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Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893-1971) —
also known as Dean Acheson —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., April 11,
1893.
Son of Edward Campion Acheson (1858-1934; Episcopal bishop of
Connecticut) and Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham) Acheson (1870-1958).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis, 1919-21; undersecretary of treasury, 1933; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1949-53.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Council on
Foreign Relations.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1964; received a Pulitzer
Prize in History, 1970, for his book Present At The Creation:
My Years In The State Department.
Died, probably from a heart
attack, over his desk in his study,
Sandy Spring, Montgomery
County, Md., October
12, 1971 (age 78 years, 184
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Herbert Wolcott Bowen (1856-1927) —
also known as Herbert W. Bowen —
of New York; Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
29, 1856.
Son of Henry Chandler Bowen and Lucy Maria (Tappan) Bowen.
Lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Barcelona, 1890-95; U.S. Consul General in Barcelona, 1895-98; last American official to leave Spain
before the Spanish American War; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1899-1901; Venezuela, 1901-05.
English ancestry.
Died, of heart
disease, Woodstock, Windham
County, Conn., May 29,
1927 (age 71 years, 0
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank P. Fenton (1874-1947) —
of Willimantic, Windham
County, Conn.
Born in Connecticut, October
31, 1874.
Son of Franklin D. Fenton (born 1846) and Emily (Swift) Fenton.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1908,
1924;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1924; candidate for
Connecticut
state house of representatives from Windham, 1926.
English ancestry.
Died January
19, 1947 (age 72 years, 80
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Fourth cousin once removed of Reuben
Eaton Fenton; son of Franklin D. Fenton (born 1846) and Emily
(Swift) Fenton; married to Rose E. Gray (1880-1959). See Fenton
family of New York. |
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John Osgood (1782-1872) —
of Cincinnatus, Cortland
County, N.Y.
Born in Pomfret, Windham
County, Conn., May 13,
1782.
Son of William Osgood (1740-1804) and Mary (Scarborough) Osgood.
Merchant;
member of New York
state assembly from Cortland County, 1838.
English ancestry.
Died in Cincinnatus, Cortland
County, N.Y., December
19, 1872 (age 90 years, 220
days).
Interment at Cincinnatus
Cemetery, Cincinnatus, N.Y.
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John Pitcher (1795-1892) —
of Spencer
County, Ind.; Posey
County, Ind.
Born in Watertown, Litchfield
County, Conn., August
22, 1795.
Lawyer;
Spencer
County Sheriff, 1826-30; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1830-31; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1837; member of Indiana
state senate, 1841-44; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana, 1848;
candidate for delegate to
Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850.
Episcopalian.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Reputed to have loaned law books to the young Abraham
Lincoln.
Died in Mt. Vernon, Posey
County, Ind., August 2,
1892 (age 96 years, 346
days).
Interment at Hedges
Central Elementary School Playground, Mt. Vernon, Ind.
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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) —
also known as William H. Taft; "Big
Bill" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, September
15, 1857.
Son of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907).
Republican. Superior court judge in Ohio, 1887-90; U.S. Solicitor General,
1890-92; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals, 1892-1900; law
professor; Governor of
the Philippine Islands, 1901-04; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1904-08; President
of the United States, 1909-13; defeated, 1912; Chief
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30.
Unitarian.
English ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Psi
Upsilon; Skull and
Bones; Phi
Alpha Delta; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 8,
1930 (age 72 years, 174
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives:
Grandson of Peter
Rawson Taft; son of Alphonso
Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft (1827-1907); half-brother of
Charles
Phelps Taft; married, June 19,
1886, to Helen 'Nellie' Herron (1861-1943; granddaughter of Ela
Collins; niece of William
Collins; daughter of John
Williamson Herron); brother of Henry
Waters Taft; uncle of Walbridge
S. Taft; father of Robert
Alphonso Taft and Charles
Phelps Taft II; grandfather of William
Howard Taft III, Robert
Taft, Jr. and Seth
Chase Taft; great-grandfather of Robert
Alphonso Taft II. See Taft
family of Ohio. |
| | | Cross-reference: Walter
P. Johnson — Fred
Warner Carpenter — Charles
D. Hilles |
| | | Epitaph: "#S#(1908) Progress and
Prosperity." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about William Howard Taft: Paolo
Enrico Coletta, The
Presidency of William Howard Taft — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Alpheus Thomas Mason, William
Howard Taft |
| | | Critical books about William Howard
Taft: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, August 1901 |
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Rollin Simmons Woodruff (1854-1925) —
also known as Rollin S. Woodruff —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 14,
1854.
Son of Rev. Jeremiah Woodruff and Clarissa (Thompson) Woodruff.
Republican. President, C. S. Mersick & Co., wholesale iron
dealers; director, Connecticut Savings Bank and
Mechanics Bank;
president, Grace Hospital
of New Haven; member of Connecticut
state senate, 1903; Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07; Governor of
Connecticut, 1907-09; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Connecticut, 1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920
(alternate), 1924.
English ancestry. Member, Union
League.
Died June 30,
1925 (age 70 years, 351
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
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