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Joseph Eugene Agan (1898-1929) —
also known as Joseph E. Agan —
of Mahoningtown, Lawrence
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Youngstown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, July 23,
1898.
U.S. Vice Consul in Porto Alegre, as of 1921; translator; newspaper
correspondent.
Member, American
Society for International Law.
Killed
himself, by slashing
his throat and wrists with a razor blade, stabbing
himself in the heart with an ice pick, and leaping
from his apartment window to the street six floors below, in Washington,
D.C., October
11, 1929 (age 31 years, 80
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James L. Agan. |
| | | Image source: U.S. passport application
(1921) |
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Horace Newton Allen (1858-1932) —
also known as Horace N. Allen —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, April
23, 1858.
Physician;
medical missionary; went to China, then Korea in 1884; founded a
mission hospital
with Korean support; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Seoul, 1890-96; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Seoul, 1896-97; U.S. Consul General in Seoul, 1897-1905; U.S. Minister to Korea, 1897-1905; author of books about Korea.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, December
11, 1932 (age 74 years, 232
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Washington.
Born in Houstonia, Pettis
County, Mo., December
5, 1883.
Communist. Sawmill
worker; arrested
in Cleveland, 1919, on charges
of violating the state's criminal
syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York
state senate 14th District, 1926; poet.
Member, Industrial
Workers of the World.
Died in Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash., July 18,
1982 (age 98 years, 225
days).
Interment at Woodbine
Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862-1927) —
also known as Albert J. Beveridge —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Highland
County, Ohio, October
6, 1862.
Lawyer;
historian; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1899-1911; defeated, 1914 (Progressive),
1922 (Republican); delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1900,
1904
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1908,
1920,
1924
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); Progressive candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1912; received the Pulitzer
Prize in Biography, 1920.
Member, American
Historical Association.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., April
27, 1927 (age 64 years, 203
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Henry Beveridge and Frances Eleanor (Parkinson) Beveridge;
married, November
24, 1887, to Katherine Maude Langsdale; married, August
7, 1907, to Catherine Spencer Eddy; father of Albert
Jeremiah Beveridge Jr.. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Albert J. Beveridge: The
Life of John Marshall: The Building of the Nation 1815-1835
(1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Conflict and Construction 1800-1815
(1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman
1789-1801 (1916) — The
Life of John Marshall: Frontiersman, Soldier, Lawmaker
(1916) — Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1858 (1928) — The
Art of Public Speaking (1924) — The
Meaning of the Times, and Other Speeches (1908) — The
Russian Advance (1904) — The
State of the Nation (1924) — What
Is Back of the War (1915) |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, December 1902 |
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John Kenneth Caldwell (1881-1982) —
also known as John K. Caldwell —
of Berea, Madison
County, Ky.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Piketon, Pike
County, Ohio, October
16, 1881.
Republican. Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice &
Deputy Consul General in Yokohama, 1909; U.S. Vice Consul in Dalny, 1911; U.S. Consul in Vladivostok, 1914-20; Kobe, 1920-21; U.S. Consul General in Sydney, 1932-35; Tientsin, 1935-38; U.S. Minister to Ethiopia, 1943-45.
Presbyterian.
Died in 1982
(age about 100
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Henry Carey (1857-1941) —
also known as Charles H. Carey —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, October
27, 1857.
Republican. Lawyer;
attorney for James J. Hill's railroad
lines; historian; municipal judge in Oregon, 1892-95; member
of Republican
National Committee from Oregon, 1904-06; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Oregon, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Oregon; Oregon Corporation
Commissioner, 1933-37.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., August
26, 1941 (age 83 years, 303
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Doak Carey and Martha Louisa (Felton) Carey; married, September
24, 1883, to Mary N. Bidwell. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Salem (Oregon) Capital
Journal, August 27, 1941 |
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John Ker Davis (1882-1969) —
also known as John K. Davis —
of Wooster, Wayne
County, Ohio.
Born, in Soochow (Suzhou), China,
of American parents, March 5,
1882.
Interpreter; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Shanghai, 1910-13; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Canton, 1913-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1914-15; U.S. Consul in Antung, 1915-19; Nanking, 1919-27; U.S. Consul General in London, 1928-30; Seoul, 1930-34; Vancouver, 1934-38.
