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Clarence Emir Allen (1852-1932) —
also known as Clarence E. Allen —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Girard Township, Erie
County, Pa., September
8, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
mining business; member of Utah
territorial House of Representatives, 1888-96; Salt
Lake County Clerk, 1890-93; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1892; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Utah, 1892,
1896
(member, Credentials
Committee); U.S.
Representative from Utah at-large, 1896-97.
Died in Escondido, San Diego
County, Calif., July 9,
1932 (age 79 years, 305
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Edward Lewis Bartlett (1904-1968) —
also known as E. L. 'Bob' Bartlett —
of Juneau,
Alaska.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., April
20, 1904.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; gold miner; secretary
of Alaska Territory, 1939-44; resigned 1944; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1945-59; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, 1948,
1956;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-68; died in office 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960,
1968.
Member, Elks.
Died, following heart
surgery, in the Cleveland Clinic hospital,
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, December
11, 1968 (age 64 years, 235
days).
Interment at Northern
Lights Memorial Park, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Vincent Henry Beckman (b. 1879) —
also known as Vincent H. Beckman —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in St. Henry, Mercer
County, Ohio, December
1, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer;
secretary and director, National Theatre
Co.; director and member executive committee, Eagle Picher
Mining and Smelting
Co.; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1916,
1924,
1928
(alternate), 1940,
1948,
1956;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Member, American Bar
Association; Knights
of Columbus.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John G. Beckman and Catherine (Romer) Beckman; married, January
19, 1915, to Irene Gertrude Hummel. |
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Jacob Atlee Beidler (1852-1912) —
also known as Jacob A. Beidler —
of Willoughby, Lake
County, Ohio.
Born in Tredyffrin Township, Chester
County, Pa., November
2, 1852.
Republican. Coal operator; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 20th District, 1901-07.
Died near Willoughby, Lake
County, Ohio, September
13, 1912 (age 59 years, 316
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Theodosius Botkin (1846-1918) —
of Kansas; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Catawba, Clark
County, Ohio, June 25,
1846.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
mining business; member of Kansas state legislature, 1880;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Consul
in Campbellton, 1907-18, died in office 1918.
Died in Campbellton, New
Brunswick, May 27,
1918 (age 71 years, 336
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
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Hugh Henry Brown (1872-1975) —
also known as Hugh H. Brown —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Tonopah, Nye
County, Nev.
Born in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, May 4,
1872.
Republican. Lawyer;
represented railroads
and mining companies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Nevada, 1908,
1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920
(alternate).
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; American
Judicature Society; Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died February
26, 1975 (age 102 years,
298 days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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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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Horace Leete Chapman (1837-1917) —
also known as Horace L. Chapman —
of Portsmouth, Scioto
County, Ohio; Springfield, Clark
County, Ohio; Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Allegany
County, N.Y., July 10,
1837.
Democrat. Coal operator; banker;
vice-president, Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy Railroad;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1876,
1900;
candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1897.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, June 28,
1917 (age 79 years, 353
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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Ernest George Eagleson (1864-1956) —
also known as Ern G. Eagleson —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Cadiz, Harrison
County, Ohio, January
13, 1864.
Railroad
and mining engineer;
City
Engineer of Boise, 1893-97, 1899-1901, 1911-12; U.S.
Surveyor-General for Idaho, 1902-08; mayor of
Boise, Idaho, 1919-21, 1925-27.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Woodmen
of the World.
Died, in a nursing
home at Boise, Ada
County, Idaho, August
17, 1956 (age 92 years, 217
days).
Interment at Morris
Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Hervey Eagleson and Martha A. (Kerr) Eagleson; married, May 6,
1907, to Viola Scully. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: City of
Boise |
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Edwin Einstein (1842-1905) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
18, 1842.
Republican. Banker; U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1879-81; candidate for
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1892; president, New River Mineral
Company; director, Alabama Mineral Land Company; director,
Raritan Woolen
Mills; trustee, Texas Pacific Land Trust.
Jewish.
Died, of heart
trouble, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
24, 1905 (age 62 years, 67
days).
Interment at Beth
Olom Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Luther Thomas Ellsworth (1853-1914) —
also known as Luther T. Ellsworth —
of East Richfield, Summit
County, Ohio; Elkhart, Elkhart
County, Ind.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in West Richfield, Summit
County, Ohio, November
13, 1853.
Stockholder, directtor, and secretary of a gold mining
company; school
teacher; foreman of railway
coaling station; U.S. Consul in Puerto Cabello, 1898-1903; Cartagena, 1903-07; Chihuahua, 1907; Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, 1907-13.
Died in Summit
County, Ohio, July 2,
1914 (age 60 years, 231
days).
Interment at West Richfield Cemetery, Richfield, Ohio.
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James Malcolm Gleaves (1852-1901) —
also known as James M. Gleaves —
of Shasta, Shasta
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Guernsey
County, Ohio, September
10, 1852.
