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David Augustus Boody (1837-1930) —
also known as David A. Boody; "Grand Old Man of
Brooklyn"; "Grand Old Man of Wall
Street" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born, in a log
cabin built by his father, in Jackson, Waldo
County, Maine, August
13, 1837.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
stockbroker; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1888;
U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1891; defeated
(Independent Democratic), 1882; resigned 1891; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1892-93; defeated, 1893; Democratic
Presidential Elector for New York, 1913
(voted for Woodrow
Wilson and Thomas
R. Marshall).
Presbyterian.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
20, 1930 (age 92 years, 160
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Cyrus W. Davis (1856-1917) —
of Waterville, Kennebec
County, Maine.
Born in Buxton Center, Buxton, York
County, Maine, September
25, 1856.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; investment broker; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1901-04; mayor
of Waterville, Maine, 1903-05; candidate for Governor of
Maine, 1904, 1906; secretary
of state of Maine, 1911-12; U.S.
Surveyor of Customs at Portland, Maine, Maine, 1914-17; died in
office 1917.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar.
Died, from pneumonia,
at the Falmouth Hotel,
Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
1, 1917 (age 61 years, 37
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Waterville, Maine.
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Relatives: Son
of Cyrus Davis and Harriet A. (Pratt) Davis; married, September
25, 1879, to Flora E. Philbrook; third cousin once removed of Fred
Melville Libby; third cousin twice removed of Carl
Elias Milliken. |
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November 1, 1917 |
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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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Loyall Farragut Sewall (1894-1958) —
also known as Loyall F. Sewall —
of Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine.
Born in Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, September
13, 1894.
Republican. Investment broker; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Maine, 1932.
Died in Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, April 6,
1958 (age 63 years, 205
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Hay Whitney (1904-1982) —
also known as Jock Whitney —
of Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, August
17, 1904.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
financier; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1956,
1968;
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1957-61; publisher of the New York Herald
Tribune newspaper,
1961-66.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
8, 1982 (age 77 years, 175
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Manhasset, Long Island, N.Y.
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