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Ellis P. Earle (b. 1860) —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1860.
Republican. Member, New Jersey Board of Institutions and Agencies,
1918-22, 1930; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1924;
director, Chatham Phenix Bank and Trust Company; director,
Coronet Phosphate
Company; president, Georgia Peruvian Ochre Company; president,
Nipissing Mines
Company; director, Phillips Petroleum
Company.
Member, Union
League.
Burial location unknown.
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Lewis Eaton (1790-1857) —
of Duanesburg, Schenectady
County, N.Y.; Schoharie Bridge (unknown
county), N.Y.; Lockport, Niagara
County, N.Y.
Born in Duanesburg, Schenectady
County, N.Y., February
17, 1790.
Schenectady
County Sheriff, 1821-22; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1823-25; postmaster;
member of New York
state senate 3rd District, 1829-32; banker.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., August
22, 1857 (age 67 years, 186
days).
Original interment at Black Rock Burial Ground, Buffalo, N.Y.; reinterment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956) —
also known as Walter E. Edge —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Ventnor City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
20, 1873.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
advertising
business; newspaper
publisher; banker; candidate for Presidential Elector for
New Jersey; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1908
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1944,
1948,
1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Atlantic County, 1910; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Atlantic County, 1911-16; Governor of
New Jersey, 1917-19, 1944-47; resigned 1919; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1919-29; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1929-33; delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1936.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from uremic
poisoning, in Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1956 (age 82 years, 344
days).
Interment at Northwood
Cemetery, Downingtown, Pa.
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Edwin Einstein (1842-1905) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
18, 1842.
Republican. Banker; U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1879-81; candidate for
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1892; president, New River Mineral
Company; director, Alabama Mineral
Land Company; director, Raritan Woolen Mills;
trustee, Texas Pacific Land Trust.
Jewish.
Died, of heart
trouble, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
24, 1905 (age 62 years, 67
days).
Interment at Beth
Olom Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Seth Griffith Ellegood (d. 1945) —
also known as Seth G. Ellegood —
of Sing Sing (now Ossining), Westchester
County, N.Y.; Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Seaford, Sussex
County, Del.
Democrat. Banker; candidate for village
president of Sing Sing, New York, 1901.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
28, 1945.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Virginia Cobb and Anna Lambert. |
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Timothy Edwards Ellsworth (b. 1836) —
also known as Timothy E. Ellsworth —
of Lockport, Niagara
County, N.Y.
Born in East Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., September
21, 1836.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1874-78; member of New York
state senate, 1882-85, 1896-1902 (30th District 1882-85, 45th
District 1896-1902); president, National Exchange Bank;
vice-president, Niagara County National Bank; director,
Niagara Paper
Mills; director, Hartford Paper
Company.
Burial location unknown.
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Philip Elting (1864-1941) —
of Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in Highland, Ulster
County, N.Y., 1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
banker; chair of
Ulster County Republican Party, 1904-41; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1940;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1923-33; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 29th District, 1938.
Died in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., July 20,
1941 (age about 77
years).
Interment at Wiltwyck
Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Katharine Ridenour. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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James Alfred Emerson (1865-1922) —
also known as James A. Emerson —
of Warrensburg, Warren
County, N.Y.
Born in Warrensburg, Warren
County, N.Y., April
25, 1865.
Republican. Lumber
business; woollen
manufacturer; steamboat
business; hotel
owner; banker; member of New York
state senate, 1907-18 (32nd District 1907-08, 33rd District
1909-18); as an opponent of alcohol prohibition in 1918, he was
called "wringing wet" (in contrast to prohibition advocates, who were
"desert dry").
Became ill, from heart
disease and gastritis,
while on
board the steamship Porto Rico, and died soon after, in
Long Island Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
31, 1922 (age 56 years, 281
days).
Interment at Warrensburg
Cemetery, Warrensburg, N.Y.
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Louis Woodard Emerson (1857-1924) —
also known as Louis W. Emerson —
of Warrensburg, Warren
County, N.Y.
Born in Warrensburg, Warren
County, N.Y., July 25,
1857.
