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A. Lawrence Acquavella (c.1906-1968) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born about 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1948; magistrate; civil court judge;
director, Bushwick Hospital.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
20, 1968 (age about 62
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Constance Abbate. |
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James Albert Betts (1853-1928) —
also known as James A. Betts —
of Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in Broadalbin, Fulton
County, N.Y., March
18, 1853.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; lawyer;
president, Kingston Savings Bank;
vice-president, Kingston City Hospital; trustee, Wiltwyck
Rural Cemetery; Ulster
County Surrogate, 1892-98; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 3rd District, 1899-1912.
Baptist.
Died in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., May 8,
1928 (age 75 years, 51
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaiah Betts and Margaret A. (Hoes) Betts; married, October
16, 1884, to Frances M. Hill; married 1908 to Olivia
Ann (Mathews) North. |
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William Brown Carswell (1883-1953) —
also known as William B. Carswell —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
1883.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 6th District, 1913-16; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1923-53; died in office
1953; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court
2nd Department, 1927-49; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937;
vice-president and trustee, Caledonian Hospital.
Christian
Reformed. Scottish
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Grotto;
Elks.
Died, following surgery for a stomach
ailment, in Sherbrooke Hospital,
Sherbrooke, Quebec,
September
7, 1953 (age about 70
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of David Bruce Carswell and Ann (Brown) Carswell. |
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Louis Gary Clemente (1908-1968) —
also known as L. Gary Clemente —
of Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 10,
1908.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; vice-president and
director, Unexcelled Chemical
Corporation; executive with Moderne Paint
Company, Premier Chemical
Corporation, and Ohio Bronze
Company; director, Mary Immaculate Hospital; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1949-53; defeated,
1952.
Catholic.
Member, Disabled
American Veterans.
Died, from cancer,
in Mary Immaculate Hospital,
Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 13,
1968 (age 59 years, 338
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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Montgomery F. Crowe (b. 1890) —
of Stroudsburg, Monroe
County, Pa.
Born in Piermont, Rockland
County, N.Y., November
9, 1890.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; insurance
business; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 14th District, 1939-54; director, General
Hospital of Monroe County; director, Stroudsburg Security Trust
Company; president, Monroe County Industries;
treasurer, Pocono Lodges Hotel
Company director, Van Karner Chemical
Arms Corporation; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1956
(alternate), 1960.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles H. Crowe and Jessie M. (Durkee) Crowe; married to Frances
K. Wirth. |
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James Herbert Fay (1899-1948) —
also known as James H. Fay —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
29, 1899.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; wounded and lost his
left leg; secretary to the president of Bellevue and Allied
Hospitals, 1923-29; deputy commissioner of hospitals, 1929-33;
U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1939-41, 1943-45;
defeated, 1934, 1940; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1940;
chair
of New York County Democratic Party, 1942; insurance
and advertising
business.
Catholic.
Member, Tammany
Hall; American
Legion.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
10, 1948 (age 49 years, 134
days).
Interment at Long
Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.
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John H. Ferril —
of Rockaway Beach, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Neponsit, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Real
estate and insurance
business; trustee, Rockaway Beach Hospital and Dispensary;
member of New York
state assembly, 1939-45 (Queens County 5th District 1939-44,
Queens County 12th District 1945).
Member, Elks; Knights
of Columbus.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Frankel (1886-1975) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.; Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born October
2, 1886.
Mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1924, 1930-33; defeated, 1925 (Democratic
primary), 1925 (Republican), 1929 (Democratic primary); founder of
Long Beach Memorial Hospital indicted
in September 1927 on charges
of maintaining a gambling
place; the charges were later dropped; in December 1929, his right to
take office as mayor was unsuccessfully challenged
by the Long Beach police chief, based on vote
fraud (for which many had been arrested and prosecuted) and the
expectation that Frankel would tolerate
gambling in the city; indicted
in January 1933 for fraud
over his transfer of $90,000 in city funds to the Long Beach Trust
Company, which subsequently closed; the indictment was dismissed in
February; indicted
again in May 1933, along with two city council members, over the
diversion of $750,000 of state and county tax revenue to city
projects; pleaded not guilty; no trial was held; the indictment was
dismissed in 1937; oil
producer.
Died, in a hospital
at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 12,
1975 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Interment somewhere
in Houston, Tex.
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Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837-1927) —
also known as Elbridge T. Gerry; "Commodore
Gerry" —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charlestown, Washington
County, R.I., December
25, 1837.
Lawyer;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; founder
and president, New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children (said to be the "parent of all child protective
organizations in the world"); governor of New York Hospital,
1878-1912; chairman, New York State Commission on Capital Punishment
(replaced hanging with the electric chair), 1886-88; trustee, New
York Life
Insurance Co.; chairman, New York City Commission on Insanity,
1892.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Broke his hip in a fall, and
died two weeks later, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1927 (age 89 years, 55
days).
