Very incomplete list! | |  Lewis Dewart Apsley (1852-1925) — also known asLewis D. Apsley — of Hudson,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Northumberland,NorthumberlandCounty, Pa.,September29, 1852.Republican. Founder and president of ApsleyRubber Co. (laterFirestone-Apsley), manufacturers of rubberclothing;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 4th District, 1893-97; delegateto Republican National Convention from Massachusetts,1904.Died, in a private Americanhospital,Colón,Panama,April11, 1925 (age72 years, 194days).Interment atForestvaleCemetery, Hudson, Mass.  | William Alfred Buckingham (1804-1875) — also known asWilliam A. Buckingham — of Norwich,New LondonCounty, Conn.Born in Lebanon,New LondonCounty, Conn.,May 28,1804.Republican.Dry goodsmerchant; ingrainwoolcarpetmanufacturer, and later ofrubber goods;mayorof Norwich, Conn., 1849-50, 1856-57;Governor ofConnecticut, 1858-66;U.S.Senator from Connecticut, 1869-75; died in office 1875.Congregationalist.Died in Norwich,New LondonCounty, Conn.,February5, 1875 (age70 years, 253days).Interment atYanticCemetery, Norwich, Conn. | | William C. Campbell (c.1924-1984) — of Highland Park,MiddlesexCounty, N.J.; Piscataway,MiddlesexCounty, N.J.; Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.Born in New Brunswick,MiddlesexCounty, N.J., about 1924.Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II;lawyer;mayorof Highland Park, N.J., 1954-55;mayorof Piscataway Township, N.J., 1961-63; vice-president, U.S.Rubber Manufacturers Association.Died, from aheartattack, in Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.,January5, 1984 (ageabout 60years).Burial location unknown. | | Howard Aldridge Coffin (1877-1956) — also known asHoward A. Coffin — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Middleboro,PlymouthCounty, Mass.,June 11,1877.Republican. Sales representative, Ginn & Companybookpublishers, 1901-11; controller, WarrenMotor CarCompany, 1911-13; regional manager, FirestoneTireandRubber Company, 1913-18; secretary, DetroitPressedSteel Company, 1918-21; assistant to president, CadillacMotor CarCompany, 1921-25; vice-president, later president, White StarOilRefining Company, 1925-33; division manager, Socony-VacuumOilCompany, 1933;U.S.Representative from Michigan 13th District, 1947-49; defeated,1944, 1948.Baptist.Member,Rotary.Died inWashington,D.C.,February28, 1956 (age78 years, 262days).Interment atWoodlawnCemetery, Detroit, Mich.  | Edmund Day (b. 1831) — of Seymour,New HavenCounty, Conn.Born in West Springfield,HampdenCounty, Mass.,December12, 1831.Republican.Rubber goods manufacturer;papermanufacturer; member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives from Seymour, 1874; member ofConnecticutstate senate 7th District, 1884-85; president, SeymourElectricLight Company.Member,UnionLeague.Burial location unknown. | | | Charles Ranlett Flint (1850-1934) — also known asCharles R. Flint;"Father ofTrusts" —of Brooklyn,KingsCounty, N.Y.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Thomaston,KnoxCounty, Maine,January24, 1850.Shippingbusiness;shipowner;financier;Consulfor Chile inNewYork, N.Y., 1877-79;Consul-Generalfor Costa Rica inNewYork, N.Y., 1891-96; in the 1890s, he consolidated groups ofsmaller companies to form large corporations or "trusts": U.S.Rubber (1892); American Chicle (chewinggum) (1899); AmericanWoolen(1899); founder, in 1911, of theComputing-Tabulating-RecordingCompany, which later became International Busines Machines (IBM).Died, in his room at the ShorehamHotel,Washington,D.C.,February26, 1934 (age84 years, 33days).Interment atRockCreek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Harry E. Humphreys Jr. — of Scarsdale,WestchesterCounty, N.Y.Vice-president, U.S.Rubber Company;mayorof Scarsdale, N.Y., 1947-48.Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. | | Frederick L. Lamson — of Norwalk,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Republican. Vice-president, NorwalkTireandRubber Co.; alternate delegate to Republican NationalConvention from Connecticut,1920.Burial location unknown. | | Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (1878-1937) — also known asGrayson M. P. Murphy — of Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,December19, 1878.Republican. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; Commissionerof the American Red Cross in Europe, 1917;financier;director, BethlehemSteelCorporation, GoodyearTireandRubber Company, Anaconda CopperMiningCompany, NationalAviationCorporation;delegateto New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.Died, ofbronchialpneumonia, in DoctorsHospital,Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,October18, 1937 (age58 years, 303days).Interment atKensicoCemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. | | Fred William Yoos (1879-1940) — also known asFred W. Yoos — of Akron,SummitCounty, Ohio.Born in Cleveland,CuyahogaCounty, Ohio,January20, 1879.Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;railroadflagman;policeofficer;rubbertireworker; after serving as an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, heresigned, or was expelled, and announced in January 1923 that hewould expose corruption and "un-American prejudice" in the local Klanorganization; on January 18, police received an anonymous "tip off"that Yoos was illegallycarrying aconcealed weapon; he wassearched,and no weapon was found on his person, but a companion had a gun, andYoos wasarrestedand held in jail for days until released; he continued to expressopposition to the Ku Klux Klan, but did not make the disclosures hepromised; Independent candidate formayor ofAkron, Ohio, 1923.Germanancestry. Member,Ku KluxKlan;Freemasons.Died in Akron,SummitCounty, Ohio,May 31,1940 (age61 years, 132days).Interment atRoseHill Burial Park, Fairlawn, Ohio.| |  Relatives: Sonof Fred B. Yoos and Katie (Hurst) Yoos; married,October24, 1900, to Hedwig 'Hattie' Wojahn. |
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