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Joseph Brown (d. 1899) —
of Alton, Madison
County, Ill.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Riverboat captain; mayor of
Alton, Ill., 1856-57; mayor
of St. Louis, Mo., 1871-75.
Died December
3, 1899.
Entombed in mausoleum at Alton
Cemetery, Alton, Ill.
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Edwin George Eastman (1833-1872) —
also known as Edwin G. Eastman —
of Maine.
Born in Hallowell, Kennebec
County, Maine, October
5, 1833.
Son of Richard Eastman (1798-1863) and Sophia (Springer) Eastman
(1798-1872).
Sea captain; U.S. Consul in Cork, 1862-69.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
22, 1872 (age 39 years, 78
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Russel Jones (1823-1909) —
also known as J. Russel Jones —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Conneaut, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, February
17, 1823.
Republican. Secretary-treasurer, Galena and Minnesota Packet
Co.; founder and president, Chicago West Division Railway;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1860; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Illinois, 1868;
member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1868-70; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1869-75; U.S.
Collector of Customs, 1875-77.
Died in 1909
(age about
86 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank Lovell (1913-1998) —
also known as Frederick J. Lang —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Ipava, Fulton
County, Ill., July 24,
1913.
Seaman; automobile
worker; candidate for mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1953; Socialist Workers candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1954, 1958, 1964; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1960; Socialist Workers candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1960,
1964,
1968;
Socialist Workers candidate for delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County 4th
District, 1961; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1968.
Member, United
Auto Workers.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1998 (age 84 years, 281
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert E. Lynch —
of Green Bay, Brown
County, Wis.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Democrat. Player and manager for professional baseball
teams; public
relations officer for Kewaunee Shipbuilding and
Engineering Corporation; member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Brown County 1st District, 1933-36, 1943-58.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Rutherford McCormick (1880-1955) —
also known as Robert R. McCormick; Bertie McCormick;
Robert Sanderson McCormick, Jr.; "Colonel
McCormick"; "Colonel McCosmic" —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 30,
1880.
Son of Robert
Sanderson McCormick.
Republican. Longtime publisher, Chicago Tribune newspaper;
creator of the Tribune's paper
manufacturing and aluminum
mining operations in Canada; president, Chicago Sanitary
Commission (which built the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
connecting Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system); delegate
to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1912,
1940,
1948,
1952.
Scotch-Irish
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died April 1,
1955 (age 74 years, 245
days).
Interment at Cantigny
Estate, Wheaton, Ill.
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Lorenzo P. Sanger (1809-1875) —
of Joliet, Will
County, Ill.
Born in Littleton, Grafton
County, N.H., March 2,
1809.
Son of David Sanger, Jr. (1782-1851) and Mary 'Polly' (Palmer) Sanger
(1783-1854).
Contractor;
built canals and railroads;
member of Illinois
state senate; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; stone quarry
proprietor.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., March 23,
1875 (age 66 years, 21
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Joliet, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of David Sanger, Jr. (1782-1851) and Mary 'Polly' (Palmer) Sanger
(1783-1854); married, February
3, 1830, to Rachel Mary Denniston; father of Frances Louise
Sanger (1842-1880; who married William
Alexander Steel). |
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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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Married to Victoria Carbajal. |
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