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James Vito Auditore (1889-1973) —
also known as James V. Auditore; "The Millionaire
Stevedore" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Great Neck, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Valley Stream, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 15,
1889.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1920;
owner of two stevedoring companies; indicted
in 1947, with two other men, and charged
with conspiracy to collect illegal fees on New York City
piers, by getting control of the city-owned facilities and reselling
access to shippers at three times the city rates; convicted
on sixteen counts; sentenced
to four and a half to ten years in prison.
Italian
ancestry.
Died July 3,
1973 (age 83 years, 353
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Lester Avery (1853-1925) —
also known as William L. Avery —
of Lee, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Butte, Silver Bow
County, Mont.; Miles City, Custer
County, Mont.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
17, 1853.
Shipmaster; express
agent; U.S. Consul in Belize City, 1898-1921.
Died in 1925
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Clearwater
Municipal Cemetery, Clearwater, Fla.
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Charles Mitchell Barnett (1870-1940) —
also known as Charles M. Barnett —
of Norfolk,
Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
September
22, 1870.
Steamship agent; coal
dealer; bank
director; Vice-Consul
for Uruguay in Norfolk,
Va., 1898-1907; Vice-Consul
for Ecuador in Norfolk,
Va., 1899-1907; Consul
for Nicaragua in Norfolk,
Va., 1899-1921; Consul
for Costa Rica in Norfolk,
Va., 1900-07; Vice-Consul
for Denmark in Norfolk,
Va., 1902-07; Consul
for Paraguay in Norfolk,
Va., 1903-29; Honorary
Consul for Mexico in Norfolk,
Va., 1929.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
26, 1940 (age 69 years, 217
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Richardson Cemetery, Eureka, Ind.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Brownlee Bensel and Mary Maclay (Hogg) Bensel; married 1896 to Ella
Louise Day. |
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Andrew Jackson Bentley (1827-1895) —
also known as Andrew J. Bentley —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., January
10, 1827.
Sailor; shipbroker; lumber
business; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1880; mayor
of New London, Conn., 1894.
Died, of pneumonia,
March
18, 1895 (age 68 years, 67
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.
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Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) —
also known as "The Refrigerator"; "The Sly
Fox" —
of New York; Dummerston, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 11,
1894.
Director and officer, National Sugar
Refining Company; director, American-Hawaiian Steamship
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1951-52; Italy, 1952-53; India, 1956-61; Nepal, 1956-59; , 1966-67, 1973-78; Vietnam, 1967-73.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of two Presidential
Medals of Freedom, in 1963 and in 1967.
Died, in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital,
Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., September
27, 1984 (age 90 years, 139
days).
Interment somewhere
in Dummerston, Vt.
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James A. Burke (1890-1965) —
of Hollis, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Little Neck, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 3,
1890.
Democrat. Worked for various railroads
as clerk, train
dispatcher, and car accountant; stock supervisor, Brooklyn
Navy Yard; real estate
broker; member of New York
state assembly from Queens County 4th District, 1931-33, 1935;
defeated, 1933; borough
president of Queens, New York, 1942-49; defeated in primary, 1937.
Died in Little Neck, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., September
12, 1965 (age 75 years, 193
days).
Interment at St.
John's Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, N.Y.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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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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Emory P. Close (b. 1859) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., December
13, 1859.
Lawyer;
director, Curtiss Navigation Company (operator of
vessels on the Great Lakes); U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1897-99.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick Collin (b. 1850) —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Benton, Yates
County, N.Y., August
2, 1850.
Lawyer;
director, Chemung Canal Trust Co.; director, Arnot Realty
Corporation; director, Elmira, Corning, & Waverly Railway;
mayor
of Elmira, N.Y., 1894-98; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1910-20; appointed 1910.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Clark Collin and Maria Louisa (Park) Collin. |
| | | Image source: Empire State Notables
(1914) |
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Joseph Edward Curran (1906-1981) —
also known as Joseph Curran; Joe Curran; "Big
Joe" —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 1,
1906.
