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Martin Baker (b. 1878) —
Born in Baltimore,
Md., February
22, 1878.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
sailor; U.S. Vice Consul in Rotterdam, 1915-17.
Burial
location unknown.
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Louis Victor Baughman (1845-1906) —
also known as L. Victor Baughman; "Little Napoleon of
Western Maryland" —
of Frederick
County, Md.
Born in Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., April 11,
1845.
Son of John William Baughman and Mary Jane (Jamison) Baughman.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; farmer; horseman;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1886; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1888;
Maryland
state comptroller, 1888-92; president, Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company; president, Frederick, Northern & Gettysburg Electric
Railway Company.
Died near Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., November
30, 1906 (age 61 years, 233
days).
Interment at St.
John's Catholic Church Cemetery, Frederick, Md.
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John Brown Kimberly (b. 1855) —
also known as John B. Kimberly —
of Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County (now part of Hampton),
Va.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
31, 1855.
Son of William H. Kimberly and Ann (Brown) Kimberly.
Republican. Merchant;
hotel
owner; steamship agent; postmaster;
director of banks and
electric
railways; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1912,
1916,
1924.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial
location unknown.
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Horace W. Metcalf (b. 1833) —
of Damariscotta, Lincoln
County, Maine; Baltimore,
Md.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Damariscotta, Lincoln
County, Maine, May 28,
1833.
Member of shipbuilding firms; coal
business; U.S. Consul in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1890-93, 1897-1911.
Burial
location unknown.
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Seth Ledyard Phelps (1824-1885) —
of Maryland.
Born in 1824.
Agent, Pacific Mail Steamship Company; U.S. Commercial Agent
(Consul) in Acapulco, 1864; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1875-79; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1878-79; U.S.
Minister to Peru, 1883-85, died in office 1885.
Died in Lima, Peru, June 24,
1885 (age about 60
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Samuel Smith (1752-1839) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., July 27,
1752.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; shipowner; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1790-92; U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1793-1803, 1816-22 (5th District
1793-1801, at-large 1801-03, 5th District 1816-22); U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1803-15, 1822-33; mayor
of Baltimore, Md., 1835-38.
Presbyterian.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., April 22,
1839 (age 86 years, 269
days).
Interment at Old
Westminster Burying Ground, Baltimore, Md.
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John Millard Tawes (1894-1979) —
also known as J. Millard Tawes —
of Crisfield, Somerset
County, Md.
Born in Crisfield, Somerset
County, Md., April 8,
1894.
Son of James Tawes and Alice (Byrd) Tawes.
Democrat. Secretary-treasurer, Tawes Shipbuilding Co. and
Tawes Baking Co.;
director, Bank of
Crisfield; Somerset
County Clerk of Court, 1930-38; Maryland
state comptroller, 1939-47, 1950-59; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Maryland, 1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
Governor
of Maryland, 1959-67; member of Democratic
National Committee from Maryland, 1963.
Methodist.
Member, Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Rotary; Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Tall
Cedars of Lebanon.
Died in Crisfield, Somerset
County, Md., June 25,
1979 (age 85 years, 78
days).
Interment at Sunny
Ridge Memorial Park Cemetery, Crisfield, Md.
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