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Loren Murphy Berry (1888-1980) —
also known as Loren M. Berry; "Mr. Yellow
Pages" —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio; Miami Beach, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Oakwood, Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Wabash, Wabash
County, Ind., July 24,
1888.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; advertising
salesman who popularized the Yellow Pages business section in
telephone directories nationwide; founded L. M. Berry Co.;
director of telephone companies; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Ohio; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Florida, 1960,
1964.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kiwanis.
Elected to Telephone Hall of
Fame in 1982.
Died in Oakwood, Montgomery
County, Ohio, February
10, 1980 (age 91 years, 201
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
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John Levi Cable (1884-1971) —
also known as John L. Cable —
of Lima, Allen
County, Ohio.
Born in Lima, Allen
County, Ohio, April
15, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer;
director and counsel, Lima Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
Napoleon Telephone Co., Lima Toledo Railroad,
Lima City Street
Railway Co.; Allen
County Prosecuting Attorney; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 4th District, 1921-25, 1929-33;
defeated, 1912; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1924; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Episcopalian
or Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Moose; Grange;
Junior
Order; Kiwanis.
Died in Lima, Allen
County, Ohio, September
15, 1971 (age 87 years, 153
days).
Entombed at St.
Boniface Episcopal Church, Sarasota, Fla.
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Daniel Richard Crissinger (1860-1942) —
also known as Daniel R. Crissinger —
of Marion, Marion
County, Ohio.
Born in Tully Township, Marion
County, Ohio, December
10, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; Marion
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1889-94; Marion city solicitor,
1895-1900; one of the organizers of the Marion County
Telephone Company; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1904, 1906; banker;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1921-23; member, board of
governors, Federal Reserve, 1923-27; in December 1929, he, along with
U.S. Rep. Frederick
N. Zihlman, and five others, officers of the F. H. Smith Company,
which had promoted and sold apparently worthless securities, were indicted
on federal charges
of using the mails to commit fraud;
most of those indicted went to prison, but Crissinger and Zihlman
were never tried, and charges against them were dismissed in 1932.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
Templar; Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Eagles.
Died in Marion, Marion
County, Ohio, July 12,
1942 (age 81 years, 214
days).
Interment at Marion
Cemetery, Marion, Ohio.
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Alanson William Edwards (1840-1908) —
also known as Alanson W. Edwards —
of Bunker Hill, Macoupin
County, Ill.; Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak.
Born in Lorain
County, Ohio, August
27, 1840.
Express
agent; telegraph operator; major in the Union Army during
the Civil War; warden, Illinois Penitentiary at Joliet, 1871-72; newspaper
publisher; mayor of
Fargo, N.Dak., 1887-88; member of North
Dakota state house of representatives, 1895-96; U.S. Consul
General in Montreal, 1903-06.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., February
8, 1908 (age 67 years, 165
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Fargo, N.Dak.
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Joseph Flesheim (1848-1900) —
of South Haven, Van Buren
County, Mich.; Menominee, Menominee
County, Mich.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, April 8,
1848.
Republican. Insurance
business; president, Menominee Electric Company, manufacturer
of telephone switchboards and equipment; mayor
of Menominee, Mich., 1888; member of Michigan
state senate, 1891-94 (31st District 1891-92, 30th District
1893-94).
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Facing the failure of his business enterprises, he died by self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Menominee, Menominee
County, Mich., February
26, 1900 (age 51 years, 324
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Menominee, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Flesheim and Babette (Straus) Flesheim; married, February
25, 1875, to Delia Isabella 'Belle' Stephenson. |
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Harvey Cable Garber (1866-1938) —
also known as Harvey C. Garber —
of Greenville, Darke
County, Ohio.
Born in Hill Grove, Darke
County, Ohio, July 6,
1866.
Democrat. Telegraph operator; superintendent, Central Union
Telephone Company for Ohio; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1899-1902; vice-chair of
Ohio Democratic Party, 1900; Ohio
Democratic state chair, 1902; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 4th District, 1903-07.
Died in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., March
23, 1938 (age 71 years, 260
days).
Interment at Greenville
Cemetery, Greenville, Ohio.
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Sherman Moorhead Granger (b. 1870) —
also known as Sherman M. Granger —
of Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio.
Born in Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, June 16,
1870.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Republican
National Committee from Ohio, 1912-16; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1912;
member of Ohio
Republican State Central Committee, 1912-14; vice-president,
Zanesville Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Theta
Nu Epsilon.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Moses Moorhead Granger and Mary Hoyt (Reese) Granger; married, February
7, 1900, to Wanda Dawson Follett. |
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Wilfred Eugene Harmon (1856-1933) —
also known as Wilfred E. Harmon —
of Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont.
Born in Fayette, Fulton
County, Ohio, February
7, 1856.
Republican. Telegraph operator; school
teacher; superintendent
of schools; Montana
superintendent of public instruction, 1905-13; member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1920; Montana
state treasurer, 1925-29; secretary
of state of Montana, 1929-32.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Bozeman, Gallatin
County, Mont., August
15, 1933 (age 77 years, 189
days).
Interment at Sunset
Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Mont.
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Martin Rossiter Hoke (b. 1952) —
also known as Martin R. Hoke —
of Ohio.
Born in Lakewood, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, May 18,
1952.
Republican. Lawyer;
founder and president of a cellular telephone company; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 10th District, 1993-97; defeated, 1996.
Still living as of 2014.
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Benjamin Bryant Jarrett (1881-1944) —
also known as Benjamin Jarrett —
of Farrell, Mercer
County, Pa.
Born in Sharon, Mercer
County, Pa., July 18,
1881.
Republican. Telegraph operator; steel mill
foreman; lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 50th District, 1911-14; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 20th District, 1937-43.
Died in Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, July 20,
1944 (age 63 years, 2
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Sharon, Pa.
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John George Steinkamp (1864-1930) —
also known as John G. Steinkamp —
of Elmore, Ottawa
County, Ohio.
Born in Sandusky
County, Ohio, April
22, 1864.
Republican. President and general manager, Sandusky Home
Telephone Company; chair of
Ottawa County Republican Party, 1916; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1920;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio.
Died in Elmore, Ottawa
County, Ohio, January
12, 1930 (age 65 years, 265
days).
Interment at Harris-Elmore Union Cemetery, Elmore, Ohio.
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Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) —
also known as Theodore N. Vail —
of Lyndonville, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 16,
1845.
Republican. General superintendent, U.S. Railway Mail Service,
1876-79; president, American Telephone and Telegraph
Co., 1885-89 and 1907-19; founder of Western Electric and of Bell
Labs; built an electric
railway system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1904; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1916.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from kidney
and cardiac
complications, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., April
16, 1920 (age 74 years, 275
days).
Interment at Vail
Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, N.J.
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