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Morris Berthold Abram (1918-2000) —
also known as Morris Abram —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Fitzgerald, Ben Hill
County, Ga., June 19,
1918.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; served on
prosecution staff at Nuremburg war crimes trials; U.S. Representative
to United Nations European office; worked on Marshall Plan for
postwar reconstruction of Europe; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia 5th District, 1952; candidate for
nomination for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1968; president of Brandeis
University, 1968-70; member, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1984-86.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Jewish Committee; Urban
League; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, from a viral
infection, in a hospital
at Geneva, Switzerland,
March
16, 2000 (age 81 years, 271
days).
Interment at Woodside
Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Yarmouth, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Abram and Irene (Cohen) Abram; married, December
23, 1944, to Jane Isabella Maguire; married, January
25, 1975, to Carlyn (Feldman) Fisher; married, August
26, 1990, to Bruna Molina. |
| | | Epitaph: He established "one man, one
vote" as a principle of American law. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Bascom (1827-1911) —
of Madison, Dane
County, Wis.; Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass.
Born in Genoa, Cayuga
County, N.Y., April
30, 1827.
College
professor; president, University of Wisconsin, 1874-87;
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1890 (12th District), 1896
(1st District), 1902 (1st District); Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1897.
Died in Williamstown, Berkshire
County, Mass., October
2, 1911 (age 84 years, 155
days).
Interment at Williams
College Cemetery, Williamstown, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. John Bascom and Laura (Woodbridge) Bascom; married 1853 to Abbie
Burt; married, January
8, 1856, to Emma Curtiss. |
| | | Bascom Hall,
on the campus of the University
of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Bascom (built 1942-43 at Panama
City, Florida; bombed and sank in the harbor at Bari,
Italy, 1943) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Wilson Shannon Bissell (1847-1903) —
also known as Wilson S. Bissell —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in New London, Oneida
County, N.Y., December
31, 1847.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner with Grover
Cleveland and Lyman
K. Bass, 1873-82; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
York; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1893-95; resigned 1895; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1896;
chancellor, University of Buffalo, 1902.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., October
6, 1903 (age 55 years, 279
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Frank Dickinson Blodgett (1871-1954) —
also known as Frank D. Blodgett —
of Oneonta, Otsego
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Born in Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y., March
29, 1871.
Republican. College
professor; mayor
of Oneonta, N.Y., 1912-14; president, Adelphi College,
1915-37.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y., July 10,
1954 (age 83 years, 103
days).
Interment at Cortland
Rural Cemetery, Cortland, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Alonzo Dwight Blodgett and Eleanor Amelia (Dickinson) Blodgett;
married, August
18, 1897, to Helen Margurita Wilcox; married, July 12,
1933, to Bertha S. Jones; third cousin of Lyman
Warren Bliss and Aaron
Thomas Bliss; third cousin twice removed of Aaron
Tyler Bliss; fourth cousin of Henry
Williams Blodgett (1821-1905), Foster
Blodgett Jr. and Asiel
Z. Blodgett; fourth cousin once removed of Abijah
Blodget, Edwin
Ford Blodgett, Dwight
Oscar Whedon and Henry
Williams Blodgett (1876-1959). |
| | | Political families: Blodgett-Whedon
family of Killingworth, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Silas Walter Bond (1864-1939) —
also known as Silas W. Bond —
of Houghton, Allegany
County, N.Y.; Miltonvale, Cloud
County, Kan.; Wheaton, DuPage
County, Ill.; Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Nora, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., January
13, 1864.
Minister;
professor,
Houghton Seminary, Houghton, N.Y.; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 37th District, 1904;
president, Miltonvale Wesleyan College, Miltonvale, Kan.;
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1914; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois.
Wesleyan
Methodist.
Died in Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif., December
3, 1939 (age 75 years, 324
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Williams Bond and Matilda (Shaw) Bond; married, August
11, 1896, to Harriet 'Hattie' West; married, November
26, 1931, to Jessie LaVinia Ward. |
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John Brademas (1927-2016) —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Mishawaka, St. Joseph
County, Ind., March 2,
1927.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Patrick
McNamara; administrative assistant to U.S. Rep Thomas
L. Ashley; executive assistant to presidential candidate Adlai
E. Stevenson; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 3rd District, 1959-81; defeated,
1954, 1956; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana,
1964,
1968,
1972;
president, New York University, 1981-92.
Methodist.
Greek
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Order
of Ahepa; Eagles;
Moose;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 11,
2016 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Harold Brown (b. 1927) —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
19, 1927.
Physicist;
president, California Institute of Technology, 1969-77; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1977-81.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1981.
Still living as of 2018.
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Mary Ingraham Bunting (1910-1998) —
also known as Mary I. Bunting; Polly Bunting; Mary
Ingraham; Mary Bunting-Smith —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 10,
1910.
