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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841-1915) —
also known as Nelson W. Aldrich; "General Manager of
the United States" —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Warwick, Kent
County, R.I.
Born in Foster, Providence
County, R.I., November
6, 1841.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; grocer;
director, Roger Williams Bank;
president, First National Bank of
Providence; trustee, Providence, Hartford and Fishkill
Railroad; organizer and president, United Traction
and Electric
Company; member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1875-77; Speaker of
the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1876-77; U.S.
Representative from Rhode Island 1st District, 1879-81; U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1881-1911; author of Aldrich-Vreeland
Currency Act and Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died, from an apoplectic
stroke, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
16, 1915 (age 73 years, 161
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Robert Bushby (b. 1843) —
of Little York, Cortland
County, N.Y.; Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Born in Pawtucket, Providence
County, R.I., 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Cortland
County Treasurer, 1876-84; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1884
(alternate), 1888;
traveling passenger agent, Grand Trunk Railway; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
English
ancestry. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Bushby and Ann (Patterson) Bushby; married to Mary A.
Miller. |
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John Henry Clifford (1809-1876) —
also known as John H. Clifford —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., January
16, 1809.
Whig. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives from New Bedford, 1835; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1849-53, 1854-58; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1853-54; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1862; president, Boston and Providence
Railroad.
Died in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., January
2, 1876 (age 66 years, 351
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, New Bedford, Mass.
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John Milton Fessenden (1804-1883) —
also known as John M. Fessenden —
Born in Warren, Bristol
County, R.I., December
21, 1804.
Civil
engineer; worked on canals
and railroads; U.S. Consul in Dresden, 1850-54.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
8, 1883 (age 78 years, 49
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Fessenden and Abigail Miller (Child) Fessenden; married, May 21,
1834, to Mary Pierce Bumstead; married, June 25,
1868, to Sarah Ann Murphy; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Nichols Blake; third cousin of Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1784-1869), Benjamin
Fessenden and Charles
Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin once removed of William
Pitt Fessenden, Walter
Fessenden, Samuel
Clement Fessenden (1815-1882), Thomas
Amory Deblois Fessenden, William
Fessenden Allen, Joseph
Palmer Fessenden and Samuel
Fessenden (1845-1903); third cousin twice removed of James
Deering Fessenden, Francis
Fessenden, Joshua
Abbe Fessenden, Samuel
Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver
Grosvenor Fessenden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Milton Fessenden; fourth cousin once removed of Timothy
Pitkin, Peter
Rawson Taft, Ebenezer
Oliver Grosvenor and Charles
Grenfill Washburn. |
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family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article — Find-A-Grave
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Robert Walton Goelet (1880-1941) —
also known as Robert W. Goelet; Bertie
Goelet —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
19, 1880.
Republican. One of New York's wealthiest men, he inherited $60
million by 1902; director of banks, the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Corporation, and the Union Pacific Railroad; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Rhode Island; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1932,
1936.
French
Huguenot ancestry.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 2,
1941 (age 61 years, 44
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Charles C. Greene —
Born in Kent
County, R.I.
Flour and
grain business; auditor,
Antofagasta and Bolivia Railroad; U.S. Vice Consul in Antofagasta, as of 1897-98; U.S. Consul in Antofagasta, as of 1899-1905.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick Henry Prince (1859-1953) —
also known as Frederick H. Prince —
of Wenham, Essex
County, Mass.; Newport, Newport
County, R.I.; Biarritz, France.
Born in Winchester, Middlesex
County, Mass., 1859.
Republican. Financier;
owned or controlled stockyards,
meatpacking
plants, and railroads; one of the world's wealthiest men;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1928.
Episcopalian.
Died in Biarritz, France,
February
3, 1953 (age about 93
years).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
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William Lawrence Scott (1828-1891) —
also known as William L. Scott —
of Erie, Erie
County, Pa.
Born in Washington,
D.C., July 2,
1828.
Democrat. Mayor of
Erie, Pa., 1866, 1871; member of Democratic
National Committee from Pennsylvania, 1876-88; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1880
(speaker),
1888;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 27th District, 1885-89;
defeated, 1866, 1876; president, Erie & Pittsburgh
Railroad.
Died in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., September
19, 1891 (age 63 years, 79
days).
Interment at Erie
Cemetery, Erie, Pa.
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Joseph Orvill Smith (b. 1843) —
also known as Joseph O. Smith —
of Chile.
Born in Rhode Island, August
12, 1843.
Woollen
manufacturer; railroad builder; flour mill
business; mining
business; U.S. Consular Agent in Talcahuano, 1895-1918.
Burial location unknown.
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Royal Chapin Taft (1823-1912) —
also known as Royal C. Taft —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Northbridge, Worcester
County, Mass., February
14, 1823.
Republican. Member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1880-84; Governor of
Rhode Island, 1888-89; president, Merchants National Bank;
president, Boston & Providence Railroad; director, New York,
New Haven, and Hartford Railroad.
Died June 4,
1912 (age 89 years, 111
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Henry Rogers Winthrop (1876-1958) —
of Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., July 2,
1876.
Republican. Banker; stockbroker;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; director,
Long Island Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons.
Died in Sarasota, Sarasota
County, Fla., November
14, 1958 (age 82 years, 135
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Buchanan Winthrop and Sarah Helen (Townsend) Winthrop; married, October
3, 1905, to Alice Woodward Babcock. |
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Robert Ralph Young (1897-1958) —
also known as Robert R. Young; "Railroad
Young"; "Populist of Wall Street";
"The Daring Young Man of Wall Street";
"Maverick of Wall Street" —
of Newport, Newport
County, R.I.
Born in Canadian, Hemphill
County, Tex., February
14, 1897.
Republican. Stockbroker;
financier;
assistant treasurer of General
Motors; predicted the 1929 stock market crash, and profited by
selling stocks short; chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway, and later the New York Central Railroads;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Rhode Island, 1944.
Presbyterian.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
25, 1958 (age 60 years, 345
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Episcopal Cemetery, Portsmouth, R.I.
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