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John Anderson Bensel (1863-1922) —
also known as John A. Bensel —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bernardsville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1863.
Democrat. Engineer;
worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad;
in charge of construction on New York City's North River
waterfront, 1889-95; New York
state engineer and surveyor, 1911-14; major in the U.S. Army
during World War I.
Died, of myelitis,
in Bernardsville, Somerset
County, N.J., June 19,
1922 (age about 58
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Brownlee Bensel and Mary Maclay (Hogg) Bensel; married 1896 to Ella
Louise Day. |
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William Darius Bishop (1827-1904) —
also known as William D. Bishop —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J., September
14, 1827.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1857-59; defeated,
1858, 1902; U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1859-60; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1860;
member of Connecticut
state senate 10th District, 1866, 1877-78; president, New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
1867-79; president, Naugatuck Railroad,
1855-67, 1885-1903; director, Bridgeport Steamboat Company; lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Bridgeport, 1871.
Died, of chronic
endocarditis, in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
4, 1904 (age 76 years, 143
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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Frederick W. Feldner (1865-1910) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., June 1,
1865.
Democrat. Lawyer;
president, Cape May Hotel
company; president, Furst-Clark Dredging company; real estate
developer; Consul
for Colombia in Baltimore,
Md., 1901-07.
Along with his wife, daughter, son-in-law, and chauffeur, he was
killed when their car
collided with a fast-moving Pennsylvania
Railroad train, near Cape May, Cape May
County, N.J., August
9, 1910 (age 45 years, 69
days).
Interment at Loudon
Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Feldner and Dorothea Carolyn (Plitt) Feldner; married,
January
23, 1888, to Amalia 'Mollie' Rausch. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Baltimore Sun, August 10,
1910 |
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John Milton Fessenden (1804-1883) —
also known as John M. Fessenden —
Born in Warren, Bristol
County, R.I., December
21, 1804.
Civil
engineer; worked on canals and railroads;
U.S. Consul in Dresden, 1850-54.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1883 (age 78 years, 49
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Fessenden and Abigail Miller (Child) Fessenden; married, May 21,
1834, to Mary Pierce Bumstead; married, June 25,
1868, to Sarah Ann Murphy; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake; third cousin of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin once removed of William
Pitt Fessenden, Walter
Fessenden, Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden, William
Fessenden Allen, Joseph
Palmer Fessenden and Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); third cousin twice removed of James
Deering Fessenden, Francis
Fessenden, Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin once removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Peter
Rawson Taft, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor and Charles
Grenfill Washburn. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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David Greenlie (1867-1911) —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1867.
Republican. Shipbuilder; mayor
of Passaic, N.J., 1904-07.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Elks; Freemasons.
Died, from apoplexy,
in his room at the Northwestern Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
16, 1911 (age about 44
years).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of William Powell Greenlie and Georgina Cameron (Ireland) Greenlie;
married to Mattie Ora Pierson. |
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memorial |
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Thomas Lemuel James (1831-1916) —
also known as Thomas L. James —
of Tenafly, Bergen
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., March
29, 1831.
Republican. Canal toll collector; newspaper
publisher; customs
inspector; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1873-81; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1881-82; bank
director; mayor
of Tenafly, N.J., 1896.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Died, following several strokes of
apoplexy, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
11, 1916 (age 85 years, 166
days).
Entombed at Church
of the Heavenly Rest, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Richard Smith Leaming (1828-1895) —
also known as Richard S. Leaming —
of Dennisville, Cape May
County, N.J.
Born in South Dennis, Cape May
County, N.J., July 10,
1828.
Republican. Shipbuilder; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Cape May County, 1871-73;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Cape May County, 1874-76.
Died, from consumption,
in Dennisville, Cape May
County, N.J., May 25,
1895 (age 66 years, 319
days).
Interment at Union Cemetery, South Dennis, N.J.
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Albert Hiram Lennox (1842-1907) —
also known as Albert H. Lennox; Albert Hiram
Lenox —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., December
22, 1842.
Shipbroker; commission
merchant; Vice-Consul
for Haiti in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1877-83; Consul
for Greece in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1881-91; Consul
for Haiti in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1883-91; in 1891, he and other officers of some mutual
benefit associations were charged
in Philadelphia with obtaining money under false
pretenses; in 1894, he resisted eviction
for non-payment
of rent; he was no longer consul, but falsely
claimd diplomatic
immunity; the government of Haiti contradicted his claim, and a
scandal
resulted.
Died in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., July 4,
1907 (age 64 years, 194
days).
