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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.
Feas. |
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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
(delegation chair; 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.
Republican. 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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William Alexander Harris (1841-1909) —
also known as William A. Harris —
of Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.; Linwood, Leavenworth
County, Kan.
Born near Luray, Loudoun
County, Va., October
29, 1841.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
civil engineer; farmer; U.S.
Representative from Kansas at-large, 1893-95; member of Kansas
state senate, 1895-96; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1897-1903; candidate for Democratic
nomination for Vice President, 1904;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1904,
1908;
candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1906; vice-president, Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
20, 1909 (age 68 years, 52
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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David Hamilton Koch (1940-2019) —
also known as David Koch —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan., May 3,
1940.
Libertarian. Chemical
engineer; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1980; candidate for Texas
state house of representatives 66th District, 2002.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi.
Died in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., August
23, 2019 (age 79 years, 112
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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