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William H. Albright (b. 1875) —
of Woodbury, Gloucester
County, N.J.
Born in Elmer, Salem
County, N.J., December
20, 1875.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of New
Jersey state senate from Gloucester County, 1932-34; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1940.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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George B. Anderson (1863-1910) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Kentucky, 1863.
Newspaper correspondent; U.S. Consul in Antigua, 1896-97, 1905-08; Grenoble, 1897-1900; Prescott, 1900-03; Guadeloupe, 1903-05; Martinique, 1908-10, died in office 1910.
Died, from heart
disease, on a West Shore train
in Weehawken, Hudson
County, N.J., March 2,
1910 (age about 46
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Hersey Andrew (b. 1858) —
also known as Henry H. Andrew —
of Union, Monroe
County, W.Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Asbury Park, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; lawyer;
candidate for West
Virginia state senate 8th District, 1898.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Ogunquit, Wells, York
County, Maine.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 27,
1862.
Democrat. Magazine editor; author; playwright;
candidate for mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1894; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921.
Died, from intestinal
cancer, in City Hospital,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., January
21, 1922 (age 59 years, 239
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis N. Bangs and Amelia Francis (Bull) Bangs; married, March 3,
1886, to Agnes Lawson Hyde; married, April
27, 1904, to Mary Blakeney Gray. |
| | | Image source: American Review of
Reviews, March 1922 |
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George Breitman (1916-1986) —
also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester
Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G.
Sloane —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
28, 1916.
Socialist. Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; arrested
about 1936 and charged
with inciting
riots; jailed
for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;
member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1954;
editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper, The Militant,
1941-43, 1946-54; writer
under several different pen names; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New Jersey; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Member, International
Typographical Union.
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Beekman Downtown Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1986 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman; married 1940 to
Dorothea Katz. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Robert Gunn Bremner (1874-1914) —
also known as Robert G. Bremner —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Keiss, Caithness, Scotland,
December
17, 1874.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper editor and publisher; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1912
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1913-14; died in
office 1914.
Scottish
ancestry.
Afflicted with cancer,
which spread from his neck to his left shoulder, he was treated with
then-experimental radiation therapy. National news media followed his
progress in detail for weeks. In Dr. Howard A. Kelley's hospital,
tubes containing $100,000 worth of radium
(almost half of the entire U.S. supply) were temporarily inserted
into the tumor. The treatment was unsuccessful and probably harmful,
and he died, in Baltimore,
Md., February
5, 1914 (age 39 years, 50
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Totowa, N.J.
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William Cullen Bryant (1849-1905) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
1, 1849.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; Brooklyn Fire
Commissioner, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1900.
Episcopalian.
Member, Union
League.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Dr. Cooley's Sanitarium,
Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., February
15, 1905 (age 55 years, 198
days).
Interment at Cypress
Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Róger Calero (b. 1969) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Nicaragua,
1969.
Socialist. Not U.S. citizen; meat packer;
journalist; convicted
of sale
of marijuana, 1988; arrested
in 2002, at the Houston airport, while returning from Cuba, and jailed,
while deportation
proceedings were started, but released in 2003; Socialist Workers
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004, 2008; Socialist Workers candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 2006; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 2010.
Nicaraguan
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Gordon Canfield (1898-1972) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Salamanca, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., April
15, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
reporter; secretary to U.S. Rep. George
N. Seger, 1923-40; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 8th District, 1941-61.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
American
Legion.
Died in Hawthorne, Passaic
County, N.J., June 20,
1972 (age 74 years, 66
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Totowa, N.J.
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Robert Carey (b. 1872) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., 1872.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; lawyer;
common pleas court judge in New Jersey, 1913; bank
director; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1924
(alternate), 1936
(alternate), 1940
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1944,
1948;
candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1928, 1934; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Hudson County,
1947.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
American Bar
Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1900 to Cora
G. Curney. |
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William H. Chew (1871-1962) —
of Salem, Salem
County, N.J.
Born in Camden, Camden
County, N.J., September
18, 1871.
Republican. Newspaper editor; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Jersey, 1904
(alternate), 1928
(alternate), 1932.
Died December
17, 1962 (age 91 years, 90
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Churchyard, Salem, N.J.
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James S. Clarkson (1842-1918) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., May 17,
1842.
Republican. Newspaper editor; railroad
builder; Iowa
Republican state chair, 1869-71; postmaster at Des
Moines, Iowa, 1871-79; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Iowa, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1880-96; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1891-92; First Assistant U.S.
