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Richard Thurmond Chatham (1896-1957) —
also known as Thurmond Chatham —
of Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C.; Elkin, Surry
County, N.C.
Born in Elkin, Surry
County, N.C., August
16, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; president and
chairman, Chatham Manufacturing Company; served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1949-57.
Member, Grange;
Farm
Bureau; Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., February
5, 1957 (age 60 years, 173
days).
Interment at Salem
Cemetery, Winston-Salem, N.C.
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Jonathan Elwood Cox (b. 1856) —
also known as J. Elwood Cox —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.; High Point, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Rich Square, Northampton
County, N.C., November
1, 1856.
Republican. Banker;
manufacturer; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from North Carolina, 1896;
candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, 1908.
Quaker.
Interment at New
Garden Friends Meeting Cemetery, Greensboro, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan E. Cox and Elizabeth A. (Hare) Cox; married, October
23, 1878, to Bertha E. Snow. |
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Henry E. Fries —
of Salem (now part of Winston-Salem), Forsyth
County, N.C.
Manufacturer; railroad
president; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Forsyth County,
1887-88; mayor
of Salem, N.C., 1889-92.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
City of Winston-Salem |
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Green Kendrick (1796-1873) —
of Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Mecklenburg
County, N.C., April 1,
1796.
Whig. Manufacturer; warden
(borough president) of Waterbury, Connecticut, 1839-40; member of
Connecticut
state house of representatives from Waterbury, 1845, 1847-48,
1854, 1856, 1861, 1866, 1872; Speaker of
the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1854, 1856;
member of Connecticut
state senate 5th District, 1846, 1864; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1851-52; candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1852.
Died in Waterbury, New Haven
County, Conn., August
26, 1873 (age 77 years, 147
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Waterbury, Conn.
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S. W. Lovingood (b. 1865) —
of Murphy, Cherokee
County, N.C.
Born in Cherokee
County, N.C., February, 1865.
Democrat. School
teacher; manufacturer; secretary, Murphy Light and
Power Company; bank
director; mayor of Murphy, N.C., 1896; member of North
Carolina state senate 38th District, 1913-14.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Lovingood and Mahala Lovingood. |
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William Elmendorf Rothery (1851-1932) —
also known as William E. Rothery —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
25, 1851.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; Consul
for Liberia in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1888-95; manufacturers' agent; food broker.
German
ancestry.
Died, following a heart
attack, in St. Peter's Hospital,
Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., July 8,
1932 (age 81 years, 105
days).
Interment at Cataumet Cemetery, Bourne, Mass.
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Lawrence Davis Tyson (1861-1929) —
also known as Lawrence D. Tyson —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Greenville, Pitt
County, N.C., July 4,
1861.
Democrat. University
professor; lawyer;
president, Knoxville Cotton
Mills, Knoxville Spinning
Co., Poplar Creek Coal and
Iron Co., Lenoir City Land
Co., East Tennessee Coal and
Iron Co., Coal Creek Mining and
Manufacturing Co.; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1903-05; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1903-05;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1908;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Democratic
nomination for Vice President, 1920;
U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1925-29; died in office 1929.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died in 1929
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Old
Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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