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George Becker (1928-2007) —
of Allison Park, Allegheny
County, Pa.; West Deer, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Madison, Madison
County, Ill., October
20, 1928.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
steelworker; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1984
(alternate), 1996,
2000;
president,
United Steelworkers of America, 1993-2000.
Member, United
Steelworkers of America.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in West Deer, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
3, 2007 (age 78 years, 106
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Becker and Frances Becker; married 1950 to Jane
Goforth. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Frank Buchanan (1862-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind., June 14,
1862.
Democrat. Ironworker; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1911-17; in 1915, when
the U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was president of
"Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargo
against the countries then at war; the organization secretly received
funding from German
agents; when a grand jury
investigation was announced, he retaliated by introducing
resolutions to impeach U.S. Attorney H.
Snowden Marshall; indicted
in December 1915, along with H.
Robert Fowler, Frank
S. Monnett, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial in May 1917, along with (ultimately) six co-defendants; the
jury convicted three, but deadlocked over the other four, including
Buchanan; he was not re-tried.
Died, of heart
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
18, 1930 (age 67 years, 308
days).
Interment at Irving
Park Boulevard Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Samuel Crawford Denson (1839-1917) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Nevada; San
Francisco, Calif.; Easton (now part of Burlingame), San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Ursa, Adams
County, Ill., September
23, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer;
district judge in California 6th District, 1876-81; superior court
judge in California, 1881-83; member of Nevada
state house of representatives, 1885-86; Ormsby County District
Attorney, 1886-88; director and general counsel, Pacific Coast
Steel Company.
Member, Freemasons;
Union
League.
Died in Easton (now part of Burlingame), San Mateo
County, Calif., July 26,
1917 (age 77 years, 306
days).
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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Elbert Henry Gary (1846-1927) —
of Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill., October
8, 1846.
Lawyer;
banker;
DuPage
County Judge, 1882-90; mayor
of Wheaton, Ill., 1890-92; founder (1901) and president
(1901-11), U.S. Steel.
Died, from chronic
myocarditis, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
15, 1927 (age 80 years, 311
days).
Entombed at Wheaton
Cemetery, Wheaton, Ill.
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Charles Barnett Goodspeed (1885-1947) —
also known as C. B. Goodspeed —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, February
8, 1885.
Republican. Steel executive; Treasurer
of Republican National Committee, 1936-41.
Died, from bladder
cancer and uremia,
in the Castle Hot Springs Hotel,
Castle Hot Springs, Yavapai
County, Ariz., February
23, 1947 (age 62 years, 15
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Wilbur Fisk Goodspeed and Harriet (Howe) Goodspeed; married, November
18, 1916, to Elizabeth B. Fuller. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Official Report of the
22nd Republican National Convention (1940) |
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Gus Hall (1910-2000) —
also known as Arvo Kustaa Halberg —
of Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
8, 1910.
Communist. Steelworker; union
organizer and one of the leaders of the steelworkers' strike in
1937; candidate for mayor
of Youngstown, Ohio, 1937; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War II; indicted
in 1948, and convicted
in 1949, under the Smith
Act, of conspiring to teach the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government; fled
to Mexico; arrested
in 1951 and sent back; spent eight years in prison;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984.
Finnish
ancestry.
Died, of complications from diabetes,
in Lenox Hill Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 2000 (age 90 years, 5
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, 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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Charles F. Johnson —
of Illinois.
Born in Sweden.
Socialist. Iron molder; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 12th District, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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Nick Keller (b. 1893) —
Born in Waukegan, Lake
County, Ill., September
29, 1893.
Republican. Steelworker; served in the U.S. Navy during World
War I; president,
Waukegan local, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers
of America (AFL); Waukegan Commissioner of Public Works, 1923-31; property
manager; baseball
talent scout; elected Illinois
state house of representatives 8th District 1940.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1933 to Anna
Onan. |
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John Gillett Oglesby (1878-1938) —
also known as John G. Oglesby —
of Elkhart, Logan
County, Ill.
Born in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., March
19, 1878.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
iron inspector, Republic Iron and Steel Company; farmer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives 28th District, 1905-07; Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1909-13, 1917-21; defeated, 1912; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1920
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1924,
1928,
1932;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1920; delegate
to Illinois convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Died near Elkhart, Logan
County, Ill., May 27,
1938 (age 60 years, 69
days).
Interment at Elkhart
Cemetery, Elkhart, Ill.
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William Barret Ridgely (1853-1920) —
also known as William B. Ridgely —
of Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., July 19,
1853.
Republican. Vice-president, Springfield Iron Company; banker;
postmaster at Springfield,
Ill., 1897-99; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1901-08;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1908.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
30, 1920 (age 66 years, 286
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Ridgely and Jane Maria (Barret) Ridgely; married, October
24, 1882, to Eleanor M. 'Ella' Cullom (daughter of Shelby
Moore Cullom); married, December
30, 1905, to Kate Deering; nephew of Redick
McKee Ridgely; second great-grandnephew of Samuel
Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Nathaniel
Huntington, James
Huntington and Elisha
Mills Huntington; first cousin thrice removed of Samuel
H. Huntington; first cousin five times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; second cousin twice removed of Joseph
Lyman Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Joshua
Coit, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; third cousin of Edwin
Reed Ridgely and Austin
Eugene Lathrop; third cousin once removed of Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington and Helen
Huntington Hull; third cousin thrice removed of John
Davenport, Ebenezer
Huntington, James
Davenport, Asahel
Otis, Augustus
Seymour Porter, Samuel
Lathrop, Peter
Buell Porter, Abel
Huntington, Zina
Hyde Jr. and Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington; fourth cousin once removed of John
Hall Brockway, Abial
Lathrop and Hilliard
Samuel Ridgely. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Comptrollers
of the Currency |
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Michael Rosenberg (b. 1886) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
9, 1886.
Democrat. Partner, Rosenberg Iron and Metal Company; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 19th District,
1920-22; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1924,
1928.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Izaak
Walton League.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Reuben Rosenberg and Fanny (Annenberg) Rosenberg; married, September
30, 1906, to Ethel Colitz. |
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Michael Soriano —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Socialist. Steelworker; Workers World candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1980.
Still living as of 1980.
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