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Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) —
also known as Leonard D. Abbott —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Westfield, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Liverpool, England,
May
20, 1878.
Socialist. Writer; editor; Social Democratic candidate
for New
York state treasurer, 1900; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1906; candidate for
New
York state senate 15th District, 1910; president, Free Speech
League, predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union.
English
ancestry. Member, League
for Industrial Democracy.
Died, in Montefiore Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., March
19, 1953 (age 74 years, 303
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Lewis Lowe Abbott and Grace (Van Dusen) Abbott; married 1915 to Rose
Yuster. |
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article |
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Francis Alexandre Adams (1874-1975) —
also known as Francis A. Adams —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stuart, Martin
County, Fla.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1874.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
newspaper
editor; author; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 16th District, 1908.
Episcopalian.
Member, Theta
Delta Chi.
Died in Stuart, Martin
County, Fla., September
24, 1975 (age 101 years,
136 days).
Interment at All Saints Cemetery, Jensen Beach, Fla.
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Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Washington.
Born in Houstonia, Pettis
County, Mo., December
5, 1883.
Communist. Sawmill
worker; arrested
in Cleveland, 1919, on charges
of violating the state's criminal
syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; poet.
Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., July 18,
1982 (age 98 years, 225
days).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
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Norwood Francis Allman (1893-1987) —
also known as Norwood F. Allman —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; Union Hall, Franklin
County, Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Port Charlotte, Charlotte
County, Fla.
Born in Union Hall, Franklin
County, Va., July 24,
1893.
Lawyer;
interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Antung, 1917; Nanking, 1918; Tientsin, 1918-19; Tsinanfu, as of 1919-21; Shanghai, 1921; Chungking, 1921; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1922-24.
Member, Rotary.
Died in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., February
28, 1987 (age 93 years, 219
days).
Interment at Lincoln-Noyes Cemetery, Greensboro, Vt.
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Relatives: Son
of John Isaac Allman and Nannie Kate (English) Allman; married 1920 to Mary
Louise Hamilton; married to Dorothy Dennis. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Adam Badeau (1831-1895) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
29, 1831.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul General
in London, 1870-81; Havana, 1882-84; author; historian.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Ridgewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
19, 1895 (age 63 years, 80
days).
Interment at Dutch
Reformed Churchyard, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Ogunquit, Wells, York
County, Maine.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 27,
1862.
Democrat. Magazine
editor; author; playwright; candidate for mayor
of Yonkers, N.Y., 1894; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921.
Died, from intestinal
cancer, in City Hospital,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., January
21, 1922 (age 59 years, 239
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis N. Bangs and Amelia Francis (Bull) Bangs; married, March 3,
1886, to Agnes Lawson Hyde; married, April
27, 1904, to Mary Blakeney Gray. |
| | | Image source: American Review of
Reviews, March 1922 |
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Willard Bartlett (1846-1925) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Uxbridge, Worcester
County, Mass., October
14, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner of Elihu
Root, 1869-83 and 1917-24; drama critic; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1884-1907; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department,
1896-1906; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1906-16; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1914-16.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Died, from heart
disease, in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
17, 1925 (age 78 years, 95
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Bruce Barton (1886-1967) —
also known as "Advertiser"; "The Advertising
King"; "The Great Repealer" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Robbins, Scott
County, Tenn., August
5, 1886.
Republican. Author; newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1937-41; derided by
Franklin
Roosevelt as one of "Martin, Barton, and Fish", three Republican
opponents of his New Deal policies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1940,
1944;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1940; a founder of the Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn (BBDO) advertising
agency.
Congregationalist.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 5,
1967 (age 80 years, 334
days).
Interment at Rock
Hill Cemetery, Foxboro, Mass.
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Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837-1914) —
also known as S. G. W. Benjamin —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.; Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born, of American parents, at Argos, Greece,
February
13, 1837.
Librarian;
author; artist;
U.S. Minister to Persia, 1883-85; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, as of 1883-85.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Forestry Association; Navy
League.
Died in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., July 19,
1914 (age 77 years, 156
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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David Paul Berenberg (1890-1974) —
also known as David P. Berenberg; David
Paul —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Bethlehem, Northampton
County, Pa.
Born March
17, 1890.
Socialist. Candidate for New York
state assembly, 1918 (Kings County 2nd District), 1923 (Kings
County 10th District); candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1920; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1922.
Columnist for "The Socialist Call" newspaper
in 1935, under the pseudonym "David Paul".
Died March 7,
1974 (age 83 years, 355
days).
Interment somewhere
in Easton, Pa.
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Relatives:
Married to Rose Zwickel. |
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Herman Bernstein (1876-1935) —
Born in Russia,
September
21, 1876.
Author; translator; journalist;
founder and editor of The Day, Jewish daily newspaper;
published the "Willy-Nicky Correspondence," secret telegrams between
the Kaiser and the Czar, 1918; sued Henry
Ford for libel over anti-Semitic statements published in the
Dearborn Independent newspaper, and won a retraction; author of book
The History of a Lie (1921) which exposed "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion" as fraudulent; U.S. Minister to Albania, 1930-33.
Jewish.
Member, American
Jewish Committee; Zionist
Organization of America.
Died in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., August
31, 1935 (age 58 years, 344
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Bigelow (1817-1911) —
of Highland Falls, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Malden, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
25, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; author; U.S. Consul in Paris, 1861-64; U.S. Minister to France, 1865-66; secretary
of state of New York, 1876-77; executor of the estate of Samuel
J. Tilden.
Swedenborgian.
English
ancestry.
Died, from a bladder
ailment, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
19, 1911 (age 94 years, 24
days).
Interment at Peacedale
Cemetery, Highland Falls, N.Y.
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Esterita Blumberg (1928-2004) —
also known as Cissie Blumberg; Esterita
Rosenberg —
of Glen Wild, Sullivan
County, N.Y.; Liberty, Sullivan
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 8,
1928.
Hotel-keeper;
newspaper
columnist; American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 34th District, 1952.
Female.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Liberty, Sullivan
County, N.Y., September
3, 2004 (age 76 years, 179
days).
Interment at Workmen's Circle Cemetery, Glen Wild, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Elmer
Rosenberg and Rose (Braverman) Rosenberg; married to Larry
Blumberg. |
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Nicanor Bolet=Peraza (1838-1906) —
of Caracas, Venezuela;
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela,
June
4, 1838.