Postmaster General, 1889-90; U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1902-10.
Assisted more than 500 escaping slaves en route to Canada via the
"underground railroad," 1856-62.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., May 31,
1918 (age 76 years, 14
days).
Interment somewhere
in Des Moines, Iowa.
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John W. Clift (b. 1856) —
of Summit, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., December
5, 1856.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1922-28.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Clarkson Clothier (b. 1885) —
also known as Robert C. Clothier —
of New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
8, 1885.
Newspaper reporter; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War
I; vice-president, Scott Company (industrial personnel consultants),
1918-23; Dean of Men, University of Pittsburgh, 1929-32; director,
Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company; president,
Rutgers University, 1932; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Middlesex
County, 1947.
Christian
Reformed.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Clarkson Clothier and Agnes (Evans) Clothier; married, June 24,
1916, to Nathalie Wilson; father of Arthur
Clothier. |
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Felix Cole (1887-1969) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., October
12, 1887.
Newspaper reporter; lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Petrograd, as of 1916-17; U.S. Consul General in Warsaw, as of 1929; Algiers, as of 1938-43; U.S. Minister to Ethiopia, 1945; U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, 1948-49.
Member, Order of
the Coif; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in 1969
(age about
81 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert C. Crane (c.1921-1962) —
of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J.; Westfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., about 1921.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; newspaper
editor and publisher; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
Jersey; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1952;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Union County, 1956-62; resigned 1962.
Died, of cancer,
in Elizabeth General Hospital,
Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., April
24, 1962 (age about 41
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick L. Crane and Gwendolyn (Kershner) Crane; married to
Frances H. Adams. |
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Benjamin H. Crosby (b. 1859) —
of Tuckerton, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., January
17, 1859.
Republican. Printer;
newspaper editor and publisher; fire
chief; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Ocean County, 1908-10.
Methodist.
Burial location unknown.
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Amos Jay Cummings (1841-1902) —
also known as Amos J. Cummings —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Conklin, Broome
County, N.Y., May 15,
1841.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
work; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1887-89, 1889-94, 1895-1902 (6th
District 1887-89, 9th District 1889-93, 11th District 1893-94, 10th
District 1895-1902); defeated, 1894; died in office 1902; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1892,
1896.
Received Medal
of Honor in 1894 for action at Salem Heights, Va., May 4, 1863.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., May 2,
1902 (age 60 years, 352
days).
Interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Irvington, N.J.
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Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817) —
also known as Alexander J. Dallas —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica,
June
21, 1759.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; secretary
of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1791-1801; resigned 1801; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1801-14; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1814-16.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., January
16, 1817 (age 57 years, 209
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Joseph A. Dear (1840-1908) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Great Easton, England,
May
11, 1840.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1908.
Died in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
10, 1908 (age 68 years, 213
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton (1868-1953) —
also known as Charles A. Eaton;
"Doc" —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Toronto, Ontario;
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Watchung, North Plainfield, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Pugwash, Nova
Scotia, March
29, 1868.
Republican. Baptist
minister; magazine editor; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1920,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1925-53 (4th District 1925-33,
5th District 1933-53).
Baptist.
Member, Union
League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
23, 1953 (age 84 years, 300
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Scotch Plains, N.J.
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Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956) —
also known as Walter E. Edge —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Ventnor City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
20, 1873.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
advertising
business; newspaper publisher; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1908
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1944,
1948,
1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Atlantic County, 1910; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Atlantic County, 1911-16; Governor of
New Jersey, 1917-19, 1944-47; resigned 1919; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1919-29; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1929-33; delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1936.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from uremic
poisoning, in Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1956 (age 82 years, 344
days).
Interment at Northwood
Cemetery, Downingtown, Pa.
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Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919-1990) —
also known as Malcolm S. Forbes —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., August
19, 1919.
Republican. Member of New
Jersey state senate from Somerset County, 1952-58; resigned 1958;
Republican candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1953 (primary), 1957; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Jersey, 1960.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Kappa Tau; Gay.
Founder and publisher of Forbes magazine.
Died in Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J., February
24, 1990 (age 70 years, 189
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forbes
Monument, Laucala, Fiji.
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William Dudley Foulke (1848-1935) —
of Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J.; Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
20, 1848.
Lawyer;
writer;
poet;
reformer and woman suffrage advocate; member of Indiana
state senate, 1883-86; member, U.S. Civil Service Commission,
1901-03; newspaper editor.
