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John Dalzell (1845-1927) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Braddock, Allegheny
County, Pa.; Swissvale, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1845.
Republican. Lawyer;
attorney for Pennsylvania Railroad; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1887-1913 (22nd District
1887-1903, 30th District 1903-13); delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1904,
1908.
Died in Altadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
2, 1927 (age 82 years, 166
days).
Interment at Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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James Edward Davidson (1865-1947) —
also known as James E. Davidson —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., December
7, 1865.
Republican. Shipbuilder;
financier;
director, Pere Marquette Railroad; director, Cleveland Indians
pro
baseball team; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1915-19, 1927, 1939; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1920,
1944
(alternate); member of Republican
National Committee from Michigan, 1923-40.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Lake Placid, Essex
County, N.Y., July 25,
1947 (age 81 years, 230
days).
Interment somewhere
in Bay City, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of James Davidson and Ellen M. (Rogers) Davidson; married 1890 to June
Lolette Cobb; married, July 28,
1919, to Helen Forrest Knox. |
| | | Image source: Detroit Free Press, July
26, 1947 |
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George Willets Davison (b. 1872) —
of Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Rockville Centre, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., March
25, 1872.
Republican. Lawyer; Queens
County District Attorney, 1899; vice-president, Central Trust Co.;
director, Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Co., New York Municipal Railways Co., Third Avenue
Railway Co., Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Co.,
American Eagle Fire
Insurance Co.
Methodist.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Robert A. Davison and Emeline (Sealey) Davison; married, April
24, 1895, to Harriet R. Baldwin. |
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Harlow P. Davock (b. 1848) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., March
11, 1848.
Republican. Civil
engineer; worked on many railroad and canal
projects; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1893-94.
Burial location unknown.
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Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1834-1928) —
also known as Chauncey M. Depew —
of Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
23, 1834.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1862-63; secretary
of state of New York, 1864-65; Westchester
County Clerk, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1868,
1892,
1896
(speaker),
1900,
1904,
1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924;
Liberal Republican candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1872; president, later chairman, New York
Central Railroad; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1888;
U.S.
Senator from New York, 1899-1911.
French
Huguenot, Dutch,
and English
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Society
of the Cincinnati; Skull
and Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 5,
1928 (age 93 years, 348
days).
Entombed at Hillside
Cemetery, Cortlandt town, Westchester County, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Depew and Martha Minot (Mitchell) Depew; married, November
9, 1871, to Elise Hegeman; married, December
28, 1901, to May Palmer; second great-grandnephew of Roger
Sherman; second cousin twice removed of Roger
Sherman Baldwin, Sherman
Day, Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, William
Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar; second cousin four times removed of Aaron
Burr; third cousin once removed of Simeon
Eben Baldwin, Rockwood
Hoar, Sherman
Hoar, Maxwell
Evarts and Arthur
Outram Sherman; third cousin twice removed of Charles
Robert Sherman and Merton
William Fairbank; third cousin thrice removed of Reuben
Bostwick Heacock; fourth cousin of John
Frederick Addis, Henry
de Forest Baldwin and Roger
Sherman Hoar; fourth cousin once removed of John
Adams Dix, Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson
Parker Sherman, John
Sherman, Charles
Warren Fairbanks, Newton
Hamilton Fairbanks, John
Stanley Addis and Archibald
Cox. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The village
of Depew, New
York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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Peter Anthony Dey (1825-1911) —
also known as Peter A. Dey —
of Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa.
Born in Romulus, Seneca
County, N.Y., 1825.
Democrat. Chief engineer
of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1864; founder of the First
National Bank of
Iowa City; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1876;
member of Iowa
railroad commission, 1878-95.
Died in 1911
(age about
86 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Byron Dicker (b. 1889) —
also known as Samuel B. Dicker —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 4,
1889.
Republican. Statistician;
lawyer;
director, Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad; mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1939-55; appointed 1939; resigned 1955.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Moritz Dicker and Rose (Weinberg) Dicker. |
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Alexander Samuel Diven (1809-1896) —
of Angelica, Allegany
County, N.Y.; Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Catharine (now Watkins Glen), Schuyler
County, N.Y., February
10, 1809.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of George
Miles, and later, of Samuel
G. Hathaway; railroad promoter; candidate for New York
state assembly, 1843 (Allegany County), 1854 (Chemung County);
member of New York
state senate 27th District, 1858-59; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1861-63; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of
Elmira, N.Y., 1880-82.
