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Charles Fremont Cochran (1846-1906) —
also known as Charles F. Cochran —
of Atchison, Atchison
County, Kan.; St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born in Kirksville, Adair
County, Mo., September
27, 1846.
Democrat. Printer; newspaper
editor; lawyer; Atchison
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1880-84; member of Missouri
state senate 2nd District, 1891-94; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 4th District, 1897-1905.
Died in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., December
19, 1906 (age 60 years, 83
days).
Interment at Mt.
Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kan.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications,
publisher of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little
Blue Books"; there were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature,
biography, self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make
them widely accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to
1951, over 500 million copies were printed and sold; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried
and convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned
in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days). Possibly suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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William Mahoney (1869-1952) —
of Kansas City, Wyandotte
County, Kan.; Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
13, 1869.
Pressman; labor
leader; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1904; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Minnesota; founder and editor, Minnesota
Union Advocate newspaper,
1920-32; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1932-34; Farmer-Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1943.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Pythias.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., August
17, 1952 (age 83 years, 217
days).
Interment at Sunset
Memorial Park Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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