Presbyterian.
Member, Beta
Theta Pi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in July, 1969
(age 87
years, 0 days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Relatives: Son
of John Wright Davis and Alice Irene (Schmucker) Davis; married, May 29,
1912, to Mary Isabelle Murphy. |
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Alfredo Lutz Demorest (1881-1934) —
also known as Alfredo L. Demorest —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Santiago, Chile,
of American parents, February
13, 1881.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; artist;
author; U.S. Vice Consul in Trinidad, 1922-34, died in office 1934.
Died in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad,
November
15, 1934 (age 53 years, 275
days).
Interment at Green
Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
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Simeon Davison Fess (1861-1936) —
also known as Simeon D. Fess —
of Yellow Springs, Greene
County, Ohio.
Born near Lima, Allen
County, Ohio, December
11, 1861.
Republican. University
professor; author; editor; president
of Ohio Northern University; president
of Antioch College 1907-17; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention, 1912; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1913-23 (6th District 1913-15, 7th
District 1915-23); U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1923-35; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1924,
1932;
Temporary Chair, 1928;
chair, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee, chair, 1928;
speaker, 1928;
Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1930-32.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
23, 1936 (age 75 years, 12
days).
Interment at Glen
Forest Cemetery, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Fess and Barbara (Herring) Fess; married 1890 to Eva
Candice Thomas; father of Hamilton
Lehr Fess. |
| | | Epitaph: "A great teacher and orator
whoe life and character were a source of inspiration in the lives of
thousands. Authority on history and government, leader of his
colleagues and confidant of presidents. A genuine patriot whose
loyalty and unimpeachable integrity never yielded to expediency or
compromised a conviction." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Frederic Clemson Howe (1867-1940) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Cortlandt town, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., November
21, 1867.
Lawyer;
law
professor; writer; member of Ohio
state senate, 1906-09; Commissioner of Immigration for the Port
of New York, 1914-19.
Died, in Martha's Vineyard Hospital,
Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
County, Mass., August
3, 1940 (age 72 years, 256
days).
Interment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Andrew Jackson Howe and Jane (Clemson) Howe; married 1904 to Marie
H. Jenney. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) —
of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont
County, Ohio, March 1,
1837.
U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author; editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1872-81.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1920 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Cambridge
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Coates Kinney (1826-1904) —
of Ohio.
Born in 1826.
Republican. Poet; member of Ohio
state senate, 1860; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Ohio, 1868.
Methodist.
Died in 1904
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Miami
Cemetery, Waynesville, Ohio.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) —
also known as Alice Lee Roosevelt; "Princess
Alice" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1884.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936,
1940
(speaker);
newspaper
columnist.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
emphysema,
and cardiac
arrest, in Washington,
D.C., February
20, 1980 (age 96 years, 8
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Step-daughter of Edith
Roosevelt; daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt; half-sister of Theodore
Roosevelt Jr.; married, February
17, 1906, to Nicholas
Longworth; niece of Corinne
Roosevelt Robinson; grandniece of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; grandaunt of Susan
Roosevelt Weld; great-grandniece of James
I. Roosevelt; second great-grandniece of William
Bellinger Bulloch; third great-granddaughter of Archibald
Bulloch; first cousin of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles; first cousin once removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Corinne
A. Chubb, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; second cousin thrice removed of Philip
DePeyster; second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Roosevelt
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Monroe-Grayson-Roosevelt-Breckinridge
family of Virginia and Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alice Roosevelt Longworth:
Carol Felsenthal, Princess
Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth |
| | | Image source: Time magazine, February
7, 1927 |
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John Bartlow Martin (1915-1987) —
of Illinois.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, August
3, 1915.
Journalist;
author; speechwriter for Adlai
E. Stevenson, John
F. Kennedy, Robert
F. Kennedy, and Hubert
Humphrey; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1962-63.
Died, from throat
cancer, in Highland Park Hospital,
Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., January
3, 1987 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Herman
Cemetery, Herman, Mich.
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M. Garet Rogers Miller (1920-1996) —
also known as M. Garet Miller —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ohio, October
26, 1920.
Lawyer;
author; candidate in primary for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1961.
