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Davis, David b. March 9, 1815 d. June 26, 1886
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. Born in Cecil County Maryland, he attended public school, graduated from Kenyon College Ohio, in 1832 and with a law degree form Yale University in 1835. He also served as a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives in 1845 and presided a judge over the 8th Circuit Court of Illinois (1848-62). On October 17, 1862, he received an appointment to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court form President Abraham Lincoln. In March 1877, he resigned...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section G, Lot 659
Dick, George Frederick b. February 22, 1829 d. November 12, 1914
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He entered upon his Civil War service as Captain of Compay D, 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, rising to the rank of Major in that regiment. He was later commissioned Colonel and commander of the 86th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was brevetted Brigadier General on March 13, 1865 for “meritorious services during the war”. (Bio by: Steve Dunn)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section 16, Lot 6
Doubleday, Ulysses Freeman b. December 15, 1792 d. March 10, 1866
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 24th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1831 to 1833, and 1835 to 1837. (Bio by: K)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section 8, Row 5
Fell, Jesse Weldon b. November 10, 1808 d. February 25, 1887
Educator. Founder of Illinois State University. He is purported to be the man who talked Abraham Lincoln into running for president.
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Fitzhenry, Louis b. June 13, 1870 d. November 18, 1935
US Congressman. He was admitted to the bar in 1897, opened a law practice in Bloomington, Illinois and was City Attorney of Bloomington, 1907 to 1911. In 1913, he was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress, serving until 1915. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he was appointed United States district judge of Illinois in 1918, and judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in 1933, serving until his death. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Funk, Benjamin Franklin b. October 17, 1838 d. February 14, 1909
US Congressman. During the Civil War, he served in the 68th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. From 1871 to 1876 and 1884 to 1886, he was Mayor of Bloomington, Illinois. In 1893, he was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress, serving until 1895. An unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination, he resumed agricultural pursuits until his death. US Congressman Frank Hamilton Funk was his son. (Bio by: Tony Cannon)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Gage, Dorothy Louise b. June 11, 1898 d. November 11, 1898
Literary Figure. She was the niece of Maud (Gage) Baum and her husband, and "The Wizard of Oz" author, L. Frank Baum. Born to Sophie Jewel and Thomas Clarkson Gage in June 1898, she tragically died only 5 months later (the "official" cause of death was listed as "congestion of the brain"). The Baums had four sons, and Maud had always longed for a daughter. Maud was devastated by the infant's death, and it is said that her husband used the child's name in his Oz stories (and later books) to...[Read More]
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Laughlin, Rankin G. b. February 27, 1827 d. December 6, 1878
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Served in the Civil War first as Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the 94th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, then as the acting Asistant Inspector General on the staff of Maj. General Gordon Granger. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "gallant and meritorious conduct at Mobile, Ala.". (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section D, Lot 363
Litta, Marie b. June 1, 1856 d. July 7, 1883
Opera Singer. She was a soprano, who, in a brief career, sang in a number of major venues in America and Europe. Raised in Illinois by a family descended from German nobility, she started vocal training at four, sang for President US Grant at 12, and entered the Cleveland Conservatory of Music in 1872. She continued her training in London in 1874, and made her professional debut at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1876. Miss Litta made her Paris bow in 1878 (it was then that she changed her name in...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section B
McNulta, John b. November 9, 1837 d. February 22, 1900
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. Born in New York City, New York, he was studying law when he joined the Union Army at the start of the Civil War. Commissioned a Captain in the 1st Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, he later rose to the rank of Colonel in command of the 94th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "Gallant and meritorious services in the siege and reduction of Spanish Fort, Ala.". After the war, he...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Big Circle, Lot 1
Orme, William Ward b. February 17, 1832 d. September 13, 1866
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Born in the District of Columbia, he graduated from Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland. He moved to Chicago, and then to Bloomington, Illinois, where he was admitted to the bar and became a law partner of Leonard Swet, gaining the respect of future president Abraham Lincoln. He attended the 1861 Illinois constitutional convention, then answered the call to fight; on August 20, 1862, he joined the 94th Illinois Infantry as its colonel. He commanded a brigade...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section B, Lot 12
Radbourne, Charles b. December 11, 1854 d. February 5, 1897
Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Player. Born Charles Gardner Radbourn in Rochester, New York, he made his debut as a right handed pitcher for the Providence Grays on May 5, 1880. Nicknamed "Old Hoss", he played for 11 seasons with for the Providence Grays 1881 to 1885, Boston Beaneaters 1886 to 1889, Boston Reds 1890 and Cincinnati Reds 1891. In 1884, he won the National League's' pitching Triple Crown with a 1.38 earned run average, 441 strikeouts and 60 wins in a season, a record which is...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Smith, Giles Alexander b. September 29, 1829 d. November 5, 1876
Civil War Union Major General. Born in New York, when the Civil War began he was in Missouri, where he joined his brother Colonel Morgan L. Smith's volunteer infantry regiment and was appointed Captain. In 1862, he was commissioned Colonel to a brigade in General William T. Sherman 's Army and for his performance in the capture of Arkansas Post was promoted Brigadier General. He fought with General Ulysses S. Grant at Vicksburg in 1863 and with General Sherman at Atlanta in 1864. In 1865, he...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section G, Lot 696
Stevenson I., Adlai Ewing b. October 23, 1835 d. June 14, 1914
23rd United States Vice President, US Congressman. He was twice elected as a Democrat to represent Illinois' 13th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving first from 1875 to 1877, then from 1879 to 1881. He served as the Assistant Postmaster General in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland, and was tabbed to be Cleveland's running mate when he ran again for the Presidency of the United States. The Cleveland-Stevenson was elected in 1892, and...[Read More]
Cause of death: Heart Attack
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Stevenson II., Adlai Ewing b. February 5, 1900 d. July 14, 1965
Illinois Governor, US Presidential Candidate, US Ambassador. He was regarded by many as being one of the most eloquent public speakers in American Political History. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Governor of the State of Illinois from 1949 to 1953. Born Adlai Ewing Stevenson, II, in Los Angeles, California, he was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson, Vice President of the United States under Grover Cleveland. He attended Princeton, Harvard and Northwestern University, prior to...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Tipton, Thomas Foster b. August 29, 1833 d. February 7, 1904
US Congressman. His family moved from Ohio to McLean County, Illinois in 1843, where he studied law, won admission to the bar and started a practice in 1854. From 1867 to 1868 he was State's Attorney for the judicial district that included McLean County, and from 1870 to 1877 he was the district's Circuit Court Judge. He was also co-publisher and co-editor of The Western Jurist, a monthly law review. In 1876 Tipton was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican and served one...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Vrooman, Carl b. October 25, 1872 d. April 9, 1966
Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Born in Macon, Missouri, he was educated at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas and Harvard University. He was appointed regent of the Kansas State Agricultural College serving (1898-1900). Active in political farming affairs, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914. During World War I while serving in this position, he promoted the "War Gardens" project which organized sending a million bushels...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA

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