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Abbe, Cleveland b. December 3, 1838 d. October 28, 1916
Scientist. A native of New York City, New York, he studied and taught mathematics and astronomy at the Free Academy in New York, the University of Michigan, Cambridge Massachusetts, and at Pulkova, Russia. In 1868 he was named director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio. While there he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps and weather forecasts. At his urging Cincinnati became the meteorological observation headquarters for the United States. His project was...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section M, Lot 292, Range 5
Abert, William Stretch b. February 1, 1836 d. August 25, 1867
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. The son of Colonel John J. Abert, who was the United States Army's Chief of Topographical Engineers for many years before the Civil War, he was commissioned directly into the United States Army as a Lieutenant of Artillery in 1855. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he was promoted to Captain, and served first in the 3rd United States Regular Cavalry, then in the 6th United States Regular Cavalry, and participated in the early battles of the Spring...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section A, Lot 128A
Adams, Henry Brooks b. February 16, 1838 d. March 27, 1918
Author, Historian. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to one of America's most prominent families, his father was American Diplomat and scholar Charles Francis Adams, his grandfather was 6th United States President John Quincy Adams, and his great-grandfather was 2nd United States President ...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul G. Healy)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Aldrich, William Farrington b. March 11, 1853 d. October 30, 1925
US Congressman. He was thrice elected to represent Alabama's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving first from 1896 to 1897, then from 1898 to 1899, then finally from 1900 to 1901. He was the brother of Congressman Truman H. Aldrich.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Allen, George Venable b. November 3, 1903 d. July 11, 1970
US Diplomat. Served as the United States Ambassador to Iran from 1946 to 1948, United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1949 to 1953, United States Ambassador to India from 1953 to 1954, United States Ambassador to Nepal from 1953 to 1954, and United States Ambassador to Greece from 1956 to 1957. From 1958 to 1960, he was director of the United States Information Agency. In 1966, he was named as a Career Ambassador, the highest post in the Foreign Service. (Bio by: K)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Andrews, Richard Snowden [cenotaph] b. October 29, 1830 d. January 5, 1903
Andrews was an American architect and a Confederate artillery commander and diplomat during the American Civil War. Served as a Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Fought in a number of battles including the Seven Days Battle, where he was wounded. He is known best for his part in the Battle of Cedar Mountain (near Culpeper), Virginia on August 9th 1862. There, near the front, a Federal shell struck his right side, ripping a gaping hole in his abdomen...[Read More] (Bio by: Find A Grave)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Armstrong, Frank Crawford b. November 22, 1835 d. September 8, 1909
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. A Regular Officer in the US Army, he fought for the Union at the First Battle of Bull Run. He didn't decide to join the Confederacy until August 1861, when he resigned. He served on the staffs of CSA Generals James McIntosh and Ben McCulloch (who were both killed at the Battle of Pea Ridge). Promoted to Brigadier General, CSA in 1863. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section L, Lot 41
Aswell, James Benjamin b. December 23, 1869 d. March 16, 1931
US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1913 to 1931.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Babcock, Joseph Weeks b. March 6, 1850 d. April 27, 1909
US Congressman. Elected to represent Wisconsin's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1893 to 1907. Alos served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1889 to 1893.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Baldwin, Abraham b. November 23, 1754 d. March 4, 1807
US Senator and Congressman, Signer of Constitution. He attended Yale in his native Connecticut with the desire to become a minister, but his involvement as an army chaplain during the Revolutionary War changed his career path. While in the Army the young theologian began to study law. Following the war he was encouraged to move to Georgia to help establish the frontier state's education system. He moved there in 1784 establishing a law practice near Augusta. In 1785 he was elected to the state...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Beck, James Montgomery b. July 9, 1861 d. April 12, 1936
US Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 1st and 2nd Districts in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1927 until his resignation in 1934. He also served as an Assistant to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1888 to 1892, as United States Attorney from 1896 to 1900, and as the Solicitor General of the United States from 1921 to 1925. He also authored several books and articles on the First World War and the Constitution of...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Berliner, Emile b. May 20, 1851 d. August 3, 1929
Inventor. Born in Hanover, Germany, he is best known for developing the disc record. In the 1870s, he relocated to Washington D.C. and in November 1887, he patented the first successful system for sound recording that could be mass-produced. He also invented the microphone device used as a telephone speech transmitter. Berliner's trademark, a picture of his dog Nipper listening to his master's voice being played from a gramophone was used by RCA Victor. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Blair Sr., Francis Preston b. April 12, 1791 d. October 18, 1876
Journalist, American Political Figure. Although he never officially held any office, he rose to prominence as a member of President Andrew Jackson�s "Kitchen Cabinet". After he publicly supported President Jackson's opposition to the nullification movement, he was invited to leave his native Kentucky and establish a Democratic newspaper in Washington, DC. That paper, the "Washington Globe", became recognized as the mouthpiece for the Democratic Party. He served in that capacity until 1845, when...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cause of death: Brain hemorrhage
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Blair, Montgomery b. May 10, 1813 d. July 27, 1883
Postmaster General under Abraham Lincoln.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Boehne Jr., John William b. March 2, 1895 d. July 5, 1973
US Congressman. Elected to represent Indiana's 1st and 8th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1931 to 1943.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Brady, Jasper Ewing b. March 4, 1797 d. January 26, 1871
US Congressman. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1827, and commenced practice in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. After serving in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, he was elected as a Whig Congressman from Pennsylvania, serving from 1847 to 1849. He was defeated for reelection in 1848. He resumed the practice of law and was employed as a clerk in the office of the paymaster general in the War Department during the Civil War. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Buchanan, Robert Christie b. March 1, 1811 d. November 29, 1878
Civil War Union Brevet Major General. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he graduated from West Point in 1830 and was a veteran officer of the Black Hawk Seminole wars and Mexican War. When the Civil War erupted he was made Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th US Infantry which was stationed in the defenses of Washington D.C. Promoted Colonel in June 1862, he commanded a brigade at the Second Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg. Brevetted Brigadier General US Army, he commanded Fort Delaware in 1863 and...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section A, Lot 31
Butterworth, Benjamin b. October 22, 1837 d. January 16, 1898
US Congressman. Representative from Ohio's 1st Congressional District. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1879 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1891. He was a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1874 to 1875 and served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880. He was appointed commissioner of the Northern Pacific Railway by President Chester A. Arthur in 1883 and also served as a Regent...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Chautemps, Camille b. February 1, 1885 d. July 1, 1963
Prime Minister of France. Chautemps political career began in 1919 when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a Radical Socialist. He held positions in coalition governments of the 1920's and briefly served as Prime Minister in 1930. He became Prime Minister again from November 26, 1933, to January 30, 1934. This government fell as a result of popular reaction to the suspicious death of embezzler Alexandre Stavisky, though Chautemps was not personally implicated. He headed another...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Holt)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section 20
Clark Jr., John Bullock b. January 14, 1831 d. September 7, 1903
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General, US Congressman. He was born at Fayette, Missouri, and attended local schools, later he entered the Fayette Academy. Furthering his education he entered the University of Missouri when he was 15. After 2 years there he entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1854 and opening a law practice in Fayette, where his father, the senior Clark had begun his own law career in 1824. In 1861 he left his successful practice for the Confederate army, where he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section I, Grave 28-5

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