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William Lysander Adams (1821-1906) —
also known as William L. Adams; Will Adams —
of Yamhill
County, Ore.; Forest Grove, Washington
County, Ore.; Hood River, Hood River
County, Ore.
Born in Painesville, Lake
County, Ohio, February
5, 1821.
Son of Sebastian Adams (1789-1847) and Eunice (Harmon) Adams.
Republican. School
teacher; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; preacher;
newspaper editor; probate judge in Oregon; U.S. Collector of Customs;
physician.
Died in Hood River, Hood River
County, Ore., April 26,
1906 (age 85 years, 80
days).
Interment at Idlewild
Cemetery, Hood River, Ore.
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John Barrett (1866-1938) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Grafton, Windham
County, Vt.; Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Grafton, Windham
County, Vt., November
28, 1866.
Son of Charles
Barrett and Caroline (Sanford) Barrett.
Newspaper correspondent; newspaper editor; U.S.
Minister to Siam, 1894-98; Argentina, 1903-04; Panama, 1904-05; Colombia, 1905-06; U.S. Consul General in Bangkok, 1894-98; director general, Pan American Union, 1907-20.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in a hospital
at Bellows Falls, Rockingham, Windham
County, Vt., October
17, 1938 (age 71 years, 323
days).
Interment at Grafton
Village Cemetery, Grafton, Vt.
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Edward Everett Brodie (1876-1939) —
of Oregon City, Clackamas
County, Ore.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Fort Stevens, Clatsop
County, Ore., March 12,
1876.
Son of Elias Henry Brodie and Julia Matilda (Goff) Brodie.
Republican. Newspaper publisher; chair of
Clackamas County Republican Party, 1916-21; U.S. Minister to Siam, 1921-25; Finland, 1930-33; member of Oregon
Republican State Central Committee, 1928-30.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Woodmen;
Sigma
Delta Chi.
Died June 27,
1939 (age 63 years, 107
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederick Silas Bynon (1870-1950) —
also known as Fred S. Bynon —
of Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Salem, Marion
County, Ore.; North Bend, Coos
County, Ore.
Born in Brooklyn (now part of Oakland), Alameda
County, Calif., December
3, 1870.
Son of Alfred Augustus Bynon.
Republican. With his father, he founded the Hollywood (Calif.)
Sentinel newspaper, which later became the Hollywood
Citizen News; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1912.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Salem, Marion
County, Ore., June 6,
1950 (age 79 years, 185
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at City
View Cemetery, Salem, Ore.
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Thomas Jefferson Dryer (1808-1879) —
also known as Thomas J. Dryer —
of Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in New York, 1808.
Republican. Newspaper editor; delegate
to Oregon state constitutional convention from Multnomah County,
1857; U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Hawaiian Islands, 1861-63.
Died in 1879
(age about
71 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alfred Theodore Goodwin (b. 1923) —
also known as Alfred T. Goodwin —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Bellingham, Whatcom
County, Wash., June 29,
1923.
Son of Alonzo Theodore Goodwin and Miriam Hazel (Williams) Goodwin.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
circuit judge in Oregon, 1955-60; justice of
Oregon state supreme court, 1960-69; U.S.
District Judge for Oregon, 1969.
Presbyterian.
Member, American
Judicature Society; American Bar
Association; Order of the
Coif; Phi
Delta Phi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Alpha
Tau Omega.
Still living as of 1970.
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Relatives: Son
of Alonzo Theodore Goodwin and Miriam Hazel (Williams) Goodwin;
married, December
23, 1943, to Marjorie Elizabeth Major (divorced 1948); married,
December
23, 1949, to Mary Ellin Handelin. |
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Horace Greeley (1811-1872) —
also known as "Old Honesty"; "Old White
Hat" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Amherst, Hillsborough
County, N.H., February
3, 1811.
Son of Zaccheus Greeley (1782-1867) and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley
(1788-1855).
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune newspaper;
U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1848-49; defeated
(Republican), 1870; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Oregon, 1860;
after the Civil War, became advocate of universal amnesty for
Confederates; offered bail in May 1867 for Jefferson
Davis; member of Republican
National Committee from New York, 1866-70; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1867; Democratic
candidate for President
of the United States, 1872.
Died in Pleasantville, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
29, 1872 (age 61 years, 300
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Zaccheus Greeley (1782-1867) and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley
(1788-1855); married, July 5,
1836, to Mary Y. Cheney (1811-1872); second cousin of Wallace
M. Greeley. |
| | | Greeley counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Horace
G. Snover
— Horace
G. Knowles
— Horace
Greeley Dawson, Jr.
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| | | Personal motto: "Go West, young
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Books by Horace Greeley: American
conflict: A history of the Great Rebellion in the United States of
America, 1860-1865 (1869) — Recollections
Of A Busy Life |
| | | Books about Horace Greeley: Glyndon G.
Van Deusen, Horace
Greeley, Nineteenth Century Crusader — Harry J.
Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana — Wilbur J. Granberg, Spread
the truth : The life of Horace Greeley — Doris Faber,
Horace
Greeley: The People's Editor — Coy F. Cross, Go
West Young Man! : Horace Greeley's Vision for
America — J. Parton, The
Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York
Tribune |
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Ashley Greene (b. 1898) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; Lake Grove, Clackamas
County, Ore.
Born in Ashville, St. Clair
County, Ala., January
15, 1898.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1948
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Elks; Eagles; American Bar
Association; Military
Order of the World Wars.
