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Frank Aldrich (b. 1850) —
of Washington,
D.C.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Pierpont, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, March
17, 1850.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; book
publisher; manager and electrician for the Hansen Battery Light and
Power Company, Washington, D.C., 1889-90; quartermaster-general
of the District of Columbia National Guard, 1890-92; invented
in 1893 and patented a railroad
car seal which became widely used; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1899-1900.
Burial location unknown.
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James Arkell (1829-1902) —
also known as "Father of the Paper Sack
Industry" —
of Canajoharie, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born in Oxford, England,
October
16, 1829.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; manufacturer and printer
of flour
bags, originally from cotton,
then when cotton became scarce during the Civil War, he innovated the
use of paper
bags as a substitute for cotton; his inventions received
dozens of U.S. patents; member of New York
state senate 18th District, 1884-85; in 1885, former General and
President Ulysses
S. Grant died at Arkell's summer home in Mt. McGregor.
Died in Canajoharie, Montgomery
County, N.Y., August
11, 1902 (age 72 years, 299
days).
Interment at Canajoharie Falls Cemetery, Canajoharie, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of William Arkell and Mary (Carter) Arkell; married, July 23,
1853, to Sarah Hall Bartlett; father-in-law of Bernhard
Gillam. |
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memorial |
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Matthias William Baldwin (1795-1866) —
also known as Matthias W. Baldwin —
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., December
10, 1795.
Jeweler;
inventor; locomotive
manufacturer; abolitionist; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1837.
Died in Wissinoming, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
7, 1866 (age 70 years, 271
days).
Interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue at Philadelphia City Hall Grounds, Philadelphia, Pa.
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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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Harry W. Bolens (b. 1864) —
of Port Washington, Ozaukee
County, Wis.
Born January
13, 1864.
Democrat. Inventor; manufacturer;
newspaper
publisher; farmer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Wisconsin 2nd District, 1920; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Wisconsin, 1924
(alternate), 1944
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee); member of Wisconsin
state senate 20th District, 1933-40; defeated, 1940.
Interment somewhere
in Port Washington, Wis.
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Image source:
Wisconsin Blue Book 1940 |
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Gail Borden Jr. (1801-1874) —
Born in Norwich, Chenango
County, N.Y., November
9, 1801.
School
teacher; surveyor;
delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Austin, 1833; newspaper
publisher; Collector of Customs at Galveston for the Texas
Republic, 1837-38 and 1841-43; in 1849, he invented a
dehydrated beef product called a "meat biscuit", but it failed
commercially; in 1853, he invented a process to make sweetened
condensed
milk, which could be transported without refrigeration, and
developed sanitation practices to to prevent contamination.
Died in Borden, Colorado
County, Tex., January
11, 1874 (age 72 years, 63
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Jerome Increase Case (1819-1891) —
also known as Jerome I. Case —
of Racine, Racine
County, Wis.
Born in Williamstown, Oswego
County, N.Y., December
11, 1819.
Inventor; threshing
machine manufacturer; mayor of
Racine, Wis., 1856, 1858, 1860; member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1865-66; banker.
Died in Racine, Racine
County, Wis., December
22, 1891 (age 72 years, 11
days).
Entombed at Mound
Cemetery, Racine, Wis.; memorial monument at Monument Square, Racine, Wis.
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William Rockwell Clough (1844-1920) —
also known as William R. Clough —
of Alton, Belknap
County, N.H.
Born in Manchester, Hillsborough
County, N.H., November
8, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
inventor; manufacturer;
member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1896-1900; alternate
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1904.
Protestant.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in Alton, Belknap
County, N.H., September
29, 1920 (age 75 years, 326
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Fillmore Condit (1855-1939) —
of Verona, Essex
County, N.J.; Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif.; Essex Fells, Essex
County, N.J.; Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Roseland, Essex
County, N.J., September
5, 1855.
Grocer;
invented and manufactured
the Condit refrigerator door fastener; Essex
County Freeholder; real estate
business; New York representative for Union Oil Company
of California; founder, Long Beach Community Hospital
1924; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1926-27.
Methodist.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
6, 1939 (age 83 years, 123
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Caldwell, N.J.
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Floyd J. Cook (b. 1883) —
of Medford, Jackson
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., March
16, 1883.
Republican. Manufacturer;
inventor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1928,
1932;
Oregon
Republican state chair, 1931; candidate for Presidential Elector
for Oregon.