Republican. School
teacher; mining engineer;
Shasta
County Surveyor; member of California
state senate 2nd District, 1895; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1896;
U.S. Surveyor-General for California, 1898-1901; died in office 1901.
Died, in Waldeck Sanatorium,
San
Francisco, Calif., November
27, 1901 (age 49 years, 78
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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William Green (1872-1952) —
of Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio.
Born in Coshocton, Coshocton
County, Ohio, March 3,
1872.
Democrat. Coal miner; president,
Ohio District, United Mine Workers Union, 1906-10; member of Ohio
state senate, 1911-15; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Ohio, 1912,
1920
(alternate); president,
American Federation of Labor, 1924-52.
Baptist.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died, from a heart
attack, November
21, 1952 (age 80 years, 263
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Hugh Green and Jane (Oran) Green; married 1894 to Jennie
Mobley. |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Warren Armstrong Haggott (1864-1958) —
also known as Warren A. Haggott —
of Idaho Springs, Clear
Creek County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born near Sidney, Shelby
County, Ohio, May 18,
1864.
Republican. School
teacher; mining engineer;
lawyer;
Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado, 1902-03; member of Colorado
state senate, 1903-05; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 2nd District, 1907-09; defeated,
1908; district judge in Colorado 2nd District, 1921-23.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Denver,
Colo., April
29, 1958 (age 93 years, 346
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1837-1904) —
also known as Marcus A. Hanna; Mark Hanna;
"Dollar Mark" —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana
County, Ohio, September
24, 1837.
Republican. Partner in wholesale
grocery; head of M. A. Hanna and Co., coal
dealers; director, Globe Ship
Manufacturing Co.; president, Union National Bank;
president, Cleveland City Railroad
Co. president, Chapin Mining Co.; Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1896-1904; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1896
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee; speaker);
U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1897-1904; died in office 1904.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
15, 1904 (age 66 years, 144
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Charles F. Herbert (1910-2003) —
of Fairbanks, Fairbanks
North Star Borough, Alaska.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
17, 1910.
Democrat. Mining engineer;
member of Alaska
territorial House of Representatives 4th District, 1941-42;
Alaska Commissioner of Natural Resources.
Died in Kailua-Kona, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii
County, Hawaii, September
3, 2003 (age 93 years, 198
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in Pacific Ocean.
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George Magoffin Humphrey (1890-1970) —
also known as George M. Humphrey —
of Mentor, Lake
County, Ohio.
Born in Cheboygan, Cheboygan
County, Mich., March 8,
1890.
Lawyer;
president, M.A. Hanna Company (mining and processing iron and
nickel ores), 1929-52; chairman of Pittsburgh Consolidated
Coal Company; chairman, Executive Committee, National Steel
Corporation; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1953-57.
Episcopalian.
Died, from heart
disease, in University Hospital,
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
20, 1970 (age 79 years, 318
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Edwin Jones (1862-1921) —
of Wellston, Jackson
County, Ohio; Jackson, Jackson
County, Ohio.
Born in Ohio, December
12, 1862.
Republican. Coal operator; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1908,
1920
(alternate).
Welsh
ancestry.
Died, from stomach
cancer, in Grant Hospital,
Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, February
3, 1921 (age 58 years, 53
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Jackson, Ohio.
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Ezra Mills Lawton (1864-1931) —
also known as Ezra M. Lawton —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Ironton, Lawrence
County, Ohio, August
23, 1864.
Electrical
engineer;
mining business; U.S. Consular Agent in Oaxaca, 1908-13; U.S. Consul in Tegucigalpa, 1913-17, 1919-20; Nogales, 1917-18; Guatemala City, 1918-19; Sydney, 1923-27; Sao Paulo, 1929.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 26,
1931 (age 66 years, 307
days).
Entombed at Angelus-Rosedale
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Hiram Phillips (1894-1972) —
of Sprigg, Mingo
County, W.Va.
Born in Matewan, Mingo
County, W.Va., April
11, 1894.
Democrat. Coal miner; president of
Mine Workers union local; grocer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Mingo County, 1935-36,
1949-52.
Baptist.
Member, Moose; Redmen;
United
Mine Workers.
Died in Franklin
County, Ohio, September
7, 1972 (age 78 years, 149
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Wesley Phillips and Gillian (Whitely) Phillips; married, April 3,
1915, to Pricy Thelma Wells; third cousin once removed of John
T. Crisp. |
| | | Political family: Cockrell-South
family of Kentucky. |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1951 |
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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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William Sharon (1821-1885) —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Smithfield, Jefferson
County, Ohio, January
9, 1821.
Republican. Lawyer; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; banker;
mining business; real estate
business; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1875-81.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
13, 1885 (age 64 years, 308
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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J. Fred Thomas —
of Sharon, Mercer
County, Pa.
Born in Brookfield, Trumbull
County, Ohio.
