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Sigurd A. Bertelsen —
of West St. Paul, Dakota
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Republican. Land agent for Northern Pacific Railway; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1952.
Still living as of 1952.
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Relatives:
Married to Dorothy I. Bertelsen. |
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Anton Borgen (b. 1851) —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Norway,
1851.
Locomotive engineer; grocer; member
of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1909-18 (50th District 1909-14,
58th District 1915-18).
Norwegian
ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917 |
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Charles Wesley Bouck (1852-1920) —
also known as Charles W. Bouck —
of Royalton, Morrison
County, Minn.
Born in Rockford, Winnebago
County, Ill., February
29, 1852.
Carpenter;
employed building bridges for the Northern Pacific Railroad,
1880-85; hardware
and farm
implement business; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 53rd District, 1915-18.
Died in Royalton, Morrison
County, Minn., June 4,
1920 (age 68 years, 96
days).
Interment at Riverside Cemetery, Royalton, Minn.
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Relatives:
Married to Mary L. Ball (1853-1933). |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: Minnesota Legislative
Manual 1917 |
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Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1859-1910) —
also known as Lloyd W. Bowers —
of Winona, Winona
County, Minn.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., March 9,
1859.
Son of Samuel Dwight Bowers (born 1825) and Martha Wheaton (Dowd)
Bowers (born 1834).
Lawyer;
general counsel, Chicago & North Western Railway,
1893-1909; U.S. Solicitor
General, 1909-10; died in office 1910.
Member, Skull and
Bones.
Died, from a heart
attack, while suffering from bronchitis,
in the Touraine Hotel,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
9, 1910 (age 51 years, 184
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry Abbott Bridgeman (1877-1955) —
also known as Harry A. Bridgeman —
of Bemidji, Beltrami
County, Minn.
Born in Motley, Morrison
County, Minn., May 31,
1877.
Locomotive engineer; member of Minnesota
state senate 62nd District, 1923-46.
Died May 15,
1955 (age 77 years, 349
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Brainerd, Minn.
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Pierce Butler (1866-1939) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Northfield, Rice
County, Minn., March 17,
1866.
Son of Patrick Butler and Mary A. Butler.
Democrat. Lawyer; Ramsey
County Attorney, 1893-96; general counsel, Chicago & St. Paul
Railroad, 1899-1905; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 1916;
Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1922-39; died in office 1939.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
16, 1939 (age 73 years, 244
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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William Leighton Carss (1865-1931) —
also known as William L. Carss —
of Proctor, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Pella, Marion
County, Iowa, February
15, 1865.
Son of James Carss and Annie (Parks) Carss.
Locomotive engineer; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 8th District, 1919-21, 1925-29;
defeated, 1920 (Democratic), 1922 (Democratic), 1928 (Farmer-Labor),
1930 (Farmer-Labor).
Member, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers.
Died in Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn., May 31,
1931 (age 66 years, 105
days).
Interment at Oneota
Cemetery, Duluth, Minn.
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William P. Dinon —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Republican. Railroad work; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Minnesota, 1940,
1944.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Robert Foley (1917-2001) —
also known as John R. Foley —
of Maryland.
Born in Wabasha, Wabasha
County, Minn., October
16, 1917.
Son of John
Robert Foley (1890-1954).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
orphan's court judge in Maryland, 1954-58; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1959-61; defeated,
1960, 1962.
Catholic.
Sponsored legislation to authorize the interstate compact to build
the Metrorail transit system in the Washington, D.C. area.
Died, of cardiac
arrest, in Kensington, Montgomery
County, Md., November
11, 2001 (age 84 years, 26
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Addison Gardner Foster (1837-1917) —
also known as Addison G. Foster —
of Wabasha
County, Minn.; Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash.
Born in Belchertown, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
28, 1837.
Republican. Lumber
business; railroad builder; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1899-1905.
Died in Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash., January
16, 1917 (age 79 years, 354
days).
Interment at Tacoma
Cemetery, Tacoma, Wash.
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William Treyanne Francis (1870-1929) —
also known as William T. Francis —
of Minnesota.
Born in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March 26,
1870.
Son of James Francis and Harriet (Taylor) Francis.
Republican. Lawyer;
worked in legal department of railroad; member of Minnesota
Republican State Central Committee, 1914; Presidential Elector
for Minnesota, 1920;
U.S. Minister to Liberia, 1927-29, died in office 1929; U.S. Consul General in
Monrovia, 1927-29, died in office 1929.
Baptist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP;
Urban
League; Sigma Pi
Phi; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
Died in Liberia,
July
15, 1929 (age 59 years, 111
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Lucius Frederick Hubbard (1836-1913) —
also known as Lucius F. Hubbard —
of Red Wing, Goodhue
County, Minn.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., January
26, 1836.
Son of Charles F. Hubbard and Margaret (Van Valkenberg) Hubbard.
Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; grain
business; railroad builder; member of Minnesota
state senate 16th District, 1872-75; Governor of
Minnesota, 1882-87; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Minnesota, 1896;
member of Republican
National Committee from Minnesota, 1896; general in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Loyal
Legion; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Died February
5, 1913 (age 77 years, 10
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Indrehus (b. 1873) —
also known as Ed Indrehus —
of Foley, Benton
County, Minn.
