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Adam Badeau (1831-1895) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
29, 1831.
Son of Nicholas Badeau.
General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul General
in London, 1870-81; Havana, 1882-84; author; historian.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Ridgewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March 19,
1895 (age 63 years, 80
days).
Interment at Dutch
Reformed Churchyard, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Ogunquit, Wells, York
County, Maine.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 27,
1862.
Son of Francis N. Bangs and Amelia Francis (Bull) Bangs.
Democrat. Magazine
editor; author; playwright; candidate for mayor of
Yonkers, N.Y., 1894; candidate in primary for U.S.
Representative from Maine 1st District, 1921.
Died, from intestinal
cancer, in City Hospital,
Atlantic City, Atlantic
County, N.J., January
21, 1922 (age 59 years, 239
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Francis N. Bangs and Amelia Francis (Bull) Bangs; married, March 3,
1886, to Agnes Lawson Hyde; married, April 27,
1904, to Mary Blakeney Gray. |
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James Solomon Barcus (1863-1920) —
also known as James S. Barcus —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Sullivan
County, Ind., March 18,
1863.
Son of Solomon Barcus and Martha Barcus.
Publisher;
author; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1903-05.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., May 3,
1920 (age 57 years, 46
days).
Interment somewhere
in Terre Haute, Ind.
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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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Albert Clark Chapin (1891-1950) —
also known as Albert C. Chapin —
of South Egremont, Egremont, Berkshire
County, Mass.; Sea Girt, Monmouth
County, N.J.
Born in Richmond Hill, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., May 14,
1891.
Son of Albert King Chapin (1850-1908) and Emily A. (Schenck) Chapin.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Chefoo, 1917-18; Tientsin, 1918; Mukden, 1918; real estate
broker.
Died in Mendocino
County, Calif., December
28, 1950 (age 59 years, 228
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) —
also known as Jane Morgan —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J., September
15, 1789.
Son of William
Cooper.
Novelist; U.S. Consul in Lyon, 1826-28.
Died September
14, 1851 (age 61 years, 364
days).
Interment at Christ
Churchyard, Cooperstown, N.Y.; statue at Cooper
Garden, Cooperstown, N.Y.
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William Dudley Foulke (1848-1935) —
of Bloomfield, Essex
County, N.J.; Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
20, 1848.
Son of Thomas Foulke and Hannah (Shoemaker) Foulke.
Lawyer;
writer; poet; reformer and woman suffrage advocate;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1883-86; member, U.S. Civil Service
Commission, 1901-03; newspaper
editor.
Died in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., May 30,
1935 (age 86 years, 191
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Mary Taylor Reeves. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, May 1902 |
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David Jayne Hill (1850-1932) —
also known as David J. Hill —
of Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., June 10,
1850.
Son of Rev. Daniel T. Hill and Lydia Ann (Thompson) Hill.
Historian; president,
Bucknell University, 1879-88; president,
University of Rochester, 1888-96; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1903-05; Netherlands, 1905-08; Luxembourg, 1905-08; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1908-11.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1932
(age about
82 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., March 28,
1902.
Son of Thomas William Lamont (1870-1948) and Florence Haskell
(Corliss) Lamont (died 1952).
Author; lecturer;
arrested
on June 27, 1934, while picketing
in support of a labor
union at a furniture plant in Jersey City, N.J.; president,
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; this organization and
its leaders were investigated
for subversion
by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities; charged
in 1946 with contempt
of Congress for his refusal to provide records demanded by the
committee; in 1951, the U.S. State Department denied a
passport to him, based on his membership in what were deemed "Communist-front
organizations"; on August 17, 1954, the U.S. Senate cited him
with contempt
of Congress for refusing to testify before Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's subcommittee; subsequently indicted;
pleaded not guilty; the indictment was dismissed in 1955; the Court
of Appeals upheld the dismissal in 1956; candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1952 (American Labor), 1958 (Independent
Socialist).
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union; NAACP; Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of heart
failure, in Ossining, Westchester
County, N.Y., April 26,
1995 (age 93 years, 29
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas William Lamont (1870-1948) and Florence Haskell (Corliss)
Lamont (died 1952); married, June 8,
1928, to Margaret Hayes Irish (c.1905-1977); married 1962 to Helen
Lamb (died 1975); married 1986 to Beth
Keehner; uncle of Ned
Lamont. |
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dossier |
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist,
essayist, magazine
editor, Hollywood
screenwriter, director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
in New York City, 1954-55; arrested
and jailed in
1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish
ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph V. McKee (1889-1956) —
also known as "Holy Joe" —
of Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August 8,
1889.
School
teacher; lawyer;
author; member of New York
state assembly from Bronx County 7th District, 1918-23; municipal
judge in New York, 1924-26; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1932; defeated, 1932, 1933 (Recovery);
elected (Wet) delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment 1933, but did not
serve; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 23rd District, 1938.
Died January
28, 1956 (age 66 years, 173
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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Dore Schary (1905-1980) —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
31, 1905.
Son of Herman Hugo Schary and Belle (Drachler) Schary.
Democrat. Actor,
playwright, screenwriter, movie
producer; replaced Louis
B. Mayer as head of M-G-M Studios in 1951; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1956.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Died July 7,
1980 (age 74 years, 311
days).
Interment at Hebrew
Cemetery, West Long Branch, N.J.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist and social crusader; author of The
Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); Socialist
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1928,
1932;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel Dragon's
Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Samuel Sokobin —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in New Jersey.
Interpreter; U.S. Vice Consul in Tientsin, 1916; Shanghai, 1917; Nanking, 1918; Chungking, 1919; Kalgan, 1921; U.S. Consul in Kalgan, 1924; Mukden, 1926; Foochow, 1927-29; Tsingtao, 1938.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Waterman Townsend (1855-1942) —
also known as Edward W. Townsend —
of Montclair, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, 1855.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1911-15 (7th District 1911-13,
10th District 1913-15); defeated, 1926.
Author of a number of novels and books of short stories.
Died in 1942
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.
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William Hazlett Upson (1891-1975) —
of Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt.
Born in Glen Ridge, Essex
County, N.J., September
26, 1891.
Son of William Ford Upson (1857-1930) and Grace (Hazlett) Upson
(1861-1911).
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I;
writer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Vermont, 1956.
Died in Middlebury, Addison
County, Vt., February
5, 1975 (age 83 years, 132
days).
Interment at West
Cemetery, Middlebury, Vt.
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Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) —
of Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
10, 1852.
Poet; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1913-17; Luxembourg, 1913-17.
Presbyterian.
Died April 10,
1933 (age 80 years, 151
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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