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Albert M. Bielawski (b. 1867) —
of Cudahy, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Gary, Lake
County, Ind.; Hamtramck, Wayne
County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Poland,
January
17, 1867.
Architect;
superintendent of construction
for steel mills, 1907-12; member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1929-30, 1935-36 (Wayne County
3rd District 1929-30, Wayne County 1st District 1935-36); defeated,
1926 (Republican primary, Wayne County 3rd District), 1930
(Democratic, Wayne County 3rd District), 1936 (Democratic primary,
Wayne County 1st District); candidate in Democratic primary for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 1st District, 1932.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Polish
National Alliance.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Bielawski and Teresa (Mroczynska) Bielawski; married, June 12,
1894, to Hattie Banaszynska. |
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Frank Buchanan (1862-1930) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born near Madison, Jefferson
County, Ind., June 14,
1862.
Democrat. Ironworker; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1911-17; in 1915, when
the U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was president of
"Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargo
against the countries then at war; the organization secretly received
funding from German
agents; when a grand jury
investigation was announced, he retaliated by introducing
resolutions to impeach U.S. Attorney H.
Snowden Marshall; indicted
in December 1915, along with H.
Robert Fowler, Frank
S. Monnett, and others, for restraint
of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment
strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood
trial in May 1917, along with (ultimately) six co-defendants; the
jury convicted three, but deadlocked over the other four, including
Buchanan; he was not re-tried.
Died, of heart
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
18, 1930 (age 67 years, 308
days).
Interment at Irving
Park Boulevard Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Deon H. Swift II (1947-2009) —
also known as "Butch" —
of Attica, Fountain
County, Ind.
Born in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., October
22, 1947.
Republican. Facilities supervisor for Harrison Steel Castings
Co.; mayor of
Attica, Ind., 2000-09.
Died, from prostate
cancer, in a Home Hospital,
Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., December
10, 2009 (age 62 years, 49
days).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery, Attica, 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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