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• Banks, George Lovell    b. October 13, 1839  d. August 20, 1924
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Served during the Civil War as a Sergeant in Company C, 15th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery during the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on November 25, 1863. His citation reads "As color bearer, led his regiment in the assault, and, though wounded, carried the flag forward to the enemy's works, where he was again wounded. In a brigade of 8 regiments this flag was the first planted on the parapet". His...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
   
• Brown, William Rufus    b. October 11, 1823  d. March 24, 1891
  Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He entered Civil War service on July 22, 1861, when he was commissioned as Captain and commander of Company E, 4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He led his company for over a year, then was honorably mustered out on August 31, 1862. A little over a month later he rejoined the Union war effort, being commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel of the 13th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. At it's beginning the regiment only had eight of the required ten...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
  Plot: Section F, Lot 107
   
• Humphrey, Lyman Underwood    b. July 25, 1844  d. September 12, 1915
  Politician. Served as, Candidate for Kansas State House of Representatives (1871), Member of of Kansas State Senate (1876), Lieutenant Governor of Kansas (1877), Governor of Kansas (1889-1893) and Candidate for United States Representative from Kansas (1892).
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
   
• Inge, William    b. May 3, 1913  d. June 10, 1973
  Playwright.
  Cause of death: Suicide
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
   
• Meyer, Herbert Alton  b. August 30, 1886  d. 1950
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Kansas's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1947 to 1950.
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
   
• Rusher, William   b. July 19, 1923  d. April 16, 2011
  Political Activist, Theorist. An attorney, syndicated columnist, and magazine publisher, he shall be remembered as the longtime conservative philosopher of the Republican Party. Raised in New York City from early childhood, Rusher graduated from Princeton University in 1943, served with the US Army Air Corps in India during World War II, then earned a degree from Harvard Law School in 1948. He was in a New York legal practice for several years before joining the staff of William F. Buckley's "...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
   
• Tann, George A.   b. November 27, 1825  d. March 31, 1909
  Literary Figure. The Black homeopath who treated the Ingalls family for malaria. He was featured as "Dr. Tan" in the book "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
  Mount Hope Cemetery, Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
   

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