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Harry James Allington (1872-1934) —
also known as Harry J. Allington —
of Newport, Campbell
County, Ky.
Born in Knightsville, Clay
County, Ind., October
3, 1872.
Advertising
business; delegate
to Kentucky convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
English ancestry.
Died in Newport, Campbell
County, Ky., October
25, 1934 (age 62 years, 22
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Allington and Anna Allington; married 1896 to
Lillian Maud Lineback. |
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Frank Probasco Bohn (1866-1944) —
also known as Frank P. Bohn —
of Newberry, Luce
County, Mich.
Born in Charlottesville, Hancock
County, Ind., July 14,
1866.
Physician;
banker;
Democratic candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Delta District, 1896;
candidate in Republican primary for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1916; member of Michigan
state senate 30th District, 1923-26; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1927-33; defeated
(Republican), 1932.
Episcopalian.
German
and English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Newberry, Luce
County, Mich., June 1,
1944 (age 77 years, 323
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Newberry, Mich.
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Abraham Lincoln Brick (1860-1908) —
also known as Abraham L. Brick —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born near South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., May 27,
1860.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
Republican State Central Committee, 1892; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1896
(member, Credentials
Committee); U.S.
Representative from Indiana 13th District, 1899-1908; died in
office 1908.
Scotch-Irish
and English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., April 7,
1908 (age 47 years, 316
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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William Christian (c.1743-1786) —
Born in Staunton,
Va., about 1743.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1773-75; colonel in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Manx ancestry.
Killed
while fighting Indians in what is now Clark
County, Ind., April 9,
1786 (age about 43
years).
Interment at Bullitt Family Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Townsend A. Ely (b. 1843) —
of Alma, Gratiot
County, Mich.
Born in Wabash, Wabash
County, Ind., August
27, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; farmer;
postmaster at Alma,
Mich., 1883-91; village
president of Alma, Michigan, 1894-96; member of Michigan
state senate 19th District, 1905-08; Michigan
state highway commissioner, 1909-13.
English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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William Hayden English (1822-1896) —
also known as William H. English —
of Lexington, Scott
County, Ind.
Born in Lexington, Scott
County, Ind., August
27, 1822.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1851-52; Speaker of
the Indiana State House of Representatives, 1851-52; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 2nd District, 1853-61; candidate for
Vice
President of the United States, 1880.
English and French
Huguenot ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., February
7, 1896 (age 73 years, 164
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Bert Fish (1875-1943) —
of DeLand, Volusia
County, Fla.
Born in Bedford, Lawrence
County, Ind., October
8, 1875.
Superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
county judge in Florida, 1910-17, 1931-33; U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1933-38; Saudi Arabia, 1939-41; Portugal, 1941-43, died in office 1943.
German
and English ancestry. Member, Sigma
Nu.
Died in Lisbon, Portugal,
July
21, 1943 (age 67 years, 286
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, DeLand, Fla.
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Job Freeman (1844-1919) —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Linton, Greene
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Henley, Staffordshire, England,
1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; coal mine
operator; Knox
County Auditor, 1887; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1900.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., January
3, 1919 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Linton, Ind.
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Emil Wiley Hanley (1896-1982) —
also known as Emil W. Hanley —
of Rensselaer, Jasper
County, Ind.
Born in Rensselaer, Jasper
County, Ind., March 4,
1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; pharmacist;
mayor
of Rensselaer, Ind., 1950-63; defeated, 1963.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and English ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Freemasons;
Rotary;
Sigma
Chi.
Died in Rensselaer, Jasper
County, Ind., May 18,
1982 (age 86 years, 75
days).
Interment at Weston
Cemetery, Rensselaer, Ind.
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Marshall E. Hanley (1920-1981) —
of Muncie, Delaware
County, Ind.
Born in Muncie, Delaware
County, Ind., May 7,
1920.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, 1952-53.
Presbyterian.
Irish
and English ancestry. Member, Rotary;
Beta
Theta Pi.
Died, in Ball Memorial Hospital,
Muncie, Delaware
County, Ind., May 23,
1981 (age 61 years, 16
days).
Interment at Beech
Grove Cemetery, Muncie, Ind.