Writer; newspaper
publisher; Venezuela Minister to the United States, 1888-91,
1899; Consul-General
for Salvador in New
York, N.Y., 1895-96; Consul-General
for Central America in New
York, N.Y., 1897-98; Consul-General
for Honduras in New
York, N.Y., 1899-1902.
Spanish
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
25, 1906 (age 67 years, 294
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: Fort Worth (Tex.) Daily
Gazette, April 6, 1890 |
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Orlo Marion Brees (1896-1980) —
also known as Orlo M. Brees —
of Endicott, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Canton, Fulton
County, Ill., April
13, 1896.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; newspaper
editor; printing
business; author; lecturer;
poet; member of New York
state assembly from Broome County 2nd District, 1941-52; member
of New
York state senate 45th District, 1952.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in November, 1980
(age 84
years, 0 days).
Interment somewhere
in Peoria, Ill.
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Relatives:
Married 1933 to
Frances W. Freeman. |
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George Breitman (1916-1986) —
also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester
Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G.
Sloane —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
28, 1916.
Socialist. Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; arrested
about 1936 and charged
with inciting
riots; jailed
for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;
member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1954;
editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper,
The Militant, 1941-43, 1946-54; writer under several
different pen names; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
Jersey; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan.
Member, International
Typographical Union.
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Beekman Downtown Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
19, 1986 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman; married 1940 to
Dorothea Katz. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Julian Pleasant Bretz (1876-1951) —
also known as Julian P. Bretz —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., December
29, 1876.
Democrat. University
professor; historian; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1930 (Democratic, 37th District),
1932 (Democratic, 37th District), 1934 (Democratic, 37th District),
1944 (American Labor, 39th District); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1936;
chair
of Tompkins County Democratic Party, 1936; member of New York
Democratic State Committee, 1942.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Kappa
Alpha Order.
Died June 15,
1951 (age 74 years, 168
days).
Interment at Davis Chapel Cemetery, Dearborn, Mo.
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Heywood Campbell Broun (1888-1939) —
also known as Heywood Broun —
of New York; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Socialist. Sportswriter;
columnist for New York newspapers;;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1930; founder of
the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 and its first president;
expelled from Socialist Party in 1933.
Catholic.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
18, 1939 (age 51 years, 11
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Harry Edson Browne (1933-2006) —
also known as Harry Browne —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nassau
County, N.Y., June 17,
1933.
Libertarian. Writer; investment
advisor; candidate for President
of the United States, 1996, 2000; radio show
host, 2003.
Agnostic.
Died, of Lou
Gehrig's disease, in Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn., March 1,
2006 (age 72 years, 257
days).
Interment at Mt.
Gur Cemetery, Kernersville, N.C.
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William Frank Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) —
also known as William F. Buckley, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1925.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1965.
Catholic.
Irish
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, Skull
and Bones.
Leader of the conservative movement; founder and editor of
National Review magazine;
author and lecturer; host of television
news show "Firing Line"; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on November 18, 1991.
Died, probably of diabetes
and emphysema,
in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
27, 2008 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at St. Bernard Cemetery, Sharon, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of William Frank Buckley, Sr. and Aloise (Steiner) Buckley; brother
of James
Lane Buckley and Patricia Lee Buckley (who married Leo
Brent Bozell); married 1950 to
Patricia Alden Austin Taylor. |
| | | Political family: Buckley
family of New York and Connecticut. |
| | | Cross-reference: Frederic
R. Coudert, Jr. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Getting
It Right (2003) — God
and Man at Yale : The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
(1951) — Spytime
: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000) — Nearer,
My God : An Autobiography of Faith (1997) — The
Lexicon : A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word
Lover (1998) — Airborne
: A Sentimental Journey (1984) — In
Search of Anti-Semitism (1992) — Brothers
No More (1995) — Up
From Liberalism (1959) — The
Committee and its critics : a calm review of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (1962) — Elvis
in the Morning (2001) — Execution
eve, and other contemporary ballads (1975) — Four
reforms : a guide for the seventies (1973) — Gratitude
: reflections on what we owe to our country (1990) —
Nuremberg
: the reckoning (2002) — Overdrive
: a personal documentary (1983) — United
Nations Journal : A Delegate's Odyssey (1974) — The
unmaking of a mayor (1966) — Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero (2001) — The
Reagan I Knew (2008) |
| | | Fiction by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Stained
Glass : A Blackford Oakes Novel — Marco
Polo, If You Can : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Saving
the Queen : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — See
You Later, Alligator : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Tucker's
Last Stand : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Mongoose,
R.I.P. : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — A
Very Private Plot : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — High
Jinx : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — Who's
on First : A Blackford Oakes Mystery — The
Redhunter : a novel based on the life of Senator Joe
McCarthy |
| | | Books about William F. Buckley, Jr.:
John B. Judis, William
F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives —
Lee Edwards, William
F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement — Carl T.
Bogus, Buckley:
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American
Conservatism |
| | | Critical books about William F. Buckley,
Jr.: David Miller, Chairman
Bill: A Biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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Vivian Burnett (1876-1937) —
of Denver,
Colo.; Plandome Manor, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Paris, France,
April
5, 1876.
Newspaper
reporter; author; editor; music
composer; Dry candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Christian
Scientist.
Model for the title character in his mother's book, Little Lord
Fauntleroy.
While sailing his
yawl, Delight III, he helped rescue people from an
overturned sailboat, and then collapsed and died, probably of a heart
attack, on Long Island
Sound, July 25,
1937 (age 61 years, 111
days).
Interment at Roslyn
Cemetery, Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y.
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Daniel Evan Button (1917-2009) —
also known as Daniel E. Button —
of New York.
Born in Dunkirk, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., November
1, 1917.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; writer; U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1967-71; defeated,
1970.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., March 7,
2009 (age 91 years, 126
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Ranson Caygill (born c.1861) —
of Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born about 1861.
Democrat. Salvation Army
officer; author; poet; candidate for mayor
of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 1939.
Burial location unknown.
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John Curtis Chamberlain (1772-1834) —
also known as "The Hermit" —
of Alstead, Cheshire
County, N.H.; Charlestown, Sullivan
County, N.H.; Honeoye Falls, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.
Born in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., June 5,
1772.
Lawyer;
poet; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1802-04, 1818; U.S.
Representative from New Hampshire 2nd District, 1809-11.
Died in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., December
8, 1834 (age 62 years, 186
days).
Interment at Mt.
Albion Cemetery, Albion, N.Y.
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William Astor Chanler (1867-1934) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Paris, France.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., June 11,
1867.
