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Jacob Drennan Early (1859-1919) —
also known as Jacob D. Early —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
4, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1888;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1897-99.
Member, Freemasons;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
18, 1919 (age 59 years, 348
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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George Agler Eberly (b. 1871) —
also known as George A. Eberly —
of Stanton, Stanton
County, Neb.
Born in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., February
9, 1871.
Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Stanton
County Attorney, 1899-1903, 1905-09; director, Stanton National
Bank;
justice
of Nebraska state supreme court, 1925-43.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Woodmen;
American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; United
Spanish War Veterans; Sons
of Veterans; Sons
of Union Veterans; Military
Order of the World Wars; Kiwanis.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Eberly and Mary (Agler) Eberly; married, August
2, 1899, to Rose E. Psota. |
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Norman Eddy (1810-1872) —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Scipio, Cayuga
County, N.Y., December
10, 1810.
Democrat. Physician;
lawyer; candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1847; member of Indiana
state senate, 1849-52; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1853-55; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1855-57; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; secretary
of state of Indiana, 1871-72.
Episcopalian.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., January
28, 1872 (age 61 years, 49
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Joseph Ketchum Edgerton (1818-1893) —
also known as Joseph K. Edgerton —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Vergennes, Addison
County, Vt., February
16, 1818.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1863-65.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
25, 1893 (age 75 years, 190
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Bela
Edgerton and Phebe (Ketchum) Edgerton; brother of Alfred
Peck Edgerton; second cousin once removed of Heman
Ticknor; second cousin twice removed of Harry
Andrews Gager; second cousin four times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Elijah
Abel and Calvin
Fillmore; third cousin twice removed of Zina
Hyde Jr. and Frank
Heman Ticknor; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold, Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; fourth cousin of Millard
Fillmore, John
Arnold Rockwell, John
Leslie Russell and Hiram
Bingham; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel
Lathrop, William
Woodbridge, Henry
Meigs, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Charles
Robert Sherman, Isaac
Backus, Willard
J. Chapin, Albert
Haller Tracy, Martin
Olds, Harrison
Blodget, Henry
Titus Backus, David
Edgerton, Augustus
Frank, Leslie
Wead Russell, Thomas
Worcester Hyde, Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell, Charles
Hazen Russell, John
Clarence Keeler, Hiram
Bingham Jr., Alfred
Mitchell Bingham and Jonathan
Brewster Bingham. |
| | | 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). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Elisha Egbert (1806-1870) —
of Indiana.
Born in Readington, Hunterdon
County, N.J., November
4, 1806.
School
teacher; lawyer; probate judge in Indiana, 1834-38,
1848-52; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1838-39; defeated, 1832; common
pleas court judge in Indiana, 1852-70.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., November
4, 1870 (age 64 years, 0
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Ning S. Eley (1868-1943) —
also known as Ning Eley —
of Des Plaines, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Newcastle Township, Fulton
County, Ind., May 13,
1868.
Democrat. Lawyer; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1932.
German
ancestry.
Died in Cook
County, Ill., August
9, 1943 (age 75 years, 88
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Homer Elliott (1878-1952) —
also known as Homer Elliott —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Martin
County, Ind., January
9, 1878.
Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1922-24.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., July 18,
1952 (age 74 years, 191
days).
Interment at New
South Park Cemetery, Martinsville, Ind.
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Richard Nash Elliott (1873-1948) —
also known as Richard N. Elliott —
of Connersville, Fayette
County, Ind.
Born near Connersville, Fayette
County, Ind., April
25, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1905-09; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1916;
U.S.
Representative from Indiana 6th District, 1917-31; defeated, 1930.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died March
21, 1948 (age 74 years, 331
days).
Interment at Dale
Cemetery, Connersville, Ind.
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Samuel Harrison Elrod (1856-1935) —
also known as Samuel H. Elrod —
of Clark, Clark
County, S.Dak.
Born in Coatesville, Hendricks
County, Ind., May 1,
1856.
Republican. Lawyer; postmaster;
Governor
of South Dakota, 1905-07; delegate to Republican National
Convention from South Dakota, 1916,
1928
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); candidate for Presidential
Elector for South Dakota.
Methodist.
Died in Clark, Clark
County, S.Dak., July 13,
1935 (age 79 years, 73
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Near Clark, Clark County, S.Dak.
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William Eastin English (1850-1926) —
also known as William E. English —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Lexington, Scott
County, Ind., November
3, 1850.
Lawyer; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1879; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1883-85; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1892,
1896;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1912;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1917-25; defeated (Republican), 1908, 1910.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; United
Spanish War Veterans; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., April
29, 1926 (age 75 years, 177
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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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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Richard Kenney Erwin (1860-1917) —
also known as Richard K. Erwin —
of Adams
County, Ind.; Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Adams
County, Ind., July 11,
1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; Adams
County Attorney, 1889-97; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1891-94; circuit judge in
Indiana, 1901-07; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1912-17; died in office 1917.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind., October
5, 1917 (age 57 years, 86
days).
Interment at Lindenwood
Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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Michael Luther Essick (1834-1913) —
also known as M. L. Essick; "Old Man
Eloquent" —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Rochester, Fulton
County, Ind.
Born in Ohio, February
20, 1834.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Kansas
state senate, 1861-62; served in the Union Army during the Civil
War; newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1880;
candidate for circuit judge in Indiana 41st District, 1896.
Scottish,
German,
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Rochester, Fulton
County, Ind., September
19, 1913 (age 79 years, 211
days).
Interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Rochester, Ind.
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Walter Howard Evans (1870-1959) —
of Corvallis, Benton
County, Ore.
Born in New Middletown, Harrison
County, Ind., April
17, 1870.
