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Carl Clyde Atkins (1914-1999) —
also known as C. Clyde Atkins —
of Stuart, Martin
County, Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.; Coral Gables, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1914.
Lawyer;
founder-trustee, Lawyers Title Guaranty Fund, 1948-66; U.S.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 1966-99;
died in office 1999.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Kappa
Alpha Order; Phi
Kappa Tau; Phi
Alpha Delta; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Kiwanis.
Died in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., March
11, 1999 (age 84 years, 108
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Beardall Jr. (1890-1984) —
also known as William Beardall; Billy
Beardall —
of Orlando, Orange
County, Fla.
Born May 5,
1890.
Lawyer;
abstract and title business; mayor
of Orlando, Fla., 1940-52.
Died in 1984
(age about
94 years).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Orlando, Fla.
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George Thomas Beebe (1857-1928) —
also known as George T. Beebe —
of Madison
County, Ind.
Born in Sussex
County, Del., January
23, 1857.
Democrat. Abstractor; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Indiana, 1904.
Died in Genesee
County, Mich., December
6, 1928 (age 71 years, 318
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery, Anderson, Ind.
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Chris Beutler (b. 1944) —
of Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., November
14, 1944.
Democrat. Served
in the Peace Corps; served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam
war; lawyer;
founder, Beutler Title Company; member of Nebraska
unicameral legislature 28th District, 1979-86, 1991-2006;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nebraska, 2000,
2008;
mayor
of Lincoln, Neb., 2007-.
Still living as of 2011.
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Aaron Tyler Bliss (1885-1964) —
also known as Aaron T. Bliss —
of Midland, Midland
County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Peterboro, Madison
County, N.Y., September
3, 1885.
Midland
County Clerk, 1919-32; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Midland District, 1935-36;
abstract and title business.
Died, in a hospital
at Midland, Midland
County, Mich., April
24, 1964 (age 78 years, 234
days).
Interment at Midland
Cemetery, Midland, Mich.; cenotaph at Peterboro
Cemetery, Peterboro, N.Y.
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Arthur Brown —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Democrat. Lawyer;
president, Washtenaw Abstract Co.; mayor
of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1903-05; candidate for circuit
judge in Michigan 22nd Circuit, 1911.
Burial location unknown.
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George W. Burrows (b. 1867) —
of Breckenridge, Wilkin
County, Minn.
Born in Wright
County, Iowa, 1867.
Real
estate business; abstractor; vice-president, Breckenridge
National Bank;
treasurer, Breckenridge Telephone
Company; director, Farmers' Co-Op Elevator
Company; member of Minnesota
state house of representatives, 1913-18 (District 60 1913-14,
District 49 1915-18).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Hastings Carter (b. 1863) —
also known as Edward H. Carter —
of Bradentown (now part of Bradenton), Manatee
County, Fla.
Born in Chester, England,
June
22, 1863.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; school
teacher; abstractor; U.S. Vice Consul in Saint John, 1918-30; Fredericton, 1927, 1928, 1929; Charlottetown, 1929.
Burial location unknown.
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Henry W. Chalfant (1855-1925) —
of Linn Creek, Camden
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., April
28, 1855.
Republican. Lawyer;
abstractor; farmer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Camden County, 1893-94,
1919-22; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 8th District, 1904.
Died February
2, 1925 (age 69 years, 280
days).
Interment at Chalfant Cemetery, Camden County, Mo.
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La Monte Cowles (b. 1859) —
of Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa.
Born in Oskaloosa, Mahaska
County, Iowa, September
30, 1859.
Republican. Lawyer;
abstractor; member of Iowa
state senate, 1911-13; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Iowa, 1912
(alternate), 1916.
Burial location unknown.
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Dick Bland Dale (1893-1944) —
also known as Dick B. Dale —
of Richmond, Ray
County, Mo.
Born in Richmond, Ray
County, Mo., October
1, 1893.
Democrat. Lawyer;
abstractor; insurance
broker; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Ray County, 1921-24, 1933-38;
member of Missouri
state senate 8th District, 1939-42; defeated, 1942.
Died December
8, 1944 (age 51 years, 68
days).
Interment at Sunny
Slope Cemetery, Richmond, Mo.
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Benjamin W. Diederich (b. 1903) —
of Sheboygan, Sheboygan
County, Wis.
Born in Manitowoc, Manitowoc
County, Wis., September
22, 1903.
Republican. Lawyer;
abstract and title business; member of Wisconsin
state assembly from Sheboygan County 1st District, 1939-40.
Burial location unknown.
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Brooks J. Dunwiddie (1890-1966) —
of Monroe, Green
County, Wis.
Born in Atlantic, Cass
County, Iowa, December
6, 1890.
Abstract and title business; mayor of
Monroe, Wis., 1952-58; defeated, 1958.
