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Index to Locations
Brooklyn Unknown location
Brooklyn Cadman Plaza Park
Brooklyn Canarsie Cemetery
Brooklyn Cypress Hills Abbey
Brooklyn Cypress Hills National
Cemetery
Brooklyn Dutch Reformed Burying
Ground (now gone)
Brooklyn Fresh Pond Road Cemetery
Brooklyn Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn Holy Cross Cemetery
Brooklyn Maimonides Cemetery
Brooklyn Prospect Park
Brooklyn St. John's Cemetery
Brooklyn St. Raymond's Cemetery
Brooklyn Salem Fields Cemetery
Brooklyn The Evergreens Cemetery
Brooklyn Washington Cemetery
Prospect Park, Brooklyn Friends Burying
Ground
Unknown
Locations
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians buried
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Pedro José de Larralde (1880-1938) —
also known as Pedro J. de Larralde —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Venezuela,
May
15, 1880.
Physician;
Honorary
Consul for Venezuela in Los
Angeles, Calif., 1927-38.
In grief over the death of his wife a year earlier, he killed
himself, by carbon
monoxide poisoning, inside his garage, in Hollywood, Los Angeles,
Los
Angeles County, Calif., August
8, 1938 (age 58 years, 85
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Image source:
Los Angeles Times, Agust 9, 1938 |
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Murray Hearn —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Realtor;
lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 2nd District, 1924-29; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1948-53.
Interment somewhere.
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Cadman Plaza
Park
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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William Jay Gaynor (1849-1913) —
also known as William J. Gaynor; "Brother Adrian
Denys" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Oriskany, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
2, 1849.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1894-1909; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1908-09; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1910-13; died in office 1913; shot
in the throat by James J. Gallagher, a former city employee, on
August 9, 1910.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, on board the steamship
Baltic, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
10, 1913 (age 64 years, 220
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; memorial
monument at Cadman Plaza Park.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 24,
1813.
Republican. Minister;
orator;
abolitionist; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1867;
in 1872, he was accused
of an adulterous
affair with Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of a friend of his;
Beecher's church conducted an investigation
and declared him innocent; in 1874, Elizabeth Tilton's husband
Theodore sued Beecher; a highly-publicized months-long trial
took place in 1875; the jury was unable to reach a verdit.
Presbyterian;
later Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 8,
1887 (age 73 years, 257
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; memorial
monument at Cadman Plaza Park.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman Beecher and Roxana Ward (Foote) Beecher; brother of Harriet
Beecher Stowe; married, August
3, 1837, to Eunice White Bullard; uncle of George
Buckingham Beecher; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer and Eli
Elmer; second cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third cousin of Leveret
Brainard; third cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard and Lucius
Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer; third cousin twice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, John
Allen, Frederick
Wolcott, Walter
Keene Linscott, Sidney
Smythe Linscott and Frances
Payne Bolton; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg, Daniel
Chapin and Oliver
Payne Bolton; fourth cousin of Ambrose
Tuttle, Joseph
H. Elmer and George
Frederick Stone; fourth cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Luther
Walter Badger, Daniel
Kellogg, Gideon
Hotchkiss, Asahel
Augustus Hotchkiss, John
William Allen, Julius
Hotchkiss, Giles
Waldo Hotchkiss, Charles
Francis Chidsey, Ernest
Harvey Woodford and Samuel
Russell Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
W. Beecher |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Ward Beecher (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Canarsie
Cemetery
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians buried
here: |
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John Cashmore (1895-1961) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 7,
1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; aide to the
general manager of the New York Edison Company electric
utility; furniture
manufacturer; business
executive; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 5th District, 1923; defeated,
1923; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1938-44; borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1940-61; died in office 1961;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952.
Member, American
Legion.
Collapsed from a heart
attack, in his car, and
died soon after, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 7,
1961 (age 65 years, 334
days).
Interment at Canarsie Cemetery.
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William R. Wilson (d. 1963) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1940-45.
Died in 1963.
Interment at Canarsie Cemetery.
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Edythe Cashmore (1898-1972) —
also known as Edythe Hall Tenney; Edythe
Hall —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Larchmont, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born December
14, 1898.
Democrat. Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Female.
Died December
21, 1972 (age 74 years, 7
days).
Interment at Canarsie Cemetery.
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Cypress Hills
Abbey
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Andrew Nicholas Petersen (1870-1952) —
of New York.
Born near Thisted, Denmark,
March
10, 1870.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922, 1924.
Died in East Rockaway, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
28, 1952 (age 82 years, 202
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills Abbey.
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Cypress Hills
National Cemetery
625 Jamaica Avenue, 11208-1522
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Founded 1848
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Archibald Meserole Bliss (1838-1923) —
also known as Archibald M. Bliss —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
25, 1838.
Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1864,
1868;
Republican candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1867; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1875-83, 1885-89 (4th District
1875-83, 5th District 1885-89); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1876,
1880,
1884;
vice-president, Bushwick Railroad
Company, 1877; real estate
business.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
19, 1923 (age 85 years, 53
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Irving Lehman (1876-1945) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1909-23; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1924-39; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1940-45.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Jewish Committee.
Died, of a heart
ailment, in Port Chester, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
22, 1945 (age 69 years, 237
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Fleming Duncan Cheshire (1849-1922) —
also known as Fleming D. Cheshire —
Born in Williamsburg (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., March 4,
1849.
Merchant;
U.S. Vice Consul in Foochow, 1878; U.S. Consul General in Mukden, 1904-06; , 1906-12; Canton, 1912-15.
Methodist.
Died in a hospital
at Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 13,
1922 (age 73 years, 101
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Edmund Hope Driggs (1865-1946) —
also known as Edmund H. Driggs —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 2,
1865.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1897-1901; defeated,
1900; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1901.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
27, 1946 (age 81 years, 148
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Jefferson Monroe Levy (1852-1924) —
also known as Jefferson M. Levy —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
16, 1852.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1899-1901, 1911-15 (13th District
1899-1901, 1911-13, 14th District 1913-15).
Jewish.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of the War of 1812.
Inherited Thomas
Jefferson's home, Monticello, from his uncle; maintained and
preserved it for later generations.
Died, from heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 6,
1924 (age 71 years, 325
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Emanuel Bernard Hart (1809-1897) —
also known as Emanuel B. Hart —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1809.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1851-53; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1880.
Jewish.
Died August
29, 1897 (age 87 years, 306
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Ella Alexander Boole (1858-1952) —
also known as Ella A. Boole; Ella
Alexander —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Van Wert, Van Wert
County, Ohio, July 26,
1858.
Candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1920 (Republican primary), 1920
(Prohibition); president, Women's Christian Temperance Union
(national, 1925-33; world, 1931-47); Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Member, Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Died, of a stroke,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
13, 1952 (age 93 years, 231
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Albert Cohn (c.1885-1959) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1885.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state senate 22nd District, 1920; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1929-55; appointed 1929;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 1st
Department, 1936-49.
Jewish.
Died, from a stroke,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
8, 1959 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Dora Marcus; father of Roy M. Cohn. |
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Edward Joseph Coughlin (1887-1945) —
also known as Edward J. Coughlin —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., July 25,
1887.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 11th District, 1923-34; member
of New
York state senate 6th District, 1935-44.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Catholic
War Veterans.
Died, in Veterans Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., October
10, 1945 (age 58 years, 77
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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John C. Jacobs (1839-1894) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa., December
16, 1839.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 9th District, 1867-73; member of
New
York state senate, 1874-85, 1890-91 (3rd District 1874-79, 4th
District 1880-85, 2nd District 1890-91); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1876
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1880
(speaker).
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., September
22, 1894 (age 54 years, 280
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Albert Cardozo (1828-1885) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
21, 1828.
Lawyer;
a close ally of corrupt New York City political boss William
M. Tweed; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1868-72; resigned 1872; in
1872, an effort was made to impeach
him, along with Justice George
G. Barnard, on charges
that they abused
judicial power in various ways to serve Boss Tweed, as well as
"robber barons" Jay Gould and Jim Fisk; rather than go through an
impeachment trial, Cardozo resigned
from the bench; meanwhile, Barnard's impeachment went forward, and he
was unanimously convicted.
Jewish.
Portugese
ancestry.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1885 (age 56 years, 322
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Solomon Berliner (1856-1910) —
also known as Sol Berliner —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
6, 1856.
Republican. Tobacco
dealer; U.S. Consul in Tenerife, 1898, 1905-10, died in office 1910.
Jewish.
German
ancestry.
Died, probably from diabetes,
in Washington,
D.C., November
14, 1910 (age 54 years, 39
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Julius Berliner and Julia Berliner; married, September
1, 1901, to Jennie Ottenberg. |
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Maurice Bloch (c.1891-1929) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1915-29 (New York County 22nd District 1915-17,
New York County 16th District 1918-29); died in office 1929; campaign
manager for U.S. Senator Robert
F. Wagner, 1926.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith; Order
Brith Abraham; Elks; Odd
Fellows; Freemasons;
Tammany
Hall.
Died, from an embolus of the
heart, following a appendicitis
surgery, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
5, 1929 (age about 38
years).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married 1923 to
Madelaine Neuberger. |
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James A. Van Brunt (d. 1891) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1868;
Independent candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1880.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
20, 1891.
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Samuel T. Maddox (1830-1876) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 20,
1830.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly, 1862, 1870 (Kings County 6th District 1862, Kings
County 7th District 1870).
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
17, 1876 (age 46 years, 181
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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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.
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Edward R. Rayher (1883-1958) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Hartsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
20, 1883.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 9th District, 1921-22.
Died, in St. Joseph's Hospital,
Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J., May 12,
1958 (age 74 years, 265
days).
Interment at Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
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Dutch Reformed
Burying Ground (now gone)
Fulton and Hoyt Streets
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians formerly
buried here: |
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Simon Boerum (1724-1775) —
of New York.
Born in Flatbush (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., February
29, 1724.
Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1761-75; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-75.
Christian
Reformed.
Died in New Lots (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., July 11,
1775 (age 51 years, 0
days).
Original interment at Dutch Reformed Burying Ground; reinterment in
1848 at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Fresh Pond Road
Cemetery
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Harry Howard Dale (1868-1935) —
also known as Harry H. Dale —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
3, 1868.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 15th District, 1898, 1902-05; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1913-19.
Died in Bellmore, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
17, 1935 (age 66 years, 349
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Fresh Pond Road Cemetery.
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Green-Wood
Cemetery
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Founded 1838; approximate acreage: 478
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
here: |
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De Witt Clinton (1769-1828) —
also known as "Father of the Erie
Canal" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Napanoch, Ulster
County, N.Y., March 2,
1769.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1797-98; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1798-1802, 1805-11; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; member of New York
council of appointment, 1801; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1802-03; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1803-07, 1808-10, 1811-15; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1811-13; candidate for President
of the United States, 1812; Governor of
New York, 1817-23, 1825-28; died in office 1828.
Member, Freemasons.
Chief advocate for the Erie Canal,
completed 1825.
Slaveowner.
Died, from heart
failure, in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
11, 1828 (age 58 years, 346
days).
Original interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Little Britain, N.Y.; reinterment at Green-Wood
Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Clinton and Mary (De Witt) Clinton; half-brother of James
Graham Clinton; brother of Charles
Clinton, George
Clinton Jr., Mary Clinton (who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)) and Katherine Clinton (who married Ambrose
Spencer (1765-1848)); married, February
13, 1796, to Maria Franklin; married, May 8,
1819, to Catherine Livingston Jones; father of George
William Clinton; nephew of George
Clinton; first cousin of Jacob
Hasbrouck DeWitt; first cousin once removed of Charles
De Witt; first cousin five times removed of Abraham
Owen Smoot III and Isaac
Albert Smoot; second cousin once removed of Charles
D. Bruyn and Charles
Gerrit De Witt; second cousin twice removed of David
Miller De Witt. |
| | | Political families: Clinton-DeWitt
family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Peter
Gansevoort |
| | | Clinton counties in Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Mo. and Pa., and DeWitt County,
Ill., are named for him. |
| | | The township
and city of DeWitt,
Michigan, are named for
him. — The city
of De
Witt, Iowa, is named for
him. — The village
of DeWitt,
Illinois, is named for
him. — The city
of De
Witt, Missouri, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: De
Witt C. Stevens
— DeWitt
C. Walker
— De
Witt C. Stanford
— De
Witt C. Littlejohn
— De Witt
C. Gage
— DeWitt
C. Clark
— De
Witt C. Leach
— Dewitt
C. West
— John
DeWitt Clinton Atkins
— DeWitt
C. Wilson
— De
Witt C. Morris
— D.
C. Giddings
— DeWitt
C. Hough
— DeWitt
C. Jones
— De
Witt C. Tower
— D.
C. Coolman
— DeWitt
Clinton Cregier
— DeWitt
C. Hoyt
— DeWitt
Clinton Senter
— De
Witt C. Rugg
— DeWitt
C. Allen
— DeWitt
C. Peck
— DeWitt
C. Richman
— Dewitt
C. Alden
— DeWitt
C. Cram
— De
Witt C. Bolton
— DeWitt
C. Huntington
— DeWitt
C. Jones
— DeWitt
C. Pond
— De Witt
C. Carr
— DeWitt
C. Pierce
— DeWitt
C. Middleton
— De
Witt C. Badger
— DeWitt
C. Dominick
— DeWitt
C. Becker
— De
Witt C. Titus
— De
Witt C. Winchell
— Dewitt
C. Turner
— Dewitt
C. Ruscoe
— DeWitt
C. Brown
— DeWitt
C. French
— De
Witt C. Flanagan
— DeWitt
C. Cole
— DeWitt
C. Talmage
— Dewitt
Clinton Chase
— De
Witt C. Poole, Jr.
— DeWitt
C. Cunningham
— Dewitt
C. Chastain
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1,000 note in 1898-1905.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about De Witt Clinton: Evan
Cornog, The
Birth of Empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience,
1769-1828 |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Francis W. Moore Jr. (1808-1864) —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., April
20, 1808.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; mayor
of Houston, Tex., 1838-39, 1843, 1849-52; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Harris, Liberty and Galveston,
1839-42.
Died, probably of appendicitis,
in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., September
1, 1864 (age 56 years, 134
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Seth Low (1850-1916) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
18, 1850.
Republican. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1882-85; president,
Columbia University, 1890-1900; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1902-03; defeated, 1897, 1903; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1908;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union
League.
Died in Bedford Hills, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
17, 1916 (age 66 years, 243
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Martin Kalbfleisch (1804-1873) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Netherlands,
February
8, 1804.
Democrat. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1861-63, 1868-71; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1863-65.
Died February
12, 1873 (age 69 years, 4
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Jay Gaynor (1849-1913) —
also known as William J. Gaynor; "Brother Adrian
Denys" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Oriskany, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
2, 1849.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1894-1909; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1908-09; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1910-13; died in office 1913; shot
in the throat by James J. Gallagher, a former city employee, on
August 9, 1910.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, on board the steamship
Baltic, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
10, 1913 (age 64 years, 220
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; memorial monument at Cadman Plaza Park.
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James Howell (1829-1897) —
also known as Jim Howell —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bradford, Wiltshire, England,
October
16, 1829.
Democrat. Grocer; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1878-81; defeated, 1881.
Methodist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
27, 1897 (age 67 years, 103
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Charles Godfrey Gunther (1822-1885) —
also known as C. Godfrey Gunther —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1822.
Democrat. Fur
merchant; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1864-66; defeated, 1861; candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1878; railroad
builder; hotel
owner.
German
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, probably of heart
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
22, 1885 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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George Hall (1795-1868) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
21, 1795.
Printer;
mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1834, 1855-56; postmaster at Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1841-45.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
16, 1868 (age 72 years, 208
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822-1903) —
also known as Abram S. Hewitt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Haverstraw, Rockland
County, N.Y., July 31,
1822.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
early manufacturer of wrought
iron; U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1875-79, 1881-87; Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1876-77; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1876;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1880; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1887-88.
English
and French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died in Ringwood, Passaic
County, N.J., January
18, 1903 (age 80 years, 171
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Daniel Darling Whitney (1818-1914) —
also known as Daniel D. Whitney —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Oyster Bay, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y., January
31, 1818.
