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Jeremiah Dunham Botkin (1849-1921) —
also known as Jeremiah D. Botkin —
of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan.; Baldwin City, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born near Atlanta, Logan
County, Ill., April 24,
1849.
Son of Richard Botkin and Nancy (Barr) Botkin.
Methodist minister; candidate for Governor of
Kansas, 1888 (Prohibition), 1908 (Democratic); U.S.
Representative from Kansas at-large, 1897-99; defeated, 1894.
Methodist.
Died in Liberal, Seward
County, Kan., December
29, 1921 (age 72 years, 249
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Winfield, Kan.
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Frank Milton Bristol (1851-1932) —
also known as Frank M. Bristol —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Jeddo (unknown
county), N.Y., January
4, 1851.
Republican. Minister; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1884 ;
bishop.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Kappa Sigma.
Died in 1932
(age about
81 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Petit Brooks (1826-1915) —
also known as John P. Brooks —
of Galesburg, Knox
County, Ill.; Lewistown, Fulton
County, Ill.; Rock Island, Rock Island
County, Ill.; Sangamon
County, Ill.; Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill.; Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.; College Mound, Macon
County, Mo.
Born in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, July 24,
1826.
Son of Samuel S. Brooks (newspaper editor).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; newspaper
editor and publisher; preacher; Illinois
superintendent of public instruction, 1863-65.
Methodist;
later Pentecostal.
Died in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., June 16,
1915 (age 88 years, 327
days).
Interment at College
Mound Cemetery, College Mound, Mo.
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Relatives:
Married 1852
to Mary Ann Bray (1833-1903). |
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Christopher Alan Bullock (born c.1962) —
of Olympia Fields, Cook
County, Ill.
Born about 1962.
Republican. Clergyman; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 2004.
Still living as of 2004.
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Jordan Chavis —
of Quincy, Adams
County, Ill.
Republican. Minister; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1896.
Burial
location unknown.
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Larkin Craig (1793-1881) —
of Montgomery
County, Ill.; Macoupin
County, Ill.
Born in North Carolina, February
1, 1793.
Ordained minister; member of Illinois
state senate, 1832-37.
Died February
14, 1881 (age 88 years, 13
days).
Interment at Blevins
Cemetery, Near Gillespie, Macoupin County, Ill.
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Arthur Edwards (1834-1901) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Norwalk, Huron
County, Ohio, 1834.
Republican. Clergyman; colonel in the Union Army during the
Civil War; editor, Northwestern Christian Advocate magazine,
1872-1901; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Methodist.
Died, of heart
disease, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 20,
1901 (age about 66
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Fallows (1835-1922) —
of Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Pendleton, Lancashire, England,
December
13, 1835.
Republican. Minister; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Wisconsin
superintendent of public instruction, 1870-74; president,
Wesleyan University, 1874; bishop; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Methodist;
later Reformed
Episcopal Church. Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., September
5, 1922 (age 86 years, 266
days).
Interment at Forest
Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.
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Relatives:
Married to Lucy Bethia Huntington (1840-1916). |
| | | Personal motto: "Do with your might
what your hands find to do." |
| | | Epitaph: "He walked with God - God took
him." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Buell Gordon Gallagher (1904-1978) —
also known as Buell G. Gallagher —
of Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif.; Granite Springs, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rankin, Vermilion
County, Ill., February
4, 1904.
Son of Rev. Elmer David Gallagher and Elma Maryel (Poole) Gallagher.
Democrat. Ordained minister; college
professor; president,
Talladega College, 1933-43; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 7th District, 1948.
Congregationalist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in August, 1978
(age 74
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus (1856-1921) —
also known as Frank W. Gunsaulus —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chesterville, Morrow
County, Ohio, January
1, 1856.
Son of Joseph
Gunsaulus and Mary (Hawley) Gunsaulus.
Republican. Pastor; lecturer;
speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888 ;
president,
Armour Institute of Technology, 1893-1921.
Congregationalist.
Suffered a heart
attack and died, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 17,
1921 (age 65 years, 75
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Richard B. Hassell (1852-1942) —
of Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash.
Born in Illinois, November
3, 1852.
Congregationalist minister; mayor of
Everett, Wash., 1912.
Congregationalist.
Died in Everett, Snohomish
County, Wash., September
26, 1942 (age 89 years, 327
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harold Overton Hatcher (1907-2003) —
also known as Harold O. Hatcher —
of Illinois; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Greensburg, Green
County, Ky., March 7,
1907.
Son of Overton Hatcher and Edna Mitchell Hatcher.
Socialist. Congregationalist minister; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois at-large, 1934.
Died in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., August 6,
2003 (age 96 years, 152
days).
Cremated.
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John W. Holland —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Republican. Minister; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1944.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Francis C. Kelly —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Republican. Catholic priest; president, Catholic Church
Extension Society of the United States; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1916.
Catholic.
Burial
location unknown.
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William Kinney (1781-1843) —
of St.
Clair County, Ill.
Born in Washington
County, Pa., 1781.
Baptist minister; merchant;
Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, 1826-30; candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1830, 1834.
Baptist.
