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De Alva Stanwood Alexander (1846-1925) —
also known as De Alva S. Alexander —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.; Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Richmond, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, July 17,
1846.
Son of Stanwood Alexander and Priscilla (Brown) Alexander.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana,
1872;
secretary
of Indiana Republican Party, 1874-78; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1889-93; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1897-1911 (33rd District 1897-1903,
36th District 1903-11); defeated, 1910.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., January
30, 1925 (age 78 years, 197
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Robert Bacon (1860-1919) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., July 5,
1860.
Son of William B. Bacon and Emily C. (Low) Bacon.
Republican. Financier;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1909; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1909-12; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1916; colonel in the U.S. Army during
World War I.
Presbyterian.
English
ancestry. Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from infection
following surgery for mastoiditis,
in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1919 (age 58 years, 328
days).
Original interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.
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Henry Robertson Barrett (1869-1940) —
also known as Henry R. Barrett —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Bedford, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
19, 1869.
Son of Joseph Barrett and Emma (Robertson) Barrett.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 24th District, 1915;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1916,
1924
(alternate), 1932
(alternate).
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Elks.
Died, from a heart
attack, in White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
4, 1940 (age 70 years, 169
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Nephew of William
Henry Robertson; son of Joseph Barrett and Emma (Robertson)
Barrett; married to Anna R. Parker (died 1914) and Elizabeth J.
Endriss. |
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Franklin Bartlett (1847-1909) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Grafton, Worcester
County, Mass., September
10, 1847.
Son of William Osborne Bartlett (prominent lawyer).
Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1892,
1896,
1904;
U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1893-97; defeated
(Republican), 1896.
Member, Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died, of a kidney
disorder, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 23,
1909 (age 61 years, 225
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Abel E. Blackmar (c.1859-1931) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Newark, Wayne
County, N.Y., about 1859.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1908-22; defeated, 1906;
appointed 1908; Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York
Supreme Court, 1917-22; director, Interborough Rapid
Transit Company, 1922-31.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association.
Died, in Brooklyn Hospital,
Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
14, 1931 (age about 72
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1888
to Adelle Marx. |
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Calvin Stewart Brice (1845-1898) —
also known as Calvin S. Brice —
of Lima, Allen
County, Ohio.
Born in Denmark, Morrow
County, Ohio, September
17, 1845.
Son of Rev. William Kilpatrick Brice and Elizabeth (Stewart) Brice.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
active in railroad
law; president of railroad
companies; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1876,
1884;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1888;
Chairman
of Democratic National Committee, 1889-92; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1891-97.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
15, 1898 (age 53 years, 89
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Lima, Ohio.
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Charles Francis Brown (1844-1929) —
of Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., September
12, 1844.
Son of John
W. Brown and Eliza (Reeve) Brown.
Democrat. Lawyer; secretary of
New York Democratic Party, 1874, 1880-82; Orange
County District Attorney, 1875-77; Orange
County Judge, 1878-82; Justice of
New York Supreme Court, 1883-96; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1889-92; Justice of the Appellate
Division of the New York Supreme Court 2nd Department, 1893-96;
general counsel, Metropolitan Street
Railway Co., 1897-1901.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from an intestinal
malady, in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., June 19,
1929 (age 84 years, 280
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Mortimer W. Byers (1877-1962) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 28,
1877.
Son of Thomas S. Byers and Isabella F. (Wardle) Byers.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 1929-60;
took senior status 1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., March 5,
1962 (age 84 years, 281
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Charles Woolsey Cole (1906-1978) —
also known as Charles W. Cole —
of Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass.; New York.
Born in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., February
8, 1906.
U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1961-64.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Association of University Professors; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Delta
Sigma Rho; American
Historical Association; American
Economic Association.
Died in 1978
(age about
72 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Royal Samuel Copeland (1868-1938) —
also known as Royal S. Copeland —
of Bay City, Bay
County, Mich.; Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Suffern, Rockland
County, N.Y.
Born in Dexter, Washtenaw
County, Mich., November
7, 1868.
Son of Roscoe
Pulaski Copeland and Frances Jane (Holmes) Copeland (born 1843).
Physician;
university
professor; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1901-03; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1923-38; died in office 1938; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1924,
1936;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1937.
Methodist.
English
ancestry. Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Friendly
Sons of St. Patrick; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Maccabees;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; American
Public Health Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 17,
1938 (age 69 years, 222
days).