Merchant seaman; president,
National Maritime Union (NMU), 1937-73; vice-president,
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 1940-55; American Labor
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1940; vice-chair of
New York American Labor Party, 1945.
Died, of cancer,
in Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla., August
14, 1981 (age 75 years, 166
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1939 to Retta
Toble; married 1965 to
Florence Stetler. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, June 17,
1946 |
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James Edward Davidson (1865-1947) —
also known as James E. Davidson —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., December
7, 1865.
Republican. Shipbuilder; financier;
director, Pere Marquette Railroad;
director, Cleveland Indians pro
baseball team; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1915-19, 1927, 1939; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1920,
1944
(alternate); member of Republican
National Committee from Michigan, 1923-40.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Lake Placid, Essex
County, N.Y., July 25,
1947 (age 81 years, 230
days).
Interment somewhere
in Bay City, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of James Davidson and Ellen M. (Rogers) Davidson; married 1890 to June
Lolette Cobb; married, July 28,
1919, to Helen Forrest Knox. |
| | | Image source: Detroit Free Press, July
26, 1947 |
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Harlow P. Davock (b. 1848) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., March
11, 1848.
Republican. Civil
engineer; worked on many railroad
and canal projects; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1893-94.
Burial location unknown.
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Ernest Derulle (b. 1851) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Luxembourg,
March
21, 1851.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; steamship agent; U.S. Consular Agent
in Luxembourg, 1904-11.
Luxemburgian
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Charles Desmond (1887-1972) —
also known as Thomas C. Desmond —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Middletown, Orange
County, N.Y., September
15, 1887.
Republican. Engineer;
president and chief engineer, Newburgh Ship Yards; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1928,
1940;
member of New York
state senate, 1931-58 (27th District 1931-44, 32nd District
1945-54, 33rd District 1955-58).
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Grange;
Moose;
Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Redmen;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
6, 1972 (age 85 years, 21
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Addie Donald (1857-1922) —
also known as John A. Donald —
of Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland,
July
24, 1857.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; steamship business;
member, U.S. Shipping Board, 1917-21.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
13, 1922 (age 64 years, 173
days).
Interment at Moravian
Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, N.Y.
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David Dows (1885-1966) —
also known as "Big Dave" —
of Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Bradley, Greenwood
County, S.C.
Born in Irvington, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
12, 1885.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; worked in iron and steel
mills; supervised construction
of steel
mills overseas; studied foreign industries as representative of a
steamship line; horse
breeder; bank
director; Nassau
County Sheriff, 1932-34; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1944;
member, New York State Racing Commission, 1944-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1956;
South
Carolina Republican state chair, 1956-58; candidate for
Presidential Elector for South Carolina.
Convicted
of assault
in 1913, over his treatment of a New York Times reporter who was
attempting to interview him.
Died in Hot Springs, Bath
County, Va., August
13, 1966 (age 81 years, 1
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Eugene R. Duffy (b. 1881) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 18,
1881.
Democrat. Yacht basin business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 3rd District, 1934-36.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
New York Red Book 1936 |
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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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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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Maurice Featherston (b. 1863) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in 1863.
Member of New York
state senate 18th District, 1896-1900; New York City Dock
Commissioner, 1904.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Fitzgerald (1796-1855) —
of Boonville, Warrick
County, Ind.; St. Joseph, Berrien
County, Mich.; Niles, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Germantown, Columbia
County, N.Y., April
10, 1796.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1825-27; probate judge in
Indiana, 1829; postmaster at Boonville,
Ind., 1831-32; lighthouse keeper; Berrien
County Clerk, 1834; member of University
of Michigan board of regents, 1837; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Berrien County, 1839;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan, 1839; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1848-49; Berrien
County Probate Judge, 1852-55.
Died in Niles, Berrien
County, Mich., March
25, 1855 (age 58 years, 349
days).