Entombed at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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William F. Hagarty (1877-1950) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio, June 30,
1877.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member, board of managers, Holy Family Hospital; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1923-47; defeated, 1921;
Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd
Department, 1927-47.
Catholic.
Member, Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Catholic
Lawyers Guild.
Died, in Long Island College Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
30, 1950 (age 72 years, 214
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Cornelius E. Hagarty and Julia A. (Leary) Hagarty; married 1942 to Mary
E. McGrath. |
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Sidney S. Hein (1907-1972) —
of Far Rockaway, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Laurelton, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
16, 1907.
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960,
1964;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1961; director, Franklin National Bank,
Eagle Insurance
Company of New Jersey, Peninsula Hospital, and Brunswick
Hospital.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Foresters.
Died, from a heart
attack, at the Inwood Country Club, Inwood, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 1,
1972 (age 64 years, 351
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Hugo Hein and Regina (Pulitzer) Hein; married to Frederica
Clark. |
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Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) —
also known as Peter A. Jay —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y., January
24, 1776.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1815-16; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; president, New
York Hospital, 1827-33.
Died in New York, February
20, 1843 (age 67 years, 27
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Jay and Sarah (Livingston) Jay; brother of William
Jay; married, July 29,
1807, to Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson; nephew of James
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; uncle of John
Jay II; grandson of William
Livingston; grandnephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; great-grandson of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; great-grandfather of Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933); great-grandnephew of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; second great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder, Anthony
Brockholls, Pieter
Van Brugh and Phillip
French; second great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Ledyard; first cousin twice removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), John
Cruger Jr. and Brockholst
Livingston; first cousin four times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin 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); second cousin once removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer and Denning
Duer; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Cruger, Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean; second cousin thrice removed of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; second cousin four times removed of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; second cousin five times removed of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951), Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; third cousin of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Nicholas
Bayard, Philip
P. Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker and Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); third cousin once removed of James
Livingston, Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, James
Alexander Hamilton, Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, John
Cortlandt Parker and John
Jacob Astor III; third cousin twice removed of Peter
Gansevoort, James
Adams Ekin, Richard
Wayne Parker, William
Waldorf Astor, Charles
Wolcott Parker and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; third cousin thrice removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; fourth cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston, George
Washington Schuyler and Philip
N. Schuyler; fourth cousin once removed of Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Eugene
Schuyler. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Robert Abercrombie Lovett (1895-1986) —
also known as Robert A. Lovett —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., September
14, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; partner, Brown Brothers
Harriman; director of several railroad
companies; director, Presbyterian Hospital of New York; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1951-53.
Member, Skull
and Bones.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1963.
Died in Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., May 7,
1986 (age 90 years, 235
days).
Interment at Locust
Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y.
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Lee Beattie Mailler (1898-1967) —
also known as Lee B. Mailler —
of Cornwall-on-Hudson, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, March
17, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; credit
manager, Cornwall Hospital; director, Highland Telephone
Company, Highland Mills, N.Y.; member of New York
state assembly from Orange County 1st District, 1934-54; member,
New York State Parole Board, 1955-58.
Died, from leukemia,
in Cornwall Hospital,
Cornwall, Orange
County, N.Y., September
22, 1967 (age 69 years, 189
days).
Interment at Cemetery
of the Highlands, Highland Mills, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Mailler and Sophia Jane (Preston) Mailler; married
to Marion MacKenzie; third cousin of Irene
Hazard Gerlinger. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Harold Whitney Mason (1895-1944) —
also known as Harold W. Mason —
of Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., April
21, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; boot and shoe
business; vice-president, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital;
director for power
companies, insurance
companies, the Central Vermont Railway,
and the Estey Organ
Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1932;
Convention Secretary, 1940,
1944;
secretary, Arrangements Committee, secretary, 1940;
speaker, 1940;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont; delegate
to Vermont convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; member of
Republican
National Committee from Vermont, 1936-44; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1937-44.
Member, American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Union
League; Sigma
Nu.
Died, from a heart
attack, in his room at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
3, 1944 (age 49 years, 196
days).
Interment at Morningside
Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of William Lysander Mason and Margaret Etta (Matthews) Mason;
married, March
17, 1918, to Evelyn Hawley Dunham. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Official Report of the
22nd Republican National Convention (1940) |
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Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Mannheim, Germany,
April
26, 1856.
Lawyer;
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1913-16; director, Underwood Typewriter
Company; director, Equitable Life
Assurance Society of U.S.; president, Herald Square Realty
Company; director, Mt. Sinai Hospital.
Jewish.
