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Stanley G. Adams (1907-1954) —
of Isle
of Wight County, Va.; Colonial Beach, Westmoreland
County, Va.
Born in Eclipse, Nansemond County (now part of Suffolk),
Va., December
16, 1907.
Republican. Ferry boat captain; farmer; real estate
business; hotel
owner; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; chair of
Westmoreland County Republican Party, 1944-50; candidate for Virginia
state senate, 1947; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1948; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1952.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary;
Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died, from an intestinal
blood clot, in Physicians Memorial Hospital,
La Plata, Charles
County, Md., November
7, 1954 (age 46 years, 326
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Oak Grove, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Quincy Adams and Cecil May (Barkelow) Adams; married to Marie
Miller. |
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memorial |
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Bernard Nadal Baker (1854-1918) —
also known as Bernard N. Baker —
of Catonsville, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 11,
1854.
Democrat. Glass
manufacturing business; established Atlantic Transport Line,
operating steamships, shipping freight and passengers from
Baltimore and Philadelphia to Europe; also had lighterage and
cold
storage enterprises; philanthropist; member, U.S. Shipping Board,
1917; resigned 1917.
Died in Cottage Hospital,
Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., December
20, 1918 (age 64 years, 223
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Martin Baker (b. 1878) —
Born in Baltimore,
Md., February
22, 1878.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
sailor; U.S. Vice Consul in Rotterdam, 1915-17.
Burial location unknown.
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Louis Victor Baughman (1845-1906) —
also known as L. Victor Baughman; "Little Napoleon of
Western Maryland" —
of Frederick
County, Md.
Born in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., April
11, 1845.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; farmer; horseman;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1880
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1888;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1886; Maryland
state comptroller, 1888-92; president, Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company; president, Frederick, Northern & Gettysburg Electric
Railway Company.
Died near Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., November
30, 1906 (age 61 years, 233
days).
Interment at St.
John's Catholic Church Cemetery, Frederick, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of John William Baughman and Mary Jane (Jamison) Baughman; married 1881 to Helen
Abell. |
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memorial |
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Frederick W. Feldner (1865-1910) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., June 1,
1865.
Democrat. Lawyer;
president, Cape May Hotel
company; president, Furst-Clark Dredging company; real estate
developer; Consul
for Colombia in Baltimore,
Md., 1901-07.
Along with his wife, daughter, son-in-law, and chauffeur, he was
killed when their car
collided with a fast-moving Pennsylvania
Railroad train, near Cape May, Cape May
County, N.J., August
9, 1910 (age 45 years, 69
days).
Interment at Loudon
Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Feldner and Dorothea Carolyn (Plitt) Feldner; married,
January
23, 1888, to Amalia 'Mollie' Rausch. |
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memorial |
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1910 |
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Charles Ranlett Flint (1850-1934) —
also known as Charles R. Flint; "Father of
Trusts" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, January
24, 1850.
Shipping
business; shipowner; financier;
Consul
for Chile in New
York, N.Y., 1877-79; Consul-General
for Costa Rica in New
York, N.Y., 1891-96; in the 1890s, he consolidated groups of
smaller companies to form large corporations or "trusts": U.S. Rubber
(1892); American Chicle (chewing
gum) (1899); American Woolen
(1899); founder, in 1911, of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company, which later became International Busines Machines (IBM).
Died, in his room at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington,
D.C., February
26, 1934 (age 84 years, 33
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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William Harrison Jr. (c.1750-1789) —
of Maryland.
Born in Charles
County, Md., about 1750.
Shipbuilder; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1785-87; member of Maryland
state senate, 1786-89; died in office 1789.
Protestant.
Died in Charles
County, Md., July 21,
1789 (age about 39
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Brown Kimberly (b. 1855) —
also known as John B. Kimberly —
of Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County (now part of Hampton),
Va.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
31, 1855.
Republican. Merchant;
hotel
owner; steamship agent; postmaster;
director of banks and
electric
railways; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William H. Kimberly and Ann (Brown) Kimberly; married, October
28, 1888, to Leonora V. Allen. |
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Horace W. Metcalf (b. 1833) —
of Damariscotta, Lincoln
County, Maine; Baltimore,
Md.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Damariscotta, Lincoln
County, Maine, May 28,
1833.
