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Norwood Francis Allman (1893-1987) —
also known as Norwood F. Allman —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; Union Hall, Franklin
County, Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Port Charlotte, Charlotte
County, Fla.
Born in Union Hall, Franklin
County, Va., July 24,
1893.
Son of John Isaac Allman and Nannie Kate (English) Allman.
Lawyer;
interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Antung, 1917; Nanking, 1918; Tientsin, 1918-19; Tsinanfu, 1919-21; Shanghai, 1921; Chungking, 1921; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1922-24.
Member, Rotary.
Died in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., February
28, 1987 (age 93 years, 219
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1920
to Mary Louise Hamilton. |
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Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) —
also known as Roger W. Babson; "The Seer of Wellesley
Hills" —
of Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., July 6,
1875.
Son of Nathaniel Babson (1850-1927) and Ellen (Stearns) Babson
(1850-1929).
Statistician;
economist;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1940.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Author of many books on business and religion; famed for
predicting the 1929 stock market crash; founder
of Babson Institute (now Babson College), in Wellesley, Mass.; Webber
College (now Webber International University), in Babson Park, Fla.,
and Utopia College (now defunct), in Eureka, Kan.
Died in Mountain Lake, Polk
County, Fla., March 5,
1967 (age 91 years, 242
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Jr. (1908-1965) —
also known as Albert J. Beveridge, Jr. —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Manchester, Essex
County, Mass., August
21, 1908.
Son of Albert
Jeremiah Beveridge and Catherine Spencer (Eddy) Beveridge
(1881-1970).
Republican. Newspaper
reporter and columnist; radio
newscaster; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Indiana, 1936;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1941-45; served in the U.S. Army during World War
II; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1946.
Episcopalian.
Died in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., January
15, 1965 (age 56 years, 147
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Richard Goodwin Capen, Jr. (b. 1934) —
also known as Richard G. Capen, Jr. —
of La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif.; Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in 1934.
Republican. Author; newspaper
publisher; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1972;
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1992-93.
Still living as of 2002.
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Winston Churchill (1871-1947) —
of Cornish, Sullivan
County, N.H.; Plainfield, Sullivan
County, N.H.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., November
10, 1871.
Son of Edward Spaulding Churchill and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill.
Novelist; historian; member of New
Hampshire state house of representatives, 1903-05; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1904
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business); Progressive candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire, 1912.
Died in Winter Park, Orange
County, Fla., March 12,
1947 (age 75 years, 122
days).
Interment somewhere
in Plainfield, N.H.
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Ralph Waldo Gwinn (1884-1962) —
also known as Ralph W. Gwinn —
of Bronxville, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., March 29,
1884.
Son of John Harvey Gwinn and Edith (Harvey) Gwinn.
Republican. Lawyer;
writer; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1945-59; defeated,
1940, 1942.
Methodist
or Christian
Reformed. Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Freemasons.
Died of a heart
attack, in Delray Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., February
27, 1962 (age 77 years, 335
days).
Interment at Pawling
Cemetery, Pawling, N.Y.
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) —
also known as James W. Johnson; James William
Johnson —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 17,
1871.
Son of James Johnson and Helen Louise (Dillet) Johnson.
School
principal; author; lawyer; U.S.
Consul in Puerto Cabello, 1906-07; Dakar, 1907-08; Corinto, 1908-09.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Sigma Pi
Phi; Phi
Beta Sigma; Freemasons.
Author of the words to the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which
became known as the "Negro National Anthem".
Killed in a car-train
collision, in Wiscasset, Lincoln
County, Maine, June 26,
1938 (age 67 years, 9
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Raymond Robins (1873-1954) —
of Nome, Nome census
area, Alaska; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; near Brooksville, Hernando
County, Fla.
Born in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
17, 1873.
Progressive. Coal miner;
lawyer;
went to
the Klondike for the 1898 Gold Rush; pastor; social
worker; economist;
writer; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1914; commissioner of American Red Cross
mission to Russia, 1917.
Died September
26, 1954 (age 81 years, 9
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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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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