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Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) —
also known as Leonard D. Abbott —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Westfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Liverpool, England,
May
20, 1878.
Socialist. Writer; editor; Social Democratic candidate
for New
York state treasurer, 1900; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1906; candidate for
New
York state senate 15th District, 1910; president, Free Speech
League, predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union.
English
ancestry. Member, League
for Industrial Democracy.
Died, in Montefiore Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., March
19, 1953 (age 74 years, 303
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lewis Lowe Abbott and Grace (Van Dusen) Abbott; married 1915 to Rose
Yuster. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Adam Badeau (1831-1895) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
29, 1831.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul General
in London, 1870-81; Havana, 1882-84; author; historian.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Ridgewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
19, 1895 (age 63 years, 80
days).
Interment at Dutch
Reformed Churchyard, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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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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James Solomon Barcus (1863-1920) —
also known as James S. Barcus —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Sullivan
County, Ind., March
18, 1863.
Publisher;
author; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1903-05.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., May 3,
1920 (age 57 years, 46
days).
Interment somewhere
in Terre Haute, Ind.
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Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) —
also known as Kemp P. Battle —
of Wake
County, N.C.
Born in Louisburg, Franklin
County, N.C., December
19, 1831.
Lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; president, Chatham
Railroad
during the Civil War; North
Carolina state treasurer, 1866-68; president,
University of North Carolina, 1876-91; historian.
Died in Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., February
4, 1919 (age 87 years, 47
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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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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Thomas Ryan Byrne (1923-2014) —
also known as Thomas R. Byrne —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in West Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., February
4, 1923.
Historian; economist;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1973-76; Czechoslovakia, 1976-78.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March
20, 2014 (age 91 years, 44
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md.
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Albert Clark Chapin (1891-1950) —
also known as Albert C. Chapin —
of South Egremont, Egremont, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Sea Girt, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 14,
1891.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1917-18; Tientsin, 1918; Mukden, 1918; real estate
broker.
Died in Mendocino
County, Calif., December
28, 1950 (age 59 years, 228
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Donald Barr Chidsey (1902-1981) —
of Lyme, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., May 14,
1902.
Democrat. Novelist; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Lyme, 1948.
Died, in Lawrence Memorial Hospital,
New London, New London
County, Conn., March
17, 1981 (age 78 years, 307
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Marshall Chidsey and Catherine (Barr) Chidsey; married, December
29, 1921, to Sylvia Wellington Litchfield; married, March 9,
1935, to Eleanor Shirley Stewart; married 1944 to
Virginia Clark; first cousin five times removed of Noah
Phelps; second cousin twice removed of Ernest
Harvey Woodford; second cousin thrice removed of Amos
Pettibone; second cousin four times removed of Elisha
Phelps; third cousin once removed of Arthur
Burnham Woodford and Willis
Case Chidsey; third cousin twice removed of Asahel
Pierson Case; third cousin thrice removed of Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Norman
A. Phelps and John
Smith Phelps; fourth cousin once removed of Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler and Rowland
Case Kellogg. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Books by Donald Barr Chidsey: The
great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the
West — The
wars in Barbary: Arab piracy and the birth of the United States
Navy — The
Louisiana Purchase: The Story of the Biggest Real Estate Deal in
History — Sir
Humphrey Gilbert: Elizabeth's Racketeer — July
4, 1776: The dramatic story of the first four days of July,
1776 — Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson — And
Tyler Too — The
gentleman from New York: A life of Roscoe Conkling —
Sir
Walter Raleigh That Damned Upstart — The
Siege of Boston: an on-the-scene account of the beginning of the
American Revolution — The
Loyalists: the story of those Americans who fought against
independence — The
Battle of New Orleans — The
Day They Sank the Lusitania — The
California Gold Rush: an informal history — The
War with Mexico — Victory
at Yorktown — Andrew
Jackson, Hero — The
Spanish?American War: a behind-the-scenes account of the war in
Cuba — Lewis
and Clark: The Great Adventure — The
French and Indian War: an informal history — The
Panama Canal: an informal history of its concept, building, and
present status — The
American Privateers: a history — The
Great Separation: the story of the Boston Tea Party and the beginning
of the American Revolution — Shackleton's
Voyage — Marlborough:
the portrait of a conqueror — The
War in the North: an informal history of the American Revolution in
and near Canada — Goodbye
to Gunpowder: an informal history — Valley
Forge — The
World of Samuel Adams — On
and Off the Wagon: A Sober Analysis of the Temperance Movement from
the Pilgrims through Prohibition — Elizabeth
I: a great life in brief |
| | | Fiction by Donald Barr Chidsey: Panama
Passage — Fancy
Man — This
Bright Sword — Lord
of the Isles — Singapore
Passage — Captain
Adam — Reluctant
Cavalier — The
Legion of the Lost — The
Naked Sword — The
Pipes are Calling — Buccaneer's
Blade — Stronghold —
Captain
Bashful — The
Wickedest Pilgrim — Captain
Crossbones — Nobody
Heard the Shot |
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) —
also known as Jane Morgan —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J., September
15, 1789.
