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Mark W. Allen (b. 1877) —
of West New Brighton, Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y.
Born in Fairfax
County, Va., August
23, 1877.
Democrat. Carpenter;
Superintendent of Bridges and Buildings, Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad; lumber
business; member of New York
state senate 24th District, 1923-24.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Junior
Order; Knights
of Pythias.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Strode Barbour, Jr. (1820-1892) —
also known as John S. Barbour, Jr. —
of Virginia.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., December
29, 1820.
Son of John
Strode Barbour and Eliza A. (Byrne) Barbour.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1847-51; president, Orange & Alexandria
Railroad, 1852; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 8th District, 1881-87; member of Democratic
National Committee from Virginia, 1884-92; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Virginia, 1888;
U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1889-92; died in office 1892.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 14,
1892 (age 71 years, 137
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.
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Henry Taylor Blow (1817-1875) —
also known as Henry T. Blow —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born in Southampton
County, Va., July 15,
1817.
Son of Peter Blow and Elizabeth (Taylor) Blow.
Republican. Lead products
business; president, Iron Mountain Railroad; member of Missouri
state senate, 1854-58; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 2nd District, 1863-67; U.S. Minister
to Brazil, 1869-70; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1874.
Died in Saratoga, Saratoga
County, N.Y., September
11, 1875 (age 58 years, 58
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Joseph Little Bristow (1861-1944) —
also known as Joseph L. Bristow —
of Salina, Saline
County, Kan.
Born near Hazel Green, Wolfe
County, Ky., July 22,
1861.
Son of William Bristow and Savannah (Little) Bristow.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; secretary of
Kansas Republican Party, 1894-98; private secretary to Gov. Edmund
N. Morrill, 1895-97; special commander of Panama Railroad,
1905; U.S.
Senator from Kansas, 1909-15.
Methodist.
Died in Fairfax
County, Va., July 14,
1944 (age 82 years, 358
days).
Interment at Gypsum
Hill Cemetery, Salina, Kan.
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Charles Clinton Broy (b. 1887) —
also known as Charles C. Broy —
of Sperryville, Rappahannock
County, Va.
Born in Sperryville, Rappahannock
County, Va., July 26,
1887.
Son of James Ennis Broy and Susan Belle (Hite) Broy.
Railway clerk; U.S. Vice Consul in Boma, 1909-11; Milan, 1911-13; Dublin, 1916; U.S. Consul in Dublin, 1916-18; Queenstown, 1916-18; London, 1918-19, 1932-35; Cherbourg, 1920-22; Nassau, 1926-29; Brussels, 1938.
Burial
location unknown.
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John Carey (1792-1875) —
of Ohio.
Born in Monongalia
County, Va. (now W.Va.), April 5,
1792.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Ohio state
house of representatives, 1828, 1836, 1843; Presidential Elector
for Ohio, 1840;
promoter and first president, Mad River Railroad; founder of
the town of Carey, Ohio; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1859-61.
Died in Carey, Wyandot
County, Ohio, March 17,
1875 (age 82 years, 346
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1919 at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Carey, Ohio.
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Marion Maxwell Caskie (b. 1890) —
also known as Marion M. Caskie —
of Alabama; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Remington, Fauquier
County, Va., July 29,
1890.
Son of Dr. James Maxwell Caskie and Olivia (Rixey) Caskie.
Democrat. Staff for Southern Railway office in Washington,
1906-11; traffic manager for various enterprises; general manager,
state docks,
Port of Mobile, Ala.; vice-president, Waterman Steamship
Co.; member, Interstate
Commerce Commission, 1935-40.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
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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Charles Fenton Collier (1817-1899) —
also known as Charles F. Collier —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Petersburg,
Va., September
27, 1817.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia state legislature, 1852; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; mayor
of Petersburg, Va., 1866-68, 1888-92; president, Southern
Railroad.
Presbyterian.
Died, from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
attributed to "insomnia, melancholia, and nervous prostration," in Petersburg,
Va., June 29,
1899 (age 81 years, 275
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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William Ruffin Cox (1831-1919) —
of Penelo, Edgecombe
County, N.C.
Born in Scotland Neck, Halifax
County, N.C., March 11,
1831.
Son of Thomas C. Cox.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; planter;
president, Chatham Coal Field Railroad; district judge in
North Carolina 4th District, 1874-75; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1881-87.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Richmond,
Va., December
26, 1919 (age 88 years, 290
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C.
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Westmoreland Davis (1859-1942) —
also known as Morley Davis —
of Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.
Born, of American parents, at sea in the North
Atlantic Ocean, August
21, 1859.
Son of Thomas Gordon Davis and Annie Lewis (Morriss) Davis.