Interment at Silverbrook
Cemetery, Niles, Mich.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Charles Ranlett Flint (1850-1934) —
also known as Charles R. Flint; "Father of
Trusts" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine, January
24, 1850.
Shipping
business; shipowner; financier;
Consul
for Chile in New
York, N.Y., 1877-79; Consul-General
for Costa Rica in New
York, N.Y., 1891-96; in the 1890s, he consolidated groups of
smaller companies to form large corporations or "trusts": U.S. Rubber
(1892); American Chicle (chewing
gum) (1899); American Woolen
(1899); founder, in 1911, of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company, which later became International Busines Machines (IBM).
Died, in his room at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington,
D.C., February
26, 1934 (age 84 years, 33
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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James Geddes (1763-1838) —
of Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born near Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., July 22,
1763.
Salt
manufacturer; justice of the peace; member of New York
state assembly from Onondaga County, 1803-04, 1821-22; common
pleas court judge in New York, 1809; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1813-15; canal
engineer.
Died in Geddes (now part of Syracuse), Onondaga
County, N.Y., August
19, 1838 (age 75 years, 28
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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David Greenlie (1867-1911) —
of Passaic, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1867.
Republican. Shipbuilder; mayor
of Passaic, N.J., 1904-07.
Christian
Reformed. Member, Elks; Freemasons.
Died, from apoplexy,
in his room at the Northwestern Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
16, 1911 (age about 44
years).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of William Powell Greenlie and Georgina Cameron (Ireland) Greenlie;
married to Mattie Ora Pierson. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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George John Haering (1895-1963) —
also known as George J. Haering —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
13, 1895.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; steamship company
official; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Kobe, 1924-29; U.S. Consul in Kobe, 1929; Rangoon, 1929-31; Glasgow, 1931-33; Pernambuco, 1933-37; Warsaw, 1937-40; Berlin, 1940; Vigo, 1940-41; Madrid, 1941-43.
Died February
3, 1963 (age 67 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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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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Wickham Sayre Havens (1806-1880) —
also known as Wickham S. Havens —
of Sag Harbor, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Shelter Island, Suffolk
County, N.Y., October
23, 1806.
Whaling
captain; banker; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1865-79.
Died in Sag Harbor, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
26, 1880 (age 74 years, 34
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Sag Harbor, Long Island, N.Y.
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Elias Bellows Holmes (1807-1866) —
also known as Elias B. Holmes —
of Brockport, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Fletcher, Franklin
County, Vt., May 22,
1807.
Lawyer;
canal boat business; U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1845-49; railroad
promoter.
Died in Brockport, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 31,
1866 (age 59 years, 70
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Brockport, N.Y.
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Sidney Tracy Holmes (1815-1890) —
also known as Sidney T. Holmes —
of Morrisville, Madison
County, N.Y.; Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., August
14, 1815.
Republican. Canal engineer;
lawyer;
Madison
County Judge and Surrogate, 1851-64; U.S.
Representative from New York 22nd District, 1865-67.
Died in Bay City, Bay
County, Mich., January
16, 1890 (age 74 years, 155
days).
Interment at Cedar
Street Cemetery, Morrisville, N.Y.
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Philip Hone (1780-1851) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
25, 1780.
Whig. Merchant;
president, Delaware and Hudson Canal Company; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1826-27.
German
ancestry.
Kept a famous diary of New York life in the 19th century.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 5,
1851 (age 70 years, 192
days).
Interment at St.
Mark's-in-the-Bowery Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
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John Stewart Hopkins (1811-1882) —
also known as John S. Hopkins —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Truxton, Cortland
County, N.Y., October
28, 1811.
Merchant;
banker;
mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1853-56; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1861, 1867, 1879; president of
Evansville, Cairo & Memphis Packet Company; president of First
National Bank in
Evansville; director of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad.
Died in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., July 6,
1882 (age 70 years, 251
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1834 to Mary
Ann Parrett. |
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Charles Merrill Hough (1858-1927) —
also known as Charles M. Hough —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 18,
1858.