Republican. Paper
manufacturer; woollen
manufacturer; banker; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1888,
1904
(alternate), 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924;
member of New York
state senate 19th District, 1890-93; U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1899-1903.
Died in Warrensburg, Warren
County, N.Y., June 10,
1924 (age 66 years, 321
days).
Interment at Warrensburg
Cemetery, Warrensburg, N.Y.
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Asher Bates Emery (1867-1924) —
also known as Asher B. Emery —
of East Aurora, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in East Aurora, Erie
County, N.Y., February
18, 1867.
Republican. Physician;
lawyer;
bank director; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1908;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 8th District, 1922-24; appointed 1922;
died in office 1924.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died, from kidney
disease, in Sisters Hospital,
Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., August
8, 1924 (age 57 years, 172
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, East Aurora, N.Y.
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Francis Munroe Endicott (1879-1935) —
also known as F. Munroe Endicott —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., October
17, 1879.
Banker; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Cairo, 1907-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Cairo, 1908-09; U.S. Consul General in Santo Domingo, 1911-12; real estate
agent.
His collection of ancient Greek coins was donated to the American
Numismatic Society in 1935.
Died in 1935
(age about
55 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Endicott. |
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Meade Henry Esposito (1909-1993) —
also known as Meade H. Esposito; Amadeo Henry
Esposito —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
28, 1909.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1964;
vice-president, Lafayette National Bank, 1965; insurance
broker; leader of
Kings County Democratic Party, 1969-83.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Indicted
in 1987 on federal charges
that he had given bribes
to U.S. Rep. Mario
Biaggi in in return for influence
on federal contracts for a Brooklyn ship-repair
company; convicted
on September 22, 1987 of giving an illegal
gratuity; fined
$500,000; indicted
in 1988 on bribery
and tax
charges,
but the case was dismissed due to his age and poor health.
Died, from renal
failure caused by a heart
attack, while suffering from lung
cancer and bladder
cancer, in North Shore University Hospital,
Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., September
3, 1993 (age 83 years, 249
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Felicia Esposito; married to Anne De Cunzo. |
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Leslie Ballard Evans (b. 1869) —
also known as L. B. Evans —
of Clarkton, Bladen
County, N.C.
Born in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., February
25, 1869.
Democrat. Physician;
banker; member of North
Carolina state senate 11th District, 1913-14.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Evans and Douglas (Wright) Evans. |
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Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842-1924) —
also known as Charles S. Fairchild —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., April
30, 1842.
Lawyer;
New
York state attorney general, 1876-77; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1887-89; president, New York Security
and Trust Company, 1889-1904; president, Atlanta and Charlotte
Air Line Railroad;
director, Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., November
24, 1924 (age 82 years, 208
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Cazenovia, N.Y.
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Jacob Sloat Fassett (1853-1924) —
also known as J. Sloat Fassett —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., November
13, 1853.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Chemung
County District Attorney, 1879-80; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1880,
1892,
1904,
1908,
1916;
member of New York
state senate 27th District, 1884-91; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1888-92; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1891; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1891; U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; banker; lumber
business.
Died in Vancouver, British
Columbia, April
21, 1924 (age 70 years, 160
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Newton Pomeroy Fassett and Martha Ellen (Sloat) Fassett; married,
February
13, 1879, to Jennie L. Crocker (daughter of Edwin
Bryant Crocker; niece of Charles
Crocker); fourth cousin once removed of Zenas
Ferry Moody and Alfred
Clark Chapin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Crocker-Whitehouse
family of Sacramento, California (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village
of Fassett,
Quebec, Canada, is named for
him. — Fassett Elementary
School, in Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — Fassett Commons, a building
at Elmira College,
Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jacob Sloat Fassett (built 1944 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1965) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Andrew Jackson Felt (1833-1912) —
also known as Andrew J. Felt —
of Nashua, Chickasaw
County, Iowa; Seneca, Nemaha
County, Kan.
Born in East Victor, Ontario
County, N.Y., December
27, 1833.
Republican. School
teacher; newspaper
editor; lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Iowa, 1868,
1872;
postmaster;
banker; candidate for Presidential Elector for Kansas; Lieutenant
Governor of Kansas, 1889-93.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died June 27,
1912 (age 78 years, 183
days).
