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Politicians in Railroading in Kansas

William Augustus Barstow (1813-1865) — also known as William A. Barstow — of Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wis.; Janesville, Rock County, Wis. Born in Plainfield, Windham County, Conn., September 13, 1813. Postmaster at Prairieville, Wis., 1842-43; secretary of state of Wisconsin, 1850-52; Governor of Wisconsin, 1854-56; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, 1860; president, St. Croix & Lake Superior Railroad; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kan., December 13, 1865 (age 52 years, 91 days). Interment somewhere in Cleveland, Ohio.   Relatives: Son of William A. Barstow; married 1844 to Maria Quarles.   See also National Governors Association biography   Orsemus Hills Bentley (1855-1927) — also known as O. H. Bentley — of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kan. Born December 19, 1855. Lawyer; rancher; railroad promoter; historian; mayor of Wichita, Kan., 1915-16. Episcopalian. Died January 22, 1927 (age 71 years, 34 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Kan.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Justin De Witt Bowersock (1842-1922) — also known as Justin D. Bowersock — of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kan. Born near Columbiana, Columbiana County, Ohio, September 19, 1842. Republican. President, Lawrence National Bank, Bowersock Mills and Power Co., Kansas Water Power Co., Lawrence Iron Works, Lawrence Paper Manufacturing Co., Kansas and Colorado Railroad; mayor of Lawrence, Kan., 1881-85; member of Kansas state house of representatives, 1887; member of Kansas state senate, 1895; U.S. Representative from Kansas 2nd District, 1899-1907. Congregationalist. Died in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kan., October 27, 1922 (age 80 years, 38 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.   Relatives: Son of I. Bowersock and Adaline (McDonald) Bowersock; married, September 5, 1866, to Mary C. Gower.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Joseph Little Bristow (1861-1944) — also known as Joseph L. Bristow — of Salina, Saline County, Kan. Born near Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky., July 22, 1861. Republican. Newspaper editor; secretary of Kansas Republican Party, 1894-98; private secretary to Gov. Edmund N. Morrill, 1895-97; special commander of Panama Railroad, 1905; U.S. Senator from Kansas, 1909-15. Methodist. Died in Fairfax County, Va., July 14, 1944 (age 82 years, 358 days). Interment at Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Kan.   Relatives: Son of William Bristow and Savannah (Little) Bristow; married, November 11, 1879, to Margaret Hester Hendrix.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1908   James Guthrie Harbord (1866-1947) — also known as James G. Harbord — of Manhattan, Riley County, Kan.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester County, N.Y. Born near Bloomington, McLean County, Ill., March 21, 1866. Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; general in the U.S. Army during World War I; president (1923-30), and chairman (1930-47), Radio Corporation of America; director, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; director, Bankers Trust Co.; director, National Broadcasting Co.; director, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc. (RKO); director, New York Life Insurance Co.; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1924, 1932; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1932; delegate to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Union League. Died in Rye, Westchester County, N.Y., August 20, 1947 (age 81 years, 152 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.   Relatives: Son of George W. Harbord and Effie Critton (Gault) Harbord; married, January 21, 1899, to Emma Yeatman Ovenshine (daughter of Gen. Samuel Ovenshine); married, December 31, 1938, to Anne (Lee) Brown (daughter of Fitzhugh Lee).   Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Mason family of Virginia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   William Heimké (1847-1931) — of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kan. Born in France, July 8, 1847. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; importing and purchasing agent, Mexican Central Railway, 1881-82; general manager, Chihuahua and Durango telephone companies; U.S. Vice Consul in Chihuahua, 1887-92; U.S. Consul in Chihuahua, 1892-93; U.S. Minister to Guatemala, 1908-09; Salvador, 1909-14. Member, Grand Army of the Republic. Died in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kan., July 14, 1931 (age 84 years, 6 days). Burial location unknown.   See also U.S. State Dept career summary   Cyrus Kurtz Holliday (1826-1900) — also known as Cyrus K. Holliday — of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Born in Cumberland County, Pa., April 3, 1826. Republican. Mayor of Topeka, Kan., 1859-60, 1867-68, 1869-70; first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, 1860-63; member of Kansas state senate, 1861; Adjutant General of Kansas, 1864-65; candidate for U.S. Representative from Kansas, 1874. Member, Freemasons. Died in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan., March 29, 1900 (age 73 years, 360 days). Interment at Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Kan.   Relatives: Married to Mary Dillon Jones.   The town of Holliday, now the site of a landfill within the city of Shawnee, Kansas, was named for him.  — The World War II Liberty ship SS Cyrus K. Holliday (built 1943 at Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California; scrapped 1966) was named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Edwin Carl Johnson (1884-1970) — also known as Edwin C. Johnson; "Big Ed" — of Craig, Moffat County, Colo. Born in Scandia, Republic County, Kan., January 1, 1884. Democrat. Railroad work; telegrapher; farmer; member of Colorado state house of representatives, 1923-31; Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, 1931-32; Governor of Colorado, 1933-37, 1955-57; U.S. Senator from Colorado, 1937-55; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1952. Lutheran. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows; Elks; Grange. Died in Denver, Colo., May 30, 1970 (age 86 years, 149 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colo.   Relatives: Son of Nels Johnson and Anna Belle (Lunn) Johnson; married, February 17, 1907, to Fern Claire Armitage.    — The Johnson Tunnel (opened 1979), which carries eastbound I-70 under the Continental Divide, in the Rocky Mountains, from Summit County to Clear Creek County, Colorado, is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   George Pierson Morehouse (b. 1859) — of Council Grove, Morris County, Kan.; Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan. Born in Decatur, Macon County, Ill., July 28, 1859. Republican. Lawyer; Morris County Attorney, 1894-97; local attorney, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, 1894-1915; member of Kansas state senate, 1901-05; historian. Presbyterian. Member, Sons of the American Revolution. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Horace Morehouse and Lavinia F. (Strong) Morehouse; married, April 23, 1906, to Louise (Thorne) Hull. Eugene Collins Pulliam (1889-1975) — also known as Eugene C. Pulliam — of Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind. Born, in a sod dugout, in Grant County, Kan., May 3, 1889. Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; director, New York Central Railroad; delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1952 (speaker), 1956. Methodist. Member, Sigma Delta Chi; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons; Elks; Rotary. Died in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz., June 23, 1975 (age 86 years, 51 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Ind.   Relatives: Son of Rev. Irvin Brown Pulliam and Martha Ellen (Collins) Pulliam; married 1912 to Myrta Smith; married 1919 to Martha Ott; married 1941 to Nina G. Mason; grandfather of James Danforth Quayle (who married Marilyn Quayle); great-grandfather of Benjamin Eugene Quayle.   Political family: Quayle family of Indianapolis, Indiana.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: The Arizona Republic, August 31, 2011   Theodore Crosby Sears (1828-1898) — also known as Theodore C. Sears — of Ottawa, Franklin County, Kan.; Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash. Born in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., August 4, 1828. Republican. Lawyer; member of Kansas state senate, 1871-72; general attorney for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, 1872-81; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kansas, 1880. Died, reportedly from senility, in Lakeview, Pierce County, Wash., November 8, 1898 (age 70 years, 96 days). Interment at Tacoma Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.   Relatives: Son of Lewis Sears and Sarah (Crosby) Sears; married to Elizabeth Hoyt.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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