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Frank Edward Agan (1906-2001) —
also known as Frank E. Agan —
of Ely, White Pine
County, Nev.; East Ely, White Pine
County, Nev.; Greeley, Weld
County, Colo.
Born in Glenwood, Mills
County, Iowa, March 4,
1906.
Son of Benjamin T. Agan and Etta M. (Hittle) Agan.
Republican. Accountant
for Nevada Northern Railway; member of Nevada
Republican State Executive Committee, 1948; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Nevada, 1948;
chair
of White Pine County Republican Party, 1948.
Methodist.
Member, Lions; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners.
Died May 5,
2001 (age 95 years, 62
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Serenity
Falls Columbarium, Morgan County, Colo.
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Alexander Stanley Bloedel (b. 1876) —
also known as A. S. Bloedel —
of Tabor, Fremont
County, Iowa.
Born in Papillion, Sarpy
County, Neb., May 8,
1876.
Son of Andrew Bloedel and Caroline Bloedel.
Republican. Hardware
business; president, Tabor and Northern Railroad; bank
director; member of Iowa state
house of representatives from Fremont County, 1951.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1904
to Sarah Weatherhead. |
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Dwight Ezra Campbell (1887-1964) —
also known as Dwight Campbell —
of Aberdeen, Brown
County, S.Dak.
Born in Orange City, Sioux
County, Iowa, November
5, 1887.
Son of Frank Ezra Campbell and Cornelia (Bell) Campbell.
Republican. Lawyer;
represented railroads in the Dakotas; member of South
Dakota state senate 35th District, 1923-24; judge of
South Dakota state supreme court 5th District, 1925-37.
Protestant.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; Alpha
Sigma Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Lions.
Died June 15,
1964 (age 76 years, 223
days).
Interment somewhere
in Groton, S.Dak.
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William Leighton Carss (1865-1931) —
also known as William L. Carss —
of Proctor, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Pella, Marion
County, Iowa, February
15, 1865.
Son of James Carss and Annie (Parks) Carss.
Locomotive engineer; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1919-21, 1925-29;
defeated, 1920 (Democratic), 1922 (Democratic), 1928 (Farmer-Labor),
1930 (Farmer-Labor).
Member, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., May 31,
1931 (age 66 years, 105
days).
Interment at Oneota
Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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Edgar Erastus Clark (1856-1930) —
also known as Edgar E. Clark —
of Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
Born in Lima, Livingston
County, N.Y., February
18, 1856.
Son of Henry Dean Clark and Nancy Elizabeth (Jones) Clark.
Republican. Train conductor; Grand Senior
Conductor (1889), and Grand Chief
Conductor (1890-1906), of the Order of Railway Conductors of
America; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1904;
member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1906-21; chair, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1913-14, 1918-21.
Member, Order of
Railway Conductors; Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Monrovia, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
1, 1930 (age 74 years, 286
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Dean Clark and Nancy Elizabeth (Jones) Clark; married, September
1, 1880, to Lovenia Jenkins (died 1903); married, June 28,
1911, to Agnes English Barnes. |
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article |
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Congress |
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James S. Clarkson (1842-1918) —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., May 17,
1842.
Son of Elizabeth (Goudie) Clarkson and Coker
Fifield Clarkson.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; railroad builder; Iowa
Republican state chair, 1869-71; postmaster;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892,
1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1880-96; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1891-92; First Assistant U.S.
Postmaster General, 1889-90; U.S. Surveyor of Customs,
1902-10.
Assisted more than 500 escaping slaves en route to Canada via the
"underground railroad," 1856-62.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., May 31,
1918 (age 76 years, 14
days).
Interment somewhere
in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Coe Isaac Crawford (1858-1944) —
also known as Coe I. Crawford —
of Pierre, Hughes
County, S.Dak.; Huron, Beadle
County, S.Dak.
Born near Volney, Allamakee
County, Iowa, January
14, 1858.
Son of Robert Crawford and Sarah (Shannon) Crawford.
Republican. Lawyer; Hughes
County State's Attorney, 1886-88; member
Dakota territorial council, 1889; member of South
Dakota state senate 24th District, 1889-90; South
Dakota state attorney general, 1893-97; candidate for U.S.