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) —
also known as "Little Ben"; "Kid
Gloves" —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in North Bend, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
20, 1833.
Republican. Indiana
reporter of state courts, 1861-63, 1865-69; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1876; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1880;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1881-87; President
of the United States, 1889-93; defeated, 1892.
Presbyterian.
English ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Phi
Delta Theta.
Died of pneumonia,
in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
13, 1901 (age 67 years, 205
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Ramsey (Irwin) Harrison; married, October
20, 1853, to Caroline
Harrison; married, April 6,
1896, to Mary Scott (Lord) Dimmick (sister-in-law of Joseph
Benjamin Dimmick); father of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; grandson of William
Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Anna
Harrison; grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); grandnephew of Carter
Bassett Harrison; great-grandson of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and John
Cleves Symmes; first cousin twice removed of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin twice removed of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; third cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph, Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and Carter
Henry Harrison II; fourth cousin of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; fourth cousin once removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley. |
| | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
H. Swig
— Ben
H. Waigand
— Ben
DeHart
|
| | Campaign slogan: "Grandfather's hat
fits Ben." |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Benjamin Harrison: Rita
Stevens, Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd President of the United States — Harry
J. Sievers, Benjamin
Harrison : Hoosier President: The White House and After,
1889-1901 — Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin
Harrison — Homer E. Socolofsky & Allan B. Spetter, The
Presidency of Benjamin Harrison — Susan Clinton, Benjamin
Harrison : Twenty-Third President of the United States (for young
readers) |
| | Critical books about Benjamin Harrison:
Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) —
also known as "Tippecanoe"; "Old
Tip"; "Farmer of North Bend";
"General Mum"; "Cincinnatus of the
West" —
of Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley, Charles
City County, Va., February
9, 1773.
Whig. Secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1798-99; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Northwest Territory, 1799-1800; Governor
of Indiana Territory, 1801-12; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1816-19; member of Ohio
state senate, 1819-21; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Ohio; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1820; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1825-28; U.S. Minister to Gran Colombia, 1828-29; President
of the United States, 1841; defeated, 1836; died in office 1841.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia
or typhoid,
at the White
House, Washington,
D.C., April 4,
1841 (age 68 years, 54
days).
Interment at Harrison
Tomb, North Bend, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Elizabeth (Bassett) Harrison; brother of
Carter
Bassett Harrison; married, November
22, 1795, to Anna
Tuthill Symmes (daughter of John
Cleves Symmes); father of John
Scott Harrison; grandfather of Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); great-grandfather of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; second great-grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); first cousin of Beverley
Randolph and Burwell
Bassett; first cousin once removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin twice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin thrice removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II; second cousin of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; second cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox and Edmund
Randolph; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
Welby Beverley; second cousin four times removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle and Harry
Flood Byrd; second cousin five times removed of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Robert
Monroe Harrison. |
| | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Harrison counties in Ind., Iowa, Miss. and Ohio are
named for him. |
| | The city
of Harrison,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: William
H. Harrison Taylor
— W.
H. H. Eba
— William
H. H. Clayton
— William
H. H. Allen
— William
H. H. Beadle
— William
H. H. Varney
— William
H. H. Cowles
— William
H. H. Stowell
— William
H. H. Miller
— William
H. H. Cook
— William
H. H. Flick
— William
H. Heard
— William
H. H. Llewellyn
— William
H. Harrison
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| | Campaign slogan (1840): "Tippecanoe and
Tyler Too." |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about William Henry Harrison:
Freeman Cleaves, Old
Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time —
Norma Lois Peterson, Presidencies
of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler — David
Lillard, William
Henry Harrison (for young readers) |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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George Graham Hunter (1872-1958) —
also known as George G. Hunter —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Marion, Grant
County, Ind.; St. Johns, Clinton
County, Mich.
Born in Ovid Township, Clinton
County, Mich., August
16, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Clinton County, 1919-22;
member of Michigan
state senate 15th District, 1923-26; Clinton
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1929-34; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Michigan.
English ancestry. Member, Rotary.
Died in St. Johns, Clinton
County, Mich., March
14, 1958 (age 85 years, 210
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Ovid, Mich.