Democrat. Railway clerk; lawyer; Governor of
Virginia, 1918-22; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1920.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died September
7, 1942 (age 83 years, 17
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Loudoun County, Va.
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Henry Keeling Ellyson (1823-1890) —
also known as Henry K. Ellyson —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Richmond,
Va., July 31,
1823.
Son of Jane 'Annie' (Huot) Ellyson (1797-1842) and Onan Ellyson
(1800-1859).
Printer;
lecturer;
newspaper
publisher; director of banks, insurance
companies, and the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad; president,
Virginia Steamboat
Co.; Henrico
County Sheriff, 1857-65; mayor
of Richmond, Va., 1870-71.
Baptist.
Died in Richmond,
Va., November
27, 1890 (age 67 years, 119
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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James Guthrie Harbord (1866-1947) —
also known as James G. Harbord —
of Manhattan, Riley
County, Kan.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born near Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March 21,
1866.
Son of George W. Harbord and Effie Critton (Gault) Harbord
(c.1840-1923).
Republican. Major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; president (1923-30), and
chairman (1930-47), Radio Corporation of America; director, Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; director, Bankers Trust Co.;
director, National Broadcasting
Co.; director, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Inc. (RKO); director, New York
Life Insurance
Co.; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1924,
1932;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1932;
delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Union
League.
Died in Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
20, 1947 (age 81 years, 152
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Brown Kimberly (b. 1855) —
also known as John B. Kimberly —
of Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County (now part of Hampton),
Va.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
31, 1855.
Son of William H. Kimberly and Ann (Brown) Kimberly.
Republican. Merchant;
hotel
owner; steamship
agent; postmaster;
director of banks and
electric railways; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Virginia, 1912,
1916,
1924.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) —
Born in Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., August 1,
1843.
Son of Abraham
Lincoln and Mary (Todd) Lincoln.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1881-85; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1889-93; president (1897-1911) and chairman
(1911-26) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, makers of railroad
cars; part owner of Chicago Edison Company electric
utility.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Manchester, Bennington
County, Vt., July 25,
1926 (age 82 years, 358
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Mahone (1826-1895) —
of Virginia.
Born in Southampton
County, Va., December
1, 1826.
Civil
engineer; president, chief engineer, superintendent, Norfolk &
Petersburg Railroad; general in the Confederate Army during
the Civil War; president, Norfolk and Western Railroad; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1881-87.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
8, 1895 (age 68 years, 311
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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Francis Mallory (1807-1860) —
of Virginia.
Born in Elizabeth City County, Va. (now part of Hampton,
Va.), December
12, 1807.
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1837-39, 1840-43 (11th District
1837-39, 10th District 1840-41, 1st District 1841-43); president,
Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, 1853-59; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1853-55, 1857-58.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., March 26,
1860 (age 52 years, 105
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) —
also known as William G. McAdoo —
of Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born near Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., October
31, 1863.
Son of William Gibbs McAdoo (1820-1849) and Mary Faith (Floyd) McAdoo
(1832-1913).
Democrat. Lawyer; law
partner with William
McAdoo (no relation); attorney for railroads; president,
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co.; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1904,
1912;
member of Democratic
National Committee from New York, 1912; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1920,
1924;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1932,
1936;
U.S.
Senator from California, 1933-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1937.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
1, 1941 (age 77 years, 93
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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John Motley Morehead (1796-1866) —
of Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Pittsylvania
County, Va., July 4,
1796.
Son of John Morehead and Obedience (Motley) Morehead.
Whig. Lawyer;
railroad promoter; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1821, 1826-27, 1838; Governor of
North Carolina, 1841-45; Delegate
from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62.
Died in Alum Springs, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., August
27, 1866 (age 70 years, 54
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Greensboro, N.C.
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George Campbell Peery (1873-1952) —
also known as George C. Peery —
of Tazewell, Tazewell
County, Va.
Born in Cedar Bluff, Tazewell
County, Va., October
28, 1873.
Son of James Peery (M.D.) and Mary Letitia (Spotts) Peery.
Democrat. School
principal; lawyer;
vice-president, Norton Hardware
Company; director of coal mining
companies and a railroad; Presidential Elector for Virginia,
1916;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1920,
1924;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia 9th District, 1923-29; Governor of
Virginia, 1934-38.
Methodist.
Member, Kappa
Sigma; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Richlands, Tazewell
County, Va., October
14, 1952 (age 78 years, 352
days).
Interment at Maplewood
Cemetery, Near Bluefield, Tazewell County, Va.
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Thomas Lee Perkins (b. 1905) —
also known as Thomas L. Perkins —
of Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Newport
News, Va., November
9, 1905.
