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Abram Wilhelm Agler (1873-1929) —
also known as Abram W. Agler —
of Canton, Stark
County, Ohio.
Born in Wilmot, Stark
County, Ohio, April
13, 1873.
Republican. Lawyer; chair of
Stark County Republican Party, 1902-04; Stark
County Clerk of Courts, 1909-13.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Moose; Junior
Order; Sons
of Veterans; Grange;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Died in Stark
County, Ohio, November
18, 1929 (age 56 years, 219
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery, Wilmot, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of William Henry Harrison Agler and Mary Jane (Wilhelm) Agler;
married, June 16,
1904, to Lila May Deal. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Bench and Bar of Northern
Ohio (1921) |
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Leo Calvin Crawford (b. 1896) —
also known as Leo C. Crawford —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Darke
County, Ohio, August
30, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer; Montgomery
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1931-34; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1939-44; common pleas
court judge in Ohio, 1946-48.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Legion; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Sigma
Delta Chi; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Eagles.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Frederick Crawford and Jane (McClain) Crawford; married, February
5, 1927, to Sara M. Kelley. |
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Arthur Hiram Day (1890-1967) —
also known as Arthur H. Day —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Lakewood, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Pandora, Putnam
County, Ohio, February
1, 1890.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Ohio
state house of representatives, 1916; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; member of Ohio
state senate, 1921-22, 1925-26; municipal judge in Ohio, 1932;
common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1933-34; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1935-36; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1938.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sons of
the American Revolution; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Delta
Theta Phi; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Grotto;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Moose.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
11, 1967 (age 76 years, 344
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brook Park, Ohio.
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John Alexander Hadden (1886-1979) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, July 11,
1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1925-31.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
1, 1979 (age 92 years, 174
days).
Interment at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Heaton Willis Harris (1858-1928) —
also known as Heaton W. Harris —
of Alliance, Stark
County, Ohio.
Born near Alliance, Stark
County, Ohio, April
23, 1858.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Mannheim, 1899-1907; Nuremberg, 1907-08; U.S. Consul General in , 1909-12; Frankfort, 1912-17; Stockholm, 1917-18; Havana, 1918-20.
Member, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Died, from stomach
cancer, in Alliance, Stark
County, Ohio, July 11,
1928 (age 70 years, 79
days).
Interment at Mt.
Union Cemetery, Alliance, Ohio.
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William McKinley Jr. (1843-1901) —
also known as "Idol of Ohio" —
of Canton, Stark
County, Ohio.
Born in Niles, Trumbull
County, Ohio, January
29, 1843.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1877-84, 1885-91 (17th District
1877-79, 16th District 1879-81, 17th District 1881-83, 18th District
1883-84, 20th District 1885-87, 18th District 1887-91); delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1884,
1888;
Governor
of Ohio, 1892-96; President
of the United States, 1897-1901; died in office 1901.
Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion; Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic; Knights
of Pythias; Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Leon Czolgosz, at a reception
in the Temple of Music, at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo,
N.Y., September 6, 1901, and died eight days later, in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., September
14, 1901 (age 58 years, 228
days).
Originally entombed at West
Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio; re-entombed in 1907 at McKinley
Monument, Canton, Ohio; statue at Lucas
County Courthouse Grounds, Toledo, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of William McKinley and Nancy Campbell (Allison) McKinley; married to
Ida
Saxton; first cousin of William
McKinley Osborne; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Prather Fletcher. |
| | | Political family: McKinley
family of Canton, Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Albert
Halstead — Loran
L. Lewis — George
B. Cortelyou — John
Goodnow |
| | | McKinley County,
N.M. is named for him. |
| | | Mount
McKinley (the highest peak in North America, now known by its
traditional name, Denali), in Denali
Borough, Alaska, was named for
him. — McKinley High
School, in Honolulu,
Hawaii, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: William
McKinley Thomas
— William
McKinley Thomas
— William
M. Bell
— William
M. Branch
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $500 bill in 1928-46. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "The Full
Dinner Pail." |
| | | Campaign slogan (1896): "The Advance
Agent of Prosperity." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about William McKinley: Lewis L.
Gould, The
Presidency of William McKinley — Kevin Phillips, William
McKinley — H. Wayne Morgan, William
McKinley and His America |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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Kenneth W. Thompson (1908-1975) —
also known as Ken Thompson —
of Southfield, Oakland
County, Mich.; East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Bellefontaine, Logan
County, Ohio, February
10, 1908.
Republican. Member of Michigan
State University board of trustees, 1967-74; defeated, 1974.
Lutheran.
Member, Tau Beta
Pi; Phi
Kappa Phi; Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., February
15, 1975 (age 67 years, 5
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Evan Erastus Young (1878-1946) —
also known as Evan E. Young —
of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha
County, S.Dak.; South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Kenton, Hardin
County, Ohio, August
17, 1878.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul in Harput, 1905-08; Salonika, 1908-09; U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1911-12; Dominican Republic, 1925-29; U.S. Consul General in Halifax, 1913-19; Constantinople, as of 1920; vice-president, Pan-American Airways,
Inc., 1936.
Member, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in 1946
(age about
67 years).
Burial location unknown.
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