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William Lamont Abbott (b. 1861) —
also known as William L. Abbott —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Whiteside
County, Ill., February
14, 1861.
Republican. Machinist;
president, National Electric Construction
Co.; chief engineer, power
house, Chicago Edison Co.; later, chief operating
engineer; president, Lake Lawn Hotel
Co.; director, Chicago Bank of
Commerce; University
of Illinois trustee, 1905-23.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Asa M. Abbott and Sarah (Sperry) Abbott; married, September
14, 1887, to Carrie Entwhistle. |
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Saqib Ali (b. 1975) —
of Montgomery Village, Montgomery
County, Md.; West Gaithersburg, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
21, 1975.
Democrat. Software
engineer; member of Maryland
state house of delegates District 39, 2007-.
Muslim.
Indian
subcontinent ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Walter Hardy Ammerman (1864-1933) —
also known as Walter H. Ammerman —
of Moline, Rock
Island County, Ill.; East Moline, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Henry
County, Ill., July 8,
1864.
Civil engineer; village
president of East Moline, Illinois, 1903-07.
Member, Elks.
Died in Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill., March 4,
1933 (age 68 years, 239
days).
Interment at Rosedale Cemetery, Cambridge, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Reed Ammerman and Sarah Ann (Hardy) Ammerman; married 1908 to Jennie
Mae Bartlett. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Samuel Shaw Arentz (1879-1934) —
also known as Samuel S. Arentz; Ulysses
Arentz —
of Simpson, Lyon
County, Nev.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
8, 1879.
Republican. Surveyor;
engineer; mining
superintendent; chief engineer for several Western railroads;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1921-23, 1925-33; defeated,
1932; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1922; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Nevada, 1928
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1932.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., June 17,
1934 (age 55 years, 160
days).
Interment at Masonic
Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nev.
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Alex Davison Bailey (b. 1882) —
also known as Alex D. Bailey —
of La Grange, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Salem, Kenosha
County, Wis., February
14, 1882.
Engineer; utility
company executive; village
president of La Grange, Illinois, 1935-37.
Member, Newcomen
Society; Tau Beta
Pi; Union
League.
Burial location unknown.
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John B. Bowman (1832-1885) —
of East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Germany,
1832.
Republican. Civil engineer; lawyer; real estate
business; mayor
of East St. Louis, Ill., 1865-66, 1868, 1872-74, 1877-78.
German
ancestry.
Shot
and killed by
an unknown assailant, in front of his home, in East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill., November
21, 1885 (age about 53
years). Two East St. Louis policemen were later charged with his
murder, but they were never tried.
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Chauncey Stewart Conger (1838-1916) —
also known as Chauncey S. Conger —
of Carmi, White
County, Ill.
Born in Strong Ridge, Wood
County, Ohio, January
14, 1838.
Civil engineer; lawyer; White
County Superintendent of Schools, 1861-62; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1863-64; circuit judge in
Illinois, 1879.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
Died in Carmi, White
County, Ill., July 24,
1916 (age 78 years, 192
days).
Interment at Maple
Ridge Cemetery, Carmi, Ill.
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DeWitt Clinton Cregier (1829-1898) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 1,
1829.
Democrat. Engineer; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1889-91.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
9, 1898 (age 69 years, 161
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Allan R. Cullimore (b. 1884) —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., March 2,
1884.
Civil engineer; major in the U.S. Army during World War I;
Dean, later President, Newark College of Engineering; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Essex County,
1947.
Member, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; American
Chemical Society; Newcomen
Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Cullimore and Mary Pearce (Joy) Cullimore; married, March
25, 1912, to Edith Van Alst. |
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Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) —
also known as Charles G. Dawes; "Charging
Charlie" —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.; Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, August
27, 1865.
Republican. Engineer; lawyer; banker;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1898-1901; colonel in the U.S. Army
during World War I; Vice
President of the United States, 1925-29; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1928;
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1929-31; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1936.
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1925.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April
23, 1951 (age 85 years, 239
days).
Entombed at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Marvin Robert Dee (1917-1975) —
also known as Doc Dee —
of Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
21, 1917.
