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Charles H. Beranck —
of Illinois.
Born in Bohemia (now part of Czechia).
Socialist. Editor; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 4th District, 1920.
Bohemian
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) —
also known as Jonathan Freeman —
of Edwards
County, Ill.
Born in Settle, Yorkshire, England,
January
23, 1764.
Secretary
of state of Illinois, 1824-25.
Anti-slavery writer under the pseudonym "Jonathan Freeman".
While returning on horseback
from a visit to Robert
Owen, he drowned
while fording the Fox River, Edwards
County, Ill., June 4,
1825 (age 61 years, 132
days).
Interment at New
Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Ind.; memorial monument at Courthouse
Grounds, Albion, Ill.
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Katharine Cooke Blow (1897-1965) —
also known as Katharine C. Blow; Katharine Rowland
Cooke; Mrs. George W. Blow —
of Yorktown, York
County, Va.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
21, 1897.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virginia, 1948,
1956;
candidate for Virginia
state house of delegates, 1949; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1950.
Female.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation.
Staff writer for The New Yorker magazine,
1936-42.
Died in Yorktown, York
County, Va., March
25, 1965 (age 67 years, 338
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Orlo Marion Brees (1896-1980) —
also known as Orlo M. Brees —
of Endicott, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Canton, Fulton
County, Ill., April
13, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
editor; printing
business; author; lecturer;
poet; member of New York
state assembly from Broome County 2nd District, 1941-52; member
of New
York state senate 45th District, 1952.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in November, 1980
(age 84
years, 0 days).
Interment somewhere
in Peoria, Ill.
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Relatives:
Married 1933 to
Frances W. Freeman. |
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John Quinn Brisben (1934-2012) —
also known as J. Quinn Brisben —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Enid, Garfield
County, Okla., September
6, 1934.
Socialist. School
teacher; poet; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976; briefly jailed
in Florida as a result of his participation in a disability rights demonstration
in Orlando, Fla., 1992; candidate for President
of the United States, 1992.
Member, American
Federation of Teachers.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
17, 2012 (age 77 years, 224
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Clark C. Brown (b. 1858) —
of Union, Franklin
County, Mo.
Born in Momence, Kankakee
County, Ill., September
19, 1858.
Republican. Writer; postmaster at Union,
Mo., 1901; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Franklin County, 1921-22.
Burial location unknown.
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Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1865-1945) —
also known as Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor; Hobart Chatfield
Taylor; Hobart C. Taylor —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
24, 1865.
Author; novelist; biographer; Consul
for Spain in Chicago,
Ill., 1892-98.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in Montecito, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., January
16, 1945 (age 79 years, 298
days).
Interment at Santa
Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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George Sylvester Counts (1889-1974) —
also known as George S. Counts —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; New Hope, Bucks
County, Pa.
Born near Baldwin City, Douglas
County, Kan., December
9, 1889.
University
professor; author; president,
American Federation of Teachers, 1939-42; New York American Labor
Party state chair, 1942-44; Liberal candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952; New York Liberal Party state chair,
1955-59.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Delta Kappa; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Suffered a stroke,
and died two weeks later, in a hospital
at Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., November
10, 1974 (age 84 years, 336
days). His body was
donated to Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of James Wilson Counts and Mertie Florella (Gamble)
Counts. |
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A. Dreifuss —
of Illinois.
Born in Germany.
Socialist. Translator; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878-1951) —
also known as Janet Fairbank; Janet Ayer; Mrs.
Kellogg Fairbank —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 7,
1878.
Democrat. Author; woman suffrage activist; chair, managing
board, Chicago Lying-In Hospital;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1924,
1932
(alternate); member of Democratic
National Committee from Illinois, 1924-28.
Female.