Democrat. Grocer; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1886-87.
Died in 1914
(age about
96 years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Charles Adolph Schieren (1842-1915) —
also known as Charles A. Schieren —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Rhein, Prussia,
February
28, 1842.
Republican. Tanning
business; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1894-95; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York.
German
ancestry.
Died March
10, 1915 (age 73 years, 10
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Frederick W. Wurster (1850-1917) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Plymouth, Washington
County, N.C., April 1,
1850.
Republican. Manufacturer of axles;
owner of a brass
foundry; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1896-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1896.
Presbyterian.
German
ancestry.
Died June 27,
1917 (age 67 years, 87
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Cyrus Porter Smith (1800-1877) —
also known as Cyrus P. Smith —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., April 5,
1800.
Whig. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1839-41; member of New York
state senate 2nd District, 1856-57.
Presbyterian.
Died February
13, 1877 (age 76 years, 314
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Ambrose Cornelius Kingsland (1804-1878) —
also known as Ambrose Kingsland —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 24,
1804.
Mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1851-53.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1878 (age 74 years, 142
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Cornelius Kingsland and Abigail (Cock) Kingsland. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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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.
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David Augustus Boody (1837-1930) —
also known as David A. Boody; "Grand Old Man of
Brooklyn"; "Grand Old Man of Wall
Street" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born, in a log
cabin built by his father, in Jackson, Waldo
County, Maine, August
13, 1837.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker; stockbroker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1888;
U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1891; defeated
(Independent Democratic), 1882; resigned 1891; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1892-93; defeated, 1893; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Presbyterian.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
20, 1930 (age 92 years, 160
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Horace Greeley (1811-1872) —
also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White
Hat" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Chappaqua, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
3, 1811.
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper;
U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1848-49; defeated
(Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1860;
after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for
Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for Jefferson
Davis; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1866-70; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; candidate for
New
York state comptroller, 1869; Democratic candidate for President
of the United States, 1872.
Died in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
29, 1872 (age 61 years, 300
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; statue at City Hall Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Herald Square, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Zaccheus Greeley and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley; married, July 5,
1836, to Mary Y. Cheney; second cousin of Wallace
M. Greeley. |
| | | Cross-reference: Josiah
B. Grinnell |
| | | Greeley counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Greeley,
Colorado, is named for
him. — Horace Greeley High
School, in Chappaqua,
New York, is named for
him. — Mount
Horace Greeley, in Keweenaw
County, Michigan, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Horace Greeley (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scuttled with obsolete ammunition in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Horace
G. Snover
— Horace
G. Knowles
— Horace
Greeley Dawson, Jr.
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| | | Personal motto: "Go West, young
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Horace Greeley: American
conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of
America, 1860-1865 (1869) — Recollections
Of A Busy Life |
| | | Books about Horace Greeley: Glyndon G.
Van Deusen, Horace
Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader — Harry J.
Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — Wilbur J. Granberg, Spread
the truth : The life of Horace Greeley — Doris Faber,
Horace
Greeley: The People's Editor — Coy F. Cross, Go
West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for
America — J. Parton, The
Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York
Tribune |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Francis B. Stryker (1811-1892) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born December
10, 1811.
Whig. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1846-48.
Died January
12, 1892 (age 80 years, 33
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Jeremiah Johnson (1768-1852) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born January
22, 1768.
Whig. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County, 1808-10, 1840-41; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1837-38.
Died October
20, 1852 (age 84 years, 272
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Andrew Hutchins Mickle (1805-1863) —
also known as Andrew H. Mickle —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
5, 1805.
Democrat. Tobacco
merchant; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1846-47.
Died in Bayside, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., January
25, 1863 (age 57 years, 354
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Jonathan Trotter (1797-1865) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England,
August, 1797.
Democrat. Leather
finisher; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1835-36; banker.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1865 (age 67 years, 0
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James Harper (1795-1869) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newtown, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., April
13, 1795.
One of the founders of Harper and Brothers, publishers;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1844-45.
Died March
27, 1869 (age 73 years, 348
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Conklin Brush (1794-1870) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born March 8,
1794.
Whig. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1851-52.
Died July 4,
1870 (age 76 years, 118
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry Cruse Murphy (1810-1882) —
also known as Henry C. Murphy —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 5,
1810.
Democrat. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1842; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1843-45, 1847-49; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1846; U.S. Minister
to Netherlands, 1857-61; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1862-73; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1876.
Owner and editor of Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper.
Died December
1, 1882 (age 72 years, 149
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Samuel B. H. Vance (1814-1890) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1814.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1874.
Member, Union
League.
Died in Douglaston (now part of Queens), Queens
County, N.Y., August
10, 1890 (age about 76
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Samuel Booth (d. 1894) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1866-67; postmaster at Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1869-73.
Died in 1894.
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Ward Hunter (1807-1900) —
also known as John W. Hunter —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bedford (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., October
15, 1807.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1866-67; mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1874-75.
Censured
by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1867 for the use of unparliamentary
language.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
16, 1900 (age 92 years, 183
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Edward Cooper (1824-1905) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
26, 1824.
Democrat. Early manufacturer of wrought
iron; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1860,
1876,
1880,
1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee); mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1879-80.
Died, of an apoplectic
stroke, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
25, 1905 (age 80 years, 122
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Edward Marshall Grout (1861-1931) —
also known as Edward M. Grout —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Greens Farms, Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of William
J. Gaynor, later New York City mayor; candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895; borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1898-1901; New York City
Controller, 1902-05; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1904;
president of Union Bank in
Brooklyn; after the bank closed in 1911, he was indicted
for perjury,
based on the sworn report he had made of the bank's condition to the
New York Banking Department; tried in
1915 and convicted;
sentenced
to prison;
in 1916 the conviction was overturned, and he was not retried.
Died in Greens Farms, Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn., November
9, 1931 (age 70 years, 13
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Tom Loftin Johnson (1854-1911) —
also known as Tom L. Johnson —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Georgetown, Scott
County, Ky., July 18,
1854.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 21st District, 1891-95; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1900,
1904;
mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1901-09.
Died April
10, 1911 (age 56 years, 266
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Alfred E. Steers (c.1861-1948) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1861.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; grocer; broom
manufacturer; real estate
business; magistrate; borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1910-13; resigned 1913; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 2,
1948 (age about 87
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Christopher Steers. |
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Henry George (1839-1897) —
of New York.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
2, 1839.
Economist;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886 (United Labor); candidate for secretary
of state of New York, 1887.
Author
of Progress and Poverty.
Died October
29, 1897 (age 58 years, 57
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) —
of Andover (part now in North Andover), Essex
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Andover (part now in North Andover), Essex
County, Mass., February
3, 1748.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779-80; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1781-84; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1784; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1789-91; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-02.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
12, 1813 (age 65 years, 190
days).
Original interment at Brick
Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1856 at
Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) —
Born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
22, 1778.
Novelist;
poet;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1838-41.
Said to have written the rhyme 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers'.
Died in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April 6,
1860 (age 81 years, 228
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Bird Sim Coler (1868-1941) —
also known as Bird S. Coler —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Champaign, Champaign
County, Ill., October
9, 1868.
Democrat. Stockbroker;
banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896,
1904;
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1902; borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1906-09; candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1918.
Died, in Caledonia Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 12,
1941 (age 72 years, 246
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Cordelia Shipley (Sim) Coler and William Nichols Coler; married,
October
10, 1888, to Emily Moore. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, November 1902 |
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Benjamin Franklin Tracy (1830-1915) —
also known as Benjamin F. Tracy —
of Tioga
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Owego, Tioga
County, N.Y., April
26, 1830.
Republican. Lawyer; Tioga
County District Attorney, 1853-59; member of New York
state assembly from Tioga County, 1862; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, 1866-77; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1881-83; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1889-93; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1897.
Received the Medal
of Honor in 1895 for action at Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1864.
Died in Owego, Tioga
County, N.Y., August
6, 1915 (age 85 years, 102
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Livingston (1723-1790) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
30, 1723.
Lawyer;
member of New York
colonial assembly, 1759-61; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1774-76; Governor of
New Jersey, 1776-90; died in office 1790; chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1776-90; died in office 1790; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Presbyterian.
Died in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., July 25,
1790 (age 66 years, 237
days).
Originally entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; re-entombed in 1846 at Green-Wood
Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Catherine (Van Brugh)
Livingston; brother of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston (1716-1778); married 1745 to
Susannah French (granddaughter of Phillip
French); father of Susannah Livingston (who married John
Cleves Symmes), Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John
Jay) and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; nephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; uncle by marriage of James
Duane and William
Duer (1747-1799); uncle of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas
Bayard) and Susanna Livingston (who married John
Kean (1756-1795)); grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); granduncle of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); great-grandfather of Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; great-granduncle of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer (1805-1879), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer and Denning
Duer; second great-grandfather of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); second great-granduncle of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; third great-grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933) and Brockholst
Livingston; third great-granduncle of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; fourth great-granduncle of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; fifth great-granduncle of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951), Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin once removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), John
Cruger Jr., Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); first cousin twice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and John
Jacob Astor III; first cousin four times removed of William
Waldorf Astor and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; first cousin five times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; second cousin of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler and Henry
Cruger; second cousin once removed of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography |
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Townsend Harris (1804-1878) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls), Washington
County, N.Y., October
3, 1804.
Merchant;
importer;
U.S. Minister to Japan, 1859.
Died February
25, 1878 (age 73 years, 145
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; memorial monument at Zenpuku-ji, Tokyo, Japan.
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James Watson Gerard III (1867-1951) —
also known as James W. Gerard —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., August
25, 1867.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1908-13; U.S. Ambassador to
Germany, 1913-17; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1914; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1920;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1924,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1944,
1948;
Treasurer
of Democratic National Committee, 1929-32.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
6, 1951 (age 84 years, 12
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) —
also known as Samuel F. B. Morse —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
27, 1791.
Artist;
inventor
of the telegraph;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1841; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1854.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 2,
1872 (age 80 years, 341
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Joseph Clifford Hendrix (1853-1904) —
also known as Joseph C. Hendrix —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Fayette, Howard
County, Mo., May 25,
1853.
Democrat. Banker;
candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1883; postmaster at Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1886-90; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1893-95.
Member, American
Bankers Association.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
9, 1904 (age 51 years, 168
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Joel Benedict Erhardt (1838-1909) —
also known as Joel B. Erhardt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Pottstown, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
21, 1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1888; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1889-91.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Union
League; Sphinx;
Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
8, 1909 (age 71 years, 199
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Franklin Woodruff (1832-1898) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Farmington, Hartford
County, Conn., April
29, 1832.
Republican. Candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1879; candidate for New York
state senate 3rd District, 1895.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from apoplexy,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
15, 1898 (age 65 years, 320
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Edward Morse Shepard (1850-1911) —
also known as Edward M. Shepard —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 23,
1850.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Democratic Reform candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1901.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., July 28,
1911 (age 61 years, 5
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Cornelius Kingsland Garrison (1809-1885) —
also known as C. K. Garrison —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; St.
Louis, Mo.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., March 1,
1809.
Banker;
shipbuilder;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1853-54; railroad
president.
Died, of a heart
attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1885 (age 76 years, 61
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Joseph Albert Wright (1810-1867) —
of Indiana.
Born in Washington, Washington
County, Pa., April
17, 1810.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1833-34, 1836-37; member of Indiana
state senate, 1839-40; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1843-45; Governor of
Indiana, 1849-57; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1857-61, 1865-67, died in office 1867; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1862-63.
Methodist.
Died in Berlin, Germany,
May
11, 1867 (age 57 years, 24
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Cloughen (c.1849-1911) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1849.
Contractor;
borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1909.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of cancer,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
27, 1911 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Father of Robert Cloughen. |
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Dudley Sanford Gregory (1800-1874) —
also known as Dudley S. Gregory —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
5, 1800.
Banker;
mayor
of Jersey City, N.J., 1838-40, 1841-42, 1858-60; delegate to Whig
National Convention from New Jersey, 1839 (member, Balloting
Committee); U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1847-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1860;
director of railroad
companies.
Died in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
8, 1874 (age 74 years, 306
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Peter Cooper (1791-1883) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1791.
Manufacturer,
inventor,
philanthropist, creator of first
U.S. steam
locomotive; founder
of Cooper Union; Greenback candidate for President
of the United States, 1876.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 4,
1883 (age 92 years, 51
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Robert Stockton Green (1831-1895) —
also known as Robert S. Green —
of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., March
25, 1831.
Democrat. Lawyer; Union
County Surrogate, 1862-67; common pleas court judge in New
Jersey, 1868-73; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
Jersey, 1880,
1888
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 3rd District, 1885-87; resigned
1887; Governor of
New Jersey, 1887-90; vice-chancellor
of New Jersey court of chancery, 1890-95; died in office 1895.
Died in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., May 7,
1895 (age 64 years, 43
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Bronson Murray Cutting (1888-1935) —
also known as Bronson M. Cutting —
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe
County, N.M.
Born in Oakdale, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 23,
1888.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Senator from New Mexico, 1927-28, 1929-35; died in office 1935;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Mexico, 1932;
member of Republican
National Committee from New Mexico, 1932.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion.
Killed, along with both pilots and one other passenger, when a
twin-engine Transcontinental and Western air
liner, ran out of fuel in a dense
fog, and crashed near Atlanta, Macon
County, Mo., May 6,
1935 (age 46 years, 317
days). Nine other passengers were injured.
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Bayard Cutting and Olivia Peyton (Murray) Cutting;
great-grandnephew of Henry
Walter Livingston; second great-grandson of Walter
Livingston; second great-grandnephew of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794) and Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792); third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); third great-grandnephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; fourth great-grandson of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and Stephanus
Bayard; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Elder, Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Pieter
Van Brugh and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fifth great-grandnephew of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt and Johannes
Cuyler; sixth great-grandson of Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707); seventh great-grandnephew of Pieter
Stuyvesant; first cousin twice removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); first cousin four times removed of Philip
Peter Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler and Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre
Van Cortlandt and Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802); first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859); second cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin four times removed
of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), James
Livingston, John
Tyler (1747-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836) and James
Parker; second cousin five times removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, James
Jay, Henry
Cruger, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; third cousin of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870) and John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third cousin once removed of Brockholst
Livingston; third cousin twice removed of William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; third cousin thrice removed of George
Madison, Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, John
Tyler (1790-1862), Hamilton
Fish, John
Cortlandt Parker and James
Adams Ekin; fourth cousin of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee; fourth cousin once removed of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr., Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Politician named for him: Bronson
C. LaFollette
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| | | Epitaph: "Light and understanding and
wisdom was found in him. And the common people heard him
gladly." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Dixon Hall Lewis (1802-1848) —
also known as Dixon H. Lewis —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.; Lowndesboro, Lowndes
County, Ala.
Born in Dinwiddie
County, Va., August
10, 1802.
Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1826-28; U.S.
Representative from Alabama, 1829-44 (3rd District 1829-33, 4th
District 1833-41, at-large 1841-43, 3rd District 1843-44); U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1844-48; died in office 1848.
He weighed as much as 500 pounds, and was probably the heaviest-ever
member of Congress.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
25, 1848 (age 46 years, 76
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Leon Abbett (1836-1894) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
8, 1836.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1865-66,
1869-70; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey,
1872,
1876
(delegation chair), 1884,
1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee; speaker),
1892;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Hudson County, 1875-77; Governor of
New Jersey, 1884-87, 1890-93; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1893-94; appointed
1893; died in office 1894.
Died, from diabetes
and other conditions, in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
4, 1894 (age 58 years, 57
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Adrian Hegeman (1788-1861) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New Utrecht (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., December
19, 1788.
Democrat. School
teacher; postmaster at Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1832-41; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County, 1840.
Christian
Reformed.
Died April
25, 1861 (age 72 years, 127
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacobus Hegeman and Sarah (Van der Bilt) Hegeman. |
| | | Image source: Chronicles of Erasmus
Hall (1906) |
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Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824-1889) —
also known as Samuel S. Cox; "Sunset
Cox" —
of Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, September
30, 1824.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1857-65 (12th District 1857-63, 7th
District 1863-65); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Ohio, 1864;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1868,
1876;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1869-73, 1873-85, 1886-89 (6th
District 1869-73, 1873-85, 9th District 1885, 1886-89); defeated,
1872; died in office 1889; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1885-86.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
10, 1889 (age 64 years, 345
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; statue at Tompkins
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.