Republican. Lawyer;
engineer; appraiser;
construction
executive; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 20th District, 1973-74.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sigma
Phi.
Died January
11, 1975 (age 57 years, 143
days).
Interment at Oak
Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Amos F. Dixon (b. 1877) —
of Stillwater Township, Sussex
County, N.J.
Born near Victoria, Knox
County, Ill., December
5, 1877.
Engineer and executive in the Bell
System, 1902-40; granted more than 60 patents for inventions;
dairy farmer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1945-49; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Sussex County,
1947.
Member, Rotary;
Freemasons;
Grange.
Burial location unknown.
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Cassius Paul Fletcher (b. 1890) —
also known as C. Paul Fletcher —
of Hickory Valley, Montgomery
County, Tenn.
Born in Ridge Farm, Vermilion
County, Ill., April 1,
1890.
Engineer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Vice Consul in Toronto, 1924-29; U.S. Consul in Toronto, 1929-33; Alexandria, 1938-42.
Burial location unknown.
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Fayette James Flexer (1892-1975) —
also known as Fayette J. Flexer —
of Joliet, Will
County, Ill.
Born in Reddick, Kankakee
County, Ill., September
13, 1892.
Engineer; U.S. Vice Consul in Port Elizabeth, 1916; Cairo, 1917-18; Mexico City, 1925-27; Frontera, 1927-28; Alvaro Obregón, 1928-29; Torreon, 1929-30; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
U.S. Consul in Havana, 1931-33; Santiago, 1939-40; Colombo, as of 1943; Buenos Aires, 1945-46; Manila, as of 1947.
Died in 1975
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Philip Bond Fouke (1818-1876) —
also known as Philip B. Fouke —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill., January
23, 1818.
Democrat. Civil engineer; newspaper
publisher; lawyer;
prosecuting attorney for 2nd circuit, 1846-50; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1851; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 8th District, 1859-63; colonel in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
3, 1876 (age 58 years, 254
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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H. H. Franks —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Drainage engineer; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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John Arthur Gamon (1883-1967) —
also known as John A. Gamon —
of Glen Ellyn, DuPage
County, Ill.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill., February
9, 1883.
Democrat. Civil engineer; worked for railroads,
1899-1903; salesman, Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.,
Chicago, 1905-14; U.S. Consul in Puerto Cortes, 1914-15; Corinto, 1915-16; Guaymas, 1917; Acapulco, 1917-21; Cobh, 1921-25; U.S. Consul General in London, 1925-28; Marseille, 1928-35.
Died in 1967
(age about
84 years).
Interment at Wheaton
Cemetery, Wheaton, Ill.
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Harry LeRoy Heer (1873-1962) —
also known as Harry L. Heer —
of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.
Born in Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., January
22, 1873.
Mining
engineer; lawyer;
circuit judge in Illinois 15th Circuit, 1925.
German
and Welsh
ancestry.
Died in Hennepin
County, Minn., November
12, 1962 (age 89 years, 294
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Galena, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of David H. Heer and Martha (Evans) Heer; married, April
21, 1914, to Myrtle L. Renwick. |
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Andrew Jackson Hunter (1831-1913) —
also known as Andrew J. Hunter —
of Paris, Edgar
County, Ill.
Born in Greencastle, Putnam
County, Ind., December
17, 1831.
Democrat. Civil engineer; lawyer;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1865-69; Edgar
County Judge, 1886-92; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1893-95, 1897-99 (at-large 1893-95,
19th District 1897-99); defeated, 1870 (7th District), 1882 (15th
District); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1908.
Died in Paris, Edgar
County, Ill., January
12, 1913 (age 81 years, 26
days).
Interment at Edgar
Cemetery, Paris, Ill.
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Robert Stephen Ingersoll (1914-2010) —
also known as Robert S. Ingersoll —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill., January
28, 1914.
Engineer; steel
executive; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1972-73.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., August
22, 2010 (age 96 years, 206
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Joseph Kelly (1876-1950) —
also known as Edward J. Kelly; "Big
Ed" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 1,
1876.
