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Patrick F. Egan (1841-1919) —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in County Longford, Ireland,
August
13, 1841.
Republican. Irish home rule advocate; prosecuted
in Dublin, 1880, for sedition;
grain
elevator business; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Nebraska, 1888;
U.S. Minister to Chile, 1889-93.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
30, 1919 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at St.
Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901) —
also known as George Q. Cannon —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Liverpool, England,
January
11, 1827.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member
Utah territorial council, 1865-66, 1869-72; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1873-81; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah Territory, 1880
(not seated).
Mormon.
Had five wives and 32 children; spent six months in federal penitentiary
for cohabitation.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., April
12, 1901 (age 74 years, 91
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Charles Henry Voorhis (1833-1896) —
also known as Charles H. Voorhis —
of New Jersey.
Born in Spring Valley (now Paramus), Bergen
County, N.J., March
13, 1833.
Republican. Lawyer; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1864;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1879-81.
Indicted
in 1881 for bank
fraud over his actions as president of two banks, which later
became insolvent; tried
and found not guilty.
Fearing oncoming total blindness, he died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in his office
at the Davidson Building, Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., April
15, 1896 (age 63 years, 33
days).
Original interment at Bayview
- New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, N.J.; reinterment at Hackensack
Cemetery, Hackensack, N.J.
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Thomas Jefferson Brady (1839-1904) —
also known as Thomas J. Brady; T. J. Brady —
Born in Muncie, Delaware
County, Ind., February
12, 1839.
Lawyer;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; newspaper
publisher; U.S. Consul in St. Thomas, 1870-75; second assistant U.S. Postmaster General;
indicted
in 1881 as a participant in the Star Route bribery
scheme; found
guilty, but a judge set aside the conviction; retried
and acquitted.
Died April
22, 1904 (age 65 years, 70
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Stephen Wallace Dorsey (1842-1916) —
also known as Stephen W. Dorsey —
of Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.; Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Benson, Rutland
County, Vt., February
28, 1842.
Republican. U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1873-79; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1876,
1880.
Indicted
in 1881 for his participation in the Star Route frauds
against the U.S. Post Office Department; tried
twice in 1882-83 and ultimately acquitted.
Died March
20, 1916 (age 74 years, 21
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Henry Clay Cole (1838-1881) —
also known as Henry C. Cole —
of Kokomo, Howard
County, Ind.
Born in Ripley
County, Ind., 1838.
Physician;
mayor
of Kokomo, Ind., 1881; died in office 1881.
Shot
and killed by
a sheriff's
posse, allegedly while he was attempting to rob and
burn
a grist mill, in Kokomo, Howard
County, Ind., September
19, 1881 (age about 43
years). The shooters were personal enemies of his, so some
suspected a conspiracy. Four members of the posse were indicted for
manslaughter by a grand jury, but the charges were later dismissed.
Interment at Crown
Point Cemetery, Kokomo, Ind.
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Charles H. Houghton —
of Metuchen, Middlesex
County, N.J.
Born in New York.
Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lost a
leg in a Civil War battle; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1875-82.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Arrested
in May 1882, and charged
with embezzlement,
fraud,
and forgery;
tried,
convicted,
and fined.
Burial location unknown.
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John Henry Johnston —
also known as John H. Johnston —
of Danville,
Va.
Republican. Mayor
of Danville, Va., 1882-84; defeated (Independent), 1884; shot
and killed Chief of Police John E. Hatcher, during a disagreement
over the use of collected fines, on September 9, 1882; indicted
for murder
but released on $5,000 bail; tried in
December, and acquitted; postmaster at Danville,
Va., 1890-94.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas J. Navin —
of Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Mayor
of Adrian, Mich., 1881-82.
Absconded
after forging
city bonds; arrested
in El Paso, Texas.
Burial location unknown.
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Nehemiah George Ordway (1828-1907) —
also known as Nehemiah G. Ordway —
of Warner, Merrimack
County, N.H.
Born in Warner, Merrimack
County, N.H., November
10, 1828.