Died in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., May 30,
1935 (age 86 years, 191
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Foulke and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke; married to Mary
Taylor Reeves. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, May 1902 |
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Robert Douglas Franks (1951-2010) —
also known as Bob Franks —
of New Providence, Union
County, N.J.; Berkeley Heights, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Hackensack, Bergen
County, N.J., September
21, 1951.
Republican. Newspaper owner; executive director of Raymond
H. Bateman's gubernatorial campaign, 1977; campaign consultant
for Gov. Thomas
H. Kean, 1981; campaign manager for U.S. Rep. James
A. Courter, 1982, and U.S. Rep. Dean
A. Gallo, 1984; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1980-92; New Jersey
Republican state chair, 1988-92; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 7th District, 1993-2001; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 2000; candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 2001.
Methodist.
Died April 9,
2010 (age 58 years, 200
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James B. Furber (c.1868-1930) —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.; Linden, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Allegan, Allegan
County, Mich., about 1868.
Traveling salesman for National Cash Register Company; newspaper
publisher; real estate
developer; lawyer; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1906, 1922-24; resigned 1906; charged
with assault
in connection with his participation in a Socialist
rally in Rahway, N.J., May 31, 1919, which was ended by spraying
the speaker and audience with a fire hose; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1920; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New Jersey; elected (Democratic) mayor of
Linden, N.J. 1930, but died before taking office.
Suffered a paralytic
stroke, while addressing
a meeting of the Parent Democratic Club, and died soon after in
St. Elizabeth Hospital,
Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., November
12, 1930 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Winthrop Gray (1870-1942) —
also known as Edward W. Gray —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., August
18, 1870.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; newspaper publisher; secretary of
New Jersey Republican Party, 1908-13; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 8th District, 1915-19; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1918, 1928.
Dutch
Reformed. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., June 10,
1942 (age 71 years, 296
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890-1971) —
also known as Harry F. Guggenheim —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in West End, Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., August
23, 1890.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mining and
smelting
business; U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1929-33; co-founder, with his wife Alicia, of
Newsday, the daily newspaper of Long Island, New York.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer,
in Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
22, 1971 (age 80 years, 152
days).
Interment at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William L. Hadley (b. 1883) —
of Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Staffordshire, England,
July
7, 1883.
Coal
miner; newspaper publisher; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Union County,
1947.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Hadley and Matilda (Robinson) Hadley; married, September
30, 1906, to Amy Elizabeth Swinbank. |
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Harry T. Hagaman (1869-1952) —
of Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J., June 2,
1869.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Ocean County, 1917-19; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Ocean County, 1920-22; postmaster at Lakewood,
N.J., 1922-35.
Methodist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Junior
Order; Redmen;
Foresters;
Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died in 1952
(age about
83 years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Toms River, N.J.
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Thomas Millet Hand (1902-1956) —
also known as T. Millet Hand —
of Cape May, Cape May
County, N.J.
Born in Cape May, Cape May
County, N.J., July 7,
1902.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper publisher; vice-chair of
New Jersey Republican Party, 1941-44; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 2nd District, 1945-56; died in
office 1956.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Freemasons.
Died in Cold Spring, Cape May
County, N.J., December
26, 1956 (age 54 years, 172
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Cold
Spring Presbyterian Cemetery, Cold Spring, N.J.
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George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864-1928) —
also known as George Harvey —
of Deal, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Peacham, Caledonia
County, Vt., February
16, 1864.
Newspaper reporter; New Jersey Insurance Commissioner,
1890-91; builder and president of electric
railroads, 1894-98; editor and publisher, North
American Review and Harper's Weekly; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1921-23.
Died, from a heart
attack and asthma,
in Dublin, Cheshire
County, N.H., August
20, 1928 (age 64 years, 186
days).
Interment at Peacham
Cemetery, Peacham, Vt.
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Rose Marie Heck (born c.1932) —
of Hasbrouck Heights, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born about 1932.
Republican. Newspaper editor; mayor
of Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., 1988-95, 2008-; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1991-2004; candidate for New
Jersey state senate 38th District, 2003.
Female.
Still living as of 2008.
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Henry Helstoski (1925-1999) —
of East Rutherford, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Wallington, Bergen
County, N.J., March
21, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor of
East Rutherford, N.J., 1957-64; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 9th District, 1965-77; defeated,
1976, 1978, 1980; candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1969; newspaper publisher.
Indicted
in 1976 on charges
of receiving
a bribe from South Americans seeking citizenship; the U.S.
Supreme Court dismissed the charges.