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William Musgrave Calder (1869-1945) —
also known as William M. Calder —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 3,
1869.
Republican. Builder;
U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1905-15; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1928,
1932,
1936,
1940;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1917-23; defeated, 1922; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 3,
1945 (age 76 years, 0
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764-1831) —
also known as Samuel L. Mitchill —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hempstead, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y., August
20, 1764.
Democrat. Physician;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1797-98, 1809-10; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1801-04, 1810-13 (2nd District
1801-03, 3rd District 1803-04, 2nd District 1810-13); U.S.
Senator from New York, 1804-09.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
7, 1831 (age 67 years, 18
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Joshua Sands (1757-1835) —
of New York.
Born in Cow Neck, Queens County (now part of Sands Point, Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y., October
12, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New
York state senate Southern District, 1791-97; member of New York
council of appointment, 1796; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1797-1801; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1803-05, 1825-27.
Slaveowner.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
13, 1835 (age 77 years, 336
days).
Original interment at St.
Paul's Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.; reinterment in 1852 at Green-Wood
Cemetery.
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Greene Carrier Bronson (1789-1863) —
also known as Greene C. Bronson —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Simsbury, Hartford
County, Conn., November
17, 1789.
Oneida
County Surrogate, 1819-21; member of New York
state assembly from Oneida and Oswego counties, 1821-22; New York
state attorney general, 1829-36; appointed 1829; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1836-47; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1847-51; resigned 1851; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1850-51; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1853; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1854.
Died in Saratoga, Saratoga
County, N.Y., September
9, 1863 (age 73 years, 296
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Oliver Bronson and Sarah (Merrill) Bronson; married, February
3, 1818, to Lucretia Kilbourn; first cousin once removed of Selah
Merrill; first cousin twice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; second cousin of John
Russell Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Edward
Russell Kellogg; third cousin of Theodore
Dwight, George
Smith Catlin and Francis
William Kellogg; third cousin once removed of Jason
Kellogg, Jonathan
Brace, Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Anson
Levi Holcomb, Daniel
Fiske Kellogg and Arthur
Tappan Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of William
Chapman Williston and William
Lucius Case; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Burr, Maurice
Lauchlin Wright, George
Williston Nash, Franklin
Clark Pomeroy and Leonard
Leach Case; fourth cousin of James
Kilbourne, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Luther
Walter Badger, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875), Theodore
Davenport, Alvan
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, William
Alfred Buckingham, Abijah
Catlin, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, Farrand
Fassett Merrill and Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Abel
Merrill, Silas
Wright Jr., Millard
Fillmore, Byron
H. Kilbourn, Elisha
Hunt Allen, Orlando
Kellogg, William
Dean Kellogg, Russell
Sage, Alexander
Wheelock Thayer, Stephen
Wright Kellogg, George
Bradley Kellogg, William
Pitt Kellogg, Edward
M. Chapin, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918) and Benjamin
Baker Merrill. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Lloyd Stephens Bryce (1851-1917) —
also known as Lloyd Bryce —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., September
20, 1851.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1887-89; defeated
(County Democratic), 1888; editor, North American Review magazine,
1889-96; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1911-13; Luxembourg, 1911-13.
Died in Mineola, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 2,
1917 (age 65 years, 194
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Hamilton Fish Kean (1862-1941) —
also known as Hamilton F. Kean —
of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Union Township, Union
County, N.J., February
27, 1862.
Republican. Banker; farmer; chair of
Union County Republican Party, 1900; member of New Jersey
Republican State Committee, 1905-19; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1916,
1932;
member of Republican
National Committee from New Jersey, 1919-28; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1929-35; defeated, 1924, 1934; delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Freemasons.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
27, 1941 (age 79 years, 303
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John Kean (1814-1895) and Lucinetta 'Lucy' (Halsted) Kean; brother
of John
Kean (1852-1914); married, January
12, 1888, to Katharine Taylor Winthrop; father of Robert
Winthrop Kean; grandfather of Thomas
Howard Kean; great-grandson of John
Kean (1756-1795); great-grandfather of Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; great-grandnephew of Philip
Peter Livingston; second great-grandson of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston; second great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; third great-grandson of James
Alexander; third great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; fourth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Abraham
de Peyster, Johannes
Cuyler, Johannes
de Peyster and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin of Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); first cousin once removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); first cousin twice removed of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); first cousin thrice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, John
Stevens III, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; first cousin four times removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
DePeyster, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and William
Jay; second cousin thrice removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Matthew
Clarkson, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Henry
Cruger and Henry
Rutgers; third cousin once removed of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; third cousin twice removed of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); third cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, Philip
DePeyster and James
Parker; fourth cousin of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fourth cousin once removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, John
Jacob Astor III, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Reginald Livingston and Brockholst
Livingston. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Samuel M. Blatchford (1820-1893) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 9,
1820.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1867-78; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1878-82; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-93; died in office 1893.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., July 7,
1893 (age 73 years, 120
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Lewis Griffiths (1855-1914) —
also known as John L. Griffiths —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
7, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1887; Indiana
reporter of state courts, 1889-93; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1905-09; U.S. Consul General in London, 1909-14, died in office 1914.
Congregationalist.
Welsh
ancestry.
Died, of a heart
seizure, in London, England,
May
17, 1914 (age 58 years, 222
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of David G. Griffiths and Elizabeth (Hughes) Griffiths; married, June 5,
1889, to Caroline Henderson. |
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Gold Selleck Silliman (1777-1868) —
also known as Gold S. Silliman —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
26, 1777.
Whig. Lawyer;
postmaster at Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1849-53.
Christian
Reformed.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 3,
1868 (age 90 years, 221
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Francis Henry Wilson (1844-1910) —
also known as Francis H. Wilson —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Nebraska, February
11, 1844.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1895-97; resigned
1897; postmaster at Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1897-1901.
Died September
25, 1910 (age 66 years, 226
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Brooks Henderson (1826-1913) —
also known as John B. Henderson —
of Louisiana, Pike
County, Mo.; St.
Louis, Mo.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Danville, Pittsylvania
County, Va., November
16, 1826.
Lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1848-50, 1856-58; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Missouri; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1860;
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1862-69; Republican candidate for Governor of
Missouri, 1872; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Missouri, 1884.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
12, 1913 (age 86 years, 147
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Willard Bartlett (1846-1925) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Uxbridge, Worcester
County, Mass., October
14, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Elihu
Root, 1869-83 and 1917-24; drama
critic; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1884-1907; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1896-1906; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1906-16; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1914-16.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from heart
disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
17, 1925 (age 78 years, 95
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Isaac Bell Jr. (1846-1889) —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
6, 1846.
Democrat. Cotton
broker; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1885-88; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Rhode Island, 1888.
Died, from complications of typhoid
fever, and pyaemia,
in St. Luke's Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
20, 1889 (age 42 years, 75
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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George W. Baker (1863-1928) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
12, 1863.
Republican. Shoe
manufacturer; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1921.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
20, 1928 (age 64 years, 69
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of George Baker and Sarah (Randell) Baker; married to Isabel C.
Huggins. |
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Montgomery Schuyler Jr. (1877-1955) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., September
2, 1877.
Author;
U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1904-06; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1913; Salvador, 1921-25; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
stockbroker;
banker.
Episcopalian.
Died November
1, 1955 (age 78 years, 60
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Katherine Beeckman (Livingston) Schuyler and Montgomery Schuyler;
married, August
22, 1906, to Edith Lawver; second great-grandson of Valentine
Brother; third great-grandson of Robert
Gilbert Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin four times removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William
Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Hamilton
Fish and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Edward
Livingston; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Peter
Augustus Jay, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; fourth cousin of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; fourth cousin once removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1921) |
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Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (1786-1862) —
also known as Churchill C. Cambreleng —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington, Beaufort
County, N.C., October
24, 1786.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1821-39 (2nd District 1821-23, 3rd
District 1823-39); U.S. Minister to Russia, 1840-41; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1846.
Died in Huntington, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April
30, 1862 (age 75 years, 188
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Caleb Lyon (1822-1875) —
of Lyonsdale, Lewis
County, N.Y.
Born in Lyonsdale, Lewis
County, N.Y., December
7, 1822.
Member of New York
state assembly from Lewis County, 1851; resigned 1851; member of
New
York state senate 21st District, 1851; U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1853-55; Governor
of Idaho Territory, 1864-66.
In 1866, an audit
revealed that he had embezzled
$46,418 in federal funds intended for the Nez Perce Indians, but he
was never convicted.
Died in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
8, 1875 (age 52 years, 275
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Charles Willoughby Dayton (1846-1910) —
also known as Charles W. Dayton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
3, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 23rd District, 1881;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1893-97; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1904;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1907-10; defeated, 1901;
died in office 1910.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1910 (age 64 years, 65
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Simon Boerum (1724-1775) —
of New York.
Born in Flatbush (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., February
29, 1724.
Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1761-75; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-75.
Christian
Reformed.
Died in New Lots (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., July 11,
1775 (age 51 years, 0
days).
Original interment at Dutch Reformed Burying
Ground (which no longer exists); reinterment in 1848 at
Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Richard Milford Blatchford (1798-1875) —
also known as Richard M. Blatchford —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Stratford, Fairfield
County, Conn., April
24, 1798.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 13th District, 1855; U.S.
Minister to Papal States, 1862; New York City Park Commissioner, 1872.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., September
4, 1875 (age 77 years, 133
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Abram Wakeman (1824-1889) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Greenfield Hill, Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn., May 31,
1824.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 4th District, 1850-51; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1855-57; postmaster at
New
York City, N.Y., 1862-64; organized railroads
on Long Island, N.Y.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 29,
1889 (age 65 years, 29
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Beekman Winthrop (1874-1940) —
of Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Orange, Essex
County, N.J., September
18, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer; Governor of
Puerto Rico, 1904-07; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
1907-09; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1909-13; director,
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad,
Lackawanna Steel Co.,
and National City Bank.
Died November
10, 1940 (age 66 years, 53
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Nicholas Muller (1836-1917) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Luxembourg,
November
15, 1836.
Democrat. Member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1875; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 1st District, 1875-76; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1877-81, 1883-87, 1899-1902 (5th
District 1877-81, 1883-85, 6th District 1885-87, 7th District
1899-1902); defeated (Independent Democratic), 1880; resigned 1901;
candidate for borough
president of Richmond, New York, 1901.
Died in New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., November
12, 1917 (age 80 years, 362
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Drake Sloat (1781-1867) —
Born in Sloatsburg, Rockland
County, N.Y., July 6,
1781.
Commodore in U.S. Navy; claimed California for the United States on
July 7, 1846; Military
Governor of California, 1846.
Dutch
ancestry.
Died in New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., November
28, 1867 (age 86 years, 145
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; memorial monument at Presidio
of Monterey, Monterey, Calif.
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James Brooks (1810-1873) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
10, 1810.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1835; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1848; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1849-53, 1863-66, 1867-73 (6th
District 1849-53, 8th District 1863-66, 1867-73, 6th District 1873);
died in office 1873; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867.
Censured
by the House in 1873 for his role in the Credit Mobilier bribery
scandal.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
30, 1873 (age 62 years, 171
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829-1906) —
also known as Robert B. Roosevelt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
7, 1829.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1871-73; U.S. Minister
to Netherlands, 1888-89; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1892.
Died in Sayville, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 14,
1906 (age 76 years, 311
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Francis Edwin Dorn (1911-1987) —
also known as Francis E. Dorn —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
18, 1911.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 10th District, 1941-42;
defeated, 1937, 1938; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1953-61; defeated,
1948 (7th District), 1949 (7th District), 1950 (7th District), 1960
(12th District), 1962 (15th District); candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1961.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Catholic
Lawyers Guild; Eagles;
Elks; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, of cancer,
in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
17, 1987 (age 76 years, 152
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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George Nicholas Seger (1866-1940) —
also known as George N. Seger —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1866.
Republican. Builder;
mayor
of Passaic, N.J., 1911-19; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New Jersey, 1916;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1923-40 (7th District 1923-33,
8th District 1933-40); died in office 1940.
Member, Royal
Arcanum; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died August
26, 1940 (age 74 years, 235
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Sumner Pell Gerard (1916-2005) —
also known as Sumner Gerard —
of Ennis, Madison
County, Mont.
Born in Melville, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 15,
1916.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; rancher;
member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1955-60; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Montana, 1956;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1960; member of Montana
state senate, 1963-66; U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, 1974-77.
Died, in a hospital
at Vero Beach, Indian
River County, Fla., February
24, 2005 (age 88 years, 224
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Freeborn Garretson Smith (c.1827-1911) —
also known as Freeborn G. Smith —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in a log
cabin, near Baltimore (unknown
county), Md., about 1827.
Piano
manufacturing business; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1890 (3rd District), 1894 (2nd
District); Prohibition candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1891, 1895; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
9, 1911 (age about 84
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry George Jr. (1862-1916) —
of Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., November
3, 1862.
Democrat. Newspaper
work; Jeffersonian Democratic candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1897; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1911-15 (17th District 1911-13,
21st District 1913-15).
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
14, 1916 (age 54 years, 11
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Lewis Beach (1835-1886) —
of Cornwall, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
30, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer; treasurer of
New York Democratic Party, 1877-79; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1881-86 (14th District 1881-85,
15th District 1885-86); died in office 1886.
Died, from typhoid
fever and Bright's
disease, in Cornwall, Orange
County, N.Y., August
10, 1886 (age 51 years, 133
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Charles Linnaeus Benedict (1824-1901) —
also known as Charles L. Benedict —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Newbury, Orange
County, Vt., March 2,
1824.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 5th District, 1862; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 1865-97;
resigned 1897.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
8, 1901 (age 76 years, 312
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Norman Hapgood (1868-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March
28, 1868.
Lawyer;
editor, Collier's Weekly magazine,
1903-12; Harper's Weekly, 1913-16; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1919.
Died, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
29, 1937 (age 69 years, 32
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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George Alfred Arkwright (1888-1972) —
also known as George A. Arkwright —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
19, 1888.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1944;
candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1945; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1950-64; appointed 1950;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd
Department, 1954-62.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; Catholic
Lawyers Guild; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Knights
of Columbus; Rotary.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
25, 1972 (age 83 years, 341
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Simeon Baldwin Chittenden (1814-1889) —
also known as Simeon B. Chittenden —
of New York.
Born in Guilford, New Haven
County, Conn., March
29, 1814.
U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1874-81; defeated
(Republican), 1880.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
14, 1889 (age 75 years, 16
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Francis Barretto Spinola (1821-1891) —
also known as Francis B. Spinola —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Stony Brook, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., March
19, 1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1856, 1877, 1881, 1883 (Kings County 2nd District
1856, New York County 16th District 1877, 1881, 1883); member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1858-61; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1860;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1887-91; died in
office 1891.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
14, 1891 (age 70 years, 26
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Erigena Robinson (1814-1892) —
also known as William E. Robinson —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), May 6,
1814.
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1867-69, 1881-85 (3rd District
1867-69, 2nd District 1881-85); defeated, 1872 (Independent
Democratic, 2nd District), 1880 (Brooklyn Democratic, 3rd District),
1886 (Independent Democratic, 4th District), 1888 (Republican, 4th
District).
Died in 1892
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823) —
also known as Brockholst Livingston —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
25, 1757.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1788-89, 1800-02; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1806-23.
Presbyterian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
18, 1823 (age 65 years, 113
days).
