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John Albus Jr. (1860-1940) —
of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born in Kansas, October
4, 1860.
Republican. Insurance
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Missouri, 1888;
U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1909-10.
German ancestry.
Died October
22, 1940 (age 80 years, 18
days).
Interment at Mt.
Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of John Albus and Elizabeth Albus; married to Clara
Hanssen. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Augustus Ayres (1867-1952) —
also known as William A. Ayres —
of Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ill., April
19, 1867.
Democrat. Lawyer; Sedgwick
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1907-12; U.S.
Representative from Kansas, 1915-21, 1923-34 (8th District
1915-21, 1923-33, 5th District 1933-34); defeated, 1920; resigned
1934; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); member, Federal Trade Commission,
1934-52; died in office 1952; chair, Federal Trade Commission, 1937,
1942, 1946.
Christian.
German ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
17, 1952 (age 84 years, 304
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Old
Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Kan.
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Erwin G. Bartberger (born c.1859) —
also known as E. G. Bartberger —
of Shawnee, Johnson
County, Kan.
Born in Pennsylvania, about 1859.
Republican. Engraver;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1912.
German ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Balthasar Michael Dreiling (1875-1935) —
also known as B. M. Dreiling —
of Hays, Ellis
County, Kan.
Born in Herzog (now Susly), Russia,
November
1, 1875.
Democrat. Postmaster at Hays,
Kan., 1916-20.
Catholic.
Volga German ancestry.
Died in Victoria, Ellis
County, Kan., January
3, 1935 (age 59 years, 63
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph Cemetery, Hays, Kan.
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Edmund J. Dreiling (1901-1990) —
of Hays, Ellis
County, Kan.
Born in Victoria, Ellis
County, Kan., October
14, 1901.
Democrat. Acting postmaster at Hays,
Kan., 1965-67.
Catholic.
Volga German ancestry.
Died in Victoria, Ellis
County, Kan., October
13, 1990 (age 88 years, 364
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph Cemetery, Hays, Kan.
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Norbert R. Dreiling (1925-2005) —
of Hays, Ellis
County, Kan.
Born in Gorham, Russell
County, Kan., April 7,
1925.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1960,
1972;
Kansas
Democratic state chair, 1966-74.
Catholic.
Volga German ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Kiwanis;
Phi
Alpha Delta.
Died in Hays, Ellis
County, Kan., August
1, 2005 (age 80 years, 116
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph Cemetery, Hays, Kan.
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) —
also known as Dwight D. Eisenhower;
"Ike" —
Born in Denison, Grayson
County, Tex., October
14, 1890.
Republican. General in the U.S. Army during World War II; president
of Columbia University, 1948-53; President
of the United States, 1953-61.
Presbyterian.
German and Swiss
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations; Loyal
Legion.
Died, after a series of heart
attacks, at Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1969 (age 78 years, 165
days).
Interment at Eisenhower
Center, Abilene, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower and David Jacob Eisenhower;
brother of Milton
Stover Eisenhower; married, July 1,
1916, to Mamie
Eisenhower; father of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; grandfather of Dwight David Eisenhower
II (son-in-law of Richard
Milhous Nixon). |
| | | Political family: Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sherman
Adams — Carter
L. Burgess — Woodrow
Wilson Mann — Jacqueline
C. Odlum — George
E. Allen — Meyer
Kestnbaum — Bernard
M. Shanley |
| | | The Eisenhower Expressway,
from downtown Chicago west to Hillside, in Cook
County, Illinois, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Tunnel
(opened 1973), which carries westbound I-70 under the Continental
Divide, in the Rocky Mountains, from Clear
Creek County to Summit
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Range of mountains,
in Victoria
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Mount
Eisenhower (formerly Mount Pleasant), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1 coin (1971-78). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "I Like
Ike." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower
: Soldier and President — Fred I. Greenstein, The
Hidden-Hand Presidency : Eisenhower as Leader — Carlo
d'Este, Eisenhower
: A Soldier's Life — Robert F. Burk, Dwight
D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician — Wiley T.
Buchanan, Jr., Red
Carpet at the White House : Four years as Chief of Protocol in the
Eisenhower Administration — Jim Newton, Eisenhower:
The White House Years — William Lee Miller, Two
Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous
World |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1969) |
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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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John P. Hatterscheidt —
of Kansas.
Born in Prussia.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; U.S. Consul in Moscow, 1861-65.
German ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Gustav C. Kothe (b. 1836) —
of Salina, Saline
County, Kan.
Born in Cassel (now Kassel), Germany,
July
6, 1836.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consular Agent in
Cassel, 1890-93, 1894-1911.
German ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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George J. Tallman (1824-1906) —
of Coffeyville, Montgomery
County, Kan.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Pa., July 6,
1824.
Physician;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; druggist; mayor
of Coffeyville, Kan., 1873.
Methodist.
German and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Coffeyville, Montgomery
County, Kan., July 10,
1906 (age 82 years, 4
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Coffeyville, Kan.
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