Born in Bremanger, Norway,
1873.
Democrat. Railroad mechanic; farmer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota,
1912;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 45th District, 1915-18; candidate
for Governor of
Minnesota, 1922, 1930.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Brother of Christopher Indrehus (member of Norwegian
Parliament). |
| | | Image source: Minnesota Legislative
Manual 1917 |
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Theodore Leonard Irving (1898-1962) —
also known as Leonard Irving —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., March 24,
1898.
Democrat. Railroad work; theater
manager; hotel
manager; construction
worker; president and
business
agent, Local 264, Construction and General Laborers Union; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 4th District, 1949-53.
Congregationalist.
Member, Eagles.
Died in 1962
(age about
64 years).
Interment at Mt.
Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo.
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John Augustus Johnson (1842-1907) —
also known as John A. Johnson —
of Stillwater, Washington
County, Minn.; Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak.
Born in Växjö, Sweden,
April
24, 1842.
Locomotive engineer; farmer; Washington
County Sheriff, 1873; lawyer; farm
implement dealer; mayor of
Fargo, N.Dak., 1885-86, 1896-1902, 1906-07; died in office 1907.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Died, of Bright's
disease, June 14,
1907 (age 65 years, 51
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Norman Wolfred Kittson (1814-1888) —
also known as Norman W. Kittson; "Commodore
Kittson" —
of Pembina, Pembina
County, Minn. (now N.Dak.); St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Sorel, Lower Canada (now part of Sorel-Tracy, Quebec),
March
5, 1814.
Democrat. Fur
trader; helped end the Hudson Bay Company's fur trading monopoly
in 1849; member
Minnesota territorial council 7th District, 1852-55; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1858-59; operated steamboats
on the Red River from Minnesota north into Winnipeg in the 1870s;
worked with James J. Hill to build the St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba Railway in 1879-81.
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died in the dining
car of a train
en route from Chicago to St. Paul, near Roberts, St. Croix
County, Wis., May 10,
1888 (age 74 years, 66
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Louis A. Murray —
of East Grand Forks, Polk
County, Minn.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; railway
conductor; member of Minnesota
state senate 66th District, 1951-59; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Minnesota, 1956.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Disabled
American Veterans; Elks; Eagles; Knights
of Columbus.
Still living as of 1959.
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Edmund Rice (1819-1889) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Waitsfield, Washington
County, Vt., February
14, 1819.
Son of Edmund Rice (1784-1829).
Democrat. Member of Minnesota
territorial House of Representatives 3rd District, 1851;
president of several railroads; member of Minnesota
state senate, 1864-65, 1873-74 (1st District 1864-65, 23rd
District 1873-74); member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1867, 1872 (1st District 1867,
24th District 1872); candidate for Governor of
Minnesota, 1879; mayor
of St. Paul, Minn., 1881-83, 1885-87; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1887-89.
Died in White Bear Lake, Ramsey
County, Minn., July 11,
1889 (age 70 years, 147
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, St. Paul, Minn.
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Charlemagne Tower (1848-1923) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April 17,
1848.
Son of Charlemagne Tower and Amelia (Bartle) Tower.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Duluth & Iron Range Railroad; managing
director, Minnesota Iron Co. (mining);
U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1897-99; U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1899-1902; Germany, 1902-08; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1916.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died February
24, 1923 (age 74 years, 313
days).
Original interment at West
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.; reinterment at Waterville
Cemetery, Waterville, N.Y.
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Carl Chester Van Dyke (1881-1919) —
also known as Carl C. Van Dyke —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Alexandria, Douglas
County, Minn., February
18, 1881.
Son of Chester B. Van Dyke and Bertha (Solum) Van Dyke.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; school
teacher; railway mail clerk;
U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1915-19; died in
office 1919.
Episcopalian.
Member, United
Spanish War Veterans.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 20,
1919 (age 38 years, 91
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Maplewood, Minn.
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W. D. Washburn (b. 1863) —
Born in St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn., April 3,
1863.
Newspaper
work; engaged in flour, lumber, and
railroad businesses; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1901-02, 1905-06, 1909-12,
1917-18 (41st District 1901-02, 1905-06, 31st District 1909-12,
1917-18).
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917 |
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William Drew Washburn (1831-1912) —
also known as William D. Washburn —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, January
14, 1831.
Son of Israel
Washburn and Martha (Benjamin) Washburn (1792-1861).
Republican. Surveyor General of Minnesota, 1861; miller; lumber
business; railroad promoter; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives 5th District, 1871; U.S.
Representative from Minnesota, 1879-85 (3rd District 1879-83, 4th
District 1883-85); U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1889-95.
Universalist.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., July 29,
1912 (age 81 years, 197
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Ellis J. Westlake (b. 1854) —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Horseheads, Chemung
County, N.Y., April 30,
1854.
Son of Charles D. Westlake and Harriet E. (McNish) Westlake.
Superintendent of dining cars for Northern Pacific Railway; hotel
manager; insurance
business; member of Minnesota
state senate 31st District, 1915-18.
Member, Elks; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
Minnesota Legislative Manual 1917 |
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