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Watkins Moorman Abbitt (1908-1998) —
also known as Watkins M. Abbitt —
of Appomattox, Appomattox
County, Va.
Born in Appomattox, Appomattox
County, Va., May 21,
1908.
Democrat. Lawyer; Appomattox
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1932-48; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia; delegate
to Virginia limited constitutional convention 11th District,
1945; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1948-73; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1964,
1972;
Virginia
Democratic state chair, 1964-70.
Baptist.
Member, Ruritan;
Lions;
Omicron
Delta Kappa; Delta
Theta Phi; American Forestry Association.
Died, of leukemia,
at Virginia Baptist Hospital,
Lynchburg,
Va., July 13,
1998 (age 90 years, 53
days).
Interment at Liberty
Baptist Church Cemetery, Appomattox, Va.
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William Alvord (1833-1904) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
3, 1833.
Hardware
dealer; banker; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1871-73; San Francisco Police
Commissioner, 1878-99.
Member, Loyal
Legion; American Forestry Association.
Died, of heart
failure due to bronchial
troubles, in San
Francisco, Calif., December
21, 1904 (age 71 years, 353
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Robert Perkins Bass (1873-1960) —
also known as Robert P. Bass —
of Peterborough, Hillsborough
County, N.H.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
1, 1873.
Farmer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1905-09; member of New
Hampshire state senate 15th District, 1909-10; Governor of
New Hampshire, 1911-13.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Forestry Association.
Died in Peterborough, Hillsborough
County, N.H., July 29,
1960 (age 86 years, 332
days).
Interment at Pine
Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, N.H.
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Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837-1914) —
also known as S. G. W. Benjamin —
of New York; Washington,
D.C.; Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt.
Born, of American parents, at Argos, Greece,
February
13, 1837.
Librarian;
author;
artist;
U.S. Minister to Persia, 1883-85; U.S. Consul General in Teheran, as of 1883-85.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Phi
Beta Kappa; American Forestry Association; Navy
League.
Died in Burlington, Chittenden
County, Vt., July 19,
1914 (age 77 years, 156
days).
Interment at Lakeview
Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
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Robert William Brown (b. 1875) —
also known as R. W. Brown —
of Carrollton, Carroll
County, Mo.
Born in Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia,
October
17, 1875.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; farmer; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention at-large, 1943-44.
Presbyterian.
Member, Farm
Bureau; Rotary;
American Forestry Association.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Mathieso Brown and Flora (Aiton) Brown; married, October
19, 1910, to Mary Hudson Goodson. |
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Frederick Percival Champ (1896-1976) —
also known as F. P. Champ —
of Logan, Cache
County, Utah.
Born in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, June 4,
1896.
Democrat. Banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1928;
director, St. Mark's Hospital.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Bankers Association; American Forestry Association; American
Arbitration Association; Newcomen
Society; Rotary.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
15, 1976 (age 79 years, 285
days).
Interment at Cedar Bluff Cemetery, Rockford, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of George Herbert Champ and Alla Dora (Cochran) Champ; married, December
29, 1921, to Frances Elizabeth Winton. |
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memorial |
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Joseph Lyman Fisher (1914-1992) —
of Arlington, Arlington
County, Va.
Born in Pawtucket, Providence
County, R.I., January
11, 1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1975-81.
Unitarian.
Member, American
Economic Association; American
Society for Public Administration; American Forestry
Association.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., February
19, 1992 (age 78 years, 39
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Curtis Guild Jr. (1860-1915) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February
2, 1860.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1884; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1896
(Convention
Vice-President); colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1903-06; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1906-09; candidate for Republican nomination for
Vice President, 1908;
U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1911-13.
Member, Freemasons;
Society
of Colonial Wars; Sons of
the American Revolution; American Forestry Association.
In 1907, John A. Steele came to the State House with a revolver, and
attempted
to kill Gov. Guild; he was subdued and arrested after shooting
two people.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 6,
1915 (age 55 years, 63
days).
Interment at Forest
Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.