Representative from South Dakota at-large, 1896; attorney for
Chicago & North Western Railroad, 1897-1905; Governor of
South Dakota, 1907-09; delegate to Republican National Convention
from South Dakota, 1908;
U.S.
Senator from South Dakota, 1909-15.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Yankton, Yankton
County, S.Dak., April 25,
1944 (age 86 years, 102
days).
Interment at Municipal
Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Daniel L. Cushing (b. 1836) —
of Poweshiek
County, Iowa; Quechee, Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt., August 4,
1836.
Republican. Civil
engineer; worked on the Erie Canal
and railroad projects; farmer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1882-83; member of
Vermont
state senate from Windsor County, 1886.
Congregationalist.
Burial
location unknown.
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Claude Ivan Dawson (b. 1877) —
also known as Claude I. Dawson —
of Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C.
Born in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, October
23, 1877.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; worked in
treasury department of Philippine Islands government, 1898-1904;
secretary of a traction company in South Carolina, 1904-08;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Cortes, 1910-12; Valencia, 1912-15; Tampico, 1915-19; U.S. Consul General in Mexico City, 1922-24; Stockholm, 1926; Rio de Janeiro, 1927-31; Barcelona, 1932.
Burial
location unknown.
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Peter Anthony Dey (1825-1911) —
also known as Peter A. Dey —
of Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa.
Born in Romulus, Seneca
County, N.Y., 1825.
Democrat. Chief engineer
of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1864; founder of the First
National Bank of
Iowa City; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, 1876;
member of Iowa
railroad commission, 1878-95.
Died in 1911
(age about
86 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831-1916) —
also known as Grenville M. Dodge —
of Iowa.
Born in Danvers, Essex
County, Mass., April 12,
1831.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 5th District, 1867-69; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Iowa, 1868
(member, Resolutions
Committee); member of Republican
National Committee from Iowa, 1872-74.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Chief engineer
of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Died in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie
County, Iowa, January
3, 1916 (age 84 years, 266
days).
Entombed at Walnut
Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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William Greene Dows (1864-1926) —
also known as William G. Dows —
of Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
Born in Clayton
County, Iowa, August
12, 1864.
Son of Stephen Leland Dows (1832-1909) and Henrietta Weddell (Safley)
Dows (1834-1893).
Republican. President, Iowa Railway and Light
Company, Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway; Iowa Electric
Company; Central States Electric
Company; member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1897-99; colonel in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1912.
Presbyterian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; United
Spanish War Veterans; Loyal
Legion.
Died, in University Hospital,
Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa, November
25, 1926 (age 62 years, 105
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Francis Marion Drake (1830-1903) —
of Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa.
Born in Rushville, Schuyler
County, Ill., December
30, 1830.
Son of John Adams Drake and Harriet Jane (O'Neal) Drake.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
railroad builder; philanthropist; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Iowa, 1888;
Governor
of Iowa, 1896-98.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa is named for
him.
Died, of diabetes,
in Centerville, Appanoose
County, Iowa, November
20, 1903 (age 72 years, 325
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.
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James Grant (1812-1891) —
of Davenport, Scott
County, Iowa.
Born near Enfield, Halifax
County, N.C., December
12, 1812.
Lawyer;
member of Iowa
territorial House of Representatives, 1842-43; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Scott County, 1844;
delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention from Scott County, 1846;
member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1852-53; Speaker of
the Iowa State House of Representatives, 1852-53; mayor
of Davenport, Iowa, 1854; president, Chicago and Rock Island
Railroad.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., March 14,
1891 (age 78 years, 92
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Iowa.
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Samuel Austin Kendall (1859-1933) —
also known as Samuel A. Kendall —
of Jefferson, Greene
County, Iowa; Myersdale, Somerset
County, Pa.
Born in Greenville Township, Somerset
County, Pa., November
1, 1859.
Republican. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; officer in lumber
manufacturing companies; president of two small railroads;
vice-president of Citizens National Bank of
Myersdale, Pa.; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Somerset County, 1899-1902;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1904,
1908,
1912;
U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1919-33 (23rd District 1919-23,
24th District 1923-33); died in office 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Died of a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, in the House Office
Building, Washington,
D.C., January
8, 1933 (age 73 years, 68
days).