Died December
16, 1999 (age 74 years, 270
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles O'Connor Hennessy (b. 1860) —
also known as Charles O'C. Hennessy —
of Haworth, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Waterford, Ireland,
September
11, 1860.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; manager, Franklin Society for Home
Building and Savings of
New York; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1912-13;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Bergen County, 1914-16; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1918.
Burial location unknown.
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John W. Herbert (c.1820-1898) —
of Marlboro, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born about 1820.
Republican. Civil
engineer; farmer;
newspaper editor; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1872,
1884;
common pleas court judge in New Jersey, 1874-79.
Died in 1898
(age about
78 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles D. Hineline —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Northampton
County, Pa.
Democrat. Newspaper publisher; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Camden County, 1850-51; mayor of
Camden, N.J., 1852-53; defeated, 1849.
Burial location unknown.
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Harold Giles Hoffman (1896-1954) —
also known as Harold G. Hoffman —
of South Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in South Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., February
7, 1896.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; real estate
business; banker;
newspaper columnist and radio
commentator; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Middlesex County, 1923-24; mayor
of South Amboy, N.J., 1925-27; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1927-31; New Jersey
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, 1930-35; Governor of
New Jersey, 1935-38; defeated in primary, 1940, 1946; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1936
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Methodist.
Member, Junior
Order; Patriotic
Order Sons of America; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks; Eagles;
Royal
Arcanum.
Suspended
in 1954 as head of the New Jersey unemployment compensation system
for an investigation
of financial irregularities. Subsequently, when he died, his written
confession
of embezzlement
schemes was disclosed.
Died, of a heart
attack, in his room at the Blake Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 4,
1954 (age 58 years, 117
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, South Amboy, N.J.
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Alphonso Alva Hopkins (1843-1918) —
also known as Alphonso A. Hopkins; A. H.
Linton —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Burlington Flats, Otsego
County, N.Y., March
27, 1843.
Editor, American Rural Home (weekly newspaper), 1871-84; lecturer;
university
professor; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1874 (30th District), 1876 (30th
District), 1878 (30th District), 1900 (29th District), 1912 (15th
District); Prohibition candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1875; Prohibition candidate for secretary
of state of New York, 1879; Prohibition candidate for Governor of
New York, 1882; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
Prohibition candidate for New York
state senate 17th District, 1914; Prohibition candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914.
Baptist;
later Congregationalist.
Died in Cliffside, Bergen
County, N.J., September
25, 1918 (age 75 years, 182
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick C. Hyer (b. 1874) —
of Union
County, N.J.
Born in Rahway, Union
County, N.J., December
10, 1874.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; candidate for New
Jersey state senate from Union County, 1908.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Elks; Royal
Arcanum; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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Lewis Spencer Hyer (1839-1909) —
also known as Lewis S. Hyer —
of Rahway, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Freehold, Monmouth
County, N.J., March 1,
1839.
Democrat. Newspaper publisher; mayor of
Rahway, N.J., 1874-75, 1888, 1889-91; candidate for New
Jersey state senate, 1881; common pleas court judge in New
Jersey, 1882-96.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Rahway, Union
County, N.J., August
15, 1909 (age 70 years, 167
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Samuel S. Kenworthy (b. 1889) —
of Belleville, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., April
10, 1889.
Newspaper sports
editor; real
estate and insurance
business; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1924; mayor
of Belleville, N.J., 1932.
Episcopalian.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Elks; Junior
Order; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel M. Kenworthy and Sarah Elizabeth (Sampson) Kenworthy;
married, December
24, 1915, to Mary Jane Graham. |
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William Burnet Kinney (1799-1880) —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Morris
County, N.J., September
4, 1799.
Whig. Newspaper editor; delegate to Whig National Convention
from New Jersey, 1844; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Sardinia, 1850-53.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
21, 1880 (age 81 years, 47
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Samuel Allen Laning (b. 1852) —
also known as Samuel A. Laning —
of Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, N.J.
Born in Bridgeton, Cumberland
County, N.J., August
10, 1852.
Democrat. Postmaster at Bridgeton,
N.J., 1887-90, 1894-96; newspaper editor.
Presbyterian.
Member, Junior
Order; Royal
Arcanum.
Burial location unknown.
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John Lindauer (b. 1937) —
of Anchorage,
Alaska.
Born in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., November
20, 1937.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; candidate for Governor of
Alaska, 1998.
Member, Rotary;
American
Legion.
Still living as of 1998.
