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James Hobart Allport (1874-1945) —
also known as James H. Allport —
of Barnesboro, Cambria
County, Pa.
Born in Philipsburg, Centre
County, Pa., April 13,
1874.
Son of Dr. Hobart Allport (1848-1893) and Edith Susannah (Nevling)
Allport (1850-1919).
Republican. Engineer; coal mining
business; brick and clay
tile manufacturer; banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1928,
1932.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a week later, in the Philipsburg State Hospital,
Philipsburg, Centre
County, Pa., June 11,
1945 (age 71 years, 59
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Armstrong (1717-1795) —
also known as "Hero of Kittanny" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), October
13, 1717.
Son of James Armstrong .
Civil engineer; surveyor;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778-80.
Died in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., March 9,
1795 (age 77 years, 147
days).
Interment at Old
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa.
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Edward F. Blewitt (b. 1859) —
of Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., January
2, 1859.
Son of Patrick Blewitt.
Democrat. Civil engineer; Scranton city engineer, 1883-93;
member of Pennsylvania
state senate 22nd District, 1907-10.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Patrick Blewitt; married to Mary E. Stanton (died 1887) and Mary
Ann "Anna" Blackwell. |
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John Michael Carmody (1881-1963) —
also known as John M. Carmody —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Towanda, Bradford
County, Pa., 1881.
Son of Michael John Carmody and Catherine 'Kate' (Collins) Carmody.
Democrat. Engineer; labor relations executive in coal
industry; editor of Coal Age trade
journal; member,
National Labor Relations Board, 1935-36; administrator, Rural
Electrification Administration, 1937-39; director, Federal Works
Agency, 1939-41; member,
U.S. Maritime Commission, 1941-46.
Died November
10, 1963 (age about 82
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Powell Clayton (1833-1914) —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Bethel, Delaware
County, Pa., August 7,
1833.
Son of John Clayton and Ann (Clark) Clayton.
Republican. Engineer; surveyor;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; planter;
president and general manager, Eureka Springs Railway;
Governor
of Arkansas, 1868-71; U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1871-77; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Arkansas, 1872,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1896
(speaker),
1908,
1912;
member of Republican
National Committee from Arkansas, 1872-74, 1896-1912; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1897-98; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1898-1905.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
25, 1914 (age 81 years, 18
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Thomas Green Clemson (1807-1888) —
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 1,
1807.
Mining
engineer; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1844-51.
Among the founders
of the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland.
Bequeathed his home and land holdings to the state of South Carolina
for the purpose of establishing
an agricultural college, which was named for
him, and became Clemson University.
Died April 6,
1888 (age 80 years, 280
days).
Interment at St.
Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Pendleton, S.C.
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George Whitney Cooke (b. 1856) —
of Bowman's Creek, Wyoming
County, Pa.; Johnson City, Washington
County, Tenn.
Born in Wyoming
County, Pa., October
3, 1856.
Engineer; surveyor;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1891.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C.
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
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Relatives:
Married to Emma Florence Clark. |
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Robert Duncan Coombs (1873-1934) —
also known as Robert D. Coombs —
of Paramus, Bergen
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., September
15, 1873.
Republican. Engineer; mayor of
Paramus, N.J., 1933-34; died in office 1934.
Died, of heart
disease, in Paramus, Bergen
County, N.J., October
22, 1934 (age 61 years, 37
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Harriet Lord. |
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Eckley B. Coxe (1839-1895) —
of Luzerne
County, Pa.
Born June 4,
1839.
Democrat. Mining
engineer; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 21st District, 1881-84.
Founder of American Institute of Mining Engineers.
Died May 13,
1895 (age 55 years, 343
days).
Interment at St.
James Episcopal Churchyard, Drifton, Pa.
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Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven (b. 1893) —
also known as T. A. M. Craven —
of Washington,
D.C.; Virginia.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
31, 1893.
