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James Lawrence Blair (1854-1904) —
also known as James L. Blair —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., April 2,
1854.
Lawyer;
president, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, 1884; general
counsel, St. Louis World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition),
1901-03; indicted
in December, 1903, for forgery
of two deeds of trust to obtain
a loan from an estate he managed.
Member, American Bar
Association; Loyal Legion; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, either from suicide
(which he had attempted at least twice before) or from "congestion of
the brain", in Eustis, Lake
County, Fla., January
16, 1904 (age 49 years, 289
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Maxwell Blake (1877-1959) —
of Oklahoma.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., November
15, 1877.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Funchal, 1906-07; Dunfermline, 1907-10; U.S. Consul General in Bogotá, 1910; Tangier, 1910-21, 1925-41; Melbourne, 1924-25; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Morocco, 1917-21, 1925-41.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Loyal Legion.
Died January
22, 1959 (age 81 years, 68
days).
Interment at Mt.
Washington Cemetery, Independence, Mo.
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Samuel Wesley Fordyce (1840-1919) —
also known as S. W. Fordyce —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Guernsey
County, Ohio, February
7, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; founder,
builder, president, receiver, and director of many railroads;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1884,
1892;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Arkansas, 1888; delegate to Gold Democrat
National Convention from Arkansas, 1896.
Scottish
and Dutch
ancestry. Member, Loyal Legion.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
3, 1919 (age 79 years, 177
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) —
also known as Winfield S. Hancock —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Montgomery
County, Pa., February
14, 1824.
Democrat. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1868,
1876;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1880.
Member, Freemasons;
Loyal Legion.
Died in Governor's Island, New York
County, N.Y., February
9, 1886 (age 61 years, 360
days).
Interment at Montgomery
Cemetery, Norristown, Pa.; statue erected 1896 at Hancock
Circle, Washington, D.C.
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John Willock Noble (1831-1912) —
also known as John W. Noble —
of Keokuk, Lee
County, Iowa; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, October
26, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1867-70; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1889-93.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., March
22, 1912 (age 80 years, 148
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) —
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, February
8, 1820.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Union
Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1869.
Member, Loyal Legion.
In 1864, he led Union troops who attacked and burned Atlanta,
Georgia. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
14, 1891 (age 71 years, 6
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; statue at Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Sherman Park, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman and John
Sherman; married, May 1,
1850, to Eleanor Boyle Ewing (daughter of Thomas
Ewing); father of Eleanor M. Sherman (who married Alexander
Montgomery Thackara); uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson
Appleton Miles) and Elizabeth Sherman (who married James
Donald Cameron); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield, Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Sherman counties in Kan., Neb. and Ore. are
named for him. |
| | | The community
of Sherman,
Michigan, is named for
him. — Mount
Sherman, in Lake
and Park
counties, Colorado, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: W.
T. S. Rath
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| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books about William T. Sherman: Stanley
P. Hirshson, The
White Tecumseh : A Biography of General William T.
Sherman |
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Israel C. Smith (1838-1899) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Denver,
Colo.; Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in 1838.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; hotel
proprietor; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 4th
Michigan District, 1893-97.
Episcopalian.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal Legion; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in 1899
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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