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Glenn Leslie Alt (1895-1971) —
also known as Glenn L. Alt —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Denton, Doniphan
County, Kan., March
24, 1895.
Republican. Engineer; university
professor; candidate for mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1945.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., December
17, 1971 (age 76 years, 268
days).
Interment at Washtenong
Memorial Park, Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw County, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of John L. Alt and Sarah Anna (Black) Alt; married to Viola L.
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Doraf Wilmot Blakeslee (1887-1975) —
also known as Doraf W. Blakeslee —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Lincoln, Lincoln
County, Kan., April
13, 1887.
Socialist. Electrical
engineer; candidate for Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Allegheny County 2nd
District, 1934.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., September, 1975
(age 88
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Harry Darby (1895-1987) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.
Born in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., January
23, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
engineer; shipbuilder;
member of Republican
National Committee from Kansas, 1940-64; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Kansas, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956
(speaker),
1960;
U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1949-50.
Episcopalian.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Military
Order of the World Wars; Navy
League; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jesters;
Rotary;
Phi
Delta Theta.
Died in Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan., January
17, 1987 (age 91 years, 359
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.
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Glen Edgar Edgerton (1887-1976) —
Born in Parkerville, Morris
County, Kan., April
17, 1887.
Engineer; Major General, U.S. Army; Governor of
Panama Canal Zone, 1940-44.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Phi
Kappa Phi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., 1976
(age about
89 years).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John White Geary (1819-1873) —
also known as John W. Geary —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland
County, Pa., December
30, 1819.
Civil engineer; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican
War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; postmaster at San
Francisco, Calif., 1849; candidate for Governor of
California, 1849; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1850-51; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1856-57; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1867-73.
Methodist.
Died after suffering a heart
attack, in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
8, 1873 (age 53 years, 40
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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Veazle Winthrope O'Hara (b. 1891) —
also known as V. Winthrope O'Hara —
of Partridge, Reno
County, Kan.
Born in Partridge, Reno
County, Kan., August
23, 1891.
Engineer; life
insurance business; U.S. Vice Consul in Bordeaux, 1917-18; Trieste, as of 1919.
Burial location unknown.
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Harry James Stockman (b. 1919) —
of Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 15,
1919.
Republican. Oil company
engineer; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
hotel
operator; real estate
developer; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1960.
Member, Rotary.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Harry Joseph Stockman and Mary Ellen (Lewis) Stockman; married, January
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Rob Wallace (b. 1952) —
of Florida.
Born in Hutchinson, Reno
County, Kan., May 8,
1952.
Republican. Engineer; member of Florida
state house of representatives 47th District, 1995-.
Christian.
Member, Jaycees;
Kiwanis.
Still living as of 1999.
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