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Ammon Monroe Aurand (1870-1956) —
also known as A. M. Aurand —
of Beaver Springs, Snyder
County, Pa.; Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Beaver Springs, Snyder
County, Pa., September
3, 1870.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1896;
bookstore owner.
Died in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., June 22,
1956 (age 85 years, 293
days).
Interment at Adamsburg Cemetery, Beaver Springs, Pa.
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Charles Benseman (1824-1855) —
of Hamburg, Berks
County, Pa.
Born in Hamburg, Berks
County, Pa., December
9, 1824.
Democrat. Printer; postmaster at Hamburg,
Pa., 1845-51.
Died in Hamburg, Berks
County, Pa., July 2,
1855 (age 30 years, 205
days).
Interment at St. John's Cemetery, Hamburg, Pa.
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William Eichbaum Jr. (1787-1886) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Mont-Cenis, France,
June
25, 1787.
Bookbinder; postmaster at Pittsburgh,
Pa., 1822-33; Pittsburgh city treasurer, 1858-66.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., December
30, 1886 (age 99 years, 188
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Son-in-law of John
Johnston. |
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Office (1891) |
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Edward Thomas Fairchild (1872-1965) —
also known as Edward T. Fairchild —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Madison, Dane
County, Wis.
Born in Towanda, Bradford
County, Pa., June 17,
1872.
Republican. Printer; lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1907-10, 1915-16; circuit judge in Wisconsin,
1916-30; justice of
Wisconsin state supreme court, 1930-57; chief
justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1954-57.
Presbyterian.
Died October
29, 1965 (age 93 years, 134
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles W. Fear (1874-1942) —
of Joplin, Jasper
County, Mo.
Born in Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa., March
23, 1874.
Republican. Printer; editor,
Missouri Trades
Unionist; organizer
for American Federation of Labor; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jasper County 3rd District,
1911-12.
Died in Cole
County, Mo., April
30, 1942 (age 68 years, 38
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo.
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George Fuller (1802-1888) —
of Montrose, Susquehanna
County, Pa.; Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., November
7, 1802.
Democrat. Bookseller; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1844-45.
Died in Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa., November
24, 1888 (age 86 years, 17
days).
Interment at Montrose
Cemetery, Montrose, Pa.
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Charles William Goerman (b. 1891) —
also known as Charles W. Goerman —
of Ambridge, Beaver
County, Pa.
Born in New Kensington, Westmoreland
County, Pa., November
13, 1891.
Democrat. Printer; chair of
Beaver County Democratic Party, 1927; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1928;
postmaster at Ambridge,
Pa., 1934-57 (acting, 1934).
Burial location unknown.
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Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) —
also known as E. Haldeman-Julius; Emanuel
Julius —
of Girard, Crawford
County, Kan.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 30,
1889.
Socialist. Author;
editor of the Socialist newspaper
Appeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications,
publisher of many five-cent paperback books, called "Little
Blue Books"; there were more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature,
biography, self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make
them widely accessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to
1951, over 500 million copies were printed and sold; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1932; indicted
by a federal grand jury in March, 1950 for income
tax evasion; tried
and convicted
in April, 1951; sentenced
to six months in prison,
and fined
$12,500; released pending appeal.
Jewish;
later Agnostic.
Drowned
in his swimming
pool, in Girard, Crawford
County, Kan., July 31,
1951 (age 62 years, 1
days). Possibly suicide,
but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.
Interment at Cedarville
Cemetery, Cedarville, Ill.
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Ebenezer Hazard (1745-1817) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
15, 1745.
Publisher; postmaster at New
York City, N.Y., 1775-76; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1782-89; insurance
business; historian.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 13,
1817 (age 72 years, 149
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Daniel L. Keister (b. 1866) —
of Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa.
Born in Altoona, Blair
County, Pa., March 7,
1866.
Printer; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Dauphin County, 1909.
Burial location unknown.
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Horace A. McClung (b. 1865) —
of Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., 1865.
Republican. Printing business; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Allegheny County, 1909.
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel McDonald —
of Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa.
Newspaper
editor and publisher; bookseller; burgess
of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1843-44.
Burial location unknown.
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Edwin Sydney Stuart (1853-1937) —
also known as Edwin S. Stuart —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
28, 1853.
Republican. Bookseller; publisher; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1888,
1896,
1908;
mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1891-95; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1907-11; director, Bell Telephone
Company of Pennsylvania; director, Diamond States Telephone
Company.
Died March
21, 1937 (age 83 years, 83
days).
Interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
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Aristide Rodrigue Traugh (1848-1931) —
of Hollidaysburg, Blair
County, Pa.
Born in Pennsylvania, January
30, 1848.
Democrat. Printer; newspaper
publisher; postmaster at Hollidaysburg,
Pa., 1913-22.
Died in Hollidaysburg, Blair
County, Pa., August
21, 1931 (age 83 years, 203
days).
Interment at Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Hollidaysburg, Pa.
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George Washington Wagoner (1856-1919) —
of Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., February
22, 1856.
Democrat. Printer; physician;
one of the organizers, and director, of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial
Hospital;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1884;
mayor
of Johnstown, Pa., 1896-99.
Member, American Medical
Association; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa., April
26, 1919 (age 63 years, 63
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Southmont, Pa.
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Herbert Moore Wicks (1889-1957) —
also known as Harry M. Wicks; Herbert
Moore —
of Oregon; New York; Pennsylvania.
Born in Arcola, Douglas
County, Ill., December
10, 1889.
Communist. Typesetter; Socialist candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1918; founding member
Communist Party of America, 1919; Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1924; Workers
candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1926; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1932, 1934; expelled from Communist
Party, 1937.
Not to be confused with the British Communist of the same name.
Died in 1957
(age about
67 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Lucian Dallas Woodruff (1845-1911) —
also known as Lucian D. Woodruff —
of Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa.
Born in Landisburg, Perry
County, Pa., January
8, 1845.
Democrat. Printer; newspaper
editor; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1879-82; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1884;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 20th District, 1892; postmaster
at Johnstown,
Pa., 1895-99; mayor
of Johnstown, Pa., 1899-1902; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Pennsylvania.
Died, from stomach
cancer and liver
cancer, in Johnstown, Cambria
County, Pa., January
27, 1911 (age 66 years, 19
days).
Interment at Grandview
Cemetery, Southmont, Pa.
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