Son of William R. Perkins and Mary (Bell) Perkins.
Republican. Stockbroker;
lawyer;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1952;
director, Pennsylvania Railroad, American Cyanamid Co., Duke
Power
Co., and others.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Delta Phi; Phi
Delta Theta.
Presumed
deceased.
Burial
location unknown.
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Francis Everod Rives (1792-1861) —
also known as Francis E. Rives —
of Littleton, Sussex
County, Va.; Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Prince
George County, Va., January
14, 1792.
Democrat. Planter;
railroad builder; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1821-31; member of Virginia
state senate, 1831-36, 1848-51; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 17th District, 1837-41; mayor
of Petersburg, Va., 1847-48.
Died in Petersburg,
Va., December
26, 1861 (age 69 years, 346
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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Thomas Fortune Ryan (1851-1928) —
also known as Thomas F. Ryan —
of Hempstead, Queens County (now Nassau
County), Long Island, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Oak Ridge, Nelson
County, Va.
Born in Nelson
County, Va., October
17, 1851.
Son of George Ryan and Lucinda (Fortune) Ryan.
Democrat. Financier;
organizer and consolidator of streetcar companies in New York
City; owned controlling interest in Equitable Life
Assurance Society; co-founder, American Tobacco
Company; engaged in mining
development in Africa; one of the richest men in America at the time;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1904,
1912.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in 1928
(age about
76 years).
Entombed at Oak
Ridge Estate, Nelson County, Va.
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John William Snow (b. 1939) —
also known as John W. Snow —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio, August 2,
1939.
Lawyer;
charged
with driving
while intoxicated,
in West Valley City, Utah, 1982; chairman and chief executive officer
of CSX railroad; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 2003-06; director, Marathon Oil Co.
Episcopalian.
Member, Delta
Tau Delta.
Still living as of 2009.
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Richard Wigginton Thompson (1809-1900) —
also known as Richard W. Thompson —
of Bedford, Lawrence
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born near Culpeper Court House, Culpeper
County, Va., June 9,
1809.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1834-36; member of Indiana
state senate, 1836-38; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Indiana, 1839; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1841-43, 1847-49 (2nd District
1841-43, 7th District 1847-49); U.S. Collector of Internal
Revenue for the 7th Indiana District, 1864-66; circuit judge in
Indiana, 1867-69; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1868
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1876,
1888,
1896;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1877-80; chairman of the American
Committee of the Panama
Canal Company, 1881; director of the Panama Railroad
Company, 1881-88.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., February
9, 1900 (age 90 years, 245
days).
Interment at Highland
Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
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Robert Lee Tudor (b. 1874) —
also known as Robert L. Tudor —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Virginia, 1874.
Democrat. Telegrapher;
railway station agent; publishing
business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 14th District, 1913-17.
Member, Tammany
Hall.
Interment at Tudor
Family Cemetery, Critz, Va.
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James Edward Van Zandt (1898-1986) —
also known as James E. Van Zandt —
of Altoona, Blair
County, Pa.
Born in Altoona, Blair
County, Pa., December
18, 1898.
Son of James T. Van Zandt and Kathryn Van Zandt.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; worked in
Altoona shops of Pennsylvania Railroad; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1939-43, 1947-63 (23rd District
1939-43, 22nd District 1947-53, 20th District 1953-63); served in the
U.S. Navy during World War II; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1962.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jesters;
Knights
of Pythias; Grange; Eagles; Patriotic
Order Sons of America.
Died in Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., January
6, 1986 (age 87 years, 19
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Gilbert Carlton Walker (1833-1885) —
of Owego, Tioga
County, N.Y.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Norfolk,
Va.; Binghamton, Broome
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in South Gibson, Susquehanna
County, Pa., August 1,
1833.
Lawyer;
Governor
of Virginia, 1870-74; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1875-79; president,
New York Underground Railroad Co.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1885 (age 51 years, 283
days).
Interment at Spring
Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, N.Y.
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George Selden Wallace (b. 1871) —
also known as George S. Wallace —
of Huntington, Cabell
County, W.Va.
Born near Greenwood, Albemarle
County, Va., September
6, 1871.
Son of Charles Irving Wallace and Maria Logan (Sclater) Wallace.
Democrat. Telegraph
operator; manager, telegraph
office; train dispatcher for Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American
War; lawyer; Cabell
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1905-08; member of West Virginia
Democratic State Executive Committee; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1912;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Cabell County, 1936;
appointed 1936; president, Union Bank &
Trust Co., Huntington.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Elks; Rotary; Society
of the Cincinnati; Phi
Sigma Kappa.
Burial
location unknown.
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