Democrat. Explorer;
author; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1898; served in
the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1899-1901.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Injured in an automobile accident in France, 1915, and lost a
lower leg.
Died in Mentone (Menton), France,
March
4, 1934 (age 66 years, 266
days).
Interment at Trinity
Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler; brother of Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler; married 1903 to Minnie
'Beatrice' Ashley; grandnephew of John
Jacob Astor III; second great-grandson of John
Armstrong Jr.; second great-grandnephew of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), James
Armstrong and Edward
Livingston; third great-grandson of John
Armstrong and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); fourth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder and Robert
Livingston the Younger; fifth great-grandnephew of Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); sixth great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); first cousin once removed of William
Waldorf Astor; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, William
Livingston, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer and James
Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Philip
Van Cortlandt, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler and Maturin
Livingston; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792) and Peter
Samuel Schuyler; third cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Philip
Schuyler, James
Alexander Hamilton, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), William
Jay, Gerrit
Smith, Charles
Ludlow Livingston, Hamilton
Fish and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; fourth cousin of Peter
Goelet Gerry, Ogden
Livingston Mills and Robert
Reginald Livingston. |
| | | Political family: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Albert Clark Chapin (1891-1950) —
also known as Albert C. Chapin —
of South Egremont, Egremont, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Sea Girt, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 14,
1891.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1917-18; Tientsin, 1918; Mukden, 1918; real estate
broker.
Died in Mendocino
County, Calif., December
28, 1950 (age 59 years, 228
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ellen Chesler —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Democrat. Writer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from New York, 1984.
Female.
Still living as of 1984.
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Relatives:
Married to Matthew J. Mallow. |
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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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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) —
also known as Jane Morgan —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J., September
15, 1789.
Novelist; U.S. Consul in Lyon, 1826-28.
Died September
14, 1851 (age 61 years, 364
days).
Interment at Christ
Churchyard, Cooperstown, N.Y.; statue at Cooper
Garden, Cooperstown, N.Y.
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George Sylvester Counts (1889-1974) —
also known as George S. Counts —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; New Hope, Bucks
County, Pa.
Born near Baldwin City, Douglas
County, Kan., December
9, 1889.
University
professor; author; president,
American Federation of Teachers, 1939-42; New York American Labor
Party state chair, 1942-44; Liberal candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952; New York Liberal Party state chair,
1955-59.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Delta Kappa; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Suffered a stroke,
and died two weeks later, in a hospital
at Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., November
10, 1974 (age 84 years, 336
days). His body was
donated to Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of James Wilson Counts and Mertie Florella (Gamble)
Counts. |
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George William Curtis (b. 1824) —
also known as George W. Curtis —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., February
24, 1824.
Republican. Author; orator;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1860,
1884;
principal editor, Harper's Weekly; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Burial location unknown.
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Solon De Leon (1883-1975) —
also known as Braset Marteau; Bert Grant —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
2, 1883.
Socialist. Writer; college
teacher; Socialist Labor candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1911.
Died in Ellenville, Ulster
County, N.Y., December
3, 1975 (age 92 years, 92
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Aaron De Witt (1891-1963) —
also known as Samuel A. De Witt; Sam De
Witt —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.; Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in 1891.
Socialist. Machinery
dealer; poet; playwright; member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 3rd District, 1920; expelled
1920; resigned 1920; defeated, 1920 (Bronx County 3rd District), 1924
(Bronx County 7th District), 1926 (Bronx County 7th District), 1927
(Bronx County 3rd District), 1929 (Bronx County 3rd District), 1932
(Queens County 4th District), 1933 (Queens County 4th District);
candidate for borough
president of Bronx, New York, 1925; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1928 (22nd District), 1934 (2nd
District), 1935 (2nd District), 1936 (2nd District).
Expelled
from the New York State Assembly over alleged disloyalty,
along with the other four Socialist members, April 1, 1920;
re-elected to the same seat in a special election, but resigned in
protest when three other Socialist members were expelled again.
Died in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., January
22, 1963 (age about 71
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Monroe Dickinson (1842-1924) —
also known as Charles M. Dickinson —
of Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Lowville, Lewis
County, N.Y., November
15, 1842.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; poet; one of the founders of the Associated Press
news service, 1892; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; U.S. Consul General
in Constantinople, 1897-1906; U.S. Consular Agent in Sofia, 1901-03; Progressive candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1914.
Died in Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y., July 3,
1924 (age 81 years, 231
days).
Interment at Spring
Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, N.Y.
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John Forrest Dillon (1831-1914) —
also known as John F. Dillon —
of Davenport, Scott
County, Iowa.
Born in Northampton, Montgomery County (now Fulton
County), N.Y., December
25, 1831.
Lawyer;
law
professor; author; district judge in Iowa 7th District,
1859-63; justice of
Iowa state supreme court, 1864-69; chief
justice of Iowa state supreme court, 1867-69; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1870-79.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 5,
1914 (age 82 years, 131
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Iowa.
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Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.; New York.
Born in Queen City, Schuyler
County, Mo., July 25,
1907.
Socialist. Truck
driver; became involved with a militant Teamsters Union local in
Minneapolis in the 1930s, and helped lead a
general strike; joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1939; convicted
in 1941 of treason
under the anti-Communist Smith
Act, and served one year in prison;
Socialist Workers candidate for President
of the United States, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960; national secretary
of the Socialist Workers Party, 1953-72; historian.
Member, Teamsters
Union.
Died in Pinole, Contra
Costa County, Calif., October
31, 1983 (age 76 years, 98
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac T. Dobbs. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: The Militant, July 2,
1956 |
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) —
also known as W. E. B. Du Bois —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Accra, Ghana.
Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, Mass., February
23, 1868.
College
professor; sociologist;
historian; civil rights leader; Pan-Africanist; one of the
founders of the NAACP; received the Spingarn
Medal in 1920; member of New York American Labor Party Executive
Committee, 1949; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1950; in 1951, he and four other leaders
of the Peace Information Center, which was alleged
to be acting on behalf of the Soviet Union, were indicted
for their failure to register as foreign
agents; the case was dismissed in 1952, but his passport was
withheld until 1958; awarded the Lenin
Peace Prize in 1959.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP.
In 1895, he was the first
African-American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Died in Accra, Ghana,
August
27, 1963 (age 95 years, 185
days).
Entombed at Du Bois Memorial Centre, Accra, Ghana.
