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John Strode Barbour Jr. (1820-1892) —
also known as John S. Barbour, Jr. —
of Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., December
29, 1820.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1847-51; president, Orange & Alexandria
Railroad, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 8th District, 1881-87; member of Democratic
National Committee from Virginia, 1884-92; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1888;
U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1889-92; died in office 1892.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 14,
1892 (age 71 years, 137
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.
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Benjamin Thomas Biggs (1821-1893) —
also known as Benjamin T. Biggs —
of Middletown, New Castle
County, Del.
Born near Summit Bridge, New Castle
County, Del., October
1, 1821.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; farmer; delegate
to Delaware state constitutional convention, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1869-73; defeated, 1860;
president, Queen Anne and Kent Railroad, 1874; Governor of
Delaware, 1887-91.
Methodist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Middletown, New Castle
County, Del., December
25, 1893 (age 72 years, 85
days).
Interment at Bethel
Cemetery, Chesapeake City, Md.
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James Bruce (1892-1980) —
of Eccleston, Baltimore
County, Md.; Finksburg, Carroll
County, Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
23, 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; banker;
vice-president, National Dairy
Products Corp.; director, Republic Steel Co.;
director, Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway; director,
American Airlines;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1940
(alternate), 1952,
1956;
U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1947-49.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose.
Died July 17,
1980 (age 87 years, 207
days).
Interment somewhere
in Baltimore, Md.
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John Gordon Cooper (1872-1955) —
also known as John G. Cooper —
of Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio.
Born in Staffordshire, England,
April
27, 1872.
Republican. Locomotive engineer; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1911-15; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1915-37.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers.
Died in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., January
7, 1955 (age 82 years, 255
days).
Interment at Lake
Park Cemetery, Youngstown, Ohio.
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John Jacob Cornwell (1867-1953) —
also known as John J. Cornwell —
of Romney, Hampshire
County, W.Va.
Born in Ritchie
County, W.Va., July 11,
1867.
Democrat. Lawyer;
owner and editor of The Hampshire Review newspaper;
financed and built Hampshire Southern Railroad; president, Bank of
Romney; director and general counsel, Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West
Virginia, 1896,
1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1932,
1940;
member of West
Virginia state senate, 1899-1906 (12th District 1899-1902, 15th
District 1903-06); Governor of
West Virginia, 1917-21; defeated, 1904.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died in Cumberland, Allegany
County, Md., September
8, 1953 (age 86 years, 59
days).
Interment at Indian
Mound Cemetery, Romney, W.Va.
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George Washington Covington (1838-1911) —
also known as George W. Covington —
of Snow Hill, Worcester
County, Md.
Born in Berlin, Worcester
County, Md., September
12, 1838.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1867; attorney for
Pennsylvania Railroad; director, Delaware Railway
Company; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1881-85.
Presbyterian.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 6,
1911 (age 72 years, 206
days).
Interment at All
Hallows Cemetery, Snow Hill, Md.
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John King Cowen (1844-1904) —
also known as John K. Cowen —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio; Baltimore,
Md.
Born near Millersburg, Holmes
County, Ohio, October
28, 1844.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
counsel, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1872-76; general counsel,
1876-96; president, 1896-1901; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 4th District, 1895-97.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April
26, 1904 (age 59 years, 181
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Ohio.
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Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) —
also known as Henry G. Davis —
of Piedmont, Mineral
County, W.Va.
Born near Woodstock, Howard
County, Md., November
16, 1823.
Democrat. Railroad promoter; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Hampshire County, 1866;
member of West
Virginia state senate 10th District, 1869-71; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1871-83; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1872,
1880,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1912;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1904.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
11, 1916 (age 92 years, 116
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.; statue at Davis Park, Charleston, W.Va.
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Westmoreland Davis (1859-1942) —
also known as Morley Davis —
of Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born, of American parents, at sea in the North
Atlantic Ocean, August
21, 1859.
Democrat. Railway clerk; lawyer; Governor of
Virginia, 1918-22; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1920.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., September
7, 1942 (age 83 years, 17
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Loudoun County, Va.
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N. T. Downs (b. 1874) —
of Mill Creek, Randolph
County, W.Va.
Born in Flintstone, Allegany
County, Md., October
26, 1874.
Democrat. Railway freight and ticket agent; telegraph
operator; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Randolph County, 1941-46.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Royal
Arcanum; Order
of Railroad Telegraphers.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William H. Downs and Elizabeth (Chisholm) Downs; married, June 14,
1899, to Philomena Patterson. |
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Charles Drury Hodges (1810-1884) —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.
Born in Queene Anne, Talbot
County, Md., February
4, 1810.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1851-53; Greene
County Judge, 1854-59; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1859; director and
secretrary-treasurer of the St. Louis, Jacksonville & Chicago
Railroad; circuit judge in Illinois, 1867-73; member of Illinois
state senate, 1873-77.
Died in Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill., April 1,
1884 (age 74 years, 57
days).
Interment at Carrollton
Cemetery, Carrollton, Ill.
