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Andrew Augustine Caffrey (1920-1993) —
Born in Lawrence, Essex
County, Mass., October
2, 1920.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
law professor; U.S.
District Judge for Massachusetts, 1960-86; took senior status
1986; senior judge,
1986-93.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., October
6, 1993 (age 73 years, 4
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Delos Fall (1848-1921) —
of Albion, Calhoun
County, Mich.
Born in Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich., January
29, 1848.
Son of Benjamin Franklin Fall (1810-1869) and Anna Maria (Bassett)
Fall (1813-1898).
Republican. College professor; Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1901-04; candidate for mayor of
Albion, Mich., 1906; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention 9th District, 1907-08.
The Christian hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" (1912) was written in his
house in Albion, by his tenant Rev. George Bennard.
Died in Bradenton, Manatee
County, Fla., February
19, 1921 (age 73 years, 21
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Cary D. Landis (b. 1873) —
of DeLand, Volusia
County, Fla.
Born in Claypool, Kosciusko
County, Ind., May 10,
1873.
Son of David Landis and Elizabeth Landis.
Democrat. School
principal; superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
law professor; Florida
state attorney general, 1931-36; appointed 1931.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis.
Burial
location unknown.
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Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954) —
also known as Ruth Bryan; Ruth Bryan Rohde; Mrs.
Borge Rohde —
of Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., October
2, 1885.
Daughter of William
Jennings Bryan and Mary Elizabeth (Baird) Bryan (1861-1930).
Democrat. Lecturer; U.S.
Representative from Florida 4th District, 1929-33; U.S. Minister
to Denmark, 1933-36.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; Delta
Gamma.
first
woman to be elected to Congress from the South; inducted 1992 into
the Florida Women's Hall of
Fame.
Died in Copenhagen, Denmark,
July
26, 1954 (age 68 years, 297
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Ordrup
Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April 12,
1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college professor; author.
Welch Hall, at Eastern Michigan University, is named for him.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 14,
1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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