Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

PoliticalGraveyard.com

Jasper County
Illinois

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Jasper County

George Washington Fithian (1854-1921) — also known asGeorge W. Fithian — of Newton,JasperCounty, Ill.Born near Willow Hill,JasperCounty, Ill.,July 4,1854.Democrat.Lawyer;JasperCounty Prosecuting Attorney, 1876-84;U.S.Representative from Illinois 16th District, 1889-95; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Illinois,1912(member,Platformand Resolutions Committee),1916,1920;member ofIllinoisDemocratic State Central Committee, 1919.Died ofpneumonia,in ahospitalat Memphis,ShelbyCounty, Tenn.,January21, 1921 (age66 years, 201days).Interment at Riverside Cemetery.

Index to Locations

  • NewtonUnknown location
  • NewtonRiverside Cemetery
  • NewtonWestlawn Memorial ParkCemetery

    UnknownLocation
    Newton, Jasper County, Illinois

    RiversideCemetery
    Newton, Jasper County, Illinois
    Edwin Bruce Brooks (1868-1933) — also known asEdwin B. Brooks — of Newton,JasperCounty, Ill.Born in Newton,JasperCounty, Ill.,September20, 1868.Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention fromIllinois,1916;U.S.Representative from Illinois 23rd District, 1919-23; defeated,1922.Died in Newton,JasperCounty, Ill.,September18, 1933 (age64 years, 363days).Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
    Hale JohnsonHale Johnson (1847-1902) — of Newton,JasperCounty, Ill.Born inMontgomeryCounty, Ind.,August21, 1847.Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;lawyer;mayor of Newton, Ill.; Prohibition candidate forVicePresident of the United States, 1896.Disciplesof Christ.While attempting to collect a debt from a farmer, the debtor, HarryHarris,shot andkilledhim, in Bogota,JasperCounty, Ill.,November4, 1902 (age55 years, 75days). Harris was arrested that day, but poisoned himself on theway to jail.Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
     Relatives: Sonof John B. Johnson; married1871 to MaryE. Loofbourrow.
     See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial
     Image source: The Parties and The Men(1896)
     
     Relatives:Cousin *** ofEdmundHoward Hinshaw.
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage
    •  
     Presumably namedfor:GeorgeWashington
     Relatives: Son of Glover Fithian andMary Ann (Catt) Fithian; married to Mary A. Martin; third cousintwice removed ofReubenFithian; fourth cousin once removed ofAmosFithian Garrison Sr.,JamesEzra Sayers andMaryEstelle Sayers.
     Political family:FourThousand Related Politicians..
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial
    Charles SchoenlaubCharles Schoenlaub (1868-1909) — ofCookCounty, Ill.Born in Indiana, June,1868.Prohibition candidate forIllinoisstate house of representatives 23rd District, 1908.Germanancestry.Died inCookCounty, Ill.,December3, 1909 (age41 years, 0days).Interment at Riverside Cemetery.
     Relatives: Sonof Emil Schoenlaub and Appolonia (Strasser) Schoenlaub; married1892 to AnnaM. Robertson.
     See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial
     Image source: Campaign palm card(1908)

    Westlawn MemorialPark Cemetery
    Newton, Jasper County, Illinois
    Laurence Fletcher Arnold (1891-1966) — also known asLaurence F. Arnold — of Newton,JasperCounty, Ill.Born in Newton,JasperCounty, Ill.,June 8,1891.Democrat.Banker;member ofIllinoisstate house of representatives 46th District, 1923-27, 1933-37;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois,1924,1952(alternate);U.S.Representative from Illinois 23rd District, 1937-43; defeated,1942, 1950.Presbyterian.Member,Freemasons;Shriners;Woodmen.Died in Newton,JasperCounty, Ill.,December6, 1966 (age75 years, 181days).Interment at Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives: Sonof John F. Arnold and Della (Barton) Arnold; married,June 3,1914, to Chlora Lane.
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage

    "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of apolitical graveyard."
    Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872    		The Political Graveyard

    The Political Graveyardis a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260politicians, living and dead.
     
     The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President,members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders inall fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; andthe chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifyingmunicipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, forany of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellatejudges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of majorfederal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmastersof qualifying communities; (5) state and national political partyofficials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and otherparticipants in national party nominating conventions;(6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nationsbefore 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify",for Political Graveyard purposes, if theyhave at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive ofpredecessor, successor, and merged entities. 
     The listings areincomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project. 
     Information on this page — and on all other pages of thissite — is believed to be accurate, but isnotguaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sourcesbefore relying on any information here. 
     The official URL for this page is:https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/JS-buried.html. 
     Links to this or any other Political Graveyard pageare welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimeschange as the site develops. 
     If you are searching for a specific named individual, try thealphabetical index of politicians. 
    Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; seeFeistv. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this siteare 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe toconstitutefair use under applicable copyright law. Wherepossible, each image is linked to its online source. However,requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from thissite are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection andarrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum.(4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under aCreative CommonsLicense.
    What is a "political graveyard"? SeePoliticalDictionary;UrbanDictionary.
    Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained byLawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address isThe Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted byHDLmi.com. —The Political Graveyard opened onJuly 1, 1996; the last full revision was done onFebruary 17, 2025.
    [8]ページ先頭
    ©2009-2025 Movatter.jp