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Jean Pierre Roman Bureau (1770-1854) —
also known as Jean P. R. Bureau —
of Gallipolis, Gallia
County, Ohio.
Born in France,
March
21, 1770.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; merchant; postmaster;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1807-08, 1832-35; member of Ohio
state senate, 1809-12.
French
ancestry.
Died in Gallipolis, Gallia
County, Ohio, December
31, 1854 (age 84 years, 285
days).
Interment at Pine
Street Cemetery, Gallipolis, Ohio.
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James Caldwell (1770-1838) —
of Belmont
County, Ohio.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., November
30, 1770.
Democrat. Merchant; banker; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Belmont County,
1802; Belmont
County Clerk of the Court, 1806-10; member of Ohio
state senate from Belmont County, 1809-13; served in the U.S.
Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 4th District, 1813-17; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va (now W.Va.), May 5,
1838 (age 67 years, 156
days).
Interment at Methodist
Cemetery, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
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Isaac B. Cameron —
of Lisbon, Columbiana
County, Ohio.
Born in Nairn, Scotland.
Republican. Merchant; Columbiana
County Treasurer, 1894-97; Ohio
treasurer of state, 1900-04; chair of
Columbiana County Republican Party, 1901.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1875 to Laura
A. Irwin. |
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John Wilson Cassingham (1840-1930) —
also known as John W. Cassingham —
of Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio.
Born in Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio, June 22,
1840.
Democrat. Merchant; coal mining
business; paper
manufacturer; banker; Coshocton
County Auditor, 1880-87; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1896;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 17th District, 1901-05.
Died in Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio, March
14, 1930 (age 89 years, 265
days).
Interment at South
Lawn Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio.
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James Lockwood Conger (1805-1876) —
of Mt. Clemens, Macomb
County, Mich.; St. Clair, St. Clair
County, Mich.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
18, 1805.
Whig. School
teacher; lawyer;
merchant; banker; patent medicine
manufacturer; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1851-53.
Died in St. Clair, St. Clair
County, Mich., April
10, 1876 (age 71 years, 52
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio; cenotaph at Clinton
Grove Cemetery, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of David Beeman Conger and Hannah (Lockwood) Conger; married, December
23, 1824, to Paulina Belvedere Clark; second cousin once removed
of Hanford
Nichols Lockwood; second cousin thrice removed of John
Hart; third cousin of Homer
Nichols Lockwood and Charles
Franklin Conger; third cousin once removed of Daniel
Lockwood and Hugh
Conger; third cousin twice removed of Ebenezer
Lockwood, Alfred
Collins Lockwood and Daniel
Clark Joyce; third cousin thrice removed of John
Alsop, William
Henry Rossell and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; fourth cousin of Thaddeus
Betts, Anson
Griffith Conger, Harmon
Sweatland Conger, Omar
Dwight Conger, Moore
Conger, Chauncey
Stewart Conger (1838-1916) and Frederick
Ward Conger; fourth cousin once removed of Horatio
Lockwood, Walter
Booth, Abiel
Case, Abraham
Bogart Conger, Edwin
Hurd Conger, James
W. Conger, Franklin
Barker Conger, Benn
Conger, Frank
Elisha Reed and Chauncey
Stewart Conger (1882-1963). |
| | | Political families: Conger
family of New York; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Clifford C. Cornell —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Merchant; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1938-41.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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John Adams Damon (1850-1926) —
also known as John A. Damon —
of Millington, Tuscola
County, Mich.; Weidman, Isabella
County, Mich.; Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich.
Born in Madison, Lake
County, Ohio, June 4,
1850.
Republican. Druggist;
merchant; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Tuscola County 1st District,
1887-90; Isabella
County Treasurer, 1907-10; member of Michigan
state senate 25th District, 1915-18; candidate for mayor
of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., 1920.
Scottish
and English
ancestry.
Died in Mt. Pleasant, Isabella
County, Mich., July 13,
1926 (age 76 years, 39
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
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Thaddeus Densmore (1827-1895) —
of Mason, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Strongsville, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, March
30, 1827.
Republican. Merchant; banker;
candidate for mayor of
Mason, Mich., 1881, 1891.
Died in Mason, Ingham
County, Mich., April
20, 1895 (age 68 years, 21
days).
Interment at Maple
Grove Cemetery, Mason, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of John Densmore and Dorcas (Ball) Densmore; married to Charlotte M.
Dixon and Lovisa M. Dixon. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Sally Florkiewicz (born c.1944) —
of Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born about 1944.
Republican. Gift shop owner; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 2004.
Female.
Still living as of 2004.
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Phyllis E. Given —
also known as Phyllis Evans; Mrs. Harold C.
Given —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.; Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.
Born in Pomeroy, Meigs
County, Ohio.
Democrat. Realtor;
antique dealer; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates; elected 1970, 1972, 1974,
1984; candidate for secretary
of state of West Virginia, 1976; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from West Virginia, 1984.
Female.
Baptist.
Still living as of 1985.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Ray Evans and Ethel (Jones) Evans; married, December
25, 1946, to Harold C. Given. |
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Havillah Gunn (1786-1867) —
of Portsmouth, Scioto
County, Ohio.