Original interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Susannah (French) Livingston and William
Livingston; brother of Susannah Livingston (who married John
Cleves Symmes) and Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (who married John
Jay); married 1774 to Ann
Ludlow; nephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; uncle of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843) and William
Jay; grandfather of Henry
Brockholst Ledyard; grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; granduncle of John
Jay II; great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder, Anthony
Brockholls, Pieter
Van Brugh and Phillip
French; great-grandfather of Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); second great-grandfather of Brockholst
Livingston; second great-granduncle of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933); first cousin by marriage of James
Duane and William
Duer (1747-1799); first cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Catherine Livingston (who married Nicholas
Bayard), Susanna Livingston (who married John
Kean (1756-1795)) and Matthew
Clarkson; first cousin once removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); first cousin twice removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), John
Cruger Jr., Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer (1805-1879), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer and Denning
Duer; first cousin thrice removed of David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin four times removed of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; first cousin five times removed of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; first cousin six times removed of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951), Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin once removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, James
Jay, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Henry
Cruger, Frederick
Jay and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); second cousin twice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and John
Jacob Astor III; second cousin thrice removed of William
Waldorf Astor and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; second cousin four times removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; third cousin of Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; third cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; third cousin thrice removed of Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Karl
Cortlandt Schuyler. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
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Gorham Parks (1794-1877) —
of Bangor, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., May 27,
1794.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Maine 7th District, 1833-37; candidate for
Governor
of Maine, 1837; U.S.
Attorney for Maine, 1843-45; U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro, as of 1845-49.
Died in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
23, 1877 (age 83 years, 180
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry Warner Slocum (1827-1894) —
also known as Henry W. Slocum —
of Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, September
24, 1827.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Onondaga County 2nd District, 1859; general
in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1869-73, 1883-85 (3rd District
1869-73, at-large 1883-85); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1892.
Died April
24, 1894 (age 66 years, 212
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Godfrey Schumaker (1826-1905) —
also known as John G. Schumaker —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, 1826.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1864;
U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1869-71, 1873-77; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1894.
Died in 1905
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Mortimer W. Byers (1877-1962) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 28,
1877.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 1929-60;
took senior status 1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 5,
1962 (age 84 years, 281
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas S. Byers and Isabella F. (Wardle) Byers; married, June 6,
1906, to Kate A. House. |
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Peter Sharpe (1777-1842) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
10, 1777.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1814-15, 1816-21; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1820-21; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1821, 1823-25 (2nd District 1821,
3rd District 1823-25); defeated, 1824.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
3, 1842 (age 64 years, 236
days).
Original interment at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at Green-Wood
Cemetery.
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William Brown Maclay (1812-1882) —
also known as William B. Maclay —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
20, 1812.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1840-42; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1843-49, 1857-61 (4th District
1843-49, 5th District 1857-61).
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
19, 1882 (age 69 years, 336
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Blackburne Woodward (1835-1896) —
also known as John B. Woodward —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 31,
1835.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; leather
business; importer
and exporter; Independent candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1885.
Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, National Rifle
Association; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 7,
1896 (age 60 years, 281
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Woodward and Mary Barrow (Blackburne) Woodward; married, May 31,
1870, to Elizabeth Cook Blackburne. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: John B. Woodward: a
biographical memoir (1897) |
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Frederick Seymour Gibbs (1845-1903) —
also known as Frederick S. Gibbs; "The Wicked
Gibbs" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Seneca Falls, Seneca
County, N.Y., March
22, 1845.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
New
York state senate 8th District, 1884-85; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1884; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1888,
1892,
1896,
1900;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 13th District, 1889-90;
member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1896-1903.
Died in Asbury Park, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
21, 1903 (age 58 years, 183
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Thomas James Creamer (1843-1914) —
also known as Thomas J. Creamer —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in County Leitrim, Ireland,
May
26, 1843.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1865-67, 1889 (New York County 10th District
1865-66, New York County 14th District 1867, 1889); member of New York
state senate 6th District, 1868-71; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1873-75, 1901-03 (7th District
1873-75, 8th District 1901-03).
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
4, 1914 (age 71 years, 70
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Mills Ivins (1851-1915) —
also known as William M. Ivins —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Freehold, Monmouth
County, N.J., April
22, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1905.
Died, of Bright's
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 23,
1915 (age 64 years, 92
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Horatio Collins King (1837-1918) —
also known as Horatio C. King —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, December
22, 1837.
Lawyer;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War; Democratic candidate
for secretary
of state of New York, 1895; Independent Democratic candidate for
U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1897; Progressive
candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1912.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Sons of
the American Revolution; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Received Medal
of Honor for action near Dinwiddie Court House, Va., March 29,
1865.
Died November
15, 1918 (age 80 years, 328
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Joseph Adams (1848-1919) —
also known as John J. Adams —
of New York.
Born in Douglas Town, New
Brunswick, September
16, 1848.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1883-87 (8th District 1883-85, 7th
District 1885-87).
Died suddenly, of heart
disease (a year after suffering a stroke of
paralysis), in the Ansonia Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
16, 1919 (age 70 years, 153
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Asa Bird Gardiner (1839-1919) —
also known as Asa Bird Gardner —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
30, 1839.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; received the Medal
of Honor for actions in Civil War War battles, but it was revoked
in 1917 when no evidence was found to support his award; law
professor; New
York County District Attorney, 1898-1900; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1900;
removed
from office as District Attorney in December 1900, by Gov. Theodore
Roosevelt, over charges
that he had interfered
with the prosecution of election cases against Tammany Hall.
Member, Tammany
Hall; Society
of the Cincinnati; Loyal
Legion; Grand
Army of the Republic; Society
of the War of 1812; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y., May 24,
1919 (age 79 years, 236
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Jerome Coombs (1833-1922) —
also known as William J. Coombs —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Jordan, Onondaga
County, N.Y., December
24, 1833.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1891-95 (3rd District 1891-93, 4th
District 1893-95); defeated, 1888 (3rd District), 1894 (4th District).
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
12, 1922 (age 88 years, 19
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James Humphrey (1811-1866) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
9, 1811.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1859-61, 1865-66 (2nd District
1859-61, 3rd District 1865-66); died in office 1866.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 16,
1866 (age 54 years, 250
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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George Briggs (1805-1869) —
of Bennington, Bennington
County, Vt.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Broadalbin, Fulton
County, N.Y., May 6,
1805.
Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1837; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1849-53, 1859-61 (5th District
1849-53, 7th District 1859-61).
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., June 1,
1869 (age 64 years, 26
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820-1869) —
also known as Henry J. Raymond —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lima town, Livingston
County, N.Y., January
24, 1820.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; founder of the New York Times; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 7th District, 1850-51, 1862;
Speaker
of the New York State Assembly, 1851, 1862; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1855-56; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1864-66; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1865-67.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 18,
1869 (age 49 years, 145
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Osborne Whitehouse (1817-1881) —
also known as John O. Whitehouse —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Strafford
County, N.H., July 19,
1817.
Democrat. Shoe
manufacturer; U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1873-77; newspaper
publisher.
Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
24, 1881 (age 64 years, 36
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Hardy (1835-1913) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Scotland,
September
10, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1861; U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1881-85; defeated,
1872 (Anti-Tammany Democrat, 9th District), 1874 (Independent
Democratic, 9th District), 1874 (Independent Democratic, 9th
District), 1878 (Anti-Tammany Democrat, 9th District), 1880
(Independent Democratic, 9th District), 1884 (Tammany Hall
Democratic, 11th District).
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., December
9, 1913 (age 78 years, 90
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Jacob Van Vechten Olcott (1856-1940) —
also known as J. Van Vechten Olcott —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 17,
1856.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1905-11; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1912.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Alpha
Delta Phi; Union
League.
Died June 1,
1940 (age 84 years, 15
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Frederick William Rowe (1863-1946) —
also known as Frederick W. Rowe —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Wappingers Falls, Dutchess
County, N.Y., March
10, 1863.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1915-21.
Congregationalist.
Member, Rotary.
Died June 20,
1946 (age 83 years, 102
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Robert McClellan (1806-1860) —
of New York.
Born in New York, October
2, 1806.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1837-39, 1841-43.
Died June 28,
1860 (age 53 years, 270
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Dwight Townsend (1826-1899) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
25, 1826.
Democrat. Sugar refining
business; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1864-65, 1871-73;
defeated (Independent Democratic), 1882; telegraph
business.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1899 (age 73 years, 34
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Franklin Bartlett (1847-1909) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Grafton, Worcester
County, Mass., September
10, 1847.
Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1892,
1896,
1904;
U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1893-97; defeated
(Republican), 1896.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, of a kidney
disorder, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
23, 1909 (age 61 years, 225
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James Robinson Howe (1839-1914) —
also known as James R. Howe —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
27, 1839.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1895-99; defeated,
1902; Kings
County Register of Deeds, 1900-02; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1900.
Member, Union
League.
Died in North Salem, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
21, 1914 (age 75 years, 237
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Moses Fowler Odell (1818-1866) —
of New York.
Born in New York, February
24, 1818.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1861-65 (2nd District 1861-63, 3rd
District 1863-65).
Died, of cancer,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 13,
1866 (age 48 years, 109
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James I. Roosevelt (1795-1875) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
14, 1795.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1835, 1840; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1841-43; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1859-61.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1875 (age 79 years, 112
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Murray Mitchell (1858-1905) —
also known as John M. Mitchell —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1858.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1896-99; defeated,
1894, 1898; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1900.
Died, from cancer,
in Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, N.Y., May 31,
1905 (age 47 years, 74
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Almet Francis Jenks (1853-1924) —
also known as Almet F. Jenks —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 21,
1853.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1894;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1900-21; resigned 1921;
candidate for chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1916.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in 1924
(age about
71 years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Grenville Tudor Jenks and Persis Sophia (Smith) Jenks; brother of
Paul
E. Jenks; married, April
29, 1891, to Lena Barré. |
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Luther Bradish (1783-1863) —
of Malone, Franklin
County, N.Y.
Born in Cummington, Hampshire
County, Mass., September
15, 1783.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New York
state assembly from Franklin County, 1828-30, 1836-38; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1838; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1837-42; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1842.
Died, in Ocean House hotel,
Newport, Newport
County, R.I., August
30, 1863 (age 79 years, 349
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Col. John Bradish and Hannah (Warner) Bradish; married 1814 to Helen
Elizabeth Gibbs; married 1839 to Mary
Eliza Hart. |
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John Brownson (d. 1865) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, 1823-30.
Died in South Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., March
23, 1865.
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Abijah Mann Jr. (1793-1868) —
of Fairfield, Herkimer
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Fairfield, Herkimer
County, N.Y., September
24, 1793.
Merchant;
member of New York
state assembly from Herkimer County, 1828-30, 1838; postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1833-37; candidate
for New York
state attorney general, 1855; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1856;
candidate for New York
state senate, 1857.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., September
6, 1868 (age 74 years, 348
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Philip Schuyler Crooke (1810-1881) —
also known as Philip S. Crooke —
of Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., March 2,
1810.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 1st District, 1864; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1873-75.
Died in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
17, 1881 (age 71 years, 15
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Hyatt Smith (1824-1886) —
also known as J. Hyatt Smith —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, April
10, 1824.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1881-83.
Died December
7, 1886 (age 62 years, 241
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Stephen Tyng Hopkins (1849-1892) —
also known as Stephen T. Hopkins —
of Catskill, Greene
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
25, 1849.
Republican. Iron
merchant; member of New York
state assembly from Greene County, 1885-86; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1887-89.
Died March 3,
1892 (age 42 years, 344
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Orlando Brunson Potter (1823-1894) —
also known as Orlando B. Potter —
of New York.
Born in Charlemont, Franklin
County, Mass., March
10, 1823.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1883-85; defeated
(Tammany Hall Democratic), 1878.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
2, 1894 (age 70 years, 298
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Hugh Graham (1835-1895) —
also known as John H. Graham —
of New York.
Born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), April 1,
1835.
Democrat. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; hardware
business; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1893-95.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 11,
1895 (age 60 years, 101
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Daniel Lawson (1816-1896) —
also known as John D. Lawson; "Sitting
Bull" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Montgomery, Orange
County, N.Y., February
18, 1816.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1868,
1872,
1884,
1892;
U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1873-75; defeated,
1874.
Died January
24, 1896 (age 79 years, 340
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry Clay Miner (1842-1900) —
also known as Henry C. Miner —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, March
23, 1842.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1895-97.
Died February
22, 1900 (age 57 years, 336
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Anthony Eickhoff (1827-1901) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lippstadt, Westphalia (now Germany),
September
11, 1827.
Democrat. Founder or editor of several German-language newspapers,
in St. Louis, Mo., Dubuque, Iowa, and New York City; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1864; U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1877-79; defeated,
1878; New York City Fire Commissioner, 1891-96.
German
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
5, 1901 (age 74 years, 55
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Copeland Wallace (1856-1901) —
also known as William C. Wallace —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 21,
1856.
Republican. Lawyer; banker; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1889-91; defeated,
1890; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1892,
1900.
Died in Warwick, Orange
County, N.Y., September
4, 1901 (age 45 years, 106
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry Bristow (1840-1906) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in St. Michaels, Azores,
June
5, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant;
U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1901-03; defeated,
1902.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons.
Died, from heart
trouble, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
11, 1906 (age 66 years, 128
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Robert Troup (1757-1832) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., August
19, 1757.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1785-86; U.S.
District Judge for New York, 1796-98.
Columbia classmate and close friend of Alexander
Hamilton.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
14, 1832 (age 74 years, 148
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Lucien Bonaparte Chase (1817-1864) —
of Dover, Stewart
County, Tenn.; Clarksville, Montgomery
County, Tenn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Derby Line, Derby, Orleans
County, Vt., December
5, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 9th District, 1845-49.
Died in Derby Line, Derby, Orleans
County, Vt., December
4, 1864 (age 46 years, 365
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John M. Wood (1813-1864) —
of Maine.
Born in New York, November
17, 1813.
Republican. Member of Maine state legislature, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1855-59.
Died December
24, 1864 (age 51 years, 37
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Stephen Van Culen White (1831-1913) —
also known as Stephen V. White —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in North Carolina, August
1, 1831.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1887-89.
Died January
18, 1913 (age 81 years, 170
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Michael Joseph Hogan (1871-1940) —
also known as Michael J. Hogan —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1871.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922 (7th District), 1932 (at-large); trucking
business; indicted
in 1934 for accepting
money from applicants for New York City plumbing licenses; convicted
on federal charges in 1935 of accepting
bribes from illegal immigrants and helping them file false
affidavits, and sentenced
to a year and a day in federal prison; testified
in 1936 that he had assisted in a jury
tampering conspiracy.
Died in Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 7,
1940 (age 69 years, 15
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Lefferts (1785-1829) —
of New York.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
17, 1785.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1813-15; member of New York
state senate, 1820-25 (Southern District 1820-22, 1st District
1823-25); delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821.
Slaveowner.
Died September
18, 1829 (age 43 years, 275
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James Porter (1787-1839) —
of New York.
Born in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., April
18, 1787.
Democrat. Member of New York state legislature, 1814; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1817-19.
Died February
7, 1839 (age 51 years, 295
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Joel Thompson (1760-1843) —
of Sherburne, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in Stanford, Dutchess
County, N.Y., October
3, 1760.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1797-98, 1802-04 (Albany County 1797-98, Chenango
County 1802-04); common pleas court judge in New York, 1799-1807;
county judge in New York, 1807-14; U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1813-15.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
8, 1843 (age 82 years, 128
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James Milnor (1773-1844) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Pennsylvania, June 20,
1773.
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 1st District, 1811-13.
Died April 8,
1844 (age 70 years, 293
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Richard Young (1846-1935) —
of Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Londonderry, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), August
6, 1846.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1909-11.
Died in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 9,
1935 (age 88 years, 307
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Harry Alfred Hanbury (1863-1940) —
also known as Harry A. Hanbury —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bristol, England,
January
1, 1863.
Republican. Founder of Hanbury Iron Works
in Brooklyn; candidate for New York
state senate, 1895; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1901-03; defeated,
1902.
Died in Methuen, Essex
County, Mass., August
22, 1940 (age 77 years, 234
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Warren Isbell Lee (1874-1955) —
also known as Warren I. Lee —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bartlett, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
5, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1906-10, 1920 (Kings County 18th District
1906-10, Kings County 21st District 1920); U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1910 (5th District), 1922 (6th District), 1924 (6th District).
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons;
Union
League.
Died December
25, 1955 (age 81 years, 323
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Brown Johnston (1882-1960) —
also known as John B. Johnston —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
July
10, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 12th District, 1915; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1919-21; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1928-52; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1935-52.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
11, 1960 (age 77 years, 185
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Starr Miller (1793-1854) —
also known as William S. Miller —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Connecticut, August
22, 1793.
