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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Union County

Index to Locations La Grande Masonic Cemetery Summerville Summerville Cemetery Union Union Victorian Cemetery Masonic Cemetery La Grande, Union County, Oregon Politicians buried here:   James Harvey Slater (1826-1899) — of Corvallis, Benton County, Ore. Born near Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., December 28, 1826. Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; newspaper publisher; member of Oregon territorial House of Representatives, 1857-58; member of Oregon state house of representatives, 1859; District Attorney 5th District, 1868; U.S. Representative from Oregon at-large, 1871-73; U.S. Senator from Oregon, 1879-85. Died in La Grande, Union County, Ore., January 28, 1899 (age 72 years, 31 days). Interment at Masonic Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Jay Slater and Lucretia (Carman) Slater; married, August 31, 1854, to Edna Elizabeth Gray; father of Woodson Taylor Slater.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Summerville Cemetery Summerville, Union County, Oregon See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   George Thomas Cochran (1877-1965) — also known as George T. Cochran — of La Grande, Union County, Ore. Born November 1, 1877. Republican. Lawyer; candidate in primary for justice of Oregon state supreme court, 1938; delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1944, 1948. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Order of the Eastern Star. Died January 10, 1965 (age 87 years, 70 days). Interment at Summerville Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Louisa J. (Ruckman) Cochran and Samuel Cochran.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Union Victorian Cemetery Union, Union County, Oregon See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Robert Eakin (1848-1917) — of Union, Union County, Ore.; Salem, Marion County, Ore. Born in Elgin, Kane County, Ill., March 15, 1848. Republican. Lawyer; circuit judge in Oregon, 1895-1906; justice of Oregon state supreme court, 1907-17; resigned 1917; chief justice of Oregon state supreme court, 1911-12. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Died October 1, 1917 (age 69 years, 200 days). Interment at Union Victorian Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Stewart B. Eakin and Catherine (McEldowney) Eakin; married, June 21, 1876, to Mary Walker. Abel Elsworth Eaton (1834-1917) — also known as A. E. Eaton — of Union, Union County, Ore. Born in Conway, Carroll County, N.H., May 20, 1834. Woollen manufacturer; Prohibition candidate for Governor of Oregon, 1910. Died in Portland, Multnomah County, Ore., January 15, 1917 (age 82 years, 240 days). Interment at Union Victorian Cemetery.   Eaton Hall (built 1907-09), at Williamette University, Salem, Oregon, is named for him.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Image source: Oregon Daily Journal, June 12, 1910

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