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Frederick Shaw Easton Jr. —
also known as Frederick S. Easton, Jr. —
of Lowville, Lewis
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Newspaper editor; chair of
Lewis County Democratic Party, 1910; member of New York
state assembly from Lewis County, 1920; defeated, 1909.
Interment at Lowville
Rural Cemetery, Lowville, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Shaw Easton and Anna S. (House) Easton. |
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Frederick H. E. Ebstein (1847-1916) —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Militsch, Prussia (now Milicz, Poland),
April
21, 1847.
Republican. Newspaper reporter; served in the Union Army
during the Civil War; major in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1905.
German
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Freemasons.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
8, 1916 (age 68 years, 293
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married to Jeanie V. Smith. |
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Walter Evans Edge (1873-1956) —
also known as Walter E. Edge —
of Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Ventnor City, Atlantic
County, N.J.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
20, 1873.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
advertising
business; newspaper publisher; banker;
Republican Presidential Elector for New Jersey, 1905;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1908
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1928,
1932,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1944,
1948,
1952
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1956;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Atlantic County, 1910; member
of New
Jersey state senate from Atlantic County, 1911-16; Governor of
New Jersey, 1917-19, 1944-47; resigned 1919; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1919-29; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1929-33; delegate
to New Jersey convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933;
candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1936.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from uremic
poisoning, in Memorial Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
29, 1956 (age 82 years, 344
days).
Interment at Northwood
Cemetery, Downingtown, Pa.
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Clement Stanislaus Edwards (b. 1869) —
also known as Clement S. Edwards —
of Albert Lea, Freeborn
County, Minn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 4,
1869.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor and publisher; real estate
business; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American
War; U.S. Consul in Acapulco, 1911-17; Santo Domingo, 1917-19; Paris, 1919-20; Frankfort, 1920; Hamburg, 1920; Kovno, 1921-24; Valencia, 1924-30; Bradford, 1930-33.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas D. Edwards (1847-1935) —
of Lead, Lawrence
County, S.Dak.
Born in Floyd, Oneida
County, N.Y., April
30, 1847.
Republican. Newspaper editor; postmaster at Lead,
Dakota Territory, 1883-86; U.S. Consul in Ciudad Juarez, 1905-17; Cornwall, 1917-22.
Died in Lead, Lawrence
County, S.Dak., August
3, 1935 (age 88 years, 95
days).
Interment at South Lead Cemetery, Lead, S.Dak.
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Anthony Eickhoff (1827-1901) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lippstadt, Westphalia (now Germany),
September
11, 1827.
Democrat. Founder or editor of several German-language
newspapers, in St. Louis, Mo., Dubuque, Iowa, and New York
City; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1864; U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1877-79; defeated,
1878; New York City Fire Commissioner, 1891-96.
German
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
5, 1901 (age 74 years, 55
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Thomas Hopkinson Eliot (1907-1991) —
also known as Thomas H. Eliot —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 14,
1907.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1941-43;
defeated, 1938, 1942, 1944.
Unitarian.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., October
14, 1991 (age 84 years, 122
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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John Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
also known as J. Louis Engdahl —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Telegraph
operator; newspaper reporter; later, writer and
editor for Socialist and Communist publications; indicted
in Chicago, 1918, along with former U.S. Rep. Victor
L. Berger, and three others, for making speeches
that encouraged disloyalty
and obstructed military
recruitment; tried
and convicted;
sentenced
to twenty years in prison;
the conviction was later overturned; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1918; delegate to
Socialist National Convention from Illinois, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1924 (Workers), 1926 (Workers Communist);
Communist candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1930; Communist candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1931.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Moscow, Russia,
November
21, 1932 (age 48 years, 10
days).
Cremated.
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Russell Errett (1817-1891) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 1817.
Republican. Newspaper editor; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 25th District, 1868-69; Pennsylvania
Republican state chair, 1871-74; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 22nd District, 1877-83.
Died in Carnegie, Allegheny
County, Pa., April 7,
1891 (age 73 years, 148
days).
Interment at Chartiers
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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George Winthrop Fairchild (1854-1924) —
also known as George W. Fairchild —
of Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y., May 6,
1854.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1907-19 (24th District 1907-13,
34th District 1913-19); delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1912,
1916.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
31, 1924 (age 70 years, 239
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Oneonta, N.Y.
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Francis Frederick Fargo (1824-1891) —
also known as Francis F. Fargo; Frank
Fargo —
of California.
Born in Warsaw, Wyoming
County, N.Y., April
27, 1824.
Newspaper publisher; member of California
state assembly 4th District, 1861-62.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., January
12, 1891 (age 66 years, 260
days).
Interment at Warsaw
Cemetery, Warsaw, N.Y.
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Jacob Sloat Fassett (1853-1924) —
also known as J. Sloat Fassett —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., November
13, 1853.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor; Chemung
County District Attorney, 1879-80; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1880,
1892,
1904,
1908,
1916;
member of New York
state senate 27th District, 1884-91; Secretary
of Republican National Committee, 1888-92; U.S.
