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Politicians in the Tobacco Industry in Ohio

Martin B. Archer (1860-1924) — of Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio. Born in East Union, Wayne County, Ohio, August 26, 1860. Republican. Lawyer; farmer; leaf tobacco business; member of Ohio state senate 9th-14th District, 1915-16, 1919-22. Member, Freemasons. Died in 1924 (age about 63 years). Interment at Olive Cemetery, Caldwell, Ohio.   Relatives: Son of Stephen M. Archer; married 1881 to Arabella Rutherford.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   John Lewis Brenner (1832-1906) — also known as John L. Brenner — of Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. Born in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, February 2, 1832. Democrat. Farmer; tobacco merchant; U.S. Representative from Ohio 3rd District, 1897-1901. Died in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, November 1, 1906 (age 74 years, 272 days). Interment at Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   Joseph James Frost (b. 1881) — also known as Joseph J. Frost — of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Mich. Born in Bryan, Williams County, Ohio, July 15, 1881. Democrat. Cigar business; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Kent County 1st District, 1917-18; defeated, 1908. German ancestry. Burial location unknown.   Austin George Nettleton (1841-1922) — also known as Austin G. Nettleton — of Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho. Born in Medina, Medina County, Ohio, August 31, 1841. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; postmaster at Nampa, Idaho, 1899-1905; cigar dealer. Member, Grand Army of the Republic. Died in Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, May 13, 1922 (age 80 years, 255 days). Interment at Kohlerlawn Cemetery, Nampa, Idaho.   Relatives: Son of Julia (Baldwin) Nettleton and Lewis Baldwin Nettleton; married 1867 to Mary E. Parsons; sixth great-grandnephew of Thomas Welles; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah Cowles, John Alsop, Simeon Baldwin and James Doolittle Wooster; fourth cousin once removed of Daniel Chapin, Ira Yale, Walter Booth, Levi Yale and Francis William Kellogg.   Political families: Conger family of New York; King-Hazard family of Connecticut and New York; Wildman family of Danbury, Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Edgar Augustus Remley (1859-1917) — also known as Edgar A. Remley — of Columbia, Boone County, Mo. Born in Ohio, February 9, 1859. Republican. Cigar manufacturer; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1900; postmaster at Columbia, Mo., 1909-13. Died in 1917 (age about 58 years). Interment at Columbia Cemetery, Columbia, Mo.   Relatives: Son of Edgar Augustus Remley and Sarah (Evert) Remley; married to Mary Madeline Polly Hogan.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Thomas Shannon (1786-1843) — of Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio. Born in Washington County, Pa., November 15, 1786. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; leaf tobacco business; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1819-22, 1824-25; U.S. Representative from Ohio 10th District, 1826-27; member of Ohio state senate, 1829, 1837-41. Irish ancestry. Died in Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio, March 16, 1843 (age 56 years, 121 days). Interment at Green Mount Cemetery, Barnesville, Ohio.   Relatives: Son of George David Shannon and Jane (Milligan) Shannon; brother of George F. Shannon, James Shannon and Wilson Shannon; married, August 12, 1811, to Cassandra Anderson; granduncle of Isaac Charles Parker.   Political family: Shannon-Shelby family.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   Leon Stivers Wiles (1878-1918) — also known as Leon S. Wiles — of Huntington, Cabell County, W.Va. Born in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio, June 26, 1878. Republican. Manager, Huntington Tobacco Warehouse; mayor of Huntington, W.Va., 1918; died in office 1918. Died, from influenza, in Huntington, Wayne County, W.Va., October 18, 1918 (age 40 years, 114 days). Interment at Maplewood Cemetery, Ripley, Ohio.   Relatives: Son of Newton P. Wiles and Juliet Burnham (Hathaway) Wiles; married to Laura Gibson Kirkpatrick.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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