Democrat. Microbiologist;
college
professor; president, Radcliffe College, 1960-72; member,
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1964; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1972.
Female.
Died, in Kendal at Hanover continuing
care community, Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H., January
21, 1998 (age 87 years, 195
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Henry A. Ingraham and Mary (Shotwell) Ingraham; married
1937 to
Henry Bunting; married 1975 to
Clement A. Smith. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Harvard University
Gazette |
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Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J., April 2,
1862.
Republican. University
professor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from New Jersey, 1888;
President of Columbia University, 1901-45; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1904,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928
(speaker),
1932;
candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1912; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920,
1928;
co-recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1931; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; blind
in his later years.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Psi
Upsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of bronchio-pneumonia,
in St. Luke's Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1947 (age 85 years, 249
days).
Interment at Cedar
Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J.
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Charles Woolsey Cole (1906-1978) —
also known as Charles W. Cole —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.; New York.
Born in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., February
8, 1906.
University
professor; President of Amherst College, 1946-60; U.S.
Ambassador to Chile, 1961-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Association of University Professors; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Delta
Sigma Rho; American
Historical Association; American
Economic Association.
Died in 1978
(age about
72 years).
Burial location unknown.
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William Miller Collier (1867-1956) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Lodi, Seneca
County, N.Y., October
11, 1867.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1905-09; president, George Washington University,
1917; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1921-28.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Chi Psi;
American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died in 1956
(age about
88 years).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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Fred Pierce Corson (1896-1985) —
also known as Fred P. Corson —
of Jackson Heights, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Port Washington, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Cornwall, Lebanon
County, Pa.
Born in Millville, Cumberland
County, N.J., April
11, 1896.
Methodist
minister; president, Dickinson College, 1934-44; Methodist
Bishop of Philadelphia, 1944-68; offered prayer, Republican National
Convention, 1948,
1952;
offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1948.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Union
League; Rotary;
Kappa
Sigma; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage after a fall, in
St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla., February
16, 1985 (age 88 years, 311
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Corson and Mary (Payne) Corson; married 1922 to
Frances Blount Beaman. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Dickinson
College |
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William Alexander Duer (1780-1858) —
also known as William A. Duer —
of Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
8, 1780.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1813-19 (Dutchess County 1813-17, Albany County
1817-19); Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1822-29; president, Columbia
College (now Columbia University), 1829-42.
Died in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., May 30,
1858 (age 77 years, 264
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Morristown, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of William
Duer (1747-1799) and Catherine (Alexander) Duer; brother of John
Duer; married to Hannah Maria Denning (daughter of William
Denning); father of Denning
Duer; uncle of William
Duer (1805-1879); grandnephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; great-grandson of James
Alexander; great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; second great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; second great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Abraham
de Peyster, Johannes
Cuyler, Johannes
de Peyster and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, John
Stevens III and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Johannes
DePeyster, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746), Cornelis
Cuyler and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin four times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin once removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard and John
Jay II; second cousin twice removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Matthew
Clarkson, Philip
P. Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Henry
Cruger, Henry
Rutgers, Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); second cousin thrice removed of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Robert
Reginald Livingston, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert
Winthrop Kean and Brockholst
Livingston; second cousin four times removed of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; second cousin five times removed of Hamilton
Fish (born 1951), Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; third cousin of Hamilton
Fish (1808-1893); third cousin once removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, Philip
DePeyster, James
Parker, Gilbert
Livingston Thompson and John
Jacob Astor III; third cousin twice removed of William
Waldorf Astor and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; third cousin thrice removed of Guy
Vernor Henry, William
Astor Chanler, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, Montgomery
Schuyler Jr., Peter
Goelet Gerry and Ogden
Livingston Mills; fourth cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin
Livingston, James
Alexander Hamilton, George
Washington Schuyler, John
Cortlandt Parker and Philip
N. Schuyler; fourth cousin once removed of Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, James
Adams Ekin, Eugene
Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Angier Biddle Duke (1915-1995) —
of Tuxedo Park, Orange
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
30, 1915.
Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, 1952-53; Spain, 1965-68; Denmark, 1968-69; Morocco, 1979-81.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Chancellor of Southampton College.
Hit by a car
while rollerblading,
and died as a result, in Southampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April
29, 1995 (age 79 years, 150
days).
Entombed at Maplewood
Cemetery, Durham, N.C.
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William Alfred Eddy (1896-1962) —
also known as Bill Eddy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y.; Beirut, Lebanon.
Born, to American parents, in Sidon, Syria (now Lebanon),
March
9, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; college
professor; president of Hobart College and William Smith
College, Geneva, N.Y., 1936-42; served in the U.S. Marine Corps
during World War II; U.S. Minister to Saudi Arabia, 1944-46; Middle East consultant, Arabian American
Oil
Company, 1947-62.