Member, American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Peter Cooper (1791-1883) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1791.
Manufacturer,
inventor, philanthropist, creator of first
U.S. steam
locomotive; founder
of Cooper Union; Greenback candidate for President
of the United States, 1876.
Unitarian.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 4,
1883 (age 92 years, 51
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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George Henry Corliss (1817-1888) —
also known as George H. Corliss —
of North Providence, Providence
County, R.I.
Born in Easton, Washington
County, N.Y., June 2,
1817.
Republican. Mechanical
engineer; inventor; developed the Corliss steam engine;
member of Rhode
Island state house of representatives, 1868-70; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Rhode Island.
Congregationalist.
Died in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., February
21, 1888 (age 70 years, 264
days).
Interment at Swan
Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I.
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Charles Francis Craver (1842-1925) —
of Grinnell, Poweshiek
County, Iowa; Harvey, Cook
County, Ill.; Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Franklinville, Gloucester
County, N.J., September
3, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1876.
Methodist.
One of the founders of Craver & Steele, farm equipment manufacturers;
invented the first
successful twelve-foot binder for cutting and binding small grain;
later, he was an oil
producer based in Oklahoma.
Died, of heart
trouble, in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., May 12,
1925 (age 82 years, 251
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Okla.
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James G. Cutler (1848-1927) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., April
24, 1848.
Republican. Architect;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York; mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1904-07.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Union
League.
Patented the mail chute for tall buildings.
Died in 1927
(age about
79 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John N. Cutler and Mary E. (Goold) Cutler; married, September
27, 1871, to Anna K. Abbey. |
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John Deere (1804-1886) —
of Moline, Rock
Island County, Ill.
Born in Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt., February
7, 1804.
Blacksmith;
inventor of the first successful steel plow; founder of John
Deere & Company, manufacturers of farm
implements; president, National Bank of
Moline; mayor of
Moline, Ill., 1873-75.
Died in Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill., May 17,
1886 (age 82 years, 99
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Moline, Ill.; statue at John
Deere Historic Site, Grand Detour, Ill.
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George R. Dempster (1887-1964) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., 1887.
Democrat. Manufacturer;
inventor of Dempster Dumpster; mayor
of Knoxville, Tenn., 1952-55.
Died in 1964
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Henry Dern (1872-1936) —
also known as George H. Dern —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Dodge
County, Neb., September
8, 1872.
Democrat. General Manager of the Mercur Gold Mining and
Milling Company; joint inventor, with Theodore P. Holt, of the
Holt-Dern ore roaster; member of Utah
state senate, 1915-23; Governor of
Utah, 1925-33; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1933-36; died in office 1936; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1936.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, in a hospital,
of influenza
and kidney
failure, August
27, 1936 (age 63 years, 354
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Amos F. Dixon (b. 1877) —
of Stillwater Township, Sussex
County, N.J.
Born near Victoria, Knox
County, Ill., December
5, 1877.
Engineer
and executive in the Bell
System, 1902-40; granted more than 60 patents for
inventions; dairy farmer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1945-49; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Sussex County,
1947.
Member, Rotary;
Freemasons;
Grange.
Burial location unknown.
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Solomon Robert Dresser (1842-1911) —
also known as Solomon R. Dresser —
of Bradford, McKean
County, Pa.
Born in Litchfield, Hillsdale
County, Mich., February
1, 1842.
Republican. Inventor; manufacturer;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 21st District, 1903-07.
Died in Bradford, McKean
County, Pa., January
21, 1911 (age 68 years, 354
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Bradford, Pa.
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George Eastman (1854-1932) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterville, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 12,
1854.
Republican. Inventor; founder, Eastman Kodak Company;
philanthropist; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1928.
English
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March
14, 1932 (age 77 years, 246
days). His suicide
note was just six words: "My work is done. Why wait?".
Interment at Kodak
Park, Rochester, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of George Washington Eastman and Maria (Kilbourn) Eastman; first
cousin of Harvey
Gridley Eastman; third cousin of Frederick
Walker Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of James
Kilbourne and Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875); fourth cousin once removed of Silas
Condict, Byron
H. Kilbourn, Harrison
Blodget, George
Bradley Kellogg, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918), Clarence
Horatio Pitkin, Carroll
Peabody Pitkin, Caleb
Seymour Pitkin and Eldred
C. Pitkin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman
family (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS George Eastman (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1977) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about George Eastman: Carl W.
