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Bartley, Thomas Welles b. February 11, 1812 d. June 20, 1885
Ohio Governor. Born in Jefferson County, Ohio, he moved to Mansfield, Ohio with his family in 1814 when he was a child. Bartley graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1829 and returned to Mansfield to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced to practice as an attorney. He was elected as the Richland County Prosecuting Attorney and served from 1835 to 1839. He then became a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives and served from 1839 until he...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
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GPS coordinates: 38.9226799, -77.0058289 (hddd.dddd)
Bradley, William A. d. August 28, 1867
Washington Mayor. He served as the Mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1834 to 1836.
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Brumidi, Constantino b. July 26, 1805 d. February 18, 1880
Artist. Many biographers refer to him as the "Michelangelo of the Capitol." He grew up in Rome and studied at the Italian Academy of Arts. During the French occupation of Italy he was 47 years of age and decided it was time to immigrate to the United States. He settled in New York City and became a naturalized citizen in 1852. Returning from a visit to Mexico in 1854 he stopped in Washington, DC and toured the Capitol building. He recognized the vast interior of the building as a great...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
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Crocker, John Simpson b. March 4, 1825 d. September 14, 1890
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. During the 1850s, Crocker served in the New York House of Representatives and was Colonel of the 30th Regiment New York State Militia. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered and was appointed Colonel in command of the 93rd Regiment New York State Volunteers, Army of the Potomac. During the 1862, Yorktown Siege, Confederate forces captured and imprisoned him first in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia and then Salisbury Prison, North Carolina...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section G, Lot 194
Darrall, Chester Bidwell b. June 24, 1842 d. January 1, 1908
US Congressman. Born in Addison, Pennsylvania, he graduated from medical school. During the Civil War, served in the Union Army as Chief Surgeon in the 86th New York Volunteer Infantry. In 1867 he resigned from the army while on duty in Louisiana, and settled in Brashear, (now Morgan City) Louisiana. There he was elected to Congress and served from 1869 to 1877. He was re-elected in the 1877 elections and served until February 20, 1878, when his seat was given to Joseph H. Acklen, who...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
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Foster, Abel Lawrence b. September 17, 1802 d. May 21, 1877
US Congressman. Known as A. Lawrence Foster, he studied law in Vernon, New York, was admitted to the bar in 1827, and practiced in nearby Morrisville. In 1840 he was elected to US House of Representatives as a Whig and served one term, 1841 to 1843. During his term he was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury. In 1844 he moved to a farm in Fairfax, Virginia, including the land that is now Tysons Corner. In the 1850s he served as a Fairfax County...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
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Gaines, William Embre b. August 30, 1844 d. May 4, 1912
US Congressman. A native of Charlotte Court House, Virginia, he served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Virgnia's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1887 to 1889. He also served as a Member of the Virginia State Senate from 1883 to 1887. (Bio by: K)
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Gardner, Alexander b. October 17, 1821 d. December 10, 1882
Civil War Photographer. He was born in Paisley, Scotland, and was reared in poverty, and left school at 14 to work as a jeweler's apprentice. To further his education, he took evening classes at the Glasgow Athenaeum, studying astronomy, optics, physics and chemistry. At 21 he joined the Glasgow Sentinel as a reporter. By the 1850s, photography was flourishing in Paisley. His expertise in the wet-plate process soon gained him recognition, and he became editor of the Glasgow Sentinel. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
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Garfield, Selucius b. December 8, 1822 d. April 13, 1881
US Congressman. He served in the United States House of Representatives from March 1869 to March 1873 as a representative from the Washington Territory. Prior to being elected to Congress he served as a delegate to the Kentucky state constitutional convention in 1849 and as a representative from Kentucky to the Democratic National Convention in 1856. He was a member of the California State House of Representatives from 1853 to 1854 representing the 12th District and served as surveyor general...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
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Gathmann, Louis b. August 11, 1843 d. June 4, 1917
Famed Inventor, Professor, Astronomer, Businessman, and Politican. He invented the first sectional telescope lenses, the Big Berthas of the Great War, the German 42-CM Shell, and countless other weapons of that era. His son Emil was the famed inventor who ran Gathmann Engineering of Baltimore, the company famous for generating the best steel Ingot Molds of the 1920s through the 1950s. (Bio by: Jim Gathmann)
Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Gillet, Ransom Hooker b. January 27, 1800 d. October 24, 1876
US Congressman. Elected as a Jacksonian to represent New York's 14th District in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses, he served from 1833 to 1837. Gillet studied law privately in Canton, New York, was admitted to the bar and became an attorney in Ogdensburg, where he also served as Postmaster (1830 to 1833). He was not a candidate for renomination to Congress in 1836. In later life he worked for the US Treasury Department as a Register and Solicitor, served as New York Assistant...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
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Hood, Gretchen b. September 15, 1886 d. May 2, 1978
Opera Singer, Composer.
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Kendall, Amos b. August 16, 1789 d. November 12, 1869
Journalist, Statesman. He graduated at the head of his class from Dartmouth College in 1811, was a tutor, journalist and was personal friend of President Andrew Jackson. Following Jackson's election in 1829, he went to Washington, D.C., became fourth Auditor of the Treasury and was the President's intimate adviser. He proved an able administrator and became Postmaster General in 1834, holding office until 1840. As Jackson's assistant, he wrote most of the President's annual addresses and...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Ladd, Edwin Freemont b. December 13, 1859 d. June 22, 1925
US Senator. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1884 and was a chemist of the New York State Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, 1884 to 1890. From 1890 to 1916, he served as dean of the school and professor of chemistry at the North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, North Dakota, also as chief chemist of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. He was editor of the North Dakota Farmer at Lisbon, from 1899 to 1904 and administrator of the State pure-food laws, for...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Leutze, Emanuel b. May 24, 1816 d. July 18, 1868
Painter - 'Washington Crossing the Delaware.'
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Mackey, Edmund William McGregor b. March 8, 1846 d. January 27, 1884
US Congressman. Elected to represent South Carolina's 2nd and 7th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1875 to 1876, 1882 to 1883, and 1883 to 1884. He also served as a Delegate to the South Carolina State Constitutional Convention in 1867, and Member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives in 1873. (Bio by: K)
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Manning, Vannoy Hartog 'Van' b. July 26, 1839 d. November 2, 1892
Civil War Confederate Army Officer, US Congressman. Served as Colonel and commander of the 3rd Arkansas Regiment. Severely wounded at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, while attacking the Devil's Den-Wheatfield area. Served as a Congressman after the war from Mississippi 1877 to 1883. (Bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
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McCreery, John Luckey b. December, 1835 d. September 6, 1906
Author, Poet.
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Mills, Clark
Sculptor. Born in 1810, he was an American sculptor whom pioneered the first versions of free standing bronze equestrian statues. On January 8, 1853, the 38th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, he unveiled the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park, Washington D.C. He also sculptured the equestrian statue of George Washington in Washington Circle and the bronze Statue of Freedom which sits atop the United States Capitol building. After the Civil War in 1865, Mills made a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Parker, John F. b. May 19, 1830 d. June 28, 1890
Bodyguard. The night Lincoln was assassinated Parker was in charge of guarding the president. On May 1, 1865, Parker was charged with neglect of duty in connection with the assassination. He was tried but the case was dismissed in June 1865. Parker died in Washington D.C. years later of pneumonia, asthma and exhaustion. He was buried beside his children in Glenwood Cemetery there. Parker's wife died in 1904, and is also buried beside him. The specific plot is not marked. (Bio by: Barry Sharpe)
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