Republican. New Hampshire
Republican state chair, 1860; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives from Warner, 1875-77;
member of New
Hampshire state senate 9th District, 1879-80; Governor
of Dakota Territory, 1880-84.
Indicted
on corruption
charges
in 1883; his criminal trial in
1884 was cut short by a jurisdiction ruling; removed from
office by President Arthur.
Died July 1,
1907 (age 78 years, 233
days).
Interment at Pine
Grove Cemetery, Warner, N.H.
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Marshall Tate Polk (1831-1884) —
also known as M. T. Polk —
of Bolivar, Hardeman
County, Tenn.
Born in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., May 15,
1831.
Democrat. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1876;
Tennessee
state treasurer, 1877-83.
Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, during the Civil War, and lost a
leg. In 1883, a $400,000 shortfall was was discovered
in the state treasury. Polk fled
to Texas, was arrested
there, and brought back to Nashville for trial.
Charged
with embezzlement,
he pleaded not guilty -- his lawyer argued he was only guilty of
"default of pay" -- but was convicted,
sentenced
to twenty years in prison,
and fined.
Imprisonment was delayed pending his appeal, and he died in the
meantime.
Died in Bolivar, Hardeman
County, Tenn., February
20, 1884 (age 52 years, 281
days).
Interment at Polk
Cemetery, Bolivar, Tenn.
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Henry Reed Rathbone (1837-1911) —
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 1,
1837.
Lawyer;
major in the Union Army during the Civil War; on April 14, 1865, he
was seated in the box at Ford's Theater with President Abraham
Lincoln; when John Wilkes Booth shot the president, Rathbone
attempted to apprehend Booth, and suffered knife wounds; subsequently
his mental health deteriorated; U.S. Consul in Hanover, as of 1882-83.
On December 23, 1883, he killed
his wife, and stabbed himself in a suicide attempt; he was charged
with murder, convicted,
and found insane; he died more than 25 years later, in the Asylum for
the Criminal Insane, Hildesheim, Germany,
August
14, 1911 (age 74 years, 44
days).
Original interment at Stadtfriedhof Engesohde, Hanover, Germany; reinterment 1952 to
unknown location.
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David King Udall (1851-1938) —
of St. Johns, Apache
County, Ariz.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., September
7, 1851.
Member of Arizona
territorial legislature, 1899.
Mormon.
Indicted
in 1884 on charges of polygamy
and unlawful cohabitation;
not convicted because his second wife Ida could not be found to
testify against him. Convicted
in 1885 of perjury
in connection with a land claim, and sentenced
to three years in prison.
On December 12, 1885, he received a "full and unconditional pardon"
from President Grover
Cleveland, and was released from prison.
Died, as a result of an accidental
fall and myocardial
insufficiency, in St. Johns, Apache
County, Ariz., February
18, 1938 (age 86 years, 164
days).
Interment at St.
Johns Cemetery, St. Johns, Ariz.
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Relatives: Son
of Eliza (King) Udall and David Udall; brother of Mary Ann Udall (who
married William
Thomas Stewart (1853-1935)); married, February
1, 1875, to Eliza Luella Stewart (sister of William
Thomas Stewart (1853-1935)); married, May 25,
1882, to Ida Frances Hunt (granddaughter of Jefferson
Hunt); married, April 9,
1903, to Mary Ann (Linton) Morgan (widow of John
Hamilton Morgan); father of John
Hunt Udall, Levi
Stewart Udall, Jesse
Addison Udall and Don
Taylor Udall; grandfather of John
Nicholas Udall, Stewart
Lee Udall, Morris
King Udall and Lee
Kenyon Udall; great-grandfather of Milan
Dale Smith Jr., Thomas
Stewart Udall, Mark
E. Udall and Gordon
Harold Smith. |
| | | Political family: Udall
family of Arizona. |
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article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Johnson Tiffany (1834-1906) —
also known as Thomas J. Tiffany; "Henry
Fullerton" —
of Bennington, Bennington
County, Vt.; Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt.
Born in Pittsford, Rutland
County, Vt., March 6,
1834.
