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Index to Locations
Chisholm Unknown location
Duluth Calvary Cemetery
Duluth Forest Hill Cemetery
Duluth Oneota Cemetery
Ely Unknown location
Eveleth Eveleth Cemetery
Hermantown Sunrise Memorial Park
Hibbing Maple Hill Cemetery
Virginia Unknown location
Virginia Greenwood Cemetery
Unknown
Location
Chisholm, St. Louis County, Minnesota
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John Anton Blatnik (1911-1991) —
also known as John A. Blatnik —
of Chisholm, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Chisholm, St. Louis
County, Minn., August
17, 1911.
Democrat. School
teacher; member of Minnesota
state senate 60th District, 1941-46; served in the U.S. Army Air
Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1947-75; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1952
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1960,
1964
(delegation chair); member of Democratic
National Committee from Minnesota, 1963.
Died, from heart
failure, in Forest Heights, Prince
George's County, Md., December
17, 1991 (age 80 years, 122
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Calvary
Cemetery
Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota
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William Edgar Culkin (1860-1949) —
also known as William E. Culkin —
of Buffalo, Wright
County, Minn.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y., October
15, 1860.
Lawyer;
Wright
County Attorney, 1887; member of Minnesota
state senate 38th District, 1895-98.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., June 25,
1949 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Medor E. Louisell (b. 1870) —
of Frankfort, Benzie
County, Mich.
Born in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., 1870.
Delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 27th District,
1907-08.
Interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Forest Hill
Cemetery
2516 Woodland Avenue
Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota
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John Miller (1843-1908) —
of North Dakota.
Born in Dryden, Tompkins
County, N.Y., October
29, 1843.
Republican. Delegate
to North Dakota state constitutional convention, 1889; Governor of
North Dakota, 1889-91.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
26, 1908 (age 64 years, 363
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Ozora Pierson Stearns (1831-1896) —
also known as Ozora P. Stearns —
of Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn.
Born in DeKalb, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., January
15, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; Olmsted
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1861; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; mayor
of Rochester, Minn., 1866-68; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1871; district judge in Minnesota 11th
District, 1874-95.
Died in Pacific Beach, San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., June 2,
1896 (age 65 years, 139
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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William Alvin Pittenger (1885-1951) —
also known as William A. Pittenger —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born near Crawfordsville, Montgomery
County, Ind., 1885.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 58, 1917-20; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1929-33, 1935-37,
1939-47; defeated, 1932 (at-large), 1946 (8th District).
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., November
26, 1951 (age about 66
years).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Robert Page Walter Morris (1853-1924) —
also known as R. Page W. Morris —
of Lynchburg,
Va.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Lynchburg,
Va., June 30,
1853.
Republican. College
professor; lawyer;
postmaster at Lynchburg,
Va., 1883-85; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Virginia 6th District, 1884; district judge
in Minnesota 11th District, 1895-96; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1897-1903; U.S.
District Judge for Minnesota, 1903-23; took senior status 1923.
Arrested
in Salt Lake City, 1921, following an accident in which his
car struck a pedestrian, Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., December
16, 1924 (age 71 years, 169
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Alfred Perry Jaques (1857-1937) —
also known as Alfred Jaques —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Geneseo Township, Henry
County, Ill., February
9, 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer;
municipal judge in Minnesota, 1887-89; candidate for district judge
in Minnesota 11th District, 1896; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1910; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1912
(speaker);
U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1914-22; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1926.
Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Elks.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., July 2,
1937 (age 80 years, 143
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Oscar John Larson (1871-1957) —
also known as Oscar J. Larson —
of Calumet, Houghton
County, Mich.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Uleaborg (now Oulu), Finland,
May
20, 1871.
Republican. Lawyer; Houghton
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1898-1904; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1912;
U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1921-25.
Congregationalist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died August
1, 1957 (age 86 years, 73
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Clark MacGregor (1922-2003) —
of Plymouth, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., July 12,
1922.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 3rd District, 1961-71; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1964,
1968;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1970.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Chairman of President Richard
M. Nixon's re-election campaign, July to November 1972.
Died, of respiratory
failure, in a hospital
at Pompano Beach, Broward
County, Fla., February
10, 2003 (age 80 years, 213
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Melvin Riley Baldwin (1838-1901) —
of Minnesota.
Born in Chester, Windsor
County, Vt., April
12, 1838.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 6th District, 1893-95.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., April
15, 1901 (age 63 years, 3
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Henry Casper Truelsen —
also known as Henry C. Truelsen —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Democrat. Mayor of
Duluth, Minn., 1896-1900; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1900.
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Andrew Duncan Davidson (1853-1916) —
also known as A. D. Davidson —
of Little Falls, Morrison
County, Minn.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Glencoe, Ontario,
May
18, 1853.
