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Willis John Abbot (1863-1934) —
also known as Willis J. Abbot; Willis J.
Abbott —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich.; Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., March
16, 1863.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; chairman of Henry
George's campaign for Mayor of New York City, 1898; director of
the Democratic National Press Bureau, 1900 and 1908; close friend and
spokesman of William
Jennings Bryan; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1903; editor, Christian Science
Monitor, 1922-27.
Christian
Scientist. Member, American
Economic Association.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 19,
1934 (age 71 years, 64
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Arthur Judson Abbott (1880-1958) —
also known as Arthur J. Abbott —
of Oneida, Madison
County, N.Y.
Born in Oneida, Madison
County, N.Y., March
30, 1880.
Democrat. School
teacher; newspaper editor; mayor of
Oneida, N.Y., 1924-25, 1928-29; candidate for New York
state assembly from Madison County, 1933.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Sons
of Union Veterans.
Died May 24,
1958 (age 78 years, 55
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Oneida, N.Y.
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Henry E. Abell (1837-1924) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Cornwall, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Schoharie
County, N.Y., June 25,
1837.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly, 1895, 1897 (Kings County 14th District 1895,
Kings County 12th District 1897); defeated, 1897; New York City
Police Commissioner, 1898-1901.
Died in Firthcliffe, Orange
County, N.Y., March
12, 1924 (age 86 years, 261
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Abernethy (1807-1877) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
7, 1807.
Governor
of Oregon Territory, 1845-49; newspaper publisher.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., March 2,
1877 (age 69 years, 146
days).
Original interment somewhere in Vancouver, Wash.; reinterment in 1883 at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Theodore Carter Achilles (1905-1986) —
also known as Theodore C. Achilles —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
29, 1905.
Newspaper work; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in
Havana, as of 1932; Rome, as of 1933; while serving as director of the State
Department's Division of Western European Affairs in 1947-49, was one
of the main architects of the North Atlantic Treaty, the founding
document of NationalO; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1956-60.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Suffered an embolism,
and died, in the Washington Hospital
Center, Washington,
D.C., April 8,
1986 (age 80 years, 100
days).
Entombed at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
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Edgar Lyman Adams (b. 1857) —
also known as Edgar L. Adams —
of Marathon, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Born in Marathon, Cortland
County, N.Y., April
27, 1857.
Democrat. Newspaper editor and publisher; banker;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1916.
Presbyterian.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lyman Adams and Ruth (Squires) Adams; married, May 13,
1879, to Ella V. Courtney. |
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Edward Le Grand Adams (1851-1928) —
also known as Edward L. Adams —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Clarence, Erie
County, N.Y., January
3, 1851.
Republican. Newspaper editor; oil
producer; New York State Tax Commissioner, 1895-98; U.S. Consul
General in Stockholm, 1902-09; U.S. Consul in Dublin, 1909-19; Sherbrooke, 1920-24.
Died in Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland,
October
2, 1928 (age 77 years, 273
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin T. Adams and Janet (Gibson) Adams; married, January
22, 1879, to Kate L. Atwater. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1919) |
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Francis Alexandre Adams (1874-1975) —
also known as Francis A. Adams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stuart, Martin
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1874.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper editor; author;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1908.
Episcopalian.
Member, Theta
Delta Chi.
Died in Stuart, Martin
County, Fla., September
24, 1975 (age 101 years,
136 days).
Interment at All Saints Cemetery, Jensen Beach, Fla.
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De Alva Stanwood Alexander (1846-1925) —
also known as De Alva S. Alexander —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Richmond, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, July 17,
1846.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
newspaper editor; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1872;
secretary
of Indiana Republican Party, 1874-78; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1889-93; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1897-1911 (33rd District 1897-1903,
36th District 1903-11); defeated, 1910.
Presbyterian.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., January
30, 1925 (age 78 years, 197
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Edward Lisle Allen (1868-1932) —
also known as Edward L. Allen —
of Jamestown, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Leicester, Livingston
County, N.Y., August
14, 1868.
Republican. Newspaper editor; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York.
Congregationalist
or Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Zeta; Grange.
Died in Bemus Point, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., October
30, 1932 (age 64 years, 77
days).
Interment at Bemus
Point Cemetery, Bemus Point, N.Y.
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Charles William Anderson (1866-1938) —
also known as Charles W. Anderson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Oxford, Butler
County, Ohio, April
28, 1866.
Republican. Newspaper work; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue
for the 2nd New York District, 1905-15; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920;
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 3rd New York District,
1922-34.
African
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1938 (age 71 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles Anderson and Serena Anderson; married 1896 to Emma
L. Bonaparte. |
| | | Image source: New York Tribune, March
26, 1905 |
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Henry Hersey Andrew (b. 1858) —
also known as Henry H. Andrew —
of Union, Monroe
County, W.Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Asbury Park, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; lawyer;
candidate for West
Virginia state senate 8th District, 1898.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial location unknown.
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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. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Smith Dykins Atkins (1835-1913) —
also known as Smith D. Atkins —
of Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill.
Born in Horseheads, Chemung
County, N.Y., June 9,
1835.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War;
newspaper editor; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Illinois, 1896;
postmaster at Freeport,
Ill., 1901.
Died in Freeport, Stephenson
County, Ill., March
27, 1913 (age 77 years, 291
days).
Interment at Freeport City Cemetery, Freeport, Ill.
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Harry L. Averill (b. 1875) —
of Palmyra, Wayne
County, N.Y.