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Maurice Francis Egan (1852-1924) —
also known as Maurice F. Egan —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 24,
1852.
University
professor; author; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1907-17.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
15, 1924 (age 71 years, 236
days).
Interment at Old
Cathedral Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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J. Louis Engdahl (1884-1932) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., November
11, 1884.
Writer and editor for Socialist and Communist newspapers;
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).
Burial location unknown.
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Barry M. Farber (b. 1930) —
also known as Barry Farber —
of New York.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., 1930.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1970; candidate for
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1977; writer; talk
show host.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2012.
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Howard Melvin Fast (1914-2003) —
also known as Howard Fast; "E. V.
Cunningham"; "Walter Ericson" —
of Teaneck, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., November
11, 1914.
Communist. Novelist; in 1950, suspected of sedition,
he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee,
where he refused to name fellow members of the Communist Party; convicted
of contempt
of Congress and sentenced to three months in prison;
awarded the Stalin
Peace Prize in 1953; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1952.
Jewish.
Died in Old Greenwich, Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
12, 2003 (age 88 years, 121
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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Maynard Dauchy Follin (1863-1948) —
also known as Maynard D. Follin —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne
County, Mich.; Dunedin, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in New York, March 5,
1863.
Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Detroit,
Mich., 1926-31; writer.
French
ancestry.
Died in Pinellas
County, Fla., August
4, 1948 (age 85 years, 152
days).
Interment at Woodmere
Cemetery, Detroit, 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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Alan Stuart Franken (b. 1951) —
also known as Al Franken; "Stuart
Smalley" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 21,
1951.
Democrat. Comedian;
author; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 2009-18; resigned 2018; in November 2017,
Leeann Tweeden alleged that Franken had forcibly
kissed her on a 2006 USO tour; Franken was also photographed
appearing to place his hands on
or near her breasts; other women made similar allegations; resigned
from the Senate in January.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2018.
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Barbara Garson (b. 1941) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 7,
1941.
Socialist. Playwright; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1992.
Female.
Still living as of 1992.
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Henry George (1839-1897) —
of New York.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
2, 1839.
Economist;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886 (United Labor); candidate for secretary
of state of New York, 1887.
Author of Progress and Poverty.
Died October
29, 1897 (age 58 years, 57
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Erland Gjessing (1869-1954) —
of New York.
Born in Schleswig, Germany,
March
16, 1869.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; bookkeeper;
stenographer;
interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Copenhagen, 1918-38.
Danish
ancestry.
Died in Glover, Orleans
County, Vt., October
28, 1954 (age 85 years, 226
days).
Interment at Westlook
Cemetery, Glover, Vt.
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Harvey Treadway Goodier (1893-1976) —
also known as Harvey T. Goodier —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 7,
1893.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Yokohama, 1918-20, 1921, 1922; Dairen, 1920-21; Nagoya, 1921-22; U.S. Consul in Taihoku, 1922-24; Nagoya, 1924-28; Vancouver, 1928-33; Fort William, as of 1938-43; Port Arthur, as of 1938-43.
Died in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., November
28, 1976 (age 83 years, 144
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Bernard Gotlieb (1893-1979) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
7, 1893.
School
teacher; interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice
Consul in Baghdad, 1917; Cairo, 1918-21; U.S. Consul in Teheran, 1921-24; Halifax, 1924-26; Singapore, 1926-28; Wellington, 1928-33; Messina, 1933-34; Trieste, 1934-37; Nuevo Laredo, 1940-42; Santiago de Cuba, 1942-43; Havana, 1943-44; Windsor, 1944-47.
Jewish.
Died in Marin
County, Calif., March
15, 1979 (age 85 years, 128
days).
Interment at Ferncliff
Cemetery, Hartsdale, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Maurice Henry Gotlieb and Rebecca (Wolff) Gotlieb; married, July 2,
1929, to Audrey Gwendoline Ormiston. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1918) |
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Ernest Henry Gruening (1887-1974) —
also known as Ernest Gruening; "Mr.
Alaska" —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1887.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; newspaper
editor; writer; Governor
of Alaska Territory, 1939-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska Territory, 1956;
member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business, 1952;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-69; defeated, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960,
1968,
1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Alaska.
Jewish.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Leader in drive to gain statehood for Alaska. One of only two
Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave
President Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War.
Died of cancer in
Washington,
D.C., June 26,
1974 (age 87 years, 140
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Ralph Waldo Gwinn (1884-1962) —
also known as Ralph W. Gwinn —
of Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., March
29, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer;
writer; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1945-59; defeated,
1940, 1942.
Methodist
or Christian
Reformed. Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Freemasons.
Died of a heart
attack, in Delray Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., February
27, 1962 (age 77 years, 335
days).
Interment at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) —
also known as Arthur S. Hardy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., August
13, 1847.
Civil
engineer; college
professor; author; editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
1893-95; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1897-99; Greece, 1899-1901; Romania, 1899-1901; Serbia, 1899-1901; Switzerland, 1901-03; Spain, 1902-05; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, 1897-99.
Died in Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., March
13, 1930 (age 82 years, 212
days).
Interment at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Conn.
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Bret Harte (1836-1902) —
also known as Francis Brett Hart —
of Union (now Arcata), Humboldt
County, Calif.; London, England.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., August
25, 1836.
Writer; editor; U.S. Consul in Crefeld, 1878-80; Glasgow, 1880-85.
English,
Dutch,
and Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Camberley, England,
May
2, 1902 (age 65 years, 250
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Churchyard, Frimley, Surrey, England.
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Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (1882-1964) —
also known as Carlton J. H. Hayes —
of New York.
Born near Afton, Chenango
County, N.Y., May 16,
1882.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; historian; U.S.
Ambassador to Spain, 1942-45.
Catholic.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died, of a heart
ailment, at Sidney Hospital,
Afton, Chenango
County, N.Y., September
3, 1964 (age 82 years, 110
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ebenezer Hazard (1745-1817) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
15, 1745.
Publisher;
postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1775-76; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1782-89; insurance
business; historian.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 13,
1817 (age 72 years, 149
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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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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William Russell Hochman (1921-2019) —
also known as William Hochman; Bill
Hochman —
of Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., August
28, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; college
professor; historian; secretary of
Colorado Democratic Party, 1961-65; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Colorado, 1968
(member, Credentials
Committee; speaker).
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; American
Historical Association.
Died in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., March
23, 2019 (age 97 years, 207
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Julius Hochman and Ruth Hochman. |
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Frederic Clemson Howe (1867-1940) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Cortlandt town, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., November
21, 1867.
