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John Brandt —
of Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in New Jersey.
Pharmacist; mayor
of Boca Raton, Fla., 1962-63.
Still living as of 1963.
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James Lockwood Conger (1805-1876) —
of Mt. Clemens, Macomb
County, Mich.; St. Clair, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
18, 1805.
Whig. School
teacher; lawyer; merchant;
banker;
patent medicine manufacturer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1851-53.
Died in St. Clair, St. Clair
County, Mich., April
10, 1876 (age 71 years, 52
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio; cenotaph at Clinton
Grove Cemetery, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of David Beeman Conger and Hannah (Lockwood) Conger; married, December
23, 1824, to Paulina Belvedere Clark; second cousin once removed
of Hanford
Nichols Lockwood; second cousin thrice removed of John
Hart; third cousin of Homer
Nichols Lockwood and Charles
Franklin Conger; third cousin once removed of Daniel
Lockwood and Hugh
Conger; third cousin twice removed of Ebenezer
Lockwood, Alfred
Collins Lockwood and Daniel
Clark Joyce; third cousin thrice removed of John
Alsop, William
Henry Rossell and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; fourth cousin of Thaddeus
Betts, Anson
Griffith Conger, Harmon
Sweatland Conger, Omar
Dwight Conger, Moore
Conger, Chauncey
Stewart Conger (1838-1916) and Frederick
Ward Conger; fourth cousin once removed of Horatio
Lockwood, Walter
Booth, Abiel
Case, Abraham
Bogart Conger, Edwin
Hurd Conger, James
W. Conger, Franklin
Barker Conger, Benn
Conger, Frank
Elisha Reed and Chauncey
Stewart Conger (1882-1963). |
| | | Political families: Conger
family of New York; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Thomas Connor (1914-2000) —
also known as John T. Connor; Jack Connor —
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., November
3, 1914.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1965-67.
Catholic.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Kappa Psi.
President and CEO of the Merck pharmaceutical company from
1955; chairman and CEO of Allied Chemical,
1967-79.
Died, of cancer,
at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
6, 2000 (age 85 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mosswood
Cemetery, Cotuit, Barnstable, Mass.
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Charles Leighton Hardwick (b. 1941) —
also known as Chuck Hardwick —
of Westfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Pulaski
County, Ky., November
8, 1941.
Republican. Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1978-92; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1986-90; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1980,
1988;
candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1989; senior vice-president for Government Relations
at the Pfizer pharmaceuticals firm.
Still living as of 2003.
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William J. Harrison (1852-1909) —
of Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born January
11, 1852.
Democrat. Druggist; postmaster at Lakewood,
N.J., 1885-90, 1895-99; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Ocean County, 1903; member of
New
Jersey state senate from Ocean County, 1908-09; died in office
1909.
Died March
23, 1909 (age 57 years, 71
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Lakewood, N.J.
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John Johnstone (c.1661-1732) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Perth Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland,
about 1661.
Druggist; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1714-19.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Perth Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., September
3, 1732 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John N. Klein (b. 1862) —
of Belleville, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Bellefonte, Centre
County, Pa., April
24, 1862.
Republican. Druggist; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1899-1900;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1912.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Elks; Royal
Arcanum; Modern
Woodmen of America; Junior
Order.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of David G. Klein and Maria (Pott) Klein; married 1890 to
Elizabeth Gephart. |
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George W. Merck (1894-1957) —
of West Orange, Essex
County, N.J.; Rupert, Bennington
County, Vt.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
29, 1894.
Republican. Chemist;
president (1925-49) and chairman (1949-57), Merck & Co.,
pharmaceutical makers; delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment at-large;
elected 1933; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1948;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1956.
Suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage, and died the next day, in Orange Memorial Hospital,
Orange, Essex
County, N.J., November
9, 1957 (age 63 years, 225
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Merck and Friedrike (Schenck) Merck; married, September
22, 1917, to Josephine Carey Wall; married 1926 to Serena
Stevens. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 18,
1952 |
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J. M. Mitchell Jr. (b. 1866) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in New Jersey, 1866.
Physician;
druggist; U.S. Consular Agent in San Pedro Sula, 1891-1925.
Burial location unknown.
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Firman M. Reeves (b. 1877) —
of Millville, Cumberland
County, N.J.
Born in Millville, Cumberland
County, N.J., September
20, 1877.
Republican. Pharmacist; real estate
business; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Cumberland County, 1918-19;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Cumberland County, 1920-27.
Member, Elks; Eagles;
Moose;
Redmen;
Freemasons;
Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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James H. Terrill (c.1862-1943) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Rahway, Union
County, N.J., about 1862.
Democrat. Pharmacist; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1904-05.
Member, Junior
Order.
Died in Rahway, Union
County, N.J., July 28,
1943 (age about 81
years).
Burial location unknown.
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