Republican. Lawyer;
attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and for steamship companies in maritime litigation; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1906-16; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1916-27; died in
office 1927.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from angina
pectoris, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1927 (age 68 years, 339
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Charles Edward Hyde (1855-1917) —
also known as Charles E. Hyde —
of Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine; Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, November
26, 1855.
Republican. Engineer;
marine architect; mayor of
Bath, Maine, 1899-1901.
Died in New York, May 19,
1917 (age 61 years, 174
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward Clarenon Hyde and Rebecca (Tibbetts) Hyde; married 1885 to
Georgiana Miller; grandnephew of Zina
Hyde Jr.; first cousin once removed of Thomas
Worcester Hyde; second cousin of John
Sedgwick Hyde and Edward
Warden Hyde; second cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799); second cousin four times removed of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin once removed of William
Woodbridge, Isaac
Backus and Henry
Titus Backus; third cousin twice removed of James
Hillhouse, Roger
Griswold, Elijah
Abel, Phineas
Lyman Tracy and Albert
Haller Tracy; third cousin thrice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Samuel
H. Huntington, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; fourth cousin of Joseph
Lyman Huntington and Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Hale Sill, Bela
Edgerton, Frederick
William Lord, Theodore
Sill, Collins
Dwight Huntington, George
Milo Huntington and Alonzo
Mark Leffingwell. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Andronicus Jacobs (born c.1899) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1899.
Longshoreman; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1952; American Labor
candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1953.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Lemuel James (1831-1916) —
also known as Thomas L. James —
of Tenafly, Bergen
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., March
29, 1831.
Republican. Canal toll collector; newspaper
publisher; customs
inspector; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1873-81; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1881-82; bank
director; mayor
of Tenafly, N.J., 1896.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Died, following several strokes of
apoplexy, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
11, 1916 (age 85 years, 166
days).
Entombed at Church
of the Heavenly Rest, Manhattan, N.Y.
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John Winthrop Jones (1817-1887) —
also known as J. Winthrop Jones —
of Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine; Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, February
14, 1817.
Democrat. School
teacher; merchant;
shipbuilder; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Maine, 1860;
lumber
business.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., September
19, 1887 (age 70 years, 217
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lorenzo Alson Kelsey (1803-1890) —
also known as Lorenzo A. Kelsey —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Port Leyden, Lewis
County, N.Y., February
22, 1803.
Democrat. Lumber
business; steamboat owner; hotelier;
mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1848.
Died in 1890
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Eber Leete Kelsey and Lucy (Leete) Kelsey; married 1825 to Sophia
Smith; father of Theodore Rowland Kelsey. |
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. (1888-1969) —
also known as Joseph P. Kennedy; Joe
Kennedy —
of Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.; Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
6, 1888.
Supervisor of the shipyard at Quincy, Mass.; banker; stockbroker;
owner and financier of movie
studios in the 1920s; organized the merger that created
Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) in 1928; chair, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1934-35; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1938-40.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, of complications from a stroke,
in Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Barnstable
County, Mass., November
18, 1969 (age 81 years, 73
days).
Interment at Holyhood
Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary Augusta (Hickey) Kennedy and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929); married, October
7, 1914, to Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (daughter of John
Francis Fitzgerald); father of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy Jr., John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (who married Jaqueline
Lee Bouvier), Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.), Patricia
Kennedy Lawford (who married Peter
Lawford), Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy; grandfather of Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend, Joseph
Patrick Kennedy II, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., Mark
Kennedy Shriver and Patrick
Joseph Kennedy (born 1967). |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Joseph P. Kennedy: Richard
J. Whalen, The
Founding Father : The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy, A Study in Power,
Wealth, and Family Ambition |
| | | Critical books about Joseph P. Kennedy:
Ronald Kessler, The
Sins of the Father : Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He
Founded — Ted Schwarz, Joseph
P. Kennedy : The Mogul, the Mob, the Statesman, and the Making of an
American Myth |
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Edward Langworthy (1808-1893) —
of Iowa.