Ackerman, George
Eastman: Founder of Kodak and the Photography
Business — Elizabeth Brayer, George
Eastman: A Biography — Lynda Pflueger, George
Eastman: Bringing Photography to the People (for young
readers) |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, March 31,
1924 |
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Samuel Etheridge (1788-1864) —
Born in Adams, Berkshire
County, Mass., April
15, 1788.
Miller;
inventor; member of Michigan
state senate 7th District, 1839-40.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Quincy, Branch
County, Mich., February
18, 1864 (age 75 years, 309
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Relatives:
Married to Cynthia Maria Ingham. |
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Gregory E. Fischer (b. 1958) —
also known as Greg Fischer —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., January
14, 1958.
Democrat. Co-founder and president of SerVend International, and
co-inventor of a now widely used ice-beverage dispenser;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 2008; mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 2011-.
Still living as of 2012.
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Henry Ford (1863-1947) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., July 30,
1863.
Engineer;
inventor; founder, Ford Motor
Company, 1903; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1916;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918; candidate for Democratic nomination
for President, 1924.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and Belgian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Publisher, in 1919-27, of the Dearborn Independent newspaper,
which promoted anti-Semitic
ideas through articles such as "The International Jew: The World's
Problem," which were reprinted as pamphlets and books. In 1927, a libel
lawsuit against Ford over these writings led him to shut
down the paper and publicly recant
its contents.
Died, from a stroke,
in Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1947 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Ford
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Ford and Mary (Litogot) Ford; married, April
11, 1888, to Clara Jane Bryant; uncle of Clarence
William Ford; second cousin once removed of Clyde
McKinlock Ford. |
| | | Political family: Ford
family of Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan. |
| | | Cross-reference: James
Couzens — Herman
Bernstein — Alfred
J. Murphy — Martin
C. Ansorge — William
A. Lucking |
| | | Personal motto:
"Efficiency." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Henry Ford: Douglas
Brinkley, Wheels
for the World : Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress,
1903-2003 — William A. Levinson, Henry
Ford's Lean Vision — Pat McCarthy, Henry
Ford : Building Cars for Everyone (for young
readers) — David Weitzman, Model
T : How Henry Ford Built a Legend (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Henry Ford: Max
Wallace, The
American Axis : Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the
Third Reich — Neil Baldwin, Henry
Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) —
also known as "Silence Dogood"; "Anthony
Afterwit"; "Poor Richard"; "Alice
Addertongue"; "Polly Baker"; "Harry
Meanwell"; "Timothy Turnstone";
"Martha Careful"; "Benevolus";
"Caelia Shortface" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
17, 1706.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1775; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1775-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1776; U.S.
Minister to France, 1778-85; Sweden, 1782-83; President
of Pennsylvania, 1785-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Deist.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Famed for his experiments with electricity; invented bifocal
glasses and the harmonica. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
17, 1790 (age 84 years, 90
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.; statue erected 1856 at
Old City Hall Grounds, Boston, Mass.; statue at La
Arcata Court, Santa Barbara, Calif.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Lee (Folger) Franklin; married, September
1, 1730, to Deborah Read; father of Sarah 'Sally' Franklin (who
married Richard
Bache); uncle of Franklin
Davenport; grandfather of Richard
Bache Jr. and Deborah Franklin Bache (who married William
John Duane); great-grandfather of Alexander Dallas Bache, Mary
Blechenden Bache (who married Robert
John Walker) and Sophia Arabella Bache (who married William
Wallace Irwin); second great-grandfather of Robert
Walker Irwin; fifth great-grandfather of Daniel
Baugh Brewster and Elise
du Pont; first cousin four times removed of Charles
James Folger, Benjamin
Dexter Sprague and Wharton
Barker; first cousin six times removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; first cousin seven times removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin five times removed of George
Hammond Parshall. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Bache-Dallas
family of Pennsylvania and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Jonathan
Williams |
| | | Franklin counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Mass., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., Vt., Va. and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Mount
Franklin, in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The minor
planet 5102 Benfranklin (discovered 1986), is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Hallett
— Benjamin
F. Wade
— Benjamin
Franklin Wallace
— Benjamin
Cromwell Franklin
— Benjamin
Franklin Perry
— Benjamin
Franklin Robinson
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
Franklin Massey
— Benjamin
F. Rawls
— Benjamin
Franklin Leiter
— Benjamin
Franklin Thomas
— Benjamin
F. Hall
— Benjamin
F. Angel
— Benjamin
Franklin Ross
— Benjamin
F. Flanders
— Benjamin
F. Bomar
— Benjamin
Franklin Hellen
— Benjamin
F. Mudge
— Benjamin
F. Butler
— Benjamin
F. Loan
— Benjamin
F. Simpson
— Benjamin
Franklin Terry
— Benjamin
Franklin Junkin
— Benjamin
F. Partridge
— B.