Born in Palmyra, Wayne
County, N.Y., 1875.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly from Wayne County, 1932-40.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward S. Averill. |
| | | Image source: New York Red Book
1936 |
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Benjamin Parke Avery (1828-1875) —
also known as Benjamin P. Avery —
of California.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
11, 1828.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; newspaper editor;
U.S. Minister to China, 1874-75, died in office 1875.
Died, of kidney
disease, in Peking (Beijing), China,
November
8, 1875 (age 46 years, 362
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Carlos Avery (1868-1930) —
of Hutchinson, McLeod
County, Minn.; Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Minooka, Grundy
County, Ill., January
25, 1868.
Democrat. Newspaper editor and publisher; naturalist;
Minnesota Fish and Game Commissioner; candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1924.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
4, 1930 (age 62 years, 252
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Hutchinson, Minn.
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Louis Henri Aymé (1855-1912) —
also known as Louis H. Aymé —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1855.
Republican. Ethnologist;
newspaper correspondent; U.S. Consul in Mérida, 1880-84; Guadeloupe, 1898-99; Pará, 1903-06; U.S. Consul General in Lisbon, 1906-12, died in office 1912.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Sons
of Veterans; American
Antiquarian Society; American
Society for International Law.
Died, from "locomotor ataxia" (presumably syphilis),
in Lisbon, Portugal,
May
16, 1912 (age 56 years, 353
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Steven Beckwith Ayres (1861-1929) —
also known as Steven B. Ayres —
of New York.
Born in Fort Dodge, Webster
County, Iowa, October
27, 1861.
Newspaper editor; real estate
business; advertising
business; U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1911-13; defeated
(Progressive), 1914.
Member, Psi
Upsilon.
Died, in Park West Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 1,
1929 (age 67 years, 217
days).
Interment at Clearwater
Municipal Cemetery, Clearwater, Fla.
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Norman Bailey (1822-1896) —
of Hastings, Barry
County, Mich.
Born in Cayuga
County, N.Y., January
1, 1822.
Republican. Merchant;
newspaper editor; member of Michigan
state senate 21st District, 1861-62.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died in Hastings, Barry
County, Mich., February
15, 1896 (age 74 years, 45
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hastings, Mich.
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Joseph Clark Baldwin III (1897-1957) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
11, 1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
reporter; insurance
business; member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1935-36; defeated, 1936; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 17th District, 1938;
U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1941-47; defeated
(American Labor), 1946.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, in the Veterans Administration Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1957 (age 60 years, 289
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Ogunquit, Wells, York
County, Maine.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 27,
1862.
Democrat. Magazine editor; author; playwright;
candidate for mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1894; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921.
Died, from intestinal
cancer, in City Hospital,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., January
21, 1922 (age 59 years, 239
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis N. Bangs and Amelia Francis (Bull) Bangs; married, March 3,
1886, to Agnes Lawson Hyde; married, April
27, 1904, to Mary Blakeney Gray. |
| | | Image source: American Review of
Reviews, March 1922 |
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Francis Channing Barlow (1834-1896) —
also known as Francis C. Barlow; "The Boy
General" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
19, 1834.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; secretary
of state of New York, 1866-67; New York
state attorney general, 1872-73.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from "the grip" (influenza),
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
11, 1896 (age 61 years, 84
days).
Interment at Walnut
Street Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
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William Barnes Jr. (1866-1930) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Armonk, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
17, 1866.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1892-1914; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1896,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1920
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1899-1911;
New York
Republican state chair, 1911-14; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1912-16; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 28th District, 1915.
When Theodore
Roosevelt contended, in 1914, that Barnes was a crooked boss of
the Republican Machine, in league with the Democratic Machine, he
sued the former president for libel, and lost.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Armonk, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 25,
1930 (age 63 years, 220
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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John T. Barnett (b. 1869) —
of Silverton, San Juan
County, Colo.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Ouray
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Potsdam, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., June 22,
1869.
Democrat. School
principal; newspaper editor; lawyer; Ouray
County Attorney, 1898-1910; Colorado
state attorney general, 1909-10; secretary of
Colorado Democratic Party, 1912-16; member of Democratic
National Committee from Colorado, 1913-20.
Catholic.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Barnett and Katherine Barnett; married, January
24, 1906, to Sue Sayre Nash; married, March 7,
1917, to Myrtle Louise Emily Schlessiner. |
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John Barrett (1866-1938) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Grafton, Windham
County, Vt.; Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Grafton, Windham
County, Vt., November
28, 1866.
Newspaper correspondent; newspaper editor; U.S.
Minister to Siam, 1894-98; Argentina, 1903-04; Panama, 1904-05; Colombia, 1905-06; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, as of 1894-98; director general, Pan American Union,
1907-20.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in a hospital
at Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham
County, Vt., October
17, 1938 (age 71 years, 323
days).
Interment at Grafton
Village Cemetery, Grafton, Vt.
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Bruce Barton (1886-1967) —
also known as "Advertiser"; "The Advertising
King"; "The Great Repealer" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Robbins, Scott
County, Tenn., August
5, 1886.
Republican. Author;
newspaper editor; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1937-41; derided by
Franklin
Roosevelt as one of "Martin, Barton, and Fish", three Republican
opponents of his New Deal policies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1940; a founder of the Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn (BBDO) advertising
agency.
Congregationalist.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1967 (age 80 years, 334
days).
Interment at Rock
Hill Cemetery, Foxboro, Mass.
