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Edward Berton Almon (1860-1933) —
also known as Edward B. Almon —
of Tuscumbia, Colbert
County, Ala.
Born near Moulton, Lawrence
County, Ala., April
18, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Alabama
state senate, 1892-94; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Alabama; circuit judge in Alabama, 1898-1906; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1910-15; Speaker of
the Alabama State House of Representatives, 1911; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 8th District, 1915-33; died in office
1933.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen;
Elks; Maccabees;
Knights of Honor.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 22,
1933 (age 73 years, 65
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Tuscumbia, Ala.
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James Harrison Ashcraft (1840-1920) —
also known as James H. Ashcraft —
of Paducah, McCracken
County, Ky.
Born in Brandenburg, Meade
County, Ky., May 4,
1840.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; postmaster
at Paducah,
Ky., 1876-86.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Ancient
Order of United Workmen; Knights of Honor; Rotary;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Paducah, McCracken
County, Ky., January
19, 1920 (age 79 years, 260
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Paducah, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Absalom Ashcraft and Delilah (Allen) Ashcraft; married 1865 to Mary
Emerine Brown. |
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memorial |
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John C. Billheimer (1857-1918) —
of Washington, Daviess
County, Ind.
Born in Wayne
County, Ind., March 3,
1857.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; chair of
Daviess County Republican Party, 1886; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1888;
U.S. Consul in Zanzibar, 1898-99; Indiana
state auditor, 1906-10.
Methodist.
German
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows; Redmen;
Knights of Honor.
Died in 1918
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Washington, Ind.
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Relatives: Son
of Solomon Billheimer and Margaret (Gephat) Billheimer; married 1879 to Susan
Kimball. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: Moore's Hoosier
Cyclopedia (1905) |
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Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. (1862-1944) —
also known as Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. —
of Corinth, Alcorn
County, Miss.
Born in Belleville, Hamilton
County, Fla., January
18, 1862.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Mississippi; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1901-21; mayor
of Corinth, Miss., 1933-37.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Knights of Honor.
Died in Corinth, Alcorn
County, Miss., December
18, 1944 (age 82 years, 335
days).
Interment at Henry
Cemetery, Corinth, Miss.
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Relatives: Son
of Ezekiel Samuel Candler and Julia (Bevill) Candler; married, April
26, 1883, to Nancy Priscilla Hazlewood; married, January
14, 1924, to Effie Merrill Neuhardt; married, June 21,
1933, to Ottie (Doan) Hardenstein; nephew of Milton
Anthony Candler, Asa
Griggs Candler and John
Slaughter Candler; grandson of Samuel
Charles Candler; grandnephew of Daniel
Gill Candler and Ezekiel
Slaughter Candler; second great-grandson of William
Candler; first cousin of Charles
Murphey Candler; first cousin once removed of Allen
Daniel Candler, William
Ezekiel Candler and George
Scott Candler; second cousin of Thomas
Slaughter Candler; second cousin twice removed of Mark
Anthony Cooper; fourth cousin of Joseph
Meriwether Terrell. |
| | | Political family: Candler
family of Georgia. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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John Henry Colvin (b. 1839) —
also known as John H. Colvin —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Little Falls, Herkimer
County, N.Y., October
25, 1839.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Chicago
alderman, 1882-88; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Illinois, 1904.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Foresters;
Royal
Arcanum; Knights of Honor.
Burial location unknown.
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Albert Augustus Fletcher (1835-1907) —
also known as Albert A. Fletcher —
of Bridport, Addison
County, Vt.; Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt.
Born in Bridport, Addison
County, Vt., August
17, 1835.
Republican. Farmer; banker;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1871-72; member of Vermont
state senate from Addison County, 1882-84.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights of Honor.
Died in Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt., October
2, 1907 (age 72 years, 46
days).
Interment at West
Cemetery, Middlebury, Vt.
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Henry Clay Foster (1843-1890) —
also known as H. Clay Foster —
Born in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., November
2, 1843.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1870-72.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights of Honor.
Died August
27, 1890 (age 46 years, 298
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
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Henry Augustus Gaillard (1837-1921) —
of Winnsboro, Fairfield
County, S.C.; Fairfield
County, S.C.
Born in St. Stephens Parish, Charleston District (now part of Berkeley
County), S.C., November
26, 1837.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Fairfield County,
1877-80; member of South
Carolina state senate from Fairfield County, 1880-84; chair of
Fairfield County Democratic Party, 1886.
Episcopalian.
