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Bob Allman —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Singer; actor;
screenwriter; film
producer and director; record
label owner; candidate in primary for mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 2009.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Paul Bowerman (b. 1898) —
of San Leandro, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Muskegon, Muskegon
County, Mich., September
16, 1898.
Son of Charles Beagle Bowerman and Margaret (Fisher) Bowerman.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; writer; U.S. Vice
Consul in Berlin, 1923-27; Ottawa, 1927; U.S. Consul in Ottawa, 1928-29; Zagreb, 1929-32; Salonika, 1932-33.
Member, Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, May 8,
1923, to Helen Grace Robson. |
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George Breitman (1916-1986) —
also known as Albert Parker; Philip Blake; Chester
Hofla; Anthony Massini; John F. Petrone; G.
Sloane —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
28, 1916.
Son of Benjamin Breitman and Pauline (Trattler) Breitman.
Became a socialist agitator in Newark, N.J., 1935; arrested
about 1936 and charged
with inciting
riots; jailed
for a week; founding member of the Socialist Workers Party, 1937;
member of its National Committee, 1939-81; Socialist Workers
candidate for U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1940, 1942, 1948, 1954; editor-in-chief
of the weekly newspaper,
The Militant, 1941-43, 1946-54; writer under several
different pen names; Socialist Workers candidate for Presidential
Elector for Michigan, 1960,
1964.
Member, International
Typographical Union.
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party for "disloyalty," 1984.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Beekman Downtown Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 19,
1986 (age 70 years, 50
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Sheridan Ford (b. 1867) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Monroe
County, Mich., January
28, 1867.
Republican. Newspaper
correspondent; art critic; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1915-18.
Irish
ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Gulvezan (1907-1991) —
of Michigan.
Born in 1907.
Progressive. Auto
worker; candidate for Michigan
state house of representatives from Wayne County 1st District,
1948.
Member, United
Auto Workers.
Retiree director of
Region 1B, United Auto Workers; columnist in UAW newspaper;
president of the Detroit Metropolitan Council of Senior Citizens.
Died in 1991
(age about
84 years).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Hamilton King (1852-1912) —
of Olivet, Eaton
County, Mich.
Born in St. John's, Newfoundland,
June
4, 1852.
Son of William King and Maria (Squires) King.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; author; preacher; lecturer;
U.S. Minister to Siam, 1898-1912, died in office 1912; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1898-1912, died in office 1912.
Died in Bangkok, Thailand,
September
2, 1912 (age 60 years, 90
days).
Interment at Bangkok
Protestant Cemetery, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943) —
also known as Bertha Knight —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born in Ware, Hampshire
County, Mass., October
19, 1868.
Daughter of Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia (Cutter) Knight.
Republican. Lecturer;
writer; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1926-28; defeated, 1928.
Female.
Congregationalist.
Member, Soroptimists;
League of
Women Voters.
First
woman mayor of a large American city.
Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
29, 1943 (age 75 years, 41
days).
Interment at Evergreen-Washelli
Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.
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John Bartlow Martin (1915-1987) —
of Illinois.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, August 3,
1915.
Son of John Martin and Laura Martin.
Journalist;
author; speechwriter for Adlai
E. Stevenson, John
F. Kennedy, Robert
F. Kennedy, and Hubert
Humphrey; U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, 1962-63.
Died, from throat
cancer, in Highland Park Hospital,
Highland Park, Lake
County, Ill., January
3, 1987 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Herman
Cemetery, Herman, Mich.
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Benjamin Franklin Partridge (1822-1892) —
also known as Benjamin F. Partridge —
of Portsmouth Township, Bay
County, Mich.
Born in Shelby, Macomb
County, Mich., April 19,
1822.
Son of Asa Partridge and Sarah C. Partridge.
Republican. Lumber
business; real estate
business; farmer;
historian; Bay
County Sheriff; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
Michigan
land commissioner, 1877-78; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Bay County 2nd District,
1881-82.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Grand
Army of the Republic; Grange.
Died in Portsmouth Township, Bay
County, Mich., October
19, 1892 (age 70 years, 183
days).
Interment at Elm
Lawn Cemetery, Bay City, Mich.
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Bill Prady (b. 1960) —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 7,
1960.
Democrat. Writer and producer for television
sitcoms,
including Dharma & Gregg and Good Morning Miami; 1990
Emmy Award nominee; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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Walter Shapiro (born c.1947) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born about 1947.
Democrat. Candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1972.
Political columnist for the national newspaper
USA Today.
Still living as of 2001.
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Preston W. Slosson (1892-1984) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Laramie, Albany
County, Wyo., 1892.
Democrat. University
professor; historian; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 2nd District, 1948.
Died, of heart
failure, in Clarion, Clarion
County, Pa., May 11,
1984 (age about 91
years). Body donated
to the University of Michigan medical school.
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John Donaldson Voelker (1903-1991) —
also known as John D. Voelker; Robert
Traver —
of Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich.
Born in Ishpeming, Marquette
County, Mich., June 29,
1903.
Democrat. Lawyer; Marquette
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1934-52; member of Michigan
Democratic State Central Committee, 1937-39; candidate in primary
for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 12th District, 1954; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1956;
justice
of Michigan state supreme court, 1956-60; appointed 1956;
resigned 1960.
Author of the best-selling novel Anatomy of a Murder
(later a movie
starring Jimmy Stewart), and other books.
Died of a heart
attack, in Marquette, Marquette
County, Mich., March 18,
1991 (age 87 years, 262
days).
Interment at Ishpeming
Cemetery, Ishpeming, Mich.
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Charles A. Weissert (b. 1878) —
of Hastings, Barry
County, Mich.
Born in Hastings, Barry
County, Mich., August
22, 1878.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; author; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Barry County, 1915-20.
German
ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Adonijah Strong Welch (1821-1889) —
of Jonesville, Hillsdale
County, Mich.; Ypsilanti, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.; Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.; Ames, Story
County, Iowa.
Born in East Hampton, Middlesex
County, Conn., April 12,
1821.
Republican. First principal,
in 1851-65, of the Michigan State Normal School in Ypsilanti, Mich.
(later Eastern Michigan University); member of Michigan
state board of agriculture, 1863-66; established a lumber mill
at Jacksonville, Fla.; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1868-69; first president,
in 1869-83, of the Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa (later
Iowa State University); college
professor; author.
Welch Hall, at Eastern Michigan University, is named for him.
Died in Pasadena, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 14,
1889 (age 67 years, 336
days).
Interment at Iowa
State College Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
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