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William Robert Bayes (1876-1964) —
also known as William R. Bayes —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wauseon, Fulton
County, Ohio, July 29,
1876.
Son of Isaac E. Bayes and Fannie A. (Guilford) Bayes.
Republican. Lawyer;
president, Kings Highway Savings Bank;
president, Brooklyn National Life
Insurance Co.; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 8th District, 1915;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1924;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933; candidate
for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1933, 1940; justice, New
York City Court of Special Sessions, 1935-46.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Delta Theta; Freemasons;
Union League.
Died in Gloversville, Fulton
County, N.Y., November
28, 1964 (age 88 years, 122
days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Westport, Conn.
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Charles Grosvenor Bond (1877-1974) —
also known as Charles G. Bond —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, May 29,
1877.
Son of William W. Bond and Frances (Currier) Bond.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 8th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1922; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936.
Member, Phi
Delta Theta; Phi
Delta Phi; Union League.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., January
10, 1974 (age 96 years, 226
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at West
Union Street Cemetery, Athens, Ohio.
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Charles Aubrey Eaton (1868-1953) —
also known as Charles A. Eaton;
"Doc" —
of Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Toronto, Ontario;
Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Watchung, North Plainfield, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born in Pugwash, Nova
Scotia, March 29,
1868.
Son of Stephen Eaton and Mary D. (Parker) Eaton.
Republican. Baptist
minister; magazine
editor; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1920,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from New Jersey, 1925-53 (4th District 1925-33,
5th District 1933-53).
Baptist.
Member, Union League.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
23, 1953 (age 84 years, 300
days).
Interment at Hillside
Cemetery, Plainfield, N.J.
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Wade H. Ellis (b. 1866) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., December
31, 1866.
Son of A. C. Ellis and Kate (Blackburn) Ellis.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; Ohio
state attorney general, 1904-08; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1908.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sons of
the American Revolution; Union League.
Burial
location unknown.
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Russell Benjamin Harrison (1854-1936) —
also known as Russell Lord Harrison —
of Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Oxford, Butler
County, Ohio, August
12, 1854.
Son of Caroline (Scott) Harrison and Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901).
Republican. Newspaper
work; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1921-24; member of Indiana
state senate, 1925-28.
Member, Union League.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., December
13, 1936 (age 82 years, 123
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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William Cooper Procter (1862-1934) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Glendale, Hamilton
County, Ohio, August
25, 1862.
Son of William Alexander Procter and Charlotte Elizabeth (Jackson)
Procter.
Republican. President (1907-30) and chairman (1930-34), Proctor &
Gamble Company, where he established profit-sharing and pension
system; director, New York Central Railroad;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1916,
1924,
1928.
Episcopalian.
Member, Union League.
Died, from bronchial
pneumonia, in Holmes Hospital,
Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 2,
1934 (age 71 years, 250
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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W. F. Rowland (1842-1883) —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio, May 10,
1842.
Son of Rev. James Rowland.
Coffee
importer; U.S. Consul in Nice, 1883, died in office 1883.
Member, Union League.
Died in Thun, Switzerland,
August
3, 1883 (age 41 years, 85
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) —
also known as Theodore N. Vail —
of Lyndonville, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 16,
1845.
Son of Davis Vail and Phebe (Quinby) Vail.
Republican. General superintendent, U.S. Railway Mail Service,
1876-79; president, American Telephone
and Telegraph
Co., 1885-89 and 1907-19; founder of Western Electric and of Bell
Labs; built an electric
railway system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1904; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1916.
Member, Union League.
Died, from kidney and
cardiac
complications, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., April 16,
1920 (age 74 years, 275
days).
Interment at Vail
Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, N.J.
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