Interment at Mahwah
Cemetery, Mahwah, N.J.
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George Cromwell (1860-1934) —
of Dongan Hills, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 3,
1860.
Son of Henry Bowman Cromwell (founder of Cromwell Steamship Company)
and Sarah (Seaman) Cromwell.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Richmond County, 1888; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 1st District, 1888; borough
president of Richmond, New York, 1898-1913; defeated, 1921;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924;
member of New York
state senate 23rd District, 1915-18.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Delta Kappa Epsilon; Elks.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a week later, in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., September
17, 1934 (age 74 years, 76
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Martin Weld Deyo (b. 1902) —
also known as Martin W. Deyo —
of Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y., December
12, 1902.
Son of Israel T. Deyo and Edith W. Deyo.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Broome County 2nd District, 1933-34; member
of New
York state senate 40th District; elected 1934; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 40th District, 1938;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 6th District, 1940-49; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 3rd Department,
1949.
Member, Freemasons;
Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1928
to Amy G. Sleeper. |
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Charles Stebbins Fairchild (1842-1924) —
also known as Charles S. Fairchild —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., April 30,
1842.
Son of Sidney
Thompson Fairchild and Helen (Childs) Fairchild (1810-1892).
Lawyer;
New
York state attorney general, 1876-77; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1887-89; president, New York Security
and Trust
Company, 1889-1904; president, Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad;
director, Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi.
Died in Cazenovia, Madison
County, N.Y., November
24, 1924 (age 82 years, 208
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Cazenovia, N.Y.
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Edward Francis Feely (1880-1964) —
also known as Edward F. Feely —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March 6,
1880.
Son of Dennis C. Feely and Katherine (Fleming) Feely.
Republican. Exporter;
U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1930-33.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Theta
Nu Epsilon.
Died of a stroke, at
St. Mary's Hospital,
Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., August
30, 1964 (age 84 years, 177
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harvey Feldmeier (1871-1936) —
of Little Falls, Herkimer
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., August
27, 1871.
Son of Maximilian Feldmeier and Elvire (d'Asnoy) Feldmeier.
Democrat. Engineer;
commissioner of public works, Little Falls, 1912-36; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1912,
1928.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Sigma
Xi; American
Society of Mechanical Engineers; Elks.
Died in 1936
(age about
64 years).
Interment at Church
Street Cemetery, Little Falls, N.Y.
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Roy G. Finch (b. 1884) —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Eagle Bridge, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., August
17, 1884.
Son of George Nelson Finch and Helen (Hunt) Finch.
Republican. Engineer;
New York
state engineer and surveyor, 1925-26.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
American
Society of Civil Engineers; Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward J. Gavegan (b. 1863) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Windsor, Hartford
County, Conn., April 5,
1863.
Son of Matthew Gavegan and Helen J. Gavegan.
Lawyer;
Justice
of New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1910-33.
Catholic.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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Alfred L. M. Gottschalk (1873-1918) —
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
8, 1873.
Son of L. G. Gottschalk and Louise de L. (Boucher) Gottschalk.
Newspaper
correspondent; sugar grower; U.S.
Consul in Callao, 1903-05; U.S. Consul General in Callao, 1905-06; Mexico City, 1906-08; , 1908-11; Rio de Janeiro, 1916-17.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
While en route from Bahia, Brazil to Baltimore on the U.S. Navy ship
Cyclops, during World War
I, he was one of 306 sailors and crew who perished
when the ship sank, in the
North
Atlantic Ocean, March, 1918
(age 45
years, 0 days); the wreckage was never
found.
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Henry Clay Hall (b. 1860) —
also known as Henry C. Hall —
of Paris, France;
Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
3, 1860.
Son of Henry Clay Hall and Amanda Harwood (Ferry) Hall.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Colorado Springs, Colo., 1905-07; member, Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1914-28.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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Presumably named
for: Henry
Clay |
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Amanda Harwood (Ferry) Hall; married, June 4,
1887, to Mary Bacon Bartow (died 1901); married, March 14,
1905, to Alice Munsell Sweetser. |
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Charles A. Harwood (1880-1950) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Harrison, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., 1880.
Son of Israel Harwood and Johanna Harwood.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Kings County 10th District, 1910; U.S.
District Judge for Canal Zone, 1937-38; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1941-46.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Legion; Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Harrison, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
23, 1950 (age about 70
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) —
also known as Oliver G. Jennings —
of Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1865.