Born in Rutland, Jefferson
County, N.Y., August
31, 1808.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; farmer; lead mining
business; steamboat owner; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Dubuque, Delaware,
Black Hawk and Fayette counties, 1844.
Died in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, January
4, 1893 (age 84 years, 126
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Roger Dearborn Lapham (1883-1966) —
also known as Roger D. Lapham —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1883.
President, American-Hawaiian Steamship Company; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1944-48.
Died April
16, 1966 (age 82 years, 131
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Grandfather of Lewis H. Lapham. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, July 15,
1946 |
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Wenceslao Y. Loaiza (1874-1921) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Born in Hermosillo, Sonora,
1874.
Maritime shipping business; Consul
for Argentina in San
Francisco, Calif., 1898-1900.
Catholic.
Mexican
ancestry.
Died in 1921
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Frank Lovell (1913-1998) —
also known as Frederick J. Lang —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Ipava, Fulton
County, Ill., July 24,
1913.
Socialist. Seaman; automobile
worker; candidate for mayor
of Detroit, Mich., 1953; Socialist Workers candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1954, 1958, 1964; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1960; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Michigan; Socialist Workers candidate for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County 4th
District, 1961; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1968.
Member, United
Auto Workers.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1998 (age 84 years, 281
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1949 to Sarah
Zucker. |
| | | Image source: The Militant, October 27,
1958 |
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David Parshall Mapes (1798-1890) —
also known as David P. Mapes —
of Roxbury, Delaware
County, N.Y.; Ripon, Fond du
Lac County, Wis.
Born in Coxsackie, Greene
County, N.Y., January
10, 1798.
Steamboat business; member of New York
state assembly from Delaware County, 1831; merchant;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Wisconsin.
Principal founder
of Ripon College, 1850.
Died in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., May 18,
1890 (age 92 years, 128
days).
Interment at Hillside Cemetery, Ripon, Wis.
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Relatives: Son
of Timothy Mapes and Hannah (Brown) Mapes; married, April
14, 1822, to Ruth Frisbee; married, January
26, 1855, to Mary C. Frisbee; married, November
9, 1864, to Emeline (Huntsinger) Wilson; married, September
15, 1883, to Augusta R. Miles; father of Fannie
Mapes (who married Otto
Christian Neuman); first cousin once removed of Jonas
Mapes; third cousin once removed of George
Hammond Parshall; third cousin thrice removed of Irving
Anthony Jennings and Renz
L. Jennings; fourth cousin once removed of David
Gardiner and Bertha
Mapes. |
| | | Mapes Hall (built 1959), at Ripon College,
Ripon,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "In grateful recognition of
David P, Mapes, for his vision and valuable services as pioneer,
founder, benefactor and promoter of the City of Ripon and its
College, the citizens of Ripon dedicate this marker." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John J. McLoughlin —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Dock builder;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 15th District, 1920-22.
Burial location unknown.
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William Lawrence Merry (1842-1911) —
also known as William L. Merry —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
December
27, 1842.
Steamship captain; wholesale
grocer; lawyer; Consul-General
for Nicaragua in San
Francisco, Calif., 1891-96; U.S. Minister to Salvador, 1897-1907; Nicaragua, 1897-1908; Costa Rica, 1897-1911.
Member, Freemasons.
Advocate of Nicaraguan Canal.
Died in Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., December
14, 1911 (age 68 years, 352
days).
Interment at St.
James the Less Cemetery, Scarsdale, N.Y.
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Edward Sloman Minor (1840-1924) —
also known as Edward S. Minor —
of Fish Creek, Door
County, Wis.; Sturgeon Bay, Door
County, Wis.
Born in Point Peninsula, Jefferson
County, N.Y., December
13, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; hardware
business; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1878, 1880-81; member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1883-85; superintendent of Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan Ship Canal, 1884-91; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1895-1907 (8th District 1895-1903,
9th District 1903-07); postmaster.