Died in a hospital
at Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., November
15, 1966 (age 75 years, 344
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Monroe, Wis.
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Oscar Willard Edmonds (b. 1890) —
also known as O. W. Edmonds —
of Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai
County, Idaho.
Born in Caledonia, Traill
County, N.Dak., February
4, 1890.
Republican. Abstract and title business; mayor
of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 1923-27, 1943-45.
Protestant.
Member, Sigma
Chi; Rotary;
Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Arthur Edmonds and Anna S. (Olson) Edmonds; married, June 21,
1911, to Kathryn M. Sturtevant. |
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Michael Gahan Fahey (b. 1943) —
also known as Mike Fahey —
of Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb.
Born in Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., December
10, 1943.
Democrat. Abstract and title business; mayor of
Omaha, Neb., 2001-09; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Nebraska, 2008.
Still living as of 2009.
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Charles Carroll Fitch (1842-1899) —
also known as Charles C. Fitch —
of Mason, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Cuylerville, Livingston
County, N.Y., July 19,
1842.
Democrat. Abstractor; hardware
business; president, Mason Water and
Electric Light Company; Ingham
County Register of Deeds, 1885-88; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Ingham County 2nd District,
1889-92.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died suddenly, of heart
disease, June 28,
1899 (age 56 years, 344
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John F. Forward Jr. (b. 1876) —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
18, 1876.
Republican. Abstractor; president, Union Title
Insurance Co.; president, Union Trust Co.;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1932;
mayor
of San Diego, Calif., 1932-34; resigned 1934.
Member, Freemasons.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of John Ferree Forward and Ella Francis (Dillon) Forward; married, June 29,
1901, to Alberta Fairbanks; married, June 15,
1920, to Martha Thompson. |
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Cadman H. Frederick (b. 1880) —
of Babylon, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born, in the British West Indies, May 22,
1880.
Republican. Real estate
developer; one of the founders of the Suffolk Title and
Guarantee Company, 1925; banker; mayor
of Babylon, N.Y., 1937-38.
Resigned
in 1956 as president and director of the Suffolk County Federal
Savings and Loan Association, in the midst of an investigation
of the sale of tax-foreclosed properties by Suffolk County. He and
others shared
profits on the sale of these properties with Deputy County
Treasurer John
A. Britting.
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Maurice Frisby (1888-1952) —
also known as Frank M. Frisby —
of Bethany, Harrison
County, Mo.
Born in Bethany, Harrison
County, Mo., March 8,
1888.
Republican. Lawyer; Harrison
County Prosecuting Attorney; abstractor; member of Missouri
state senate, 1943-52 (4th District 1943-46, 14th District
1947-52); died in office 1952; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Missouri, 1948.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, a few days after a heart
attack, in a hospital
at Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., July 25,
1952 (age 64 years, 139
days).
Interment at Miriam Cemetery, Bethany, Mo.
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William Gelineau (born c.1959) —
also known as Bill Gelineau —
of Lowell, Kent
County, Mich.; Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich.
Born in Michigan, about 1959.
Libertarian. Restauranteur;
title agency manager; Libertarian candidate for Presidential
Elector for Michigan, 2000;
Michigan Libertarian state chair, 2003-04, 2016-17; candidate for Michigan
state senate 29th District, 2010; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 2012; Libertarian
candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan, 2012
(on behalf of Gary
E. Johnson); candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 2018.
Member, Jaycees.
Still living as of 2018.
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Willis T. Harbison —
of Plattsburg, Clinton
County, Mo.
Born in Plattsburg, Clinton
County, Mo.
Democrat. Lawyer;
abstractor; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Clinton County, 1945-48;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1956.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married to Vivian V. Beard. |
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H. O. Harrawood (b. 1882) —
of Poplar Bluff, Butler
County, Mo.
Born in McLeansboro, Hamilton
County, Ill., July 4,
1882.
Republican. Lawyer;
abstractor; Butler
County Superintendent of Schools, 1915-19; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Butler County, 1921-22.
Burial location unknown.
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William T. Hiering —
of Toms River, Ocean
County, N.J.
Republican. Land title agent; member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Ocean County, 1960-65; member
of New
Jersey state senate, 1966-71 (District 5 1966-67, District 4-A
1968-71); delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey,
1968;
Sponsor of a proposed state constitutional amendment in 1969 which
would have stripped the state's title to hundreds of square miles of
tidelands; summoned for an inquiry
by a legislative commission into possible conflict
of interest because he might personally benefit from this change;
he denied having any financial interest in tidal land properties.
The amendment, strongly opposed by Gov. Richard
J. Hughes, was withdrawn a few days later.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Floy Davis Hopkins (1879-1929) —
also known as Floy D. Hopkins —
of White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Greenburgh, Westchester
County, N.Y., August
30, 1879.
