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Charles Powell Adams (1831-1893) —
also known as C. P. Adams —
of Hastings, Dakota
County, Minn.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1831.
Physician; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 6th District, 1857; served
in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Hastings, Minn., 1872-73; member of Minnesota
state senate 20th District, 1879-82.
Died in 1893
(age about
62 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Wilson A. Allen (b. 1834) —
of Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn.
Born in Indiana, March, 1834.
Physician; surgeon; mayor
of Rochester, Minn., 1895-96.
Burial location unknown.
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Christian J. Amble (1874-1947) —
of Manzano, Torrance
County, N.M.; Mountainair, Torrance
County, N.M.; Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M.
Born in Minnesota, 1874.
Republican. Physician; druggist; Torrance
County Treasurer, 1912; Torrance
County Health Officer, 1931; member of New Mexico
Republican State Committee, 1934; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Mexico, 1936;
member of New
Mexico state house of representatives; elected 1938.
Lutheran.
Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Pythias; Modern
Woodmen of America.
Died in Albuquerque, Bernalillo
County, N.M., January
30, 1947 (age about 72
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Alonzo Ames (1842-1911) —
also known as Albert A. Ames;
"Doc" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; California.
Born in Garden Prairie, Boone
County, Ill., January
18, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 5, 1867; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1876-77, 1882-84, 1886-89, 1901-02;
resigned 1902; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1886 (Democratic), 1896 (Independent); delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1888;
indicted
in 1902 on bribery
charges,
over a scheme to induce county commissioners to appoint his
secretary, Thomas R. Brown, Jr., as Sheriff.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
16, 1911 (age 69 years, 302
days). His body was reportedly donated to
science.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Alfred Elisha Ames (1814-1874) —
also known as Alfred E. Ames —
of Winnebago
County, Ill.; St. Anthony Falls, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Colchester, Chittenden
County, Vt., December
13, 1814.
Democrat. Physician; member of Illinois
state senate 24th District, 1849-50; member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 6th District, 1853;
postmaster at Minneapolis,
Minn., 1856-57; delegate
to Minnesota state constitutional convention 11th District, 1857.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., September
23, 1874 (age 59 years, 284
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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John Wesley Andrews (1849-1932) —
also known as John W. Andrews —
of Marshall, Lyon
County, Minn.; Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn.
Born in Russellville, Lawrence
County, Ill., April 6,
1849.
Physician; member of Minnesota
state senate 8th District, 1915-18.
Died in Mankato, Blue Earth
County, Minn., May 18,
1932 (age 83 years, 42
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: John
Wesley |
| | | Relatives: Son of Rev. John Redding
Andrews and Delilah (Armstrong) Andrews; married 1878 to Jennie
Cornelia French. |
| | | See also Minnesota
Legislator record |
| | | Image source: Minnesota Legislative
Manual 1917 |
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Amos Walker Barber (1861-1915) —
also known as Amos W. Barber —
of Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.
Born in Doylestown, Bucks
County, Pa., July 25,
1861.
Republican. Physician; secretary
of state of Wyoming, 1890-95; Governor of
Wyoming, 1890-93.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., May 18,
1915 (age 53 years, 297
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Frederick William Behmler (1895-1966) —
also known as Fred W. Behmler —
of Appleton, Swift
County, Minn.; Morris, Stevens
County, Minn.
Born in Jordan, Scott
County, Minn., February
2, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; physician;
surgeon; member of Minnesota
state senate 48th District, 1955-58; defeated, 1958.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, American Medical
Association; American
Legion; Kiwanis;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, from a myocardial
infarction, in Abbott Northwestern Hospital,
Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
6, 1966 (age 71 years, 277
days).
Interment at Summit Cemetery, Morris, Minn.
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Michael C. Burgess (b. 1950) —
of Highland Village, Denton
County, Tex.
Born in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., December
23, 1950.
Republican. Physician; U.S.
Representative from Texas 26th District, 2003-.
Episcopalian.
Still living as of 2014.
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Harry Cannon (1863-1936) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Juneau
County, Wis., 1863.
Physician; surgeon; member of Minnesota
state senate 41st District, 1927-30.
Died in 1936
(age about
73 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Apollos Comstock (1836-1889) —
of New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.; Silver Springs, Park
County, Colo.; Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
18, 1836.
Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from New Canaan, 1866;
physician.
Died December
15, 1889 (age 53 years, 58
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Watts Comstock and Nancy (Hoyt) Comstock; married, June 23,
1869, to Lizzie E. Merrill; married, October
22, 1878, to Julia C. Bouton. |
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Les N. Dale —
Republican. Physician; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Minnesota.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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John de Laittre (1832-1921) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, March 5,
1832.
Physician; mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1877-78.
Died September
19, 1921 (age 89 years, 198
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lucius W. Dennison (b. 1819) —
of Rice
County, Minn.
Born in New York, 1819.
Republican. Physician; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 18, 1878-80.
Burial location unknown.
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Ardell William Diessner (b. 1923) —
also known as A. W. Diessner —
of Redwood Falls, Redwood
County, Minn.; Afton, Washington
County, Minn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., July 28,
1923.
Democrat. Physician; member of Minnesota
state senate 56th District, 1983-90; defeated, 1958.
Unitarian.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Richard Diessner (1853-1935) —
also known as Henry R. Diessner —
of Waconia, Carver
County, Minn.
Born in Hanover, Germany,
November
4, 1853.
Republican. Physician; postmaster;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota,
1900;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 25, 1911-12.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., January
11, 1935 (age 81 years, 68
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Norman Eddy (1810-1872) —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Scipio, Cayuga
County, N.Y., December
10, 1810.
Democrat. Physician; lawyer;
candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1847; member of Indiana
state senate, 1849-52; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1853-55; U.S.
