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Robert Adams Jr. (1849-1906) —
also known as Bertie Adams —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., February
26, 1849.
Republican. Member of Pennsylvania
state senate 6th District, 1883-86; U.S. Minister to Brazil, 1889-90; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1893-1906; died in
office 1906; drafted and introduced the declaration of war against
Spain, 1898.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the Revolution; Sons of
the War of 1812; Society of Colonial Wars.
Despondent over heavy losses in stock speculation and the prospect of
defeat at the polls, he killed
himself by pistol
shot, in his rooms at the Metropolitan Club, and died soon after
in Emergency Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., June 1,
1906 (age 57 years, 95
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Edward Shippen (1823-1904) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., November
16, 1823.
Lawyer;
Consul
for Argentina in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1872-88, 1892-95; Consul
for Chile in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1872-98; Consul
for Ecuador in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1873-97.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
14, 1904 (age 80 years, 119
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Joseph Galloway Shippen and Anna Maria (Buckley) Shippen;
married, June 29,
1849, to Augusta Chauncey Twiggs; grandnephew of Edward
Shippen (1729-1806); great-grandson of Edward
Shippen (1703-1781); great-grandnephew of William
Shippen; third great-grandson of Edward
Shippen (1639-1712); first cousin once removed of Bertha
Shippen Irving; first cousin twice removed of Benjamin
Chew and Thomas
Willing; second cousin once removed of Charles
Willing Byrd; third cousin of George
Howard, John
Brown Francis, Benjamin
Chew Howard and Sophia
Dallas; third cousin once removed of John
Lee Carroll and Edward
Overton Jr.; third cousin twice removed of James
Rieman Macfarlane, John
Howell Carroll and Francis
Fisher Kane. |
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family; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph
family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Shippen-Middleton
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bache-Dallas
family of Pennsylvania and New York; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Carroll
family of Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: Philadelphia Times,
December 20, 1891 |
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