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Alexander Armstrong (1877-1939) —
of Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md.; Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md.
Born in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., June 28,
1877.
Republican. Lawyer; Washington
County State's Attorney, 1908-12; Maryland
state attorney general, 1919-23; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1923; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Maryland, 1924
(member, Credentials
Committee); director, Potomac Edison electric
utility, Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., Blue
Ridge Fire
Insurance Co.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, in Ruxton, Baltimore
County, Md., November
20, 1939 (age 62 years, 145
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander Armstrong (1847-1905) and Elizabeth Key (Scott)
Armstrong; married, January
25, 1911, to Mary Rebekah Woods. |
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18, 1923 |
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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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Alanson William Edwards (1840-1908) —
also known as Alanson W. Edwards —
of Bunker Hill, Macoupin
County, Ill.; Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak.
Born in Lorain
County, Ohio, August
27, 1840.
Express
agent; telegraph operator; major in the Union Army during
the Civil War; warden, Illinois Penitentiary at Joliet, 1871-72; newspaper
publisher; mayor of
Fargo, N.Dak., 1887-88; member of North
Dakota state house of representatives, 1895-96; U.S. Consul
General in Montreal, 1903-06.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., February
8, 1908 (age 67 years, 165
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Fargo, N.Dak.
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Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) —
also known as Theodore N. Vail —
of Lyndonville, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 16,
1845.
Republican. General superintendent, U.S. Railway Mail Service,
1876-79; president, American Telephone and Telegraph
Co., 1885-89 and 1907-19; founder of Western Electric and of Bell
Labs; built an electric
railway system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1904; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1916.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from kidney
and cardiac
complications, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., April
16, 1920 (age 74 years, 275
days).
Interment at Vail
Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, N.J.
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