Republican. Postmaster at Bennington,
Vt., 1872-84; in March, 1884, he was confronted
by a postal inspector about a shortage
in the post office accounts, he fled,
also taking
$2,000 in Bennington school funds; in October, 1885, he was arrested
near Greeley, Colorado, where he was living under the alias "Henry
Fullerton", and brought back to Vermont, where he plead
guilty to federal charges,
and was sentenced
to five years' imprisonment.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Rutland, Rutland
County, Vt., June 26,
1906 (age 72 years, 112
days).
Interment at Bennington Village Cemetery, Bennington, Vt.
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Adolph Bernard Spreckels (1857-1924) —
also known as Adolph B. Spreckels —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., January
5, 1857.
Republican. President, Spreckels Sugar
Company; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1884;
angered by an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, on
November 19, 1884, he shot
and badly wounded the paper's publisher, M.
H. de Young; arrested
and charged
with attempted
murder; pleaded temporary insanity; tried in
1885 and found not guilty; president, San Francisco and San Mateo Electric
Railway; vice-president, Western Sugar
Company; vice-president, Oceanic Steamship
Company.
German
ancestry.
Died, from pneumonia
and syphilis,
in San
Francisco, Calif., June 28,
1924 (age 67 years, 175
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 John
Diedrich Spreckels; married to Alma de
Bretteville. |
| | | Political family: Spreckels
family of San Francisco, California. |
| | | Spreckels Lake,
in Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, 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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Beckford Mackey —
U.S. Consul in Rio Grande do Sul, as of 1884-85; San Jose, as of 1892; on April 14, 1885, in Rio Grande do Sol,
Brazil, he shot
and wounded a newspaper editor who was assaulting him in a theater;
arrested
and imprisoned
by Brazilian authorities; tried in
June, and found not guilty.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of J. T. Mackey. |
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John Brown Moore (1835-1926) —
of Anderson
County, S.C.; Colusa, Colusa
County, Calif.
Born in Anderson District (now Anderson
County), S.C., March
22, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Anderson County,
1868-70; vice-chair of
South Carolina Democratic Party, 1878; member of South
Carolina state senate from Anderson County, 1882-86; involved in
a dispute over alcohol prohibition in Anderson County, which he
opposed; on September 15, 1885, in the public square of Anderson,
S.C., he shot
at Edwards
Bobo Murray, and was shot and
injured; subsequently pleaded
guilty to disturbing
the peace and to carrying a concealed
weapon; charges against Murray were dismissed.
Presbyterian.
Died in Colusa, Colusa
County, Calif., November
22, 1926 (age 91 years, 245
days).
Interment at Colusa Community Cemetery, Colusa, Calif.
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Edwards Bobo Murray (1854-1894) —
of Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C.
Born in Newberry District (now Newberry
County), S.C., February
5, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; chair of
Anderson County Democratic Party, 1878-90; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Anderson County,
1878-84; involved in a dispute over alcohol prohibition in Anderson
County, which he supported; on September 15, 1885, in the public
square of Anderson, S.C., he was shot
at by John
Brown Moore, and fired
back, injuring Moore; charges
against him were dismissed; member of South
Carolina state senate from Anderson County, 1886-90.
Baptist.
Member, Sons of
Temperance.
Drowned
while rescuing his daughter in a swimming pond, Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C., July 7,
1894 (age 40 years, 152
days).
Interment at Silver Brook Cemetery, Anderson, S.C.
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Theodore P. Rich (c.1848-1886) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Cobleskill, Schoharie
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, about 1848.
Democrat. Candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 13th District, 1876.
Pursued his estranged wife to Minnesota; killed
her, and then, perhaps to avoid prosecution,
killed
himself, by gunshot,
in the Astoria House hotel,
St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., February
27, 1886 (age about 38
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1876 to Fannie
(Smith) Trimble (daughter of Henry
Smith). |
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Peter R. Morrissey (1859-1895) —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in St. Louis
County, Mo., August
14, 1859.