Died December
28, 1951 (age 73 years, 204
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Benjamin Franklin Ayer and Janet (Hopkins) Ayer; sister
of Margaret Ayer Barnes; married, May 29,
1900, to Kellogg Fairbank (second cousin once removed of John
Barnard Fairbank); granddaughter of James
Campbell Hopkins. |
| | | Political family: Davis
family of Massachusetts (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Fiction by Janet Ayer Fairbank: At
Home |
| | | Fiction about Janet Ayer Fairbank: , The
Lion's Den — , The
Bright Land — , Rich
Man, Poor Man — , The
Cortlandts of Washington Square — , Idle
Hands — , The
Smiths |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1923) |
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Arthur Radcliffe Getty (1861-1919) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in London, England,
1861.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; musician;
lyricist; poet; Vice-Consul
for Great Britain in Chicago,
Ill., 1896-1901.
English
and Irish
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
6, 1919 (age about 58
years).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Gibson Getty and Emily (Crossley) Getty; married, July 26,
1919, to Marie Reid. |
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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, Cedarville, Ill.
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Frank J. Hayes (b. 1882) —
of Idaho Springs, Clear
Creek County, Colo.
Born in Mt. Olive, Macoupin
County, Ill., May 4,
1882.
Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado, 1937-39.
Member, United
Mine Workers.
President
of United Mine Workers in 1918; noted orator
and poet.
Burial location unknown.
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Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952) —
also known as Harold L. Ickes —
of Hubbard Woods, Cook
County, Ill.; Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.; Olney, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Frankstown, Blair
County, Pa., March
15, 1874.
Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1936,
1940,
1944;
newspaper
columnist.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
and German
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1952 (age 77 years, 325
days).
Interment at Sandy Spring Friends Cemetery, Sandy Spring, Md.
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Don Irving (b. 1898) —
of Chambersburg, Pike
County, Ill.
Born in Chambersburg, Pike
County, Ill., September
20, 1898.
Democrat. Farmer; insurance
business; newspaper
columnist; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 20th District, 1944, 1946; chair of
Pike County Democratic Party, 1949-65.
Christian.
Member, American
Legion; Farm
Bureau; Farmers
Union.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Wade Hampton Irving and Martha (Hume) Irving; married, November
25, 1920, to Marjorie Lindsey. |
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Alan Lee Keyes (b. 1950) —
also known as Alan L. Keyes —
of Maryland.
Born in the St. Albans Naval Hospital,
Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
7, 1950.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1988, 1992; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2004; American Independent candidate for
President
of the United States, 2008.
African
ancestry.
Syndicated newspaper
columnist; radio talk
show host.
Still living as of 2014.
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Walter Cranston Larned (b. 1850) —
of Lake Forest, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
3, 1850.
Art critic; mayor
of Lake Forest, Ill., 1889-91.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Morss Lovett (1870-1956) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Lake Zurich, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
25, 1870.
Progressive. University
professor; novelist; playwright; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Illinois; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1939-43; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1940-41; removed from
office as Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and barred
from federal employment, by action of the U.S. Congress in 1943, over
his ties to left-wing
and purportedly Communist
individuals and groups; the action was later struck down by the U.S.
Supreme Court as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and he
received about $2,000 in salary owed to him.
Atheist.
Died, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
8, 1956 (age 85 years, 45
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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John Bartlow Martin (1915-1987) —
of Illinois.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, August
3, 1915.
Journalist;
author; speechwriter for Adlai
E. Stevenson, John
F. Kennedy, Robert
F. Kennedy, and Hubert
Humphrey; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1962-63.
Died, from throat
cancer, in Highland Park Hospital,
Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., January
3, 1987 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Herman
Cemetery, Herman, Mich.
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George Pierson Morehouse (b. 1859) —
of Council Grove, Morris
County, Kan.; Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.
Born in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., July 28,
1859.
Republican. Lawyer; Morris
County Attorney, 1894-97; local attorney, Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad,
1894-1915; member of Kansas
state senate, 1901-05; historian.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Horace Morehouse and Lavinia F. (Strong) Morehouse; married, April
23, 1906, to Louise (Thorne) Hull. |
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Chandler Owen (1889-1967) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., April 5,
1889.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Socialist candidate for
New
York state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1920; newspaper
managing editor; public
relations business; speechwriter; candidate in Republican
primary for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1934.
African
ancestry.
Died, from kidney
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
2, 1967 (age 78 years, 211
days).
Interment at Lincoln
Cemetery, Blue Island, Ill.
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Paul Martin Pearson (1871-1938) —
Born in Litchfield, Montgomery
County, Ill., October
22, 1871.