Democrat. Chief engineer, Sanitary District of Chicago; park
district commissioner, 1922-34; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944
(speaker),
1948;
mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1933-47; member of Democratic
National Committee from Illinois, 1940-47.
Irish
ancestry.
Stricken with a heart
attack and died at his doctor's
office, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
20, 1950 (age 74 years, 172
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Evanston, Ill.
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Frederick Herman Kreismann (1869-1944) —
also known as Frederick Kreismann —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Quincy, Adams
County, Ill., August
7, 1869.
Republican. Civil engineer; insurance
business; mayor
of St. Louis, Mo., 1909-13.
Died in Webster Groves, St. Louis
County, Mo., November
1, 1944 (age 75 years, 86
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Stanley J. Mondala (b. 1913) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born January
27, 1913.
Democrat. Civil engineer; member of Illinois
state senate 27th District, 1941.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Polish
National Alliance; Beta
Theta Pi.
Burial location unknown.
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Merritt E. Paddock (1867-1937) —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Prophetstown, Whiteside
County, Ill., June 3,
1867.
Mining
engineer; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1933-34.
Member, Elks.
Died in May, 1937
(age 69
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Walter Clifford Sadler (1891-1959) —
also known as Walter C. Sadler —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Elgin, Kane
County, Ill., February
15, 1891.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; worked on railroad
and hydroelectric
projects; lawyer; university
professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1937-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Sigma
Pi; Tau Beta
Pi.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
14, 1959 (age 68 years, 241
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Walter Lincoln Sadler and Eleanore Elizabeth (Walter) Sadler;
married, July 21,
1917, to Hariette P. Jamieson. |
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article |
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Edwin Martin Schaefer (1887-1950) —
also known as Edwin M. Schaefer —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., May 14,
1887.
Democrat. Chemical
engineer, and later general superintendent, Morris & Co.
meat
packers; St.
Clair County Treasurer, 1930-32; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 22nd District, 1933-43; director,
Griesediech-Western Brewery
Co.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., November
8, 1950 (age 63 years, 178
days).
Interment at Walnut
Hill Cemetery, Belleville, Ill.
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Richard M. Stadden (1856-1918) —
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., May 27,
1856.
Civil engineer and contractor
on railways
and harbor
projects in the U.S. and Mexico; Hawaiian consul at Manzanillo,
1886-87; U.S. Consul in Manzanillo, 1886-87; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Manzanillo, 1906-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Manzanillo, as of 1916-17.
Died, of influenza,
1918
(age about
62 years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married to Victoria Carbajal. |
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Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape (1814-1904) —
also known as W. C. A Thielepape —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Wabern, Hesse, Germany,
July
10, 1814.
Engineer; architect;
mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1867-72; lawyer.
German
ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
7, 1904 (age 90 years, 28
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Werner Philipp Thielepape and Elisabeth (Thompson) Thielepape;
married 1841 to
Mathilde Gössling. |
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article |
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Roy Nathan Towl (1881-1974) —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
29, 1881.
Engineer; mayor of
Omaha, Neb., 1933-36.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died March 7,
1974 (age 92 years, 343
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Erwin Towl and Charlotte (Summers) Towl; married, September
1, 1904, to Zulu Remwick. |
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William A. Trout (b. 1870) —
of Indiana.
Born in La Salle
County, Ill., January
20, 1870.
Engineer; U.S. Consular Agent in Santa Marta, 1900-18.
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Harrison Waigand (1900-1998) —
also known as Ben H. Waigand —
of Nampa, Canyon
County, Idaho.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 8,
1900.
Democrat. Electrical
engineer; inventor;
refrigeration
equipment dealer; mayor of
Nampa, Idaho, 1939-43; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Idaho, 1944
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee).
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Nampa, Canyon
County, Idaho, May 6,
1998 (age 97 years, 302
days).
Interment at Cloverdale
Memorial Park, Boise, Idaho.
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John McDowell Woodson (b. 1834) —
also known as John M. Woodson —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.; Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., June 5,
1834.
Engineer; lawyer; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Greene County,
1862; member of Illinois
state senate, 1867-69; attorney for several railroads.
Burial location unknown.
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