F. Langworthy
— Benjamin
F. Harding
— Benjamin
Mebane
— B.
F. Whittemore
— Benjamin
Franklin Bradley
— Benjamin
Franklin Claypool
— Benjamin
Franklin Saffold
— Benjamin
F. Coates
— B.
Franklin Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Howey
— Benjamin
F. Martin
— Benjamin
Franklin Rice
— Benjamin
F. Randolph
— Benjamin
F. Hopkins
— Benjamin
F. Tracy
— Benjamin
Franklin Briggs
— Benjamin
F. Grady
— Benjamin
F. Farnham
— Benjamin
F. Meyers
— Benjamin
Franklin White
— Benjamin
Franklin Prescott
— Benjamin
F. Jonas
— B.
Franklin Fisher
— Benjamin
Franklin Potts
— Benjamin
F. Funk
— Benjamin
F. Marsh
— Frank
B. Arnold
— Benjamin
F. Heckert
— Benjamin
F. Bradley
— Benjamin
F. Howell
— Benjamin
Franklin Miller
— Benjamin
F. Mahan
— Ben
Franklin Caldwell
— Benjamin
Franklin Tilley
— Benjamin
F. Hackney
— B.
F. McMillan
— Benjamin
F. Shively
— B.
Frank Hires
— B.
Frank Mebane
— B.
Frank Murphy
— Benjamin
F. Starr
— Benjamin
Franklin Jones, Jr.
— Benjamin
F. Welty
— Benjamin
F. Jones
— Benjamin
Franklin Boley
— Ben
Franklin Looney
— Benjamin
F. Bledsoe
— Benjamin
Franklin Williams
— B.
Frank Kelley
— Benjamin
Franklin Butler
— Benjamin
F. James
— Frank
B. Heintzleman
— Benjamin
F. Feinberg
— B.
Franklin Bunn
— Ben
F. Cameron
— Ben
F. Blackmon
— B.
Frank Whelchel
— B.
F. Merritt, Jr.
— Ben
F. Hornsby
— Ben
Dillingham II
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appears on the U.S. $100 bill, and formerly on the U.S. half
dollar coin (1948-63). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by Benjamin Franklin: The
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — An
Account of the Newly Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place
(1744) |
| | | Books about Benjamin Franklin: H. W.
Brands, The
First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin — Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin
Franklin — Stacy Schiff, A
Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of
America — Gordon S. Wood, The
Americanization of Benjamin Franklin — Walter
Isaacson, Benjamin
Franklin : An American Life — Carl Van Doren, Benjamin
Franklin — Philip Dray, Stealing
God's Thunder : Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention
of America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Carlos French (1835-1903) —
of Seymour, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), New Haven
County, Conn., August
6, 1835.
Democrat. Inventor; president and treasurer, Fowler Nail Co.;
vice-president, H. A. Matthews Manufacturing
Co.; director, Union Horse Shoe
Nail Co.; director, Second National Bank of
New Haven; director, New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1860, 1868; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1887-89; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1892.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Seymour, New Haven
County, Conn., April
14, 1903 (age 67 years, 251
days).
Interment at Seymour
Union Cemetery, Seymour, Conn.
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Raymond Earl Garvey (1893-1975) —
also known as Raymond E. Garvey —
of Ironwood, Gogebic
County, Mich.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
4, 1893.
Plumber;
inventor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1936 (Farmer-Labor),
1940 (Democratic primary), 1942 (Democratic primary); mayor
of Ironwood, Mich., 1936-38; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Gogebic County, 1939-40;
defeated in Democratic primary, 1934.
Catholic.
Member, Eagles.
Died in 1975
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Fairview
Memorial Park, Albuquerque, N.M.
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Joseph F. Glidden (b. 1813) —
of DeKalb, DeKalb
County, Ill.
Born in Charlestown, Sullivan
County, N.H., January
18, 1813.
