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Henry Robert Baird (1876-1936) —
also known as Henry R. Baird —
of Port Huron, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born in East China, St. Clair
County, Mich., January
20, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer; St.
Clair County Prosecuting Attorney, 1919; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1932.
German
and Scottish ancestry.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., May 7,
1936 (age 60 years, 108
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, St. Clair, Mich.
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Robert Gunn Bremner (1874-1914) —
also known as Robert G. Bremner —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Keiss, Caithness, Scotland,
December
17, 1874.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor and publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1912
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1913-14; died in
office 1914.
Scottish ancestry.
Afflicted with cancer,
which spread from his neck to his left shoulder, he was treated with
then-experimental radiation therapy. National news media followed his
progress in detail for weeks. In Dr. Howard A. Kelley's hospital,
tubes containing $100,000 worth of radium
(almost half of the entire U.S. supply) were temporarily inserted
into the tumor. The treatment was unsuccessful and probably harmful,
and he died, in Baltimore,
Md., February
5, 1914 (age 39 years, 50
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Totowa, N.J.
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Robert Crosser (1874-1957) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Holytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland,
June
7, 1874.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1911-12; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention, 1912; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1913-19, 1923-55 (at-large 1913-15,
21st District 1915-19, 1923-55).
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., June 3,
1957 (age 82 years, 361
days).
Interment at Highland
Park Cemetery, Highland Hills, Ohio.
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James Gerry (1796-1873) —
of Shrewsbury, York
County, Pa.
Born near Rising Sun, Cecil
County, Md., August
14, 1796.
Democrat. Physician;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1839-43.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Shrewsbury, York
County, Pa., July 19,
1873 (age 76 years, 339
days).
Interment at Lutheran
Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Pa.
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Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952) —
also known as Harold L. Ickes —
of Hubbard Woods, Cook
County, Ill.; Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill.; Olney, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Frankstown, Blair
County, Pa., March
15, 1874.
Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1920;
U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1936,
1940,
1944;
newspaper
columnist.
Presbyterian.
Scottish and German
ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1952 (age 77 years, 325
days).
Interment at Sandy Spring Friends Cemetery, Sandy Spring, Md.
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John Gardner Murray (1857-1929) —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Baltimore,
Md.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lonaconing, Allegany
County, Md., August
31, 1857.
Democrat. Episcopal
priest; Bishop of Maryland, 1911-29; Presiding Bishop of the
United States, 1926-29; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1912.
Methodist;
later Episcopalian.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, of a stroke,
during a session
of the House of Bishops, in St. James Church,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., October
3, 1929 (age 72 years, 33
days).
Interment at Druid
Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of James Murray and Ann (Kirkwood) Murray; married, October
13, 1881, to Harriet May 'Hattie' Sprague; married, December
4, 1889, to Clara Alice Hunsicker. |
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John Plaster Richmond (1811-1895) —
also known as John P. Richmond —
of Schuyler
County, Ill.
Born in Middletown, Frederick
County, Md., August
11, 1811.
Democrat. Physician;
minister;
in 1840, he officiated at the first
Protestant wedding in what is now the state of Washington; in 1841,
he delivered the first
Fourth of July oration on the Pacific coast; member of Illinois
state senate, 1849-52, 1859-60; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1855-56; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Illinois; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Schuyler County,
1862; postmaster.
Methodist.
Scottish ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in South Dakota, August
28, 1895 (age 84 years, 17
days).
Interment at Tyndall
Cemetery, Tyndall, S.Dak.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond;
married 1835 to
America Walker; married 1859 to Kitty
Gristy. |
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