Beech, John Pointon b. May 1, 1844 d. September 27, 1926 Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. On May 12, 1864 At the Battle of Spotsylvania, a section of an artillery battery was deployed in front of then-Corporal John P. Beech's 4th New Jersey Infantry Regiment. In minutes most of the battery's men had been cut done by enemy fire. Corporal Beech sprang forward and assisted the remaining cannoneers despite being under severe fire the entire time. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery in 1894, thirty years after...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge) Mercer Cemetery, Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
Hammell, John Sweeney b. March, 1842 d. January 31, 1873 A Lt. Col. in the 66th New York Infantry during the American Civil War, John Sweeney Hammell was breveted a brigadier general for distinguished gallantry in command of his regiment, and a brigade, from the Rapidan to Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864. He served as a U.S. Post Trader at Camp Baker in Montana Territory at the end of the Civil War and died there in 1873. (Bio by: Thomas Fisher) Mercer Cemetery, Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
Wood, Ira Wells b. June 19, 1856 d. October 5, 1931 US Congressman. He was elected as a Republican to represent New Jersey's 4th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, filling a vacancy caused by the resignation of Congressman William Mershon Lanning, who had accepted a position of United States Circuit Judge for the Third Judicial Circuit. Congressman Wells served for four Congressional terms, serving from November 8, 1904 to March 3, 1913. He declined to run for a fifth term, and he was succeeded by Congressman...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge) Mercer Cemetery, Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
b. May 1, 1844 d. September 27, 1926