Interment at Colestown
Cemetery, Cherry Hill Township, Camden County, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Elizabeth Jane Lenox and Hiram Lenox; married to Emma
Stoy. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Alfred Mathis (1869-1958) —
also known as Thomas A. Mathis; "Cap'n
Tom" —
of Tuckerton, Ocean
County, N.J.; Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in New Gretna, Burlington
County, N.J., June 7,
1869.
Republican. Mariner; automobile
dealer; member of New
Jersey state senate from Ocean County, 1910-11, 1914-15, 1923-31,
1942-46; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1928,
1940,
1944;
secretary
of state of New Jersey, 1931-41.
Indicted
for tax
evasion by a federal grand jury in 1937.
He killed
himself, by self-inflicted gunshot,
in Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J., May 18,
1958 (age 88 years, 345
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Toms River, N.J.
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Lewis Nixon (1861-1940) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., April 7,
1861.
Democrat. Naval
architect; designed battleships for the U.S. Navy; later,
proprietor of shipyards; president or owner of manufacturing
firms; leader of Tammany Hall in 1901-02; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1900,
1904,
1908,
1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee; speaker),
1920,
1924,
1932.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
23, 1940 (age 79 years, 169
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Leesburg, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joel Lewis Nixon and Mary Jane (Turner) Nixon; married 1891 to Sally
Lewis Wood. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, February 1902 |
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William Peartree (c.1643-1714) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1643.
Planter;
privateer; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1703-07.
Died in Bergen, Bergen County (now part of Jersey City, Hudson
County), N.J., 1714
(age about
71 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry W. Peterson (b. 1892) —
of Woodbury, Gloucester
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
31, 1892.
Engineer;
president, Philadelphia Transportation and Lighterage Company
(dredging and water transportation); delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment at-large;
elected 1933; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Gloucester
County, 1947; mayor
of Woodbury, N.J., 1953-54.
Member, Rotary;
Elks; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Wilfred Harvey Schoff (1874-1932) —
also known as Wilfred H. Schoff —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Lower Merion Township, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Newtonville, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
27, 1874.
Lecturer;
Honorary
Consul for Bolivia in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1898-1929; Honorary
Consul for Peru in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1898-1921; Vice-Consul
for Panama in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1904-22; secretary and treasurer of the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association; secretary of the Philadelphia
Commercial Museum.
Killed when hit by a
car in Mt. Holly, Burlington
County, N.J., September
14, 1932 (age 57 years, 292
days); his body was not identified until almost three weeks later.
Original interment at Brotherhood Cemetery, Hainesport, N.J.; reinterment in 1932 at
Westminster
Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederic Schoff and Hannah (Kent) Schoff; married, June 20,
1900, to Ethelwyn McGeorge. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Courier-Post (Camden,
N.J.), October 3, 1932 |
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Isaac Williamson Scudder (1816-1881) —
also known as Isaac W. Scudder —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., 1816.
Republican. Lawyer; Hudson
County Prosecutor of the Pleas, 1845-55; director and counsel for
railroad
and canal companies; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1873-75.
Died in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., September
10, 1881 (age about 65
years).
Interment at St.
John's Churchyard, Elizabeth, N.J.
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Anthony Tony Tarracino (1916-2008) —
also known as Tony Tarracino; "Captain Tony";
"The Conscience of Key West" —
of Key West, Monroe
County, Fla.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., August
10, 1916.
Beaten
and left for dead by Mafia colleagues in New Jersey in the 1940s;
charter boat captain; saloon
keeper; mayor
of Key West, Fla., 1989-91; defeated, 1991.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from a heart and
lung
condition, in Lower Keys Medical
Center, Key West, Monroe
County, Fla., November
1, 2008 (age 92 years, 83
days).
Cremated.
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Ebenezer Tucker (1758-1845) —
of Tuckerton, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in Burlington
County, N.J., November
15, 1758.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; merchant;
shipbuilder; postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1825-29.
Died in Tuckerton, Ocean
County, N.J., September
5, 1845 (age 86 years, 294
days).
Interment at Old
Methodist Cemetery, Tuckerton, N.J.
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Jacob Aaron Westervelt (1800-1879) —
also known as Jacob Westervelt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Tenafly, Bergen
County, N.J., January
20, 1800.
Shipbuilder; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1853-55; member of New York
state assembly from Rockland County, 1857.
Dutch
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
21, 1879 (age 79 years, 32
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Joseph Washburn Yates (1826-1904) —
also known as Joseph W. Yates —
of Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Bristol, Lincoln
County, Maine, January
30, 1826.
Democrat. Ship captain; importer
and exporter; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1871; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee); Consul
for Liberia in New
York, N.Y., 1881-97.
Died in Lake Minnewaska, Ulster
County, N.Y., July 29,
1904 (age 78 years, 181
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Scotch Plains, N.J.
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