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Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833) —
of Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Litchfield, Litchfield
County, Conn., January
11, 1760.
Connecticut
state comptroller, 1788-90; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1795-1800; banker; Governor of
Connecticut, 1817-27; delegate
to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1818.
Congregationalist.
Accused,
by political adversaries in 1800, of setting fire to the State
Department, and resigned
from the Cabinet in protest against the investigation.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 1,
1833 (age 73 years, 141
days).
Interment at East
Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Oliver
Wolcott Sr. and Laura (Collins) Wolcott; brother of Mary Ann
Wolcott (who married Chauncey
Goodrich) and Frederick
Wolcott; nephew of Erastus
Wolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799)); grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); granduncle of Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third great-grandson of William
Leete; first cousin of Roger
Griswold; first cousin twice removed of John
William Allen, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott and Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); first cousin thrice removed of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott and Alfred
Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden
Chapin; first cousin five times removed of James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; first cousin six times removed of James
Wadsworth Symington; second cousin once removed of William
Pitkin, Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, William
Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth; second cousin twice removed of Joseph
Lyman Huntington, Elisha
Hunt Allen and George
Washington Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund
Holcomb, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, Collins
Dwight Huntington, William
Fessenden Allen, George
Milo Huntington and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; second cousin four times removed of Judson
H. Warner, Nelson
Platt Wheeler, William
Egbert Wheeler and Henry
Augustus Wolcott; second cousin five times removed of Alexander
Royal Wheeler; third cousin of Daniel
Pitkin; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Chittenden, Enoch
Woodbridge, James
Hillhouse, Joseph
Silliman (1756-1829) and Timothy
Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Albert
Haller Tracy, Henry
Ward Beecher, Leveret
Brainard, Edwin
Carpenter Pinney, Roger
Calvin Leete and John
Robert Graham Pitkin; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph
Pomeroy Root, George
Griswold Sill, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, George
Buckingham Beecher, Luther
S. Pitkin and Claude
Carpenter Pinney; fourth cousin of Benjamin
Tallmadge, Elizur
Goodrich, Martin
Chittenden, William
Woodbridge and Joseph
Silliman (c.1786-1850); fourth cousin once removed of Chittenden
Lyon, Frederick
Augustus Tallmadge, Josiah
C. Chittenden, Clark
S. Chittenden, Abel
Madison Scranton, Frederick
Enoch Woodbridge and Joseph
Fitch Silliman. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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of Wolcott,
Vermont, is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: One Hundredth Anniversary
(1919) |
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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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Edward Richard Folsom (1874-1923) —
also known as Edward R. Folsom —
of Irvington, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in North Urbana, Steuben
County, N.Y., September
18, 1874.
Charged,
in 1894, of forging
checks, bank
robbery, and arson; pleaded
guilty to two charges; sentenced
to ten years in prison;
pardoned
and released in September 1897; coal
dealer; mayor
of Irvington, N.J., 1923; died in office 1923.
Blackmailers threatening to expose his criminal past extorted money
from him until he was nearly penniless; killed
himself by an overdose of
sedative, in Irvington, Essex
County, N.J., September
26, 1923 (age 49 years, 8
days).
Interment at Clinton
Cemetery, Irvington, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick Lewis Folsom and Martha (Layton) Folsom; married to Sara
Elizabeth Keeler. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912) —
also known as Alfred M. Waddell —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., September
16, 1834.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 3rd District, 1871-79;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1896;
notorious
leader of the overthrow of Wilmington's elected city government by white
supremacists on November 10, 1898; forced the incumbent mayor to
resign at gunpoint, and took his place; the offices of the Wilmington
Daily Record newspaper were burned, and as many as 300 Black
citizens of Wilmington were murdered;
mayor
of Wilmington, N.C., 1898-1906.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., March
17, 1912 (age 77 years, 183
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
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Robert Charles Lacey (b. 1886) —
also known as Robert C. Lacey —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., October
10, 1886.
Democrat. Coal and
ice dealer; president,
Buffalo Central Labor Council, 1920; member of New York
state senate 49th District, 1923-24; defeated, 1924; during a
railway strike in 1922, the Niagara Falls High Speed Line train line
was dynamited, wrecking a train and injuring its passengers;
in 1923, Lacey was charged
in federal court with transporting the explosives in his car;
he falsely
testified to his non-involvement; later confessed to his part in
the incident; pleaded
guilty to perjury
over his earlier testimony; sentenced
to one day in jail and fined
$500; pardoned
in 1924 by President Calvin
Coolidge; in 1925, he was again indicted
for complicity in the bombing, and pleaded not guilty; after
some others were acquitted, the charges were dropped; in December
1937, during an investigation
into corruption involving the Buffalo city council, he was charged
with perjury.
Member, Eagles;
Elks.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of James Lacey and Sarah (Cooper) Lacey; married, September
30, 1908, to Harriet 'Hattie' Noack. |
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Vincent Tuero (1881-1953) —
also known as Vicente Sifuentes Tuero —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.; North Tonawanda, Niagara
County, N.Y.; Southfield, Oakland
County, Mich.; San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Durango,
January
26, 1881.
Socialist. Naturalized U.S. citizen; streetcar
conductor; financial
secretary and Treasurer,
Street Carmen's Union; candidate for New York
state assembly from Erie County 2nd District, 1918; during a
railway strike in 1922, the Niagara Falls High Speed Line train line
was dynamited, wrecking a train and injuring its passengers;
in 1923, Tuero and others were indicted
in federal court for conspiring to steal, transport, and place the
dynamite; a trial
was held in January 1926, but the charges against Tuero were
dismissed by the judge at the end of the prosecution's case.
Mexican
ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Laurelwood Rest
Home, San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., July 9,
1953 (age 72 years, 164
days).
Interment somewhere
in San Antonio, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Mariano Tuero and Dolores (Sifuentes) Tuero. |
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Tom Metzger —
of California; Warsaw, Kosciusko
County, Ind.
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 43rd District, 1980; candidate in
Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; convicted
in 1991 of burning a cross (as a form of hate speech
or intimidation) and sentenced
to prison;
in 1992, he was arrested
in Canada for violating immigration
laws.
Member, John
Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2012.
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Scott Winfield Davis —
also known as Scott W. Davis —
of Palo Alto, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Arrested
in 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, and charged
with killing
David Coffin and setting fire to his home; the charges were
later dropped for lack of evidence; Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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