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Solomon Saladin Calhoon (1838-1908) —
also known as S. S. Calhoon —
of Yazoo City, Yazoo
County, Miss.; Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.; Canton, Madison
County, Miss.; Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss.
Born near Brandenburg, Meade
County, Ky., January
2, 1838.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to Gov. William
McWillie, 1857; newspaper
editor; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
circuit judge in Mississippi, 1876-82; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Mississippi, 1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1890; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1900-08; appointed 1900; died in
office 1908.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and German ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died November
10, 1908 (age 70 years, 313
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John H. Cook (b. 1874) —
of Clarksdale, Coahoma
County, Miss.
Born in Jasper
County, Miss., February
27, 1874.
School
teacher; postmaster;
lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Mississippi; Republican
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1922; U.S. Marshal, 1922-25; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, 1925-29;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Mississippi, 1928.
Methodist.
German, English,
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Marshall Cook and Susan (Mounger) Cook; married 1900 to Annie
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Ernest Lee Jahncke (1877-1960) —
also known as "Commodore" —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., October
13, 1877.
Republican. Engineer;
president, Jahncke Dry
Docks, New Orleans; U.S. assistant secretary of the Navy,
1929-33; named a Commodore in 1931, and a Rear Admiral in the naval
reserve in 1955; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1932,
1936
(alternate).
Episcopalian.
German ancestry. Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Expelled
from the International Olympic Committee in July 1936 after taking a
strong
stand against the Nazi-organized Berlin Games.
Died in Pass Christian, Harrison
County, Miss., November
16, 1960 (age 83 years, 34
days).
Entombed at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Ludwig Hermann Von Gohren (1844-1906) —
also known as L. H. Von Gohren —
of Bay St. Louis, Hancock
County, Miss.
Born in Germany,
September
7, 1844.
Physician;
Vice-Consul
for Netherlands in Bay St.
Louis, Miss., 1889-1903.
German ancestry.
Died in Bay St. Louis, Hancock
County, Miss., August
31, 1906 (age 61 years, 358
days).
Interment at Cedar
Rest Cemetery, Bay St. Louis, Miss.
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