Lawyer; Multnomah
County District Attorney, 1912-21; circuit judge in Oregon,
1921-31; Judge
of U.S. Customs Court, 1931-41; retired 1941.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., July 13,
1959 (age 89 years, 87
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Louis Blasdel Ewbank (1864-1953) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Dearborn
County, Ind., September
5, 1864.
Lawyer; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1920-26.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Guilford, Dearborn
County, Ind., March 7,
1953 (age 88 years, 183
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Oscar Ross Ewing (b. 1889) —
also known as Oscar R. Ewing —
of Fieldston, Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Greensburg, Decatur
County, Ind., March 8,
1889.
Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1943-45; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1944
(alternate; Vice-Chair;
speaker),
1948.
Member, American Bar
Association; Beta
Theta Pi.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Warren Fairbanks (1852-1918) —
also known as Charles W. Fairbanks —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in a log
cabin near Unionville Center, Union
County, Ohio, May 11,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer; general solicitor for Ohio Southern Railroad,
and for the Dayton and Ironton Railroad;
president, Terre Haute and Peoria Railroad;
director and general solicitor, Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1896
(Temporary
Chair; speaker;
chair, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1900,
1904,
1912;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1897-1905; resigned 1905; Vice
President of the United States, 1905-09; defeated, 1916;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1908,
1916.
Died, from renal
failure, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., June 4,
1918 (age 66 years, 24
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Emmett R. Fertig (1888-1956) —
of Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind.
Born in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., August
2, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer; Hamilton
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1929-33; mayor
of Noblesville, Ind., 1939-44, 1950-52.
Christian.
Member, Elks; Eagles;
Kiwanis;
American
Legion.
Died in 1956
(age about
67 years).
Entombed in mausoleum at Crownland
Cemetery, Noblesville, 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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Frederick Samuel Fish (b. 1852) —
also known as Frederick S. Fish —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
5, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1884; member of
New
Jersey state senate from Essex County, 1885-87; director and
general counsel, Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company;
president, Studebaker Vehicle
Company; chairman, Studebaker Corporation.
Baptist.
Member, Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Clay Fish and Clara (Jones) Fish; married, June 16,
1887, to Grace A. Studebaker. |
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Thomas Fitzgerald (1796-1855) —
of Boonville, Warrick
County, Ind.; St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich.; Niles, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Germantown, Columbia
County, N.Y., April
10, 1796.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812;
lawyer; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1825-27; probate judge in
Indiana, 1829; postmaster at Boonville,
Ind., 1831-32; lighthouse
keeper; Berrien
County Clerk, 1834; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1837; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Berrien County, 1839;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1839; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1848-49; Berrien
County Probate Judge, 1852-55.
Died in Niles, Berrien
County, Mich., March
25, 1855 (age 58 years, 349
days).
Interment at Silverbrook
Cemetery, Niles, Mich.
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James R. Fleming (b. 1881) —
of Fort Wayne, Allen
County, Ind.
Born in Henry
County, Ind., November
8, 1881.
Democrat. Lawyer; prosecuting attorney, 58th Judicial Circuit,
1906-10; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1913-15; member of Indiana
state senate, 1915-19; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, 1933-41.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George R. Fleming and Sarah (Cummins) Fleming; married, December
24, 1906, to Jennie Adair. |
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George Ford (1846-1917) —
of St.
Joseph County, Ind.
Born in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., January
11, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer; St.
Joseph County Prosecuting Attorney, 1875-84; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 13th District, 1885-87; superior
court judge in Indiana, 1914.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., August
30, 1917 (age 71 years, 231
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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John Hopkins Foster (1862-1917) —
also known as John H. Foster —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., January
31, 1862.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1893-94; superior court judge in
Indiana, 1894-1905; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1905-09; defeated, 1908.
Died in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., September
5, 1917 (age 55 years, 217
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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John Watson Foster (1836-1917) —
also known as John W. Foster —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pike
County, Ind., March 2,
1836.
Republican. Lawyer; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; newspaper
editor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1868;
postmaster at Evansville,
Ind., 1869-73; Indiana
Republican state chair, 1872; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1873-80; Russia, 1880-81; Spain, 1883-85; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1892-93.
Presbyterian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
15, 1917 (age 81 years, 258
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Ind.
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William Dudley Foulke (1848-1935) —
of Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J.; Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
20, 1848.
Lawyer; writer; poet;
reformer and woman suffrage advocate; member of Indiana
state senate, 1883-86; member, U.S. Civil Service Commission,
1901-03; newspaper
editor.
Died in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., May 30,
1935 (age 86 years, 191
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Foulke and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke; married to Mary
Taylor Reeves. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, May 1902 |
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William Treyanne Francis (1870-1929) —
also known as William T. Francis —
of Minnesota.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
26, 1870.
Republican. Lawyer; worked in legal department of railroad;
member of Minnesota
Republican State Central Committee, 1914; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Minnesota; U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1927-29, died in office 1929; U.S. Consul General in
Monrovia, 1927-29, died in office 1929.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP;
Urban
League; Sigma
Pi Phi; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Died in Liberia,
July
15, 1929 (age 59 years, 111
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Burton Lee French (1875-1954) —
also known as Burton L. French —
of Moscow, Latah
County, Idaho; Oxford, Butler
County, Ohio.
Born near Delphi, Carroll
County, Ind., August
1, 1875.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Idaho
state house of representatives, 1898-1902; U.S.
Representative from Idaho, 1903-09, 1911-15, 1917-33 (at-large
1903-09, 1911-15, 1st District 1917-33); defeated, 1934; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Idaho, 1914.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Political Science Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Phi
Delta Theta; Delta
Sigma Rho; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons.
Died in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, September
12, 1954 (age 79 years, 42
days).
Interment at Moscow
Cemetery, Moscow, Idaho.
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