Son of T. A. Craven and Harriet Baker (Austin) Craven.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; radio
engineer; member,
Federal Communications Commission, 1937-44, 1956-63.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of T. A. Craven and Harriet Baker (Austin) Craven; married, September
25, 1915, to Josephine La Tourette; married 1931 to Emma
Stoner. |
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Joseph Parker Dando (1883-1954) —
also known as Joseph P. Dando —
of Branch Township, Schuylkill
County, Pa.
Born in Llewellyn, Schuylkill
County, Pa., January
14, 1883.
Son of Isaac Dando (1839-1899) and Margaret A. (Fisher) Dando
(1846-1920).
Democrat. Coal miner;
engineer; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 29th District, 1937-40.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, United
Mine Workers.
Died in Pottsville, Schuylkill
County, Pa., December
6, 1954 (age 71 years, 326
days).
Interment at Mt.
Peace Cemetery, Minersville, Pa.
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William Ward Duffield (b. 1823) —
also known as William W. Duffield —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., November
19, 1823.
Democrat. Civil engineer; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; member of Michigan
state senate 3rd District, 1879-80; chief engineer for railways;
superintendent, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1894-98.
Burial
location unknown.
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Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen Dumont (b. 1869) —
also known as Frederick T. F. Dumont —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, Pa.
Born in Phillipsburg, Warren
County, N.J., March 17,
1869.
Son of John Finley Dumont and Anna K. (Kline) Dumont.
Construction engineer, Pennsylvania Railroad,
1889-1901; banker;
U.S. Consul in Guadeloupe, 1911-12; Madrid, 1912-14; Florence, 1914-19; Dublin, 1919-20; U.S. Consul General in Frankfort, 1924; Havana, 1929-32.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edwin C. Ewing (1902-1967) —
of Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in Coraopolis, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
26, 1902.
Son of Edward J. Ewing and Etta (Clark) Ewing.
Republican. Petroleum
engineer; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives from Allegheny County 15th
District, 1939-40, 1943-64; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 37th District, 1965-67; died in office 1967.
Member, Delta
Sigma Phi; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died May 3,
1967 (age 64 years, 158
days).
Interment at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward J. Ewing and Etta (Clark) Ewing; married to Gertrude
Sherlock; father of Wayne
S. Ewing. |
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John White Geary (1819-1873) —
also known as John W. Geary —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland
County, Pa., December
30, 1819.
Civil engineer; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican
War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; postmaster;
candidate for Governor of
California, 1849; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1850-51; Governor of
Kansas Territory, 1856-57; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1867-73.
Methodist.
Died after suffering a heart
attack, in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
8, 1873 (age 53 years, 40
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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James Geddes (1763-1838) —
of Onondaga
County, N.Y.
Born near Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., July 22,
1763.
Salt
manufacturer; justice of the peace; member of New York
state assembly from Onondaga County, 1803-04, 1821-22; common
pleas court judge in New York, 1809; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1813-15; canal
engineer.
Died in Geddes (now part of Syracuse), Onondaga
County, N.Y., August
19, 1838 (age 75 years, 28
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y.
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Edward E. Kaufman (1939-2010) —
also known as Ted Kaufman —
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March 15,
1939.
Son of Manuel Kaufman and Helen (Carroll) Kaufman.
Democrat. Engineer; administrative assistant and chief of
staff for U.S. Senator Joe
Biden, 1976-95; college
professor; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 2009-10; appointed 2009.
Irish,
Jewish,
and Russian
ancestry.
Died in 2010
(age about
71 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William A. Kindred (c.1849-1891) —
of Fargo, Cass
County, Dakota Territory (now N.Dak.).
Born in Morris
County, N.J., about 1849.
Civil engineer; railroad
builder; banker; mayor of
Fargo, N.Dak., 1882-83.
The town of Kindred, N.D. is named for
him.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 8,
1891 (age about 42
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Joseph Lincoln, Sr. (1865-1948) —
also known as John J. Lincoln —
of McDowell
County, W.Va.
