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William Robert Bayes (1876-1964) —
also known as William R. Bayes —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wauseon, Fulton
County, Ohio, July 29,
1876.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Kings Highway Savings Bank;
president, Brooklyn National Life
Insurance Co.; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 8th District, 1915;
candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1922, 1933, 1940; delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; justice,
New York City Court of Special Sessions, 1935-46.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Theta; Freemasons;
Union League.
Died in Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y., November
28, 1964 (age 88 years, 122
days).
Interment at Willowbrook
Cemetery, Westport, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac E. Bayes and Fannie A. (Guilford) Bayes; married, September
7, 1904, to Mabel Ross. |
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Charles Grosvenor Bond (1877-1974) —
also known as Charles G. Bond —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, May 29,
1877.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi; Union League.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., January
10, 1974 (age 96 years, 226
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at West
Union Street Cemetery, Athens, Ohio.
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Rufus Cutler Dawes (1867-1940) —
also known as Rufus C. Dawes —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, July 30,
1867.
Republican. Organizer and manager of gas and
electric light utilities; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 6th District,
1920-22; president of the 1933 Chicago world's fair (A Century of
Progress Exposition); also president of the Chicago Museum of Science
and Industry.
Member, Union League.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
8, 1940 (age 72 years, 162
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio.
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Chauncey Dewey (1877-1959) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Brewster, Thomas
County, Kan.
Born in Cadiz, Harrison
County, Ohio, May 19,
1877.
Republican. Rancher; real estate
business; livestock
dealer; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1908,
1912;
member of Illinois
Republican State Central Committee, 1910; major in the U.S. Army
during World War I; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1944.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Union League.
Died in Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., November
4, 1959 (age 82 years, 169
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Junction City, Kan.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton (1868-1953) —
also known as Charles A. Eaton;
"Doc" —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Toronto, Ontario;
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Watchung, North Plainfield, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Pugwash, Nova
Scotia, March
29, 1868.
Republican. Baptist
minister; magazine
editor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1920,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1925-53 (4th District 1925-33,
5th District 1933-53).
Baptist.
Member, Union League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
23, 1953 (age 84 years, 300
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Scotch Plains, N.J.
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Wade H. Ellis (b. 1866) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., December
31, 1866.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Ohio
state attorney general, 1904-08; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1908.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Burial location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Wade
Hampton |
| | | Relatives: Son of A. C. Ellis and Kate
(Blackburn) Ellis; married, October
3, 1894, to Dessie Corwin Chase. |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1908 |
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Miles S. Gregory —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ohio.
Candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1925.
Member, Union League; Freemasons;
Grotto.
Burial location unknown.
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Russell Benjamin Harrison (1854-1936) —
also known as Russell Lord Harrison —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Oxford, Butler
County, Ohio, August
12, 1854.
Republican. Newspaper
work; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1921-24; member of Indiana
state senate, 1925-28; Honorary
Consul for Mexico in Indianapolis,
Ind., 1929.
Member, Union League.
Died, from heart
disease, in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
13, 1936 (age 82 years, 123
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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William Penn Nixon (1832-1912) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New Garden (now Fountain City), Wayne
County, Ind., March
19, 1832.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1864-67; newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1896;
U.S.
Collector of Customs at Chicago, Ill., Illinois, 1903-05.
Member, Union League.
Died, from heart
trouble, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
20, 1912 (age 79 years, 338
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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William Cooper Procter (1862-1934) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Glendale, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
25, 1862.
Republican. President (1907-30) and chairman (1930-34), Proctor &
Gamble Company, where he established profit-sharing and pension
system; director, New York Central Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1916,
1924,
1928.
Episcopalian.
Member, Union League.
Died, from bronchial
pneumonia, in Holmes Hospital,
Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 2,
1934 (age 71 years, 250
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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William Frederick Morgan Rowland (1842-1883) —
also known as W. F. Rowland —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, May 10,
1842.
Coffee
importer;
U.S. Consul in Nice, 1883, died in office 1883.
Member, Union League.
Died in Thun, Switzerland,
August
3, 1883 (age 41 years, 85
days).
Burial location unknown.
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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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