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist,
essayist,
magazine editor, Hollywood
screenwriter,
director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
newspaper in New York City; in November, 1960, while drunk
at a party, he stabbed
and wounded his wife, Adele; he was arrested
and held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventually pleaded
guilty to third-degree
assault; arrested
and jailed
in 1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish
ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Interment at Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Mass.
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John Patterson Bryan Maxwell (1804-1845) —
of Belvidere, Warren
County, N.J.
Born in Flemington, Hunterdon
County, N.J., September
3, 1804.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1837-39, 1841-43.
Died in Belvidere, Warren
County, N.J., November
14, 1845 (age 41 years, 72
days).
Interment at Belvidere
Cemetery, Belvidere, N.J.
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George Francis McAneny (1869-1953) —
also known as George McAneny —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Greenville (now part of Jersey City), Hudson
County, N.J., December
24, 1869.
Borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1910-13; executive manager,
New York Times, 1916-21.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., July 29,
1953 (age 83 years, 217
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of George Francis McAneny and Katherine (Dilaway) McAneny; married,
January
4, 1900, to Marjorie Jacobi. |
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memorial |
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John McLean (1785-1861) —
of Ridgeville, Warren
County, Ohio; Clifton (now part of Cincinnati), Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Morris
County, N.J., March
11, 1785.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor and publisher; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 1st District, 1813-16; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1816-22; Commissioner of the General
Land Office, 1822-23; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1823-29; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1829-61; died in office 1861;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1856,
1860.
Methodist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Clifton (now part of Cincinnati), Hamilton
County, Ohio, April 4,
1861 (age 76 years, 24
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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John H. McMurray —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Newspaper editor; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Camden County, 1881-82,
1898-99.
Burial location unknown.
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Wayne D. McMurray (b. 1897) —
of Asbury Park, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Gloucester City, Camden
County, N.J., May 11,
1897.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper editor and
publisher; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Monmouth
County, 1947.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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James Charles Monaghan (1857-1917) —
also known as James C. Monaghan —
of Rhode Island; New Jersey.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
11, 1857.
Newspaper editor; university
professor; U.S. Consul in Mannheim, 1885-90; Chemnitz, 1893-1900; Kingston, 1914-17, died in office 1917.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
12, 1917 (age 60 years, 32
days).
Interment at St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Cumberland, R.I.
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Thomas M. Muir (b. 1879) —
of Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., August
26, 1879.
Civil
engineer; newspaper work; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1923-49.
Member, Elks; Moose; Eagles;
Knights
of Pythias; Kiwanis.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles E. Murphy (c.1895-1959) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., about 1895.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; served in the U.S. Army during
World War I; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1944;
New York City Corporation Counsel, 1947; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1948-59; died in office
1959; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court
2nd Department, 1954-59; died in office 1959.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Brooklyn Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
22, 1959 (age about 64
years).
Interment at St. Johns Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Elizabeth Sawyer. |
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David Naar (1800-1880) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J.; Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now Virgin
Islands), November
6, 1800.
Democrat. Mayor
of Elizabethtown, N.J., 1842-45; U.S. Consul in St. Thomas, 1848; newspaper editor; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1860;
New
Jersey state treasurer, 1865.
Jewish.
Portugese
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
24, 1880 (age 79 years, 110
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Hillside, N.J.
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William Barclay Napton (1808-1883) —
also known as William B. Napton —
of Fayette, Howard
County, Mo.; Saline
County, Mo.
Born in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., May 23,
1808.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; member of Missouri
state senate, 1834; Missouri
state attorney general, 1836-39; justice of
Missouri state supreme court, 1839-51, 1857-61, 1873-80;
appointed 1839; defeated, 1851.
Died in Saline
County, Mo., January
8, 1883 (age 74 years, 230
days).
Interment at Ridge
Park Cemetery, Marshall, Mo.
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Thomas Nast (1840-1902) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Landau, Germany,
September
27, 1840.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; news correspondent and
cartoonist
for Harper's Weekly and other magazines and
newspapers; noted for his creation of such icons as the
Republican elephant and Democratic donkey; instrumental in the
downfall of New York City political boss William
M. Tweed; U.S. Consul General in Guayaquil, 1902, died in office 1902.
German
ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Died, of yellow
fever, in Guayaquil, Ecuador,
December
7, 1902 (age 62 years, 71
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Guayaquil, Ecuador; reinterment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Francis Ford Patterson Jr. (1867-1935) —
also known as Francis F. Patterson, Jr. —
of Camden, Camden
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., July 30,
1867.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Camden County, 1900; Camden
County Clerk, 1901-20; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1916
(alternate), 1920;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 1st District, 1920-27; banker.
