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James Beach Wakefield (1825-1910) —
also known as James B. Wakefield —
of Blue Earth, Faribault
County, Minn.
Born in Winsted, Litchfield
County, Conn., March
21, 1825.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1857-58, 1863, 1866 (District 14
1857-58, District 20 1863, 1866); Speaker of
the Minnesota State House of Representatives, 1866; member of Minnesota
state senate 20th District, 1867-69; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1868;
Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1876-80; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 2nd District, 1883-87.
Died in Blue Earth, Faribault
County, Minn., August
25, 1910 (age 85 years, 157
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Painesville, Ohio.
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Carleton L. Wallace (b. 1865) —
also known as Carl L. Wallace —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., 1865.
Lawyer; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1899-1902, 1905-06, 1909-10;
member of Minnesota
state senate 34th District, 1915-18.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
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Thomas William Walsh (b. 1897) —
also known as Thomas W. Walsh —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., October
27, 1897.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1948.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; American Bar
Association; Knights
of Columbus.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard A. Walsh and Margaret (McManus) Walsh; married to Mildred
Stewart. |
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John E. Warren (1827-1896) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., January
18, 1827.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1854-55; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1863-64.
Died in Brussels, Belgium,
July
6, 1896 (age 69 years, 170
days).
Interment somewhere
in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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Knut Magnus Wefald (1900-1991) —
also known as Magnus Wefald —
of Hawley, Clay
County, Minn.
Born in Hawley, Clay
County, Minn., April
21, 1900.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; member of
Minnesota
state senate 49th District, 1947-58.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died, in St. John's Hospital,
Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., February
9, 1991 (age 90 years, 294
days).
Interment at Hawley
Cemetery, Hawley, Minn.
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Thomas P. Welch (b. 1897) —
of Buffalo, Wright
County, Minn.
Born in Jacksonville Township, Chickasaw
County, Iowa, June 5,
1897.
Lawyer; Wright
County Attorney, 1925-39; member of Minnesota
state senate 27th District, 1939-60.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Joseph Wells (1856-1941) —
of Breckenridge, Wilkin
County, Minn.
Born in Mazomanie, Dane
County, Wis., October
4, 1856.
Newspaper
editor; lawyer; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 60, 1901-10.
Baptist.
Died in Winter Haven, Polk
County, Fla., February
12, 1941 (age 84 years, 131
days).
Interment at Old
Cemetery, Winter Haven, Fla.
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Almur Stiles Whiting (1889-1959) —
also known as Almur S. Whiting —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.; Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala.
Born in Wausau, Marathon
County, Wis., March 2,
1889.
Republican. Shipyard
paymaster; lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Alabama, 1944,
1952
(alternate).
Died in Mobile, Mobile
County, Ala., February
5, 1959 (age 69 years, 340
days).
Interment at Pine
Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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Charles S. Whiting (1863-1922) —
of De Smet, Kingsbury
County, S.Dak.
Born in Olmsted
County, Minn., May 25,
1863.
Lawyer; circuit judge in South Dakota 9th Circuit, 1903-08;
judge
of South Dakota state supreme court 3rd District, 1908-22; died
in office 1922.
Died March
25, 1922 (age 58 years, 304
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alexander Wilkin (c.1820-1864) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Orange
County, N.Y., about 1820.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; lawyer; secretary
of Minnesota Territory, 1851-53; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War.
Killed
in battle at Tupelo, Lee
County, Miss., July 14,
1864 (age about 44
years); highest ranking volunteer from Minnesota to be killed in
the Civil War.
Burial location unknown.
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Morton Smith Wilkinson (1819-1894) —
also known as Morton S. Wilkinson —
of Eaton Rapids, Eaton
County, Mich.; Stillwater, Washington
County, Minn.; Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn.; Wells, Faribault
County, Minn.
Born in Skaneateles, Onondaga
County, N.Y., January
22, 1819.
Lawyer; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 2nd District, 1849-50; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1859-65; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 1st District, 1869-71; defeated
(Democratic), 1888; member of Minnesota
state senate 14th District, 1874-77.
Died in Wells, Faribault
County, Minn., February
4, 1894 (age 75 years, 13
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Mankato, Minn.
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William Chapman Williston (1830-1909) —
also known as W. C. Williston —
of Red Wing, Goodhue
County, Minn.
Born in Cheraw, Chesterfield
County, S.C., June 22,
1830.
Lawyer; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 16, 1873-74; member of
Minnesota
state senate 16th District, 1876-77; district judge in Minnesota
1st District, 1891.
Died in Goodhue
County, Minn., June 22,
1909 (age 79 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William King Williston and Annis (Chapman) Williston; married, April
12, 1854, to Mary E. Canfield; first cousin thrice removed of Moses
Seymour; second cousin once removed of George
Williston Nash; second cousin twice removed of Horatio
Seymour (1778-1857) and Henry
Seymour; second cousin four times removed of William
Pitkin and John
Wentworth; third cousin once removed of Origen
Storrs Seymour, Horatio
Seymour (1810-1886), George
Seymour, McNeil
Seymour and Henry
William Seymour; third cousin twice removed of Theodore
Dwight, Elijah
Hunt Mills, Greene
Carrier Bronson and Chester
Wentworth; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah
Cowles, John
Strong, Aaron
Kellogg, John
Wentworth Jr. and Daniel
Pitkin; fourth cousin of Edward
Woodruff Seymour, Joseph
Battell, Morris
Woodruff Seymour, Horatio
Seymour Jr. and Norman
Alexander Seymour; fourth cousin once removed of Morris
Woodruff, Martin
Keeler, Luther
Walter Badger, Daniel
Kellogg, Silas
Wright Jr. and James
Samuel Wadsworth. |
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Gebhard Willrich (1853-1925) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Gilten, Lower Saxony (now Germany),
May
27, 1853.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; school
teacher; lawyer; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 27, 1889-90; probate
judge in Minnesota, 1895-99; U.S. Consul in Saint John, 1905-09; Quebec City, 1909-17; St. Gall, 1924.
Died December
1, 1925 (age 72 years, 188
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Eugene McLanahan Wilson (1833-1890) —
also known as Eugene M. Wilson —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Morgantown, Monongalia
County, Va. (now W.Va.), December
25, 1833.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1857-61; served in the Union Army during
the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 2nd District, 1869-71; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1872-73, 1874-75; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Minnesota, 1876;
member of Minnesota
state senate 27th District, 1879-80; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1888.
Died in Nassau, Bahamas,
April
10, 1890 (age 56 years, 106
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Donald Orr Wright (born c.1893) —
also known as Donald O. Wright —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., about 1893.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Minnesota
Republican State Central Committee, 1924-26; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 30, 1927-34; member of
Minnesota
state senate 30th District, 1935-60; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1940
(member, Credentials
Committee); Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1954-55.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Herbert Wright (1863-1930) —
also known as Edward H. Wright —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
28, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer; Cook
County Commissioner, 1897-1900; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1908.
African
ancestry.
Died, in Colonial Hospital,
Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., August
6, 1930 (age 66 years, 312
days).
Burial location unknown.
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