Attorney for Minnesota, 1855-57; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; secretary
of state of Indiana, 1871-72.
Episcopalian.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., January
28, 1872 (age 61 years, 49
days).
Interment at South
Bend City Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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Jeremiah E. Finch (b. 1829) —
of Hastings, Dakota
County, Minn.
Born in Woodstock, Ontario,
November
22, 1829.
Physician; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Hastings, Minn., 1866-67.
Member, American Medical
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial location unknown.
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Jean Louise Harris (c.1931-2001) —
of Richmond,
Va.; Eden Prairie, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Virginia, about 1931.
Republican. Physician; mayor
of Eden Prairie, Minn., 1995-2001; died in office 2001; candidate
for Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 2000.
Female.
Episcopalian
or Lutheran.
African
ancestry.
Died, of lung
cancer, in a hospital
at Eden Prairie, Hennepin
County, Minn., December
14, 2001 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Eden Prairie, Minn.
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Pierre A. Hilbert (b. 1865) —
of Melrose, Stearns
County, Minn.
Born in Luxembourg,
1865.
Democrat. Physician; member, Minnesota State Board of Medical
Examiners, 1899-1902, 1906-12; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 1908;
member of Minnesota
state senate 46th District, 1915-18.
Luxemburgian
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Walter Henry Judd (1898-1994) —
also known as Walter H. Judd —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Rising City, Butler
County, Neb., September
25, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
physician; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 5th District, 1943-63; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1948
(alternate), 1952
(alternate; speaker),
1956
(speaker),
1960,
1964.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Legion.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Died in Mitchellville, Prince
George's County, Md., February
13, 1994 (age 95 years, 141
days).
Interment at Blue
Valley Cemetery, Surprise, Neb.
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William Worrall Mayo (1819-1911) —
of Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn.
Born in Eccles, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England,
May
31, 1819.
Democrat. Physician; founder of the medical practice and hospital
which became the Mayo Clinic; mayor
of Rochester, Minn., 1882-83; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 1888
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1904
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); member of Minnesota
state senate 14th District, 1891-94.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., March 6,
1911 (age 91 years, 279
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Rochester, Minn.
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James McLaughlin (1816-1883) —
of Mantorville, Dodge
County, Minn.
Born in Ireland,
1816.
Physician; member of Minnesota
state senate, 1881-83 (11th District 1881-82, 13th District
1883); died in office 1883.
Died in 1883
(age about
67 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John C. Nelson (1847-1924) —
also known as Johann Christian Nielsen —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark,
September, 1847.
Physician; Vice-Consul
for Denmark in St.
Paul, Minn., 1896-1907.
Danish
ancestry.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., March
13, 1924 (age 76 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Rudolph Charles Radabaugh (b. 1890) —
of Hastings, Dakota
County, Minn.
Born in Zumbro Falls, Wabasha
County, Minn., March
17, 1890.
Republican. Physician; served in the U.S. Army during World
War I; Minnesota
Republican state chair, 1938-44; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Minnesota, 1940,
1944
(alternate), 1948
(alternate).
Member, Kiwanis;
American
Medical Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick H. Rollins (b. 1867) —
of Winona
County, Minn.
Born in a log
cabin near Caledonia, Houston
County, Minn., September
30, 1867.
Physician; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member
of Minnesota
state senate 2nd District; elected 1930; defeated, 1934.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Daniel Sherwood (1833-1895) —
also known as Charles D. Sherwood —
of Rushford, Fillmore
County, Minn.; Sherwood, Franklin
County, Tenn.
Born in New Milford, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
18, 1833.
Republican. Physician; lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1859-61, 1863 (District 9
1859-60, District 14 1861, 1863); postmaster;
Lieutenant
Governor of Minnesota, 1864-66.
Drowned,
reportedly as a suicide,
in Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, Illinois, July 2,
1895 (age 61 years, 226
days).
Interment at Mound
Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, Ill.
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Vespasian Smith (1818-1897) —
of Superior, Douglas
County, Wis.; Bayfield, Bayfield
County, Wis.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, Ohio, October
21, 1818.
Democrat. Physician; mayor of
Duluth, Minn., 1873-74; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1876-81.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., October
11, 1897 (age 78 years, 355
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1846 to
Charlotte E. Neely. |
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Gottfried Stamm (1842-1907) —
also known as Johann Gottfried Stamm —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Bibern (now part of Thayngen), Schaffhausen, Switzerland,
November, 1842.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; physician; Honorary
Consul for Switzerland in St.
Paul, Minn., 1889-1905.
Swiss
ancestry.
Died, from intestinal
cancer, in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., September
15, 1907 (age 64 years, 0
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Jacob Henry Stewart (1829-1884) —
also known as Jacob H. Stewart —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Clermont, Columbia
County, N.Y., January
15, 1829.
Republican. Physician; Minnesota surgeon general, 1857-63;
member of Minnesota
state senate 2nd District, 1859-60; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1864-65, 1868-69, 1872-75; postmaster at St.
Paul, Minn., 1865-70; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 3rd District, 1877-79; Minnesota
surveyor general, 1879-82.
Died in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., August
25, 1884 (age 55 years, 223
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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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, Hibbing, Minn.
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Henry Mason Wheeler (1854-1930) —
of Grand Forks, Grand
Forks County, N.Dak.
Born in 1854.
Physician; mayor
of Grand Forks, N.Dak., 1917-18.
Member, Freemasons.
He helped stop a bank robbery by the Jesse James gang, in Northfield,
Minnesota, September 7, 1876. He owned the first
automobile in Grand Forks.
Died April
13, 1930 (age about 75
years).
Interment somewhere
in Northfield, Minn.
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