Republican. Title insurance business; member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County 4th District, 1914-17.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., July 2,
1929 (age 49 years, 306
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Robert Freeman Hopwood (1856-1940) —
also known as Robert F. Hopwood —
of Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., July 24,
1856.
Republican. Lawyer;
director, Citizens Title and Trust Co.; director, Uniontown Street
Railway Co.; Fayette
County Solicitor, 1894-1912; president, Uniontown Hospital,
1905-20; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 23rd District, 1915-17;
defeated, 1916.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons.
Died in St. Petersburg, Pinellas
County, Fla., March 1,
1940 (age 83 years, 221
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, South Union Township, Fayette County, Pa.
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Gilbert Erle Ingram (b. 1883) —
also known as G. Erle Ingram —
of Eau Claire, Eau Claire
County, Wis.
Born in Eau Galle, Dunn
County, Wis., April 1,
1883.
School
teacher; insurance
agent; abstractor; lawyer;
member of Wisconsin
Republican State Central Committee, 1928-29; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1931-32; member of Wisconsin
state senate 28th District, 1933-40.
Burial location unknown.
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R. J. King Jr. (b. 1913) —
also known as Bus King —
of St. Clair, Franklin
County, Mo.; Clayton, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St. Clair, Franklin
County, Mo., September
28, 1913.
Republican. Insurance
broker; abstractor; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1943-48, 1959-72 (Franklin County
1943-48, St. Louis County 5th District 1959-62, St. Louis County 10th
District 1963-66, 39th District 1967-72); delegate to Republican
National Convention from Missouri, 1968.
Catholic.
Burial location unknown.
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Howard Randolph Maness (1904-1970) —
also known as Howard R. Maness —
of Doniphan, Ripley
County, Mo.
Born in Frankford, Pike
County, Mo., March
19, 1904.
Democrat. Lawyer;
abstractor; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Ripley County, 1931-32,
1939-40.
Died in Doniphan, Ripley
County, Mo., September
9, 1970 (age 66 years, 174
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Macye Maness (1904-1993) —
also known as Macye Dona Jones —
of Doniphan, Ripley
County, Mo.
Born in Blue Springs, Union
County, Miss., June 5,
1904.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
abstractor; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1940;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Ripley County, 1941-42; chair of
Ripley County Democratic Party, 1949.
Female.
Died in Doniphan, Ripley
County, Mo., March
18, 1993 (age 88 years, 286
days).
Interment at Doniphan Oak Ridge Cemetery, Doniphan, Mo.
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Albert Wadel Moursund III (1919-2002) —
also known as A. W. Moursund —
of Johnson City, Blanco
County, Tex.; Round Mountain, Blanco
County, Tex.
Born in Johnson City, Blanco
County, Tex., May 23,
1919.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; close friend and
advisor to Lyndon
B. Johnson; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1948-52; Blanco
County Judge, 1953-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Texas, 1956
(alternate), 1960;
banker;
insurance
business; abstract and title business; rancher.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Round Mountain, Blanco
County, Tex., April
22, 2002 (age 82 years, 334
days).
Interment somewhere
in Round Mountain, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Albert Wadel Moursund, Jr. and Mary Frances (Stribling) Moursund;
married 1941 to Mary
Allen Moore. |
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John Willis Noble (b. 1904) —
also known as John W. Noble —
of Kennett, Dunklin
County, Mo.
Born in Nodaway
County, Mo., February
26, 1904.
Democrat. Lawyer;
abstract and title business; member of Missouri
state senate, 1945-60 (21st District 1945-48, 23rd District
1949-60).
Presbyterian.
Member, Lions.
Burial location unknown.
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Warren Olney (1841-1921) —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Davis
County, Iowa, March
11, 1841.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from California, 1896;
director, California Title Insurance and Trust Company;
president, South San Francisco Dock
Company; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1903-05.
Member, American Bar
Association; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., June 2,
1921 (age 80 years, 83
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Edwin S. Palmiter (1854-1925) —
of Hart, Oceana
County, Mich.
Born June 20,
1854.
Newspaper
publisher; abstractor; Prohibition candidate for secretary
of state of Michigan, 1890; member of Michigan Prohibition Party
State Central Committee, 1899; Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 9th District, 1902.
Died in 1925
(age about
71 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Judson Palmiter and Harriet S(tow) Palmiter; married 1877 to Lydia
J. Garver. |
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Oscar Peterson Jr. (1891-1963) —
of Stratford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Wallingford, New Haven
County, Conn., July 25,
1891.
Republican. Abstract and title business; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Stratford; elected 1946;
member of Connecticut
state senate 25th District, 1953.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Redmen.
Died in Stratford, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
30, 1963 (age 71 years, 248
days).
Interment at Union Cemetery, Stratford, Conn.
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Robert B. Petts —
of Warsaw, Benton
County, Mo.