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Rudolph Bauer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Cleaning
and dyeing business; director, Bensonhurst National Bank;
publisher, West End News; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 16th District, 1934; defeated
(City Fusion), 1934.
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Willard Beakes (1861-1927) —
also known as Samuel W. Beakes —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Burlingham, Sullivan
County, N.Y., January
11, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
private secretary to Judge Thomas
M. Cooley; newspaper editor and publisher; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1888-90; postmaster at Ann
Arbor, Mich., 1894-98; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1913-17, 1917-19;
defeated, 1916, 1918; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1916.
Episcopalian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
9, 1927 (age 66 years, 29
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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George Monroe Beebe (1836-1927) —
also known as George M. Beebe —
of Troy, Doniphan
County, Kan.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Monticello, Sullivan
County, N.Y.; Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y.
Born in New Vernon, Orange
County, N.Y., October
28, 1836.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; secretary
of Kansas Territory, 1860-61; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1860, 1860-61; candidate for justice of
Nevada state supreme court, 1865; candidate for New York
state senate 10th District, 1871; member of New York
state assembly from Sullivan County, 1873-74; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1875-79; defeated,
1878; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1876,
1880
(speaker),
1892;
Judge of New York Court of Claims, 1883-1900.
Died in Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y., March 1,
1927 (age 90 years, 124
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, New Windsor, N.Y.
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George C. Bennett —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 8th District, 1872, 1874;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1874; Brooklyn
Commissioner of City Works; indicted,
along with John
W. Flaherty, in December 1878, for conspiracy to defraud
the city of $50,000; tried in
1879 and convicted;
fined
$250; the conviction was reversed on appeal; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1884.
Burial location unknown.
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Allan Louis Benson (1871-1940) —
also known as Allan L. Benson —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Plainwell, Allegan
County, Mich., November
6, 1871.
Socialist. Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 24th District, 1912, 1914; candidate
for President
of the United States, 1916.
Resigned from the Socialist Party in 1918 over its non-support of
American participation in World War I.
Died, of coronary
thrombosis, in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
19, 1940 (age 68 years, 287
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Paul Berenberg (1890-1974) —
also known as David P. Berenberg; David
Paul —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Bethlehem, Northampton
County, Pa.
Born March
17, 1890.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state assembly, 1918 (Kings County 2nd District), 1923 (Kings
County 10th District); candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1922.
Columnist
for "The Socialist Call" newspaper in 1935, under the
pseudonym "David Paul".
Died March 7,
1974 (age 83 years, 355
days).
Interment somewhere
in Easton, Pa.
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Relatives:
Married to Rose Zwickel. |
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Herman Bernstein (1876-1935) —
Born in Russia,
September
21, 1876.
Author;
translator;
journalist; founder and editor of The Day, Jewish daily
newspaper; published the "Willy-Nicky Correspondence," secret
telegrams between the Kaiser and the Czar, 1918; sued Henry
Ford for libel over anti-Semitic statements published in the
Dearborn Independent newspaper, and won a retraction; author of book
The History of a Lie (1921) which exposed "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion" as fraudulent; U.S. Minister to Albania, 1930-33.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Zionist
Organization of America.
Died in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., August
31, 1935 (age 58 years, 344
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Berri (1848-1917) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
12, 1848.
Republican. Carpet
merchant; printing
business; newspaper publisher; officer or director of banks, electric
utilities, and the New York Telephone
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1908,
1912,
1916;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
member, New York State Board of Regents, 1916-17.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League.
In 1911, he was arraigned
on a charge
of criminal
libel over an article he published in his newspaper, brought by
three candidates for Supreme Court, Herbert
T. Ketcham, Patrick
E. Callahan, and William
Willett, Jr.; the case was withdrawn a few days later when the
other two candidates discovered that Willett had indeed (as Berri
charged) paid bribes for his nomination.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
19, 1917 (age 68 years, 219
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Berri ; married 1869 to
Frances Williams Morris. |
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Charles H. Betts (b. 1863) —
of Lyons, Wayne
County, N.Y.
Born in Wolcott town, Wayne
County, N.Y., April
14, 1863.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; member of New York
Republican State Committee, 1904-18; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 42nd District, 1915;
member of New York
state assembly from Wayne County, 1920-22; postmaster at Lyons,
N.Y., 1928.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Bennet Bicknell (1781-1841) —
of Madison
County, N.Y.
Born in Mansfield, Tolland
County, Conn., November
14, 1781.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly from Madison County, 1811-12; member of New York
state senate Western District, 1814-18; Madison
County Clerk, 1821-25; U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1837-39.
Died in Morrisville, Madison
County, N.Y., September
15, 1841 (age 59 years, 305
days).
Interment at Morrisville
Rural Cemetery, Morrisville, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Huldah (Field) Bicknell and Moses Bicknell; married, April
28, 1802, to Lucinda Crane; grandfather of Herschel
Harrison Hatch; second cousin once removed of Simeon
W. Spafard; third cousin once removed of Ira
Sherwin Hazeltine; third cousin twice removed of David
Thayer Bunker; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Ingersoll, Jared
Ingersoll, Walter
Samuel Hine, Frank
Clark Woodruff, Watson
Stiles Woodruff and John
Brown Judson Jr.; fourth cousin of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869); fourth cousin once removed of Willard
J. Chapin, Ira A.
Locke, William
Pitt Fessenden, Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden, Joseph
Palmer Fessenden, Alvred
Bayard Nettleton, Oscar
Sherman Gifford and Everett
Chamberlin Benton. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Benjamin Alden Bidlack (1804-1849) —
also known as Benjamin A. Bidlack —
of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa.; Milford, Pike
County, Pa.