Died in Sturgeon Bay, Door
County, Wis., July 26,
1924 (age 83 years, 226
days).
Interment at Bayside
Cemetery, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
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Lewis Nixon (1861-1940) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., April 7,
1861.
Democrat. Naval
architect; designed battleships for the U.S. Navy; later,
proprietor of shipyards; president or owner of manufacturing
firms; leader of Tammany Hall in 1901-02; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1900,
1904,
1908,
1912
(member, Committee
to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee; speaker),
1920,
1924,
1932.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
23, 1940 (age 79 years, 169
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Leesburg, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Joel Lewis Nixon and Mary Jane (Turner) Nixon; married 1891 to Sally
Lewis Wood. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, February 1902 |
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John P. Nugent (b. 1879) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
21, 1879.
Democrat. Worked in shipbuilding; business
agent of his Railroad Iron Workers local; appraiser;
insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 13th District, 1922-29;
member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1930.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Charles O'Brien (1860-1927) —
also known as Edward C. O'Brien —
of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fort Edward, Washington
County, N.Y., April
20, 1860.
Republican. Flour commission
business; U.S. Commissioner of Navigation, 1889-93; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1892;
chairman, International Deep Waterways Convention in
Cleveland, Ohio, 1896; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1905-09; Uruguay, 1905-09.
Member, Union
League.
Died in Montevideo, Uruguay,
June
21, 1927 (age 67 years, 62
days).
Entombed at British Cemetery, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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John F. O'Brien —
of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y.; West Chazy, Clinton
County, N.Y.
Born in Fort Edward, Washington
County, N.Y.
Republican. Wholesale flour
business; partner in firm which controlled docks and
waterfront in Plattsburgh; member of New York
state assembly from Clinton County, 1901-02; secretary
of state of New York, 1903-06; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1909; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1920
(alternate), 1924.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James O'Brien. |
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Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. (1854-1926) —
also known as Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. —
of Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., January
14, 1854.
Republican. Ice
business; president, Newburgh Electric
Light Co.; treasurer, Central Hudson Steamboat Co.;
president Orange County Traction
Co.; banker;
member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1884-96; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1895-99; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1896,
1900,
1904,
1908,
1924;
New York
Republican state chair, 1898-1900, 1904-06; Governor of
New York, 1901-05; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
York.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., May 9,
1926 (age 72 years, 115
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, New Windsor, N.Y.
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Nathaniel Holmes Odell (1828-1904) —
also known as N. Holmes Odell —
of Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Greenburgh, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
10, 1828.
Democrat. Steamboat business; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1860-61; banker; Westchester
County Treasurer, 1867-75; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1875-77; real estate
business; postmaster at Tarrytown,
N.Y., 1887-92, 1894-98.
Died in Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
30, 1904 (age 76 years, 20
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Hermann Oelrichs (1850-1906) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., June 8,
1850.
Democrat. Steamship agent; banker;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1888.
German
ancestry.
Died, from liver
trouble, on
board the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, September
1, 1906 (age 56 years, 85
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Ferdinand Oelrichs and Julia Matilda (May) Oelrichs; married
1890 to
Theresa Alice 'Tessie' Fair (daughter of James
Graham Fair). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Washington Times,
September 4, 1906 |
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William Morrow Knox Olcott (b. 1862) —
also known as William M. K. Olcott —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
27, 1862.
Republican. Lawyer; New
York County District Attorney, 1896-98; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1904;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 18th District, 1915;
vice-president and director, Lawyers Engineering
and Surveying Co.; director, Mary Powell Steamboat Co.;
director, Everard Brewing
Co.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John N. Olcott and Euphemia Helen (Knox) Olcott; brother of Jacob
Van Vechten Olcott; married, December
6, 1888, to Jessica A. Baldwin. |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1897 |
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David S. Paige —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Proprietor of Paige's Hotel;
owner, Fort Leo Line of steamboats; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1872.