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Robert Scott Justice (1912-1992) —
of Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., March 8,
1912.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1945-48, 1951-52; defeated, 1948;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1957-60; defeated, 1960.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Farm
Bureau; Toastmasters;
United
Commercial Travelers; Delta
Chi; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died December
9, 1992 (age 80 years, 276
days).
Interment at Keeps Creek Cemetery, Clymers, Ind.
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William Franklin Justice (1914-1996) —
Born in Clinton Township, Cass
County, Ind., August
2, 1914.
Farmer;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1981-84.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and English ancestry. Member, Farm
Bureau; Freemasons;
Eagles.
Died in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., September
5, 1996 (age 82 years, 34
days).
Interment at Keeps Creek Cemetery, Clymers, Ind.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) —
also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old
Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The
Illinois Baboon" —
of New Salem, Menard
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in a log
cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue
County), Ky., February
12, 1809.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster;
lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for
Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1858; President
of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election
as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to
preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield,
freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this,
redefined American nationhood. He was.
English ancestry.
Elected in 1900 to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans.
Shot
by the assassin
John Wilkes Booth, during a play at
Ford's Theater,
in Washington,
D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding
House, across the street, the following day, April
15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62
days).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary
Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November
4, 1842, to Mary
Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian
Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel
Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin
Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie
Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha
Dee Todd; grandniece of David
Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert
Todd Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi
Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Edmund
Jennings Lee and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi
Lincoln Jr. and Enoch
Lincoln. |
| | Political families: Lincoln-Lee
family; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown
family of Kentucky; Edwards-Cook
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: Clement
Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham
N. Haynie — William
M. Stone — John
Pitcher — Stephen
Miller — John
T. Stuart — William
H. Seward — Henry
L. Burnett — Judah
P. Benjamin — Robert
Toombs — Richard
Taylor Jacob — George
W. Jones — James
Adams — John
G. Nicolay — Edward
Everett — Stephen
T. Logan — Francis
P. Blair — John
Hay — Henry
Reed Rathbone — James
A. Ekin — Frederick
W. Seward — John
H. Surratt — John
H. Surratt, Jr. — James
Shields — Emily
T. Helm — John
A. Campbell — John
Merryman — Barnes
Compton |
| | Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are
named for him. |
| | The city
of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — Lincoln Memorial University,
in Harrogate,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
in Jefferson
City, Missouri, is named for
him. — Lincoln University,
near Oxford,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: Abraham
L. Keister
— Abraham
L. Tucker
— Abraham
L. Brick
— Abraham
L. Kellogg
— Abraham
Lincoln Bernstein
— A.
Lincoln Reiley
— A.
L. Helmick
— Abraham
L. Sutton
— A.
Lincoln Acker
— Abraham
L. Osgood
— Abraham
L. Witmer
— Abraham
L. Phillips
— Abraham
L. Payton
— A.
L. Auth
— A.
Lincoln Moore
— A.
Lincoln Niditch
— Abraham
L. Rubenstein
— Abraham
L. Davis, Jr.
— Abraham
L. Freedman
— A.
L. Marovitz
— Lincoln
Gordon
— Abraham
L. Banner
— Abraham
Lincoln Tosti
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| | Coins and currency: His portrait
has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on
the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait
also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $1 to $500. |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | Books about Abraham Lincoln: David
Herbert Donald, Lincoln —
George Anastaplo, Abraham
Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt,
ed., The
Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American
Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's
War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander
in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We
Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends —
Edward Steers, Jr., Blood
on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln —
Mario Cuomo, Why
Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W.
Kauffman, American
Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln
Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's
Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His
Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's
Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The
Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His
Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln
at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln
President — Michael Lind, What
Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest
President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham
Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John
Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing
Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John
Stauffer, Giants:
The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham
Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking
at Lincoln (for young readers) |
| | Critical books about Abraham Lincoln:
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The
Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War |
| | Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore
Vidal, Lincoln:
A Novel |
| | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Harold Carlton Mason (1888-1964) —
also known as Harold C. Mason —
of Blissfield, Lenawee
County, Mich.; Huntington, Huntington
County, Ind.; Winona Lake, Kosciusko
County, Ind.
Born in Kunkle, Williams
County, Ohio, November
9, 1888.