Female.
Died in Ventura
County, Calif., November
24, 1996 (age 76 years, 29
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Raymond Charles Moley (1886-1975) —
also known as Raymond Moley; Ray Moley —
Born in Berea, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, September
27, 1886.
Mayor of Olmsted Falls, Ohio; university
professor; member of the "Brain Trust" which advised President Franklin
D. Roosevelt; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1933; broke with
Roosevelt in 1936, and later became senior advisor to Republicans Wendell
Willkie, Barry
Goldwater, and Richard
Nixon; columnist for Newsweek magazine;
received the Medal
of Freedom in 1970.
Irish
and French
ancestry.
Died February
18, 1975 (age 88 years, 144
days).
Interment somewhere
in Phoenix, Ariz.
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Relatives: Son
of Felix James Moley and Agnes (Fairchild) Moley; married 1916 to Eva
Dall; married 1949 to
Frances Hebard. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Bayard Henry Paine (1872-1955) —
also known as Bayard H. Paine —
of Grand Island, Hall
County, Neb.
Born near Painesville, Lake
County, Ohio, April
27, 1872.
Lawyer;
author; district judge in Nebraska 11th District, 1916-30; justice of
Nebraska state supreme court, 1931-49.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Elks; Rotary.
Died in Grand Island, Hall
County, Neb., April
19, 1955 (age 82 years, 357
days).
Interment at Grand
Island Cemetery, Grand Island, Neb.
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Livia Simpson Poffenbarger (1861-1937) —
also known as Olivia Nye Simpson; Mrs. George
Poffenbarger —
of Point Pleasant, Mason
County, W.Va.; Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va.
Born in Pomeroy, Meigs
County, Ohio, March
12, 1861.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; historian; candidate for Presidential Elector for
West Virginia.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Member, Colonial
Dames; Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Died in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., October
27, 1937 (age 76 years, 229
days).
Interment at Sunset
Memorial Park, South Charleston, W.Va.
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Oliver Saxton Smith (b. 1881) —
also known as Oliver S. Smith —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Fayette
County, Ohio, May 9,
1881.
Democrat. Accountant;
author of textbooks; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 17th District, 1938; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1945-46; defeated in primary, 1942.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Allen North Smith and Janet T. (Whiteman) Smith; married, April
19, 1905, to Edna Baker. |
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Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905) —
also known as Albion W. Tourgee —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.; Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.; Denver,
Colo.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Mayville, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Williamsfield, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, May 2,
1838.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868, 1875;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1868-75; candidate for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1878; author; U.S.
Consul in Bordeaux, 1897-1905, died in office 1905.
French
Huguenot and Swiss
ancestry.
Died, of acute
uremia, due to an infected
wound, in Bordeaux, France,
May
21, 1905 (age 67 years, 19
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mayville
Cemetery, Mayville, N.Y.
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Edward Waterman Townsend (1855-1942) —
also known as Edward W. Townsend —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, 1855.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1911-15 (7th District 1911-13,
10th District 1913-15); defeated, 1926.
Author of a number of novels and books of short stories.
Died in 1942
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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Decius Spear Wade (1835-1905) —
also known as Decius Wade; "Father of Montana
Jurisprudence" —
of Andover, Ashtabula
County, Ohio.
Born in Andover, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, January
23, 1835.
Lawyer;
novelist; Ashtabula
County Probate Judge, 1861-67; member of Ohio
state senate, 1868; chief
justice of Montana territorial supreme court, 1871-87.
Died in Andover, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, August
3, 1905 (age 70 years, 192
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Jefferson, Ohio.
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Brand Whitlock (1869-1934) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Urbana, Champaign
County, Ohio, March 4,
1869.
Author; mayor of
Toledo, Ohio, 1906-13; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1914-19; U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, 1919-21.
Died in Cannes, France,
May
24, 1934 (age 65 years, 81
days).
Interment at Holy
Trinity Cemetery, Cannes, France.
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Edward Thomas Williams (b. 1854) —
also known as E. T. Williams —
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, October
17, 1854.
Missionary;
translator; U.S. Vice Consul General in Shanghai, 1897-98; U.S. Consul General in Tientsin, 1908-09.
Burial location unknown.
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