Died near Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., October
1, 1843 (age about 62
years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, St. Clair County, Ill.
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Melvin Robert Laird, Sr. (d. 1946) —
also known as Melvin R. Laird, Sr. —
of Wisconsin.
Born near Griggsville, Pike
County, Ill.
Presbyterian minister; member of Wisconsin
state senate 24th District, 1941-46; died in office 1946.
Presbyterian.
Died March 19,
1946.
Burial
location unknown.
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Ira Landrith (1865-1941) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; Winona Lake, Kosciusko
County, Ind.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Milford, Ellis
County, Tex., March 23,
1865.
Son of Martin Luther Landrith and Mary M. (Groves) Landrith.
Presbyterian minister; president,
Belmont College, Nashville, 1904-12; president,
Ward-Belmont College, 1913-15; Prohibition candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1916; president, Intercollegiate
Prohibition Association, 1920-27; president, National Temperance
Council, 1928-31.
Presbyterian.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
11, 1941 (age 76 years, 202
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864) —
of Princeton, Bureau
County, Ill.
Born in Albion, Kennebec
County, Maine, January
6, 1811.
Son of Elizabeth Gordon (Pattee) Lovejoy (1772-1857) and Rev. Daniel
Lovejoy (1776-1833).
Republican. Minister; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1854-56; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1856
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1857-64 (3rd District 1857-63, 5th
District 1863-64); died in office 1864.
Congregationalist.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 25,
1864 (age 53 years, 79
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Princeton, Ill.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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J. S. McCornack (b. 1862) —
of Bancroft Township, Freeborn
County, Minn.
Born in Illinois, 1862.
Minister; farmer;
member of Minnesota
state senate 6th District; elected 1930.
Presbyterian.
Burial
location unknown.
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Marvin A. McMickle —
of Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Democrat. Baptist minister; member of Ohio state
house of representatives; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 2000; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 2008.
Baptist.
Still living as of 2008.
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David I. Perry —
of Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill.
Minister; mayor
of Bloomington, Ill., 1850.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Plaster Richmond (1811-1895) —
also known as John P. Richmond —
of Schuyler
County, Ill.
Born in Middletown, Frederick
County, Md., August
11, 1811.
Son of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond.
Democrat. Physician;
minister; in 1840, he officiated at the first
Protestant wedding in what is now the state of Washington; in 1841,
he delivered the first
Fourth of July oration on the Pacific coast; member of Illinois
state senate, 1849-52, 1859-60; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1855-56; Presidential Elector for
Illinois, 1856;
delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Schuyler County,
1862; postmaster.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in South Dakota, August
28, 1895 (age 84 years, 17
days).
Interment at Tyndall
Cemetery, Tyndall, S.Dak.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis Preston Richmond and Susanna (Stottlemeyer) Richmond;
married 1835
to America Walker; married 1859 to Kitty
Gristy. |
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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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Howard Hyde Russell (1855-1946) —
of Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Westerville, Franklin
County, Ohio.
Born in Stillwater, Washington
County, Minn., October
21, 1855.
Son of Rev. Joseph A. Russell and Sarah (Parker) Russell.
Lawyer;
Adams
County Superintendent of Schools, 1878-84; minister;
founder (1895) and national superintendent (1895-1903) of the
Anti-Saloon League; Dry candidate for delegate to
Ohio convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Congregationalist.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died June 30,
1946 (age 90 years, 252
days).
Interment at Otterbein
Cemetery, Westerville, Ohio.
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Joseph Ross Stevenson (1866-1939) —
also known as J. Ross Stevenson —
of Sedalia, Pettis
County, Mo.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.; Baltimore,
Md.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Ligonier, Westmoreland
County, Pa., March 1,
1866.
Son of Rev. Ross Stevenson and Martha A. (Harbison) Stevenson.
Democrat. Pastor; college
professor; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1912 ;
president,
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1914-36.
Presbyterian.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., August
13, 1939 (age 73 years, 165
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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John Timothy Stone (b. 1868) —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y.; Baltimore,
Md.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Massachusetts, September
7, 1868.
Son of Timothy Dwight Porter Stone and Susan Margaret (Dickinson)
Stone.
Republican. Pastor; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1916.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial
location unknown.
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John J. Wall —
also known as Jack Wall —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Democrat. Catholic priest; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1996.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2008.
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Victor H. Weissberg —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Republican. Rabbi; speaker, Republican National Convention, 2000.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2000.
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Lacey Kirk Williams —
also known as Lacey K. Williams —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Eufaula, Barbour
County, Ala.
Son of Levi Williams and Elizabeth Williams.
Republican. Ordained minister; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1924,
1928,
1936.
African
ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Hopkins Worcester, Jr. (1845-1893) —
also known as John H. Worcester —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia
County, Vt., April 2,
1845.
Son of John H. Worcester and Martha P. (Clark) Worcester.
Republican. Pastor, Sixth Presbyterian Church, Chicago,
1883-90; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888 ;
professor
of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary, 1890-93.
Presbyterian.
Died in Lakewood, Ocean
County, N.J., February
5, 1893 (age 47 years, 309
days).
Interment somewhere
in Burlington, Vt.
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