School
teacher; minister;
Prohibition candidate for Michigan
state senate 19th District, 1914; bishop; college
professor; president,
Huntington College, 1932-39.
Free
Methodist. German,
Scottish,
English, and Welsh
ancestry.
Died, from a myocardial
infarction, in Winona Lake, Kosciusko
County, Ind., June 2,
1964 (age 75 years, 206
days).
Interment at Waldron
Cemetery, Waldron, Mich.
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Thomas William Nadal (b. 1875) —
also known as Thomas W. Nadal —
of Olivet, Eaton
County, Mich.; Springfield, Greene
County, Mo.
Born near Milroy, Rush
County, Ind., June 17,
1875.
Republican. College
professor; member of Michigan
state board of education, 1911-17; appointed 1911; acting president,
Olivet College, Olivet, Mich., 1915-16; president,
Drury College, Springfield, Mo., 1917.
Congregationalist.
English and French
ancestry. Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Modern
Language Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Franklin Nadal and Jerusha (Richey) Nadal; married, June 2,
1909, to Kathryne Dillingham Wyckoff. |
| | Image source: Michigan Manual
1911 |
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Harry Stewart New (1858-1937) —
also known as Harry S. New —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
31, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1896,
1912,
1920,
1924;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1897-99; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; member of Republican
National Committee from Indiana, 1900-12; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1907-08; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1917-23; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1923-29.
Disciples
of Christ. English and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Sigma
Chi.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., May 9,
1937 (age 78 years, 129
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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John Chalfant New (1831-1906) —
also known as John C. New —
of Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Vernon, Jennings
County, Ind., July 6,
1831.
Republican. Banker; newspaper
publisher; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1863; Treasurer of the United States, 1875-76; Indiana
Republican state chair, 1880-82.
Disciples
of Christ. English and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., June 4,
1906 (age 74 years, 333
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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William Ellis Niblack (1822-1893) —
also known as William E. Niblack —
of Martin
County, Ind.; Vincennes, Knox
County, Ind.
Born in Portersville, Dubois
County, Ind., May 18,
1822.
Democrat. Surveyor;
lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1849-50, 1863; member of Indiana
state senate, 1850-52; circuit judge in Indiana, 1854-57; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1857-61, 1865-75;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1864,
1868,
1880
(member, Credentials
Committee); member of Democratic
National Committee from Indiana, 1864-72; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1877-89.
Scottish
and English ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., May 7,
1893 (age 70 years, 354
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Joseph Doty Oliver (1850-1933) —
also known as Joseph D. Oliver; J. D.
Oliver —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Mishawaka, St. Joseph
County, Ind., August
20, 1850.
Republican. Chairman, Oliver Farm
Equipment Company; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1884,
1912.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
and English ancestry.
Died August
6, 1933 (age 82 years, 351
days).
Entombed at Riverview
Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Chase Salmon Osborn (1860-1949) —
also known as Chase S. Osborn —
of Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa
County, Mich.
Born in a log
house in Huntington
County, Ind., January
22, 1860.
Republican. Newspaper
publisher; postmaster at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich., 1889-93; member of Michigan
Republican State Executive Committee, 1899; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1899; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1908-11; appointed 1908; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1908;
Governor
of Michigan, 1911-12; defeated, 1914; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918, 1930; candidate for Republican
nomination for Vice President, 1928;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Presbyterian.
English, French,
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Kiwanis;
Lions;
Knights
of Pythias; Audubon
Society; National Rifle
Association; Sigma
Chi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Pi Gamma
Mu; Sons of
the American Revolution; Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grange.
Died April
11, 1949 (age 89 years, 79
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Chippewa County, Mich.
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Samuel Wilson Parker (1805-1859) —
also known as Samuel W. Parker —
of Connersville, Fayette
County, Ind.
Born near Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., September
9, 1805.
Farmer;
lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1839-40, 1843-44; member of Indiana
state senate, 1840-43; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1851-55 (4th District 1851-53, 5th
District 1853-55); defeated, 1849.
German
and English ancestry.
Died in Sackets Harbor, Jefferson
County, N.Y., February
1, 1859 (age 53 years, 145
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Dennis Lark Pennington (1776-1854) —
also known as Dennis Pennington —
of Harrison
County, Ind.