Democrat. Farmer; DeKalb
County Sheriff, 1852; hotel
proprietor; inventor of the barbed-wire fence; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1880,
1884;
mayor
of DeKalb, Ill., 1881-83.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of David Glidden and Polly (Hurd) Glidden; married 1837 to
Clarissa Foster; married 1851 to
Lucinda Warne. |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of De Kalb County (1885) |
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John Gorrie (1803-1855) —
of Apalachicola, Franklin
County, Fla.
Born in Nevis,
October
3, 1803.
Physician;
postmaster at Apalachicola,
Fla., 1834-38; mayor
of Apalachicola, Fla., 1837-38; banker;
inventor of the first ice-making machine, patented in 1851.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Apalachicola, Franklin
County, Fla., June 29,
1855 (age 51 years, 269
days).
Original interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Apalachicola, Fla.; reinterment at Gorrie Square, Apalachicola, Fla.
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Relatives:
Married 1838 to
Caroline Frances Myrick. |
| | | The John Gorrie Memorial Bridge
(built 1935; rebuilt 1988), which carries U.S. highways 98 and 319
across Apalachicola Bay, from Apalachicola to Eastpoint, in Franklin
County, Florida, is named for
him. — John Gorrie Junior
High School (built 1923; closed 1997; now an apartment
building called The John Gorrie), in Jacksonville,
Florida, was named for
him. — Gorrie Elementary
School (built 1889 as Hyde Park School; renamed 1915), in Tampa,
Florida, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Gorrie (built 1942-43 at Jacksonville,
Florida; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Palm Beach (Fla.) Post,
October 17, 1993 |
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James Hartness (1861-1934) —
of Springfield, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Schenectady, Schenectady
County, N.Y., September
3, 1861.
Republican. Engineer;
inventor; Governor of
Vermont, 1921-23.
Died February
2, 1934 (age 72 years, 152
days).
Interment at Summer
Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Vt.
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David S. Heebner (b. 1810) —
of Lansdale, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born June 25,
1810.
Republican. Inventor; manufacturer;
burgess
of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, 1873-74, 1876-79.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Balthasar Heebner and Susanna (Schultz) Heebner; married to Anna
Derstein and Regina Schultz; father of William
D. Heebner. |
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George E. Hilton (b. 1846) —
of Fremont, Newaygo
County, Mich.
Born in Leighton, Bedfordshire, England,
August
25, 1846.
Republican. Building
contractor; inventor; bee keeper;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Newaygo County, 1893-96;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan,
1900.
Burial location unknown.
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Roger Sherman Hoar (1887-1963) —
also known as Roger S. Hoar; Ralph Milne
Farley —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.; South Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.
Born in Waltham, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 8,
1887.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1911; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1916; served in
the U.S. Army during World War I; author; cartoonist;
inventor.
Died in South Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., October
10, 1963 (age 76 years, 185
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. (1903-1969) —
also known as Herbert Hoover, Jr. —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San Marino, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in London, England,
August
4, 1903.
Republican. Petroleum
geologist;
mining
engineer;
inventor; president, Aeronautical
Radio,
Inc., 1930; U.S. Undersecretary of State, 1954-57; director, Monsanto
Chemical
Company; director, Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation; director, Southern California Edison
Company; director, Hanna Mining
Company; director, Pacific Mutual Insurance
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1960.
Died, of cancer,
in Huntington Community Hospital,
Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 9,
1969 (age 65 years, 248
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mountain
View Cemetery, Altadena, Calif.
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John F. Kane (c.1914-2007) —
of Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in Fall River, Bristol
County, Mass., about 1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II;
inventor; songwriter;
mayor
of Fall River, Mass., 1952-57; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Massachusetts, 1952,
1956.
Died, in St. Patrick's Manor nursing
home, Framingham, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
24, 2007 (age about 93
years).
Interment at St.
Patrick's Cemetery, Fall River, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Kane and Ann (Mulligan) Kane; married to Mary M.
Leddy. |
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William Vinson Kidder (1881-1934) —
also known as William V. Kidder —
of La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis.
Born in Urbana, Champaign
County, Ohio, August
10, 1881.
Republican. Newspaper
reporter; inventor; automobile
accessories business; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Wisconsin; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin,
1928.
Died, from a heart
attack, in La Crosse, La Crosse
County, Wis., April 5,
1934 (age 52 years, 238
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Harvey Link (1824-1906) —
of Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Washington
County, Tenn., February
4, 1824.
Co-inventor of the "Robertson and Link Pattern Sheet and Proof
Measure System of Garment
Cutting"; physician;
member of Nebraska
territorial House of Representatives, 1867.