Shot
twice and injured on May 5, 1875, by Samuel Decker, an unemployed
bartender.
Burial location unknown.
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Will H. Parry (1864-1917) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 29,
1864.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; treasurer and manager, Moran
Shipbuilding Co., 1900-15; member, Federal Trade Commission,
1915-17; died in office 1917.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union
League.
Died, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., April
21, 1917 (age 52 years, 296
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William M. Parry and Elizabeth (Gillette) Parry; married, January
15, 1891, to Harriet Phelps. |
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Thomas Gedney Patten (1861-1939) —
also known as Thomas G. Patten —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
12, 1861.
Democrat. Real estate
business; president, New York and Long Branch Steamboat
Co.; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1911-17 (15th District 1911-13,
18th District 1913-17); defeated, 1916; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1917-21.
Died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
23, 1939 (age 77 years, 164
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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William Peartree (c.1643-1714) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born about 1643.
Planter;
privateer; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1703-07.
Died in Bergen, Bergen County (now part of Jersey City, Hudson
County), N.J., 1714
(age about
71 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John G. Peene (d. 1905) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Republican. Steamboat business; mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1894-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1896.
Died, of apoplexy,
as he supervised unloading of barges, in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
28, 1905.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. Joseph Peene. |
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Nathan Pendleton (1754-1841) —
of Westerly, Washington
County, R.I.; Stonington (part now in North Stonington), New London
County, Conn.; Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y.
Born in Westerly, Washington
County, R.I., April 2,
1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;
shipmaster; farmer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Stonington, 1802-07.
Died in Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., January
26, 1841 (age 86 years, 299
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Pendleton and Mary (Stanton) Pendleton; married, January
22, 1775, to Amelia Babcock; married, October
20, 1816, to Rhoda (Babcock) Gavitt; father of Nathan
Pendleton (1779-1827); grandfather of James
Monroe Pendleton; granduncle of Charles
Marsh Pendleton and Cyrus
Henry Pendleton; great-granduncle of Calvin
Crane Pendleton, Edward
Wheeler Pendleton, Joseph
Palmer Dyer, Charles
Henry Pendleton, Harris
Pendleton, Chauncey
C. Pendleton, Nathan
William Pendleton, James
Pendleton and Eckford
Gustavus Pendleton; second great-granduncle of Cornelius
Welles Pendleton and Claudius
Victor Pendleton; first cousin thrice removed of Enoch
C. Chapman. |
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family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Walter A. Post (1857-1912) —
of Newport
News, Va.
Born in New York, January
7, 1857.
Railroad
executive; shipbuilder; mayor
of Newport News, Va., 1896-98.
Died in Newport
News, Va., February
12, 1912 (age 55 years, 36
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Newport News, Va.
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Anthony Scotto (b. 1934) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in 1934.
Democrat. Longshoreman; vice-president,
International Longshoremen's Association; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1972;
member of the Gambino crime
family; charged
in 1979 on 44 counts of accepting
payoffs, evading
income taxes and racketeering; tried
and convicted
on 33 of the counts; sentenced
to five years in prison;
released in 1984.
Italian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2007.
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Relatives:
Married to Marion Anastasio. |
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Gideon Searles (c.1807-1882) —
of Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born about 1807.
Member of New York
state assembly from Cattaraugus County, 1846; canal
superintendent.
Arrested
in 1863, and charged
with attemping to bribe
Assemblyman Elias
M. Bostwick by offering him $500 to vote for the Broadway
Railroad bill.
While walking on the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia railroad
track, was struck and
killed by a train, near Franklinville, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., July 6,
1882 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Wilson Sprague (1817-1893) —
also known as John W. Sprague —
of Sandusky, Erie
County, Ohio; Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in White Creek, Washington
County, N.Y., April 4,
1817.
Erie
County Treasurer, 1851-52; steamboat business; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War; received the Medal
of Honor (posthumously, in 1894) for actions at Decatur, Georgia,
in 1862; railroad
executive; mayor of
Tacoma, Wash., 1883.