Interment at Seneca
City Cemetery, Seneca, Kan.
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Allen Frank Ferris (1865-1903) —
also known as Allen F. Ferris —
of Brainerd, Crow Wing
County, Minn.
Born in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., July 22,
1865.
Republican. Banker; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1895-1902 (District 46 1895-98,
District 48 1899-1902); delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1900;
member of Minnesota
state senate 48th District, 1903; died in office 1903.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Modern
Woodmen of America; Eagles;
Knights
of Pythias; Redmen.
Died, from appendicitis
and peritonitis,
in Brainerd, Crow Wing
County, Minn., September
7, 1903 (age 38 years, 47
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Brainerd, Minn.
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Benjamin F. Ferris (c.1806-1876) —
also known as B. F. Ferris; H. A. Johnson —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in New York, about 1806.
Justice of the Peace, 1853 to about 1860; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1865-66; banker.
While traveling under the pseudonym 'H. A. Johnson', aboard the
steamer Amador on the Sacramento River, he killed
himself by taking
poison, tying his feet together, and then jumping or falling
overboard to drown
in the river, near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., May 20,
1876 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (1853-1928) —
also known as Woodbridge N. Ferris; "The Big Rapids
Schoolmaster"; "The Good Grey
Governor" —
of Big Rapids, Mecosta
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin near Spencer, Tioga
County, N.Y., January
6, 1853.
Democrat. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; founder and president,
Ferris Institute, later Ferris State University; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1892; candidate for
Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1902; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1907; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916,
1924;
Governor
of Michigan, 1913-16; defeated, 1904, 1920; president, Big Rapids
Savings Bank; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1923-28; died in office 1928; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1924.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March
23, 1928 (age 75 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland
View Cemetery, Big Rapids, Mich.
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Thomas Edward Finegan (b. 1866) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in West Fulton, Schoharie
County, N.Y., September
28, 1866.
School
teacher; lawyer;
bank director; Pennsylvania
superintendent of public instruction, 1919-21.
Presbyterian.
Burial location unknown.
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Nicholas Fish (1848-1902) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
19, 1848.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Switzerland, 1877-81; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1882-85; banker; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Quarreled with Thomas J. Sharkey, a private detective, on the second
floor of the Ehrhardt Brothers saloon;
Sharkey struck
him, so that he fell down
the stairs into the street with a skull fracture; died the next day,
without regaining consciousness, at Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
16, 1902 (age 54 years, 209
days). Sharkey was later convicted of second-degree manslaughter
and sentenced to ten years in prison.
Interment at St.
Philip's Cemetery, Garrison, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893) and Julia (Kean) Fish; brother of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); married to Clemence S. Smith-Bryce; father
of Hamilton Fish (1874-1898; sergeant in the U.S. Volunteer Cavalry
Regiment, the "Rough Riders", in the Spanish-American war; killed in
battle); uncle of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); grandson of Nicholas
Fish (1758-1833); granduncle of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); great-grandson of John
Kean (1756-1795); great-grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston; great-granduncle of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; second great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston and Peter
Van Brugh Livingston; second great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and James
Alexander; third great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant and Pieter
Van Brugh; fourth great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
de Peyster; first cousin of John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin once removed of Robert
Winthrop Kean; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Thomas
Howard Kean; first cousin thrice removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, John
Stevens III, Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; first cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin five times removed of Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707), David
Davidse Schuyler, Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler, Johannes
DePeyster, Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; second cousin once removed of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; second cousin twice removed of James
Jay, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), 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 Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Matthew
Clarkson, Henry
Cruger and Henry
Rutgers; third cousin of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson; 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 Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker, Guy
Vernor Henry and Montgomery
Schuyler Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of Philip
DePeyster; fourth cousin of John
Jacob Astor III, Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); fourth cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker, Philip
N. Schuyler, William
Waldorf Astor, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Robert
Reginald Livingston, Bronson
Murray Cutting and Brockholst
Livingston. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary |
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Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828-1890) —
also known as Clinton B. Fisk —
of Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich.; New Jersey.
Born in York, Livingston
County, N.Y., December
8, 1828.