Republican. Abstractor; insurance
business; chair of
Benton County Republican Party, 1925-41; delegate
to Missouri state constitutional convention 15th District,
1943-44; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1944.
Burial location unknown.
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John George Regan (b. 1872) —
also known as John G. Regan —
of Adel, Dallas
County, Iowa.
Born in Platte
County, Neb., June 3,
1872.
Democrat. School
teacher; insurance
and real
estate business; abstractor; lawyer;
mayor of Adel, Iowa, 1920-24, 1928-30; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Iowa, 1936,
1940.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Alison J. Shumway (1869-1926) —
of Scottsbluff, Scotts
Bluff County, Neb.
Born in New Windsor, Mercer
County, Ill., May 1,
1869.
Newspaper
editor; abstractor.
Member, Freemasons;
Order of the
Eastern Star; Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Modern
Woodmen.
Died, during gall
bladder surgery, in a hospital
at Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., February
16, 1926 (age 56 years, 291
days).
Interment at Fairview
Cemetery, Scottsbluff, Neb.
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Floyd L. Snyder Sr. (1901-1983) —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Stonington, Baca
County, Colo., February
27, 1901.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; abstract and
title business; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jackson County 11th District,
1947-59; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Missouri, 1960.
Presbyterian.
Member, Forty and
Eight; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in 1983
(age about
82 years).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Independence, Mo.
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Harry E. Sprague (b. 1876) —
of Kirkwood, St. Louis
County, Mo.
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., March
13, 1876.
Republican. Abstractor; lawyer;
member of Missouri
state house of representatives from St. Louis County 2nd
District, 1915-18.
Burial location unknown.
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Almor Stern (1854-1935) —
of Logan, Harrison
County, Iowa.
Born in Chester
County, Pa., April
21, 1854.
Republican. Harrison
County Auditor, 1878-83; banker;
abstract and title business; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Iowa, 1920.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Died, from heart
disease, in Logan, Harrison
County, Iowa, November
1, 1935 (age 81 years, 194
days).
Interment at Logan Cemetery, Logan, Iowa.
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Talbert Taylor —
of Houston, Texas
County, Mo.
Democrat. Abstractor; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Texas County, 1911-14.
Burial location unknown.
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Ingebert J. Thomsen (b. 1873) —
also known as I. J. Thomsen —
of Minden, Kearney
County, Neb.
Born in North Albid, Denmark,
August
4, 1873.
Republican. Farmer; inventor
of Nu-Matic horse
collar; Kearney
County Clerk, 1916-23; postmaster;
real
estate dealer; abstractor; chair of
Kearney County Republican Party, 1940.
Presbyterian.
Danish
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Peter H. Thomsen and Marie (Johansen) Thomsen; married, November
18, 1903, to Hedvig E. Holstein. |
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David Alan Trott (b. 1960) —
also known as David A. Trott —
of Bingham Farms, Oakland
County, Mich.
Born in Birmingham, Oakland
County, Mich., October
16, 1960.
Republican. Lawyer;
abstract and title business; U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 2015-.
Still living as of 2018.
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Theodore Francis Turner (1868-1951) —
also known as Theo F. Turner; "Father of Idaho State
College" —
of Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho.
Born in Ringgold, Morgan
County, Ohio, May 4,
1868.
Republican. Abstract and title business; member of Idaho
state house of representatives, 1901-02; mayor
of Pocatello, Idaho, 1913-15; Idaho state
auditor, 1903-05; in March 1915, the commissioner of the U.S.
General Land Office found him
guilty of irregular
practices in land office transactions; later, in August 1915, the
Department of the Interior announced that he had been exonerated;
acting postmaster at Pocatello,
Idaho, 1932-33.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons.
Died in Pocatello, Bannock
County, Idaho, April
17, 1951 (age 82 years, 348
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Pocatello, Idaho.
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E. H. Vance —
of Huron, Beadle
County, S.Dak.
Abstractor; member of South
Dakota state senate 22nd District, 1899-1902.
Burial location unknown.
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William A. Wallace (b. 1867) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Maryland, June 6,
1867.
Democrat. Postal
worker; land title worker; merchant;
member of Illinois
state senate 3rd District; elected 1938; alternate delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1940.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African
ancestry. Member, Urban
League; NAACP.
Burial location unknown.
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Halbert Owen Woodward (1918-2000) —
also known as Halbert O. Woodward; Hal
Woodward —
of Coleman, Coleman
County, Tex.
Born in Coleman, Coleman
County, Tex., April 8,
1918.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; land title
supervisor, Humble Oil and
Refining Company, 1945-49; member, Texas State Highway
Commission, 1959-68; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Texas, 1964;
U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, 1968-86; took
senior status 1986.
Methodist.
Died in Brownwood, Brown
County, Tex., October
3, 2000 (age 82 years, 178
days).
Burial location unknown.
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