Died September
11, 1906 (age 82 years, 219
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Lodian W. Lodian (b. 1866) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Hartford
County, Conn., July 15,
1866.
Civil
engineer; metallurgist;
world traveler; inventor; claimed to be first
American to cross the Himalayan mountains, 1895; secretary,
international antisemitic convention, Paris, 1900; candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 1st District, 1918
(Prohibition), 1921 (Prohibition), 1933 (Law Preservation);
Prohibition candidate for New York
state senate 12th District, 1922; Law Preservation candidate for
U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1932.
Burial location unknown.
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Mads Hansen Madsen (1863-1944) —
also known as Mads H. Madsen —
of Kimballton, Audubon
County, Iowa; Solvang, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Denmark,
March
28, 1863.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; farmer;
inventor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa 9th District, 1924.
Danish
ancestry.
Patented several farm
implements, including a wagon brake (1894), a corn-husking
machine (1899), a hay-handling mechanism (1909), a manure spreader
(1914), and a corn-planter dropper mechanism (1917).
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
21, 1944 (age 81 years, 24
days).
Interment at Solvang Cemetery, Solvang, Calif.
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Epitaph:
"KÆMP FOR ALT HVAD DU HAR KÆRT" ("Fight for everything
you hold dear", from a Danish hymn) |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles Horatio Matchett (1843-1919) —
also known as Charles H. Matchett —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Needham (part now in Wellesley), Norfolk
County, Mass., May 15,
1843.
Socialist. Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War;
inventor; carpenter;
electrician;
Socialist Labor candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1892; Socialist Labor candidate
for mayor
of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1895; Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1896; candidate for Presidential Elector
for New York; Social Democratic candidate for chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1904; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1910 (7th District), 1914 (6th
District); candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; candidate
for New York
state assembly from Kings County 10th District, 1915.
Died in Allston, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
23, 1919 (age 76 years, 161
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) —
also known as Cyrus H. McCormick —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Rockbridge
County, Va., February
15, 1809.
Democrat. One of the inventors of the McCormick reaper, and
the founder of the farm
implement manufacturing company which became International
Harvester; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1862; member of Democratic
National Committee from Illinois, 1876.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 13,
1884 (age 75 years, 88
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Vernon Ream McMillan (1892-1968) —
also known as Vernon R. McMillan —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Morrill, Brown
County, Kan., September
15, 1892.
Founded sporting
goods business; invented the football face mask and the
basketball inflator; mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1943-48.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., December
1, 1968 (age 76 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) —
also known as Samuel F. B. Morse —
of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess
County, N.Y.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April
27, 1791.
Artist;
inventor of the telegraph;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1841; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1854.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 2,
1872 (age 80 years, 341
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Eugene Hermann Plumacher (1837-1910) —
also known as Eugene H. Plumacher —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Germany,
1837.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; university
professor; inventor; U.S. Consul in Maracaibo, 1883-1909.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Founded a leprosy hospital in Venezuela.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
25, 1910 (age about 73
years).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Francis J. Plym (1869-1940) —
of Niles, Berrien
County, Mich.
Born in Sweden,
1869.
Republican. Architect;
inventor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Michigan, 1928
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee).
Swedish
ancestry.
Died in 1940
(age about
71 years).
Interment at Silverbrook
Cemetery, Niles, Mich.
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Asa Porter Prather (1883-1956) —
also known as Asa P. Prather —
of Georgetown, Scott
County, Ky.
Born in Kentucky, May 7,
1883.
Garage
business; inventor; mayor
of Georgetown, Ky., 1933-49, 1953-55.
Died, in John Graves Ford Memorial Hospital,
Georgetown, Scott
County, Ky., March
22, 1956 (age 72 years, 320
days).
Interment at Georgetown
Cemetery, Georgetown, Ky.
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William Arthur Purtell (1897-1978) —
also known as William A. Purtell —
of West Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., May 6,
1897.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
inventor; business
executive; candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1950; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1952, 1953-59; appointed 1952;
defeated, 1958; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1956.
Member, American
Legion.
Died in West Hartford, Hartford
County, Conn., May 31,
1978 (age 81 years, 25
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, West Hartford, Conn.
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Samuel William Raymond (1872-1950) —
also known as Samuel W. Raymond —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Born in Fairfield Township, Lenawee
County, Mich., March
23, 1872.