Merchant;
miller;
banker; insurance
business; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1888.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 9,
1890 (age 61 years, 213
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Leander Fitts (1822-1891) —
of Moravia, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Sempronius, Cayuga
County, N.Y., May 23,
1822.
Cashier and director, First National Bank of Moravia; member
of New York
state assembly from Cayuga County 2nd District, 1889-90.
Died April 3,
1891 (age 68 years, 315
days).
Interment at Indian
Mound Cemetery, Moravia, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Martin Fitts and Marian (Dresser) Fitts; married to Mary
Smith. |
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Lawrence J. Fitzgerald —
of Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y.
President, Cortland Wagon Co. manfacturers
of carriages, wagons, and bicycles;
vice-president, National Bank of Cortland; village
president of Cortland, New York, 1882; New York
state treasurer, 1886-89.
Burial location unknown.
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Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (1875-1962) —
also known as Roy G. Fitzgerald —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., August
25, 1875.
Republican. Lawyer;
director, Merchants National Bank; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 3rd District, 1921-31.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Sons
of the American Revolution; American
Legion.
Died in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, November
16, 1962 (age 87 years, 83
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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Isaac C. Flint (b. 1882) —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Minden, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born November
14, 1882.
Democrat. Banker; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1926.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Step-son of Robert Walker; son of Alverty Flint and Eliza (Jordan)
Flint; married, February
12, 1907, to Florence Estelle Close. |
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Roswell Pettibone Flower (1835-1899) —
also known as Roswell P. Flower —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Theresa, Jefferson
County, N.Y., August
7, 1835.
Democrat. Jeweler;
banker; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1881-83, 1889-91 (11th District
1881-83, 12th District 1889-91); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1888
(speaker),
1892,
1896;
Governor
of New York, 1892-95.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Eastport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 12,
1899 (age 63 years, 278
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.; statue at Washington Street Median, Watertown, N.Y.
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Elial Todd Foote (1796-1877) —
also known as Elial T. Foote —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Gill, Franklin
County, Mass., May 1,
1796.
Physician;
banker; member of New York
state assembly, 1819-20, 1826-27 (Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and
Niagara counties 1819-20, Chautauqua County 1826-27); Chautauqua
County Judge, 1823-43; postmaster at Jamestown,
N.Y., 1829-41.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., November
17, 1877 (age 81 years, 200
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Jamestown, N.Y.
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Oliver Owen Forward (1781-1834) —
also known as Oliver Forward —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Simsbury, Hartford
County, Conn., December
1, 1781.
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1817; county judge in New York, 1817; member of New York
state assembly from Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Niagara counties,
1819-20; member of New York
state senate Western District, 1820-22; bank director.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., April
27, 1834 (age 52 years, 147
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Forward and Susannah (Holcombe) Forward; brother of Walter
Forward and Chauncey
Forward; married to Sarah 'Sally' Granger (sister of Erastus
Granger); granduncle of Chauncey
Forward Black; first cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Wells Holcomb, Bankson
Taylor Holcomb and Thomas
Holcomb Jr.; first cousin four times removed of Edmond
Alfred Holcomb; second cousin twice removed of Marcus
Hensey Holcomb and Burton
Everett Hoskins; third cousin twice removed of Oliver
Ellsworth, John
Allen, Charles
Ogden Tappan, Martin
Harris Holcomb and Orlo
Erland Wadhams; third cousin thrice removed of Daniel
Chapin and Lyle
Donald Holcomb; fourth cousin of Hezekiah
Case, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill, Abiel
Case, Edmund
Holcomb, Jairus
Case, Anson
Levi Holcomb and William
Gleason Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Jeremiah
Mason, Parmenio
Adams, Elisha
Phelps, Luther
Walter Badger, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Abijah
Blodget, John
William Allen, Oliver
Dwight Filley, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Noah
Webster Holcomb and Lafayette
Blanchard Gleason. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Nicholas Van Vranken Franchot (1855-1943) —
also known as Nicholas V. V. Franchot —
of Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Morris, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
21, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer; oil
producer; vice-president, Exchange National Bank of Olean;
director Electric
Light & Power Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1892,
1896,
1904;
mayor
of Olean, N.Y., 1894-98.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sigma
Phi.