Son of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825-1893; one of the original
stockholders of Standard Oil Company, 1871) and Esther Judson
(Goodsell) Jennings (1828-1908).
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Connecticut, 1916;
Presidential Elector for Connecticut, 1920;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1923; director, U.S. Industrial
Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation; director, Grocery Store
Products, Inc.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Skull and
Bones.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in the Harbor Sanitarium,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
13, 1936 (age about 71
years).
Interment at Oaklawn
Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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Relatives: Son
of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825-1893; one of the original stockholders
of Standard Oil Company, 1871) and Esther Judson (Goodsell) Jennings
(1828-1908); married 1896 to Mary
Dows Brewster; uncle of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss; father of Benjamin Brewster Jennings
(1898-1968; president of Socony-Vacuum, which later became Mobil
Oil); granduncle of Hugh
Dudley Auchincloss III. See Kennedy
family of Massachusetts and New York. |
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Charles T. Keane, Jr. (b. 1901) —
of Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.
Born in Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y., June 19,
1901.
Son of Charles T. Keane and Margaret C. (Bolton) Keane.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for New York
state senate 40th District, 1930.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Redmen.
Burial
location unknown.
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Warren Isbell Lee (1874-1955) —
also known as Warren I. Lee —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Bartlett, Oneida
County, N.Y., February
5, 1874.
Son of Arthur D. Lee and Nettie (Isbell) Lee.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1906-10, 1920 (Kings County 18th District
1906-10, Kings County 21st District 1920); U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1910 (5th District), 1922 (6th District), 1924 (6th District).
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons;
Union
League.
Died December
25, 1955 (age 81 years, 323
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Reid Lefevre (b. 1904) —
of Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt.
Born in Hartsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
10, 1904.
Son of Edwin Lefevre and Martha (Moore) Lefevre.
Republican. Member of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1947-59; member of Vermont
state senate from Bennington County, 1961-63.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Elks; Rotary.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Ira Lloyd Letts (b. 1889) —
of Providence, Providence
County, R.I.; Saunderstown, Narragansett, Washington
County, R.I.
Born in Cortland
County, N.Y., May 29,
1889.
Son of George Judson Letts and Emma (Slater) Letts.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
District Judge for Rhode Island, 1927-35; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Rhode Island, 1936;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Rhode Island, 1942.
Congregationalist.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Judson Letts and Emma (Slater) Letts; married, December
29, 1917, to Madeline Houghton Greene; father of Houghton Letts
(died 1944; U.S. Marine Corps). |
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Edmund H. Lewis (1884-1972) —
of Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y.; Skaneateles, Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., August
30, 1884.
Son of Ceylon
H. Lewis.
Republican. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 5th District, 1930-40; Justice of the
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court 4th Department,
1933-40; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1940; appointed 1940; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1953-54.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association.
Died July 31,
1972 (age 87 years, 336
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Louis W. Marcus (1863-1923) —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., May 18,
1863.
Erie
County Surrogate, 1896; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 8th District, 1905-23; died in office 1923.
Member, Freemasons;
Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., August
18, 1923 (age 60 years, 92
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Thomas Herbert Norton (b. 1851) —
also known as Thomas H. Norton —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Rushford, Allegany
County, N.Y., June 30,
1851.
Son of Rev. Robert Norton and Julia Ann Granger (Horsford) Norton.
Republican. Chemist;
newspaper
editor; university
professor; librarian;
U.S. Consul in Harput, 1900-05; Smyrna, 1905-06; Chemnitz, 1906-14.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars; Delta Kappa Epsilon; American
Chemical Society.
Burial
location unknown.
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Herbert Parsons (1869-1925) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
28, 1869.
Son of John E. Parsons (c.1830-1915) and Mary D. (McIlvaine) Parsons.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1905-11; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I.
Presbyterian
or Episcopalian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Union
League.
Lost control of a motor
bicycle, fell,
suffered a ruptured
kidney, and died as a result, in House of Mercy Hospital,
Pittsfield, Berkshire
County, Mass., September
16, 1925 (age 55 years, 323
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Lenox
Cemetery, Lenox, Mass.
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Wesley Ulysses Pearne (b. 1851) —
of Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 1,
1851.
Son of Benjamin Marshall Pearne and Emily Ann (Swathel) Pearne.
Lawyer;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1901, 1905.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Burial
location unknown.
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John G. Pembleton (b. 1880) —
of Tioga Center, Tioga
County, N.Y.