Democrat. Saloon
keeper; arrested
in December 1886 on federal charges
of vote
fraud; found
guilty in April 1887, but released because the indictment did not
specify that the ballots were for a federal office; indicted
again soon after, but the charges were dropped in November; indicted
for naturalization
fraud in 1889, but not convicted; member of Missouri
state senate 31st District, 1893-95; died in office 1895.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
While in bed, he was shot
twice with his own pistol, and killed,
by his mistress,
Maud Lewis, in her "house of ill
repute", in St.
Louis, Mo., May 13,
1895 (age 35 years, 272
days). After a dramatic and highly publicized trial, Maud Lewis
was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to fifteen years
in prison; she was pardoned by Gov. Lon
Vest Stephens in January 1901.
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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David Smith Terry (1823-1889) —
also known as David S. Terry —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Born in Christian County (part now in Todd
County), Ky., March 8,
1823.
Lawyer;
went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the extension of
slavery to California; justice of
California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S.
Senator David
C. Broderick in a duel
near San Francisco in 1859; tried
for murder,
but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California; his wife Sarah Althea Hill
claimed to be the widow and heir of wealthy U.S. Senator William
Sharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejected
by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
J. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), she
and Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and were jailed
six months for contempt
of court.
Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Field
and slapped him in the face; he was then shot
through the heart and killed by
U.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in the train
station dining
room at Lathrop, San Joaquin
County, Calif., August
14, 1889 (age 66 years, 159
days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but later
released on the demand of the U.S. government.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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James William Tate (b. 1831) —
also known as James W. Tate; "Honest
Dick" —
of Frankfort, Franklin
County, Ky.
Born in Franklin
County, Ky., January
2, 1831.
Democrat. Kentucky
state treasurer, 1867-88; absconded
from the state treasurer's office in March, 1888; Gov. Simon
Buckner said Tate had embezzled
almost $250,000 from the state; impeached
in absentia by the Kentucky House; convicted
and removed from
office by the Senate.
He never
returned, and his fate is unknown.
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Robert William Wilcox (1855-1903) —
also known as Robert W. Wilcox —
of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii.
Born in Kahalu, Honuaula, Island of Maui, Maui
County, Hawaii, February
15, 1855.
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Hawaii Territory, 1900-03.
Leader of the Hawaiian revolution of 1889; tried
for treason,
but acquitted by a jury. Was involved in the rebellion
of 1895 and subsequently court-martialed,
found
guilty, and sentenced to
death; the sentence was later commuted to 35 years; pardoned
by the Hawaiian president in 1898.
Died in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Honolulu
County, Hawaii, October
23, 1903 (age 48 years, 250
days).
Interment at Catholic
Cemetery, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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William Cassius Goodloe (1841-1889) —
also known as W. Cassius Goodloe —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., June 27,
1841.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 1868,
1872
(delegation chair), 1884,
1888;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1871; defeated, 1867; member of
Republican
National Committee from Kentucky, 1872-; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1873; candidate for Kentucky
state attorney general, 1875; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1878-80.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
During a violent encounter in the lobby of the Lexington Post
Office, he repeatedly
stabbed and ultimately killed a political enemy, Col. Armistead
Swope, who meanwhile shot and
badly
wounded him; before any prosecution
could ensue, he died of his own wounds two days later, in the Phoenix
Hotel,
Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., November
8, 1889 (age 48 years, 134
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) —
also known as Stephen J. Field —
of Yuba
County, Calif.
Born in Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
4, 1816.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; justice of
California state supreme court, 1857-63; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1859-63; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1863-97; arrested
in San Francisco, August 16, 1889, on charges
of being party to the alleged murder
of David
S. Terry; released on bail; ultimately the killing was ruled to
be justifiable homicide.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1899 (age 82 years, 156
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John M. Lingle (1843-1889) —
of Webb City, Jasper
County, Mo.
Born in Pennsylvania, April 2,
1843.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; postmaster at Webb
City, Mo., 1885-89.
After being threatened with criminal
prosecution for allegedly misappropriating
funds as postmaster, he stepped out the back door of the post
office, and killed
himself by gunshot,
in Webb City, Jasper
County, Mo., January
4, 1889 (age 45 years, 277
days).