Died in Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., May 6,
1943 (age 87 years, 258
days).
Interment at Hillington
Cemetery, Morris, N.Y.
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Joseph Nicola Francolini (1856-1920) —
also known as Joseph N. Francolini —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Corleto Perticara, Potenza, Italy,
March
29, 1856.
Progressive. Banker; candidate for Presidential Elector for
New York.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from bronchial
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
14, 1920 (age 64 years, 260
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Biagio Francolini and Francesca (Galotti) Francolini; married,
September
17, 1897, to Marguerite Mackellar. |
| | | Epitaph: "An exemplary life he lived:
as a citizen gratuitiously he served the state many years: knighted
by the King of Italy with the Order ot St. Maurizio and Lazzaro for
attainments in a foreign field: in practice love for God and man was
his religion." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Augustus Frank (1826-1895) —
of Warsaw, Wyoming
County, N.Y.
Born in Warsaw, Wyoming
County, N.Y., July 17,
1826.
Republican. Merchant;
director and vice-president, Buffalo & New York City Railroad;
later, director, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1859-65 (30th District 1859-63,
36th District 1863-65); banker; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867-68; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
29, 1895 (age 68 years, 286
days).
Interment at Warsaw
Cemetery, Warsaw, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustus Frank (1792-1851) and Jane (Patterson) Frank; married 1867 to Agnes
McNair; nephew of William
Patterson and George
Washington Patterson; second cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold; second cousin four times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Hale Sill, Frederick
William Lord and Theodore
Sill; third cousin twice removed of James
Hillhouse, Roger
Griswold, Bela
Edgerton and Zina
Hyde Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; fourth cousin of John
William Allen and George
Griswold Sill; fourth cousin once removed of Hezekiah
Case, Samuel
Lathrop, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Jairus
Case, Henry
Titus Backus, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton and Thomas
Worcester Hyde. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York; Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Cadman H. Frederick (b. 1880) —
of Babylon, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born, in the British West Indies, May 22,
1880.
Republican. Real estate
developer; one of the founders of the Suffolk Title
and Guarantee Company, 1925; banker; mayor
of Babylon, N.Y., 1937-38.
Resigned
in 1956 as president and director of the Suffolk County Federal
Savings and Loan Association, in the midst of an investigation
of the sale of tax-foreclosed properties by Suffolk County. He and
others shared
profits on the sale of these properties with Deputy County
Treasurer John
A. Britting.
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr.
(1916-2011) —
also known as Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
17, 1916.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; bank director; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1953-75; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1964,
1968,
1972.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Harding Township, Morris
County, N.J., May 23,
2011 (age 95 years, 126
days).
Interment at St. Peter's Episcopal Church Memorial Garden, Morristown, N.J.
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Henry Clinton Frisbee (1801-1873) —
also known as Henry C. Frisbee —
of Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y., March
27, 1801.
Newspaper
editor; bank director; member of New York
state assembly from Chautauqua County, 1845.
Died in Fredonia, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., November
9, 1873 (age 72 years, 227
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Fredonia, N.Y.
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Claude Moore Fuess (b. 1885) —
also known as Claude M. Fuess —
of Andover, Essex
County, Mass.
Born in Waterville, Oneida
County, N.Y., January
12, 1885.
Republican. Instructor
and headmaster,
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; director, Andover National
Bank; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1932.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Antiquarian Society; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Louis Philip Fuess and Helen Augusta (Moore) Fuess; married, June 27,
1911, to Elizabeth Cushing Goodhue. |
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Hadwen Carlton Fuller (1895-1990) —
also known as Hadwen C. Fuller —
of Parish, Oswego
County, N.Y.
Born in West Monroe, Oswego
County, N.Y., August
28, 1895.
Republican. Banker; served in the U.S. Army during World War
I; member of New York
state assembly from Oswego County, 1943; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1943-49 (32nd District 1943-45,
35th District 1945-49); defeated, 1948; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1944
(alternate), 1948.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Parish, Oswego
County, N.Y., January
29, 1990 (age 94 years, 154
days).
Burial location unknown.
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