Born near Rising Sun, Lehigh
County, Pa., October
11, 1865.
Republican. Mining
engineer; Presidential Elector for West Virginia, 1928.
Quaker.
Died in Elkhorn, McDowell
County, W.Va., January
28, 1948 (age 82 years, 109
days).
Interment at Newtown
Cemetery, Newtown, Pa.
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Charles Ludlow Livingston (b. 1870) —
of Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 10,
1870.
Electrical
engineer; lawyer; U.S.
Consul in Salina Cruz, 1908-10; Swansea, 1910-11.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Mitchell (1781-1849) —
of Bellefonte, Centre
County, Pa.
Born near Newport, Perry
County, Pa., March 8,
1781.
Democrat. Engineer; surveyor;
Centre
County Sheriff, 1818; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1822-23; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 12th District, 1825-29.
Died in Bridgewater, Beaver
County, Pa., August 3,
1849 (age 68 years, 148
days).
Interment at Old
Beaver Cemetery, Bridgewater, Pa.
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Jesse Ormondroyd (1897-1975) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Pennsylvania, February
7, 1897.
Son of Herbert Ormondroyd and Jeannette (Wrighton) Ormondroyd.
Democrat. Professor
of mechanical engineering, University of Michigan; candidate
for mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1953.
Died, following a stroke, at
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital,
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., February
6, 1975 (age 77 years, 364
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives:
Married to Kathleen Felton. |
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Henry W. Peterson (b. 1892) —
of Woodbury, Gloucester
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
31, 1892.
Engineer; president, Philadelphia Transportation and
Lighterage Company (dredging
and water
transportation); delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Gloucester
County, 1947; mayor
of Woodbury, N.J., 1953-54.
Member, Rotary; Elks; Freemasons.
Burial
location unknown.
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Gordon W. Sammons (1896-1974) —
of Moundsville, Marshall
County, W.Va.
Born in Aleppo, Greene
County, Pa., July 3,
1896.
Republican. Civil engineer; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Marshall County, 1951-54,
1963-64; defeated, 1960.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Moose; Rotary.
Died in 1974
(age about
77 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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J. Fred Thomas —
of Sharon, Mercer
County, Pa.
Born in Brookfield, Trumbull
County, Ohio.
Republican. Mining
engineer; mayor of
Sharon, Pa., 1933-37; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 50th District, 1939-46; chief clerk, Pennsylvania
State Senate, 1953.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Jessie Olive Kelso. |
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Oscar E. Thomson (b. 1862) —
of Chester
County, Pa.
Born in Phoenixville, Chester
County, Pa., November
4, 1862.
Son of Milton W. Thompson (1834-1893) and Emeline (Wersler) Thompson.
Republican. Civil engineer; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 19th District, 1905-12.
Burial
location unknown.
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Evan S. Tyler (1843-1923) —
of Owatonna, Steele
County, Minn.; Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak.
Born in Damascus, Wayne
County, Pa., March 22,
1843.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; civil engineer;
merchant;
banker;
mayor
of Fargo, N.Dak., 1876-77; member of North
Dakota state house of representatives, 1889, 1895-96.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, in the Metropole Hotel,
Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak., August
24, 1923 (age 80 years, 155
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Delavan, Wis.
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Relatives:
Married to Clara Estella Barnes. |
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John Haines Ware III (1908-1997) —
also known as John H. Ware III —
of Chester
County, Pa.
Born in Vineland, Cumberland
County, N.J., August
29, 1908.
Son of John H. Ware, Jr. and Clara (Edwards) Ware.
Republican. Engineer; utility
executive; member of Pennsylvania
state senate 19th District, 1961-70; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1970-75 (9th District 1970-73,
5th District 1973-75).
Presbyterian.
Member, Rotary; Freemasons;
American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Beta
Theta Pi.
Died July 29,
1997 (age 88 years, 334
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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