U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1845-47.
Died November
9, 1854 (age 61 years, 79
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Thomas William Cumming (c.1814-1855) —
also known as Thomas W. Cumming —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., about 1814.
Democrat. Druggist; cloth
manufacturer; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1853-55.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
13, 1855 (age about 41
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Henry Hobart Haws (1809-1858) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1809.
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1851-53.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
27, 1858 (age about 48
years).
Original interment at St.
Stephen's Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1866 at
Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Thomas Richard Whitney (1807-1858) —
also known as Thomas R. Whitney —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 2,
1807.
Member of New York
state senate 4th District, 1854-55; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1855-57.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
12, 1858 (age 50 years, 345
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Michael Walsh (1810-1859) —
also known as Mike Walsh —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland,
May
4, 1810.
Democrat. Convicted
about 1845 for publication of a libel;
member of New York
state assembly, 1847-48, 1852 (New York County 1847, New York
County 12th District 1848, 1852); U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1853-55.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
17, 1859 (age 48 years, 317
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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David Alexander Bokee (1805-1860) —
also known as David A. Bokee —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
6, 1805.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 2nd District, 1848-49; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1849-51.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
15, 1860 (age 54 years, 161
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Lot Clark (1788-1862) —
of Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.; Lockport, Niagara
County, N.Y.
Born in Hillsdale, Columbia
County, N.Y., May 23,
1788.
Lawyer;
postmaster at Norwich,
N.Y., 1819-23, 1825-29; Chenango
County District Attorney, 1822-23, 1828-29; U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1823-25; member of New York
state assembly from Niagara County, 1846.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., December
18, 1862 (age 74 years, 209
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Isaac Clason Delaplaine (1817-1866) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1817.
U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1861-63.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 17,
1866 (age 48 years, 263
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Anson Herrick (1812-1868) —
of New York.
Born in Lewiston, Androscoggin
County, Maine, January
21, 1812.
Democrat. Printer;
newspaper
editor and publisher; U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1863-65.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1868 (age 56 years, 16
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Thomas Child Jr. (1818-1869) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Bakersfield, Franklin
County, Vt., March
22, 1818.
Democrat. Delegate
to Vermont state constitutional convention, 1838; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1855-57; member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County, 1866.
Died in Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., March 9,
1869 (age 50 years, 352
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Francis Brockholst Cutting (1804-1870) —
also known as Francis B. Cutting —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
6, 1804.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1836-37; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1853-55.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 26,
1870 (age 65 years, 324
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Wall (1800-1872) —
of Williamsburg (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
20, 1800.
Republican. Rope
manufacturer; banker; mayor
of Williamsburgh, N.Y., 1853; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1861-63.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
20, 1872 (age 72 years, 31
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Franklin Clark (1801-1874) —
of Maine.
Born in Wiscasset, Lincoln
County, Maine, August
2, 1801.
Democrat. Member of Maine state legislature, 1840; U.S.
Representative from Maine 4th District, 1847-49.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
24, 1874 (age 73 years, 22
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Luther Cullen Carter (1805-1875) —
also known as Luther C. Carter —
of Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Bethel, Oxford
County, Maine, February
25, 1805.
U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1859-61.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
3, 1875 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Magear Tweed (1823-1878) —
also known as William M. Tweed; William Marcy Tweed;
"Boss Tweed" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1823.
Democrat. Chairmaker;
fire
fighter; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1853-55; member of New York
state senate 4th District, 1868-73.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Convicted
of embezzlement
and sentenced
to twelve years in prison;
escaped;
captured
in Spain and brought back to New York.
Died in
prison, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
12, 1878 (age 55 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Jesse Johnson (1842-1918) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Orford, Grafton
County, N.H.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Bradford, Orange
County, Vt., February
20, 1842.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1888;
U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, 1889-94; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1897-98; defeated, 1883.
Died, in the St. George Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
31, 1918 (age 76 years, 253
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Sarah E. Russell and Mary A. Prichard. |
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George Blinn Francis (1883-1967) —
also known as George B. Francis —
of New York.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., August
12, 1883.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1917-19; defeated,
1914.
Died in Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla., May 20,
1967 (age 83 years, 281
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Theodore Dwight (1764-1846) —
of Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Northampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., December
15, 1764.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 6th District, 1806-07; member of
Connecticut
council of assistants, 1809-15.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 12,
1846 (age 81 years, 179
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Timothy Dwight and Mary (Edwards) Dwight; married to Abigail
Alsop; nephew of Pierpont
Edwards; third great-grandson of Thomas
Willett; first cousin of Aaron
Burr and Henry
Waggaman Edwards; second cousin of John
Davenport and James
Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore
Davenport; second cousin thrice removed of Evert
Harris Kittell; second cousin five times removed of Arthur
Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin
Tallmadge and Greene
Carrier Bronson; third cousin once removed of Charles
Robert Sherman, Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge and Elisha
Hunt Allen; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Taylor Sherman, John
Appleton, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman, Joseph
Pomeroy Root, William
Chapman Williston, William
Fessenden Allen, Frederick
Hobbes Allen and Edward
Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard, Maurice
Lauchlin Wright, George
Landon Ingraham, George
Williston Nash, Charles
Dunsmore Millard, Franklin
Clark Pomeroy and Blanche
M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Noah
Phelps and Hezekiah
Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio
Adams, Morris
Woodruff, Elisha
Phelps, Ambrose
Tuttle, Jesse
Hoyt, Abiel
Case, Silas
Wright Jr., Jairus
Case, John
Leslie Russell, James
Samuel Wadsworth, George
Washington Wolcott, William
Dean Kellogg and Almon
Case. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Michael Cavanaugh (1823-1879) —
also known as James M. Cavanaugh —
of Chatfield, Fillmore
County, Minn.; Helena, Lewis and
Clark County, Mont.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., July 4,
1823.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Minnesota at-large, 1858-59; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1867-71.
Died October
30, 1879 (age 56 years, 118
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Teunis Garret Bergen (1806-1881) —
also known as Teunis G. Bergen —
of New Utrecht (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
6, 1806.
Democrat. Delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1846; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1860;
U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1865-67; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867-68.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
24, 1881 (age 74 years, 200
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Demas Barnes (1827-1888) —
of New York.
Born in Gorham Township, Ontario
County, N.Y., April 4,
1827.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1867-69.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1888 (age 61 years, 27
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Frederick Augustus Conkling (1816-1891) —
also known as Frederick A. Conkling —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Canajoharie, Montgomery
County, N.Y., August
22, 1816.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly, 1854, 1859-60 (New York County 13th District
1854, New York County 7th District 1859-60); U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1861-63.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
18, 1891 (age 75 years, 27
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Morgan Jones (1830-1894) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in England,
February
26, 1830.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1865-67.
Died July 13,
1894 (age 64 years, 137
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James Samuel Thomas Stranahan (1808-1898) —
also known as James S. T. Stranahan; "Father of
Prospect Park" —
of Oneida
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Peterboro, Madison
County, N.Y., August
25, 1808.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Oneida County, 1838; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1855-57; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1860.
Died September
3, 1898 (age 90 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; statue at Prospect Park.
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Howard Wilmert Ameli (1881-1959) —
also known as Howard W. Ameli —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
12, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of Abner
C. Surpless; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, 1929-34.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Legion; Sons
of Union Veterans; Military
Order of the World Wars; Delta
Chi; Freemasons.
Died, in Methodist Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 29,
1959 (age 77 years, 290
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Alonzo Ameli and Jessie Isabel (Robinson) Ameli; married, August
10, 1918, to Flora E. Maus. |
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Dudley Selden (d. 1855) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Whig. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1831; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1833-34; delegate to
Whig National Convention from New York, 1839.
Died in Paris, France,
November
7, 1855.
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Lorenzo Bingham Shepard (1821-1856) —
also known as Lorenzo B. Shepard —
of New York.
Born in Cairo, Greene
County, N.Y., May 27,
1821.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1846; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1849-50; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1852,
1856;
New
York County District Attorney, 1854; New York City Corporation
Counsel, 1855-56.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
18, 1856 (age 35 years, 114
days).
Original interment at New
York City Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment at
Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of David Shepard; married, July 5,
1842, to Lucy Morse; father of Edward
Morse Shepard. |
| | | Epitaph: "This monument Is erected by
the voluntary subscriptions of Citizens who valued him as a public
officer, of Associates and Clients Who trusted him as a Counsellor,
of Friends who loved him as a man, Just, generous and true, In all
the relations of Life." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Day Otis Kellogg (1796-1874) —
also known as Day O. Kellogg —
of Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.
Born in Galway, Saratoga
County, N.Y., August
7, 1796.
Member of New York
state assembly from Rensselaer County, 1839; mayor of
Troy, N.Y., 1850; U.S. Consul in Glasgow, 1850-53.
Died August
9, 1874 (age 78 years, 2
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842) and Mary Ann (Otis) Kellogg; brother of Dwight
Kellogg; married to Mary Ann Dimon and Harriet Walter Odin; first
cousin of Alvan
Kellogg; first cousin once removed of Asahel
Otis; second cousin of Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Samuel
Allyne Otis and Aaron
Kellogg; second cousin thrice removed of Martin
Weld Deyo; third cousin of Asa H.
Otis; third cousin once removed of Jason
Kellogg, Harrison
Gray Otis, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Daniel
Fiske Kellogg, Orlando
Kellogg and William
Dean Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Rowland
Case Kellogg and Frank
Billings Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of John
Adams; fourth cousin of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr., Luther
Walter Badger, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875), John
Russell Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, Thomas
Belden Butler, George
Smith Catlin, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Francis
William Kellogg, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Abraham
Lansing and Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Stephen
Daniel Tilden, Benjamin
Fessenden, Moses
Younglove Tilden, Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden, Samuel
Jones Tilden, Stephen
Wright Kellogg, George
Bradley Kellogg, Charles
Augustus Otis, Sr., William
Pitt Kellogg, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918), Arthur
Tappan Kellogg, James
Otis and Selah
Merrill. |
| | | 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 Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Benjamin Douglas Silliman (1805-1901) —
also known as Benjamin D. Silliman —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., September
14, 1805.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County, 1838; delegate to Whig National
Convention from New York, 1839 (speaker); Whig candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1843; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, 1865-66;
Republican candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1873.
At the time of his death, he was the oldest practicing lawyer in New
York State, and the oldest graduate of Yale University.
Died, from bronchial
pneumonia, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
24, 1901 (age 95 years, 132
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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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.
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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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Henry George Stebbins (1811-1881) —
of New York.
Born in Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn., September
15, 1811.
U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1863-64.
Died December
6, 1881 (age 70 years, 82
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Clarence Rice Slocum (1870-1912) —
also known as Clarence R. Slocum —
of New York.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 22,
1870.
Importer
and exporter; U.S. Consul in Warsaw, 1903-05; Weimar, 1905-06; Zittau, 1907-08; Fiume, 1908-12, died in office 1912; U.S. Consul General in Boma, 1906.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Fiume, Hungary (now Rijeka, Croatia),
February
25, 1912 (age 41 years, 248
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Thomas W. Whittle (c.1868-1951) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1868.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1904
(alternate), 1908
(alternate), 1916,
1920
(alternate), 1924,
1928,
1932;
U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1927; member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1930.
Died in April, 1951
(age about
83 years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Warren Irving Glover (1879-1956) —
also known as W. Irving Glover —
of Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
2, 1879.
Republican. Bergen
County Freeholder, 1915; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1917-21; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1920; Assistant
Postmaster General, 1921-32.
Died, from cancer,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
29, 1956 (age 76 years, 210
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Eugene Mabbett Travis (1863-1940) —
also known as Eugene M. Travis —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 10,
1863.
Republican. Wholesale
fruit and vegetable business; member of New York
state senate 6th District, 1907-12; defeated, 1912; New York
state comptroller, 1915-20.
Methodist.
Member, Royal
Arcanum; Order
of Heptasophs; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 25,
1940 (age 77 years, 45
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Frederick H. E. Ebstein (1847-1916) —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Militsch, Prussia (now Milicz, Poland),
April
21, 1847.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; major in
the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1905.
German
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Freemasons.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
8, 1916 (age 68 years, 293
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Jeanie V. Smith. |
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Timothy Lester Woodruff (1858-1913) —
also known as Timothy L. Woodruff —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., August
4, 1858.
Republican. Brooklyn Park Commissioner, 1895; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1896,
1904,
1908,
1912;
Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1897-1902; New York
Republican state chair, 1906-10.
Suffered a stroke
while addressing a campaign
meeting at Cooper Union, and died two weeks later, in Manhattan,
New York
County, N.Y., October
12, 1913 (age 55 years, 69
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Charles Holmes Van Brunt (1835-1905) —
also known as Charles H. Van Brunt —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New Utrecht (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., December
26, 1835.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1884-1905; died in office
1905; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court
1st Department, 1900-05; died in office 1905.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 26,
1905 (age 69 years, 151
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Albert N. Van Brunt and Mary (Holmes) Van Brunt. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: New-York Daily Tribune,
May 27, 1905 |
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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.
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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 H. Reynolds (1868-1931) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
29, 1868.
Republican. Builder;
real
estate developer; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1894-95; indicted
by a grand jury in August 1917 for perjury,
over his 1912 expert testimony on the value of land sought by the
city for a park; the grand jury alleged that he falsely
denied any personal
interest in the realty company which owned the property; also indicted
in October 1917, with three others, for conspiracy defraud
the city of $500,000 by inflating the appraisal; the indictments were
dismissed in May 1920 over the prosecutor's delay of the trial; village
president of Long Beach, New York, 1921-22; mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1922-24; removed 1924; defeated, 1925; indicted
on May 1, 1924, along with the Long Beach city treasurer, for misappropriating
city funds in connection with a bond issue; tried in
June 1924, convicted,
sentenced
to six months in the county
jail, and automatically removed from
office as mayor; released pending appeal; the Appellate Division
reversed the conviction in June 1925 and ordered a new trial; the
indictment was dismissed in June 1927.
English
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks; Freemasons.
Died, from heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1931 (age 63 years, 0
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Reynolds and Margaret (McChesney) Reynolds; married to
Elise Guerrier. |
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Henry Rutgers (1745-1830) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
7, 1745.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1777-78, 1783-84, 1800-02,
1803-05, 1806-08; resigned 1778.
Dutch
Reformed.
Died February
17, 1830 (age 84 years, 133
days).
Original interment at Dutch
Church Burial Ground, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1865 at
Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Hendrick Rutgers and Catharine (De Peyster) Rutgers; nephew of Johannes
DePeyster; grandson of Johannes
de Peyster; grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster; first cousin of Matthew
Clarkson; first cousin once removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin of Pierre
Van Cortlandt; second cousin once removed of Philip
Peter Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, John
Stevens III and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; second cousin twice removed of William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of William
Duer and Denning
Duer; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean; second cousin five times removed of Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Rutgers University
(founded 1766 as Queens College; renamed 1825 as Rutgers College) in
New
Brunswick, New Jersey, is named for
him. — Henry Street
and Rutgers Street,
in Manhattan,
New York, are both named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Abel Edward Blackmar (1852-1931) —
also known as Abel E. Blackmar —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Wayne
County, N.Y., August
21, 1852.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1908-22; defeated (Citizens
Judiciary), 1906; appointed 1908; Justice of the Appellate Division
of the New York Supreme Court, 1917-22; director, Interborough Rapid
Transit Company, 1922-31.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association.
Died, in Brooklyn Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
14, 1931 (age 78 years, 177
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Curtis Coe Bean (1828-1904) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Tamworth, Carroll
County, N.H., January
4, 1828.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1867-68; member of Arizona
territorial senate, 1879; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1885-87; defeated, 1876,
1886.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
1, 1904 (age 76 years, 28
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Hays Hammond (1855-1936) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; South
Africa; Washington,
D.C.; Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March
31, 1855.
Republican. Mining engineer;
worked on mines in Mexico and South Africa; worked for Cecil Rhodes;
in 1895, he took part in the Jameson raid, an attempt
to overthrow the Boer government in South Africa; was arrested
with other leaders and sentenced
to be hanged; his sentence was commuted, and he was eventually
released to return to the U.S.; candidate for Republican nomination
for Vice President, 1908;
chair, U.S. Coal Commission, 1922-23.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from coronary
occlusion, in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., June 8,
1936 (age 81 years, 69
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Charles Hercules Ebbets (1859-1925) —
also known as Charles H. Ebbets; Charlie
Ebbets —
of Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1859.