Born in Connecticut, 1786.
Merchant; Scioto
County Treasurer, 1828-30; mayor
of Portsmouth, Ohio, 1830-31.
Died in Olney, Richland
County, Ill., September
8, 1867 (age about 81
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Gunn and Joanna Gunn. |
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William Elisha Haynes (1829-1914) —
also known as William E. Haynes —
of Ohio.
Born in Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., October
19, 1829.
Democrat. Merchant; Sandusky
County Auditor, 1856-60; colonel in the Union Army during the
Civil War; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 9th Ohio
District, 1866-67; banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1880
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1884;
U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1889-93 (10th District 1889-91, 7th
District 1891-93).
Died in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, December
5, 1914 (age 85 years, 47
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio.
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Amos Henry Jackson (1846-1924) —
also known as Amos H. Jackson —
of Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio.
Born near Franklin, Delaware
County, N.Y., May 10,
1846.
Republican. Street vendor; undergarments
manufacturer; mayor
of Fremont, Ohio, 1897-1901; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1903-05.
Died in Fremont, Sandusky
County, Ohio, August
30, 1924 (age 78 years, 112
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio.
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John Johnson (1805-1867) —
of Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio.
Born near Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), 1805.
Tanner;
merchant; banker;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1843-44; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Coshocton County,
1850-51; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 16th District, 1851-53.
Died in Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio, February
5, 1867 (age about 61
years).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Cemetery, Coshocton, Ohio.
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James Kilbourne (1770-1850) —
of Worthington, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn., October
19, 1770.
Democrat. Surveyor;
merchant; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1813-17; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1823.
Episcopalian.
Died April 9,
1850 (age 79 years, 172
days).
Interment at St.
John's Episcopal Church Burying Ground, Worthington, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Kilbourne and Anna (Neal) Kilbourne; married, November
8, 1789, to Lucy Fitch; married 1808 to
Cynthia Goodale; father of Byron
H. Kilbourn; grandfather of James
Kilbourne (1842-1919); second cousin once removed of Charles
H. Eastman; second cousin twice removed of Robert
Cleveland Usher; second cousin four times removed of James
Warren Driver; third cousin of John
Taintor, Roger
Taintor, Solomon
Taintor and Jonathan
Stratton; third cousin once removed of John
Adams Taintor and Henry
G. Taintor; third cousin twice removed of Lemuel
Stetson, Samuel
Lount Kilbourne and George
Eastman; third cousin thrice removed of Warren
Walter Rich and Charles
Dudley Kilbourn; fourth cousin of Jonathan
Brace, Samuel
Clesson Allen and Greene
Carrier Bronson; fourth cousin once removed of Gold
Selleck Silliman, Benjamin
Silliman, Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Theodore
Davenport, Millard
Fillmore, Eliphalet
Adams Bulkeley, Elisha
Hunt Allen and William
Alfred Buckingham. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family; Flanders
family of Vermont; Rowell
family of Maine (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Henry Frank Kitz (1856-1930) —
also known as Henry F. Kitz —
of Dale, Outagamie
County, Wis.; Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, October
20, 1856.
Merchant; contractor;
mayor
of Oshkosh, Wis., 1924-30.
Died in Oshkosh, Winnebago
County, Wis., April
27, 1930 (age 73 years, 189
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wis.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Kitz and Marie (Winterscheidt) Kitz; married 1879 to
Margaret Gmeiner; married 1901 to
Catherine Maeckes. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles H. Laflamboy (b. 1856) —
of McBride, Montcalm
County, Mich.
Born in Ohio, 1856.
Republican. Merchant; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Montcalm County 1st District,
1899-1902; member of Michigan
state senate 18th District, 1903-04.
Burial location unknown.
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John Lenzen (1831-1912) —
of Avon, Lorain
County, Ohio.
Born in 1831.
Democrat. Merchant; postmaster at Avon,
Ohio, 1885-89.
Died in 1912
(age about
81 years).
Interment at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery, Avon, Ohio.
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Henry Logan (1832-1913) —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born in Alexander Township, Athens
County, Ohio, November
21, 1832.
Farmer;
merchant; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1902-06.
Died in Athens, Athens
County, Ohio, November
21, 1913 (age 81 years, 0
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas C. Mahon (b. 1860) —
of Kenton, Hardin
County, Ohio.
Born in Marseilles, Wyandot
County, Ohio, July 4,
1860.
Democrat. Merchant; lawyer; Hardin
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1897-1903; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1910.
Methodist.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Mahon and Phebe (Waples) Mahon; married, April
14, 1886, to Mary I. Alexander. |
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Guido Marx (1827-1899) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Germany,
June
28, 1827.
Republican. Merchant; mayor of
Toledo, Ohio, 1875-77.
Died, of Bright's
disease, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
1, 1899 (age 71 years, 218
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
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John F. McKernan (born c.1827) —
of Osage City, Cole
County, Mo.
Born in Ohio, about 1827.
Merchant; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention 27th District, 1865.
Burial location unknown.
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Miles Conway Moore (1845-1920) —
of Walla Walla, Walla
Walla County, Wash.
