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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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Benjamin Phillip Alschuler (b. 1876) —
also known as Benjamin P. Alschuler; Ben
Alschuler —
of Aurora, Kane
County, Ill.
Born in Aurora, Kane
County, Ill., November
8, 1876.
Son of Jacob Alschuler (1825-1896) and Caroline (Stiefel) Alschuler
(1839-1933).
Democrat. Lawyer;
Judge, Illinois Court of Claims, 1913-17; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1932;
delegate
to Illinois convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933;
vice-president and counsel, Western United Gas and Electric
Co.; director, publishing
companies and newspapers.
Jewish.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Union
League.
Burial
location unknown.
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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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Charles Boeschenstein (b. 1864) —
of Edwardsville, Madison
County, Ill.
Born in Madison
County, Ill., October
27, 1864.
Son of Charles Boeschenstein and Louisa (Leder) Boeschenstein.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; banker; mayor
of Edwardsville, Ill., 1887-89; organized Edwardsville
Water Co., 1897; member of Illinois
Democratic State Central Committee, 1900-12; Illinois
Democratic state chair, 1904-12; member of Democratic
National Committee from Illinois, 1912-24; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Illinois, 1920,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1940.
Interment at Valley
View Cemetery, Edwardsville, Ill.
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Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924) —
also known as Julian S. Carr; Jule Carr —
of Durham, Durham
County, N.C.
Born in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., October
12, 1845.
Son of John Wesley Carr (1814-1889) and Elizabeth Pannill (Bullock)
Carr (1815-1906).
Democrat. Co-owner and president of the company which made "Bull
Durham" tobacco;
founder of the Durham Cotton
Manufacturing Company and Durham Hosiery
Mills; involved in railroads,
utilities, and banking;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1888,
1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., April 29,
1924 (age 78 years, 200
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Maplewood
Cemetery, Durham, N.C.
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Walter J. Cummings (b. 1879) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., June 24,
1879.
Son of Walter J. Cummings and Mary (Doyle) Cummings.
Democrat. Banker;
trustee, chair of finance committee, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Railroad;
director, Western Union Telegraph
Co.; director, Commonwealth Edison Co.; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1932;
first chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1933-34; Treasurer
of Democratic National Committee, 1934-36.
Burial
location unknown.
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Rufus Cutler Dawes (1867-1940) —
also known as Rufus C. Dawes —
of Evanston, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Marietta, Washington
County, Ohio, July 30,
1867.
Son of Rufus
R. Dawes and Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes.
Republican. Organizer and manager of gas and electric light
utilities; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 6th District,
1920-22; president of the 1933 Chicago world's fair (A Century of
Progress Exposition); also president of the Chicago Museum of Science
and Industry.
Died January
8, 1940 (age 72 years, 162
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Insull (1859-1938) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Kenilworth, Cook
County, Ill.; near Libertyville, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in London, England,
November
11, 1859.
Son of Samuel Insull and Emma (Short) Insull.
Republican. Associate of Thomas Edison and executive of electric
utilities; one of the founders of the company that became General
Electric; also had major holdings in railroads;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1904;
when his utility holding company collapsed, wiping out the
stockholders, he fled
the country; indicted
in 1932 on fraud and
embezzlement
charges;
ultimately extradited
from Turkey in 1934; tried in
Chicago and found not guilty.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League.
Died from a heart
attack, in the Place de la Concorde station
on the Paris Métro subway system, Paris, France,
July
16, 1938 (age 78 years, 247
days).
Interment at Putney
Vale Cemetery, London, England.
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Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) —
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., August 1,
1843.
Son of Abraham
Lincoln and Mary (Todd) Lincoln.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1881-85; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1889-93; president (1897-1911) and chairman
(1911-26) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, makers of railroad
cars; part owner of Chicago Edison Company electric
utility.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt., July 25,
1926 (age 82 years, 358
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Brown McKinley (1856-1926) —
also known as William B. McKinley —
of Champaign, Champaign
County, Ill.
Born in Petersburg, Menard
County, Ill., September
5, 1856.
Son of George McKinley and Hannah (Finley) McKinley.
Republican. Banker;
electric utility and street
railway executive; University
of Illinois trustee, 1903-05; resigned 1905; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 19th District, 1905-13, 1915-21;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1908,
1916,
1924;
U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1921-26; died in office 1926.
Died December
7, 1926 (age 70 years, 93
days).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Urbana, Ill.
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Charles Otis Nason (b. 1828) —
also known as Charles O. Nason —
of Moline, Rock Island
County, Ill.
Born in Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt., September
20, 1828.
Son of Horace Nason and Mary (Lamb) Nason.
Republican. Superintendent of wood department, John Deere Co. Plow
Works; director and treasurer, Moline Plow
Works; treasurer, People's Power Company; mayor of
Moline, Ill., 1887-89.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
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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