Born in Waverly, Tioga
County, N.Y., July 8,
1880.
Republican. Lawyer; farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Tioga County, 1912-13.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Cuthbert Winfred Pound (b. 1864) —
also known as Cuthbert W. Pound —
of Lockport, Niagara
County, N.Y.; Ithaca, Tompkins
County, N.Y.
Born in Lockport, Niagara
County, N.Y., June 20,
1864.
Son of Alexander Pound and Almina (Whipple) Pound.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state senate 29th District, 1894-95; law
professor; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 8th District, 1906-16; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1915; chief
judge of New York Court of Appeals, 1932-34.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; American
Law Institute.
Burial
location unknown.
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James Arthur Roberts (1847-1922) —
also known as James A. Roberts —
of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterboro, York
County, Maine, March 8,
1847.
Son of Jeremiah Roberts and Alma (Roberts) Roberts.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly, 1879-80; New York
state comptroller, 1894-98; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1900.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Grand
Army of the Republic; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
19, 1922 (age 75 years, 256
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Jeremiah Roberts and Alma (Roberts) Roberts; married, June 1,
1871, to Minnie Pineo; married, December
11, 1884, to Martha Dresser. |
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Winthrop Rockefeller (1912-1973) —
of Morrilton, Conway
County, Ark.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 1,
1912.
Son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960) and Abby (Aldrich)
Rockefeller.
Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of
Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1961; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Arkansas, 1964
(delegation chair), 1972
(delegation co-chair); Governor of
Arkansas, 1967-71; Presidential Elector for Arkansas, 1972.
Baptist.
Member, Urban
League; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Kappa
Delta Pi.
Died of lung
cancer or pancreatic
cancer, Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif., February
22, 1973 (age 60 years, 297
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Adolph Julius Rodenbeck (1862-1960) —
also known as Adolph J. Rodenbeck —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., 1862.
Son of Charles T. Rodenbeck and Fredericka C. Rodenbeck.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Monroe County 2nd District, 1899-1901; mayor
of Rochester, N.Y., 1902-03; Judge of New York Court of Claims,
1903-16; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1915; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 7th District, 1916-32.
German
ancestry. Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died in 1960
(age about
98 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Image source:
American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1901 |
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) —
also known as "T.R."; "Teddy";
"The Colonel"; "The Hero of San Juan
Hill"; "The Rough Rider";
"Trust-Buster"; "The Happy
Warrior"; "The Bull Moose" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., October
27, 1858.
Son of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831-1878) and Martha (Bulloch)
Roosevelt (1835-1884).
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 21st District, 1882-84;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1884,
1900;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1886; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War; Governor of
New York, 1899-1901; Vice
President of the United States, 1901; President
of the United States, 1901-09; defeated (Progressive), 1912;
candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1916.
Christian
Reformed. Dutch
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Alpha
Delta Phi; Union
League.
Received the Medal
of Honor for leading a charge up San Juan Hill during battle
there, July 1, 1898. While campaigning for president in Milwaukee,
Wis., on October 14, 1912, was shot
in the chest by John F. Schrank; despite the injury, he continued his
speech for another hour and a half before seeking medical attention.
Awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 1906; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Oyster Bay, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., January
6, 1919 (age 60 years, 71
days).
Interment at Youngs
Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Second great-grandson of Archibald
Bulloch; second cousin thrice removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt, Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Martin
Van Buren; grandnephew of James
I. Roosevelt; nephew of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; son of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831-1878)
and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt (1835-1884); brother of Anna L.
Roosevelt (1855-1931; who married William
Sheffield Cowles (1847-1923)); married, October
27, 1880, to Alice Hathaway Lee (1861-1884); married, December
2, 1886, to Edith Kermit Carow (1861-1948); fourth cousin once
removed of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945); uncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962; who married
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)), Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); father of Alice
Lee Roosevelt (who married Nicholas
Longworth) and Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.; granduncle of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr. and John
deKoven Alsop; great-grandfather-in-law of William
Floyd Weld. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | Cross-reference: Gifford
Pinchot — David
J. Leahy — William
Barnes, Jr. — Oliver
D. Burden — William
J. Youngs — George
B. Cortelyou — Mason
Mitchell — Frederic
MacMaster — John
Goodnow — William
Loeb, Jr. |
| | | Roosevelt counties in Mont. and N.M. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Theodore
Bassett
— Theodore
R. McKeldin
— Theodore
R. Kupferman
— Theodore
Roosevelt Britton, Jr.
