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Donald G. Batchelor (1895-1971) —
also known as Don G. Batchelor —
of Grand Blanc, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Hicksville, Defiance
County, Ohio, June 13,
1895.
Republican. School
teacher; athletic
coach; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Genesee County
2nd District, 1961-62.
Disciples of Christ. Member, Freemasons;
National
Education Association.
Died in Grand Blanc, Genesee
County, Mich., September
25, 1971 (age 76 years, 104
days).
Interment at Maple Grove Cemetery, Hudson, Mich.
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Thomas McLelland Browne (1829-1891) —
also known as Thomas M. Browne —
of Winchester, Randolph
County, Ind.
Born in New Paris, Preble
County, Ohio, April
19, 1829.
Republican. Member of Indiana
state senate, 1863; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1869-75; candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1872; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1877-91 (5th District 1877-81, 6th
District 1881-91).
Disciples of Christ. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Winchester, Randolph
County, Ind., July 17,
1891 (age 62 years, 89
days).
Interment at Fountain
Park Cemetery, Winchester, Ind.
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John Edward Burton (b. 1908) —
also known as John E. Burton —
of Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in North Bloomfield, Trumbull
County, Ohio, March 2,
1908.
Republican. Economist;
New York State Budget Director, 1943-50; chairman, New York State
Power Authority, 1950-54 vice-president, Cornell University; member,
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.
Disciples of Christ.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Josh Henry Burton and Lena Eudora (Hyde) Burton; married, February
8, 1930, to Dorothy Jean Coleman. |
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Myers Young Cooper (1873-1958) —
also known as Myers Y. Cooper —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in St. Louisville, Licking
County, Ohio, November
25, 1873.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1920,
1936
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952;
Governor
of Ohio, 1929-31; defeated, 1926, 1930; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Disciples of Christ. Member, Exchange
Club.
Built
more than 2,000 homes in the Cincinnati area.
Died December
6, 1958 (age 85 years, 11
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Martin Luther Davey (1884-1946) —
also known as Martin L. Davey —
of Kent, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in Kent, Portage
County, Ohio, July 25,
1884.
Democrat. Mayor of
Kent, Ohio, 1914-18; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1918-21, 1923-29;
defeated, 1920; Governor of
Ohio, 1935-39; defeated, 1928, 1938, 1940; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Ohio, 1932,
1940.
Disciples of Christ. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Grotto;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Rotary;
Moose;
Eagles;
Grange.
Died in Kent, Portage
County, Ohio, March
31, 1946 (age 61 years, 249
days).
Interment at Standing
Rock Cemetery, Kent, Ohio.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president,
Eclectic University (now Hiram College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Lucretia Garfield (1832-1918) —
also known as Lucretia Rudolph —
Born in Garrettsville, Portage
County, Ohio, April
19, 1832.
First
Lady of the United States, 1881.
Female.
Disciples of Christ.
Died in South Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
13, 1918 (age 85 years, 328
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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James W. Humphrey (1846-1905) —
of Wayland, Allegan
County, Mich.
Born in Powell, Delaware
County, Ohio, August
19, 1846.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; school
teacher; superintendent
of schools; ordained
minister; member of Michigan
state senate 8th District, 1899-1902.
Disciples of Christ.
Died May 11,
1905 (age 58 years, 265
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Walter Mason (b. 1887) —
also known as Charles W. Mason —
of Nowata, Nowata
County, Okla.
Born in Stafford, Monroe
County, Ohio, December
11, 1887.
Democrat. Lawyer; Nowata
County Attorney, 1914-16; served in the U.S. Army during World
War I; district judge in Oklahoma 2nd District, 1919-23; justice of
Oklahoma state supreme court, 1923-31; chief
justice of Oklahoma state supreme court, 1929-31.
Disciples of Christ. Member, Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Delta
Theta Phi; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Frank Mason and Mary O'Ella (Shankland) Mason; married, December
24, 1914, to Ruth Ethel Cobbs. |
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Edwin Lowe Neville (1884-1944) —
also known as Edwin L. Neville —
of Lakewood, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
16, 1884.
U.S. Vice Consul in Dalny, 1909, 1911-12; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Seoul, 1911, 1912-13; U.S. Consul in Antung, 1913-14; Tamsui, 1914-16; Taihoku, as of 1916; Nagasaki, 1916-17; U.S. Consul General in Tokyo, as of 1925-27; U.S. Minister to Siam, 1937-40.
Disciples of Christ. Member, Freemasons.
Died in 1944
(age about
59 years).
Burial location unknown.
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