Thurston, Augusta G. d. 19 Mar 1941 78 yrs. R 132 S 240
Thurston, Augusta C. On Wednesday, March 19, 1941 at the residence of her daughter, 1608 North Randolph st., Arlington, Va., Augusta C. Thurston, beloved wife of the late Frederick C. Thurston and mother of Mrs. Alice A. Topley. Remains resting at the Ives funeral home, 2847 Wilson blvd., Arlington, Va., where funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 22, at 2 p.m. Interment Congressional Cemetery.
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N Thurston, Charles F. b. - d. 31 Dec 1896 yrs. mos. days R 132 S 240 Thurston. On Thursday, December 31, 1896 at 12:10 p.m., Frederick C. Thurston. Funeral Saturday January 2 at 2 p.m. from Lee's, Pennsylvania avenue between 3rd and 4 1/2 street northwest. O Thurston, John Mellon b. 21 Aug 1847 - d. 9 Aug 1916 68 yrs. mos. days R 59 S 83 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-1989 A Senator from Nebraska; born in Montpelier, Vt., August 21, 1847; moved with his parents to Madison, Wis., in 1854 and two years later to Beaver Dam, Wis.; attended the public schools and was graduated from Wayland University, Beaver Dam, Wis.; studied law; was admitted to the bar May 21, 1869, and commenced practice in Omaha, Nebr.; member of the city council 1872-1874; city attorney of Omaha 1874-1877; member of the State house of representatives 1875-1877; appointed assistant attorney of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1877 and general solicitor in 1888; presidential elector on the Republican ticket of Garfield and Arthur in 1880; delegate to the Republican national Convention at Chicago in 1884 which nominated Blaine and Logan and in 1888 which nominated Harrison and Morton, and at Philadelphia in 1900 which nominated McKinley and Roosevelt; temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1888; unsuccessful Republican candidate for United States Senator in 1893; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1901; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman of the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896; appointed United States commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition March 6, 1901; moved to Washington, D.C., and resumed the practice of law; returned to Omaha, Nebr., and practiced law until his death August 9, 1916; remains were cremated at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr., and the ashes interred in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The City of Washington, Its Men & Institutions Hon. John Mellen Thurston, former United States Senator from Nebraska, is one of the many who came to Washington in an official capacity, and becoming enamored of the manifold attractions and possibilities of the national capital elected to make it his home. Mr. Thurston upon his retirement from the Senate, opened a handsome suite of law offices here in the Bond Building, corner of Fourteenth street and New York avenue, northwest, with a branch office at Omaha, Nebraska, and also an office as general counsel of the Yacqui Copper Company, at 170 Broadway, New York. He numbers among his clients business firms from all sections of the country of ht highest standing in the commercial and financial world, as well as public men of influence and power. He is regarded as occupying a position in the front rank of the legal fraternity in the United States. Senator Thurston was born at Montpelier, Vermont, on August 21, 1847. His ancestors were Puritans, and their settlement in this country dates back to 1636. His grandfather, Mellen, and great grandfather, Thurston, were both soldiers in the revolutionary war. His parents, Daniel S. and Ruth (Mellen) Thurston, moved to Wisconsin in 1854. His father was a private soldier in the First Wisconsin Cavalry, and died in the service in the spring of 1863. Senator Thurston was educated in the public schools and at Wayland University, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, supporting himself by farm work, driving teams and other manual labor. He was admitted to the bar May 21, 1869, and in October of the same year located in Omaha, where he has since resided. In that city he was elected a member of the city council in 1872; city attorney of Omaha in 1874, and a member of the Nebraska legislature in 1875. He was a member of the Republican National Convention in 1884, and temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention in 1888; was president of the Republican League of the United States from 1889 to 1891, and was selected as permanent chairman of the Republican National Convention held in St. Louis June 16, 17 and 18, 1896, which nominated Major William McKinley of Ohio, for President. In 1877 he became assistant attorney for the Union Pacific Railway Company, and in February, 1888, was appointed general solicitor of the Union Pacific system,