Died following a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
25, 1946 (age 90 years, 213
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Samuel Lyman Munson (b. 1844) —
also known as Samuel L. Munson —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Norwich (now Huntington), Hampshire
County, Mass., June 14,
1844.
Republican. Collar
manufacturer; vice-president, Home Savings Bank;
director, National Exchange Bank;
vice-president, Albany Homeopathic Hospital; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Sons of
the Revolution; American
Antiquarian Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Garry Munson and Harriet (Lyman) Munson; married, May 21,
1868, to Susan Babcock Hopkins. |
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Jacob Ruppert Jr. (1867-1939) —
also known as Jacob Ruppert; Jake Ruppert —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
5, 1867.
Democrat. Brewer;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1899-1907 (15th District 1899-1903,
16th District 1903-07); candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914; owner
and president, New York Yankees baseball
team, 1915-39; president, Astoria Silk
Mills; vice-president, Beck Flaming Arc-Light Co.; director,
Yorkville Bank;
director, Casualty Insurance
Company of America; director, German Hospital; trustee, Lenox
Hill Hospital.
Catholic.
German
ancestry.
Died, from phlebitis,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
13, 1939 (age 71 years, 161
days).
Entombed at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Charles H. Silver (c.1886-1984) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Romania,
about 1886.
Democrat. Vice-president, American Woolens
Company; president, Beth Israel Medical Center, 1947-84
president, New York City Board of Education, 1955-61; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1948,
1952.
Jewish.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
24, 1984 (age about 98
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Times, August 25, 1984 |
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William Irving Sirovich (1882-1939) —
also known as William I. Sirovich —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in York, York
County, Pa., March
18, 1882.
Physician;
playwright;
Independence League candidate for New York
state treasurer, 1908, 1910; superintendent, Peoples
Hospital, 1911-29; president, Industrial National Bank; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1927-39; defeated
(Democratic), 1924; died in office 1939.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of a heart
attack, while taking a bath at home, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
17, 1939 (age 57 years, 274
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1864-1945) —
also known as J. Mayhew Wainwright —
of Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
10, 1864.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of New York
state assembly, 1902-08 (Westchester County 2nd District 1902-06,
Westchester County 4th District 1907-08); alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1908;
member of New York
state senate 24th District, 1909-12; colonel in the U.S. Army
during World War I; U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, 1921-23; U.S.
Representative from New York 25th District, 1923-31; director,
Rye National Bank;
trustee, St. Luke's Hospital.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Psi; American Bar
Association; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, from pyelonephritis
and coronary
artery disease, in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 3,
1945 (age 80 years, 175
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Union Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John Howard Wainwright and Margaret Livingston (Stuyvesant)
Wainwright; married, November
23, 1892, to Laura Wallace Buchanan; third great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston and Robert
Gilbert Livingston; third great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fourth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder; fourth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fifth great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant; first cousin twice removed of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); first cousin thrice removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William
Livingston; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin six times removed of Nicholas
Bayard (c.1644-1707), David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); second cousin thrice removed of James
Jay, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Edward
Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); third cousin once removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay, Charles
Ludlow Livingston, Hamilton
Fish (born 1951) and Alexa
Fish Ward; third cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard (1736-1802), Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and James
Parker; fourth cousin of Montgomery
Schuyler Jr.; fourth 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, John
Jay II, John
Jacob Astor III and Guy
Vernor Henry. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Clinton-DeWitt
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1923) |
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Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) —
also known as Robert C. Weaver —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
29, 1907.
Democrat. Economist;
received the Spingarn
Medal in 1962; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1966-68; first
African-American cabinet member; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1968 ;
president,
Baruch College, 1969; trustee, Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 17,
1997 (age 89 years, 200
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Rollin Simmons Woodruff (1854-1925) —
also known as Rollin S. Woodruff —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 14,
1854.
Republican. President, C. S. Mersick & Co., wholesale iron
dealers; director, Connecticut Savings Bank and
Mechanics Bank;
president, Grace Hospital of New Haven; member of Connecticut
state senate, 1903; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07; Governor of
Connecticut, 1907-09; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920
(alternate), 1924.
English
ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Died June 30,
1925 (age 70 years, 351
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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Kenneth P. Zebrowski (1945-2007) —
also known as Ken Zebrowski —
of New City, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
12, 1945.
Lawyer;
Rockland
County Legislator, 1973-2003; board chairman and acting
president, Nyack Hospital; candidate for New York
state senate, 1999, 2000; member of New York
state assembly 94th District, 2005-07; died in office 2007.
Catholic.
Died, of hepatitis
C, in Nyack Hospital,
Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., March
18, 2007 (age 61 years, 126
days).
Interment at St.
Anthony's Cemetery, Nanuet, N.Y.
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