Member of shipbuilding firms; coal
business; U.S. Consul in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1890-93, 1897-1911.
Burial location unknown.
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Hermann Oelrichs (1850-1906) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., June 8,
1850.
Democrat. Steamship agent; banker;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1888.
German
ancestry.
Died, from liver
trouble, on
board the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
1, 1906 (age 56 years, 85
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Ferdinand Oelrichs and Julia Matilda (May) Oelrichs; married
1890 to
Theresa Alice 'Tessie' Fair (daughter of James
Graham Fair). |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: Washington Times,
September 4, 1906 |
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Seth Ledyard Phelps (1824-1885) —
of Maryland.
Born in 1824.
Agent, Pacific Mail Steamship Company; U.S. Commercial Agent
(Consul) in Acapulco, 1864; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1875-79; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1878-79; U.S.
Minister to Peru, 1883-85, died in office 1885.
Died in Lima, Peru,
June
24, 1885 (age about 60
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Prospero Schiaffino (1846-1910) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Camoglia, Italy,
October
17, 1846.
Shipbroker; steamship agent; Consular
Agent for Italy in Baltimore,
Md., 1890-1907; Vice-Consul
for Spain in Baltimore,
Md., 1896-98, 1900-07.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Walbrook, Baltimore,
Md., November
12, 1910 (age 64 years, 26
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Irving Murray Scott (1837-1903) —
also known as Irving M. Scott —
Born in Baltimore
County, Md., December
25, 1837.
Republican. Civil
engineer; shipbuilder; candidate for Presidential Elector
for California.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., April
28, 1903 (age 65 years, 124
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Samuel Smith (1752-1839) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., July 27,
1752.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; shipowner; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1790-92; U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1793-1803, 1816-22 (5th District
1793-1801, at-large 1801-03, 5th District 1816-22); U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1803-15, 1822-33; mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1835-38.
Presbyterian.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., April
22, 1839 (age 86 years, 269
days).
Interment at Old
Westminster Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (1844-1916) —
also known as John H. Surratt, Jr. —
of Surrattsville (now Clinton), Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April
13, 1844.
Postmaster at Surrattsville,
Md., 1862-63; dismissed
as postmaster in 1863 for alleged disloyalty
to the Union; became a Confederate courier and spy; he
and others attempted to kidnap
President Abraham
Lincoln; later, the plot to kill the President and other
government officials was formulated at his mother's boarding house in
Washington; he denied involvement in the assassination, but fled
overseas; he was arrested
in Alexandria, Egypt, and sent back to the U.S.; tried in a Maryland
court in 1867 for his alleged involvement in the murder
plot, but the jury couldn't reach a verdict, and a mistrial was
declared; treasurer of a steamship company.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Baltimore,
Md., April
21, 1916 (age 72 years, 8
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John Millard Tawes (1894-1979) —
also known as J. Millard Tawes —
of Crisfield, Somerset
County, Md.
Born in Crisfield, Somerset
County, Md., April 8,
1894.
Democrat. Secretary-treasurer, Tawes Shipbuilding Co. and
Tawes Baking Co.;
director, Bank of
Crisfield; Somerset
County Clerk of Court, 1930-38; Maryland
state comptroller, 1939-47, 1950-59; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maryland, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
Governor
of Maryland, 1959-67; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maryland, 1963; Maryland
state treasurer, 1973-75.
Methodist.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Rotary;
Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Tall
Cedars of Lebanon.
Died in Crisfield, Somerset
County, Md., June 25,
1979 (age 85 years, 78
days).
Interment at Sunny
Ridge Memorial Park Cemetery, Crisfield, Md.
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George A. von Lingen (1838-1907) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Bremen, Germany,
July
4, 1838.
Steamship agent; Consul
for Germany in Baltimore,
Md., 1877-1903.
Died, from acute pulmonary
trouble, in Baltimore,
Md., June 26,
1907 (age 68 years, 357
days).
Interment at Green
Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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