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Elliot Newman Bowman (1826-1900) —
also known as Elliot N. Bowman —
of Fountain
County, Ind.
Born in Greene
County, Tenn., October
11, 1826.
Democrat. Lawyer; merchant;
hotel owner; Fountain
County Circuit Court Clerk, 1871-78; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1891; deputy auditor, U.S. Navy,
1893; Sixth Auditor, U.S. Treasury.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Covington, Fountain
County, Ind., May 21,
1900 (age 73 years, 222
days).
Interment at Prescott
Grove Cemetery, Covington, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of John Bowman and Rebecca (Newman) Bowman; married, May 23,
1866, to Harriet A. (Spinning) Jarvis. |
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Roy Conrad (b. 1902) —
of Monticello, White
County, Ind.
Born in Rossville, Clinton
County, Ind., March 3,
1902.
Republican. Hotel proprietor; member of Indiana
state senate, 1940-44; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1944.
Methodist.
Member, Elks; Kiwanis;
American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Orris L. Head (b. 1877) —
also known as O. L. Head —
of Salisbury, Chariton
County, Mo.; Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind.
Born in Daviess
County, Ky., March 5,
1877.
Republican. Hotel proprietor; tobacco
buyer; mayor
of Madison, Ind., 1943-44.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Cecelius Larue Head and Mary (Evans) Head. |
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Charles P. Kellison (1850-1921) —
of Plymouth, Marshall
County, Ind.
Born near Hornellsville (now Hornell), Steuben
County, N.Y., June 17,
1850.
Democrat. Physician;
lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885-87; hotel proprietor;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1896.
Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Died, of cancer,
in Plymouth, Marshall
County, Ind., January
27, 1921 (age 70 years, 224
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, Ind.
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William Kirtley Jr. (1858-1915) —
of Defiance, Defiance
County, Ohio.
Born in Indiana, November
1, 1858.
Republican. Hotel-keeper; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1904.
Died in 1915
(age about
56 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Nathaniel Merriam (1769-1847) —
of Leyden, Lewis
County, N.Y.; Indiana.
Born in Wallingford, New Haven
County, Conn., June 3,
1769.
Innkeeper; member of New York
state assembly from Lewis County, 1810-11, 1819-20.
Died August
19, 1847 (age 78 years, 77
days).
Interment at Locust Grove Cemetery, Port Leyden, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Nathaniel Merriam (1734-1807) and Martha (Berry) Merriam; married,
December
2, 1792, to Eunice Curtis; married, January
31, 1824, to Sally Black; second cousin twice removed of William
Judson Clark, Charles
Hull Clark and Charles
Page; second cousin thrice removed of Adrial
Hebard Case; third cousin once removed of Matthew
Griswold and Samuel
George Andrews; third cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Cromwell Jennings and Kenneth
Sidney White; fourth cousin of James
Hillhouse, Roger
Griswold, Peter
B. Garnsey, Nathaniel
Upham, James
Doolittle Wooster and Benjamin
Hard; fourth cousin once removed of Daniel
Greene Garnsey, Nathaniel
Gookin Upham, Roscius
R. Kennedy, John
Leslie Russell and Henry
Titus Backus. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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memorial |
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Thomas Taggart (1856-1929) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; French Lick, Orange
County, Ind.
Born in County Monaghan, Ireland,
November
17, 1856.
Democrat. Hotelier; Marion
County Auditor, 1887-94; Indiana
Democratic state chair, 1892-94; mayor
of Indianapolis, Ind., 1895-1901; member of Democratic
National Committee from Indiana, 1900-16; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1904-08; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1912,
1924,
1928;
speaker, 1908,
1912;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1916; defeated, 1916, 1920.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March 6,
1929 (age 72 years, 109
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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F. Harold Van Orman (c.1885-1958) —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born about 1885.
Republican. Hotelier; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1925-29; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1932,
1936
(alternate).
Died, in Boehne Hospital,
Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., January
6, 1958 (age about 73
years).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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John T. Wilder (1830-1917) —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Greensburg, Decatur
County, Ind.; Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; Johnson City, Washington
County, Tenn.; Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Hunter, Greene
County, N.Y., January
31, 1830.
Republican. Millwright;
foundry
owner; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
manufacturer of railroad
rails; railroad
promoter; mayor
of Chattanooga, Tenn., 1871-72; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1876; postmaster at Chattanooga,
Tenn., 1877-82; hotel owner.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., October
20, 1917 (age 87 years, 262
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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