Lawyer;
law
professor; writer; member of Ohio
state senate, 1906-09; Commissioner of Immigration for the Port
of New York, 1914-19.
Died, in Martha's Vineyard Hospital,
Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
3, 1940 (age 72 years, 256
days).
Interment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Jackson Howe and Jane (Clemson) Howe; married 1904 to Marie
H. Jenney. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) —
of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont
County, Ohio, March 1,
1837.
U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author; editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1872-81.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1920 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Cambridge
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Washington Irving (1783-1859) —
also known as "Dietrich Knickerbocker";
"Jonathan Oldstyle"; "Geoffrey
Crayon" —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1783.
Essayist; historian; author of The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow and other stories; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1842-46.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
28, 1859 (age 76 years, 239
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Irving (1731-1807) and Sarah (Sanders) Irving; brother of
William
Irving (1766-1821), Peter
Irving and John
Treat Irving; great-granduncle of Robert
Broadnax Glenn. |
| | | Political family: Irving
family of New York City, New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: William
P. Duval |
| | | The city
of Irving,
Texas, is named for
him. — The village
of Irvington,
New York, is named for
him. — Washington Irving Elementary
School, in Edmond,
Oklahoma, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Washington
Irving Howard
— W.
Irving Babcock
— Washington
I. Wallace
— W.
I. Babb
— Washington
Irving Gadbois
— Washington
I. Smith
— W.
Irving Vanderpoel
— Washington
I. Kilpatrick
|
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Washington Irving: George
S. Hellman, Washington
Irving Esquire : Ambassador at Large from the New World to the
Old |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1940) |
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Eliot Janeway (1913-1993) —
also known as Eliot Jacobstein; "Calamity
Janeway" —
of Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born January
1, 1913.
Democrat. Economist;
economic advisor to Presidents Franklin
Roosevelt and Lyndon
Johnson; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Redding, 1948; newspaper
columnist.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died, from diabetes
and heart
problems, in Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1993 (age 80 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Jay II (1817-1894) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 23,
1817.
Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Austria, 1869-75; historian.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 5,
1894 (age 76 years, 316
days).
Interment at Jay
Family Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William
Jay and Hannah Augusta (McVicker) Jay; married to Eleanor
Kingsland Field; nephew of Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843); grandson of John
Jay; grandnephew of James
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; great-grandson of William
Livingston; great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; second great-grandson of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; second great-grandnephew of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; third great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder, Anthony
Brockholls, Pieter
Van Brugh and Phillip
French; third great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin twice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Matthew
Clarkson and Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933); first cousin thrice removed of Robert
Gilbert Livingston and Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); first cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger, Cornelis
Cuyler, Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746) and John
Cruger Jr.; first cousin five times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin of Henry
Brockholst Ledyard; second cousin once removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873) and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); second cousin twice removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Stephen
John Schuyler, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836) and Brockholst
Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of Philip
P. Schuyler and Henry
Cruger; third cousin of Philip
Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), William
Duer, Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer and Denning
Duer; third cousin once removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Nicholas
Bayard, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker, Hamilton
Fish, Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean; third cousin twice removed of James
Livingston, Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Bronson
Murray Cutting, Robert
Reginald Livingston, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; third cousin thrice removed of John
Eliot Thayer Jr., Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; fourth cousin of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, James
Alexander Hamilton, Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, John
Cortlandt Parker and John
Jacob Astor III; fourth cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston, Peter
Gansevoort, George
Washington Schuyler, James
Adams Ekin, Philip
N. Schuyler, Richard
Wayne Parker, William
Waldorf Astor, Charles
Wolcott Parker and Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) —
also known as James W. Johnson; James William
Johnson —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 17,
1871.
School
principal; author; lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Cabello, 1906-07; Dakar, 1907-08; Corinto, 1908-09; university
professor.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Sigma
Pi Phi; Phi
Beta Sigma; Freemasons.
Author of the words to the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which
became known as the "Negro National Anthem".
Killed in a car-train
collision, in Wiscasset, Lincoln
County, Maine, June 26,
1938 (age 67 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Owen McMahon Johnson (1878-1952) —
also known as Owen Johnson —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stockbridge, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
27, 1878.
Democrat. Author; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 1st District, 1936, 1938.
Member, Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., January
27, 1952 (age 73 years, 153
days).
Interment at Stockbridge
Cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Katharine (McMahon) Johnson and Robert
Underwood Johnson; married, May 23,
1901, to Mary Galt Stockly; married, February
1, 1912, to Esther Ellen Cobb; married, July 2,
1917, to Cecile Denis de la Garde; married, January
20, 1921, to Catherine Sayre Burton; married, January
31, 1926, to Gertrude (Bovee) Le Boutillier. |
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Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., January
12, 1853.
Author; poet; Editor, Century Magazine,
1909-13; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1920-21.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died October
14, 1937 (age 84 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Kent (1763-1847) —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Doanesburgh, Putnam
County, N.Y., July 31,
1763.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1790-91, 1792-93, 1796-97 (Dutchess County
1790-91, 1792-93, New York County 1796-97); candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1793; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1798-1814; Chancellor
of New York, 1814-23; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Author of Commentaries on American Law, the first
comprehensive treatment of the subject. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1847 (age 84 years, 134
days).
Interment somewhere
in Fishkill, N.Y.
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Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) —
of Ausable Forks, Essex
County, N.Y.
Born in Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 21,
1882.
Artist;
writer; member of New York American Labor Party Executive
Committee, 1945; American Labor candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 33rd District, 1948; vice-chair of
New York American Labor Party, 1949; chairman of the National Council
of American-Soviet Friendship, 1957-71; this organization and its
leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; received the
Lenin
Peace Prize in 1967.
Died in Plattsburgh, Clinton
County, N.Y., March
13, 1971 (age 88 years, 265
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Essex County, N.Y.
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Alan Lee Keyes (b. 1950) —
also known as Alan L. Keyes —
of Maryland.
Born in the St. Albans Naval Hospital,
Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
7, 1950.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1988, 1992; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1996,
2000,
2008;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 2004; American Independent candidate for
President
of the United States, 2008.
African
ancestry.
Syndicated newspaper
columnist; radio talk
show host.
Still living as of 2014.
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Wythe Leigh Kinsolving (1878-1964) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Winchester, Franklin
County, Tenn.; Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; Jackson, Jackson
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Oakland, Garrett
County, Md.; Charlottesville,
Va.; Stanardsville, Greene
County, Va.
