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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 Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; 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 Sullivan Clarkson (1842-1918) —
also known as James S. Clarkson;
"Ret" —
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 at New York, N.Y., New York, 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 at Woodland
Cemetery, 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 and Jarvis
King Pike; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Hunt, 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, Isaiah
Stetson and Alanson
Pike. |
| | | Political family: Blodgett
family of Grand Rapids, Michigan (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 Franklin Conway (1859-1945) —
also known as Thomas F. Conway —
of Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y.
Born in Chesterfield, Essex
County, N.Y., May 4,
1859.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
newspaper publisher; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1896,
1904,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1900; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1911-12; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1916; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y., November
9, 1945 (age 86 years, 189
days).
Interment at Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Keeseville, 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 F. 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, 1924;
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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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, 1919-21; 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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