Died in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., December
27, 1893 (age 76 years, 267
days).
Interment at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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Carl Plin Taylor (1884-1968) —
also known as Carl P. Taylor —
of Casper, Natrona
County, Wyo.
Born in Rushford, Allegany
County, N.Y., January
2, 1884.
Worked on construction of the Panama Canal; steel construction
business; built many oil storage
tanks; candidate for mayor of
Casper, Wyo., 1939.
Died in Lynwood, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
25, 1968 (age 84 years, 23
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Roland Lyman Taylor and Marion (JacksoN) Taylor; married, November
29, 1905, to Mayme Alice Brokaw; married 1916 to Etta
L. Porter. |
| | | Image source: Casper (Wyoming)
Star-Tribune, September 27, 1939 |
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Adoptive son of James Taylor; son of Frank J. Barrett; married to
Josephine McCarthy. |
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Bloomfield Usher (1814-1893) —
of Potsdam, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.
Born in Herkimer, Herkimer
County, N.Y., 1814.
Hatter;
canal superintendent; banker;
member of New York
state senate 15th District, 1857.
Died in 1893
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Bayside
Cemetery, Potsdam, N.Y.
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Irving Charles Velson (1913-1976) —
also known as Irving C. Velson; Irving Charles
Shavelson; Charles Wilson; "Nick";
"Shavey" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 3,
1913.
Machinist;
boilermaker;
shipfitter; president,
Local 13, Shipbuilders Union; American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 11th District, 1938; served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II; in 1951 and 1953, he was brought to testify before
Congressional committees about his Communist and Soviet activities,
including efforts to infiltrate
the U.S. military with Soviet spies; he repeatedly refused to answer
questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination;
as a result, he was "barred for
life" by the Shipbuilders' union; later, served as international
representative for the (West Coast) International Longshoreman's
and Warehousemen's Union.
Venona Project documents (decrypted Soviet messages from the World
War II era), released in 1995, show that he was an agent
for Soviet military intelligence under the code name "Nick".
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
18, 1976 (age 62 years, 260
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in San Francisco Bay.
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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, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Frank Willis Wheeler (1853-1921) —
also known as Frank W. Wheeler —
of East Saginaw (now part of Saginaw), Saginaw
County, Mich.; West Bay City (now part of Bay City), Bay
County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Chaumont, Jefferson
County, N.Y., March 2,
1853.
Republican. Shipbuilder; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 10th District, 1889-91.
Died, from heart
disease, in Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich., August
9, 1921 (age 68 years, 160
days).
Interment at Elm
Lawn Cemetery, Bay City, Mich.
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William H. Wickham (1832-1893) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Smithtown, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 30,
1832.
Democrat. Ticket agent for a steamship company; diamond
dealer; president of New-York Fire Department, 1860; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1875-76; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1876.
Died, of heart
disease and Bright's
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
13, 1893 (age 60 years, 167
days).
Interment somewhere
in Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y.
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David Woodcock (1785-1835) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., 1785.
Democrat. Lawyer;
postmaster at Ithaca,
N.Y., 1809-21; member of New York
state assembly, 1814-15, 1826 (Seneca County 1814-15, Tompkins
County 1826); president, Cayuga Steamboat Company; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1821-23, 1827-29 (20th District
1821-23, 25th District 1827-29).
Died in Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y., September
18, 1835 (age about 50
years).
Interment at Ithaca
City Cemetery, Ithaca, N.Y.
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Joseph Washburn Yates (1826-1904) —
also known as Joseph W. Yates —
of Plainfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Bristol, Lincoln
County, Maine, January
30, 1826.
Democrat. Ship captain; importer
and exporter; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1871; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee); Consul
for Liberia in New
York, N.Y., 1881-97.
Died in Lake Minnewaska, Ulster
County, N.Y., July 29,
1904 (age 78 years, 181
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Scotch Plains, N.J.
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