Born in Halifax, Halifax
County, Va., November
14, 1878.
Democrat. Episcopal
priest; rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church, Barton Heights, Va.,
until 1908, when he resigned
following a widely
reported fist
fight with his father-in-law, Rev. Dr. E. H. Pitt; composer;
poet; translator; prolific writer of opinion pieces for
newspapers, expressing moderate pacifist views, along with strong
support for the League of Nations; offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1924 ; in 1928, he toured the country giving speeches in support of
Democratic presidential nominee Al
Smith; initially supported President Franklin
Roosevelt and the New Deal, but in the late 1930s turned toward
isolationism and anti-Communism.
Episcopalian.
Died, from cerebral
vascular accident, while suffering from chronic
brain syndrome due to cerebral
arteriosclerosis, in DeJarnette State Sanatorium, a mental
hospital, in Augusta
County, Va., December
21, 1964 (age 86 years, 37
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Edgar Kopp (b. 1885) —
of New York.
Born in Amoy (Xiamen), China,
February
28, 1885.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; interpreter; U.S. Vice & Deputy
Consul in Tsingtao, 1909-11.
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Morton Koster (b. 1934) —
also known as Richard M. Koster; R. M.
Koster —
of Canal Zone (now part of Panama).
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1934.
Democrat. Novelist; journalist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Canal Zone, 1964,
1968,
1972;
member of Democratic National Committee from Canal Zone, 1967-76;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Democrats Abroad, 1988,
1992,
1996.
Jewish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2013.
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Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (1882-1947) —
also known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia; "The Little
Flower" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
11, 1882.
Republican. U.S. Consular Agent in Fiume, 1904-06; interpreter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1917-19, 1923-33 (14th District
1917-19, 20th District 1923-33); defeated, 1914 (14th District), 1932
(20th District); major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1920,
1928
(alternate), 1932
(alternate); mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1934-45; defeated, 1921, 1929.
Episcopalian.
Italian
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died of pancreatic
cancer, in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., September
20, 1947 (age 64 years, 283
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Achille Luigi Carlo La Guardia and Irene Coen; married 1919 to Thea
Almerigotti; married, February
28, 1929, to Marie Fisher. |
| | | Cross-reference: Vito
Marcantonio — Clendenin
Ryan |
| | | LaGuardia Airport,
in Queens,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Fiorello LaGuardia: H. Paul
Jeffers, The
Napoleon of New York : Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia —
Thomas Kessner, Fiorello
H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York —
Mervyn D. Kaufman, Fiorello
LaGuardia — Alyn Brodsky, The
Great Mayor : Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of the City of New
York |
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Harry Wellington Laidler (1884-1970) —
also known as Harry W. Laidler —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
18, 1884.
Socialist. Newspaper
reporter; author; economist;
one of the founders (along with Upton
Sinclair and others) of the League for Industrial Democracy
(originally Intercollegiate Socialist Society); candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 17th District, 1914, 1915, 1923;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1917, 1922; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1918 (8th District), 1920 (3rd
District), 1932 (6th District); candidate for New York
state senate 6th District, 1928; candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1930; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1936; candidate for delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1937;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1938.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Chi.
Died July 14,
1970 (age 86 years, 146
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March
28, 1902.
Socialist. Author; lecturer;
arrested
on June 27, 1934, while picketing
in support of a labor
union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; chairman,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1943-47; this
organization and its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department denied a
passport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-front
organizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate cited
him with contempt
of Congress for refusing to testify before Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequently indicted;
pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court
of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent
Socialist).
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; NAACP; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of heart
failure, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., April
26, 1995 (age 93 years, 29
days).
Interment at Brookside
Cemetery, Englewood, N.J.
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William R. Lieberman (b. 1909) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 23,
1909.
Republican. Lawyer;
writer for the Wall Street Journal newspaper,
1926-29; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 23rd District, 1934;
defeated, 1934.
Burial location unknown.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) —
also known as Alice Lee Roosevelt; "Princess
Alice" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1884.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936,
1940
(speaker);
newspaper
columnist.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
emphysema,
and cardiac
arrest, in Washington,
D.C., February
20, 1980 (age 96 years, 8
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Step-daughter of Edith
Roosevelt; daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt; half-sister of Theodore
Roosevelt Jr.; married, February
17, 1906, to Nicholas
Longworth; niece of Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; grandniece of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; grandaunt of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; great-grandniece of James
I. Roosevelt; second great-grandniece of William
Bellinger Bulloch; third great-granddaughter of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin once removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin thrice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alice Roosevelt Longworth:
Carol Felsenthal, Princess
Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth |
| | | Image source: Time magazine, February
7, 1927 |
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Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) —
also known as Ann Clare Boothe; Clare Boothe
Brokaw —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
10, 1903.
Republican. Writer; journalist;
playwright; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944,
1948
(speaker),
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56.
Female.
Catholic.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1987 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;
novelist, essayist, magazine
editor, Hollywood
screenwriter, director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
newspaper
in New York City; in November, 1960, while drunk
at a party, he stabbed
and wounded his wife, Adele; he was arrested
and held for psychiatric evaluation, and eventually pleaded
guilty to third-degree
assault; arrested
and jailed
in 1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish
ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Interment at Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Mass.
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Don Martin Mankiewicz (1922-2015) —
also known as Don M. Mankiewicz —
of East Norwich, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
January
30, 1922.
Democrat. Novelist; screenwriter for dozens of television
shows; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1960
(alternate), 1972;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.
Jewish.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in Monrovia, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
25, 2015 (age 93 years, 85
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Fabian Mankiewicz (1924-2014) —
also known as Frank Mankiewicz —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 16,
1924.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for
California
state assembly, 1950; lawyer;
author; press secretary for Robert
F. Kennedy, 1966-68; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1968;
campaign manager for George
McGovern's presidential campaign, 1972; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 1976; president,
National Public Radio,
1977-83.
Jewish.
Died, of heart
failure while suffering from lung
problems, in a hospital
at Washington,
D.C., October
23, 2014 (age 90 years, 160
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Malachy Gerard McCourt (b. 1931) —
also known as Malachy McCourt —
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., September
20, 1931.
Green. Actor;
writer; candidate for Governor of
New York, 2006.
Irish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Joseph V. McKee (1889-1956) —
also known as James W. Dawson; "Holy
Joe" —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
8, 1889.