Presbyterian.
Irish
and English
ancestry.
Died in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., June 11,
1896 (age 87 years, 122
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
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Alfred J. Doherty (1856-1929) —
of Clare, Clare
County, Mich.
Born in New York, May 1,
1856.
Republican. School
teacher; hardware
business; member of Michigan
state senate 28th District, 1901-06; member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1907-19; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Michigan; represented the Pullman railroad car
company as a lobbyist
in Michigan and other states; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Michigan, 1920.
Died September
24, 1929 (age 73 years, 146
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William L. Doige (b. 1887) —
of Chateaugay, Franklin
County, N.Y.
Born in Lewiston, Androscoggin
County, Maine, March 9,
1887.
Republican. Railroad work; real estate
business; merchant;
member of New York
state assembly from Franklin County, 1939-50.
Burial location unknown.
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John T. Dooling (c.1871-1949) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., about 1871.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 28th District, 1901-03; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 16th District, 1915;
director, Staten Island Midway Railway Co.; president, New
York City Board of Elections; chief assistant district attorney of
New York County; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1932,
1936,
1940;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 18th District, 1938.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, in St. Agnes' Hospital,
White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
15, 1949 (age about 78
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
Library of Congress |
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Abraham Dowdney (1841-1886) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland,
October
31, 1841.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; railroad
builder; U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1885-86; died in
office 1886.
Catholic.
Died, following a stroke,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
10, 1886 (age 45 years, 40
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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George Hedford Dunn (1794-1854) —
also known as George H. Dunn —
of Indiana.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
15, 1794.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1828-29, 1832-34; candidate for
Indiana
state senate, 1831; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 4th District, 1837-39; Indiana
state treasurer, 1841-44; circuit judge in Indiana, 1847-50;
railroad promoter.
Died in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind., January
12, 1854 (age 59 years, 58
days).
Original interment at Newtown
Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; reinterment at Greendale
Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
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James Winslow Dunwell (1850-1907) —
also known as James W. Dunwell; Jimmy
Dunwell —
of Lyons, Wayne
County, N.Y.
Born in East Newark, Wayne
County, N.Y., December
18, 1850.
Republican. Lawyer;
counsel to the New York Central Railroad; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1892;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 7th District, 1896-1907; died in office
1907.
Died in Lyons, Wayne
County, N.Y., May 22,
1907 (age 56 years, 155
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Lyons, N.Y.
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John Wilbur Dwight (1859-1928) —
also known as John W. Dwight —
of Dryden, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Dryden, Tompkins
County, N.Y., May 24,
1859.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1888,
1892,
1900,
1904,
1920;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1902-13 (26th District 1902-03,
30th District 1903-13); president, Virginia Blue Ridge
Railway, 1913-28.
Member, Union
League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
19, 1928 (age 68 years, 240
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Martin Van Buren Edgerly (1833-1895) —
also known as M. V. B. Edgerly —
of Pittsfield, Merrimack
County, N.H.; Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born September
26, 1833.
Democrat. President, Massachusetts Mutual Life
Insurance Company; president, Des Moines, Kansas City & Arcola
Railroad; member of Democratic
National Committee from New Hampshire, 1876; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1880;
candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1882.
Died, from an abscess
in his right ear, in a hotel at
New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1895 (age 61 years, 173
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Horace Fairbanks (1820-1888) —
of St. Johnsbury, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Barnet, Caledonia
County, Vt., March
21, 1820.
Republican. President, E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., platform
scale manufacturers; railroad promoter; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1864;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont; member of Vermont
state senate, 1870; Governor of
Vermont, 1876-78.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
17, 1888 (age 67 years, 362
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
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Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842-1924) —
also known as Charles S. Fairchild —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., April
30, 1842.
Lawyer;
New
York state attorney general, 1876-77; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1887-89; president, New York Security
and Trust
Company, 1889-1904; president, Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line
Railroad; director, Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., November
24, 1924 (age 82 years, 208
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Cazenovia, N.Y.