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| | | Personal motto: "Speak softly and carry
a big stick." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Theodore Roosevelt: James
MacGregor Burns & Susan Dunn, The
Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed
America — H. W. Brands, T.R
: The Last Romantic — Edmund Morris, Theodore
Rex — Edmund Morris, The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt — John Morton Blum, The
Republican Roosevelt — Richard D. White, Jr., Roosevelt
the Reformer : Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner,
1889-1895 — Frederick W. Marks III, Velvet
on Iron : The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt — James
Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — Patricia O'Toole, When
Trumpets Call : Theodore Roosevelt After the White
House — Candice Millard, The
River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest
Journey — Lewis Einstein, Roosevelt
: His Mind in Action (out of print) |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, October 1901 |
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Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1894-1971) —
also known as Kenneth C. Royall —
of Goldsboro, Wayne
County, N.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Goldsboro, Wayne
County, N.C., July 24,
1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1927; general in the U.S. Army during
World War II; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1947; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1964.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., May 25,
1971 (age 76 years, 305
days).
Interment at Willowdale
Cemetery, Goldsboro, N.C.
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Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1867-1936) —
also known as Charles H. Sherrill —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April 13,
1867.
Son of Charles Hitchcock Sherrill and Sarah Fulton (Wynkoop)
Sherrill.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Minister to Argentina, 1909-10; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1932-33.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi
Delta Phi; Sons of
the Revolution; Society
of Colonial Wars.
Died in Paris, France,
June
25, 1936 (age 69 years, 73
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Clarence Rice Slocum (1870-1912) —
also known as Clarence R. Slocum —
of New York.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., June 22,
1870.
Son of Henry
Warner Slocum and Clara (Rice) Slocum (1830-1899).
Importer
and exporter; U.S. Consul in Warsaw, 1903-05; Weimar, 1905-06; Zittau, 1907-08; Fiume, 1908-12, died in office 1912; U.S. Consul General in Boma, 1906.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Fiume, Hungary (now Rijeka, Croatia),
February
25, 1912 (age 41 years, 248
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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John Timothy Stone (b. 1868) —
of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y.; Cortland, Cortland
County, N.Y.; Baltimore,
Md.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Massachusetts, September
7, 1868.
Son of Timothy Dwight Porter Stone and Susan Margaret (Dickinson)
Stone.
Republican. Pastor; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1916.
Presbyterian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin Forrest Sweet (1847-1935) —
also known as Edwin F. Sweet —
of Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.; Ojai, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Dansville, Livingston
County, N.Y., November
21, 1847.
Son of Sidney Sweet and Hannah (Redmond) Sweet.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Grand Rapids, Mich., 1904-06; defeated, 1906; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 5th District, 1911-13; defeated,
1908, 1912; Assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1913-21; candidate
for Governor of
Michigan, 1916.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died in Ojai, Ventura
County, Calif., April 2,
1935 (age 87 years, 132
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (1877-1952) —
also known as James W. Wadsworth, Jr. —
of Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., August
12, 1877.
Son of James
Wolcott Wadsworth and Louise (Travers) Wadsworth.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1905-10; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1906-10; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920,
1924,
1928,
1936,
1940;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1912; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1915-27; defeated, 1926; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1933-51 (39th District 1933-45,
41st District 1945-51); delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Grange; United
Spanish War Veterans; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Union
League; Skull and
Bones.
The U.S. Senate's leading opponent of woman suffrage and alcohol
prohibition.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 21,
1952 (age 74 years, 314
days).
Interment at Temple
Hill Cemetery, Geneseo, N.Y.
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John Hay Whitney (1904-1982) —
also known as Jock Whitney —
of Manhasset, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Ellsworth, Hancock
County, Maine, August
17, 1904.
Son of Payne Whitney and Helen (Hay) Whitney.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; financier;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1956;
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1957-61; publisher of the New York Herald
Tribune newspaper,
1961-66.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Died February
8, 1982 (age 77 years, 175
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Cemetery, Manhasset, Long Island, N.Y.
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Henry Rogers Winthrop (1876-1958) —
of Westbury, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., July 2,
1876.
Son of Buchanan Winthrop and Sarah Helen (Townsend) Winthrop.
Republican. Banker; stockbroker;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; director,
Long Island Railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons.
Died in Sarasota, Sarasota
County, Fla., November
14, 1958 (age 82 years, 135
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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