School
teacher; lawyer;
author; member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 7th District, 1918-23; municipal
judge in New York, 1924-26; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1932; defeated, 1932, 1933 (Recovery);
elected (Wet) delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 23rd District, 1938.
Catholic.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
28, 1956 (age 66 years, 173
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Carl D. Meinhardt —
of New York.
Born in New York.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, as of 1916-17; Canton, 1917-19; Changsha, as of 1921-24; U.S. Consul in Changsha, as of 1926; Shanghai, as of 1927-29; Tsinan, as of 1932.
Burial location unknown.
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Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005) —
also known as Arthur Miller —
of Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
17, 1915.
Democrat. Playwright; author of such plays as "Death of a
Salesman" and "The Crucible"; received the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 1949; because he was suspected
of ties to Communist
organizations, his passport was
denied in 1954; compelled to testify before the House Un-American
Activities Committee in 1956; he refused to name his political
colleagues, and was found
guilty of contempt
of Congress in 1957; the conviction was overturned on appeal;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968.
Agnostic.
Jewish
ancestry.
Died in Roxbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., February
10, 2005 (age 89 years, 116
days).
Interment at Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Conn.
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Thomas Parker Moffat (b. 1866) —
also known as Thomas P. Moffat —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y., April 7,
1866.
Accountant;
poet; U.S. Consul in Turks Island, 1903-05; La Guaira, 1905-08; Trinidad, 1909; Bluefields, 1909-11; Managua, 1911; U.S. Vice Consul in Trinidad, 1908-09; U.S. Consul General in Singapore, 1911; New York leader of the Frank
O. Lowden for President campaign, 1928.
In 1908, when the Venezuelan government was denying an outbreak of
plague in La Guaira, and jailing doctors who diagnosed bubonic
plague, he alone among the foreign consuls refused to sign the
government's declaration that the city was plague-free. After a
quarantine was imposed, he rowed five miles out to sea to meet an
American gunboat.
Burial location unknown.
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Byron Rufus Newton (1861-1938) —
also known as Byron R. Newton —
of Bayside, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Wirt town, Allegany
County, N.Y., August
4, 1861.
Newspaper
reporter; poet; interested in aviation
during its early days; helped organize airplane
races; private secretary to William
G. McAdoo; publicity director for Woodrow
Wilson's presidential campaign in 1912; U.S. First Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-17; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1917-21; New York City Tax Commissioner, 1938.
Suffered a stroke,
and died eight days later, in Bayside, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March
20, 1938 (age 76 years, 228
days).
Interment at Flushing
Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Dorothy Norman (1905-1997) —
also known as Dorothy Stecker —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., 1905.
Democrat. Writer; photographer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1948.
Female.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Urban
League.
Died in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., April
12, 1997 (age about 91
years).
Burial location unknown.
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James Oneal (1875-1962) —
also known as Jim Oneal —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.; Indiana; Massachusetts; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March
13, 1875.
Socialist. Editor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1918 (7th District), 1920 (10th
District), 1920 (10th District), 1922 (7th District), 1926 (2nd
District), 1928 (7th District), 1931 (9th District), 1932 (2nd
District); delegate to Socialist National Convention from New York,
1920; candidate for New York
state assembly from Kings County 14th District, 1922, 1923;
candidate for New York
state senate 7th District, 1924; candidate for borough
president of Queens, New York, 1925, 1933.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., December
12, 1962 (age 87 years, 274
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Chandler Owen (1889-1967) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., April 5,
1889.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Socialist candidate for
New
York state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1920; newspaper
managing editor; public
relations business; speechwriter; candidate in Republican
primary for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1934.
African
ancestry.
Died, from kidney
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
2, 1967 (age 78 years, 211
days).
Interment at Lincoln
Cemetery, Blue Island, Ill.
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Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) —
also known as Robert D. Owen —
of New Harmony, Posey
County, Ind.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
November
9, 1801.
Democrat. Farmer;
author; newspaper
editor; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836-39, 1851-52; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1843-47; defeated,
1839, 1847; candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Two Sicilies, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to Two Sicilies, 1854-58.
Scottish
and Welsh
ancestry.
Aided his father in the establishment of the New Harmony social
experiment.
Died in Lake George, Warren
County, N.Y., June 24,
1877 (age 75 years, 227
days).
Original interment at Village
Cemetery, Lake George, N.Y.; reinterment at Maple
Hill Cemetery, New Harmony, Ind.
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James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) —
Born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess
County, N.Y., August
22, 1778.
Novelist; poet; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1838-41.
Said to have written the rhyme 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers'.
Died in Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y., April 6,
1860 (age 81 years, 228
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Howard Payne (1791-1852) —
also known as John H. Payne —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1791.
Actor;
playwright; author of the lines which were later adapted as
the song "Home Sweet Home"; U.S. Consul in Tunis, 1842-45, 1851-52, died in office 1852.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame, 1970.
Died in Tunis, Tunisia,
April
10, 1852 (age 60 years, 306
days).
Original interment at St.
George's Protestant Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia; reinterment in 1883
at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855-1922) —
also known as Frederic C. Penfield —
of Connecticut; Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Connecticut, April
23, 1855.
Author; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in London, 1885-87; U.S. Diplomatic Agent to Egypt, 1893-97; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, 1893-97; U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, 1913-17.
Died June 19,
1922 (age 67 years, 57
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Penfield and Sophia (Young) Penfield; married 1892 to
Katharine Albert McMurdo Welles; married 1908 to Anne
(Weightman) Walker. |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary |
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Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1839-1901) —
also known as Gilbert A. Pierce —
of Porter
County, Ind.; Illinois; North Dakota; Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in East Otto, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., January
11, 1839.
Republican. Lawyer; journalist;
newspaper
editor; author; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1869; Governor
of Dakota Territory, 1884-86; U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1889-91; U.S. Minister to Portugal, 1893.
Died at the Lexington Hotel,
Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
15, 1901 (age 62 years, 35
days).
Interment at Adams
Cemetery, Valparaiso, Ind.
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Harlan Eugene Read (1880-1963) —
also known as Harlan E. Read —
of St.
Louis, Mo.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., May 7,
1880.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 10th District, 1918; author;
radio
commentator.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February, 1963
(age 82
years, 0 days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Raymond Robins (1873-1954) —
of Nome, Nome
census area, Alaska; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; near Brooksville, Hernando
County, Fla.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
17, 1873.
Progressive. Coal miner;
lawyer;
went
to the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush; pastor; social
worker; economist;
writer; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; commissioner of American Red Cross
mission to Russia, 1917.