Episcopalian.
Died May 3,
1962 (age 66 years, 55
days).
Interment at Protestant
Cemetery, Sidon, Lebanon.
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John Scott Everton (1908-2003) —
of Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Istanbul, Turkey;
Yarmouth Port, Yarmouth, Barnstable
County, Mass.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March 7,
1908.
Minister;
college
professor; president, Kalamazoo College, 1949-53; U.S.
Ambassador to Burma, 1961-63; president of Robert College (now
Bogazici University), Istanbul, Turkey, 1968-71.
Baptist;
later Congregationalist.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Pi
Kappa Delta.
Died January
23, 2003 (age 94 years, 322
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Livingston Farrand (1867-1939) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Brewster, Putnam
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., June 14,
1867.
Physician;
anthropologist;
psychologist;
university
professor; president, University of Colorado, 1914-19;
chairman, Central Committee of the American Red Cross, 1919-21;
president, Cornell University, 1921-37; elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve.
French
Huguenot ancestry. Member, American
Public Health Association; American
Psychological Association.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York
Hospital, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
8, 1939 (age 72 years, 147
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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Oran Faville (1817-1872) —
of Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio; Mitchell, Mitchell
County, Iowa.
Born in Manheim, Herkimer
County, N.Y., October
13, 1817.
College
professor; president, Wesleyan Female College, Delaware,
Ohio, 1853-55; Lieutenant
Governor of Iowa, 1858-60; Iowa
superintendent of public instruction, 1864-67.
Died in Waverly, Bremer
County, Iowa, November
2, 1872 (age 55 years, 20
days).
Interment at Harlington
Cemetery, Waverly, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Faville and Elizabeth 'Betsy' (West) Faville; married to
Maria M. Peck; uncle of Frederick
F. Faville. |
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Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (1853-1928) —
also known as Woodbridge N. Ferris; "The Big Rapids
Schoolmaster"; "The Good Grey
Governor" —
of Big Rapids, Mecosta
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin near Spencer, Tioga
County, N.Y., January
6, 1853.
Democrat. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; founder and president, Ferris Institute, later
Ferris State University; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1892; candidate for
Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1902; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1907; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916,
1924;
Governor
of Michigan, 1913-16; defeated, 1904, 1920; president, Big Rapids
Savings Bank; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1923-28; died in office 1928; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1924.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March
23, 1928 (age 75 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland
View Cemetery, Big Rapids, Mich.
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Arthur Sherwood Flemming (1905-1996) —
also known as Arthur S. Flemming —
of Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.; Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio; Eugene, Lane
County, Ore.
Born in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., June 12,
1905.
Republican. Member, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1939-48;
president, Ohio-Wesleyan University, 1948-53; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1958-61; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1960;
president, University of Oregon, 1961-68; president,
Macalester College, 1968-71.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society for Public Administration; Alpha
Sigma Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1994.
Died of acute renal
failure, at a retirement
home in Alexandria,
Va., September
7, 1996 (age 91 years, 87
days).
Interment at Montrepose
Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y.
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Virginia Ann Foxx (b. 1943) —
also known as Virginia Ann Palmieri —
of Grandfather, Avery
County, N.C.; Banner Elk, Avery
County, N.C.
Born in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., June 29,
1943.
Republican. College
professor; president, Mayland Community College, 1987-94;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1994-2004; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 2005-.
Female.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2018.
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Clifford C. Furnas —
Republican. President, State University of New York at
Buffalo; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1966.
Still living as of 1966.
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Buell Gordon Gallagher (1904-1978) —
also known as Buell G. Gallagher —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Granite Springs, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rankin, Vermilion
County, Ill., February
4, 1904.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; college
professor; president, Talladega College, 1933-43;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1948.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in August, 1978
(age 74
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Elmer David Gallagher and Elma Maryel (Poole) Gallagher;
married, September
1, 1927, to June Lucille Sampson. |
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John Milton Gregory (b. 1822) —
also known as John M. Gregory —
of Michigan.
Born in Sand Lake, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., July 6,
1822.
Republican. Baptist
minister; Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1859-64; president,
Kalamazoo College; president, Illinois Industrial University.
Baptist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Gregory; married 1846 to Julia
Gregory; married 1881 to Louisa
Allen. |
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Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (1791-1879) —
of New York.
Born in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
29, 1791.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1825-27; college
professor; president of Rutgers College (now Rutgers
University), 1840-50.
Slaveowner.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., February
24, 1879 (age 87 years, 87
days).
Interment at Old
Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, N.Y.
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Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1917-2015) —
also known as Theodore Hesburgh; "Father
Ted" —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., May 25,
1917.
