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William A. Barber (1869-1950) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Chester
County, S.C., 1869.
Lawyer;
South
Carolina state attorney general, 1895-96; president, Carolina &
Northwestern Railway, 1900-17.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Psi; American Bar
Association.
Died February
7, 1950 (age about 80
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. Osmund Barber and Mary (Westbrook) Barber; married 1921 to
Melanie Wilmer Gordon. |
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Walter Boyd Brown Sr. (1920-1998) —
also known as Walter Brown, Sr.; W. B.
Brown —
of Winnsboro, Fairfield
County, S.C.
Born in Smallwood, Fairfield
County, S.C., May 16,
1920.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1950; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1960,
1964,
1968;
first director of South Carolina Department of General Services;
vice-president of Norfolk Southern Corporation (formerly Southern
Railway).
Presbyterian.
Blind
in one eye.
Died, following a stroke,
at Fairfield Memorial Hospital,
Winnsboro, Fairfield
County, S.C., March 9,
1998 (age 77 years, 297
days).
Interment at Bethel
Cemetery, Winnsboro, S.C.
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Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. (1940-2005) —
also known as Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. —
of Fountain Inn, Greenville
County, S.C.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., July 24,
1940.
Republican. Real estate
broker; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1970-74; defeated, 1969;
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1972
(alternate), 1976,
1980,
1984,
1988,
1992;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1974; executive assistant to Gov. Jim
Edwards, 1975; member of South
Carolina state senate 2nd District, 1977-78; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1979-87; Governor of
South Carolina, 1987-95; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1996;
lobbyist;
CEO, American Council of Life
Insurers, 1995-2001; director, Norfolk Southern railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sertoma;
Pi
Kappa Phi.
Died, of a heart
attack while suffering from Alzheimer's
disease, in Lexington Medical Hospital,
West Columbia, Lexington
County, S.C., December
7, 2005 (age 65 years, 136
days).
Interment at All
Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery, Pawleys Island, S.C.
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Henry Workman Conner (1797-1861) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Mecklenburg
County, N.C., 1797.
Merchant;
banker;
president, South Carolina Railroad; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from St. Philips' & St.
Michael's, 1860-61; died in office 1861.
Died, from peritonitis,
in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., January
11, 1861 (age about 63
years).
Interment at St.
Michael's Church Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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Charles Irénée du Pont (1797-1869) —
also known as Charles I. du Pont —
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March
29, 1797.
Whig. Cloth
manufacturer; president, Farmers Bank of
Delaware; an organizer of the Delaware Railroad; member of Delaware
state senate, 1841-44, 1853-56.
Died in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., January
31, 1869 (age 71 years, 308
days).
Interment at Du
Pont de Nemours Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Relatives: Son
of Victor Marie du Pont=de Nemours and Gabrielle Joséphine de
la Fite=de Pelleport; married, October
8, 1824, to Dorcas Montgomery Van Dyke (daughter of Nicholas
Van Dyke (1770-1826); granddaughter of Nicholas
Van Dyke (1738-1789)); married to Anne Ridgely (daughter of Henry
Moore Ridgely); great-grandfather of Francis
Victor du Pont; second great-grandfather of Eleuthere
Irenee du Pont; first cousin of Henry
DuPont; first cousin once removed of Henry
Algernon du Pont; first cousin twice removed of Thomas
Coleman du Pont, Alfred
Irénée du Pont, Pierre
Samuel du Pont, Francis
Irenee du Pont, Edward
Green Bradford Jr. and Elizabeth
Bradford du Pont Bayard; first cousin thrice removed of Henry
Belin du Pont Jr., Lammot
du Pont Copeland, Thomas
Francis Bayard III, Reynolds
du Pont and Alexis
Irenee du Pont Bayard; first cousin four times removed of Pierre
Samuel du Pont IV and Richard
Henry Bayard. |
| | | Political families: DuPont
family of Wilmington, Delaware; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Bothwell Jeter (1827-1883) —
of Union, Union
County, S.C.
Born in Santuc, Union District (now Union
County), S.C., October
13, 1827.
Lawyer;
railroad executive; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1856-58; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of South
Carolina state senate from Union County, 1872-80, 1880-82; Governor of
South Carolina, 1880.
Died in Union, Union
County, S.C., May 20,
1883 (age 55 years, 219
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Union, S.C.
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Alexander Campbell King (1856-1926) —
also known as Alexander C. King —
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., December
7, 1856.
Lawyer;
attorney for railroads; U.S. Solicitor General, 1918-20; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1920-25.
Died in Flat Rock, Henderson
County, N.C., July 26,
1926 (age 69 years, 231
days).
Entombed at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of J. Gadsden King and Caroline Clifford (Postell) King; married to
Alice May Fowler. |
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article |
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Alexander Robert Lawton (1818-1896) —
also known as Alexander R. Lawton —
of Georgia.
Born in St. Peter's Parish, Beaufort District (now part of Beaufort
County), S.C., November
4, 1818.
Democrat. Lawyer;
president, Augusta and Savannah Railroad, 1849-54; member of
Georgia
state house of representatives, 1855-56, 1870-75; member of Georgia
state senate, 1860; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1876; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1880,
1884;
U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1887-89.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Clifton Springs, Ontario
County, N.Y., July 2,
1896 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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George Lamb Buist Rivers (b. 1896) —
also known as Buist Rivers —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 26,
1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Charleston County,
1924-28; member of South
Carolina state senate from Charleston County, 1930; president,
The Central Railroad of South Carolina; director and counsel,
Citizens and Southern National Bank;
director, Life and Accident Insurance
Company; vice president and counsel of radio
station WCSC.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
Kiwanis.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Moultrie Rutledge Rivers and Eliza Ingraham (Buist) Rivers;
married, November
20, 1930, to Ethel Pinckney Rutledge. |
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John Diedrich Spreckels (1853-1926) —
also known as John D. Spreckels —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., August
16, 1853.
Republican. Founder and president, Oceanic Steamship
Company; president, Western Sugar
Company; owned the Hotel de
Coronado, the San Diego Electric
Railway, newspapers
in San Francisco and San Diego; built the San Diego and Arizona
Railway, from San Diego to Calexico; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1896,
1924;
member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1896.
German
ancestry.
Died in Coronado, San Diego
County, Calif., June 7,
1926 (age 72 years, 295
days).
Entombed at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Claus
Spreckels and Anna Christina (Mangels) Spreckels; brother of Adolph
Bernard Spreckels; married 1877 to Lillie
C. Siebein. |
| | | Political family: Spreckels
family of San Francisco, California. |
| | | The Spreckels Theatre,
in San
Diego, California, is named for
him. — Spreckels Elementary
School, in San Diego,
California, is named for
him. — Spreckels Park,
in Coronado,
California, is named for
him. — The Spreckels Organ Pavilion, an outdoor performance
venue, in Balboa Park, San Diego,
California, is named for
him and his brother. |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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