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Bob Allman —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Singer;
actor;
screenwriter; film
producer and director; record
label owner; candidate in primary for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 2009.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Paul Bowerman (b. 1898) —
of San Leandro, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., September
16, 1898.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; writer; U.S. Vice
Consul in Berlin, 1923-27; Ottawa, as of 1927; U.S. Consul in Ottawa, 1928-29; Zagreb, 1929-32; Salonika, 1932-33.
Member, Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Beagle Bowerman and Margaret (Fisher) Bowerman; married,
May
8, 1923, to Helen Grace Robson. |
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George Breitman (1916-1986) —
also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester
Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G.
Sloane —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
28, 1916.
Socialist. Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; arrested
about 1936 and charged
with inciting
riots; jailed
for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;
member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1954;
editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper,
The Militant, 1941-43, 1946-54; writer under several
different pen names; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
Jersey; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Member, International
Typographical Union.
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Beekman Downtown Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1986 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman; married 1940 to
Dorothea Katz. |
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Maynard Dauchy Follin (1863-1948) —
also known as Maynard D. Follin —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.; Dunedin, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in New York, March 5,
1863.
Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Detroit,
Mich., 1926-31; writer.
French
ancestry.
Died in Pinellas
County, Fla., August
4, 1948 (age 85 years, 152
days).
Interment at Woodmere
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Sheridan D. Ford (b. 1867) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Monroe
County, Mich., January
28, 1867.
Republican. Newspaper
correspondent; art critic; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1915-18.
Irish
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Gulvezan (1907-1991) —
of Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in 1907.
Progressive. Auto
worker; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1948.
Member, United
Auto Workers.
Retiree director of
Region 1B, United Auto Workers; columnist in UAW newspaper;
president of the Detroit Metropolitan Council of Senior Citizens.
Died in 1991
(age about
84 years).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864-1914) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., January
24, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
author; U.S. Consular Agent in Sorrento, 1900-01; Capri, 1901-11.
Died in Capri, Italy,
April
12, 1914 (age 50 years, 78
days).
Interment at Protestant Cemetery, Capri, Italy.
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Hamilton King (1852-1912) —
of Olivet, Eaton
County, Mich.
Born in St. John's, Newfoundland,
June
4, 1852.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; author; preacher;
lecturer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1896;
U.S. Minister to Siam, 1898-1912, died in office 1912; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1898-1912, died in office 1912.
Died, from uremia
and heart
disease, in Bangkok, Thailand,
September
2, 1912 (age 60 years, 90
days).
Interment at Bangkok
Protestant Cemetery, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Wythe Leigh Kinsolving (1878-1964) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Winchester, Franklin
County, Tenn.; Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Oakland, Garrett
County, Md.; Charlottesville,
Va.; Stanardsville, Greene
County, Va.
Born in Halifax, Halifax
County, Va., November
14, 1878.
Democrat. Episcopal
priest; rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, Barton Heights, Va.,
until 1908, when he resigned
following a widely
reported fist
fight with his father-in-law, Rev. Dr. E. H. Pitt; composer;
poet; translator; prolific writer of opinion pieces for
newspapers, expressing moderate pacifist views, along with strong
support for the League of Nations; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1924 ; in 1928, he toured the country giving speeches in support of
Democratic presidential nominee Al
Smith; initially supported President Franklin
Roosevelt and the New Deal, but in the late 1930s turned toward
isolationism and anti-Communism.
Episcopalian.
Died, from cerebral
vascular accident, while suffering from chronic
brain syndrome due to cerebral
arteriosclerosis, in DeJarnette State Sanatorium, a mental
hospital, in Augusta
County, Va., December
21, 1964 (age 86 years, 37
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943) —
also known as Bertha Knight —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., October
19, 1868.
Republican. Lecturer;
writer; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1926-28; defeated, 1928.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Member, Soroptimists;
League of
Women Voters.
First
woman mayor of a large American city.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
29, 1943 (age 75 years, 41
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Klarenc Wade Mak (1861-1930) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Fond du Lac, Fond du
Lac County, Wis.
Born in Fairfield, Jefferson
County, Iowa, 1861.
Physician;
poet; author; lecturer.
Advocate of phonetic spelling.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., March
31, 1930 (age about 68
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Bartlow Martin (1915-1987) —
of Illinois.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, August
3, 1915.
