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Charles Adamson (b. 1859) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Cedartown, Polk
County, Ga.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
17, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer; cotton
manufacturer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Georgia, 1896,
1904,
1924.
Unitarian. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Beta
Theta Pi.
Burial location unknown.
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James Mitchell Ashley (1824-1896) —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born near Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
14, 1824.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1856
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1859-69 (5th District 1859-63, 10th
District 1863-69); defeated, 1868, 1890, 1892; Governor
of Montana Territory, 1869.
Unitarian. Scottish
ancestry.
Died of a heart
attack in Alma, Gratiot
County, Mich., September
16, 1896 (age 71 years, 307
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.
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Alfred Leroy Atherton Jr. (1921-2002) —
also known as Alfred L. Atherton, Jr. —
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
22, 1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Stuttgart, 1947-50; U.S. Consul in Aleppo, 1957-58; Calcutta, 1962-65; U.S. Ambassador to , 1978-79; Egypt, 1979.
Unitarian. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died October
30, 2002 (age 80 years, 342
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Rudolph Blankenburg (1843-1918) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Lippe Detmold (now Lippstadt), Germany,
February
16, 1843.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; manufacturer;
mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1911-16.
Quaker
or Unitarian. German
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
12, 1918 (age 75 years, 55
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Sill Clark Jr. (1901-1990) —
also known as Joseph S. Clark, Jr. —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
21, 1901.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Pennsylvania convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; served
in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1952-56; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1952
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957-69; defeated, 1968.
Unitarian. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; American Bar
Association; United
World Federalists; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
12, 1990 (age 88 years, 83
days).
Interment at St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Whitemarsh, Pa.
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George Gilmour (1872-1948) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.; Denver,
Colo.; St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in Pennsylvania, 1872.
Democrat. Minister,
First Unitarian Church of Dallas, Tex., 1908-21; First Unitarian
Church of Denver, Colo., 1921-32; United Liberal Church
(Unitarian-Universalist) of St. Petersburg, Fla., 1932-48; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1928.
Unitarian. Scottish
ancestry. Member, Optimist
Club.
He and his wife were killed when their car
was hit
by a train, the southbound Silver Meteor of the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad, at a grade crossing near Frostproof, Polk
County, Fla., March
12, 1948 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tex.
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James Kerr (1791-1876) —
of Indiana.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Pa., November
29, 1791.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1840-41, 1843-47.
Unitarian.
Died in Bridgeton, Parke
County, Ind., August
16, 1876 (age 84 years, 261
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Willauer Kutz (1870-1951) —
also known as Charles W. Kutz —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Reading, Berks
County, Pa., October
14, 1870.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1914-17, 1918-21,
1941-45; retired 1945; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1920; served
in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Universalist.
Died, in St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., January
25, 1951 (age 80 years, 103
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Allen Kutz and Emily (Briner) Kutz; married, June 25,
1895, to Elizabeth Randolph Keim. |
| | | Kutz Memorial Bridge
(built 1943, altered and renamed 1954), on Independence Avenue,
crossing the Tidal Basin, in West Potomac Park, Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Alfred J. Ostheimer (1845-1903) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
22, 1845.
Republican. Importer
and exporter; Consul
for Austria-Hungary in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1894-1903; Honorary
Consul for Japan in Philadelphia,
Pa., 1897-1903.
Unitarian. German
ancestry. Member, Union
League; Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
21, 1903 (age 58 years, 29
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Maurice Ostheimer and Elizabeth (Lipmann) Ostheimer; married, October
28, 1871, to Ellen Hackes. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Philadelphia Inquirer,
October 23, 1903 |
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Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.; Luzerne
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1745.
Farmer;
Essex
County Register of Deeds, 1774-77; common pleas court judge in
Massachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts state
legislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1791-95; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1795-1800; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-11; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2nd
District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1817-18.
Puritan;
later Unitarian. Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Censured
by the Senate in 1811 for violating an injunction
of secrecy.
Died in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
29, 1829 (age 83 years, 196
days).
Interment at Broad
Street Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of Timothy Pickering (1703-1778) and Mary (Wingate) Pickering;
married, April 8,
1776, to Rebecca White; granduncle of Dudley
Leavitt Pickman; second great-granduncle of John
Gardner Coolidge and Augustus
Peabody Gardner; third great-granduncle of John
Lee Saltonstall; fourth great-granduncle of Leverett
Saltonstall, Richard
Saltonstall, William
Gurdon Saltonstall, John
Lee Saltonstall Jr. and William
Amory Gardner Minot; fifth great-granduncle of William
Lawrence Saltonstall and John
Forbes Kerry; ancestor *** of Susan
Walker FitzGerald; first cousin once removed of John
Wingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin thrice removed of John
Wingate Weeks (1860-1926); first cousin four times removed of Charles
Sinclair Weeks; second cousin twice removed of John
Albion Andrew; second cousin thrice removed of Isaac
Libbey, John
Forrester Andrew and Henry
Hersey Andrew; second cousin four times removed of Llewellyn
Libby and William
F. Nason; second cousin five times removed of Augustine
B. Libby, Albanah
Harvey Libby and Frederick
Edwin Hanscom; third cousin once removed of Luther
Walter Badger; third cousin twice removed of Amos
Tuck; third cousin thrice removed of Hiram
Augustus Huse (1840-1907) and Hiram
Augustus Huse (1843-1902). |
| | | Political families: Rodney
family of Delaware; Holden-Davis-Lawrence-Garcelon
family of Massachusetts; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Saltonstall-Weeks
family of Massachusetts; Lawrence-Andrew-Rodney-Parrish
family of Adel, Georgia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Timothy Pickering: David
McLean, Timothy
Pickering and the Age of the American Revolution —
Gerald H. Clarfield, Timothy
Pickering and the American Republic |
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Richard Arkwright Snelling (1927-1991) —
also known as Richard A. Snelling —
of Shelburne, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born in Allentown, Lehigh
County, Pa., February
18, 1927.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1959-60, 1973-76; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1960,
1968,
1980;
chair
of Chittenden County Republican Party, 1963-66; member of Vermont
Republican State Executive Committee, 1963-66; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1964; Governor of
Vermont, 1977-85, 1991; defeated, 1966; died in office 1991;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Vermont, 1986.
Unitarian. Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Rotary.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Shelburne, Chittenden
County, Vt., August
13, 1991 (age 64 years, 176
days).
Interment at Shelburne
Village Cemetery, Shelburne, Vt.
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Israel Washburn Jr. (1813-1883) —
of Orono, Penobscot
County, Maine.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, June 16,
1813.
Member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1842; U.S.
Representative from Maine, 1851-61 (6th District 1851-53, 5th
District 1853-61); Governor of
Maine, 1861-63.
Universalist.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 12,
1883 (age 69 years, 330
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
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