Born in Paris, Oneida
County, N.Y., September
8, 1804.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; Pike
County Treasurer, 1834; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1835-36; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1841-45 (15th District 1841-43,
11th District 1843-45); U.S. Charge d'Affaires to New Grenada, 1845-49, died in office 1849.
Died in Bogotá, Colombia,
February
6, 1849 (age 44 years, 151
days).
Interment at English
Cemetery, Bogota, Colombia.
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John Bigelow (1817-1911) —
of Highland Falls, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Malden, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
25, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; author;
U.S. Consul in Paris, 1861-64; U.S. Minister to France, 1865-66; secretary
of state of New York, 1876-77; executor of the estate of Samuel
J. Tilden.
Swedenborgian.
English
ancestry.
Died, from a bladder
ailment, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
19, 1911 (age 94 years, 24
days).
Interment at Peacedale
Cemetery, Highland Falls, N.Y.
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Alfred Mitchell Bingham (1905-1998) —
also known as Alfred M. Bingham —
of Salem, New London
County, Conn.; Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
20, 1905.
Democrat. Magazine editor; lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state senate 29th District, 1941-42; major in the U.S. Army
during World War II; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Connecticut, 1952;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1952.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y., November
2, 1998 (age 93 years, 255
days).
Interment at Woodbridge Cemetery, Salem, Conn.
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Frank Swett Black (1853-1913) —
also known as Frank S. Black —
of Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.
Born near Limington, York
County, Maine, March 8,
1853.
Republican. Newspaper editor; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1895-97; resigned
1897; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1896,
1900,
1904;
Governor
of New York, 1897-99.
Died in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., March
22, 1913 (age 60 years, 14
days).
Cremated.
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Burton T. Bliss —
of Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Republican. Newspaper editor; candidate for mayor
of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1949.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Esterita Blumberg (1928-2004) —
also known as Cissie Blumberg; Esterita
Rosenberg —
of Glen Wild, Sullivan
County, N.Y.; Liberty, Sullivan
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 8,
1928.
Hotel-keeper;
newspaper columnist;
American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 34th District, 1952.
Female.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Liberty, Sullivan
County, N.Y., September
3, 2004 (age 76 years, 179
days).
Interment at Workmen's Circle Cemetery, Glen Wild, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Elmer
Rosenberg and Rose (Braverman) Rosenberg; married to Larry
Blumberg. |
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Nicanor Bolet=Peraza (1838-1906) —
of Caracas, Venezuela;
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela,
June
4, 1838.
Writer;
newspaper publisher; Venezuela Minister to the United States,
1888-91, 1899; Consul-General
for Salvador in New
York, N.Y., 1895-96; Consul-General
for Central America in New
York, N.Y., 1897-98; Consul-General
for Honduras in New
York, N.Y., 1899-1902.
Spanish
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
25, 1906 (age 67 years, 294
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
| | |
See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Fort Worth (Tex.) Daily
Gazette, April 6, 1890 |
|
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Stephen Bolles (1866-1941) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio; Erie, Erie
County, Pa.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.; Janesville, Rock
County, Wis.
Born in Springboro, Crawford
County, Pa., June 25,
1866.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; newspaper editor and
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Wisconsin, 1928;
member of Wisconsin
Republican State Central Committee, 1936; U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 1st District, 1939-41; died in
office 1941.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Kiwanis;
Grange.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 8,
1941 (age 75 years, 13
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wis.
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Gail Borden Jr. (1801-1874) —
Born in Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., November
9, 1801.
School
teacher; surveyor;
delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833;
newspaper publisher; Collector of Customs at Galveston for the
Texas Republic, 1837-38 and 1841-43; in 1849, he invented
a dehydrated beef product called a "meat biscuit", but it failed
commercially; in 1853, he invented
a process to make sweetened condensed
milk, which could be transported without refrigeration, and
developed sanitation practices to to prevent contamination.
Died in Borden, Colorado
County, Tex., January
11, 1874 (age 72 years, 63
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Henry Chandler Bowen (1813-1896) —
also known as Henry C. Bowen —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., September
11, 1813.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; abolitionist; newspaper editor and publisher; insurance
business; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 3rd New York
District, 1862-66; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1872.
Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
24, 1896 (age 82 years, 166
days).
Interment at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Conn.
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Claude Gernade Bowers (1878-1958) —
also known as Claude G. Bowers —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Westfield, Hamilton
County, Ind., November
20, 1878.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1904, 1906; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1908;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928,
1932;
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1933-39; Chile, 1939-53.
Died of leukemia
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
21, 1958 (age 79 years, 62
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Thomas Jefferson Boynton (1838-1871) —
also known as Thomas J. Boynton —
of St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo.
Born in Amherst, Lorain
County, Ohio, August
31, 1838.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, 1861-63; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1864-70;
resigned 1870.
Died, in Bellevue Hospital,
New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 2,
1871 (age 32 years, 244
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Orlo Marion Brees (1896-1980) —
also known as Orlo M. Brees —
of Endicott, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Canton, Fulton
County, Ill., April
13, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
editor; printing
business; author; lecturer;
poet;
member of New York
state assembly from Broome County 2nd District, 1941-52; member
of New
York state senate 45th District, 1952.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in November, 1980
(age 84
years, 0 days).