Journalist;
author; speechwriter for Adlai
E. Stevenson, John
F. Kennedy, Robert
F. Kennedy, and Hubert
Humphrey; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1962-63.
Died, from throat
cancer, in Highland Park Hospital,
Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., January
3, 1987 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Herman
Cemetery, Herman, Mich.
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Stephen V. Monsma (1936-2017) —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Pella, Marion
County, Iowa, September
22, 1936.
Democrat. College
professor; writer; member of Michigan
state senate 32nd District, 1979-82; defeated, 1970, 1985; member
of Michigan
state house of representatives 93rd District, 1975-78; Democratic
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1980 (primary), 1982.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Urban
League.
Died February
18, 2017 (age 80 years, 149
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Martin Monsma and Marie (Vos) Monsma; married to Mary
Carlisle. |
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Benjamin Franklin Partridge (1822-1892) —
also known as Benjamin F. Partridge —
of Portsmouth Township, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in Shelby, Macomb
County, Mich., April
19, 1822.
Republican. Lumber
business; real estate
business; farmer;
historian; Bay
County Sheriff; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Michigan
land commissioner, 1877-78; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Bay County 2nd District,
1881-82.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grand
Army of the Republic; Grange.
Died in Portsmouth Township, Bay
County, Mich., October
19, 1892 (age 70 years, 183
days).
Interment at Elm
Lawn Cemetery, Bay City, Mich.
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Bill Prady (b. 1960) —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 7,
1960.
Democrat. Writer and producer for television
sitcoms,
including Dharma & Gregg and Good Morning Miami; 1990
Emmy Award nominee; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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Debbie Schlussel (b. 1969) —
of West Bloomfield Township, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., April 9,
1969.
Republican. Lawyer;
author; movie critic; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives, 1990 (4th District), 1998 (39th
District).
Female.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2017.
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Walter Shapiro (born c.1947) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born about 1947.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1972.
Political columnist for the national newspaper
USA Today.
Still living as of 2001.
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Preston W. Slosson (1892-1984) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., 1892.
Democrat. University
professor; historian; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1948.
Died, of heart
failure, in Clarion, Clarion
County, Pa., May 11,
1984 (age about 91
years). Body donated
to the University of Michigan medical school.
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Oliver Saxton Smith (b. 1881) —
also known as Oliver S. Smith —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Fayette
County, Ohio, May 9,
1881.
Democrat. Accountant;
author of textbooks; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 17th District, 1938; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1945-46; defeated in primary, 1942.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Allen North Smith and Janet T. (Whiteman) Smith; married, April
19, 1905, to Edna Baker. |
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Jacob Hendrick Trapp (1899-1992) —
also known as Jacob Trapp —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Denver,
Colo.; Summit, Union
County, N.J.; Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born in Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., April
12, 1899.
Democrat. Unitarian
minister; poet; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1968.
Unitarian-Universalist.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died in Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., December
28, 1992 (age 93 years, 260
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Willen Jansz Trapp and Aafke 'Effie' (Hertog) Trapp; married, July 13,
1925, to Helen B. Whitmore. |
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John Trumbull (1750-1831) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Westbury, New Haven County (now Watertown, Litchfield
County), Conn., April
24, 1750.
Lawyer;
poet; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1801-19.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., May 10,
1831 (age 81 years, 16
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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John Donaldson Voelker (1903-1991) —
also known as John D. Voelker; Robert
Traver —
of Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich.
Born in Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich., June 29,
1903.
Democrat. Lawyer; Marquette
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1934-52; member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1937-39; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1954; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1956-60; appointed 1956; resigned
1960.
Author of the best-selling novel Anatomy of a Murder
(later a movie
starring Jimmy Stewart), and other books.
Died of a heart
attack, in Marquette, Marquette
County, Mich., March
18, 1991 (age 87 years, 262
days).
Interment at Ishpeming
Cemetery, Ishpeming, Mich.
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Charles A. Weissert (b. 1878) —
of Hastings, Barry
County, Mich.
Born in Hastings, Barry
County, Mich., August
22, 1878.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; author; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Barry County, 1915-20.
German
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
also known as Adonijah S. Welch —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April
12, 1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college
professor; author.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
14, 1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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