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Hugh Judge Jewett (1817-1898) —
also known as Hugh Jewett —
of Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Harford
County, Md., July 1,
1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1853; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1855-56; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1855, 1868-69; railroad
president; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1861; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1873-74; defeated, 1860
(16th District), 1870 (7th District); resigned 1874; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1880.
Died in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., March 6,
1898 (age 80 years, 248
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Zanesville, Ohio.
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William Preston Lane Jr. (1892-1967) —
of Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md.
Born in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., May 12,
1892.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for several railroads; served in the U.S. Army during
World War I; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maryland, 1928,
1940,
1944,
1948;
Maryland
state attorney general, 1930-34; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Maryland; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maryland, 1940-50; Governor of
Maryland, 1947-51; defeated, 1950.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; Elks; Rotary.
Died in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., February
7, 1967 (age 74 years, 271
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Md.
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Hector MacLean (1920-2012) —
of Lumberton, Robeson
County, N.C.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
15, 1920.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
president, Bank of
Lumberton; president, Virginia and Carolina Southern Railroad;
mayor
of Lumberton, N.C., 1949-53; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1961-71; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1964.
Presbyterian.
Died in Lumberton, Robeson
County, N.C., December
7, 2012 (age 92 years, 83
days).
Interment at Meadowbrook
Cemetery, Lumberton, N.C.
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Charles Oliver O'Donnell (1822-1877) —
also known as C. Oliver O'Donnell —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., January
20, 1822.
Commission
merchant; insurance
business; vice-president, Gaslight
Company of Baltimore; director, Union Bank of
Maryland; director, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Vice-Consul
for Brazil in Baltimore,
Md., 1864-76.
Catholic.
Died, from apoplexy,
in the Pequod House Hotel,
New London, New London
County, Conn., August
12, 1877 (age 55 years, 204
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Herbert Livingston Satterlee (1863-1947) —
also known as Herbert L. Satterlee —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
31, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer;
private secretary for U.S. Senator William
M. Evarts, 1887-89; served in the U.S. Navy during the
Spanish-American War; counsel for Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railroad, 1898-1902; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
1906-07; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1908-09; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1920.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Union
League; Navy
League; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 14,
1947 (age 83 years, 256
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George LeRoy Bowen Satterlee and Sarah Bradley (Wilcox) Satterlee;
married, November
15, 1909, to Louisa Pierpont Morgan (daughter of J. Pierpont
Morgan); second great-grandnephew of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794) and Walter
Livingston; third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); third great-grandnephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin thrice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; first cousin four times removed of Philip
Peter Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859) and Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin four times removed
of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler and Henry
Cruger; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler, William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; third cousin thrice removed of Hamilton
Fish; fourth cousin of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and Bronson
Murray Cutting; fourth cousin once removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr., John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Brockholst
Livingston. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Merrill Henry Tilghman (1875-1927) —
also known as Merrill H. Tilghman —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Snow Hill, Worcester
County, Md., February
9, 1875.
Democrat. Railway conductor; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Delaware, 1924; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Delaware at-large, 1926.
Member, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen; Order
of Railway Conductors.
Died in Dover, Kent
County, Del., March 7,
1927 (age 52 years, 26
days).
Interment at Silverbrook Cemetery and Memorial Park, Wilmington, Del.
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Tench Tilghman (1810-1874) —
of Oxford, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in Talbot
County, Md., March
25, 1810.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; farmer;
brigadier general, Maryland militia, 1837-60; Maryland commissioner
of public works, 1841-51; president, Talbot Mutual Fire
Insurance Co., 1846-49; U.S. Consul in Mayagüez, 1849-52; president, Maryland and Delaware
Railroad, 1855-61; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1857-60.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., December
22, 1874 (age 64 years, 272
days).
Interment at Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Md.
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John Sluyter Wirt (1851-1904) —
also known as John S. Wirt —
of Elkton, Cecil
County, Md.
Born in Cecil
County, Md., November
16, 1851.
Democrat. Lawyer;
chief legal counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1884,
1892;
member of Maryland
state senate; elected 1889; member of Maryland
state house of delegates; elected 1897.
Episcopalian.
Died, from kidney
disease, in Elkton, Cecil
County, Md., May 17,
1904 (age 52 years, 183
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Wesley Wirt and Margaret Savin (Biddle) Wirt; second
great-grandnephew of Stephanus
Bayard; fourth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt and Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707); fourth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus
Van Cortlandt and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Stuyvesant; first cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802) and Richard
Bassett; first cousin four times removed of Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; first cousin five times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of James
Adams Ekin; second cousin thrice removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, Philip
P. Schuyler, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Clayton, Richard
Henry Bayard and James
Asheton Bayard Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton and John
Cortlandt Parker; third cousin thrice removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Peter
Robert Livingston, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, John
Bubenheim Bayard, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), James
Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Augustus Jay and William
Jay; fourth cousin of Thomas
Francis Bayard Sr.; fourth cousin once removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker and Thomas
Francis Bayard Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Image source: Rat-Tat (yearbook), St.
John's College, Annapolis (1898) |
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