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Edward Le Grand Adams (1851-1928) —
also known as Edward L. Adams —
of Elmira, Chemung
County, N.Y.
Born in Clarence, Erie
County, N.Y., January
3, 1851.
Son of Benjamin T. Adams and Janet (Gibson) Adams.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; oil producer; New York State Tax Commissioner,
1895-98; U.S. Consul General in Stockholm, 1902-09; U.S. Consul in Dublin, 1909-19; Sherbrooke, 1920-24.
Died in Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland,
October
2, 1928 (age 77 years, 273
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Emory Andrus (1841-1934) —
also known as John E. Andrus; "The Millionaire
Strap-Hanger" —
of Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
16, 1841.
Son of Rev. Loyal B. Andrus and Ann (Palmer) Andrus.
Republican. School
teacher; pharmaceutical
manufacturer; investor in real
estate, mining
claims, and the Standard Oil Company; owned considerable
stock in railroads
and utilities;
director, New York Life Insurance
Co.; president, New York Pharmaceutical
Association; treasurer, Arlington Chemical
Co.; director, National Fuel Gas Co.; mayor of
Yonkers, N.Y., 1904; defeated, 1901; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1904
(alternate), 1908;
U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1905-13.
Methodist.
Philanthropist who founded the Surna Foundation and the Julia Dyckman
Andrus Memorial (orphanage). Even when he was one of the nation's
wealthiest men, he still took the subway to work.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., December
26, 1934 (age 93 years, 313
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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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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Robert Gaylord Barnes (1914-1977) —
of Dobbs Ferry, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Battle Creek, Calhoun
County, Mich., October
18, 1914.
Son of George Emerson Barnes and Myrtle Kendall (Montague) Barnes.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, 1964-66; manager of international government relations,
Mobil Oil Corporation.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Hospital,
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., October
24, 1977 (age 63 years, 6
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Ulrick Bay (1888-1955) —
also known as Charles U. Bay —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Rensselaer, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
5, 1888.
Son of Jens Christopher Bay and Marie (Hauan) Bay.
Founder, Bay Company, manufacturer
of medical supplies; partner, A. M. Kidder & Co., stockbrokers;
founder, Bay Petroleum Corporation; stockholder and director,
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad;
director, First National Bank and
Trust Company of Bridgeport; also involved with the Connecticut Railway
and Lighting
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1946-53.
Episcopalian.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Died, in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
31, 1955 (age 67 years, 117
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Relatives:
Married 1942
to Josephine Holt Perfect. |
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Edmund Burke, Jr. (1905-1993) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., February
5, 1905.
Son of Edmund Burke and Mabel Jeannette (Rule) Burke.
Democrat. Lawyer; member, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, 1941-43; attorney for Texaco oil
company.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; American Bar
Association.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y., May 13,
1993 (age 88 years, 97
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married, July 18,
1939, to Marion Hopkins McDonagh (died 1984). |
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John J. Burns (b. 1913) —
of Sea Cliff, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Sea Cliff, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., April 3,
1913.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; oil
distributor; member of New York
state assembly from Nassau County 4th District, 1952-57; resigned
1957; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 3rd District, 1967.
Member, American
Legion.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Norah Patterson. |
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Axtell J. Byles (1880-1941) —
of Titusville, Crawford
County, Pa.; Ardsley-on-Hudson, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Titusville, Crawford
County, Pa., October
21, 1880.
Republican. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1908;
president, Tide Water Oil Company, 1924-26, and of its
successor, Tide Water Associated Oil Company, 1926-33;
president, American Petroleum Institute, 1933-41.
Presbyterian.
Died in Ardsley-on-Hudson, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
28, 1941 (age 60 years, 342
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1905
to Florence Payne. |
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Cassius Congdon (b. 1870) —
of West Clarksville, Allegany
County, N.Y.
Born in West Clarksville, Allegany
County, N.Y., 1870.
Son of Marcus
M. Congdon.
Republican. Farmer;
oil and gas producer; member of New York
state assembly from Allegany County, 1924-29.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Burial
location unknown.
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Peter P. Cornen (1815-1893) —
of Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 13,
1815.
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; real estate
business; oil producer; banker;
member of Connecticut
state senate 11th District, 1867; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Ridgefield, 1871.
Episcopalian.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died March 23,
1893 (age 78 years, 10
days).
Interment at Scott's Cemetery, Ridgefield, Conn.
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Charles Francis Darlington, Jr. (1904-1986) —
also known as Charles F. Darlington —
of Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., September
13, 1904.