Interment somewhere
in Peoria, Ill.
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Relatives:
Married 1933 to
Frances W. Freeman. |
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George Breitman (1916-1986) —
also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester
Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G.
Sloane —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
28, 1916.
Socialist. Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; arrested
about 1936 and charged
with inciting
riots; jailed
for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;
member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1954;
editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper, The Militant,
1941-43, 1946-54; writer
under several different pen names; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New Jersey; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Member, International
Typographical Union.
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Beekman Downtown Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1986 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman; married 1940 to
Dorothea Katz. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Beman Brockway (1815-1892) —
of Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y.; Pulaski, Oswego
County, N.Y.; Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y.
Born in Southampton, Hampshire
County, Mass., April
12, 1815.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly from Oswego County 3rd District, 1859; Liberal
Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1872.
Died in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., December
16, 1892 (age 77 years, 248
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Watertown, N.Y.
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Charles F. Brooks —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly, 1901-02, 1904-05, 1907 (Erie County 5th District
1901-02, 1904-05, Erie County 3rd District 1907).
Burial location unknown.
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James Brooks (1810-1873) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, November
10, 1810.
Democrat. Newspaper publisher; member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1835; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 16th District, 1848; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1849-53, 1863-66, 1867-73 (6th
District 1849-53, 8th District 1863-66, 1867-73, 6th District 1873);
died in office 1873; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867.
Censured
by the House in 1873 for his role in the Credit Mobilier bribery
scandal.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
30, 1873 (age 62 years, 171
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Heywood Campbell Broun (1888-1939) —
also known as Heywood Broun —
of New York; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Socialist. Sportswriter;
columnist
for New York newspapers;; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1930; founder of
the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 and its first president;
expelled from Socialist Party in 1933.
Catholic.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
18, 1939 (age 51 years, 11
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Beriah Brown (1815-1900) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y., February
23, 1815.
Democrat. Newspaper publisher; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Wisconsin; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin, 1857; mayor
of Seattle, Wash., 1878-79.
Died in Anaconda, Deer Lodge
County, Mont., February
8, 1900 (age 84 years, 350
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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William Lee Brown (d. 1906) —
also known as William L. Brown —
of Montana; Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio,
1872,
1876;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1875; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1884;
member of New York
state senate 5th District, 1890-93; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1894; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Died in Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, Mass., December
13, 1906.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Henrietta Jeffries. |
| | | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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Sandford Hunt Brownlee (d. 1929) —
Newspaper correspondent; member of Utah
state house of representatives, 1900.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y., April 6,
1929.
Burial location unknown.
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William Washington Brunswick (b. 1872) —
also known as William W. Brunswick —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
17, 1872.
School
teacher; newspaper reporter; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in
Barmen, 1907-09; Chemnitz, 1909-11; St. Etienne, as of 1914; U.S. Consul in La Rochelle, as of 1919-24; Niagara Falls, as of 1926-27; Barbados, as of 1929; Lisbon, as of 1932.
Burial location unknown.
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Harlan Willis Brush (1865-1942) —
also known as Harlan W. Brush —
of Alliance, Stark
County, Ohio; North Tonawanda, Niagara
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Daytona Beach, Volusia
County, Fla.
Born in Nelson, Portage
County, Ohio, May 27,
1865.
Newspaper publisher; U.S. Consul in Clifton, 1897-98; Niagara Falls, 1902-03; Milan, as of 1904-05.
Died in Daytona Beach, Volusia
County, Fla., December
24, 1942 (age 77 years, 211
days).
Interment at Emlenton Cemetery, Emlenton, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of James A. Brush and Amelia (McCall) Brush; married to Annette
Hamilton. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Cullen Bryant (1849-1905) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
1, 1849.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; Brooklyn Fire
Commissioner, 1896-97; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1900.
Episcopalian.
Member, Union
League.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Dr. Cooley's Sanitarium,
Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., February
15, 1905 (age 55 years, 198
days).
Interment at Cypress
Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Lloyd Stephens Bryce (1851-1917) —
also known as Lloyd Bryce —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., September
20, 1851.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1887-89; defeated
(County Democratic), 1888; editor, North American Review
magazine, 1889-96; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1911-13; Luxembourg, 1911-13.
Died in Mineola, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 2,
1917 (age 65 years, 194
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Frank Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) —
also known as William F. Buckley, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1925.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1965.
Catholic.
Irish
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, Skull
and Bones.
Leader of the conservative movement; founder and editor of
National Review magazine; author and
lecturer; host of television
news show "Firing Line"; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on November 18, 1991.