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Isaac Alger Fancher (b. 1833) —
also known as Isaac A. Fancher —
of Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich.
Born in Florida, Montgomery
County, N.Y., September
30, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer; surveyor;
postmaster;
railroad promoter; Isabella
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1865-66, 1871-72; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Midland District, 1873-74;
member of Michigan
state senate 26th District, 1875-76; law partner of Peter
F. Dodds, 1875-82; member of Michigan
Republican State Central Committee, 1878-80; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 21st Circuit, 1899.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob Schuyler Fancher and Eunice (Alger) Fancher; married, June 6,
1860, to Althea May Preston. |
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Louis Fechter Sr. (1851-1921) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Alsace-Lorraine, France,
1851.
Republican. Employed on Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad; lost an
arm in an 1877 railroad accident; carting
business; organized Buffalo Rendering
Co.; manager, Buffalo Fertilizer
Co.; president, Minnehaha Mining and
Smelting
Co.; president, Fechter-Elliott Agency, real
estate and insurance;
member of New York
state senate 48th District, 1905-06.
Catholic.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., April
16, 1921 (age about 69
years).
Interment at United
German and French Cemetery, Cheektowaga, N.Y.
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Joseph V. Fitzgerald —
of Lancaster, Erie
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Railroad clerk; member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 7th District, 1913; defeated,
1915.
Burial location unknown.
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John Fitzgibbons (1868-1941) —
of Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y.
Born in Glenmore, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 10,
1868.
Democrat. Railway trainman; mayor of
Oswego, N.Y., 1910-11, 1918-21; chair of
Oswego County Democratic Party, 1932; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1932;
U.S.
Representative from New York at-large, 1933-35; defeated, 1914.
Member, Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen.
Died in a hospital
at Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., August
4, 1941 (age 73 years, 25
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Oswego, N.Y.
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Richard Hansen Franchot (1816-1875) —
also known as Richard Franchot —
of Otsego
County, N.Y.; Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y.
Born in Morris, Otsego
County, N.Y., June 2,
1816.
Republican. Civil
engineer; farmer;
president, Albany & Susquehanna Railroad; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1861-63; general in
the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1872.
Died in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., November
23, 1875 (age 59 years, 174
days).
Interment at Vale
Cemetery, Schenectady, N.Y.
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Augustus Frank (1826-1895) —
of Warsaw, Wyoming
County, N.Y.
Born in Warsaw, Wyoming
County, N.Y., July 17,
1826.
Republican. Merchant;
director and vice-president, Buffalo & New York City Railroad;
later, director, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1859-65 (30th District 1859-63,
36th District 1863-65); banker; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867-68; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1894.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
29, 1895 (age 68 years, 286
days).
Interment at Warsaw
Cemetery, Warsaw, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Augustus Frank (1792-1851) and Jane (Patterson) Frank; married 1867 to Agnes
McNair; nephew of William
Patterson and George
Washington Patterson; second cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold; second cousin four times removed of Benjamin
Huntington; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Hale Sill, Frederick
William Lord and Theodore
Sill; third cousin twice removed of James
Hillhouse, Roger
Griswold, Bela
Edgerton and Zina
Hyde Jr.; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Huntington, Henry
Huntington and Gurdon
Huntington; fourth cousin of John
William Allen and George
Griswold Sill; fourth cousin once removed of Hezekiah
Case, Samuel
Lathrop, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Jairus
Case, Henry
Titus Backus, Alfred
Peck Edgerton, Joseph
Ketchum Edgerton and Thomas
Worcester Hyde. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Roosevelt
family of New York; Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington
family of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Joseph J. Galgano —
of North Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow), Westchester
County, N.Y.
Republican. Railway conductor; mayor
of North Tarrytown, N.Y.; elected 1965.
Still living as of 1965.
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Cornelius Kingsland Garrison (1809-1885) —
also known as C. K. Garrison —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; St.
Louis, Mo.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., March 1,
1809.
Banker;
shipbuilder;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1853-54; railroad president.
Died, of a heart
attack, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1885 (age 76 years, 61
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Edwin Louis Garvin (1877-1960) —
also known as Edwin L. Garvin —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
25, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer;
special sessions court judge in New York, 1915-18; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 1918-25;
receiver, New York, Westchester & Boston Railway, 1937; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1941-47; defeated, 1920.
