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LeRoy Hagen Anderson (1906-1991) —
also known as LeRoy H. Anderson —
of Conrad, Pondera
County, Mont.
Born in Ellendale, Dickey
County, N.Dak., February
2, 1906.
Democrat. Rancher;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of Montana
state house of representatives, 1947-48; member of Montana
state senate, 1949-56, 1967; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Montana, 1956;
U.S.
Representative from Montana 2nd District, 1957-61; defeated,
1954; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1960.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Lions; Tau Beta
Pi; Pi
Kappa Delta; Alpha
Chi Sigma; Pi
Kappa Alpha; American Chemical Society.
Died, in a hospital
at Conrad, Pondera
County, Mont., September
25, 1991 (age 85 years, 235
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Bancroft (1875-1936) —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Rockford (now part of Wilmington), New Castle
County, Del., May 18,
1875.
Democrat. Chemical
engineer;
executive, Joseph Bancroft & Sons chemical
manufacturing firm; director of railroads
and insurance
companies; candidate for Governor of
Delaware, 1924.
Quaker.
Member, American Chemical Society; Theta
Xi; Freemasons;
Elks.
Injured in a fall down
stairs, and died a few days later, from pneumonia,
in the Homeopathic Hospital,
Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., May 6,
1936 (age 60 years, 354
days).
Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
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Charles Harry Benedict (b. 1876) —
of Lake Linden, Houghton
County, Mich.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
24, 1876.
Democrat. Metallurgist;
worked for copper mining
companies; inventor,
ammonia leaching process for copper; director, Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis, 1919-23; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Michigan, 1920,
1928
(alternate).
Jewish.
Member, American Chemical Society; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Benedict and Hannah (Goldsmith) Benedict; married, February
4, 1902, to Lena Manson. |
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Lloyd Campbell Bird (1894-1978) —
also known as Lloyd C. Bird —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Highland
County, Va., August
1, 1894.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state senate 43rd District, 1943-50; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1944.
Methodist.
Member, Kiwanis;
American Chemical Society.
Died in Chesterfield
County, Va., April
20, 1978 (age 83 years, 262
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Albert Sprague Coolidge (1894-1977) —
also known as Albert S. Coolidge —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
23, 1894.
Socialist. Chemist;
candidate for secretary
of state of Massachusetts, 1922; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1934, 1936.
Member, American Chemical Society.
Died in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
31, 1977 (age 83 years, 220
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Allan R. Cullimore (b. 1884) —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., March 2,
1884.
Civil
engineer; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; Dean, later
President, Newark College of Engineering; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Essex County,
1947.
Member, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Chemical
Society; Newcomen
Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Cullimore and Mary Pearce (Joy) Cullimore; married, March
25, 1912, to Edith Van Alst. |
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Homer C. Fritsch (1894-1957) —
of Grosse Pointe Park, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Piqua, Miami
County, Ohio, July 23,
1894.
Chemist;
executive vice-president, Parke Davis pharmaceutical
company; village
president of Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, 1948-50; mayor
of Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., 1950-57; died in office 1957.
Member, American Chemical Society; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners.
Collapsed and died in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Hotel,
Montreal, Quebec,
April
8, 1957 (age 62 years, 259
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Seabury C. Mastick (b. 1871) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; near Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., July 19,
1871.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1904;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; president, Warner Chemical
Company; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 3rd District, 1921-22;
member of New York
state senate 26th District, 1923-34; defeated, 1934.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks; American Bar
Association; American Chemical Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1896 to Agnes
E. Warner. |
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Thomas Herbert Norton (b. 1851) —
also known as Thomas H. Norton —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rushford, Allegany
County, N.Y., June 30,
1851.
Republican. Chemist;
newspaper
editor; university
professor; librarian;
U.S. Consul in Harput, 1900-05; Smyrna, 1905-06; Chemnitz, 1906-14.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; American Chemical Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Robert Norton and Julia Ann Granger (Horsford) Norton;
married, December
27, 1883, to Edith Eliza Ames. |
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Russell Wilber Peterson (1916-2011) —
also known as Russell W. Peterson —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Portage, Columbia
County, Wis., October
3, 1916.
Republican. Textile
researcher
for du Pont chemical
company; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
Delaware, 1969-73; defeated, 1972.
Unitarian.
Member, American Chemical Society; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Xi; Phi
Eta Sigma.
Died February
21, 2011 (age 94 years, 141
days).
Burial location unknown.
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H. Rivington Pyne (b. 1892) —
of Far Hills, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
16, 1892.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Somerset County, 1936-38;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Somerset County, 1942-47; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Somerset
County, 1947.
Member, American Chemical Society.
Burial location unknown.
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999) —
also known as Glenn T. Seaborg; Glenn Teodor
Sjöberg —
Born in Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich., April
19, 1912.
Democrat. Physical
chemist; university
professor; received the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry, 1951; chair, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,
1961-71.
Swedish
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Chi Sigma; American Chemical Society.
Died in Lafayette, Contra
Costa County, Calif., February
25, 1999 (age 86 years, 312
days).
Cremated.
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Paul Harold Todd Jr. (1921-2008) —
also known as Paul H. Todd, Jr. —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.
Born in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., September
22, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; founded and
led Kalamazoo Spice
Extraction Co. (now Kalsec); candidate for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Kalamazoo County
2nd District, 1961; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1965-67; defeated,
1962, 1966, 1974.
Protestant.
Member, American
Economic Association; American Chemical Society.
Died November
18, 2008 (age 87 years, 57
days).
Burial location unknown.
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