Architect;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 12th District, 1896; owner,
Brooklyn Dodgers professional
baseball team, 1902-25.
Died, from heart
failure, in his suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
18, 1925 (age 65 years, 171
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married, April
10, 1878, to Minnie Frances Amelia Broadbent; married, May 8,
1922, to Grace Eleanor Slade. |
| | | Ebbets Field (built 1912, demolished 1960), ballpark
for the Brooklyn Dodgers, in Brooklyn,
New York, was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Abraham Bogart Conger (1814-1887) —
also known as Abraham B. Conger —
of Waldberg (now Congers), Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1814.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1852-53; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1864.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 24,
1887 (age 72 years, 323
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John Smith Conger and Sarah (Bogart) Conger; married, November
12, 1836, to Mary Rutgers McCrea Hedges; third cousin twice
removed of Hugh
Conger; fourth cousin once removed of James
Lockwood Conger, Anson
Griffith Conger, Harmon
Sweatland Conger, Omar
Dwight Conger, Moore
Conger, Frederick
Ward Conger, Chauncey
Stewart Conger and Charles
Franklin Conger. |
| | | Political families: Conger
family of New York; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The community
of Congers,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., June 24,
1813.
Republican. Minister;
orator;
abolitionist; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1867;
in 1872, he was accused
of an adulterous
affair with Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of a friend of his;
Beecher's church conducted an investigation
and declared him innocent; in 1874, Elizabeth Tilton's husband
Theodore sued Beecher; a highly-publicized months-long trial
took place in 1875; the jury was unable to reach a verdit.
Presbyterian;
later Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 8,
1887 (age 73 years, 257
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; memorial monument at Cadman Plaza Park.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman Beecher and Roxana Ward (Foote) Beecher; brother of Harriet
Beecher Stowe; married, August
3, 1837, to Eunice White Bullard; uncle of George
Buckingham Beecher; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Elmer, Ebenezer
Elmer and Eli
Elmer; second cousin thrice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third cousin of Leveret
Brainard; third cousin once removed of Amaziah
Brainard and Lucius
Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer; third cousin twice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, John
Allen, Frederick
Wolcott, Walter
Keene Linscott, Sidney
Smythe Linscott and Frances
Payne Bolton; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg, Daniel
Chapin and Oliver
Payne Bolton; fourth cousin of Ambrose
Tuttle, Joseph
H. Elmer and George
Frederick Stone; fourth cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Luther
Walter Badger, Daniel
Kellogg, Gideon
Hotchkiss, Asahel
Augustus Hotchkiss, John
William Allen, Julius
Hotchkiss, Giles
Waldo Hotchkiss, Charles
Francis Chidsey, Ernest
Harvey Woodford and Samuel
Russell Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Henry
W. Beecher |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry Ward Beecher (built 1942 at Terminal
Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Quincy Adams (1848-1911) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lancaster, Coos
County, N.H., October
26, 1848.
Democrat. Real estate
business; raised money to save "The Old Flag House", where Betsy
Ross is reputed to have sewed the first American flag; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1896.
Methodist.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, of Bright's
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
14, 1911 (age 62 years, 80
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Alfred Ronalds Conkling (1850-1917) —
also known as Alfred R. Conkling —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
28, 1850.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1884; member of New York
state assembly, 1892, 1895 (New York County 7th District 1892,
New York County 8th District 1895).
Killed
himself by jumping to
his death from a fourth-story window, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
18, 1917 (age 66 years, 355
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Allison Leland Adams (1867-1920) —
also known as Allison L. Adams —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Missouri, January, 1867.
Republican. Manager, tax and insurance department, Equitable Trust
Company; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1918.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Shriners;
Royal
Arcanum.
Died in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
27, 1920 (age 53 years, 0
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) —
also known as James W. Johnson; James William
Johnson —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 17,
1871.
School
principal; author; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Cabello, 1906-07; Dakar, 1907-08; Corinto, 1908-09; university
professor.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Sigma
Pi Phi; Phi
Beta Sigma; Freemasons.
Author of the words to the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which
became known as the "Negro National Anthem".
Killed in a car-train
collision, in Wiscasset, Lincoln
County, Maine, June 26,
1938 (age 67 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Howard Conkling (1855-1938) —
of Luzerne, Warren
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1892-93, 1903, 1914-15 (Warren County 1892-93,
New York County 25th District 1903, New York County 29th District
1914-15); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1898.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., September
5, 1938 (age 82 years, 272
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Edward Held Wilson (1874-1942) —
also known as Edward H. Wilson —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
24, 1874.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1936;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 10th District, 1940.
Died, of cancer,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
26, 1942 (age 68 years, 94
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Crawford 'Ike' Wilson and Elvina P. Wilson; married to Eva
Capron. |
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Clarence Hungerford Mackay (1874-1938) —
also known as Clarence H. Mackay —
of Roslyn, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., April
17, 1874.
Republican. Financier;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Catholic.
Irish
and English
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
12, 1938 (age 64 years, 209
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John William Mackay and Marie Louise Antoinette (Hungerford)
Mackay; married, May 17,
1898, to Katherine Alexander Duer; married, July 18,
1931, to Anna Case; father of Katherine Duer Mackay (who married
Kenneth
O'Brien) and Ellin Blanca Mackay; second cousin twice removed of
Orville
Hungerford; third cousin twice removed of Amaziah
Brainard; fourth cousin once removed of Leveret
Brainard. |
| | | Political families: Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Brainard-O'Brien-Crimmins-Mackay
family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The Mackay Mountains,
in Marie Byrd
Land, Antarctica, are named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Varnum Poor (1914-1972) —
also known as Henry V. Poor —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., January
7, 1914.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Montreal, as of 1938; served in the U.S. Navy during World War
II; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1950.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
10, 1972 (age 58 years, 277
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Philip DePeyster (1772-1846) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
5, 1772.
Merchant;
U.S. Consul in Curaçao, 1806-15; Basse-Terre, 1815-21.
Died in 1846
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William DePeyster and Elizabeth (Brasher) DePeyster; grandnephew
of Johannes
DePeyster; great-grandson of Johannes
de Peyster; great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster; first cousin once removed of Matthew
Clarkson and Henry
Rutgers; second cousin of James
I. Roosevelt; second cousin once removed of Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr. and Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; second cousin twice removed of Theodore
Roosevelt and Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; second cousin thrice removed of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Corinne
Robinson Alsop, Theodore
Roosevelt Jr. and William
Sheffield Cowles; second cousin four times removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin five times removed of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; third cousin of Philip
Peter Livingston, John
Stevens III, Philip
Van Cortlandt and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; third cousin once removed of William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; third cousin twice removed of William
Duer, Denning
Duer, George
Washington Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt; third cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr., John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George Gardner Barnard (c.1829-1879) —
also known as George G. Barnard —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., about 1829.
Democrat. Lawyer; a
close ally of corrupt New York City political boss William
M. Tweed; Recorder, New York City, 1858-60; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1861-72; removed 1872; impeached
by the New York legislature in 1872, on charges
that he abused
his judicial power through the takeover of several railroads,
putting them under the control of receivers who were allied with
"robber barons" Jay Gould and Jim Fisk; the Union Pacific and other
railroads had to relocate their headquarters away from New York City
to evade the jurisdiction of Barnard and Justice Albert
Cardozo; Barnard was unanimously convicted
by the Court of Impeachment, and also barred
from holding office of any kind.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
27, 1879 (age about 50
years).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Charles Mali (1818-1899) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Verviers, Belgium,
1818.
Importing
business; Consul
for Belgium in New
York, N.Y., 1867-98.
Belgian
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 10,
1899 (age about 81
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Samuel T. Maddox (1854-1916) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1897-1916; died in office
1916.
Died, from uraemic
poisoning (kidney
failure), in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
12, 1916 (age 61 years, 0
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Jasper W. Gilbert (1812-1898) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Rome, Oneida
County, N.Y., January
15, 1812.
Lawyer;
Monroe
County District Attorney, 1840-45; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1866-82.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
10, 1898 (age 86 years, 26
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Alvah Waterman Burlingame Jr. (1879-1952) —
also known as Alvah W. Burlingame, Jr. —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
22, 1879.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 8th District, 1909-10, 1915-22; defeated, 1912,
1922; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 17th District, 1914.
Died May 18,
1952 (age 72 years, 270
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry Rutgers Beekman (1845-1900) —
also known as Henry R. Beekman —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
8, 1845.
Lawyer;
New York City Park Commissioner, 1885-87; president, New York City
Board of Aldermen, 1887-88; New York City Corporation Counsel,
1888-89; New York City superior court judge, 1895; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1896-1900; died in office
1900.
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Psi
Upsilon.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
17, 1900 (age 55 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William F. Beekman and Catharine A. Beekman; married 1870 to
Isabella Lawrence. |
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Frederick Smyth (1832-1900) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in County Galway, Ireland,
1832.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1876;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1896-1900; died in office
1900.
Episcopalian;
later Catholic.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Suffered a debilitating attack
of vertigo, from which he never completely recovered, contracted
pneumonia,
and died, in the Dennis Hotel,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., August
18, 1900 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Stephen Callaghan (1876-1952) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Lebanon, Laclede
County, Mo., October
3, 1876.
Republican. Lawyer;
municipal judge in New York, 1912-15; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1915-29; appointed 1915;
defeated, 1929; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks; Freemasons.
Died October
12, 1952 (age 76 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Isaac Townsend Smith (1813-1906) —
also known as Isaac T. Smith —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., March
12, 1813.
Republican. Banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Consul-General
for Siam in New
York, N.Y., 1887-1903.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
30, 1906 (age 93 years, 18
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Russell Benedict (1859-1936) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Great Neck Estates, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
25, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1912-25.
Member, American Bar
Association; Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Great Neck Estates, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
29, 1936 (age 77 years, 4
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Jacob Morrill Patterson Jr. (1838-1899) —
also known as Jacob M. Patterson —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 20,
1838.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1872,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1873; chair of
New York County Republican Party, 1876, 1890-93; New York City
Quarantine Commissioner, 1895-99.
Died in Fordham, Bronx, New York County (now Bronx
County), N.Y., May 31,
1899 (age 60 years, 345
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob M. Patterson and Susan (Wheeler) Patterson; married, May 3,
1861, to Leah Frances Granger. |
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William Clarke Vyse (1895-1979) —
Born in Babylon, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 16,
1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Vice Consul in Ottawa, 1920-22; Winnipeg, 1922-23; Paris, 1923-25; Algiers, 1925; Havana, 1925-29; U.S. Consul in Havana, 1930; Windsor, 1930; Stuttgart, 1930-31; Shanghai, 1931-39.
Died in Laguna Hills, Orange
County, Calif., November
11, 1979 (age 84 years, 148
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Edward Davis Vyse and Virginia (Clarke) Vyse; married to
Elizabeth Wise. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1924) |
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George Birch Abbott (1850-1908) —
also known as George B. Abbott —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brookfield, Orange
County, Vt., September
27, 1850.
Democrat. Lawyer; Kings
County Surrogate, 1889-1901; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1907-08; died in office 1908.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sigma
Phi; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died, from "blood poisoning" (infection),
and pneumonia,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
10, 1908 (age 57 years, 136
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Franklin Abbott and Diancy (Pickering) Abbott; married,
November
20, 1878, to Eva Topping Reeve. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Brooklyn (N.Y.) Daily
Eagle, February 10, 1908 |
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Edward Sanford (c.1804-1876) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1804.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1843-44; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1846-47; candidate for secretary
of state of New York, 1847.
Died August
28, 1876 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Erastus Cornelius Benedict (1800-1880) —
also known as Erastus C. Benedict —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Branford, New Haven
County, Conn., March
19, 1800.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1848, 1864 (New York County 13th District 1848,
New York County 7th District 1864); member, New York State Board of
Regents, 1855; member of New York
state senate 5th District, 1872-73.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
22, 1880 (age 80 years, 217
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Joel Tyler Benedict and Currence (Wheeler) Benedict; married
to Caroline Margaret Bloodgood. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Ernesto August Schernikow (1860-1933) —
also known as Ernest Schernikow —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
October
13, 1860.
Mineralogist;
Vice-Consul
for Salvador in New
York, N.Y., 1891-96, 1899-1900; Vice-Consul
for Central America in New
York, N.Y., 1897-98; Vice-Consul
for Honduras in New
York, N.Y., 1899-1902; Vice-Consul
for Nicaragua in New
York, N.Y., 1899-1900; Consul
for Salvador in New
York, N.Y., 1901-07.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., December
16, 1933 (age 73 years, 64
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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George Bliss Agnew (1868-1941) —
also known as George B. Agnew —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1868.
Republican. Stockbroker;
director of mining
companies and railroads;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1900
(alternate), 1904
(alternate), 1908;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 27th District, 1903-06;
member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1907-10.
Presbyterian.
English,
French
Huguenot, Scottish,
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 21,
1941 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Gifford Agnew and Mary Hervey (Bliss) Agnew; married 1908 to Emily
D. Gruban. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1907 |
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Loring Townsend Hildreth (1873-1915) —
also known as Loring T. Hildreth; Loring Thayer
Hildreth —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., July 24,
1873.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Siam in New
York, N.Y., 1902-07.
Member, Union
League.
Died, in a private
sanitarium, at Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 1,
1915 (age 41 years, 251
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Nicolás Francisco Veloz (1880-1957) —
also known as Nicolás Veloz —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born December
27, 1880.
Coffee
business; Honorary
Vice-Consul for Venezuela in New
York, N.Y., 1915-45; Consul
for Venezuela in New
York, N.Y., 1946-50.
Died in February, 1957
(age 76
years, 0 days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Mitchell (1801-1886) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
24, 1801.
Justice
of New York Supreme Court, 1871.
Died in Morristown, Morris
County, N.J., October
6, 1886 (age 85 years, 224
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Robert Ray Hamilton (1851-1890) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1881, 1886-89;
in July 1889, while staying in Atlantic City, he was caught in a
national scandal,
after his wife, Eva, stabbed a nurse; she was arrested and tried; it
came out that Eva was still
married to another man, that she had bought a baby for $10 and
told Hamilton he was the father, to induce him to marry her; when
this was publicized,
Hamilton sued for divorce; as the case dragged on, he moved to
Wyoming to help a friend establish a hotel.
While on a hunting
trip, he drowned
while attempting to ford the Snake River, in Uinta County (part now
in Teton
County), Wyo., August
23, 1890 (age 39 years, 158
days).
Original interment somewhere in Teton County, Wyo.; reinterment in 1892 at
Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Schuyler Hamilton and Cornelia (Ray) Hamilton; grandnephew of James
Alexander Hamilton; great-grandson of Alexander
Hamilton; great-grandnephew of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second great-grandson of Philip
John Schuyler; second great-grandnephew of Stephen
John Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer and Robert
Van Rensselaer; third great-grandson of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); fourth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandnephew of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; fifth great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fifth great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston the Elder; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792) and Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer; first cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Volkert
Petrus Douw, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, James
Livingston and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin five times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston and James
Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Peter
Samuel Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Matthew
Clarkson; third cousin once removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and John
Cortlandt Parker; third cousin thrice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay and William
Jay; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, John
Jacob Astor III, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Bronson
Murray Cutting. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles Hazen Russell (1845-1912) —
also known as Charles H. Russell —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Canton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., July 11,
1845.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 9th District, 1880-81; member of
New
York state senate 3rd District, 1882-83; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Union
League.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
14, 1912 (age 66 years, 247
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Wallace Benjamin Flint (1863-1937) —
also known as Wallace B. Flint —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
10, 1863.
Shipbuilder;
Consul
for Uruguay in New
York, N.Y., 1892; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in New
York, N.Y., 1896-1903.
Died in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March
29, 1937 (age 73 years, 170
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Treat Irving (1778-1838) —
also known as John T. Irving —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 26,
1778.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1816-17, 1818-20; common
pleas court judge in New York, 1821-38.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
15, 1838 (age 59 years, 293
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William Berri (1848-1917) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
12, 1848.