Collector of Customs at New York, N.Y., New York, 1891; candidate
for Governor of
New York, 1891; U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1905-11; defeated,
1910; banker; lumber
business.
Died in Vancouver, British
Columbia, April
21, 1924 (age 70 years, 160
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Newton Pomeroy Fassett and Martha Ellen (Sloat) Fassett; married,
February
13, 1879, to Jennie L. Crocker (daughter of Edwin
Bryant Crocker; niece of Charles
Crocker); fourth cousin once removed of Zenas
Ferry Moody and Alfred
Clark Chapin. |
| | | Political families:Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village
of Fassett,
Quebec, Canada, is named for
him. — Fassett Elementary
School, in Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — Fassett Commons, a building
at Elmira College,
Elmira,
New York, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS Jacob Sloat Fassett (built 1944 at Savannah,
Georgia; scrapped 1965) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807-1898) —
also known as Theodore S. Fay —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Massachusetts; Berlin, Germany.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
10, 1807.
Newspaper editor; novelist;
U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1853-61.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Berlin, Germany,
November
24, 1898 (age 91 years, 287
days).
Interment at Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
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Andrew Jackson Felt (1833-1912) —
also known as Andrew J. Felt —
of Nashua, Chickasaw
County, Iowa; Seneca, Nemaha
County, Kan.
Born in East Victor, Ontario
County, N.Y., December
27, 1833.
Republican. School
teacher; newspaper editor; lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Iowa, 1868,
1872;
postmaster;
banker;
Republican Presidential Elector for Kansas, 1884;
Lieutenant
Governor of Kansas, 1889-93.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died June 27,
1912 (age 78 years, 183
days).
Interment at Seneca
City Cemetery, Seneca, Kan.
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Henry James Feltus (1846-1926) —
also known as Henry J. Feltus —
of Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
15, 1846.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
editor and publisher; postmaster at Bloomington,
Ind., 1886-87; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Indiana, 1900.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks.
Died in Bloomington, Monroe
County, Ind., January
12, 1926 (age 79 years, 150
days).
Entombed at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, Ind.
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DeMyre S. Fero (1832-1916) —
also known as DeMyers S. Fero —
of Cobleskill, Schoharie
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y.; Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, July, 1832.
Auctioneer;
postmaster at Cobleskill,
N.Y., 1861-62; People's candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1892, 1894, 1896;
People's candidate for New York
state comptroller, 1893; newspaper editor; real
estate and insurance
business; Socialist candidate for Presidential Elector for New York,
1912.
Died in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., May 19,
1916 (age 83 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Augustin William Ferrin (1875-1976) —
also known as Augustin W. Ferrin —
of Dobbs Ferry, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Little Valley, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., September
1, 1875.
Newspaper reporter; magazine editor; U.S. Consul in Madrid, 1924-26; Tabriz, 1926-28; Teheran, 1928-29; Malaga, 1930-35; Montevideo, 1935-40.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the Revolution.
Died, in a nursing
home, in Marion
County, W.Va., March
17, 1976 (age 100 years,
198 days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustin William Ferrin and Flavilla Jane (Van Hoosen)
Ferrin. |
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Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden (1813-1895) —
also known as C. B. H. Fessenden —
of Utica, Macomb
County, Mich.; New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Sandwich, Barnstable
County, Mass., July 17,
1813.
Lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Macomb County, 1842; U.S.
Collector of Customs at New Bedford, Mass., Massachusetts,
1853-61; newspaper editor; Bristol
County Sheriff, 1863-69.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., April
16, 1895 (age 81 years, 273
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Fessenden and Martha (Freeman) Fessenden; brother of Benjamin
Fessenden; married, June 21,
1842, to Sarah A. H. Fitch; nephew of Nathaniel
Freeman Jr.; first cousin once removed of Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); first cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Otis and Samuel
Allyne Otis; second cousin once removed of Walter
Fessenden; second cousin twice removed of Harrison
Gray Otis; third cousin of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), John
Milton Fessenden and Reuben
Eaton Fenton; third cousin once removed of William
Pitt Fessenden, Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden, William
Fessenden Allen and Joseph
Palmer Fessenden; third cousin twice removed of Asahel
Otis, James
Deering Fessenden, Henry
Nichols Blake, Francis
Fessenden, Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908), Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden and Desda
Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Benjamin
Lincoln and Charles
Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin of James
Otis; fourth cousin once removed of Peter
Rawson Taft, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Asa H.
Otis and Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor. |
| | | Political families:Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Marshall Field III (1893-1956) —
of Huntington, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
28, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; publisher,
Chicago Sun-Times newspaper; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1944,
1948.
Died, of brain
cancer, in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1956 (age 63 years, 41
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Hamilton Fish (b. 1951) —
of New York.
Born in Washington,
D.C., September
5, 1951.
Democrat. Publisher of The Nation magazine, 1977-87;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1988 (primary, 20th District), 1994
(19th District).
Still living as of 2011.
