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Margaret Mather

1859–1898 (age 39)

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Victorian actress.

Littleton Waller Tazewell

1774–1860 (age 86)

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Littleton Waller Tazewell was a prominent Virginia statesman who served as governor and U.S. senator.

Lucius Lyon

1800–1851 (age 51)

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U.S. Senator and first congressman from Michigan's second district who helped found Grand Rapids.

Zachariah Chandler

1813–1879 (age 66)

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U.S. Senator from Michigan and Secretary of the Interior who served as Mayor of Detroit.

Truman H. Newberry

1864–1945 (age 81)

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Businessman and U.S. Senator from Michigan who served as Secretary of the Navy.

William Edmond Armitage

1830–1873 (age 43)

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Second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wisconsin from 1870 to 1873.