Catholic
priest; president, Notre Dame University, 1952-87; member,
U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1957-72.
Catholic.
Recipient, Medal
of Freedom, 1964.
Died in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., February
26, 2015 (age 97 years, 277
days).
Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Notre Dame, Ind.
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David Jayne Hill (1850-1932) —
also known as David J. Hill —
of Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., June 10,
1850.
Historian;
president, Bucknell University, 1879-88; president,
University of Rochester, 1888-96; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1903-05; Netherlands, 1905-08; Luxembourg, 1905-08; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1908-11.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1932
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Hamilton Holt (1872-1951) —
of Connecticut.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
18, 1872.
Democrat. Magazine
editor and publisher; one of the founding members of the NAACP,
1909; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1924; president, Rollins
College, 1925-49.
Member, NAACP.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., April
26, 1951 (age 78 years, 251
days).
Interment at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Conn.
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David Franklin Houston (1866-1940) —
also known as David F. Houston —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Monroe, Union
County, N.C., February
17, 1866.
Superintendent
of schools; university
professor; president, Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Texas, 1902-05; president, University of Texas, 1905-08;
chancellor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1908-16; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1920-21; vice president, American Telephone
and Telegraph
Co. and president, Bell Telephone
Securities Co.; president, Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York, 1930-1940; director, United States
Steel
Corporation.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Died, from heart
disease, at the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
2, 1940 (age 74 years, 198
days).
Interment at Memorial
Cemetery of St. John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.
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William Lloyd Imes (1889-1986) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., December
29, 1889.
Minister;
Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933;
president, Knoxville College, 1943-47.
Presbyterian.
African
ancestry.
Died in 1986
(age about
96 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin A. Imes and Elizabeth (Wallace) Imes; married, September
9, 1915, to Grace Virginia Frank. |
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Seth Low (1850-1916) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
18, 1850.
Republican. Mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1882-85; president, Columbia
University, 1890-1900; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1902-03; defeated, 1897, 1903; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1908;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union
League.
Died in Bedford Hills, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
17, 1916 (age 66 years, 243
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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George Edward Reed (1846-1930) —
also known as "The Grand Old Man" —
of Willimantic, Windham
County, Conn.; Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa.; Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Brownville, Piscataquis
County, Maine, March
28, 1846.
Republican. Minister;
president, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 1889-1911;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1900.
Methodist.
English
ancestry.
Died, in Polyclinic Hospital,
Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
7, 1930 (age 83 years, 316
days).
Interment at Old
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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Jacob Gould Schurman (1854-1942) —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Freetown, Prince
Edward Island, May 22,
1854.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; college
professor; president, Cornell University, 1892-1920; U.S.
Minister to Greece, 1912-13; Montenegro, 1912-13; China, 1921-25; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915; U.S.
Ambassador to Germany, 1925-30.
Died in 1942
(age about
88 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Clinton DeWitt Smith (b. 1854) —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Trumansburg, Tompkins
County, N.Y., March 7,
1854.
University
professor; mayor
of East Lansing, Mich., 1907-08.
President of Escola Agricola, Piracicaba, Sao Paolo, Brazil,
1908-13.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Reuben Smith and Clarissa G. (Pease) Smith; married, June 16,
1892, to Anna Cora Smith. |
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Joseph Ross Stevenson (1866-1939) —
also known as J. Ross Stevenson —
of Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.; Baltimore,
Md.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Ligonier, Westmoreland
County, Pa., March 1,
1866.
Democrat. Pastor; college
professor; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1912 ; president, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1914-36.
Presbyterian.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., August
13, 1939 (age 73 years, 165
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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James Tallmadge Jr. (1778-1853) —
of Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Stanford, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
28, 1778.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1817-19; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; member of New York
state assembly from Dutchess County, 1824; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1825-26; president of New York
University, 1830-46; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1846.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
29, 1853 (age 75 years, 244
days).
Interment at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) —
also known as Robert C. Weaver —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
29, 1907.
Democrat. Economist;
received the Spingarn
Medal in 1962; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1966-68; first
African-American cabinet member; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1968 ;
president, Baruch College, 1969; trustee, Mount Sinai Medical
Center.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 17,
1997 (age 89 years, 200
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) —
also known as Andrew D. White —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Homer, Cortland
County, N.Y., November
7, 1832.
Republican. University
professor; member of New York
state senate 22nd District, 1864-67; co-founder and first
president of Cornell University, 1867-79 and 1881-85; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1872
(alternate), 1884,
1912;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; U.S. Minister to Germany, 1879-81; Russia, 1892-94; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1897-1902.
Member, American
Historical Association; American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y., November
4, 1918 (age 85 years, 362
days).
Entombed at Sage
Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; statue at Arts
Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
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