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| Politicians buriedhere: |  | Jane Addams (1860-1935) — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Cedarville,StephensonCounty, Ill.,September6, 1860.Progressive.Socialworker;sociologist;lecturer;woman suffrage activist; pacifist; delegate to Progressive NationalConvention from Illinois, 1912; Progressive candidate forPresidential Elector for Illinois,1924;received theNobelPeace Prize in 1931.Female.PresbyterianorUnitarian.Englishancestry.Lesbian. Member,PhiBeta Kappa;American CivilLiberties Union;Women'sInternational League for Peace and Freedom;NAACP.Died, fromcancer,in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,May 21,1935 (age74 years, 257days).Interment at Cedarville Cemetery. | | | John Huy Addams (1822-1881) — also known asJohn H. Addams — of Cedarville,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born in Sinking Spring,BerksCounty, Pa.,July 12,1822.Republican. Owner of Cedar Creek Mill, which producedlumber andflour;dirctor, Illinois CentralRailroad;president, Second NationalBank ofFreeport, Illinois; member ofIllinoisstate senate, 1855-61, 1863-71 (4th District 1855-61, 22ndDistrict 1863-71); delegate to Republican National Convention fromIllinois,1868(member,CredentialsCommittee;speaker).Died, ofappendicitis,in ahotel atGreen Bay,BrownCounty, Wis.,August17, 1881 (age59 years, 36days).Interment at Cedarville Cemetery. | | Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951) — also known asE. Haldeman-Julius;EmanuelJulius —of Girard,CrawfordCounty, Kan.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,July 30,1889.Socialist.Author;editor of the SocialistnewspaperAppeal to Reason; founder of Haldeman-Julius Publications,publisherof many five-cent paperback books, called "Little Blue Books"; therewere more than 6,000 titles, mostly literature, biography,self-improvement, and other educational topics, to make them widelyaccessible to the public; all together, from 1919 to 1951, over 500million copies were printed and sold; candidate forU.S.Senator from Kansas, 1932;indictedby a federal grand jury in March, 1950 forincometax evasion;triedandconvictedin April, 1951;sentencedto six months inprison,andfined$12,500; released pending appeal.Jewish;laterAgnostic.Drownedin hisswimmingpool, in Girard,CrawfordCounty, Kan.,July 31,1951 (age62 years, 1days). Possiblysuicide,but the coroner ruled his death to be accidental.Interment at Cedarville Cemetery.
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| Politicians buriedhere: | | | John Wilson Shaffer (1827-1870) — also known asJ. Wilson Shaffer — of Utah. Born in Lewisburg,UnionCounty, Pa.,July 5,1827.General in the Union Army during the Civil War;Governorof Utah Territory, 1870; died in office 1870.Methodist.Member,Freemasons.Died in Salt Lake City,Salt LakeCounty, Utah,October31, 1870 (age43 years, 118days).Interment somewhere.
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| Politicians buriedhere: | | | Thomas Johnston Turner (1815-1874) — also known asThomas J. Turner — of Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born inTrumbullCounty, Ohio,April 5,1815.Democrat.Lawyer;probate judge in Illinois, 1842;postmaster;newspaperpublisher;U.S.Representative from Illinois 6th District, 1847-49; member ofIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1854;mayorof Freeport, Ill., 1855; colonel in the Union Army during theCivil War;delegateto Illinois state constitutional convention 56th District,1869-70.Died in Hot Springs,GarlandCounty, Ark.,April 4,1874 (age58 years, 364days).Interment at City Cemetery.
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| Politicians buriedhere: | | | Smith Dykins Atkins (1835-1913) — also known asSmith D. Atkins — of Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born in Horseheads,ChemungCounty, N.Y.,June 9,1835.Republican. General in the Union Army during the Civil War;newspapereditor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,1896;postmaster atFreeport,Ill., 1901.Died in Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.,March27, 1913 (age77 years, 291days).Interment at Freeport City Cemetery.
OaklandCemetery Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois See alsoFindagravepage for this location.| Politicians buriedhere: | | | William Richard Johnson (1875-1938) — also known asWilliam R. Johnson — of Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born in Rock Island,Rock IslandCounty, Ill.,May 15,1875.Republican.U.S.Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1925-33.DiedJanuary2, 1938 (age62 years, 232days).Interment at Oakland Cemetery. | | Horatio Chapin Burchard (1825-1908) — of Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born in Marshall,OneidaCounty, N.Y.,September22, 1825.Republican.Lawyer;member ofIllinoisstate house of representatives 56th District, 1863-67;U.S.Representative from Illinois, 1869-79 (3rd District 1869-73, 5thDistrict 1873-79); director of the U.S. Mint, 1879-85.Died in Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.,May 14,1908 (age82 years, 235days).Interment at Oakland Cemetery. | | Marvin F. Burt (1905-1983) — of Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born in Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.,November20, 1905.Lawyer;bankdirector; member ofIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1945-52; member ofIllinoisstate senate, 1953-60; circuit judge in Illinois 15th Circuit,1965-69;justice ofIllinois state supreme court 2nd District, 1969-70; appointed1969.Episcopalian.Member,Rotary;Elks.Died, in Freeport ManorNursingHome, Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.,October14, 1983 (age77 years, 328days).Interment at Oakland Cemetery. | | John A. Ascher — of Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.Democrat.Physician;member of Nevada state legislature, 1910; candidate forU.S.Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1926, 1930;mayorof Freeport, Ill., 1930.Interment at Oakland Cemetery. | | Harry Herbert Stahl (1875-1960) — also known asHarry H. Stahl — of Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born in Lena,StephensonCounty, Ill.,October4, 1875.Mayorof Freeport, Ill., 1915-19;delegateto Illinois state constitutional convention 12th District,1920-22.Methodist.Member,Rotary;Freemasons;ScottishRite Masons.Died, in ahospitalat Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.,November4, 1960 (age85 years, 31days).Interment at Oakland Cemetery. | | Homer Franklin Aspinwall (1846-1919) — also known asHomer F. Aspinwall — of Illinois. Born in Florence,StephensonCounty, Ill.,November15, 1846.Republican. Member ofIllinoisstate senate 12th District, 1893-1901.Died in Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.,February23, 1919 (age72 years, 100days).Interment at Oakland Cemetery. | | Frank Everett Furst (1874-1936) — also known asFrank Furst — of Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.Born in Lancaster Township,StephensonCounty, Ill.,March12, 1874.Republican. Co-founder of the Furst-McNess Company, maker oflivestockfeed andmedicine;alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,1936.Died in Freeport,StephensonCounty, Ill.,September7, 1936 (age62 years, 179days).Interment at Oakland Cemetery.| |  Relatives: Sonof Samuel Furst and Harriet (Grimes) Furst. |
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