Member, Knights of Honor.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., October
8, 1921 (age 83 years, 316
days).
Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery, Winnsboro, S.C.
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Franklin Darius Hale (1854-1940) —
also known as Franklin D. Hale —
of Lewiston, Androscoggin
County, Maine; Lunenburg, Essex
County, Vt.; Lyndon Center, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Barnet, Caledonia
County, Vt., March 7,
1854.
Republican. Lawyer; Essex
County State's Attorney, 1883-89; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Lunenburgh, 1884; member of
Vermont
state senate from Essex County, 1886; Vermont
state auditor of accounts, 1892-98; U.S. Consul in Coaticook, 1902-08; Charlottetown, 1908-09; Trinidad, 1909-12; Huddersfield, 1912-17.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights of Honor.
Died, from uremia,
due to chronic
nephritis, in Lyndon Center, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt., April
21, 1940 (age 86 years, 45
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Abial Lathrop (1845-1930) —
of Orangeburg, Orangeburg
County, S.C.; Eutaw, Orangeburg
County, S.C.
Born in Stafford, Genesee
County, N.Y., November
9, 1845.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for South Carolina, 1889-93, 1896-1901; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1900.
Member, Knights of Honor.
Died in Orangeburg, Orangeburg
County, S.C., February
10, 1930 (age 84 years, 93
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Lathrop and Elizabeth Harriet (Moody) Lathrop; married 1875 to Martha
Fredrika Heidtman; second cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Huntington; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, Joshua
Coit, James
Davenport, Samuel
H. Huntington, Henry
Huntington, Gurdon
Huntington, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Samuel
Lathrop and Peter
Buell Porter; third cousin thrice removed of Henry
Scudder; fourth cousin of John
Hall Brockway; fourth cousin once removed of Ebenezer
Huntington, Elijah
Abel, Zina
Hyde Jr., Theodore
Davenport, Nathaniel
Huntington, Erastus
Corning, James
Huntington, Augustus
Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Peter
Buell Porter Jr., Elisha
Mills Huntington, Benjamin
Nicoll Huntington, Peter
Augustus Porter, Charles
A. Hungerford, William
Barret Ridgely, Clayton
Hyde Lathrop and Austin
Eugene Lathrop. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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Edwin Marshall Lovelace (b. 1854) —
of Brewton, Escambia
County, Ala.
Born in Pleasant Hill, Dallas
County, Ala., July 14,
1854.
Democrat. Lumber and
timber business; director, Bank of
Brewton; Escambia
County Commissioner, 1904-10; member of Alabama
state senate 21st District, 1911.
Baptist.
English
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Pythias; Elks;
Knights of Honor.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Basil Manly Lovelace and Amanda (Lovelace) Lovelace; married to
Frances McKenzie; father of William
Yancey Lovelace. |
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Hugh Shepperd Darby Mallory (1848-1920) —
also known as H. S. D. Mallory —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Talladega
County, Ala., February
6, 1848.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor of
Selma, Ala., 1885-87; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Alabama, 1904,
1912.
Baptist.
Scottish,
English,
and Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights of Honor; Odd
Fellows.
Died in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., March
10, 1920 (age 72 years, 33
days).
Interment at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Relatives: Son
of James Mallory and Ann Maria (Darby) Mallory; married, October
15, 1872, to Jacqueline Louisa Billingslea. |
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James Andrew Nighbert (1832-1898) —
Born in Montgomery
County, Va., July 23,
1832.
Democrat. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1863; merchant;
lumber and
timber business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
West Virginia, 1888.
German
ancestry. Member, Knights of Honor.
Died in Logan, Logan
County, W.Va., December
17, 1898 (age 66 years, 147
days).
Interment at Nighbert Family Cemetery, Logan County, W.Va.
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Oliver E. Thompson (born c.1841) —
of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born about 1841.
Republican. Mayor
of Ypsilanti, Mich., 1901-02; defeated, 1902.
Member, Maccabees;
Knights of Honor.
Burial location unknown.
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Edmund Waring Wakelee (b. 1869) —
also known as Edmund W. Wakelee —
of Demarest, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., November
21, 1869.
Republican. Lawyer; utility
executive; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1899-1900;
member of New
Jersey state senate from Bergen County, 1901-10; member of New Jersey
Republican State Committee, 1910; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New Jersey, 1940.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Elks; Royal
Arcanum; Knights of Honor; Junior
Order.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Nicholas Wakelee and Eliza C. (Ingersoll) Wakelee. |
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