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Washington Irving Babb (1844-1925) —
also known as W. I. Babb —
of Mt. Pleasant, Henry
County, Iowa; Aurora, Kane
County, Ill.
Born in Des Moines
County, Iowa, October
2, 1844.
Son of Miles Babb and Mary (Moyer) Babb.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1884; district judge in Iowa 2nd
District, 1891-94; candidate for Governor of
Iowa, 1895.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Union League.
Died September
4, 1925 (age 80 years, 337
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
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Guy George Gabrielson (1891-1976) —
also known as Guy G. Gabrielson —
of Bernardsville, Somerset
County, N.J.; Ambler, Montgomery
County, Pa.
Born in Sioux Rapids, Buena Vista
County, Iowa, May 22,
1891.
Son of Frank August Gabrielson and Ida (Jansen) Gabrielson.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Nicolet Asbestos Mines,
Danville, Quebec; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1926-30; Speaker of
the New Jersey State House of Assembly, 1929; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1949-52.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Union League.
Died in May, 1976
(age about
85 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Murchison Grimm (b. 1866) —
also known as John M. Grimm —
of Cedar Rapids, Linn
County, Iowa.
Born in Henry
County, Ill., December
21, 1866.
Son of Charles Henry Grimm and Catherine (McLennan) Grimm.
Republican. Lawyer; Linn
County Attorney, 1893-98; justice of
Iowa state supreme court, 1929-32; appointed 1929; resigned 1932.
Member, American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; Delta
Tau Delta; Phi
Delta Phi; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Kiwanis;
Union League.
Burial
location unknown.
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George E. Q. Johnson (b. 1874) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Harcourt, Webster
County, Iowa, July 11,
1874.
Son of John Johnson and Mathilda (Linderholm) Johnson.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 1927-31; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 1932-33.
Lutheran.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Royal
Arcanum; Union League.
Burial
location unknown.
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James Rockwell Sheffield (1864-1938) —
also known as James R. Sheffield —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Dubuque, Dubuque
County, Iowa, August
13, 1864.
Son of Frederick William Hotchkiss Sheffield and Sarah (Kellogg)
Sheffield.
Republican. Lawyer;
private secretary to U.S. Sen. William
B. Allison; member of New York
state assembly, 1904; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1916,
1920,
1924,
1936;
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1924-27; delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
English
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Union League.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Saranac Inn, Franklin
County, N.Y., September
2, 1938 (age 74 years, 20
days).
Interment somewhere
in Utica, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederick William Hotchkiss Sheffield and Sarah (Kellogg)
Sheffield; married, November
2, 1898, to Edith Tod (granddaughter of David
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