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Margaret Culkin Banning (1891-1982) —
also known as Margaret Frances Culkin —
of Duluth, St. Louis
County, Minn.
Born in Buffalo, Wright
County, Minn., March 18,
1891.
Daughter of William
Edgar Culkin and Hannah Alice (Young) Culkin.
Republican. Novelist; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Minnesota, 1924
(alternate), 1936.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Association of University Women; League of Women
Voters.
Elected to Duluth Hall of
Fame.
Died in Tryon, Polk
County, N.C., January
4, 1982 (age 90 years, 292
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry Edson Browne (1933-2006) —
also known as Harry Browne —
of Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn.
Born in Nassau
County, N.Y., June 17,
1933.
Son of Edson Bradford Browne and Cecil Margaret (Davis) Browne.
Libertarian. Writer; investment
advisor; candidate for President
of the United States, 1996, 2000; radio show
host, 2003.
Agnostic.
Died, of Lou
Gehrig's disease, in Franklin, Williamson
County, Tenn., March 1,
2006 (age 72 years, 257
days).
Interment at Mt.
Gur Cemetery, Kernersville, N.C.
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Oscar S. Heizer —
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Constantinople, 1914; U.S. Consul in Trebizond, 1916-17; Baghdad, 1919; Constantinople, 1921; Jerusalem, 1924-27; Algiers, 1929-32.
Interment somewhere
in Charlotte, N.C.
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William Dudley Pelley (1890-1965) —
of Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C.; Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind.
Born in Lynn, Essex
County, Mass., March 12,
1890.
Son of Grace (Goodale) Pelley (born 1861) and William George Apsey
Pelley (1867-1920).
Hollywood screenwriter in 1917-29 for about 12 films,
including The Light in the Dark and The Shock, both
starring Lon Chaney; founder (1933) and leader of the anti-Semitic
Silver Legion of America organization (the "Silver Shirts",
explicitly modeled after Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts); Christian
candidate for President
of the United States, 1936; arrested
in April 1942 and charged
with criminal
sedition; convicted
and sentenced
to fifteen years in prison;
released in 1950.
Died in Noblesville, Hamilton
County, Ind., July 1,
1965 (age 75 years, 111
days).
Interment at Crownland
Cemetery, Noblesville, Ind.
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Thomas H. Steele (b. 1887) —
of Statesville, Iredell
County, N.C.
Born in Virginia, August
26, 1887.
Son of John H. Steele and Julia (Hensley) Steele.
Democrat. Writer; accountant;
lecturer;
member of North
Carolina state senate 25th District, 1935.
Baptist.
Member, Rotary; Odd
Fellows; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Burial
location unknown.
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Married to Grace Vawter Bates. |
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Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905) —
also known as Albion W. Tourgee —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.; Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C.; Denver,
Colo.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Mayville, Chautauqua
County, N.Y.
Born in Williamsfield, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, May 2,
1838.
Son of Louisa Emma (Winegar) Tourgee and Valentine Tourgee
(1814-1889).
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; delegate to
North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868, 1875;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1868-75; candidate for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1878; author; U.S.
Consul in Bordeaux, 1897-1905, died in office 1905.
French
Huguenot and Swiss
ancestry.
Died, of acute
uremia, due to an infected
wound, in Bordeaux, France,
May
21, 1905 (age 67 years, 19
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mayville
Cemetery, Mayville, N.Y.
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