Republican. Carpet
merchant; printing
business; newspaper
publisher; officer or director of banks, electric
utilities, and the New York Telephone
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
member, New York State Board of Regents, 1916-17.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League.
In 1911, he was arraigned
on a charge
of criminal
libel over an article he published in his newspaper, brought by
three candidates for Supreme Court, Herbert
T. Ketcham, Patrick
E. Callahan, and William
Willett, Jr.; the case was withdrawn a few days later when the
other two candidates discovered that Willett had indeed (as Berri
charged) paid bribes for his nomination.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
19, 1917 (age 68 years, 219
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Berri ; married 1869 to
Frances Williams Morris. |
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Charles Henry Cotton (1845-1938) —
also known as Charles H. Cotton —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1845.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
New
York state assembly from Kings County 4th District, 1899-1902,
1905; defeated, 1902.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
15, 1938 (age about 92
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William H. Cotton. |
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Stephen M. Griswold —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1886-87.
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Francis Spies Jr. (1840-1893) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 10,
1840.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; commission
merchant; Portland
cement importer;
Vice-Consul
for Honduras in New
York, N.Y., 1887-93.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Tammany
Hall.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 21,
1893 (age 53 years, 42
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Spies and Amanda Maria (Harding) Spies; married 1869 to Amelia
L. Schwarzwaelder. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Seth Low Pierrepont (1884-1956) —
of Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
12, 1884.
Republican. Member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Ridgefield, 1921-27; delegate
to Connecticut convention to ratify 21st amendment 24th District,
1933.
Episcopalian.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
31, 1956 (age 71 years, 110
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Daniel Webster Tallmadge (1842-1894) —
also known as Daniel W. Tallmadge —
of Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Saratoga
County, N.Y., February
5, 1842.
School
teacher; member of New York
state assembly, 1879-80, 1888 (Kings County 9th District 1879,
Kings County 11th District 1880, Kings County 12th District 1888).
Died in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
15, 1894 (age 52 years, 283
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry Hilton —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1864;
Greenback candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1878.
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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William W. Lee (c.1817-1882) —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born about 1817.
Republican. Candidate for New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1879.
While depressed over the death of his wife, he killed
himself by taking an ounce and a half of laudanum,
in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
19, 1882 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Edward T. Backhouse (1806-1884) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1806.
Fruit
merchant; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 3rd District, 1851; president,
Kings County Fire
Insurance Company, 1861-84.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
28, 1884 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Jacques J. Stillwell (1827-1884) —
also known as J. J. Stillwell —
of Gravesend (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in 1827.
Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 12th District, 1881-82.
While suffering from an overdose
of chloral hydrate, and fearing the onset of insanity, he shot himself,
and died several days later, in Gravesend (now part of Brooklyn), Kings
County, N.Y., December
14, 1884 (age about 57
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John W. Degrauw (1797-1885) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 21,
1797.
Fire
fighter; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1834.
Died October
3, 1885 (age 88 years, 135
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John C. Niglutsch (d. 1887) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Clerk at Castle Garden; organist;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1882.
Suffered a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, apparently while in a paranoid state, and died soon after,
in Bellevue Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1887.
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Henry J. Cullen Jr. (1841-1892) —
of Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1841.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 2nd District, 1869-70.
Episcopalian.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 7,
1892 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (1845-1905) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
14, 1845.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; customhouse
broker; Vice-Consul
for Nicaragua in New
York, N.Y., 1901-03.
Presbyterian.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
26, 1905 (age 60 years, 285
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Paterson Van Rensselaer and Sarah (Rogers) Van Rensselaer;
married to Olivia Phelps Atterbury; nephew of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer; grandson of Stephen
Van Rensselaer; grandnephew of Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Rensselaer
Westerlo; great-grandson of William
Paterson; second great-grandson of Philip
Livingston; second great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and William
Livingston; third great-grandson of Dirck
Ten Broeck; third great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; fourth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fifth great-grandson of Dirck
Wesselse Ten Broeck; first cousin once removed of Philip
Schuyler; first cousin twice removed of Edward
Philip Livingston and John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Philip
P. Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, James
Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second cousin twice removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin thrice removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Nicholas
Bayard, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; second cousin four times removed of James
Jay, Henry
Cruger, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; third cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, William
Duer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, John
Jay II and Robert
Reginald Livingston; third cousin twice removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, James
Alexander Hamilton, Peter
Gansevoort, Hamilton
Fish and John
Cortlandt Parker; fourth cousin of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fourth cousin once removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, James
Adams Ekin, John
Jacob Astor III, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson
Murray Cutting, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert
Winthrop Kean and Brockholst
Livingston. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Wilton Brooks (1854-1916) —
also known as J. Wilton Brooks —
of Garrison, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1854.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Putnam County, 1883; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1884.
Died in Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., July 6,
1916 (age 62 years, 78
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Frank Spencer Witherbee (1852-1917) —
also known as Frank S. Witherbee —
of Port Henry, Essex
County, N.Y.
Born in Port Henry, Essex
County, N.Y., May 12,
1852.
Republican. President, Troy Steel
Company; vice-president, Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad
Company; president, Cubitas Iron Ore
Company; president, Lake Champlain & Moriah Railroad;
vice-president Cheever Iron Ore
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1892,
1896
(alternate), 1900;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
13, 1917 (age 64 years, 336
days).
Entombed at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Fred C. Williams (1858-1920) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1858.
Republican. Journalist;
advertising
business; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1908.
Member, Union
League.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 14,
1920 (age about 61
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Michael J. Dady (c.1850-1921) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1850.
Republican. Contractor;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916.
Died, of pneumonia,
in St. Mary's Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 2,
1921 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Ambrose Orville Neal (1856-1923) —
also known as Ambrose O. Neal —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 9,
1856.
Republican. Heating
contractor; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1900
(alternate), 1904,
1916
(alternate), 1920
(alternate); candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
21, 1923 (age 66 years, 318
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Edward Bell (1882-1924) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
9, 1882.
U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Cairo, 1909-11; counsellor of U.S. embassy in Japan, 1919-21,
and in China, 1922-24.
Died, from heart
failure, in Peking (Beijing), China,
October
28, 1924 (age 42 years, 80
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Helen Augusta (Wilmerding) Bell and Edward Bell (1860-1902; New
York City Park Commissioner). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thorndyke Corning McKennee (1857-1924) —
also known as Thorndyke C. McKennee —
of Rockaway Beach, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 4,
1857.
Republican. Lawyer; real estate
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1920.
Died in Rockaway Park, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., April
21, 1924 (age 66 years, 353
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Guilford McKennee and Caroline Mary (Wilder) McKennee;
married to Sarah Guilford Stone. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles T. Geyer (1848-1924) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Massachusetts, 1848.
Merchant;
banker;
Vice-Consul
for Liberia in New
York, N.Y., 1899-1903.
Died September
12, 1924 (age about 76
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Granville W. Harman (1852-1926) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Ohio, June 5,
1852.
Republican. Steamboat
inspector; wholesale
grocer; banker; financier;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1896.
Died, from heart
disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
14, 1926 (age 73 years, 313
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John W. Harman and Sarah Harman. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
April 15, 1926 |
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Leon Abbett (c.1867-1928) —
of Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born about 1867.
Member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Hudson County, 1899-1901.
Died in East Orange, Essex
County, N.J., April
15, 1928 (age about 61
years).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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David Henry Ralston (1863-1930) —
also known as D. Harry Ralston —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., January
22, 1863.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1904
(alternate), 1908
(alternate), 1924;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 1st District, 1907.
Member, Elks.
Died, from a heart
ailment and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April 4,
1930 (age 67 years, 72
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Ebba M. Winslow (1865-1952) —
also known as Ebba M. Loewenmark —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Rosedale, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Gothenberg (Göteborg), Sweden,
November
5, 1865.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1920,
1924,
1932;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Queens County 4th District, 1921; member of
New York
Republican State Committee, 1930-36.
Female.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in Hempstead, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 5,
1952 (age 86 years, 182
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Reinald Werrenrath (1883-1953) —
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
7, 1883.
Republican. Opera
singer; honored guest, Republican National Convention,
1936.
Danish
ancestry.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Physicians' Hospital,
Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y., September
12, 1953 (age 70 years, 36
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Amos Elwood Corning (1885-1954) —
also known as A. Elwood Corning —
of Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Sparkill, Rockland
County, N.Y., February
25, 1885.
Progressive. Minister;
candidate for New York
state senate 25th District, 1912.
Died in Balmville, Orange
County, N.Y., June 12,
1954 (age 69 years, 107
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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John Feitner —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1908
(alternate), 1912
(alternate), 1916
(alternate), 1924.
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Augusta Schlegel. |
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| Politicians formerly
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Thomas Peck Ochiltree (1837-1902) —
of Marshall, Harrison
County, Tex.
Born in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex., October
26, 1837.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1860;
major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Texas 7th District, 1883-85.
Died in Hot Springs, Bath
County, Va., November
25, 1902 (age 65 years, 30
days).
Original interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; reinterment in 1903 at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
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Townsend Scudder (1865-1960) —
of Glen Head, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Northport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 26,
1865.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1899-1901, 1903-05; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1907-20, 1927-35; defeated,
1920; appointed 1927; candidate for judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1921; Justice of the Appellate
Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department, 1933.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
22, 1960 (age 94 years, 211
days).
Interment at Putnam
Cemetery, Greenwich, Conn.; cenotaph at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Holy Cross
Cemetery
3620 Tilden Avenue
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Founded 1849
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
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William Russell Grace (1832-1904) —
also known as William R. Grace —
of Callao, Peru;
New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland,
May
10, 1832.
Democrat. Steamship
business; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1881-82, 1885-86; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1888.
Catholic.
First
Catholic mayor of New York.
Died, from pneumonia
and kidney
problems, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
21, 1904 (age 71 years, 316
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Ardolph Loges Kline (1858-1930) —
also known as Ardolph L. Kline —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born near Newton, Sussex
County, N.J., February
21, 1858.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1913; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922.
Episcopalian.
German
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, United
Spanish War Veterans; Sons
of Veterans; Royal
Arcanum.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
13, 1930 (age 72 years, 234
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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James J. Byrne (1863-1930) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April 8,
1863.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 9th District, 1905; borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1926-30; died in office 1930.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from gallstones,
in Brooklyn Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
14, 1930 (age 66 years, 340
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Henry Hesterberg (c.1882-1950) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1882.
Democrat. Borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1930-33; defeated, 1933; member
of New
York Democratic State Committee, 1930-36, 1948; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1932,
1936,
1940.
Died, in Midwood Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 3,
1950 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Hesterberg . |
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Thomas Henry Cullen (1868-1944) —
also known as Thomas H. Cullen —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
29, 1868.
Democrat. Marine insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 3rd District, 1896-98; member of
New
York state senate 3rd District, 1899-1918; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1919-44; died in
office 1944; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1940
(alternate); member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930-36; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 5th District, 1938.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 1,
1944 (age 75 years, 338
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Andrew Lawrence Somers (1895-1949) —
also known as Andrew L. Somers —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
21, 1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1925-49 (6th District 1925-45, 10th
District 1945-49); died in office 1949.
Died in St. Albans, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., April 6,
1949 (age 54 years, 16
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John James Rooney (1903-1975) —
also known as John J. Rooney —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
29, 1903.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1944,
1952
(alternate), 1964;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1944-74 (4th District 1944-45, 12th
District 1945-53, 14th District 1953-74).
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Ancient
Order of Hibernians; Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
26, 1975 (age 71 years, 331
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Thomas Kinsella (1832-1884) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in County Wexford, Ireland,
December
31, 1832.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1864,
1876;
postmaster at Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1866-67; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1871-73.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
11, 1884 (age 51 years, 42
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John Joseph Delaney (1878-1948) —
also known as John J. Delaney —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
21, 1878.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1904;
U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1918-19, 1931-48; died
in office 1948.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
18, 1948 (age 70 years, 89
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John Henry McCooey (1864-1934) —
also known as John H. McCooey; "Tammany's Uncle
John" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 18,
1864.
Democrat. Shipyard
worker; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1909; chair of
Kings County Democratic Party, 1910-34; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930; member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1933-34; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of myocarditis,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
21, 1934 (age 69 years, 217
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Donald Lawrence O'Toole (1902-1964) —
also known as Donald L. O'Toole —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
1, 1902.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1937-53 (8th District 1937-45, 13th
District 1945-53); defeated, 1952, 1954, 1956.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Eagles;
Moose.
Died in Ocala, Marion
County, Fla., September
12, 1964 (age 62 years, 42
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Felix Campbell (1829-1902) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
28, 1829.
Democrat. Engineer;
banker;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1883-91 (4th District 1883-85, 2nd
District 1885-91).
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
8, 1902 (age 73 years, 253
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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William Edward Cleary (1849-1932) —
also known as William E. Cleary —
of New York.
Born in Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y., July 20,
1849.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1918-21, 1923-27;
defeated, 1920.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
20, 1932 (age 83 years, 153
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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James Joseph Heffernan (1888-1967) —
also known as James J. Heffernan —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
8, 1888.
Democrat. Architect;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930-36, 1948; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1932;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 6th District, 1938;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1941-53 (5th District 1941-45, 11th
District 1945-53).
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
27, 1967 (age 78 years, 80
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John Michael Clancy (1837-1903) —
also known as John M. Clancy —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in County Queens (now County Laois), Ireland,
May
7, 1837.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1878-81 (Kings County 1st District 1878-79, Kings
County 4th District 1880-81); U.S.
Representative from New York, 1889-95 (4th District 1889-93, 2nd
District 1893-95); defeated, 1896.
Died in Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont., July 25,
1903 (age 66 years, 79
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Denis Michael Hurley (1843-1899) —
also known as Denis M. Hurley —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Limerick, Ireland,
March
14, 1843.
Republican. Carpenter;
building
contractor; candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 1st District, 1881; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1895-99; defeated,
1898; died in office 1899; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1896.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Suffered a stroke of
paralysis on November 10, 1898, and died three months later, in
Hot Springs, Bath
County, Va., February
26, 1899 (age 55 years, 349
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John James Bennett (1894-1967) —
also known as John J. Bennett —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 2,
1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; New York
state attorney general, 1931-42; defeated, 1938; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 4th District, 1938;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1940;
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1942.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Phi
Delta Phi; Catholic
War Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Eagles.
One of the organizers of the American Legion. Also served as Deputy
Mayor of New York City, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York,
Chief Justice of the Court of Special Sessions, and Chairman of the
New York City Planning Commission.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
4, 1967 (age 73 years, 216
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John James Bennett and Kathryn (O'Brien) Bennett; married, September
4, 1923, to Evelyn Anne Cogan. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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John W. Flaherty (1832-1904) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland,
1832.
Democrat. Ship carpenter;
contractor;
Independent Democratic candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 7th District, 1874; Brooklyn
Commissioner of City Works; indicted,
along with George
C. Bennett, in December 1878, for conspiracy to defraud
the city of $50,000; tried
and convicted;
fined
$250; the conviction, which he claimed was the work of Mayor James
Howell and the corrupt "Brooklyn Ring", was reversed on appeal;
Independent Democratic candidate for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1879.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
26, 1904 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Thomas Francis Magner (1860-1945) —
also known as Thomas F. Magner —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 8,
1860.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1888; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1889-95 (5th District 1889-93, 6th
District 1893-95); Independence League candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1906.
Died, in his room at the Hotel
Bossert, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
22, 1945 (age 85 years, 289
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Matthew T. Abruzzo (1889-1971) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
30, 1889.
Democrat. Lawyer;
clerk to U.S. Judge Martin
T. Manton; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 1936-66;
took senior status 1966; senior judge, 1966-71.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Potomac, Montgomery
County, Md., May 28,
1971 (age 82 years, 28
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Daniel Joseph Griffin (1880-1926) —
also known as Daniel J. Griffin —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
26, 1880.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1913-17; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1916;
Kings
County Sheriff, 1918-19.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks.
Died, following surgery for appendicitis,
in St. Mary's Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
11, 1926 (age 46 years, 260
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Daniel O'Reilly (1838-1911) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Limerick, Ireland,
June
3, 1838.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1879-81; defeated
(Independent Democratic), 1880.
