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William Lamont Abbott (b. 1861) —
also known as William L. Abbott —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Whiteside
County, Ill., February
14, 1861.
Son of Asa M. Abbott and Sarah (Sperry) Abbott.
Republican. Machinist;
president, National Electric Construction
Co.; chief engineer, power
house, Chicago Edison Co.; later, chief operating
engineer; president, Lake Lawn Hotel
Co.; director, Chicago Bank of
Commerce; University
of Illinois trustee, 1905-23.
Burial
location unknown.
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Saqib Ali (b. 1975) —
of Montgomery Village, Montgomery
County, Md.; West Gaithersburg, Montgomery
County, Md.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
21, 1975.
Democrat. Software
engineer; member of Maryland
state house of delegates District 39, 2007-.
Muslim.
Indian
subcontinent ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Samuel Shaw Arentz (1879-1934) —
also known as Samuel S. Arentz; Ulysses
Arentz —
of Simpson (unknown
county), Nev.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., January
8, 1879.
Son of Andrew Charles Arentz and Mary M. (Shaw) Arentz.
Republican. Surveyor;
engineer; mining
superintendent; chief engineer for several Western railroads;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1921-23, 1925-33; defeated,
1932; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1922; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Nevada, 1928,
1932.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Reno, Washoe
County, Nev., June 17,
1934 (age 55 years, 160
days).
Interment at Masonic
Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nev.
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Alex Davison Bailey (b. 1882) —
also known as Alex D. Bailey —
of La Grange, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Salem, Kenosha
County, Wis., February
14, 1882.
Son of Eugene M. Bailey and Caroline G. (Davison) Bailey.
Engineer; utility
company executive; village
president of La Grange, Illinois, 1935-37.
Member, Newcomen
Society; Tau Beta
Pi; Union
League.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Eugene M. Bailey and Caroline G. (Davison) Bailey; married, September
3, 1907, to Alice Carey (died 1929); married, October
3, 1936, to Amelia Duncan. |
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John B. Bowman (1832-1885) —
of East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Germany,
1832.
Republican. Civil engineer; lawyer; real estate
business; mayor
of East St. Louis, Ill., 1865-66, 1868, 1872-74, 1877-78.
German
ancestry.
Shot
and killed by
an unknown assailant, in front of his home, in East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill., November
21, 1885 (age about 53
years). Two East St. Louis policemen were later charged with his
murder, but they were never tried.
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Chauncey Stewart Conger (b. 1838) —
also known as Chauncey S. Conger —
of Carmi, White
County, Ill.
Born in Strong Ridge, Wood
County, Ohio, January
14, 1838.
Son of Enoch Conger (1792-1872) and Esther (West) Conger (1796-1882).
Civil engineer; lawyer; White
County Superintendent of Schools, 1861-62; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1863-64; circuit judge in
Illinois, 1879.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
Burial
location unknown.
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DeWitt Clinton Cregier (1829-1898) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 1,
1829.
Democrat. Engineer; mayor of
Chicago, Ill., 1889-91.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., November
9, 1898 (age 69 years, 161
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Allan R. Cullimore (b. 1884) —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill., March 2,
1884.
Son of Thomas Cullimore and Mary Pearce (Joy) Cullimore.
Civil engineer; major in the U.S. Army during World War I;
Dean, later President, Newark College of Engineering; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Essex County,
1947.
Member, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; American
Chemical Society; Newcomen
Society.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) —
also known as Charles G. Dawes; "Charging
Charlie" —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.; Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, August
27, 1865.
Son of Rufus
R. Dawes and Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes.
Republican. Engineer; lawyer; banker;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1897-1902; colonel in the U.S. Army
during World War I; Vice
President of the United States, 1925-29; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1929-31; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1936.
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1925.
Died in Evanston, Cook
County, Ill., April 23,
1951 (age 85 years, 239
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Marvin Robert Dee (1917-1975) —
also known as Doc Dee —
of Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
21, 1917.
Republican. Lawyer;
engineer; appraiser;
construction
executive; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 20th District, 1973-74.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sigma
Phi.
Died January
11, 1975 (age 57 years, 143
days).
Interment at Oak
Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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Amos F. Dixon (b. 1877) —
of Stillwater Township, Sussex
County, N.J.
Born near Victoria, Knox
County, Ill., December
5, 1877.
Engineer and executive in the Bell
System, 1902-40; granted more than 60 patents for inventions;
dairy farmer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1945-49; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Sussex County,
1947.
Member, Rotary; Freemasons;
Grange.
Burial
location unknown.
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Philip Bond Fouke (1818-1876) —
also known as Philip B. Fouke —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Kaskaskia, Randolph
County, Ill., January
23, 1818.
Democrat. Civil engineer; newspaper
publisher; lawyer;
prosecuting attorney for 2nd circuit, 1846-50; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1851; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 8th District, 1859-63; colonel in
the Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
3, 1876 (age 58 years, 254
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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H. H. Franks —
of Illinois.
