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Frank Aldrich (b. 1850) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Pierpont, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, March
17, 1850.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; book publisher; manager and electrician for the
Hansen Battery Light and
Power Company, Washington, D.C., 1889-90; quartermaster-general
of the District of Columbia National Guard, 1890-92; invented
in 1893 and patented
a railroad
car seal which became widely used; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1899-1900.
Burial location unknown.
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James Adam Bede (1856-1942) —
also known as J. Adam Bede —
of Pine City, Pine
County, Minn.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Eaton Township, Lorain
County, Ohio, January
13, 1856.
Republican. School
teacher; printer; newspaper
reporter; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1903-09; newspaper
editor; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 58, 1931-32.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., April
11, 1942 (age 86 years, 88
days).
Interment at Birchwood
Cemetery, Pine City, Minn.
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Elbert Edson Caldwell (1875-1950) —
also known as Elbert E. Caldwell —
of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Cheshire, Gallia
County, Ohio, June 4,
1875.
Democrat. Printer; candidate for U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1934.
Died in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., June 18,
1950 (age 75 years, 14
days).
Interment at Spring
Hill Cemetery, Charleston, W.Va.
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James Andrew Chew (1882-1964) —
also known as James A. Chew —
of Xenia, Greene
County, Ohio.
Born in Greene
County, Ohio, July 10,
1882.
Republican. Printing business; newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Ohio, 1932.
Died in Kettering, Montgomery
County, Ohio, July 26,
1964 (age 82 years, 16
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Xenia, Ohio.
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Isaac Kauffman Funk (1839-1912) —
also known as Isaac K. Funk —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Clark
County, Ohio, September
10, 1839.
Pastor;
publishing business; co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls;
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1888 (4th District), 1892 (2nd
District), 1896 (2nd District); Prohibition candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1897, 1901; Prohibition
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1900.
Lutheran.
Died in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., April 4,
1912 (age 72 years, 207
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Robert Wilkinson Furnas (1824-1905) —
also known as Robert W. Furnas —
of Brownville, Nemaha
County, Neb.
Born in Miami
County, Ohio, May 5,
1824.
Republican. Printer; farmer;
member of Nebraska
territorial legislature, 1856; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; member of University
of Nebraska board of regents, 1869-75; Governor of
Nebraska, 1873-75.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died June 1,
1905 (age 81 years, 27
days).
Interment at Brownville
Cemetery, Brownville, Neb.
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William C. Grimes (1857-1931) —
of Sterling, Johnson
County, Neb.; Kingfisher, Kingfisher
County, Okla.
Born near New Lexington, Perry
County, Ohio, November
6, 1857.
Republican. Printing business; newspaper
editor; grocer; implement
dealer; Johnson
County Sheriff, 1885-89; chair of
Johnson County Republican Party, 1887-89; member, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee,
Republican National Convention, 1896 ; secretary
of Oklahoma Territory, 1901; Governor
of Oklahoma Territory, 1901.
Died in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 8,
1931 (age 73 years, 153
days).
Interment somewhere
in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of George W. Grimes and Sarah A. Grimes; married, December
24, 1878, to Mary E. Cleaver. |
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Benjamin Hanford (1860-1910) —
also known as Ben Hanford —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
9, 1860.
Socialist. Printer; typesetter; labor
organizer; Socialist Labor candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn, New York, 1897; Social Democratic
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1898, 1900, 1902; Social Democratic candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1901; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1904, 1908.
Member, Typographical
Union.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
24, 1910 (age 50 years, 15
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Mass.
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Max S. Hayes (b. 1866) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Havana, Huron
County, Ohio, May 25,
1866.
Printer; newspaper
editor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 21st District, 1900; Socialist candidate
for secretary
of state of Ohio, 1902; Farmer-Labor candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1920.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Hayes and Elizabeth (Borer) Hayes; married, December
11, 1900, to Dora Schneider. |
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John Elwin Kehl (1870-1936) —
also known as John E. Kehl —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, October
10, 1870.
Bookkeeper;
printer; U.S. Consul in Stettin, 1897-1908; Sydney, 1908-11; Salonika, 1911-18; Aarhus, 1918-20; Stuttgart, as of 1926-29; U.S. Consul General in Hamburg, as of 1931-32.
German
ancestry.
Died, in Johns Hopkins University Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., April 2,
1936 (age 65 years, 175
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of John Kehl and Louise (Buckley) Kehl. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1921) |
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Ralph Rappé McKee —
also known as Ralph R. McKee —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio; Tompkinsville, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Upper Sandusky, Wyandot
County, Ohio.
Democrat. Publishing business; tea importing
business; member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County, 1912-13.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John D. McKee and Marian (Rappé) McKee; married, June 8,
1893, to Nora Lowe. |
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James A. Pinney (b. 1835) —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Franklin
County, Ohio, September
29, 1835.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; bookseller; mayor of
Boise, Idaho, 1881-85, 1889-93, 1905-07.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
City of Boise |
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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 at Des Moines, Iowa, 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. |
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Thousand Related Politicians). |
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memorial |
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Franklin Emerson Smith (1902-1965) —
also known as Franklin E. Smith; Frank E.
Smith —
of Portsmouth, Scioto
County, Ohio.
Born in Livingston, Rockcastle
County, Ky., 1902.
Democrat. Printing business; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 6th District, 1946; postmaster at Portsmouth,
Ohio, 1949-58, 1961-62 (acting, 1949-50, 1961-62); candidate for
Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1958; chair of
Scioto County Democratic Party, 1965.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Elks; Eagles.
Died in Portsmouth, Scioto
County, Ohio, November
8, 1965 (age about 63
years).
Interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Luther Caldwell Smith and Lockie Virginia (Dillion)
Smith. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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