Interment at Webb
City Cemetery, Webb City, Mo.
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Robert Ray Hamilton (1851-1890) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
18, 1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1881, 1886-89;
in July 1889, while staying in Atlantic City, he was caught in a
national scandal,
after his wife, Eva, stabbed a nurse; she was arrested and tried; it
came out that Eva was still
married to another man, that she had bought a baby for $10 and
told Hamilton he was the father, to induce him to marry her; when
this was publicized,
Hamilton sued for divorce; as the case dragged on, he moved to
Wyoming to help a friend establish a hotel.
While on a hunting
trip, he drowned
while attempting to ford the Snake River, in Uinta County (part now
in Teton
County), Wyo., August
23, 1890 (age 39 years, 158
days).
Original interment somewhere in Teton County, Wyo.; reinterment in 1892 at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Schuyler Hamilton and Cornelia (Ray) Hamilton; grandnephew of James
Alexander Hamilton; great-grandson of Alexander
Hamilton; great-grandnephew of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler; second great-grandson of Philip
John Schuyler; second great-grandnephew of Stephen
John Schuyler, Jeremiah
Van Rensselaer and Robert
Van Rensselaer; third great-grandson of Johannes
Schuyler (1697-1746); fourth great-grandson of Stephanus
Van Cortlandt, Robert
Livingston the Younger and Johannes
Schuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-grandnephew of Jacobus
Van Cortlandt; fifth great-grandson of Pieter
Schuyler (1657-1724); fifth great-grandnephew of Robert
Livingston the Elder; first cousin twice removed of Philip
Schuyler; first cousin thrice removed of Pieter
Schuyler (1746-1792) and Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer; first cousin four times removed of Stephanus
Bayard, Volkert
Petrus Douw, Pierre
Van Cortlandt, Hendrick
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, James
Livingston and Killian
Killian Van Rensselaer; first cousin five times removed of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775), Gilbert
Livingston and Philip
P. Schuyler; first cousin six times removed of David
Davidse Schuyler and Myndert
Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin twice removed of Henry
Walter Livingston; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Bayard, Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Philip
Van Cortlandt, Leonard
Gansevoort, Leonard
Gansevoort Jr., Pierre
Van Cortlandt Jr., Edward
Livingston (1764-1836), Peter
Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Maturin
Livingston and James
Parker; second cousin four times removed of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775), William
Livingston, James
Jay, John
Jay, Frederick
Jay and Peter
Samuel Schuyler; second cousin five times removed of Matthew
Clarkson; third cousin once removed of Edward
Livingston (1796-1840), Cortlandt
Schuyler Van Rensselaer and John
Eliot Thayer Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Stephen
Van Rensselaer, Philip
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Peter
Gansevoort, Peter
Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Gerrit
Smith, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and John
Cortlandt Parker; third cousin thrice removed of Peter
Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter
Livingston, Philip
Peter Livingston, Henry
Brockholst Livingston, Peter
Augustus Jay and William
Jay; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Bell Van Rensselaer, James
Adams Ekin, John
Jacob Astor III, Richard
Wayne Parker, Charles
Wolcott Parker, Charles
Ludlow Livingston and Bronson
Murray Cutting. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward Austin Burke (1839-1928) —
also known as Edward A. Burke; Edward A.
Burk —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
13, 1839.
Democrat. Telegraph
operator; railroad
superintendent; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; importer
and exporter; railway
freight agent; newspaper
editor; Louisiana
state treasurer, 1878-88; engaged in a pistol duel
with Henry J. Hearsey on January 25, 1880; neither man was injured;
in 1882, he was wounded in a duel with C. Harrison Parker; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1884;
in 1889, his successor as state treasurer, William
Henry Pipes, discovered discrepancies in state funds, and accused
Burke of embezzlement;
he was subsequently indicted
by a grand jury; Burke, then in London, chose not to return to
Louisiana, and instead fled
to Honduras, and remained in Central America for the rest of his life.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, in the Hotel
Ritz, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
September
24, 1928 (age 89 years, 11
days).
Interment somewhere in Yuscarán, Honduras.
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