Died, probably of diabetes
and emphysema,
in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
27, 2008 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St. Bernard Cemetery, Sharon, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Frank Buckley, Sr. and Aloise (Steiner) Buckley; brother
of James
Lane Buckley and Patricia Lee Buckley (who married Leo
Brent Bozell); married 1950 to
Patricia Alden Austin Taylor. |
| | | Political family: Buckley
family of New York and Connecticut. |
| | | Cross-reference: Frederic
R. Coudert, Jr. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Getting
It Right (2003) — God
and Man at Yale : The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
(1951) — Spytime
: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000) — Nearer,
My God : An Autobiography of Faith (1997) — The
Lexicon : A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word
Lover (1998) — Airborne
: A Sentimental Journey (1984) — In
Search of Anti-Semitism (1992) — Brothers
No More (1995) — Up
From Liberalism (1959) — The
Committee and its critics : a calm review of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (1962) — Elvis
in the Morning (2001) — Execution
eve, and other contemporary ballads (1975) — Four
reforms : a guide for the seventies (1973) — Gratitude
: reflections on what we owe to our country (1990) —
Nuremberg
: the reckoning (2002) — Overdrive
: a personal documentary (1983) — United
Nations Journal : A Delegate's Odyssey (1974) — The
unmaking of a mayor (1966) — Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero (2001) — The
Reagan I Knew (2008) |
| | | Fiction by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Stained
Glass : A Blackford Oakes Novel — Marco
Polo, If You Can : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Saving
the Queen : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — See
You Later, Alligator : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Tucker's
Last Stand : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Mongoose,
R.I.P. : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — A
Very Private Plot : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — High
Jinx : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Who's
on First : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — The
Redhunter : a novel based on the life of Senator Joe
McCarthy |
| | | Books about William F. Buckley, Jr.:
John B. Judis, William
F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives —
Lee Edwards, William
F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement — Carl T.
Bogus, Buckley:
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American
Conservatism |
| | | Critical books about William F. Buckley,
Jr.: David Miller, Chairman
Bill: A Biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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Frank Noyes Burdick (1839-1917) —
also known as F. N. Burdick —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Vermillion, Clay
County, S.Dak.; East Guilford, Guilford, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Guilford, Windham
County, Vt., September
14, 1839.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; physician;
newspaper editor; member
Dakota territorial council, 1883-84.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, from arteriosclerosis
and interstitial
nephritis, in Guilford, Windham
County, Vt., February
22, 1917 (age 77 years, 161
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Manhasset, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Thompson Edwin Burdick and Elizabeth 'Betsy' (Noyes) Burdick;
married, September
2, 1862, to Amelia Bowker; married to Nina Davis. |
| | | Epitaph: "Physician and
Friend." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Vivian Burnett (1876-1937) —
of Denver,
Colo.; Plandome Manor, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Paris, France,
April
5, 1876.
Newspaper reporter; author; editor; music
composer; Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Christian
Scientist.
Model for the title character in his mother's book, Little Lord
Fauntleroy.
While sailing his
yawl, Delight III, he helped rescue people from an
overturned sailboat, and then collapsed and died, probably of a heart
attack, on Long Island
Sound, July 25,
1937 (age 61 years, 111
days).
Interment at Roslyn
Cemetery, Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y.
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Edward Hubert Butler (1850-1914) —
also known as Edward H. Butler —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Le Roy, Genesee
County, N.Y., September
5, 1850.
Republican. Newspaper editor; candidate for Presidential
Elector for New York; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New York, 1908.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., March 9,
1914 (age 63 years, 185
days).
Interment at Forty
Fort Cemetery, Forty Fort, Pa.
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Edward Hubert Butler (1883-1956) —
also known as Edward H. Butler —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., June 19,
1883.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1916
(alternate), 1920,
1924
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1940,
1944,
1948;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; established radio and
television stations in Buffalo.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., February
19, 1956 (age 72 years, 245
days).
Entombed at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Daniel Evan Button (1917-2009) —
also known as Daniel E. Button —
of New York.
Born in Dunkirk, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., November
1, 1917.
Republican. Newspaper editor; writer; U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1967-71; defeated,
1970.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., March 7,
2009 (age 91 years, 126
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Aaron Homer Byington (c.1825-1910) —
also known as A. Homer Byington —
of Norwalk, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born about 1825.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of Connecticut
state senate 12th District, 1861-62; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Connecticut, 1868
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1880
(alternate); U.S. Consul in Naples, 1897-1907.
Died in Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., December
29, 1910 (age about 85
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Orestes Hampton Caldwell (b. 1888) —
also known as Orestes H. Caldwell —
of New York; Cos Cob, Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., 1888.
Electrical
engineer;
editor of trade journals in radio and
electronics;
member, Federal Radio Commission, 1927-29; resigned 1929.
Burial location unknown.
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Róger Calero (b. 1969) —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Nicaragua,
1969.
Socialist. Not U.S. citizen; meat packer;
journalist; convicted
of sale
of marijuana, 1988; arrested
in 2002, at the Houston airport, while returning from Cuba, and jailed,
while deportation
proceedings were started, but released in 2003; Socialist Workers
candidate for President
of the United States, 2004, 2008; Socialist Workers candidate for
U.S.
Senator from New York, 2006; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 2010.
Nicaraguan
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Gordon Canfield (1898-1972) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born in Salamanca, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., April
15, 1898.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
reporter; secretary to U.S. Rep. George
N. Seger, 1923-40; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 8th District, 1941-61.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
American
Legion.
Died in Hawthorne, Passaic
County, N.J., June 20,
1972 (age 74 years, 66
days).
Interment at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Totowa, N.J.
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Jacob Aaron Cantor (1854-1921) —
also known as Jacob A. Cantor —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
6, 1854.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1884,
1888;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 23rd District, 1885-87;
member of New York
state senate, 1888-98 (10th District 1888-93, 14th District
1894-95, 20th District 1896-98); borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1902-03; U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1913-15; defeated,
1894 (15th District), 1914 (20th District); president, New York City
Department of Taxes and Assessments, 1918-21.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 2,
1921 (age 66 years, 208
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
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Chester Clark Chatfield (1821-1857) —
also known as Chester C. Chatfield —
of Eaton Rapids, Eaton
County, Mich.