College
professor; author; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1931-35; forced to
resign in July, 1935 during a Congressional investigation
of financial
mismanagement in the Islands government.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a month later, March
26, 1938 (age 66 years, 155
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1839-1901) —
also known as Gilbert A. Pierce —
of Porter
County, Ind.; Illinois; North Dakota; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in East Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., January
11, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer; journalist;
newspaper
editor; author; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1869; Governor
of Dakota Territory, 1884-86; U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1889-91; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1893.
Died at the Lexington Hotel,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
15, 1901 (age 62 years, 35
days).
Interment at Adams
Cemetery, Valparaiso, Ind.
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Milton Rakove (1918-1983) —
also known as "Mayor Daley's
Intellectual" —
of Wilmette, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Buhl, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
30, 1918.
Democrat. University
professor; political historian; consultant and
speechwriter to U.S. Sen. Charles
H. Percy and Gov. Otto
Kerner; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1980.
Died, in Weiss Memorial Hospital,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
5, 1983 (age 65 years, 6
days).
Interment at Memorial
Park Cemetery, Skokie, Ill.
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Harlan Eugene Read (1880-1963) —
also known as Harlan E. Read —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., May 7,
1880.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1918; author;
radio
commentator.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February, 1963
(age 82
years, 0 days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Raymond Robins (1873-1954) —
of Nome, Nome
census area, Alaska; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; near Brooksville, Hernando
County, Fla.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
17, 1873.
Progressive. Coal miner;
lawyer;
went
to the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush; pastor; social
worker; economist;
writer; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; commissioner of American Red Cross
mission to Russia, 1917.
Died September
26, 1954 (age 81 years, 9
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Phyllis Stewart Schlafly (1924-2016) —
also known as Phyllis Schlafly; Phyllis McAlpin
Stewart —
of Alton, Madison
County, Ill.; Ladue, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., August
15, 1924.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1952 (24th District), 1970 (23rd
District); delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1956,
1960
(alternate), 1964,
1968;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 2004,
2008
(alternate), 2012,
2016.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; Junior
League; Phi
Beta Kappa; Pi
Sigma Alpha.
Author of A Choice Not An Echo and other books; leader
of opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment; founder and president of
the Eagle Forum.
Died, from cancer,
in Ladue, St. Louis
County, Mo., September
5, 2016 (age 92 years, 21
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Roscoe Conkling Simmons (d. 1951) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Mississippi.
Republican. Orator,
writer, columnist for the Chicago Tribune; first
African-American columnist for a Chicago daily newspaper;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1928
(alternate), 1932,
1936
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1948;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1938.
African
ancestry.
Died in 1951.
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Roscoe
Conkling |
| | | Relatives: Nephew by marriage of Booker
T. Washington. |
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William Clement Stone (1902-2002) —
also known as W. Clement Stone —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.; Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 4,
1902.
Republican. Insurance
executive; author; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1968
(alternate), 1972.
Member, Freemasons.
Died September
3, 2002 (age 100 years,
122 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Robeson Taylor (1838-1923) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., September
24, 1838.
Lawyer;
poet; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1907-10.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., July 5,
1923 (age 84 years, 284
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Junior Taylor (1902-1984) —
also known as Henry J. Taylor —
of Virginia.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
2, 1902.
Republican. Pulp and
paper industry; trustee, Manhattan Savings Bank;
director, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel;
author; newspaper
correspondent; economist;
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, 1957-61.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Military
Order of the World Wars; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Sigma
Delta Chi; Loyal
Legion.
Died in 1984
(age about
81 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John McClelland Work (1869-1961) —
also known as John M. Work —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Washington
County, Iowa, January
3, 1869.
Socialist. Lawyer; lecturer;
writer; candidate for mayor
of Des Moines, Iowa, 1902; candidate for Governor of
Iowa, 1910; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1914; editorial page
editor for the Socialist Milwaukee Leader newspaper,
1917-42; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Wisconsin, 1925; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Wisconsin.
Died in Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee
County, Wis., January
5, 1961 (age 92 years, 2
days).
Burial location unknown.
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