Son of Charles Francis Darlington and Letitia Craig (O'Neill)
Darlington.
Democrat. Economist;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; oil executive;
U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, 1961-64.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died, in New York
Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 11,
1986 (age 81 years, 210
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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George Benjamin Delamater (1821-1907) —
also known as George B. Delamater —
of Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa.
Born in Whitehall, Washington
County, N.Y., January
14, 1821.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; oil producer; banker;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 29th District, 1871-73.
Died in Meadville, Crawford
County, Pa., 1907
(age about
86 years).
Interment at Greendale
Cemetery, Meadville, Pa.
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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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William Alfred Eddy (1896-1962) —
also known as Bill Eddy —
of Hanover, Grafton
County, N.H.; Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y.; Beirut, Lebanon.
Born, to American parents, in Sidon, Syria (now Lebanon),
March
9, 1896.
Son of William King Eddy and Elizabeth Mills (Nelson) Eddy.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; college
professor; president
of Hobart College and William Smith College, Geneva, N.Y., 1936-42;
served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S. Minister to
Saudi Arabia, 1944-46; Middle East consultant, Arabian American
Oil Company, 1947-62.
Episcopalian.
Died May 3,
1962 (age 66 years, 55
days).
Interment at Protestant
Cemetery, Sidon, Lebanon.
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Albert T. Fancher (b. 1859) —
of Salamanca, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Leon, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., January
18, 1859.
Republican. Oil producer; farmer; Cattaraugus
County Clerk, 1885-88; member of New York
state assembly from Cattaraugus County 2nd District; elected
1900; member of New York
state senate, 1903-08 (50th District 1903-06, 51st District
1907-08); delegate to Republican National Convention from New York,
1908,
1924,
1928.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Nicholas Van Vranken Franchot (1855-1943) —
also known as N. V. V. Franchot —
of Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y.
Born in Morris, Otsego
County, N.Y., August
21, 1855.
Son of Richard
Hansen Franchot and Ann (Van Vranken) Franchot (1822-1881).
Republican. Lawyer;
oil producer; vice-president, Exchange National Bank of
Olean; director Electric
Light & Power Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention
from New York, 1892,
1904;
mayor
of Olean, N.Y., 1894-98.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sigma
Phi.
Died in Olean, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., 1943
(age about
87 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frank Frankel (1886-1975) —
of Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Houston, Harris
County, Tex.; Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born October
2, 1886.
Mayor
of Long Beach, N.Y., 1924, 1930-33; defeated, 1925 (Democratic
primary), 1925 (Republican), 1929 (Democratic primary); founder of
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
indicted
in September 1927 on charges
of maintaining a gambling
place; the charges were later dropped; in December 1929, his right to
take office as mayor was unsuccessfully challenged
by the Long Beach police chief, based on vote
fraud (for which many had been arrested and prosecuted) and the
expectation that Frankel would tolerate
gambling in the city; indicted
in January 1933 for fraud
over his transfer of $90,000 in city funds to the Long Beach Trust
Company, which subsequently closed; the indictment was dismissed in
February; indicted
again in May 1933, along with two city council members, over the
diversion of $750,000 of state and county tax revenue to city
projects; pleaded not guilty; no trial was held; the indictment was
dismissed in 1937; oil producer.
Died, in a hospital
at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 12,
1975 (age 88 years, 253
days).
Interment somewhere
in Houston, Tex.
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Harry E. Goodrich (1876-1960) —
of Richburg, Allegany
County, N.Y.
Born in Crystal Spring, Yates
County, N.Y., March 31,
1876.
Son of Martin E. Goodrich (1849-1915) and Lydia (Clark) Goodrich
(1854-1883).
Republican. Merchant;
oil producer; member of New York
state assembly from Allegany County, 1930-35.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in March, 1960
(age about
84 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1896
to Leona Millis. |
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Charles Nathaniel Haskell (1860-1933) —
also known as Charles N. Haskell —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.
Born in Leipsic, Putnam
County, Ohio, March 13,
1860.
Democrat. Lawyer;
oil business; delegate to
Oklahoma state constitutional convention, 1906; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1907-11; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Oklahoma, 1928.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Skirvin Hotel,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., July 5,
1933 (age 73 years, 114
days).
Interment at Greenhill
Cemetery, Muskogee, Okla.
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Christian Archibald Herter, Jr. (1919-2007) —
also known as Christian A. Herter, Jr. —
of Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., January
29, 1919.