Born in Rix Mills, Muskingum
County, Ohio, April
17, 1845.
Republican. Merchant; banker; mayor
of Walla Walla, Wash., 1877; Governor
of Washington Territory, 1889.
Died in Walla Walla, Walla Walla
County, Wash., December
18, 1920 (age 75 years, 245
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Walla Walla, Wash.
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Joseph Morris (1795-1854) —
of Ohio.
Born in Greene
County, Pa., October
16, 1795.
Democrat. Greene
County Sheriff, 1824; merchant; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1833-34; Monroe
County Treasurer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 15th District, 1843-47.
Died in Woodsfield, Monroe
County, Ohio, October
23, 1854 (age 59 years, 7
days).
Interment at Morris
Cemetery, Near Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio.
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Isaac N. Norton (d. 1837) —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born in Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Merchant; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1836-37.
Died in 1837.
Burial location unknown.
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Ralph Plumb (1816-1903) —
of Oberlin, Lorain
County, Ohio; Streator, La Salle
County, Ill.
Born in Busti, Chautauqua
County, N.Y., March
29, 1816.
Republican. Merchant; lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1855; served in the Union Army
during the Civil War; coal mining
business; railroad
builder; banker; mayor
of Streator, Ill., 1882-85; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 8th District, 1885-89.
Died in Streator, La Salle
County, Ill., April 8,
1903 (age 87 years, 10
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Streator, Ill.
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Gottfried Adolph Prinz (1851-1902) —
also known as G. A. Prinz —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Cullman, Cullman
County, Ala.
Born in Nieder-Ingelheim, Germany,
December
20, 1851.
Democrat. Merchant; banker; postmaster;
mayor
of Cullman, Ala., 1876-77; Cullman
County Treasurer, 1882-88; alternate delegate to Gold Democrat
National Convention from Alabama, 1896.
Evangelical
Christian. German
and French
Huguenot ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died in Cullman, Cullman
County, Ala., September
16, 1902 (age 50 years, 270
days).
Interment at Cullman
Cemetery, Cullman, Ala.
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James Brown Ray (1794-1848) —
of Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind.
Born in Jefferson
County, Ky., February
19, 1794.
Lawyer;
merchant; tavern
owner; newspaper
publisher; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1821-22; member of Indiana
state senate, 1822-25; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1824, 1831, 1837; Governor of
Indiana, 1825-31.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
4, 1848 (age 54 years, 167
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Henry St. John (1783-1869) —
of Seneca
County, Ohio.
Born in Washington
County, Vt., July 16,
1783.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; farmer; miller;
merchant; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 6th District, 1843-47.
Died in Tiffin, Seneca
County, Ohio, May, 1869
(age 85
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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George W. Scheets (1842-1929) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Kirchehrenbach, Bavaria, Germany,
November
19, 1842.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
merchant; mayor of
Toledo, Ohio, 1885.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, February
8, 1929 (age 86 years, 81
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
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Lampson Parker Sherman (1821-1900) —
also known as Lampson P. Sherman —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in New Lancaster (now Lancaster), Fairfield
County, Ohio, October
13, 1821.
Republican. Printer;
newspaper
publisher; merchant; mayor
of Des Moines, Iowa, 1854-55; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue
for the 5th Iowa District, 1867-79.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, November
21, 1900 (age 79 years, 39
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman and John
Sherman; married, April
19, 1845, to Mary Getchell; married, December
31, 1851, to Susan Rebecca Lawson; uncle of Mary Hoyt Sherman
(who married Nelson
Appleton Miles); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield, Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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J. B. Skinner (born c.1841) —
of Hardy, Nuckolls
County, Neb.
Born in Ohio, about 1841.
Republican. Merchant; member of Nebraska
state senate, 1885-86.
Burial location unknown.
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William Dennison Stephens (1859-1944) —
also known as William D. Stephens —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Eaton, Preble
County, Ohio, December
26, 1859.
Republican. Merchant; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1909; U.S.
Representative from California, 1911-16 (7th District 1911-13,
10th District 1913-16); resigned 1916; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1912;
Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1916-17; Governor of
California, 1917-23.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in the Santa Fe Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
25, 1944 (age 84 years, 121
days).
Interment at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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John Thomas Wilson (1811-1891) —
of Ohio.
Born in Highland
County, Ohio, April
16, 1811.
Republican. Merchant; farmer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Ohio
state senate, 1863-66; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1867-73.
Died in Adams
County, Ohio, October
6, 1891 (age 80 years, 173
days).
Interment at Tranquility
Cemetery, Seaman, Ohio.
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Franz L. Woodworth (1875-1968) —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born in 1875.
Merchant; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1942-47.
Died in 1968
(age about
93 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry H. Wyatt (born c.1841) —
of Viroqua, Vernon
County, Wis.
Born in Ohio, about 1841.
Republican. Merchant; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1877.
Burial location unknown.
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Sidney Yellen —
of Ohio.
Socialist. Merchant; delegate to Socialist National Convention
from Ohio, 1920; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio;
candidate for Ohio
treasurer of state, 1928.
Burial location unknown.
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