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Relatives: Son
of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996); brother of Alexa
Fish Ward; grandson of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991); great-grandson of Alfred
Clark Chapin and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); great-grandnephew of Nicholas
Fish (1848-1902); second great-grandson of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); third great-grandson of Nicholas
Fish (1758-1833); third great-grandnephew of Chester
William Chapin; fourth great-grandson of John
Kean (1756-1795); fourth great-grandnephew of Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Henry
Gilbert Livingston and Philip
Peter Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston and Peter
Van Brugh Livingston; fifth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; sixth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and James
Alexander; sixth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); seventh great-grandson of Pieter
Stuyvesant and Pieter
Van Brugh; seventh great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
de Peyster; first cousin thrice removed of John
Kean (1852-1914) and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin five times removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Peter
Robert Livingston, Walter
Livingston, John
Stevens III and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin seven times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); second cousin twice removed of Charles
Mann Hamilton and Robert
Winthrop Kean; second cousin five times removed of James
Jay, John
Jay, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Frederick
Jay, Edward
Livingston, Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Peter
Augustus Jay, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and William
Jay; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Howard Kean; third cousin twice removed of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; third cousin thrice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and Arthur
Beebe Chapin; fourth cousin of Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Livingston-Duer
family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
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Francis Durrell Flanders (1812-1881) —
also known as Francis D. Flanders —
of Malone, Franklin
County, N.Y.
Born in Salisbury, Merrimack
County, N.H., August
19, 1812.
Newspaper editor; member of New York
state assembly from Franklin County, 1844; Franklin
County Clerk, 1853.
Died in Franklin
County, N.Y., January
27, 1881 (age 68 years, 161
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Gelston Floyd (1806-1881) —
also known as John G. Floyd —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Brookhaven, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Mastic, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
5, 1806.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper publisher; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1839-43, 1851-53 (17th District
1839-43, 1st District 1851-53); member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1848-49.
Died in Mastic, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., October
5, 1881 (age 75 years, 242
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Suffolk County, N.Y.
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Benjamin Folsom (1847-1922) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; Pasadena, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Folsomdale, Wyoming
County, N.Y., December
5, 1847.
Journalist; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Sheffield, 1886-93; in his second term, president Grover
Cleveland expressed gratitude to his predecessor, Benjamin
Harrison, for allowing Folsom, his wife's cousin, to remain in
office as U.S. consul during his administration.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
17, 1922 (age 74 years, 255
days).
Interment at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Eugene Foster (1860-1928) —
of Gladwin, Gladwin
County, Mich.
Born in Caroga town, Fulton
County, N.Y., August
8, 1860.
Republican. Newspaper editor; chair of
Gladwin County Republican Party, 1892-1928; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1896;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 28th District,
1907-08; member of Michigan
state senate 28th District, 1909-12.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Order of the
Eastern Star; Knights
of Pythias; Foresters;
Woodmen.
Died, probably from heart
disease, in his office
at the Gladwin County Record newspaper, Gladwin, Gladwin
County, Mich., October
2, 1928 (age 68 years, 55
days).
Interment at Highland Cemetery, Gladwin, Mich.
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William Dudley Foulke (1848-1935) —
of Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J.; Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
20, 1848.
Lawyer;
writer;
poet;
reformer and woman suffrage advocate; member of Indiana
state senate, 1883-86; member, U.S. Civil Service Commission,
1901-03; newspaper editor.
Died in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., May 30,
1935 (age 86 years, 191
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Foulke and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke; married to Mary
Taylor Reeves. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, May 1902 |
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Charles Spencer Francis (1853-1911) —
also known as Charles S. Francis —
of Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., June 17,
1853.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; U.S. Minister to
Greece, 1901-02; Romania, 1901-02; Serbia, 1901-02; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1906-10.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution.
Died in 1911
(age about
58 years).
Burial location unknown.
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John Morgan Francis (1823-1897) —
also known as John M. Francis —
of Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.
Born in 1823.
Newspaper editor and publisher; U.S. Minister to Greece, 1871-73; Portugal, 1882-84; Austria-Hungary, 1884-85; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894.
Died in 1897
(age about
74 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Clinton Frisbee (1801-1873) —
also known as Henry C. Frisbee —
of Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y., March
27, 1801.
Newspaper editor; bank
director; member of New York
state assembly from Chautauqua County, 1845.
Died in Fredonia, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., November
9, 1873 (age 72 years, 227
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Fredonia, N.Y.
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Daniel Dodge Frisbie (1859-1931) —
also known as Daniel D. Frisbie —
of Middleburgh, Schoharie
County, N.Y.
Born in Middleburgh, Schoharie
County, N.Y., November
30, 1859.
Newspaper publisher; insurance
business; member of New York
state assembly from Schoharie County, 1900-01, 1909-12; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1911.
Died in Middleburgh, Schoharie
County, N.Y., August
6, 1931 (age 71 years, 249
days).
Interment at Middleburgh
Cemetery, Middleburgh, N.Y.
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