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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (1844-1916) —
also known as John H. Surratt, Jr. —
of Surrattsville (now Clinton), Prince
George's County, Md.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April
13, 1844.
Postmaster at Surrattsville,
Md., 1862-63; dismissed
as postmaster in 1863 for alleged disloyalty
to the Union; became a Confederate courier and spy; he and
others attempted to kidnap
President Abraham
Lincoln; later, the plot to kill the President and other
government officials was formulated at his mother's boarding house in
Washington; he denied involvement in the assassination, but fled
overseas; he was arrested
in Alexandria, Egypt, and sent back to the U.S.; tried in a Maryland
court in 1867 for his alleged involvement in the murder
plot, but the jury couldn't reach a verdict, and a mistrial was
declared; treasurer of a steamship
company.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Baltimore,
Md., April
21, 1916 (age 72 years, 8
days).
Interment at New
Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
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John Breckinridge Castleman (1841-1918) —
also known as John B. Castleman —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., June 30,
1841.
Democrat. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; led
Confederate guerilla
forces in operations aimed at Chicago and St. Louis; captured
in Indiana, 1864, convicted of spying, and sentenced to
death, but his execution was stayed by President Abraham
Lincoln; deported
to France in 1865; pardoned
in 1866 by President Andrew
Johnson, and returned to Kentucky; insurance
business; Adjutant
General of Kentucky, 1883, 1900; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Kentucky, 1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1892
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 23,
1918 (age 76 years, 327
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.; statue (now gone) at Cherokee Triangle, Louisville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of David B. Castleman and Virginia (Harrison) Castleman; married to
Alice Osmond Barbee; great-grandnephew of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and William
Cabell; second great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin of Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin once removed of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823), Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge and Carter
Henry Harrison II; first cousin twice removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Carter
Bassett Harrison, William
Cabell Jr., William
Henry Cabell and William
Henry Harrison (1773-1841); first cousin thrice removed of Richard
Bland, Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775), Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780) and William
Fitzhugh; second cousin of John
Cabell Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William
Lewis Cabell, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George
Craighead Cabell and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; second cousin once removed of Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Frederick
Mortimer Cabell, John
Scott Harrison (1804-1878), Edward
Carrington Cabell, Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge (1844-1906), Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin
Earl Cabell, Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick
Bland, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, George
Nicholas, Beverley
Randolph, Wilson
Cary Nicholas, John
Nicholas, John
Randolph of Roanoke and Earle
Cabell; third cousin of Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, John
William Leftwich, Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901) and John
Scott Harrison (1844-1926); third cousin once removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828), Henry
St. George Tucker, Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857), Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Russell
Benjamin Harrison and Frederick
Madison Roberts; third cousin twice removed of Burwell
Bassett, John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson and William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990); fourth cousin of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker, Edmund
Randolph and William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee; fourth cousin once removed of John
Wayles Eppes, Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, Connally
Findlay Trigg, John
Augustine Marshall, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Harry
Bartow Hawes and William
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John Lewis Waller (1850-1907) —
also known as John L. Waller —
of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kan.; Wyandotte (now part of Kansas City), Wyandotte
County, Kan.; Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in slavery
in New
Madrid County, Mo., January
12, 1850.
Republican. Barber; lawyer;
Republican Presidential Elector for Kansas, 1889;
U.S. Consul in Tamatave, 1891-93; in March 1895, during France's military
takeover of Madagascar from the Hova monarchy, he was arrested
by French forces and tried in
a French military court, purportedly for the offense of corresponding
with (or spying for) the Hovas, but more likely because the
Queen of the Hovas had granted him 2.5 square miles, rich with rubber
and mahogany trees; sentenced
to twenty years in a French prison; his case became an international
cause celebre, and the U.S. government protested his imprisonment;
ultimately pardoned
in February 1896 by French president Félix Faure, and freed
after ten months in prison, in exchange for U.S. acquiesance to
French rule over Madagascar; served in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; newspaper
editor.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
13, 1907 (age 57 years, 274
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Yonkers, N.Y.
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Lafayette Young (1848-1926) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa.
Born in Monroe
County, Iowa, May 10,
1848.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Iowa state legislature, 1890;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1900,
1908;
U.S.
Senator from Iowa, 1910-11; in May 1915, while working as a war
correspondent for a Des Moines newspaper, he was arrested
in Innsbruck, Austria, on suspicion of espionage; released a
few hours later.
Died in Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa, November
15, 1926 (age 78 years, 189
days).
Interment at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Samuel Dickstein (1885-1954) —
also known as "Crook" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Vilna, Lithuania,
February
5, 1885.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 4th District, 1919-22; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1923-45 (12th District 1923-45,
19th District 1945); Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1945-53.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
B'nai
B'rith; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
According to old Russian records found in
the mid-1990s, he was a paid agent of the Soviet intelligence
service while in Congress, and received some $12,000 in 1937-40 under
the Soviet code-name "Crook".
Died, in Beth Israel Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April
22, 1954 (age 69 years, 76
days).
Interment at Union
Field Cemetery, Ridgewood, Queens, N.Y.
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Robert Alexander Vogeler (1911-1992) —
also known as Robert A. Vogeler —
of Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Cos Cob, Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Horseheads, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Jackson Heights, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., September
6, 1911.
Republican. Vice-president, International Telephone and Telegraph; arrested
by the Hungarian Communist government in 1949, tortured, tried and
convicted of espionage; released in 1951; honored guest, Republican National Convention,
1952.
Episcopalian.
German
and French
ancestry.
Died in Horseheads, Chemung
County, N.Y., April
22, 1992 (age 80 years, 229
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Irving Charles Velson (1913-1976) —
also known as Irving C. Velson; Irving Charles
Shavelson; Charles Wilson; "Nick";
"Shavey" —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 3,
1913.
Machinist;
boilermaker;
shipfitter;
president,
Local 13, Shipbuilders
Union; American Labor candidate for New York
state senate 11th District, 1938; served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II; in 1951 and 1953, he was brought to testify before
Congressional committees about his Communist and Soviet activities,
including efforts to infiltrate
the U.S. military with Soviet spies; he repeatedly refused to answer
questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination;
as a result, he was "barred for
life" by the Shipbuilders' union; later, served as international
representative for the (West Coast) International Longshoreman's
and Warehousemen's Union.
Venona Project documents (decrypted Soviet messages from the World
War II era), released in 1995, show that he was an agent for
Soviet military intelligence under the code name "Nick".
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
18, 1976 (age 62 years, 260
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in San Francisco Bay.
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