Democrat. Farmer; automobile
dealer; banker;
inventor; member of Michigan
state senate 19th District, 1933-34; defeated, 1926.
Episcopalian.
Swiss
and Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in 1950
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Adrian, Mich.
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William Evarts Richards (b. 1855) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Meriden, Plainfield, Sullivan
County, N.H., March 2,
1855.
Lawyer;
inventor; Consul
for Paraguay in New
York, N.Y., 1896-1903.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Cyrus Smith Richards and Helen Dorothy (Whiton)
Richards. |
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Albert Fenimore Rockwell (1862-1925) —
also known as Albert F. Rockwell —
of Bristol, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Woodhull, Steuben
County, N.Y., April 8,
1862.
Republican. Inventor; manufacturer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Bristol, 1907-10.
Died in New Britain, Hartford
County, Conn., February
16, 1925 (age 62 years, 314
days).
Interment at West Cemetery, Bristol, Conn.
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Friend William Smith Jr. (1829-1917) —
also known as Friend W. Smith, Jr. —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Delaware
County, N.Y., May 11,
1829.
Republican. Inventor; manufacturer;
bank
director; postmaster at Bridgeport,
Conn., 1861-69.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., March 3,
1917 (age 87 years, 296
days).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Friend William Smith and Mary (Esmond) Smith; married to Angeline
A. Weed. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Hezekiah Bradley Smith (1816-1887) —
also known as Hezekiah B. Smith —
of Smithville, Burlington
County, N.J.
Born in Bridgewater, Windsor
County, Vt., July 24,
1816.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 2nd District, 1879-81; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1880
(Convention
Vice-President); member of New
Jersey state senate from Burlington County, 1883-85.
Took out more than forty patents for original inventions.
Died in Smithville, Burlington
County, N.J., November
3, 1887 (age 71 years, 102
days).
Interment at St.
Andrew's Graveyard, Mt. Holly, N.J.
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George Edwin Somers (1833-1915) —
also known as George E. Somers —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Newtown, Fairfield
County, Conn., January
21, 1833.
Republican. Machinist;
inventor; superintendent, later president, Bridgeport Brass
Company; bank
director; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Bridgeport, 1897.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died December
18, 1915 (age 82 years, 331
days).
Interment at Mountain
Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Esther (Peck) Somers and Rufus Somers; married 1858 to Sarah
J. Noble; married, December
6, 1865, to Fannie Elizabeth (French) Clark. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Men of Mark in
Connecticut (1908) |
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John Stevens III (1749-1838) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 26,
1749.
Lawyer;
inventor; New Jersey
state treasurer, 1776-79; colonel in the Continental Army during
the Revolutionary War; successfully advocated for the first U.S.
patent law (1790); innovated steam-powered ships and locomotives;
built railroads
in New Jersey.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Bergen Township, Bergen County (part now in Hoboken, Hudson
County), N.J., March 6,
1838 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John
Stevens and Elizabeth (Alexander) Stevens; brother of Mary
Stevens (who married Robert
R. Livingston); married, October
17, 1782, to Rachel Cox; grandson of James
Alexander; great-grandnephew of Abraham
de Peyster and Johannes
de Peyster; second great-granduncle of Robert
Reginald Livingston; first cousin of Philip
Peter Livingston; first cousin once removed of William
Alexander Duer, John
Duer and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; first cousin twice removed of Johannes
DePeyster, William
Duer and Denning
Duer; first cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Fish, Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1849-1936), John
Kean and Hamilton
Fish Kean; first cousin four times removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1888-1991) and Robert
Winthrop Kean; first cousin five times removed of Hamilton
Fish Jr. (1926-1996) and Thomas
Howard Kean; first cousin six times removed of Hamilton
Fish, Alexa
Fish Ward and Thomas
Howard Kean Jr.; second cousin once removed of Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Matthew
Clarkson and Henry
Rutgers; third cousin of Philip
Van Cortlandt, Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr. and Philip
DePeyster. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Roosevelt
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Stevens (built 1942 at Richmond,
California; scrapped 1962) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Ingebert J. Thomsen (b. 1873) —
also known as I. J. Thomsen —
of Minden, Kearney
County, Neb.
Born in North Albid, Denmark,
August
4, 1873.
Republican. Farmer;
inventor of Nu-Matic horse
collar; Kearney
County Clerk, 1916-23; postmaster;
real
estate dealer; abstractor;
chair
of Kearney County Republican Party, 1940.