Socialist. Drainage engineer; delegate to Socialist National
Convention from Illinois, 1920.
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry LeRoy Heer (1873-1962) —
also known as Harry L. Heer —
of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.
Born in Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill., January
22, 1873.
Son of David H. Heer (1836-1908) and Martha (Evans) Heer (1838-1922).
Mining
engineer; lawyer;
circuit judge in Illinois 15th Circuit, 1925.
German
and Welsh
ancestry.
Died in Hennepin
County, Minn., November
12, 1962 (age 89 years, 294
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Galena, Ill.
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Andrew Jackson Hunter (1831-1913) —
also known as Andrew J. Hunter —
of Paris, Edgar
County, Ill.
Born in Greencastle, Putnam
County, Ind., December
17, 1831.
Democrat. Civil engineer; lawyer;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1865-69; Edgar
County Judge, 1886-92; U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1893-95, 1897-99 (at-large 1893-95,
19th District 1897-99); defeated, 1870 (7th District), 1882 (15th
District); delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,
1908.
Died January
12, 1913 (age 81 years, 26
days).
Interment at Edgar
Cemetery, Paris, Ill.
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Edward Joseph Kelly (1876-1950) —
also known as Edward J. Kelly —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., May 1,
1876.
Son of Stephen Kelly and Helen (Lang) Kelly.
Democrat. Chief engineer, Sanitary District of Chicago; park
district commissioner, 1922-34; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Illinois, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944,
1948;
mayor
of Chicago, Ill., 1933-47; member of Democratic
National Committee from Illinois, 1947.
Died October
20, 1950 (age 74 years, 172
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Evanston, Ill.
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Frederick Herman Kreismann (1869-1944) —
also known as Frederick Kreismann —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Quincy, Adams
County, Ill., August 7,
1869.
Republican. Civil engineer; insurance
business; mayor
of St. Louis, Mo., 1909-13.
Died in Webster Groves, St. Louis
County, Mo., November
1, 1944 (age 75 years, 86
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Stanley J. Mondala (b. 1913) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born January
27, 1913.
Democrat. Civil engineer; member of Illinois
state senate 27th District, 1941.
Catholic.
Polish
ancestry. Member, Polish
National Alliance; Beta
Theta Pi.
Still living as of 1941.
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Merritt E. Paddock (1867-1937) —
of Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Prophetstown, Whiteside
County, Ill., June 3,
1867.
Mining
engineer; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1933-34.
Member, Elks.
Died in May, 1937
(age 69
years, 0 days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Walter Clifford Sadler (1891-1959) —
also known as Walter C. Sadler —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Elgin, Kane
County, Ill., February
15, 1891.
Son of Walter Lincoln Sadler and Eleanore Elizabeth (Walter) Sadler.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; worked on railroad
and hydroelectric
projects; lawyer; university
professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1937-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War II.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Sigma
Pi; Tau Beta
Pi.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
14, 1959 (age 68 years, 241
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin Martin Schaefer (1887-1950) —
also known as Edwin M. Schaefer —
of Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill.
Born in Belleville, St. Clair
County, Ill., May 14,
1887.
Democrat. Chemical
engineer, and later general superintendent, Morris & Co.
meat
packers; St.
Clair County Treasurer, 1930-32; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 22nd District, 1933-43; director,
Griesediech-Western Brewery Co.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., November
8, 1950 (age 63 years, 178
days).
Interment at Walnut
Hill Cemetery, Belleville, Ill.
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Richard M. Stadden (1856-1918) —
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., May 27,
1856.
Civil engineer and contractor
on railways
and harbor
projects in the U.S. and Mexico; Hawaiian consul at Manzanillo,
1886-87; U.S. Consul in Manzanillo, 1886-87; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Manzanillo, 1906-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Manzanillo, 1916-17.
Died, of influenza,
1918
(age about
62 years).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married to Victoria Carbajal. |
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Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape (1814-1904) —
also known as W. C. A Thielepape —
of San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Wabern, Hesse, Germany,
July
10, 1814.
Son of Werner Philipp Thielepape and Elisabeth (Thompson) Thielepape.
Engineer; architect;
mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1867-72; lawyer.
German
ancestry.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August 7,
1904 (age 90 years, 28
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Roy Nathan Towl (1881-1974) —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 29,
1881.
Son of Erwin Towl and Charlotte (Summers) Towl.
Engineer; mayor of
Omaha, Neb., 1933-36.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks.
Died March 7,
1974 (age 92 years, 343
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William A. Trout (b. 1870) —
of Indiana.
Born in La Salle
County, Ill., January
20, 1870.
Engineer; U.S. Consular Agent in Santa Marta, 1900-18.
Burial
location unknown.
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John McDowell Woodson (b. 1834) —
also known as John M. Woodson —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.; Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., June 5,
1834.
Son of David
Meade Woodson and Lucy Nash (McDowell) Woodson.
Engineer; lawyer; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Greene County, 1862;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1867-69; attorney for several railroads.
Burial
location unknown.
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