Member, American Bar
Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died, in Brookhaven Memorial Hospital,
Bellport, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., 1960
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Walton Goelet (1880-1941) —
also known as Robert W. Goelet; Bertie
Goelet —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
19, 1880.
Republican. One of New York's wealthiest men, he inherited $60
million by 1902; director of banks, the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Corporation, and the Union Pacific Railroad; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1932,
1936.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 2,
1941 (age 61 years, 44
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Fred A. Graber (b. 1895) —
of Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1895.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; railway
clerk; ice cream
business; mayor
of Tarrytown, N.Y., 1941-44; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1945-50.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Dudley Sanford Gregory (1800-1874) —
also known as Dudley S. Gregory —
of Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J.
Born in Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
5, 1800.
Banker;
mayor
of Jersey City, N.J., 1838-40, 1841-42, 1858-60; delegate to Whig
National Convention from New Jersey, 1839 (member, Balloting
Committee); U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1847-49; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1860;
director of railroad companies.
Died in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., December
8, 1874 (age 74 years, 306
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Solomon Robert Guggenheim (1861-1949) —
also known as Solomon R. Guggenheim —
of New York.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
2, 1861.
Republican. Mining, smelting,
and railroad executive; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1924.
Jewish.
Founder of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Died near Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., November
3, 1949 (age 88 years, 274
days).
Entombed at Salem
Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Charles Godfrey Gunther (1822-1885) —
also known as C. Godfrey Gunther —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1822.
Democrat. Fur
merchant; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1864-66; defeated, 1861; candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1878; railroad builder; hotel
owner.
German
ancestry. Member, Tammany
Hall.
Died, probably of heart
disease, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
22, 1885 (age about 62
years).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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William Halpin (b. 1865) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
23, 1865.
Republican. Manufacturer
of railway supplies; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 12th District, 1895; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1904.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Matthew Halpin and Delia (Nolan) Halpin. |
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Augustus Noble Hand (1869-1954) —
also known as Augustus N. Hand —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y., July 26,
1869.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director, San Juan and Reio Pedras Railroad; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1914-27; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1927-53.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died October
28, 1954 (age 85 years, 94
days).
Interment somewhere
in Elizabethtown, N.Y.
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James Guthrie Harbord (1866-1947) —
also known as James G. Harbord —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born near Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March
21, 1866.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; president (1923-30), and
chairman (1930-47), Radio Corporation of America; director, Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; director, Bankers Trust Co.;
director, National Broadcasting
Co.; director, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc. (RKO); director, New York
Life Insurance
Co.; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1924,
1932;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1932;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Union
League.
Died in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
20, 1947 (age 81 years, 152
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) —
also known as E. H. Harriman —
of Arden, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Hempstead, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., February
25, 1848.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1904.
Railroad magnate; he controlled the Union Pacific, Southern
Pacific, Illinois Central and other railroads. His battle with
James J. Hill for control of the Northern Pacific caused an economic
panic in 1901; but he modernized every line he owned, creating a
fast, efficient system.
Died in Arden, Orange
County, N.Y., September
9, 1909 (age 61 years, 196
days).
Interment at Arden
Farm Graveyard, Arden, N.Y.
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Seth C. Hawley (1810-1884) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., February
10, 1810.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; member of New York
state assembly from Erie County, 1840-41; railroad
builder; U.S. Consul in Nassau, 1863; chief clerk, New York City Police
Department; the New York Times called him "the brains of the
department.".
English
ancestry.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 1884 (age 74 years, 274
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Alonzo Barton Hepburn (1846-1922) —
also known as A. Barton Hepburn —
of Colton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Colton, St.
Lawrence County, N.Y., July 24,
1846.
Republican. Lawyer; timber
business; banker;
member of New York
state assembly from St. Lawrence County 2nd District, 1875-79;
superintendent, New York State Banking Department, 1880-83; U.S.
Comptroller of the Currency, 1892-93; director, New York Life Insurance
Company, American Agricultural
Chemical
Company, Studebaker Corporation (automobile
manufacturer), and Great Northern Railway.
Hit by
a bus at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, injured, and died five
days later, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
25, 1922 (age 75 years, 185
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Canton, N.Y.