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Harry Bartow Hawes (1869-1947) —
also known as Harry B. Hawes —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., November
15, 1869.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1904,
1928;
member, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee, 1904,
1916;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis City 3rd District,
1917-18; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 11th District, 1921-26; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1926-33; resigned 1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons
of Confederate Veterans; American
Legion; Reserve
Officers Association; Military
Order of the World Wars; American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law; American
Economic Association; Izaak
Walton League; Audubon
Society; American Forestry Association; National Rifle
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 31,
1947 (age 77 years, 258
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in a private or family graveyard, Ripley County, Mo.
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William Marion Jardine (1879-1955) —
also known as William M. Jardine —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.
Born in Oneida
County, Idaho, January
16, 1879.
College
professor; agronomist;
president,
Kansas State Agricultural College, 1918-25; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29; U.S. Minister to Egypt, 1930; Kansas
state treasurer, 1933-34; appointed 1933; resigned 1934.
Congregationalist.
Member, Sigma
Xi; Beta
Theta Pi; Alpha
Zeta; Phi
Kappa Phi; Gamma
Sigma Delta; Freemasons;
Rotary;
American Forestry Association; Farm
Bureau.
Died January
17, 1955 (age 76 years, 1
days).
Interment at Logan
City Cemetery, Logan, Utah.
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Lawrence Douglas Kingsland (1841-1924) —
also known as L. D. Kingsland —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., September
15, 1841.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; manufacturer
of agricultural
implements, sawmill
machinery, and cotton
separators; Consul-General
for Honduras in St.
Louis, Mo., 1896, 1898-1915; Honorary
Consul-General for Guatemala in St.
Louis, Mo., 1896-1921; Consul-General
for Central America in St.
Louis, Mo., 1897-98; Consul-General
for Nicaragua in St.
Louis, Mo., 1899-1903; St. Louis police
commissioner; Honorary
Consul for Salvador in St.
Louis, Mo., 1904-07.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Forestry Association; Royal
Arcanum.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., December
9, 1924 (age 83 years, 85
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Charles Lathrop Pack (1857-1937) —
also known as Charles L. Pack —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J.
Born in Lexington, Sanilac
County, Mich., May 7,
1857.
Republican. Forester;
president, American Forestry
Association, 1916-20; economist;
director, Seaboard National Bank, New
York; founder, Cleveland Trust Co.;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1924;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
Presbyterian.
Member, Society
of Colonial Wars; Beta
Theta Pi; American Forestry Association.
Died June 14,
1937 (age 80 years, 38
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Willis Pack and Frances (Farman) Pack; married 1886 to Alice
Gertrude Hatch. |
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Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) —
of Milford, Pike
County, Pa.
Born in Simsbury, Hartford
County, Conn., August
11, 1865.
Chief Forester of the U.S.; close confidant of President Theodore
Roosevelt; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1914 (Roosevelt Progressive), 1926
(Republican primary); Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1923-27, 1931-35; defeated in Republican primary,
1938.
French
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Forestry
Association; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, from leukemia,
at the Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
4, 1946 (age 81 years, 54
days).
Interment at Milford
Cemetery, Milford, Pa.
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George Otis Smith (1871-1944) —
of Skowhegan, Somerset
County, Maine.
Born in Hodgdon, Aroostook
County, Maine, February
22, 1871.
Republican. Geologist;
director, U.S. Geological Survey, 1907-30 (except 1922-23); chair,
Federal Power Commission, 1930-33; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Maine, 1936.
Baptist.
Member, American Forestry Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Suffered a heart
attack during a meeting
of the board of directors of the Central Maine Power Company, and
died soon after, in Augusta, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
10, 1944 (age 72 years, 322
days).
Interment at Southside
Cemetery, Skowhegan, Maine.
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George C. Warren Jr. (b. 1877) —
of Summit, Union
County, N.J.
Born in Barnegat, Ocean
County, N.J., October
15, 1877.
Republican. Stockbroker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1936.
Methodist.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; American Forestry Association; Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George C. Warren and Sarah M. (Cranmer) Warren. |
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