Republican. Mining engineer;
mayor
of Sharon, Pa., 1933-37; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 50th District, 1939-46; chief clerk, Pennsylvania
State Senate, 1953.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Jessie Olive Kelso. |
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Daniel Upson (1786-1863) —
Born in Southington, Hartford
County, Conn., March
18, 1786.
Physician;
farmer;
mining business; member of Ohio
state senate, 1836-38.
Died in Tallmadge, Summit
County, Ohio, June 21,
1863 (age 77 years, 95
days).
Interment at Tallmadge
Cemetery, Tallmadge, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of John Upson and Lois (Atwater) Upson; married, May 19,
1814, to Polly Wright; father of William
Hanford Upson; great-grandfather of William
Hazlett Upson; first cousin once removed of Josiah
Cowles; second cousin once removed of John
Strong; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Upson, Calvin
Josiah Cowles, Harvey
Washington Upson, Gad
Ely Upson, Christopher
Columbus Upson, Andrew
Seth Upson and Evelyn
M. Upson; second cousin thrice removed of James
Wesley Upson and Charles
Holden Cowles; third cousin of Henry
Champion, Epaphroditus
Champion, Daniel
Chapin and Samuel
Strong; third cousin once removed of Simeon
Baldwin, Graham
Hurd Chapin and George
Seymour; third cousin twice removed of Frederick
Enoch Woodbridge and Charles
Hale; third cousin thrice removed of Franklin
Woodruff, Asbury
Wright Lee and Warren
Edward Anderson; fourth cousin of Orsamus
Cook Merrill, James
Doolittle Wooster, Timothy
Merrill and Roger
Sherman Baldwin; fourth cousin once removed of Elisha
Hotchkiss Jr., John
Charles Birdsall, John
Arnold Rockwell, Norman
A. Phelps, Francis
William Kellogg, Ausburn
Birdsall, Farrand
Fassett Merrill, Russell
Sage and Simeon
Eben Baldwin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill
family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Bell Van Rensselaer (1810-1864) —
of New York.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., May 14,
1810.
U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1841-43; mining
business; railroad
promoter; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died, from typhoid
fever, in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, March
24, 1864 (age 53 years, 315
days).
Interment at Grace
Church Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen
Van Rensselaer and Cornelia (Paterson) Van Rensselaer; married,
August
22, 1833, to Elizabeth Ray King (daughter of John
Alsop King); nephew of Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and Rensselaer
Westerlo; uncle of Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer; grandson of William
Paterson; great-grandson of Philip
Livingston; great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and William
Livingston; great-granduncle of John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; second great-grandson of Dirck
Ten Broeck; second great-grandnephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; third great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Elder and Pieter
Van Brugh; third great-grandnephew of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724), Jacobus
Van Cortlandt, Johannes
Cuyler and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandson of Dirck
Wesselse Ten Broeck; first cousin of Philip
Schuyler; first cousin once removed of Edward
Philip Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Philip
P. Schuyler, Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, James
Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin thrice removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Philip
John Schuyler and Stephen
John Schuyler; 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 Edward
Livingston (1796-1840); second cousin once removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792), Peter
Samuel Schuyler, Henry
Walter Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay (1776-1843), William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer, William
Jay and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873); second cousin twice removed of Volkert
Petrus Douw, Nicholas
Bayard, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer, Robert
Van Rensselaer, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer, Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler, James
Parker and Robert
Reginald Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of James
Jay, Henry
Cruger, John
Jay and Frederick
Jay; third cousin of Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, William
Duer, Denning
Duer, Henry
Brockholst Ledyard, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and John
Jay II; third cousin once removed of Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer, James
Alexander Hamilton, Peter
Gansevoort, Hamilton
Fish, John
Cortlandt Parker, Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean, Hamilton
Fish Kean and Charles
Ludlow Livingston (born 1870); third cousin twice removed of Herbert
Livingston Satterlee, Peter
Augustus Jay (1877-1933), Bronson
Murray Cutting, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991), Robert
Winthrop Kean and Brockholst
Livingston; third cousin thrice removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; fourth cousin of Gilbert
Livingston Thompson, James
Adams Ekin, John
Jacob Astor III, Richard
Wayne Parker and Charles
Wolcott Parker; fourth cousin once removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston, George
Washington Schuyler, Philip
N. Schuyler, William
Waldorf Astor, Robert
Ray Hamilton, John
Sluyter Wirt, Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer 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 congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Herbert Arthur Wolcott (1862-1930) —
also known as H. A. Wolcott —
of Carthage, Jasper
County, Mo.
Born in Bellevue, Huron
County, Ohio, May 27,
1862.
Democrat. Hardware
merchant; mining business; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jasper County 1st District,
1923-24.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks; Lions.
Died, from complications of heart
disease, in Carthage, Jasper
County, Mo., December
4, 1930 (age 68 years, 191
days).
Interment at Park Cemetery, Carthage, Mo.
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