Illinois
state senate, 1953-60; circuit judge in Illinois 15th Circuit,
1965-69; justice of
Illinois state supreme court 2nd District, 1969-70; appointed
1969.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary;
Elks.
Died, in Freeport Manor Nursing
Home, Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill., October
14, 1983 (age 77 years, 328
days).
Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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John A. Ascher —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Nevada state legislature, 1910; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1926, 1930; mayor
of Freeport, Ill., 1930.
Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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Harry Herbert Stahl (1875-1960) —
also known as Harry H. Stahl —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Lena, Stephenson
County, Ill., October
4, 1875.
Mayor
of Freeport, Ill., 1915-19; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 12th District,
1920-22.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary;
Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died, in a hospital
at Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill., November
4, 1960 (age 85 years, 31
days).
Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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Frank Everett Furst (1874-1936) —
also known as Frank Furst —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Lancaster Township, Stephenson
County, Ill., March
12, 1874.
Republican. Co-founder of the Furst-McNess Company, maker of livestock
feed and medicine;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1936.
Died in Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill., September
7, 1936 (age 62 years, 179
days).
Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
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