Died in Bayville, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
23, 1911 (age 73 years, 112
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Matthew Vincent O'Malley (1878-1931) —
also known as Matthew V. O'Malley —
of New York.
Born in New York, 1878.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931; died in office
1931.
Died May 26,
1931 (age about 52
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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James Henry O'Brien (1860-1924) —
also known as James H. O'Brien —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., July 15,
1860.
Democrat. Member of New York
state senate 10th District, 1911-12; U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1913-15; defeated,
1914; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1916.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus; Elks.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
2, 1924 (age 64 years, 49
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Michael F. Walsh (1894-1956) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
24, 1894.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, 1938-39; secretary
of state of New York, 1939-42; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1943-54; retired 1954.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 22,
1956 (age 62 years, 149
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Patrick Walsh; married to Catherine Dundon. |
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Luke D. Stapleton (1869-1923) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
11, 1869.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1904;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1908-17; defeated, 1906;
appointed 1908; resigned 1917; Justice of the Appellate Division of
the New York Supreme Court, 1913-17.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Knights
of Columbus.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
12, 1923 (age 53 years, 63
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Eugene Franklin O'Connor (1844-1928) —
also known as Eugene F. O'Connor —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
10, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; banker;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1886; member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1888-89; candidate for secretary
of state of New York, 1891.
Catholic.
Member, Union
League.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
29, 1928 (age 83 years, 140
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Peter P. Smith (c.1877-1960) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., about 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1933-45; appointed 1933;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, 1936.
Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick.
Suffered a heart
attack, and died a few hours later, in Methodist Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
3, 1960 (age about 83
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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William Joseph Kelly (1860-1927) —
also known as William J. Kelly —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
13, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1903-27; died in office 1927.
Died, in Long Island College Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
11, 1927 (age 67 years, 181
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Arthur S. Somers —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1894; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912
(alternate), 1916
(alternate), 1928;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John Henry McCooey Jr. (1899-1948) —
also known as John H. McCooey, Jr. —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1899.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1932-48; died in office 1948.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 23,
1948 (age 48 years, 199
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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William John Carr (1862-1917) —
also known as William J. Carr —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
10, 1862.
Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1907-17; died in office 1917.
Catholic.
Died in Good Ground (now Hampton Bays), Long Island, Suffolk
County, N.Y., August
5, 1917 (age 54 years, 299
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Peter J. Hamill (c.1886-1930) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer; insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly, 1916-30 (New York County 2nd District 1916-17,
New York County 1st District 1918-30); died in office 1930.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, from complications of appendicitis
surgery, in Polyclinic Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
13, 1930 (age about 44
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Frank J. Taylor (1884-1958) —
also known as Frank J. Barrett Jr. —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
15, 1884.
Democrat. Riveter; real estate
business; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 3rd District, 1913-25; Kings
County Sheriff, 1926-28; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1928
(alternate), 1932
(alternate), 1940,
1944
(alternate), 1948
(alternate), 1952
(alternate), 1956
(alternate); New York City Commissioner of Welfare, 1930-34; New York
City Controller, 1935-37; assistant to the president of Todd Shipyards;
president, American Merchant
Marine Institute (chief negotiator with East Coast maritime
unions), 1938-53; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Catholic.
Member, Elks.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 7,
1958 (age 74 years, 53
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Adoptive son of James Taylor; son of Frank J. Barrett; married to
Josephine McCarthy. |
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James V. Mangano (c.1905-1988) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1905.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 8th District, 1935-37; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1936
(alternate), 1940,
1956,
1960,
1964;
Kings
County Sheriff, 1938-42; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1948.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, of cancer,
in Long Island College Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
28, 1988 (age about 83
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married to Rose Mancaruso; father of Guy
James Mangano. |
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1936 |
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William Hughes (1857-1906) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1857.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District 1906, but died before
election.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus; Royal
Arcanum; Elks.
Died, from pneumonia,
following appendicitis
surgery, in St. Peter's Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
2, 1906 (age about 49
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John T. Willoughby (c.1864-1914) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Port Jefferson, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., about 1864.
Democrat. Beer
brewer; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1912; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Holy
Name Society.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in West Islip, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
2, 1914 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Edward Ward McMahon (1884-1936) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in 1884.
Democrat. Candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1920; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1932,
1936.
Died in 1936
(age about
52 years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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John F. Jameson (1879-1937) —
also known as Bud Jameson —
of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 12,
1879.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 16th District, 1911; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1920.
Catholic.
Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died of broncho-pneumonia,
May
14, 1937 (age 58 years, 2
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Michael A. Scudi (1872-1937) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in 1872.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1912.
Died in 1937
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Gaetano Parisi (1877-1949) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy,
August
28, 1877.
Republican. Candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 2nd District, 1904; City Marshal
of New York City; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
York, 1944.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, Sons of
Italy.
Died January
2, 1949 (age 71 years, 127
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Quentin James Reynolds (1902-1965) —
also known as Quentin Reynolds —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, April
11, 1902.
Democrat. Journalist;
World War II war
correspondent; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1944.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., March
17, 1965 (age 62 years, 340
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Thomas G. Parisi (1905-1972) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
24, 1905.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
Kings County Public Administrator, 1964-72.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died in Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., January
27, 1972 (age 66 years, 125
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Gertrude McMahon (1896-1993) —
also known as Gertrude F. Vaughan —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born October
12, 1896.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1920,
1924.
Female.
Died April
15, 1993 (age 96 years, 185
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Maimonides
Cemetery
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
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Israel Frederick Fischer (1858-1940) —
also known as Israel F. Fischer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
17, 1858.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
Republican State Executive Committee, 1888-90; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1895-99; defeated,
1898; member, U.S. Board of General Appraisers, 1899-1927; Judge
of U.S. Customs Court, 1927-33.
Jewish.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
16, 1940 (age 81 years, 212
days).
Interment at Maimonides Cemetery.
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Samuel Hamilton Kaufman (1893-1960) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
26, 1893.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1948.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died May 5,
1960 (age 66 years, 192
days).
Interment at Maimonides Cemetery.
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Prospect
Park
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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James Samuel Thomas Stranahan (1808-1898) —
also known as James S. T. Stranahan; "Father of
Prospect Park" —
of Oneida
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Peterboro, Madison
County, N.Y., August
25, 1808.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Oneida County, 1838; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1855-57; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1860.
Died September
3, 1898 (age 90 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery; statue at
Prospect Park.
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John Howard Payne (1791-1852) —
also known as John H. Payne —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1791.
Actor;
playwright;
author of the lines which were later adapted as the song "Home Sweet
Home"; U.S. Consul in Tunis, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame, 1970.
Died in Tunis, Tunisia,
April
10, 1852 (age 60 years, 306
days).
Original interment at St.
George's Protestant Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883
at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Prospect
Park.
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St. John's
Cemetery
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians buried
here: |
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David Joseph O'Connell (1868-1930) —
also known as David J. O'Connell —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
25, 1868.
Democrat. Bookseller;
U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1919-21, 1923-30;
defeated, 1920; died in office 1930; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1920.
Catholic.
Member, Royal
Arcanum; Elks.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., December
29, 1930 (age 62 years, 4
days).
Interment at St. John's Cemetery.
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John Francis Quayle (1868-1930) —
also known as John F. Quayle —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
1, 1868.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1920
(alternate), 1924;
U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1923-30; died in
office 1930.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
27, 1930 (age 61 years, 361
days).
Interment at St. John's Cemetery.
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Valentine J. Riedman (1866-1922) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in 1866.
Member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1899.
Died in 1922
(age about
56 years).
Interment at St. John's Cemetery.
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St. Raymond's
Cemetery
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
| Politicians buried
here: |
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James Martin Fitzpatrick (1869-1949) —
also known as James M. Fitzpatrick —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in West Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass., June 27,
1869.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 24th District, 1927-45.
Catholic.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus; Moose.
Died in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., April
10, 1949 (age 79 years, 287
days).
Interment at St. Raymond's Cemetery.
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James Kerrigan (1828-1899) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
25, 1828.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1861-63.
Irish
ancestry.
Died November
1, 1899 (age 70 years, 311
days).
Interment at St. Raymond's Cemetery.
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Salem Fields
Cemetery
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
here: |
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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.
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Maxwell Milton Rabb (1910-2002) —
also known as Maxwell M. Rabb —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
28, 1910.
Republican. Lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., 1937-43, and U.S. Sen. Sinclair
Weeks, 1944; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1952,
1956;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1976,
1980;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1981-89.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
2002 (age 91 years, 254
days).
Interment at Salem Fields Cemetery.
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Isaac Siegel (1880-1947) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, 1880.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1915-23; defeated,
1924; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1916
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1936.
Jewish.
Died in 1947
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Salem Fields Cemetery.
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Joseph Schulum Jr. (d. 1906) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Cigar
manufacturer; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 12th District, 1896-98.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Tammany
Hall.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
4, 1906.
Interment at Salem Fields Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Schulum. |
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Edward Lauterbach (1844-1923) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born August
12, 1844.
Republican. Delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1896
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1900,
1904.
Jewish.
Died March 4,
1923 (age 78 years, 204
days).
Interment at Salem Fields Cemetery.
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Sylvan Levy (1870-1934) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Alsace-Lorraine, France,
1870.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; hay and
grain
dealer; insurance
business; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Jewish.
Member, Elks.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
19, 1934 (age about 64
years).
Interment at Salem Fields Cemetery.
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Felix Moritz Warburg (1871-1937) —
also known as Felix M. Warburg —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hamburg, Germany,
January
14, 1871.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; financier;
philanthropist; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York.
Jewish.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
20, 1937 (age 66 years, 279
days).
Interment at Salem Fields Cemetery.
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Solomon Robert Guggenheim (1861-1949) —
also known as Solomon R. Guggenheim —
of New York.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
2, 1861.
Republican. Mining, smelting,
and railroad
executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1924.
Jewish.
Founder of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Died near Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
3, 1949 (age 88 years, 274
days).
Entombed at Salem Fields Cemetery.
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The Evergreens
Cemetery
1629 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Founded 1849
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
here: |
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George Henry Lindsay (1837-1916) —
also known as George H. Lindsay —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
7, 1837.
Democrat. Real estate
business; hotelier;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 7th District, 1882-86; Kings
County Coroner, 1887-92; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1901-13 (6th District 1901-03, 2nd
District 1903-13).
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 25,
1916 (age 79 years, 139
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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George Washington Lindsay (1865-1938) —
also known as George W. Lindsay —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
28, 1865.
Democrat. Real estate
business; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 13th District, 1920; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1923-35; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930.
Died March
15, 1938 (age 72 years, 352
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Charles Tappan Dunwell (1852-1908) —
also known as Charles T. Dunwell —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Wayne
County, N.Y., February
13, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer; insurance
agent; member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1891-92; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1903-08; died in
office 1908.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Society.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 12,
1908 (age 56 years, 120
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Stephen Andrew Rudd (1874-1936) —
also known as Stephen A. Rudd —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, December
11, 1874.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1931-36; died in
office 1936.
Died March
31, 1936 (age 61 years, 111
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Charles Goodwin Bennett (1863-1914) —
also known as Charles G. Bennett —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
11, 1863.
Republican. Lawyer; banker; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1895-99; defeated,
1892, 1898; Secretary of the U.S. Senate, 1900-12.
Member, Union
League.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 25,
1914 (age 50 years, 165
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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William Forte Willett Jr. (1869-1938) —
also known as William Willett, Jr. —
of Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Woodmere, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
27, 1869.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1907-11; defeated,
1904; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1911; indicted
in 1912 on charges
that he bought
the nomination for Supreme Court justice; tried
and convicted
in 1914, sentenced
to one year in prison
and fined
$1,000; released on parole in 1916.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Hotel
McAlpin, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1938 (age 68 years, 77
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Robert Baker (1862-1943) —
also known as "Anti-Pass Baker" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England,
April
1, 1862.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state assembly, 1894; U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1903-05; defeated,
1904, 1906.
Advocate of "Single Tax" and other reforms; noted for his opposition
to free railroad passes for public officials.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 15,
1943 (age 81 years, 75
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Jacob Worth (1838-1905) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1838.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly, 1864-66, 1868, 1873-76, 1878 (Kings County 7th
District 1864-66, Kings County 6th District 1868, 1873-76, 1878);
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1884, 1900; member of
New
York state senate 4th District, 1886-89; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1896.
Died, of a heart
attack, at the Eastman Hotel,
Hot Springs, Garland
County, Ark., February
21, 1905 (age about 66
years).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Nelson Herrick Henry (1855-1923) —
also known as Nelson H. Henry —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
27, 1855.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1899-1901; Adjutant
General of New York, 1908-10.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
16, 1923 (age 67 years, 323
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Charles Clapp Lockwood (1877-1958) —
also known as Charles C. Lockwood —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
2, 1877.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1912
(alternate), 1924,
1928;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 5th District, 1914; member of New York
state senate, 1915-22 (4th District 1915-18, 7th District
1919-22); law partner of Nathaniel
L. Goldstein during the 1920s; chair of
Kings County Republican Party, 1927-29; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1928; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1932-47.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Brooklyn Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
21, 1958 (age 81 years, 19
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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John R. Crews (1894-1975) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 4,
1894.
Republican. Boxer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 6th District, 1921-22; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1930; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; chair of
Kings County Republican Party, 1939-42, 1955; member of New York
Republican State Executive Committee, 1945.
Suffered a stroke,
and later died, at Good Samaritan Hospital,
West Islip, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
22, 1975 (age 80 years, 233
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Frederick E. Muller (1844-1907) —
also known as Friderich Emil Muller=y=Storer —
of Baltimore,
Md.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Santa Cruz, Danish West Indies (now St. Croix, Virgin
Islands), November
4, 1844.
Manager, Monumental Trading Company (fruit
importer);
auditor,
American Fruit
Company; Consul
for Argentina in Baltimore,
Md., 1899-1901.
Died, from interstitial
nephritis, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
30, 1907 (age 62 years, 87
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
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Charles Alt —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Member of New York
state senate 10th District, 1909-10; defeated, 1910.
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Joseph H. DeBragga —
of Elmhurst, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Ridgewood, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Republican. Queens
County Sheriff, 1901; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1916,
1924,
1928;
chair
of Queens County Republican Party, 1927-29.
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Carl Adolphus Gottlieb Adae (1839-1915) —
also known as Carl A. G. Adae —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Möckmühl, Germany,
June
9, 1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Vice-Consul
for Germany in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1871-77; president of the C. F. Adae & Co. bank;
after the bank became insolvent in December 1878, he was arrested
and charged
with bank
fraud, that is, accepting deposits knowing that the bank was
about to fail; the case was referred to the grand jury, but no
indictments resulted; insurance
agent.
German
ancestry.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
26, 1915 (age 75 years, 231
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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William J. Wells (1876-1940) —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
15, 1876.
Republican. Accountant;
general manager, later president, R.H. Macy & Co. department
store; bank
director; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1936.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, from a heart
condition, in Mountainside Hospital,
Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., March
22, 1940 (age 63 years, 98
days).
Interment at The Evergreens Cemetery.
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Washington
Cemetery
5820 Bay Parkway
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Nicholas Aleinikoff (1861-1921) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine,
1861.
Socialist. Lawyer;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1909 (Socialist), 1911, 1913
(Socialist), 1914 (Socialist), 1915, 1917 (Socialist), 1918
(Socialist); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1912.
Ukrainian
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 25,
1921 (age about 59
years).
Interment at Washington Cemetery.
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Friends Burying
Ground
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
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Raymond Vail Ingersoll (1875-1940) —
also known as Raymond V. Ingersoll —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., April 3,
1875.
Lawyer;
campaign manager for Alfred
E. Smith, 1924; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1928;
borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1934-40; died in office 1940.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Theta.
Died, following surgery, in Long Island College Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
24, 1940 (age 64 years, 327
days).
Interment at Friends Burying Ground.
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George Wood Wingate (1840-1928) —
also known as George W. Wingate —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 1,
1840.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; led
construction of elevated
railways in Brooklyn; marksmanship promoter; president, National
Rifle Association, 1886-1900; candidate for Presidential Elector for
New York.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; National Rifle
Association.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March
22, 1928 (age 87 years, 265
days).
Interment at Friends Burying Ground.
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