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Albert H. Holland (b. 1891) —
of Morristown, Morris
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1891.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Morris
County Prosecutor of the Pleas, 1925; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New Jersey, 1928;
common pleas court judge in New Jersey, 1928-43; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Morris County,
1947; director, Morristown & Erie Railroad; director,
Remington Arms Company.
Burial location unknown.
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Elias Bellows Holmes (1807-1866) —
also known as Elias B. Holmes —
of Brockport, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Fletcher, Franklin
County, Vt., May 22,
1807.
Lawyer;
canal boat
business; U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1845-49; railroad
promoter.
Died in Brockport, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 31,
1866 (age 59 years, 70
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Brockport, N.Y.
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Lyman A. Holmes (b. 1858) —
of St. Clair, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., November
7, 1858.
Republican. Worked in railway construction and as
superintendent of foundries;
vice-president, Romeo Savings Bank;
member of Michigan
state senate 11th District, 1917-20.
English
and Irish
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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John Stewart Hopkins (1811-1882) —
also known as John S. Hopkins —
of Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind.
Born in Truxton, Cortland
County, N.Y., October
28, 1811.
Merchant;
banker;
mayor
of Evansville, Ind., 1853-56; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1861, 1867, 1879; president of
Evansville, Cairo & Memphis Packet
Company; president of First National Bank in
Evansville; director of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad.
Died in Evansville, Vanderburgh
County, Ind., July 6,
1882 (age 70 years, 251
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1834 to Mary
Ann Parrett. |
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Charles Merrill Hough (1858-1927) —
also known as Charles M. Hough —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 18,
1858.
Republican. Lawyer;
attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and for steamship
companies in maritime
litigation; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 1906-16; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1916-27; died in
office 1927.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died, from angina
pectoris, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1927 (age 68 years, 339
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Amory Houghton (1899-1981) —
of Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., July 27,
1899.
Republican. President (1930-41) and chairman (1941-61), Corning Glass Works;
director, Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, Erie Railroad, and National City Bank;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948
(alternate), 1952,
1964;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; U.S. Ambassador to
France, 1957-61; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1966.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1981
(age about
81 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. (b. 1906) —
also known as Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., December
12, 1906.
Republican. Vice-president, Corning Glass Works,
1935-40; director, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, National
Trust for Historic Preservation; Council on
Foreign Relations; Modern
Language Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Arthur
Amory Houghton and Mabel (Hollister) Houghton; married to
Elizabeth Douglas McCall. |
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Thomas Yardley Howe Jr. (1801-1860) —
also known as Thomas Y. Howe, Jr.; Thomas Yardley How
Jr. —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., 1801.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; president and treasurer of railroads; inspector,
Auburn Prison, 1834-38; Cayuga
County Surrogate, 1836-40; U.S.
Representative from New York 25th District, 1851-53; mayor of
Auburn, N.Y., 1853.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., July 15,
1860 (age about 59
years).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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Lucius Frederick Hubbard (1836-1913) —
also known as Lucius F. Hubbard —
of Red Wing, Goodhue
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., January
26, 1836.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; grain
business; railroad builder; member of Minnesota
state senate 16th District, 1872-75; Governor of
Minnesota, 1882-87; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Minnesota, 1896; general in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., February
5, 1913 (age 77 years, 10
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Red Wing, Minn.
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William J. Hutchins (1813-1884) —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Fishkill, Dutchess
County, N.Y., March 3,
1813.
Merchant;
cotton mill
business; hotel
owner; banker;
co-founded Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway; owner
and president of the Houston and Texas Central Railway; mayor
of Houston, Tex., 1861.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in Fort Worth, Tarrant
County, Tex., June 4,
1884 (age 71 years, 93
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Edward D. Jackson —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Railroad switchman; member of New York
state assembly from Erie County 4th District, 1907, 1909-13.
Burial location unknown.
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Hugh Judge Jewett (1817-1898) —
also known as Hugh Jewett —
of Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Harford
County, Md., July 1,
1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1853; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1855-56; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1855, 1868-69; railroad
president; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1861; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1873-74; defeated, 1860
(16th District), 1870 (7th District); resigned 1874; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1880.
Died in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., March 6,
1898 (age 80 years, 248
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Zanesville, Ohio.
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