Novelist; U.S. Consul in Lyon, 1826-28.
Died September
14, 1851 (age 61 years, 364
days).
Interment at Christ
Churchyard, Cooperstown, N.Y.; statue at Cooper
Garden, Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Howard Melvin Fast (1914-2003) —
also known as Howard Fast; "E. V.
Cunningham"; "Walter Ericson" —
of Teaneck, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
11, 1914.
Communist. Novelist; in 1950, suspected of sedition,
he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee,
where he refused to name fellow members of the Communist Party; convicted
of contempt
of Congress and sentenced to three months in prison;
awarded the Stalin
Peace Prize in 1953; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1952.
Jewish.
Died in Old Greenwich, Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
12, 2003 (age 88 years, 121
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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David Jayne Hill (1850-1932) —
also known as David J. Hill —
of Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., June 10,
1850.
Historian; president,
Bucknell University, 1879-88; president,
University of Rochester, 1888-96; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1903-05; Netherlands, 1905-08; Luxembourg, 1905-08; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1908-11.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1932
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
28, 1902.
Socialist. Author; lecturer;
arrested
on June 27, 1934, while picketing
in support of a labor
union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; this
organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department denied a
passport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-front
organizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate cited
him with contempt
of Congress for refusing to testify before Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequently indicted;
pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court
of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent
Socialist).
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; NAACP; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of heart
failure, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
26, 1995 (age 93 years, 29
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
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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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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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Isadore Schary (1905-1980) —
also known as Dore Schary —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
31, 1905.
Democrat. Actor,
playwright, screenwriter, movie
producer; replaced Louis
B. Mayer as head of M-G-M Studios in 1951; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1956.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Died July 7,
1980 (age 74 years, 311
days).
Interment at Hebrew
Cemetery, West Long Branch, N.J.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist and social crusader; author of The
Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1930 (Socialist), 1934
(Democratic); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel Dragon's
Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Samuel Sokobin —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Tientsin, as of 1916; Shanghai, as of 1917; Nanking, 1918; Chungking, as of 1919; Kalgan, as of 1921; U.S. Consul in Kalgan, as of 1924; Mukden, as of 1926; Foochow, as of 1927-29; Tsingtao, as of 1938.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Waterman Townsend (1855-1942) —
also known as Edward W. Townsend —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, 1855.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1911-15 (7th District 1911-13,
10th District 1913-15); defeated, 1926.
Author of a number of novels and books of short stories.
Died in 1942
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Jacob Hendrick Trapp (1899-1992) —
also known as Jacob Trapp —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Denver,
Colo.; Summit, Union
County, N.J.; Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born in Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., April
12, 1899.
Democrat. Unitarian
minister; poet; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New Jersey, 1968.
Unitarian-Universalist.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died in Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M., December
28, 1992 (age 93 years, 260
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Willen Jansz Trapp and Aafke 'Effie' (Hertog) Trapp; married, July 13,
1925, to Helen B. Whitmore. |
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William Hazlett Upson (1891-1975) —
of Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt.
Born in Glen Ridge, Essex
County, N.J., September
26, 1891.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
writer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Vermont, 1956
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business).
Died in Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt., February
5, 1975 (age 83 years, 132
days).
Interment at West
Cemetery, Middlebury, Vt.
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Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
10, 1852.
Poet; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1913-17; Luxembourg, 1913-17.
Presbyterian.
Died April
10, 1933 (age 80 years, 151
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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John Hill Wheeler (1806-1882) —
also known as John H. Wheeler —
of Lincoln
County, N.C.
Born in Murfreesboro, Hertford
County, N.C., August
2, 1806.
Lawyer;
historian; planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1828-31, 1852-53 (Hertford County
1828-31, Lincoln County 1852-53); superintendent of the U.S. Mint at
Charlotte, N.C., 1837-41; North
Carolina state treasurer, 1843-45; U.S. Minister to Nicaragua, 1854-56.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
7, 1882 (age 76 years, 127
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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