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Arthur Dixon (b. 1837) —
also known as "Watch-Dog of the City
Treasury" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in County Fermanagh, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), March
27, 1837.
Republican. Grocer; transfer
business; member, Chicago Common Council, 1867-91; president of
council, 1874-80; director, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad;
director, Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway,
1900-17; director, Metropolitan National Bank;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives 96th District, 1871-73; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1880;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Union
League.
Burial location unknown.
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George William Dixon (born c.1866) —
also known as George W. Dixon —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., about 1866.
Republican. Lawyer; transfer
business; member of Illinois
state senate 1st District, 1903-07; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Illinois.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Union
League; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas John Dixon (b. 1869) —
also known as Thomas J. Dixon —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
9, 1869.
Republican. Transfer
business; Chicago alderman; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1904.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Burial location unknown.
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James Herron Eckels (1858-1907) —
also known as James H. Eckels —
Born in Princeton, Bureau
County, Ill., November
22, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1892,
1904;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1893-97; delegate to Gold Democrat
National Convention from Illinois, 1896.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died, from heart
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
14, 1907 (age 48 years, 143
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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John P. FitzGerald (1872-1950) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 30,
1872.
Republican. Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1919-20, 1947-48; defeated, 1942, 1944, 1948; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1944.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in 1950
(age about
78 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Francis A. Freer (1843-1908) —
also known as Frank A. Freer —
of Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill.
Born in Pennsylvania, April 6,
1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; school
teacher; postmaster at Galesburg,
Ill., 1889-93, 1897-1908.
Presbyterian.
French
Huguenot and Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Good
Templars; Sons of
Temperance; Ancient
Order of United Workmen; Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, in Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill., December
16, 1908 (age 65 years, 254
days).
Interment at Hope
Cemetery, Galesburg, Ill.
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Clinton Fillmore Irwin (1854-1923) —
also known as Clinton F. Irwin —
of Oklahoma; Elgin, Kane
County, Ill.
Born in Franklin Grove, Lee
County, Ill., January
1, 1854.
Justice
of Oklahoma territorial supreme court, 1899-1907; circuit judge
in Illinois 16th Circuit, 1913-19.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Elgin, Kane
County, Ill., November
4, 1923 (age 69 years, 307
days).
Interment at Bluff
City Cemetery, Elgin, Ill.
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Samuel Sloan Jack (1836-1909) —
also known as Samuel S. Jack —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Pa., October
17, 1836.
Democrat. School
principal; newspaper
publisher; real estate
business; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1875-78; postmaster at Decatur,
Ill., 1887-91.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, August
17, 1909 (age 72 years, 304
days).
Interment at Fairlawn Cemetery, Decatur, Ill.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) —
also known as Cyrus H. McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., February
15, 1809.
Democrat. One of the inventors
of the McCormick reaper, and the founder of the farm
implement manufacturing company which became International
Harvester; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1862; member of Democratic
National Committee from Illinois, 1876.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 13,
1884 (age 75 years, 88
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Joseph Medill McCormick (1877-1925) —
also known as Medill McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 16,
1877.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1916,
1920
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker);
member of Illinois state legislature, 1910; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1917-19; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1919-25; died in office 1925.
Scotch-Irish and Dutch
ancestry.
Died by suicide,
through an overdose of
barbiturates (reported at the time as a heart attack), in his
room at the Hotel
Hamilton, Washington,
D.C., February
25, 1925 (age 47 years, 285
days).
Interment at Middlecreek
Cemetery, Byron, Ill.
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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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Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849-1919) —
also known as Robert S. McCormick —
of Illinois.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., July 26,
1849.
Grain
brokerage business; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1901-02; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1902; Russia, 1902-05; France, 1905-07.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a nursing
home at Hinsdale, DuPage
County, Ill., April
16, 1919 (age 69 years, 264
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Meharry Medill (1823-1899) —
also known as Joseph Medill —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Saint John, New
Brunswick, April 6,
1823.
Editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune newspaper;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 59th District,
1869-70; mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1871-73.
Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Died in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., March
16, 1899 (age 75 years, 344
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.; cenotaph at West
Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio.
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835-1914) —
also known as Adlai E. Stevenson —
of Metamora, Woodford
County, Ill.; Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.
Born in Christian
County, Ky., October
23, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1875-77, 1879-81;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1884,
1892;
Vice
President of the United States, 1893-97; defeated, 1900;
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1908.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Delta Theta.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 14,
1914 (age 78 years, 234
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
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John Wilson (1849-1918) —
of Henry
County, Ill.; Kearney, Buffalo
County, Neb.
Born in Allegheny
County, Pa., February
21, 1849.
Republican. Deputy
sheriff; livery
business; Buffalo
County Sheriff, 1889-92; member of Nebraska
state house of representatives, 1893.
Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died, of stomach
cancer, in Kearney, Buffalo
County, Neb., January
13, 1918 (age 68 years, 326
days).
Interment at Kearney
Cemetery, Kearney, Neb.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Wilson and Mary (Owens) Wilson; married, May 25,
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