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Alexander Archibald (1869-1922) —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Scotland,
December, 1869.
Mayor
of Newark, N.J., 1921-22; died in office 1922.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, following surgery for a brain
tumor, in the Eye and Ear Infirmary,
Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
11, 1922 (age 52 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Archibald and Margaret Archibald. |
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J. Henry Bacheller (1869-1939) —
also known as Harry Bacheller —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
1, 1869.
President, Fidelity Union Trust Co.;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1900-02; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Essex County, 1903-05.
Baptist.
English,
Scottish, and French
Huguenot ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, of heart
disease, in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., December
12, 1939 (age 70 years, 314
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Maryanne Trump Barry (b. 1937) —
also known as Maryanne Trump —
of New Jersey.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1937.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for New Jersey, 1983-99; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1999-2011; took
senior status 2011; senior judge, 2011-.
Female.
German
and Scottish ancestry.
Still living as of 2016.
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Allan Benny (1867-1942) —
of Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 12,
1867.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1898-1900; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 9th District, 1903-05; defeated,
1904.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Bayonne, Hudson
County, N.J., November
6, 1942 (age 75 years, 117
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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Jill Biden (b. 1951) —
also known as Jill Tracy Jacobs —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Hammonton, Atlantic
County, N.J., June 3,
1951.
Democrat. School
teacher; college
professor; Second Lady
of the United States, 2009-17; First Lady
of the United States, 2021-.
Female.
Italian,
Scottish, and English
ancestry.
Still living as of 2022.
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John Insley Blair (1802-1899) —
also known as John I. Blair —
of Blairstown, Warren
County, N.J.
Born in Warren
County, N.J., August
22, 1802.
Republican. Merchant;
postmaster;
manufacturer;
railroad
builder; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1860,
1868;
candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1868.
Presbyterian.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in Blairstown, Warren
County, N.J., December
2, 1899 (age 97 years, 102
days).
Interment at Gravel
Hill Cemetery, Blairstown, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Blair and Rachel (Insley) Blair; married, September
20, 1826, to Nancy Ann Locke; father of Emma Elizabeth
Blair. |
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of Blairstown,
New Jersey, is named for
him. — The city
of Blair,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The city
of Blairstown,
Iowa, is named for
him. — Blair Hall, at Princeton University,
Princeton,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Yorkers of 1896-1899 |
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Alexander Gair Blue (1882-1941) —
also known as Alexander G. Blue —
of Patchogue, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., March 5,
1882.
Progressive. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state senate 1st District, 1912; Suffolk
County District Attorney, 1930-32.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, in Mather Memorial Hospital,
Port Jefferson, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April
11, 1941 (age 59 years, 37
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Alexander Gair Blue and Isabella McFarlane (Black) Blue; married,
October
13, 1906, to Alma E. Smith. |
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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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Andrew J. Campbell (1828-1894) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., 1828.
Republican. Architectural
iron business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 9th District, 1876; elected
U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District 1894, but died before
taking office.
Scottish and English
ancestry.
Died, of Bright's
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1894 (age about 66
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Christopher James Christie (b. 1962) —
also known as Chris Christie —
of Mendham Township, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., September
6, 1962.
Republican. Lawyer; lobbyist;
U.S.
Attorney for New Jersey, 2002-08; Governor of
New Jersey, 2010-18; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 2012
(speaker);
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 2016.
Catholic.
Scottish, Irish,
and Sicilian
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Still living as of 2023.
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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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Clarence Douglas Dillon (1909-2003) —
also known as C. Douglas Dillon; Clarence Douglass
Dillon —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
of American parents, August
21, 1909.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; financier;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1952
(alternate), 1968;
U.S. Ambassador to France, 1953-57; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1961-65.
Scottish, French,
Swedish,
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on July 6, 1989.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
10, 2003 (age 93 years, 142
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Grant Augustus Donnelly (1841-1905) —
also known as Richard A. Donnelly —
of Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., March 4,
1841.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; clothing
merchant; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Mercer County, 1880-81; mayor
of Trenton, N.J., 1884-86; New Jersey
state treasurer, 1895-1901.
Irish
and Scottish ancestry. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died February
27, 1905 (age 63 years, 360
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter Donnelly and Elizabeth (Grant) Donnelly; married to Sue A.
Davidson and Susie Isabel Gold. |
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Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) —
also known as Helen Gahagan; "The Pink
Lady" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boonton, Morris
County, N.J., November
25, 1900.
Actress
and opera
singer, 1922-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1940-44; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1940
(alternate), 1944
(speaker),
1948;
vice-chair
of California Democratic Party, 1941-42; U.S.
Representative from California 14th District, 1945-51; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950 (Democratic), 1952 (Independent).
Female.
Scottish and Irish
ancestry. Member, League of Women
Voters; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of cancer,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1980 (age 79 years, 216
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Samuel Wesley Fordyce (1840-1919) —
also known as S. W. Fordyce —
of Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Guernsey
County, Ohio, February
7, 1840.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; founder,
builder, president, receiver, and director of many railroads;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1884,
1892;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Arkansas, 1888; delegate to Gold Democrat
National Convention from Arkansas, 1896.
Scottish and Dutch
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
3, 1919 (age 79 years, 177
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Arthur Hay (b. 1859) —
of Oneida, Madison
County, N.Y.
Born in New Jersey, March, 1859.
Machinist;
insurance
business; justice of the peace; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York; candidate for New York
state assembly from Madison County, 1901.
English
and Scottish ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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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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Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756-1831) —
of Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in Mine Brook, Morris
County, N.J., February
17, 1756.
Lawyer;
member of New Jersey
State Council from Middlesex County, 1798; resigned 1798; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1798-1804; chief
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1804-24.
Presbyterian.
Scottish ancestry.
Died in New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J., January
7, 1831 (age 74 years, 324
days).
Original interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, New Brunswick, N.J.; reinterment at Van
Liew Cemetery, North Brunswick, N.J.
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Joseph V. McKee (1889-1956) —
also known as James W. Dawson; "Holy
Joe" —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
8, 1889.
School
teacher; lawyer; author;
member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 7th District, 1918-23; municipal
judge in New York, 1924-26; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1932; defeated, 1932, 1933 (Recovery);
elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 23rd District, 1938.
Catholic.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1956 (age 66 years, 173
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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John Gardner Murray (1857-1929) —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Baltimore,
Md.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lonaconing, Allegany
County, Md., August
31, 1857.
Democrat. Episcopal
priest; Bishop of Maryland, 1911-29; Presiding Bishop of the
United States, 1926-29; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1912.
Methodist;
later Episcopalian.
Scottish ancestry.
Died, of a stroke,
during a session
of the House of Bishops, in St. James Church,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., October
3, 1929 (age 72 years, 33
days).
Interment at Druid
Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Md.
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Relatives: Son
of James Murray and Ann (Kirkwood) Murray; married, October
13, 1881, to Harriet May 'Hattie' Sprague; married, December
4, 1889, to Clara Alice Hunsicker. |
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John Witherspoon (1723-1794) —
of Princeton, Somerset County (now Mercer
County), N.J.
Born in Gifford, Haddingtonshire, Scotland,
February
5, 1723.
Presbyterian
minister; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Somerset County, 1783, 1789;
delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Somerset County, 1787.
Presbyterian.
Scottish ancestry.
Became blind
in 1792.
Died near Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., November
15, 1794 (age 71 years, 283
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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