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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Monona County, Iowa</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Addison Oliver</b> — of Onawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-lived.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa. Born near Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/07-21.html">July 21, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/sthse.html">Iowa state house of representatives</a>, 1863-64; delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1864/IA.html">1864</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/stsen.html">Iowa state senate</a>, 1865-67; circuit judge in Iowa 4th District, 1869-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Iowa</a> 9th District, 1875-79. Died in Onawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-died.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/07-07.html">July 7, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 352 days</a>). Interment at Onawa Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oliver-ollius.html#301.84.57">Cyrus Goldsmith Oliver</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000076">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408349">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Cyrus Goldsmith Oliver (1864-1929)</b> — of Onawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-lived.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa. Born in Onawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-born.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/08-07.html">August 7, 1864</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/sthse.html">Iowa state house of representatives</a>, 1923-29. Died in Onawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-died.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/02-15.html">February 15, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 192 days</a>). Interment at Onawa Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oliver-ollius.html#434.36.43">Samuel Addison Oliver</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms05075">Whiting Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Whiting, Monona County, Iowa <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Charles Edwin Whiting (1821-1897)</b> — of Iowa. Born in Sodus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WN-born.html">Wayne County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/01-17.html">January 17, 1821</a>. Democrat. County judge in Iowa, 1857-59; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Iowa</a>, 1874; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/stsen.html">Iowa state senate</a>, 1883-87; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Iowa</a>, 1885. Died in Whiting, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-died.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/12-01.html">December 1, 1897</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 318 days</a>). Interment at Whiting Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Charles Edwin Whiting (1797-1867) and Laurinda (Eveleth) Whiting; married to Nancy Criner; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html#370.67.41">William Criner Whiting</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html#445.46.59">Willard Baxter Whiting</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#176.96.95">Jabez Upham</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#242.54.33">George Baxter Upham</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#760.60.12">James Phineas Upham</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sweetland-swinburne.html#076.83.55">Monroe Marsh Sweetland</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a> (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6663776">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William Criner Whiting (1857-1936)</b> — also known as <b>Will C. Whiting</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-lived.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa. Born in Whiting, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-born.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/09-05.html">September 5, 1857</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/IA.html">1904</a>. Died in Whiting, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-died.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/12-07.html">December 7, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 93 days</a>). Interment at Whiting Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html#982.51.54">Charles Edwin Whiting</a> and Nancy (Criner) Whiting; married to Mary E. Elliott; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html#445.46.59">Willard Baxter Whiting</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#176.96.95">Jabez Upham</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#242.54.33">George Baxter Upham</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#760.60.12">James Phineas Upham</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/34573592">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Willard Baxter Whiting (1874-1942)</b> — also known as <b>Willard B. Whiting</b> — of Whiting, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-lived.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa. Born in Whiting, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-born.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/08-25.html">August 25, 1874</a>. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/IA.html">1924</a>. Died in Whiting, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MN-died.html">Monona County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/09-09.html">September 9, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 15 days</a>). Interment at Whiting Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Bemis Whiting and Elizabeth Urania (Morley) Whiting; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/">1898</a> to Lulu Dorrance Bishop; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html#982.51.54">Charles Edwin Whiting</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html#370.67.41">William Criner Whiting</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#176.96.95">Jabez Upham</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#242.54.33">George Baxter Upham</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/upham.html#760.60.12">James Phineas Upham</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0051.html">Upham family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/60822566">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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