Born in Virginia, May 18,
1776.
Whig. Farmer; stonemason;
member of Indiana
territorial House of Representatives, 1810, 1812-16; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana
state senate, 1816-20, 1825-27, 1830-33, 1842-45; defeated, 1839;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1822-24, 1828-30, 1845-46;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1825; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1833.
Methodist.
English ancestry.
Died near Corydon, Harrison
County, Ind., September
2, 1854 (age 78 years, 107
days).
Interment at Pennington
Chapel Cemetery, Harrison County, Ind.
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Henry Corbin Pettit (1863-1913) —
of Wabash, Wabash
County, Ind.
Born in Wabash, Wabash
County, Ind., 1863.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Wabash, Ind., 1888-90; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1895-97; Speaker of
the Indiana State House of Representatives, 1897.
Presbyterian.
English, Scottish,
and French
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Wabash, Wabash
County, Ind., July 26,
1913 (age about 50
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Pitcher (1795-1892) —
of Spencer
County, Ind.; Posey
County, Ind.
Born in Watertown, Litchfield
County, Conn., August
22, 1795.
Lawyer;
Spencer
County Sheriff, 1826-30; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1830-31; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1837; member of Indiana
state senate, 1841-44; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; candidate for delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Reputed to have loaned law books to the young Abraham
Lincoln.
Died in Mt. Vernon, Posey
County, Ind., August
2, 1892 (age 96 years, 346
days).
Interment at Hedges
Central Elementary School Playground, Mt. Vernon, Ind.
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Hiram Prather (1809-1874) —
of Jennings
County, Ind.
Born in Clark
County, Ind., October
13, 1809.
Farmer;
Jennings
County Treasurer, 1838; served in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1847-50, 1865-67; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; colonel in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Methodist.
English ancestry.
Died in North Vernon, Jennings
County, Ind., March
27, 1874 (age 64 years, 165
days).
Interment at Hillcrest
Cemetery, North Vernon, Ind.
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George H. Proffit (1807-1847) —
of Petersburg, Pike
County, Ind.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
7, 1807.
Merchant;
lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1831-33, 1836-39; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1839-43; U.S. Minister
to Brazil, 1843-44.
French
and English ancestry.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
7, 1847 (age 40 years, 0
days).
Interment at Walnut
Hills Cemetery, Petersburg, Ind.
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Franklin Peleg Randall (1812-1892) —
also known as Franklin P. Randall —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Madison
County, N.Y., June 2,
1812.
School
teacher; lawyer; railroad
promoter; candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1845; member of Indiana
state senate, 1847-50; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; mayor
of Fort Wayne, Ind., 1859-64, 1869-73.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry.
Died in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., May 23,
1892 (age 79 years, 356
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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John Ratliff (1822-1912) —
of Grant
County, Ind.
Born in Wayne
County, Ind., March 1,
1822.
Republican. School
teacher; farmer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1867-69.
Quaker.
English ancestry.
Died in 1912
(age about
90 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Clayton Ratliff (1827-1909) —
of Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in Wayne
County, Ind., July 6,
1827.
Republican. Physician;
dentist;
business
executive; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1875.
Quaker.
English and German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in Wayne
County, Ind., October
16, 1909 (age 82 years, 102
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Floyd W. Rowe (b. 1861) —
of Camden, Hillsdale
County, Mich.
Born in Steuben
County, Ind., June 8,
1861.
Republican. Farmer; merchant;
banker;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Hillsdale County, 1921-24;
defeated in primary, 1924, 1932, 1938.
English ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert A. Smith (1827-1913) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Boonville, Warrick
County, Ind., June 13,
1827.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1880,
1888;
mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1887-92, 1894-96, 1900-08; postmaster at St.
Paul, Minn., 1896-1900.
Methodist.
English ancestry.
Died in Ramsey
County, Minn., February
12, 1913 (age 85 years, 244
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ralph Eugene Updike, Sr. (1894-1953) —
also known as Ralph E. Updike —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., May 27,
1894.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives from Marion County, 1923-24; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1925-29; defeated, 1928.
Christian.
Dutch
and English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Improved
Order of Red Men.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., September
16, 1953 (age 59 years, 112
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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