Son of Mary Caroline (Pratt) Herter and Christian
Archibald Herter.
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
administrative assistant to U.S. Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, 1953-54; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1956,
1960;
candidate for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1958; vice-president, Socony Mobil
Oil Company, 1961-67; director, Berkshire Life
Insurance Company; law
professor.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, from chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, in Washington,
D.C., September
16, 2007 (age 88 years, 230
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William H. MacKenzie —
of Belmont, Allegany
County, N.Y.
Republican. Banker;
oil producer; farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Allegany County, 1936-60; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from New York, 1948.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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James A. McKean (b. 1845) —
of Smethport, McKean
County, Pa.
Born in Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y., August
11, 1845.
Republican. Oil and lumber
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1900;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from McKean County, 1907-09.
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Smethport, Pa.
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Robert Adam Mosbacher, Sr. (1927-2010) —
also known as Robert Mosbacher —
of Houston, Harris
County, Tex.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Westchester
County, N.Y., March 11,
1927.
Son of Emil Mosbacher and Gertrude (Schwartz) Mosbacher.
Republican. Founder, Mosbacher Energy Company; member, board
of directors and Executive Committee, American Petroleum
Institute; director, Texas Commerce Bank;
director, New York Life
Insurance Company; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Texas, 1988;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1989-92.
Jewish;
later Presbyterian.
German
ancestry.
Died, of pancreatic
cancer, in the M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, Harris
County, Tex., January
24, 2010 (age 82 years, 319
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Sterling W. Mudge (born c.1891) —
of Glen Cove, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born about 1891.
Republican. Oil executive; candidate for mayor
of Glen Cove, N.Y., 1957.
Burial
location unknown.
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Joseph Lafayette Rhinock (1863-1926) —
also known as Joseph L. Rhinock —
of Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.; New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Owenton, Owen
County, Ky., January
4, 1863.
Son of Joseph Rhinock and Eliza A. (Short) Rhinock.
Democrat. Oil refiner; mayor
of Covington, Ky., 1894-99; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 6th District, 1905-11; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1908;
theater
business.
Died, from heart
disease, in New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., September
20, 1926 (age 63 years, 259
days).
Interment at Highland
Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, Ky.
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Edward Raymond Rich, Jr. (b. 1875) —
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., November
8, 1875.
Branch manager for Standard Oil Company in Madras, India; U.S.
Vice & Deputy Consul in Madras, 1911.
Burial
location unknown.
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Herbert Bronson Shonk (1881-1930) —
also known as Herbert B. Shonk —
of Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Plymouth, Luzerne
County, Pa., October
28, 1881.
Son of George
Washington Shonk.
Republican. Lawyer;
oil business; major in the U.S. Army during World War I;
member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 2nd District, 1923-30;
died in office 1930.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Legion; Alpha
Delta Phi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, following a heart
attack, in White Plains Hospital,
White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., 1930
(age about
48 years).
Interment at St.
James the Less Cemetery, Scarsdale, N.Y.
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Thomas Frank Stroock (b. 1925) —
also known as Thomas F. Stroock —
of Casper, Natrona
County, Wyo.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
10, 1925.
Son of Samuel Stroock and Dorothy (Frank) Stroock.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;
oil executive; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wyoming, 1956;
U.S. Ambassador to Guatamala, 1989-92.
Unitarian.
Member, Kiwanis;
Elks.
Still living as of 1992.
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Clarence C. Van Fleet (c.1888-1933) —
of Middletown, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born about 1888.
Republican. General manager, Middletown Oil Company; mayor
of Middletown, N.Y., 1930-33; died in office 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Junior
Order; Kiwanis;
Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died September
22, 1933 (age about 45
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1917
to Blanche Marion Vincent. |
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James William Zevely (1861-1927) —
also known as J. W. Zevely —
of Muskogee, Muskogee
County, Okla.; Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Linn, Osage
County, Mo., October
8, 1861.
Son of Thaddeus Zevely and Mary A. Zevely.
Democrat. Librarian;
secretary
of Missouri Democratic Party, 1888; Inspector in Charge for U.S.
Department of the Interior; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1912,
1916;
as attorney for the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, and
for Harry F. Sinclair, he was a figure in the Teapot Dome scandal of
the 1920s.
The champion racehorse "Zev" (1920-1943) was named for
him by Harry F. Sinclair.
Died, of pernicious
anemia and liver
cirrhosis, in East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., June 10,
1927 (age 65 years, 245
days).
Interment somewhere
in Paris, Ky.
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