Burial
location unknown.
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Eric Hass (1905-1980) —
of Oregon; New York.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., 1905.
Advertising
business; Socialist Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1936; editor of The Weekly
People, 1938-68; Industrial Government candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 1944; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1949 (Industrial Government), 1957
(Socialist Labor), 1961 (Socialist Labor), 1965 (Socialist Labor);
candidate for Governor of
New York, 1950 (Industrial Government), 1958 (Socialist Labor),
1962 (Socialist Labor); Socialist Labor candidate for President
of the United States, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964; librarian.
German
and Danish
ancestry.
Resigned or expelled from the Socialist Labor Party, 1969.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Community Hospital,
Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., October
2, 1980 (age about 75
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Harrison Hornibrook (1884-1946) —
also known as William H. Hornibrook —
of Condon, Gilliam
County, Ore.; Twin Falls, Twin Falls
County, Idaho; Vancouver, Clark
County, Wash.; Utah.
Born in Cherokee, Cherokee
County, Iowa, July 6,
1884.
Son of Dr. Edward Hornibrook and Rosina Hornibrook.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper publisher; member of Idaho
state senate, 1910-12; member of Oregon
Democratic State Central Committee, 1913-15; U.S. Minister to Siam, 1915-16; Persia, 1933-36; Afghanistan, 1935-36; Costa Rica, 1937-41; member of Democratic
National Committee from Oregon, 1918-19.
Episcopalian.
Died in 1946
(age about
61 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Orange Jacobs (1827-1914) —
of Jacksonville, Jackson
County, Ore.; Seattle, King
County, Wash.
Born near Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., May 2,
1827.
Republican. Lawyer;
newspaper editor and publisher; justice of
Washington territorial supreme court, 1869-75; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1875-79; mayor of
Seattle, Wash., 1879-80; member
Washington territorial council, 1885-87; superior court judge in
Washington, 1896-1900.
Died in Seattle, King
County, Wash., May 21,
1914 (age 87 years, 19
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.
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Isaac A. Manning (1864-1942) —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Abington, Wayne
County, Ind., January
14, 1864.
Son of William Manning (1832-1914) and Sarah Jane (Hunt) Manning
(1835-1875).
Republican. Telegraph
operator; newspaper reporter; real
estate and insurance
business; coffee planter;
U.S. Consular Agent in Matagalpa, 1899-1905; U.S. Consul in Cartagena, 1907-09; La Guaira, 1909-11; Barranquilla, 1911-16.
Congregationalist.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
17, 1942 (age 78 years, 337
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Manning (1832-1914) and Sarah Jane (Hunt) Manning
(1835-1875); married, July 6,
1887, to Alice Hatch (died 1912); married, March 22,
1913, to Lia Curiel. |
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Richard Lewis Neuberger (1912-1960) —
also known as Richard L. Neuberger —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., December
26, 1912.
Son of Isaac Neuberger and Ruth (Lewis) Neuberger.
Democrat. Newspaper reporter; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1941-42; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II; member of Oregon
state senate 13th District, 1948-54; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1955-60; died in office 1960; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1956
(delegation chair).
Jewish.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Grange.
Died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., March 9,
1960 (age 47 years, 74
days).
Interment at Beth
Israel Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Eugene Semple (1840-1908) —
of Washington.
Born in Bogotá, Colombia
of American parents, June 12,
1840.
Son of James
Semple.
Democrat. Lawyer;
newspaper editor and publisher; Oregon
state printer, 1870-73; Governor of
Washington Territory, 1887-89; candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1889.
Died, of pneumonia,
in a rest
home at San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., August
28, 1908 (age 68 years, 77
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Wright
Crematory and Columbarium, Seattle, Wash.
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Norton Winfred Simon (1907-1993) —
also known as Norton Simon; Norton
Glickman —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., February
5, 1907.
Republican. President, Val Vita Food Products,
1931-42; subsequently president and chairman of Hunt Foods;
director, Wheeling Steel
Corporation, Northern Pacific Railway,
and McCall's Publishing Co.; art collector; candidate in
primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1970.
Jewish.
Died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 1,
1993 (age 86 years, 116
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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James Harvey Slater (1826-1899) —
of Corvallis, Benton
County, Ore.
Born near Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., December
28, 1826.
Son of Jay Slater (1795-1860) and Lucretia (Carman) Slater
(1806-1853).
Democrat. Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer;
newspaper publisher; member of Oregon
territorial House of Representatives, 1857-58; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1859; District Attorney 5th
District, 1868; U.S.
Representative from Oregon at-large, 1871-73; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1879-85.
Died in La Grande, Union
County, Ore., January
28, 1899 (age 72 years, 31
days).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, La Grande, Ore.
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Charles Arthur Sprague (1887-1969) —
also known as Charles A. Sprague —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan., November
12, 1887.
Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; Governor of
Oregon, 1939-43.
Presbyterian.
Member, Sigma
Delta Chi; Rotary.
Died March 13,
1969 (age 81 years, 121
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Mount
Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem, Ore.
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Samuel Royal Thurston (1816-1851) —
of Oregon.
Born in Monmouth, Kennebec
County, Maine, April 15,
1816.
Lawyer;
newspaper editor; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Oregon Territory, 1849-51.
Died aboard
the steamer California, in the North
Pacific Ocean, April 9,
1851 (age 34 years, 359
days).
Original interment somewhere
in Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero; reinterment in 1853 at Pioneer
Cemetery, Salem, Ore.
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