Presbyterian.
Danish
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter H. Thomsen and Marie (Johansen) Thomsen; married, November
18, 1903, to Hedvig E. Holstein. |
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Daniel Tomlinson (1776-1863) —
of Brookfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Newbury (now Brookfield), Fairfield
County, Conn., 1776.
Inventor; manufacturer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Brookfield, 1828; member of
Connecticut
state senate at-large, 1829.
Died in Brookfield, Fairfield
County, Conn., 1863
(age about
87 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Tomlinson; married to Lucia (Ruggles)
Holman. |
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William Erastus Upjohn (1853-1932) —
also known as William E. Upjohn —
of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Mich.
Born in 1853.
Physician;
inventor of the "friable pill" to make medicines more
digestible; founder of the Upjohn Pill and Granule Company, which
later became the The Upjohn Company; mayor
of Kalamazoo, Mich., 1918.
Died in 1932
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Mountain
Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Uriah Upjohn; married to Rachel Babcock and Carrie (Sherwood)
Gilmore. |
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Samuel Matthews Vauclain (1856-1940) —
also known as Samuel M. Vauclain —
of Rosemont, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 18,
1856.
Republican. Locomotive
manufacturer; inventor; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1920.
French
and Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; American
Philosophical Society.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Rosemont, Montgomery
County, Pa., February
4, 1940 (age 83 years, 262
days).
Interment at Church
of the Redeemer Cemetery, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
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Webster Wagner (1817-1882) —
of Palatine Bridge, Montgomery
County, N.Y.
Born in Palatine Bridge, Montgomery
County, N.Y., October
2, 1817.
Republican. Railway
station agent; inventor; founder of the Wagner Car
Company, makers of sleeping cars and "drawing room" cars for railroad
passenger service; member of New York
state assembly from Montgomery County, 1871; member of New York
state senate, 1872-82 (15th District 1872-79, 18th District
1880-82); died in office 1882; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1880.
German
ancestry.
Killed in a railroad
accident on the Hudson River Railroad, at Spuyten Duyvil, New
York County (now part of Bronx, Bronx
County), N.Y., January
13, 1882 (age 64 years, 103
days).
Interment at Palatine
Bridge Cemetery, Palatine Bridge, N.Y.
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Benjamin Harrison Waigand (1900-1998) —
also known as Ben H. Waigand —
of Nampa, Canyon
County, Idaho.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 8,
1900.
Democrat. Electrical
engineer;
inventor; refrigeration
equipment dealer; mayor of
Nampa, Idaho, 1939-43; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Idaho, 1944
(member, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee).
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Nampa, Canyon
County, Idaho, May 6,
1998 (age 97 years, 302
days).
Interment at Cloverdale
Memorial Park, Boise, Idaho.
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Charles Ames Washburn (1822-1889) —
also known as Charles A. Washburn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, March
16, 1822.
Republican. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Paraguay, 1861-63; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1863-68; novelist;
invented an early typewriter.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1889 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Mark Vern Weatherford (1886-1962) —
also known as Mark V. Weatherford —
of Albany, Linn
County, Ore.
Born in Arlington, Gilliam
County, Ore., March 5,
1886.
Democrat. Lawyer; rancher;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Oregon 1st District, 1916; served in the U.S.
Army during World War I; invented a mobile artillery repair
unit, which became widely used during the war; mayor of
Albany, Ore., 1927-28; Oregon
Democratic state chair, 1930.
Christian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died, from cancer,
in Albany, Linn
County, Ore., September
11, 1962 (age 76 years, 190
days).
Interment at Masonic Cemetery, Albany, Ore.
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Relatives: Son
of William Washington Weatherford and Samantha Alice (Sperry)
Weatherford; married, September
7, 1911, to Emmaline Joyce 'Emma' Kuhn. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Eminent Americans
(1954) |
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Cyrenus Wheeler Jr. (1817-1899) —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Michigan, March
17, 1817.
Republican. Inventor and manufacturer of agricultural
implements; mayor of
Auburn, N.Y., 1881-86, 1889-90.
English
ancestry.
Died March
25, 1899 (age 82 years, 8
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thirza (Evans) Wheeler; married to Harriet Trumbull, Susan Tracy
and Jane Barker. |
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John A. Wilson (born c.1916) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., about 1916.
Republican. Inventor; city street
inspector; candidate for Missouri
state senate 3rd District, 1960.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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