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Wanamaker family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thomas Brown Wanamaker (1861-1908) — also known asThomas B. Wanamaker — of Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,March27, 1861.Consulfor Santo Domingo inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1885-94;Consulfor Dominican Republic inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1895-1904.Died, fromkidneydisease, in the LiverpoolHotel,Paris,France,March2, 1908 (age46 years, 341days).Interment atSt.James the Less Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.

Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.

These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

John Wanamaker (1838-1922) — of Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,July 11,1838.Republican.Merchant;opened John Wanamaker & Companystore in1877 (forerunner of moderndepartmentstore); organizer and director, Merchants'Bank;director, Philadelphia and ReadingRailroad;organizer (with others) and trustee, PresbyterianHospital;Republican Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania,1889;U.S.Postmaster General, 1889-93; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from Pennsylvania,1912,1916;Republican Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania,1921.Presbyterian.Alsatianancestry.Died in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,December12, 1922 (age84 years, 154days).Interment atSt.James the Less Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.

	Relatives: Sonof John Nelson Wanamaker and Elizabeth Deshong (Kochersperger)Wanamaker; married1860 to MaryErringer Brown; father ofThomasBrown Wanamaker andLewisRodman Wanamaker.
		Political family:Wanamakerfamily of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		Thecommunityof Wanamaker (now part ofIndianapolis,Indiana), wasnamed forhim. — ThecommunityofWanamaker,South Dakota (now a ghost town), wasnamed forhim.
		See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial
		Image source: The Parties and The Men(1896)

	Relatives: SonofJohnWanamaker and Mary Erringer (Brown) Wanamaker; brother ofLewisRodman Wanamaker; married1887 to MaryLowber Welsh (half-sister ofSamuelWelsh).
		Political family:Wanamakerfamily of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928) — also known asRodman Wanamaker — of Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,February13, 1863.Republican.Departmentstore executive;newspaperowner;Consulfor Uruguay inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1914-26; Republican Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania,1916;Consulfor Dominican Republic inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1921;Consul-Generalfor Paraguay inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1921.Died, fromkidneydisease, in Atlantic City,AtlanticCounty, N.J.,March 9,1928 (age65 years, 25days).Entombed atSt.James the Less Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.; memorialmonument atRue du Maréchal Leclerc, Sarcus, Picardy, France.

	Relatives: SonofJohnWanamaker and Mary Erringer (Brown) Wanamaker; brother ofThomasBrown Wanamaker; married,November4, 1886, to Fernanda Antonia Henry; married1909 to VioletDouglas Marie Cruger.
		Political family:Wanamakerfamily of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial

Samuel Welsh (1864-1907) — of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,April22, 1864.Insurancebusiness;banker;Consul-Generalfor Central America inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1897;HonoraryConsul-General for Guatemala inPhiladelphia,Pa., 1897-1900.Stricken withapoplexy,and died a few days later, in Watch Hill, Westerly,WashingtonCounty, R.I.,August9, 1907 (age43 years, 109days).Interment atSt. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, Whitemarsh, Pa.

	Relatives: Sonof Samuel Welsh (1843-1893) and Elizabeth Conrad (Young) Welsh;half-brother of Mary Lowber Welsh (who marriedThomasBrown Wanamaker); married,October25, 1892, to Emily Loomis Price; grandson ofJohnWelsh; second cousin once removed ofJohnFoster Dulles andAllenWelsh Dulles.
		Political family:Wanamakerfamily of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial
		Image source: Philadelphia Inquirer,August 11, 1907

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