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Henry Alfred Bishop (b. 1860) —
also known as Henry A. Bishop —
of Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield
County, Conn., December
4, 1860.
Son of William
Darius Bishop and Julia Ann (Tomlinson) Bishop.
Democrat. Ticket agent, purchasing agent, and superintendent of
several railroads;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1886; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Connecticut, 1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1912
(alternate); candidate for secretary of
state of Connecticut, 1888; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Connecticut, 1904; president, Clapp Fire Resisting
Paint Co., Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey Power
Co., and Reed Carpet
Co.; vice-president, Brady Brass Co., Pacific Iron
Works, Connecticut National Bank, and
Consolidated Telephone
Co.; director, Westchester Street
Railway Co., Western Union Telegraph
Co.; director, Bridgeport Hospital.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial
location unknown.
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James Graham (born c.1831) —
of Orange, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., about 1831.
Republican. Brass foundry business; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1878, 1885-86; member of Connecticut
state senate 7th District, 1887-90; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1896.
Burial
location unknown.
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James P. Hooley (b. 1855) —
of Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y.
Born in Connecticut, July 12,
1855.
Son of Morgan Hooley and Mary Margaret (Coffey) Hooley.
Iron molder; organizer for
the Knights of Labor; member of New York
state assembly from Rensselaer County 1st District, 1884-85.
Irish
ancestry.
Interment at St.
John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery, Schenectady, N.Y.
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Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) —
also known as Oliver G. Jennings —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1865.
Son of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825-1893; one of the original
stockholders of Standard Oil Company, 1871) and Esther Judson
(Goodsell) Jennings (1828-1908).
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1916;
Presidential Elector for Connecticut, 1920;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1923; director, U.S. Industrial
Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem Steel Corporation;
director, Grocery Store
Products, Inc.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Skull and
Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in the Harbor Sanitarium,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1936 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Oaklawn
Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825-1893; one of the original stockholders
of Standard Oil Company, 1871) and Esther Judson (Goodsell) Jennings
(1828-1908); married 1896 to Mary
Dows Brewster; uncle of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; father of Benjamin Brewster Jennings
(1898-1968; president of Socony-Vacuum, which later became Mobil
Oil); granduncle of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III. See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
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Frederick Miles (1815-1896) —
of Chapinville, Salisbury, Litchfield
County, Conn.
Born in Goshen, Litchfield
County, Conn., December
19, 1815.
Republican. Merchant;
iron manufacturer; member of Connecticut
state senate 17th District, 1878-79; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1879-83, 1889-91;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1880
(alternate), 1884,
1888
(alternate).
Died in Salisbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
20, 1896 (age 80 years, 337
days).
Interment at Salisbury
Cemetery, Salisbury, Conn.
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Howard Beecher Tuttle (c.1863-1933) —
also known as Howard B. Tuttle —
of Naugatuck, New Haven
County, Conn.
Born in Naugatuck, New Haven
County, Conn., about 1863.
Son of Bronson Beecher Tuttle and Mary Ann (Wilcox) Tuttle.
Chairman, Eastern Malleable Iron Company; chairman, Naugatuck
National Bank;
member of Connecticut
state senate; warden
of Naugatuck, Connecticut, 1920.
Suffered a stroke at
luncheon in the Waterbury Country Club, and died seven days later, in
Middlebury, New Haven
County, Conn., September
29, 1933 (age about 70
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Jeannette Seymour. |
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Robert J. White (born c.1884) —
of Plainville, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Connecticut, about 1884.
Democrat. Steelworker; candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Plainville, 1926, 1932.
Irish
ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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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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