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James Arkell (1829-1902) —
also known as "Father of the Paper Sack
Industry" —
of Canajoharie, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born in Oxford, England,
October
16, 1829.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; manufacturer and printer
of flour
bags, originally from cotton, then when cotton became
scarce during the Civil War, he innovated the use of paper
bags as a substitute for cotton; his inventions
received dozens of U.S. patents; member of New York
state senate 18th District, 1884-85; in 1885, former General and
President Ulysses
S. Grant died at Arkell's summer home in Mt. McGregor.
Died in Canajoharie, Montgomery
County, N.Y., August
11, 1902 (age 72 years, 299
days).
Interment at Canajoharie Falls Cemetery, Canajoharie, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Arkell and Mary (Carter) Arkell; married, July 23,
1853, to Sarah Hall Bartlett; father-in-law of Bernhard
Gillam. |
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William D. Barnes (b. 1856) —
of Brainard, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.
Born in Columbia
County, N.Y., April 4,
1856.
Cotton manufacturer; paper mill
business; member of New York
state senate 30th District, 1902-06.
Burial location unknown.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Barclay Charles (1861-1950) —
also known as William B. Charles —
of Amsterdam, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
April
3, 1861.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; cotton dealer; member of
New
York state assembly from Montgomery County, 1904-06; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1908
(alternate), 1928,
1936
(alternate); U.S.
Representative from New York 30th District, 1915-17.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Amsterdam, Montgomery
County, N.Y., November
25, 1950 (age 89 years, 236
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Amsterdam, N.Y.
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Leopold Charrier (c.1835-1906) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in France,
about 1835.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; in 1861, he was the first
man to receive a pension from the U.S. government for wounds received
in military service during the Civil War; cotton broker; liquor
merchant; Consul
for Belgium in Savannah,
Ga., 1878-1903.
French
ancestry. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, from apoplexy,
in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
16, 1906 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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Casper Gilbert Decker (1860-1942) —
also known as Casper G. Decker —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Summitville, Sullivan
County, N.Y., May 5,
1860.
President, Elmira Knitting Mills; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1898 (29th District), 1916 (37th
District); candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; Dry
candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Methodist.
Dutch
ancestry. Member, Rotary;
Freemasons.
Died in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., January
27, 1942 (age 81 years, 267
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Casper Schermerhorn Decker and Euphemia (Simpson) Decker; married,
March
2, 1901, to Caroline Fenton Spencer. |
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James De Wolf (1764-1837) —
of Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I.
Born in Bristol, Bristol
County, R.I., March
18, 1764.
Democrat. Slave
trader; built an early cotton mill; manufacturer;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1800; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1819-21; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1821-27.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
21, 1837 (age 73 years, 278
days).
Original interment at De
Wolf Family Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.; reinterment at Juniper
Hill Cemetery, Bristol, R.I.
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William Fatman (1852-1919) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
9, 1852.
Cotton buyer; Consul
for Belgium in Charleston,
S.C., 1883-94.
Jewish.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
15, 1919 (age 66 years, 98
days).
Interment at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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William Craig Fields (1804-1882) —
also known as William C. Fields —
of Laurens, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
13, 1804.
Republican. Merchant;
manufacturer of cotton and linen
goods; Otsego
County Clerk, 1852-55; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1867-69.
Died in Laurens, Otsego
County, N.Y., October
27, 1882 (age 78 years, 256
days).
Interment at Laurens
Cemetery, Laurens, N.Y.
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Albert Smith Gallup (1823-1906) —
also known as Albert S. Gallup —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in East Berne, Albany
County, N.Y., September
20, 1823.
Democrat. Cotton manufacturer; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1853-54; postmaster at Providence,
R.I., 1858-61.
Member, Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
21, 1906 (age 82 years, 182
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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William J. Hutchins (1813-1884) —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Fishkill, Dutchess
County, N.Y., March 3,
1813.
Merchant;
cotton mill business; hotel
owner; banker;
co-founded Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway;
owner and president of the Houston and Texas Central Railway;
mayor
of Houston, Tex., 1861.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex., June 4,
1884 (age 71 years, 93
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963) —
also known as Herbert H. Lehman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
28, 1878.
Democrat. Director, Consolidated Cotton Duck Co., Imperial
Cotton Co., U.S. Cotton Duck Co., Washington Mills;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1929-32; Governor of
New York, 1933-42; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1949-57; defeated, 1946.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Gamma Delta; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1963; inducted into the
Jewish-American Hall of
Fame in 1974.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
5, 1963 (age 85 years, 252
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Benjamin Franklin Mebane (1860-1926) —
also known as B. Frank Mebane —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in North Carolina, November, 1860.
Republican. Cotton mill president; delegate to Republican
National Convention from North Carolina, 1904.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 15,
1926 (age 65 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Anthony Quitman (1799-1858) —
also known as John A. Quitman —
of Mississippi.
Born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess
County, N.Y., September
1, 1799.
Democrat. Lawyer;
cotton and sugar planter;
member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1826-27; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1832; member of
Mississippi
state senate, 1835-36; Governor of
Mississippi, 1835-36, 1850-51; state court judge in Mississippi,
1838; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1848,
1856;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 5th District, 1855-58; died in
office 1858.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Slaveowner.
While in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of President James
Buchanan, he became ill with "National Hotel disease" (attributed
to poison,
but probably dysentery),
and subsequently died, near Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., July 17,
1858 (age 58 years, 319
days).
Interment at Natchez
City Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) —
also known as James Whitelaw Reid;
"Agate" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cedarville, Greene
County, Ohio, October
27, 1837.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; librarian;
cotton planter;
U.S. Minister to France, 1889-92; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1892; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1905-12, died in office 1912.
Died in London, England,
December
15, 1912 (age 75 years, 49
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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