Born in New York, June 3,
1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; Eaton
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1850-52; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Eaton County, 1855; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1856.
Died in Eaton Rapids, Eaton
County, Mich., March
28, 1857 (age 35 years, 298
days).
Original interment at Old Cemetery, Eaton Rapids, Mich.; reinterment in 1874 at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
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W. E. Chilton III (1921-1987) —
also known as W. E. 'Ned' Chilton —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
26, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1948,
1960;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Kanawha County, 1953-60.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks; Chi Phi.
Publisher of the Charleston Gazette newspaper, 1961-87.
Died in 1987
(age about
65 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Isaac Peckham Christiancy (1812-1890) —
also known as Isaac P. Christiancy —
of Monroe, Monroe
County, Mich.; Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born near Johnstown, Fulton
County, N.Y., March
12, 1812.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; Monroe
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1841-46; member of Michigan
state senate 3rd District, 1850-52; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1852; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1856
(member, Platform
Committee); justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1858-75; resigned 1875; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1872-73; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1875-79; resigned 1875; U.S. Minister to
Peru, 1879-81.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., September
8, 1890 (age 78 years, 180
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Monroe, Mich.
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James S. Clarkson (1842-1918) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., May 17,
1842.
Republican. Newspaper editor; railroad
builder; Iowa
Republican state chair, 1869-71; postmaster at Des
Moines, Iowa, 1871-79; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Iowa, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1880-96; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1891-92; First Assistant U.S.
Postmaster General, 1889-90; U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1902-10.
Assisted more than 500 escaping slaves en route to Canada via the
"underground railroad," 1856-62.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., May 31,
1918 (age 76 years, 14
days).
Interment somewhere
in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Stafford Canning Cleveland (1822-1885) —
also known as Stafford C. Cleveland —
of Penn Yan, Yates
County, N.Y.; Fort Myers, Lee
County, Fla.
Born in Hector, Tompkins County (now Schuyler
County), N.Y., September
21, 1822.
Republican. Newspaper editor; village
president of Penn Yan, New York, 1865-66; candidate for New York
state senate 26th District, 1871; postmaster at Penn
Yan, N.Y., 1879-82; member of New York
state assembly from Yates County, 1883.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Fort Myers, Lee
County, Fla., December
3, 1885 (age 63 years, 73
days).
Interment somewhere in Lee County, Fla.; cenotaph at West
Lodi Cemetery, Lodi, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of E. R. Cleveland and Mary Mead 'Polly' (Hanley) Cleveland; married,
August
19, 1847, to Obedience Fraser; first cousin twice removed of Grover
Fredrick Cleveland; second cousin twice removed of Ephraim
Safford; third cousin once removed of Chauncey
Fitch Cleveland and James
Safford; third cousin twice removed of Isaiah
Kidder; third cousin thrice removed of Lyman
Kidder, Ezra
Kidder and David
Kidder; fourth cousin of William
Dean Kellogg and Robert
Crawford Safford; fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan
Usher, Jedediah
Sabin, Caleb
Blodgett, Charles
Stetson, Luther
Kidder and Isaiah
Stetson. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Penn Yan (N.Y.)
Chronicle-Express, December 15, 1885 |
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John W. Clift (b. 1856) —
of Summit, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., December
5, 1856.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Union County, 1922-28.
Burial location unknown.
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Washington Cockle (1811-1886) —
of Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 2,
1811.
Lawyer;
banker;
newspaper editor; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1846-47; postmaster at Peoria,
Ill., 1847-49, 1880-85.
Died in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., July 15,
1886 (age 75 years, 74
days).
Interment at Springdale
Cemetery, Peoria, Ill.
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Norman Jay Colman (1827-1911) —
also known as Norman J. Colman —
of New Albany, Floyd
County, Ind.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Richfield Springs, Otsego
County, N.Y., May 16,
1827.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; Lieutenant
Governor of Missouri, 1875-77; defeated, 1868; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1889.
Member, Freemasons.
Editor and publisher of an agricultural newspaper.
Died, of apoplexy,
in St.
Louis, Mo., November
3, 1911 (age 84 years, 171
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Hamilton Colman and Nancy (Sprague) Colman; married 1851 to Clara
Porter; married 1866 to
Catherine 'Kate' Wright. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: Life and Work of James G.
Blaine (1893) |
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Addison Beecher Colvin (1858-1939) —
also known as Addison B. Colvin —
of Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., December
15, 1858.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; New York
state treasurer, 1894-98; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1896.
Presbyterian.
Died, from liver
cancer, in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., June 21,
1939 (age 80 years, 188
days).
Interment at Pineview
Cemetery, Glens Falls, N.Y.
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Charles Arthur Conant (1861-1915) —
also known as Charles A. Conant —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass., July 2,
1861.
Democrat. Candidate for Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1886; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1894; delegate to
Gold Democrat National Convention from Massachusetts, 1896;
journalist; author; economist;
set up the currency system in the Philippine Islands; director of the
Manila Railroad
and the National Bank of
Nicaragua; treasurer of Morton Trust
Company of New York.
Member, American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, from stomach
cancer, in Havana (La Habana), Cuba,
July
5, 1915 (age 54 years, 3
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Charles E. Conant and Mary Crawford (Wallace)
Conant. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1908 |
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Harmon Sweatland Conger (1816-1882) —
of Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y.; Janesville, Rock
County, Wis.
Born in Freeport, Cortland
County, N.Y., April 9,
1816.