Republican. President, Canadian Western Lumber
Company; vice-president, Columbia River Lumber
Company; land commissioner, Canadian Northern Railway;
banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1896
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee).
Died, from acute
stomach trouble, in the Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., April
22, 1916 (age 62 years, 340
days).
Entombed at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Gordon Hubert Butler (1889-1964) —
also known as Gordon H. Butler —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Scipio, Jennings
County, Ind., February
10, 1889.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; general
contractor; president, Polaris Concrete
Products Company; bank
director; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of
Minnesota
state senate, 1951-64 (57th District 1951-62, 61st District
1963-64); died in office 1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
American
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Rotary;
Elks; Eagles.
Died, of pneumonia,
in St. Luke's Hospital,
Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., August
1, 1964 (age 75 years, 173
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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William Albert Hicken (1859-1932) —
also known as W. A. Hicken —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Georgetown, Prince
Edward Island, April 2,
1859.
Republican. Real estate
business; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 57, 1917-18.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., April
17, 1932 (age 73 years, 15
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Oneota
Cemetery
Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota
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William Leighton Carss (1865-1931) —
also known as William L. Carss —
of Proctor, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Pella, Marion
County, Iowa, February
15, 1865.
Locomotive
engineer; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1919-21, 1925-29;
defeated, 1920 (Democratic), 1922 (Democratic), 1928 (Farmer-Labor),
1930 (Farmer-Labor).
Member, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., May 31,
1931 (age 66 years, 105
days).
Interment at Oneota Cemetery.
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George W. Johnson (1894-1974) —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., December
22, 1894.
Member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 59, 1925-36; insurance
business; mayor of
Duluth, Minn., 1945-53.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in a hospital
at Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., June 20,
1974 (age 79 years, 180
days).
Interment at Oneota Cemetery.
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Carl Rudolf Berghult (1905-2000) —
also known as Carl R. Berghult —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born April
15, 1905.
Mayor
of Duluth, Minn., 1937-41.
Died in Arlington, Tarrant
County, Tex., February
15, 2000 (age 94 years, 306
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Oneota Cemetery.
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Willard M. Munger (1911-1999) —
also known as Willard Munger; "Mr.
Environment" —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in a log
house, Otter Tail
County, Minn., January
20, 1911.
Democrat. Member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1955-64, 1967-99 (District 59
1955-64, District 59-B 1967-72, District 7-A 1973-99); defeated,
1934, 1952; died in office 1999; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 1960;
candidate for Minnesota
state senate 59th District, 1964.
Served in the Minnesota House longer than anyone else in the state's
history.
Died, of liver
cancer, in the hospice
unit of of St. Mary's Hospital, Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., July 11,
1999 (age 88 years, 172
days).
Interment at Oneota Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota
Eveleth
Cemetery
Eveleth, St. Louis County, Minnesota
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Joseph Richard Begich (1930-2019) —
also known as Joseph R. Begich; Joe Begich —
of Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., January
17, 1930.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; mining
foreman; farmer; mayor
of Eveleth, Minn., 1965-74; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1975-92 (District 6-A 1975-82,
District 6-B 1983-92).
Croatian
ancestry.
Died, in a nursing
home at Eveleth, St. Louis
County, Minn., August
10, 2019 (age 89 years, 205
days).
Interment at Eveleth Cemetery.
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Sunrise Memorial
Park
Hermantown, St. Louis County, Minnesota
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Samuel F. Snively (1859-1952) —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Greencastle, Franklin
County, Pa., November
24, 1859.
Mayor
of Duluth, Minn., 1921-37.
Swiss
and German
ancestry.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., 1952
(age about
92 years).
Interment at Sunrise Memorial Park.
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Maple Hill
Cemetery
Hibbing, St. Louis County, Minnesota
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Howard Ranken Weirick (1866-1933) —
also known as H. R. Weirick —
of Hibbing, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1866.
Republican. Physician;
mayor
of Hibbing, Minn., 1907-13, 1928-30; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1920.
Died in Hibbing, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
20, 1933 (age about 67
years).
Interment at Maple Hill Cemetery.
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James G. Early —
of Hibbing, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Minnesota, 1936.
Interment at Maple Hill Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota
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J. Carver Richards —
of Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Minnesota, 1932.
Interment somewhere.
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Greenwood
Cemetery
Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota
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Jalmer T. Johnson (1912-2000) —
of Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
20, 1912.
Mayor
of Virginia, Minn., 1976-90.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sons
of Norway; Moose.
Died, in Arrowhead Health
Care Center, Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., September
22, 2000 (age 87 years, 338
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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J. Edward Pearsall (1920-1998) —
of Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., April
20, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; mayor
of Virginia, Minn., 1966-76.
Presbyterian.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Elks.
Died, in Virginia Regional Medical
Center, Virginia, St. Louis
County, Minn., July 27,
1998 (age 78 years, 98
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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