Died September
26, 1954 (age 81 years, 9
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
27, 1861.
Republican. Poet; lecturer;
speaker, Republican National Convention, 1920.
Female.
Died, from pleural
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
17, 1933 (age 71 years, 143
days).
Interment at Robinson
Cemetery, Warren town, Herkimer County, N.Y.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) —
also known as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt —
of Hyde Park, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
11, 1884.
Democrat. First Lady
of the United States, 1933-45; delegate to the United Nations
General Assembly, 1945-53; member, United Nations Commission on Human
Rights; newspaper
columnist; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1952,
1956,
1960;
member, President's Commission on the Status of Women, 1961-62.
Female.
Member, League of Women
Voters; NAACP.
Inducted, National
Women's Hall of Fame, 1973.
Died, of tuberculosis,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
7, 1962 (age 78 years, 27
days).
Interment at Roosevelt
Home, Hyde Park, N.Y.
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James Denson Sayers (1888-1957) —
also known as James D. Sayers —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.; Queens, Queens
County, N.Y.; Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Summerfield, Claiborne
Parish, La., March
17, 1888.
Socialist. Telegraph
operator; editor; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Texas, 1920; candidate for New York
state assembly from Queens County 1st District, 1932.
Died December
26, 1957 (age 69 years, 284
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of David Joel Sayers and Emma Missouri (Sayers) Sayers; married to
Eda Eugenia Martin. |
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Montgomery Schuyler Jr. (1877-1955) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., September
2, 1877.
Author; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1904-06; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1913; Salvador, 1921-25; served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
stockbroker;
banker.
Episcopalian.
Died November
1, 1955 (age 78 years, 60
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Katherine Beeckman (Livingston) Schuyler and Montgomery Schuyler;
married, August
22, 1906, to Edith Lawver; second great-grandson of Valentine
Brother; third great-grandson of Robert
Gilbert Livingston; fourth great-grandson of Gilbert
Livingston; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Livingston and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); fifth great-grandson of Robert
Livingston the Elder; fifth great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin four times removed of Philip
Van Cortlandt and Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin five times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William
Livingston; first cousin six times removed of Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin seven times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed of Hamilton
Fish and Philip
N. Schuyler; second cousin four times removed of Peter
Robert Livingston, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Edward
Livingston; second cousin five times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler, Philip
P. Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; third cousin twice removed of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, Nicholas
Fish and Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin thrice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry
Walter Livingston, Rensselaer
Westerlo, Peter
Augustus Jay, Edward
Philip Livingston, William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; fourth cousin of Jonathan
Mayhew Wainwright; fourth cousin once removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991). |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1921) |
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William Irving Sirovich (1882-1939) —
also known as William I. Sirovich —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in York, York
County, Pa., March
18, 1882.
Physician;
playwright; Independence League candidate for New York
state treasurer, 1908, 1910; superintendent, Peoples Hospital,
1911-29; president, Industrial National Bank; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1927-39; defeated
(Democratic), 1924; died in office 1939.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, of a heart
attack, while taking a bath at home, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
17, 1939 (age 57 years, 274
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939) —
also known as Joel E. Spingarn —
of Bronx, New York County (now Bronx
County), N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 17,
1875.
Republican. University
professor; poet; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1908; chairman,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
1913-39; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Jewish.
Member, NAACP.
Died July 26,
1939 (age 64 years, 70
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Aron Leonard Steuer (1898-1985) —
also known as Aron Steuer —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
22, 1898.
Democrat. Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1933-74; newspaper
columnist.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
8, 1985 (age 87 years, 47
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Clifford Stuart (1864-1952) —
also known as Henry C. Stuart; "Stuart
X" —
of Denver,
Colo.; Washington,
D.C.; Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
10, 1864.
Mining
engineer;
real
estate investor; author; director-general, Guaremala
Central Railroad;
U.S. Vice Consul General in Guatemala City, 1885-86; U.S. Consul General in Guatemala City, 1893.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., May 21,
1952 (age 87 years, 163
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Morey Stuart (b. 1883) —
also known as William M. Stuart —
of Canisteo, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Cameron town, Steuben
County, N.Y., May 7,
1883.
Republican. School
teacher; postmaster;
author; member of New York
state assembly, 1937-52 (Steuben County 2nd District 1937-44,
Steuben County 1945-52).
Presbyterian.
Member, Grange;
Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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John Boyd Thacher (1847-1909) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Ballston Center, Saratoga
County, N.Y., September
11, 1847.
Owner of Thacher Carwheel Company, makers of wheels for railroad
cars; author; historian; member of New York
state senate 17th District, 1884-85; mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1886-88, 1896-97.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
25, 1909 (age 61 years, 167
days).
Entombed at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905) —
also known as Albion W. Tourgee —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.; Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.; Denver,
Colo.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Mayville, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Williamsfield, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, May 2,
1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868, 1875;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1868-75; candidate for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1878; author; U.S.
Consul in Bordeaux, 1897-1905, died in office 1905.
French
Huguenot and Swiss
ancestry.
Died, of acute
uremia, due to an infected
wound, in Bordeaux, France,
May
21, 1905 (age 67 years, 19
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mayville
Cemetery, Mayville, N.Y.
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Edward Waterman Townsend (1855-1942) —
also known as Edward W. Townsend —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, 1855.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1911-15 (7th District 1911-13,
10th District 1913-15); defeated, 1926.
Author of a number of novels and books of short stories.
Died in 1942
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy;
Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1960; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
Bisexual.
Novelist, playwright, essayist,
screenwriter, appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Died, from complications of pneumonia,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 31,
2012 (age 86 years, 302
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles Ames Washburn (1822-1889) —
also known as Charles A. Washburn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, March
16, 1822.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Paraguay, 1861-63; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1863-68; novelist; invented
an early typewriter.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1889 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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George Post Wheeler (1869-1956) —
also known as Post Wheeler —
Born in Owego, Tioga
County, N.Y., August
6, 1869.
Newspaper
editor; mining
business; author; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Minister
to Paraguay, 1930-33; Albania, 1933-34; poet.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Freemasons.
Died in 1956
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Ky.
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Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman (1867-1932) —
also known as Edwin Wildman —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Corning, Steuben
County, N.Y., May 9,
1867.
Newspaper
editor; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong, 1898-99; newspaper
correspondent; writer.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
3, 1932 (age 65 years, 178
days).
Interment at Oramel Cemetery, Oramel, Caneadea, N.Y.
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