Whig. Newspaper editor and publisher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 25th District, 1847-51; circuit
judge in Wisconsin 12th Circuit, 1871-82; died in office 1882.
Died in Janesville, Rock
County, Wis., October
22, 1882 (age 66 years, 196
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wis.
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Sylvester Jones Conklin (b. 1829) —
also known as S. J. Conklin —
of Waterloo, Jefferson
County, Wis.; Watertown, Codington
County, Dakota Territory (now S.Dak.).
Born in Penn Yan, Yates
County, N.Y., May 5,
1829.
Republican. Shoemaker;
member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1859, 1869; served in the Union Army during the
Civil War; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Wisconsin, 1868;
newspaper publisher; Adjutant
General of South Dakota, 1901-03.
Dutch,
Welsh,
and French
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1848 to Maria
Wait; married 1884 to Mattie
Greenslate; married 1895 to Anna
Duff. |
| | | Image source: South Dakota Legislative
Manual, 1903 |
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Richard Edward Connell (1857-1912) —
also known as Richard E. Connell —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., November
6, 1857.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; candidate for New York
state assembly, 1898; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1904;
U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1911-12; defeated,
1896; died in office 1912.
Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y., October
30, 1912 (age 54 years, 359
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
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Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824-1898) —
also known as Thomas M. Cooley —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.; Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Attica, Wyoming
County, N.Y., January
6, 1824.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; law partner of Charles
M. Croswell, 1855; reporter, Michigan Supreme Court, 1857-64; law
professor; justice of
Michigan state supreme court, 1865-85; chief
justice of Michigan state supreme court, 1868-69, 1876-77,
1884-85; member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887-92.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., September
12, 1898 (age 74 years, 249
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Datus Ensign Coon (1831-1893) —
also known as Datus E. Coon —
of Osage, Mitchell
County, Iowa; Mason City, Cerro
Gordo County, Iowa; Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.; San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in DeRuyter, Madison
County, N.Y., February
20, 1831.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; delegate
to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1868; member of Alabama
state senate, 1870; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1870; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Alabama, 1872;
U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Baracoa, 1879-85.
Accidentally
shot,
and died soon after, in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., December
17, 1893 (age 62 years, 300
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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Edward Corsi (1896-1965) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Abruzzi, Italy,
December
29, 1896.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; lawyer;
candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 20th District, 1923;
newspaper correspondent; U.S. Immigration Commissioner, 1931;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1938;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1938; New York State Industrial
Commissioner; appointed in 1954 as a special assistant on immigration
problems to U.S. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles, but was dismissed three months later; candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1950.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Killed in an auto
accident, when a car in which he was a passenger skidded off the
road and overturned, near Phoenicia, Ulster
County, N.Y., December
13, 1965 (age 68 years, 349
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Philip Frederick Corsi and Julia (Pantano) Corsi; married, June 17,
1926, to Emma Gillies. |
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John Cutter Covert (1837-1919) —
also known as John C. Covert —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., February
11, 1837.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of Ohio
state house of representatives from Cuyahoga County, 1879-80;
U.S. Consul in Lyon, 1897-1909.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
13, 1919 (age 81 years, 336
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob Covert and Phoebe Ann (Cutter) Covert; married 1870 to Minnie
Dutcher. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William T. Croasdale (c.1845-1891) —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., about 1845.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; County Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1890.
Died in Sullivan
County, N.Y., August
9, 1891 (age about 46
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin H. Crosby (b. 1859) —
of Tuckerton, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., January
17, 1859.
Republican. Printer;
newspaper editor and publisher; fire
chief; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Ocean County, 1908-10.
Methodist.
Burial location unknown.
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Philip Kingsland Crowe (1908-1976) —
also known as Philip K. Crowe —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., January
7, 1908.
Newspaper reporter; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World
War II; U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, 1953-56; South Africa, 1959-61; Norway, 1969-73; Denmark, 1973-75.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in 1976
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Daniel Cruger (1780-1843) —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Sunbury, Northumberland
County, Pa., December
22, 1780.
Democrat. Newspaper publisher; lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New York
state assembly, 1813-16, 1826 (Allegany and Steuben counties
1813-16, Steuben County 1826); Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1816; postmaster at Bath,
N.Y., 1815-17, 1821-22; U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1817-19; Steuben
County District Attorney, 1818-21.
Slaveowner.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va (now W.Va.), July 12,
1843 (age 62 years, 202
days).
Interment at Stone
Church Cemetery, Elm Grove, W.Va.
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Amos Jay Cummings (1841-1902) —
also known as Amos J. Cummings —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Conklin, Broome
County, N.Y., May 15,
1841.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
work; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1887-89, 1889-94, 1895-1902 (6th
District 1887-89, 9th District 1889-93, 11th District 1893-94, 10th
District 1895-1902); defeated, 1894; died in office 1902; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1892,
1896.
Received Medal
of Honor in 1894 for action at Salem Heights, Va., May 4, 1863.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., May 2,
1902 (age 60 years, 352
days).
Interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Irvington, N.J.
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Henry Hastings Curran (1877-1966) —
also known as Henry H. Curran —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1877.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1910; major in the
U.S. Army during World War I; borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1920-21; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1921; U.S. Commissioner of Immigration at
Ellis Island, 1923-26; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Died, of heart
disease, in St. Barnabas Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 8,
1966 (age 88 years, 151
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Elliott Curran and Eliza Phillips (Mulford) Curran; married,
October
12, 1905, to Frances Ford Hardy. |
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