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Lawrence A. Appley (1904-1997) —
of Glen Ridge, Essex
County, N.J.; Hamilton, Madison
County, N.Y.
Born in Nyack, Rockland
County, N.Y., April 22,
1904.
Son of Rev. Joseph Earl Appley and Jessie (Moore) Appley.
Republican. Personnel manager, Buffalo Division, Socony Vacuum
Oil Company, 1930-34; vice-president, Vick Chemical
Company, 1941-46; vice-president, Montgomery Ward department
stores, 1946-48; president, American Management Association,
1948-68; member, Commission
on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55.
Baptist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Chi Phi;
Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in Hamilton, Madison
County, N.Y., April 4,
1997 (age 92 years, 347
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Fillmore Condit (1855-1939) —
of Verona, Essex
County, N.J.; Santa Paula, Ventura
County, Calif.; Essex Fells, Essex
County, N.J.; Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Roseland, Essex
County, N.J., September
5, 1855.
Grocer; invented
and manufactured
the Condit refrigerator door fastener; Essex
County Freeholder; real estate
business; New York representative for Union Oil Company of
California; founder, Long Beach Community Hospital
1924; mayor
of Long Beach, Calif., 1926-27.
Methodist.
Member, Anti-Saloon
League.
Died in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
6, 1939 (age 83 years, 123
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Caldwell, N.J.
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Charles Francis Craver (1842-1925) —
of Grinnell, Poweshiek
County, Iowa; Harvey, Cook
County, Ill.; Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Franklinville, Gloucester
County, N.J., September
3, 1842.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Iowa state
house of representatives, 1876.
Methodist.
One of the founders of Craver & Steele, farm equipment manufacturers;
invented
the first
successful twelve-foot binder for cutting and binding small grain;
later, he was an oil producer based in Oklahoma.
Died, of heart
trouble, in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., May 12,
1925 (age 82 years, 251
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Okla.
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Ellis P. Earle (b. 1860) —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1860.
Republican. Member, New Jersey Board of Institutions and Agencies,
1918-22, 1930; delegate to Republican National Convention from New
Jersey, 1924;
director, Chatham Phenix Bank and
Trust Company; director, Coronet Phosphate
Company; president, Georgia Peruvian Ochre Company; president,
Nipissing Mines
Company; director, Phillips Petroleum Company.
Member, Union
League.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alexander Buel Trowbridge (1929-2006) —
also known as Alexander B. Trowbridge —
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., December
12, 1929.
Son of A. Buel Trowbridge.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean conflict;
president, Esso Standard Oil Puerto Rico; U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1967-68; vice-chairman, Allied Chemical
Corporation.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 27,
2006 (age 76 years, 136
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of A. Buel Trowbridge; married to Nancy Horst and Eleanor 'Ellie'
Hutzler. |
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