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W. C. Bennett (1836-1916) —
of Moline, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1836.
Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War; riverboat
captain; flour mill
business; mayor of
Moline, Ill., 1893-95; defeated, 1895.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in 1916
(age about
80 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Octavien Jean Baptiste Brice (1837-1911) —
also known as O. J. B. Brice —
of Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis.
Born in Jodoigne, Belgium,
April
6, 1837.
Real
estate and insurance
business; steamship agent; notary
public; Brown
County Sheriff; Consul
for Belgium in Green
Bay, Wis., 1880-1907.
Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 25,
1911 (age 74 years, 49
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Joseph Brown (d. 1899) —
of Alton, Madison
County, Ill.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Democrat. Riverboat captain; mayor of
Alton, Ill., 1856-57; mayor
of St. Louis, Mo., 1871-75.
Died December
3, 1899.
Entombed in mausoleum at Alton
Cemetery, Alton, Ill.
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Edwin George Eastman (1833-1872) —
also known as Edwin G. Eastman —
of Maine.
Born in Hallowell, Kennebec
County, Maine, October
5, 1833.
Sea captain; U.S. Consul in Cork, 1862-69.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
22, 1872 (age 39 years, 78
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Russel Jones (1823-1909) —
also known as J. Russel Jones —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Conneaut, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, February
17, 1823.
Republican. Secretary-treasurer, Galena and Minnesota Packet
Co.; founder and president, Chicago West Division Railway;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1860; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1868;
member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1868-70; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1869-75; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1875-77.
Christian
Scientist.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
11, 1909 (age 86 years, 53
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Frank Lovell (1913-1998) —
also known as Frederick J. Lang —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Ipava, Fulton
County, Ill., July 24,
1913.
Socialist. Seaman; automobile
worker; candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1953; Socialist Workers candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1954, 1958, 1964; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1960; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Michigan; Socialist Workers candidate for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County 4th
District, 1961; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1968.
Member, United
Auto Workers.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1998 (age 84 years, 281
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1949 to Sarah
Zucker. |
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1958 |
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Robert E. Lynch —
of Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Democrat. Player and manager for professional baseball
teams; public
relations officer for Kewaunee Shipbuilding and
Engineering Corporation; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1933-36, 1943-58 (Brown County 1st District
1933-36, 1943-54, Brown County 2nd District 1955-58).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Rutherford McCormick (1880-1955) —
also known as Robert R. McCormick; Robert Sanderson
McCormick Jr.; "Colonel McCormick";
"Colonel McCosmic" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 30,
1880.
Republican. Lawyer;
longtime publisher, Chicago Tribune newspaper;
creator of the Tribune's paper
manufacturing and aluminum
mining operations in Canada; president, Chicago Sanitary
Commission (which built the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
connecting Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system); delegate
to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1912,
1940,
1948,
1952;
served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; colonel in the U.S.
Army during World War I.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died April 1,
1955 (age 74 years, 245
days).
Interment at Cantigny
Estate, Wheaton, Ill.
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Lorenzo P. Sanger (1809-1875) —
of Joliet, Will
County, Ill.
Born in Littleton, Grafton
County, N.H., March 2,
1809.
Contractor;
built canals and railroads;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1840; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; stone
quarry proprietor.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., March
23, 1875 (age 66 years, 21
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Joliet, 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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Edwin J. Szarzynski (born c.1907) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill., about 1907.
Republican. Credit
manager; charged
in 1937 with embezzlement
of $2,553 from his employer; pleaded
guilty to a reduced charge, and sentenced
to six months in the workhouse; served three and a half months; arrested
in 1942 in a raid on a gambling
operation; fined
$15; dock worker; candidate for Missouri
state senate 5th District, 1960.
Burial location unknown.
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