Died in Merchantville, Camden
County, N.J., November
30, 1935 (age 68 years, 123
days).
Interment at Colestown
Cemetery, Cherry Hill Township, Camden County, N.J.
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Sheffield Phelps (1864-1902) —
of Teaneck, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 24,
1864.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1900.
Died, of typhoid
fever, in Aiken, Aiken
County, S.C., December
9, 1902 (age 38 years, 138
days).
Entombed at Hop
Meadow Cemetery, Simsbury, Conn.
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James Fitz Randolph (1791-1872) —
also known as James F. Randolph —
of New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Middlesex
County, N.J., June 26,
1791.
Newspaper editor; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Middlesex County, 1823-24; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1827-33; bank
president.
Died in Easton, Northampton
County, Pa., January
25, 1872 (age 80 years, 213
days).
Interment at Easton
Cemetery, Easton, Pa.
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Andrew Crozier Reeves (1867-1936) —
also known as A. Crozier Reeves —
of Lawrenceville, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Bucks
County, Pa., December
3, 1867.
Grocer; wholesale
grocer; newspaper publisher; farmer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Mercer County, 1925; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Mercer County, 1926-36; died in office
1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1932.
English
ancestry.
Died in 1936
(age about
68 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Tredwell Sawyer (1800-1865) —
of Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C.; Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., 1800.
Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1829-32; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1834; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 1837-39;
newspaper editor; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1853-58; major in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J., November
29, 1865 (age about 65
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Augustus W. Schwartz (b. 1867) —
of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., January
4, 1867.
Republican. Newspaper advertising manager; fire
fighter; coal
and masons'
supplies dealer; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1909-10.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Royal
and Select Masters; Shriners;
Independent
Order of Foresters; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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James Ballentyne Taney (1839-1915) —
also known as James B. Taney —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., December
11, 1839.
Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; U.S. Consul in Belfast, 1893-96.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., May 20,
1915 (age 75 years, 160
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Wheeling, W.Va.
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Lloyd Thompson (b. 1879) —
of Westfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
17, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; town clerk of Westfield, N.J., 1903-09; real estate
investor; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1910-11.
Congregationalist.
Member, Order
of Heptasophs.
Burial location unknown.
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Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928) —
also known as Rodman Wanamaker —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
13, 1863.
Republican. Department
store executive; newspaper owner; Consul
for Uruguay in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1914-26; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Pennsylvania; Consul
for Dominican Republic in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1921; Consul-General
for Paraguay in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1921.
Died, from kidney
disease, in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., March 9,
1928 (age 65 years, 25
days).
Entombed at St.
James the Less Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorial
monument at Rue du Maréchal Leclerc, Sarcus, Picardy, France.
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Charles Bonnell Ward (1879-1946) —
also known as Charles B. Ward —
of DeBruce, Sullivan
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., April
27, 1879.
Republican. Newspaper editor; banker; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1915-25; defeated,
1912.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in 1946
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Stanley Washburn (1878-1950) —
of Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., February
7, 1878.
Republican. Newspaper correspondent; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1912;
president, Washburn Lignite Coal Co.,
Wilton, N.D., 1926-29; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1932.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Delta
Psi; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Reserve
Officers Association.
Died in 1950
(age about
72 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry Weathersby (1914-2001) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Clinton, Hinds
County, Miss., November
30, 1914.
Newspaper reporter; served in the U.S. Navy during World War
II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, 1965-67.
Died in Sykesville, Carroll
County, Md., November
20, 2001 (age 86 years, 355
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Jefferson Wilson (1775-1824) —
also known as James J. Wilson —
of Trenton, Hunterdon County (now Mercer
County), N.J.
Born in Essex
County, N.J., 1775.
Democrat. Newspaper editor and publisher; Hunterdon
County Surrogate, 1808; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hunterdon County, 1809-11,
1822; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1815-21; resigned 1821; postmaster at Trenton,
N.J., 1821-24.
Died in Trenton, Hunterdon County (now Mercer
County), N.J., July 28,
1824 (age about 49
years).
Interment at First
Baptist Church Cemetery, Trenton, N.J.
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William Henry Witte (1817-1876) —
also known as William H. Witte —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Morris
County, N.J., October
4, 1817.
Democrat. Merchant;
real
estate business; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 4th District, 1853-55;
newspaper editor.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
24, 1876 (age 59 years, 51
days).
Interment at Durham
Cemetery, Durham, Pa.
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