Interment at Hochstetler
Cemetery, Greenville Township, Somerset County, Pa.
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Howard L. Kern (c.1886-1947) —
of West Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Charles City, Floyd
County, Iowa, about 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer; Puerto
Rico attorney general, 1915-19; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Puerto Rico, 1920;
assistant general attorney for International Telephone
and Telegraph,
1928-41; general counsel, Central Railroad of New Jersey,
1941-47.
Died in West Orange, Essex
County, N.J., May 12,
1947 (age about 61
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Oscar Lawler (b. 1875) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Marshalltown, Marshall
County, Iowa, April 2,
1875.
Son of William Thomas Lawler and Margaret (O'Connor) Lawler.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of California, 1905-09;
director, Farmers and Merchants National Bank, Los
Angeles; director, San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake
Railway.
Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law.
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederick William Lehmann (1853-1931) —
also known as Frederick W. Lehmann —
of Des Moines, Polk
County, Iowa; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Prussia,
February
28, 1853.
Son of Friedrich Wilhelm Lehmann and Sophia Lehman.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for Wabash Railroad; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Iowa, 1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee); U.S.
Solicitor General, 1910-12.
German
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Died September
12, 1931 (age 78 years, 196
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; cenotaph at Woodland
Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Marion Sumner MacCarthy (b. 1874) —
also known as Marion S. MacCarthy —
Born in Ames, Story
County, Iowa, April 2,
1874.
Chemist;
railway superintendent; mining
examiner; U.S. Consular Agent in Alamos, 1908-11.
Burial
location unknown.
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James Bradley Orman (1849-1919) —
also known as James B. Orman —
of Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo.
Born in Muscatine, Muscatine
County, Iowa, November
4, 1849.
Son of John Orman and Sarah Josephine (Bradley) Orman.
Democrat. Railroad builder; mining
business; member of Colorado state legislature, 1880-84; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Colorado, 1892;
mayor
of Pueblo, Colo., 1897; Governor of
Colorado, 1901-03.
Member, Freemasons.
Died July 21,
1919 (age 69 years, 259
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Cemetery, Pueblo, Colo.
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Aloys Peter Primising (b. 1895) —
also known as A. P. Primising —
of Wahpeton, Richland
County, N.Dak.; Lidgerwood, Richland
County, N.Dak.
Born in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, July 27,
1895.
Democrat. Railway station agent; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Dakota, 1940,
1944
(alternate); member of North Dakota
Democratic State Central Committee, 1940.
Catholic.
Member, Lions; Knights
of Columbus; Elks; Jaycees.
Burial
location unknown.
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Bertil Mathias Rasmusen (b. 1862) —
also known as Bertil M. Rasmusen —
Born in Roland, Story
County, Iowa, November
20, 1862.
Employed in the railway mail
service, 1889-99; later in the postal
services of Cuba and the Philippines; U.S. Consular Agent in Stavanger, 1903-05; U.S. Consul in Stavanger, 1905-10; Bergen, 1910-14; Gothenberg, 1916-17; Moncton, 1919-27.
Burial
location unknown.
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Warren Stanford Stone (1860-1925) —
also known as Warren S. Stone —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Ainsworth, Washington
County, Iowa, February
1, 1860.
Progressive. Locomotive engineer; Grand Chief,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1903-25; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1924.
Died, of Bright's
disease, in a hospital
at Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, June 12,
1925 (age 65 years, 131
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1884
to Carrie E. Newell. |
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Robert John Thompson (b. 1865) —
also known as Robert J. Thompson —
Born in La Porte City, Black Hawk
County, Iowa, October
15, 1865.
School
teacher; railway mail clerk;
newspaper
editor; president and manager, National Recording Safe Company;
U.S. Consul in Hanover, 1906-11; Aix-la-Chapelle, 1914.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Montreux, Switzerland.
Interment at Village
Cemetery, Vevey, Switzerland.
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Samuel H. West (1872-1938) —
of Bellefontaine, Logan
County, Ohio.
Born in Waubeek, Linn
County, Iowa, July 17,
1872.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; Logan
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1899-1903; member of Ohio state
senate, 1903-08; counsel to New York Central Railroad; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, 1928-38; died
in office 1938.
Died October
5, 1938 (age 66 years, 80
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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