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Erhardt, John George b. October 11, 1889 d. February 18, 1951
US Ambassador. John George Erhardt was an American Ambassador to South Africa. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Cape Town, South Africa. His body was returned to the United States and interred in the Hamilton College Cemetery, in Clinton, New York. He was a graduate of Hamilton College class of 1915. (Bio by: Tom Morosco)
Hamilton College Cemetery, Clinton, Oneida County, New York, USA
Grant III., Ulysses S. b. July 4, 1881 d. August 29, 1968
US Army General, he was the grandson of the 18th US President and Civil War Union Army General Ulysses Simpson Grant. The son of Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Marie Honoré Grant, he was named for his grandfather, and educated in Austria-Hungary, where his father served as US Minister. He initially attended Columbia University, until he received an appointment to the US Military Academy, and then graduated sixth in the Class of 1903. His classmate, Douglas Macarthur, graduated first in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Hamilton College Cemetery, Clinton, Oneida County, New York, USA
Kirkland, Samuel b. December 1, 1741 d. February 28, 1808
Missionary, Educator. Educated as a lawyer at Princeton, he was ordained to the Congregational ministry and commissioned Indian missionary by the board of correspondence of the Missionary society in 1766. During the Revolution he was active in endeavoring to preserve the neutrality of the Indian Six Nations, made several long journeys among the tribes and attended numerous councils. When peace was declared he resumed his work among the Indians and in 1793, he established the Hamilton Oneida...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Hamilton College Cemetery, Clinton, Oneida County, New York, USA
Root, Elihu b. February 15, 1845 d. February 7, 1937
US Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient. After graduating from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, where his father was a professor of mathematics, he taught for a year at the Rome, New York, Free Academy. He decided to become a lawyer and attended the New York University School of Law, graduating in 1867. He went into private practice as a corporate lawyer and was part of the junior defense counsel during the corruption trial of William "Boss" Tweed in 1873. He...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Hamilton College Cemetery, Clinton, Oneida County, New York, USA
Skenandoah b. 1706 d. March 11, 1816
Oneida Chieftain. Born to the Oneida people, he was called Oskanondonha and achieved the rank chief warrior of the Wolf clan, a position chosen on the basis of merit and ability rather than heredity. He led British allied war parties against the French during the French and Indian War and by 1770 he was the principal leader of Oneida Castle, a major Oneida settlement. Samuel Kirkland, an American missionary, succeeding in converting Skenandoah to Christianity who then took the name John. During...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Hamilton College Cemetery, Clinton, Oneida County, New York, USA
Woollcott, Alexander b. January 19, 1887 d. January 23, 1943
Drama Critic. A graduate of Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, class of 1909, he was known to his friends as "Aleck." His reputation as a critic was built on his wit and skill as an arbiter of taste. He was born on January 19, 1887, in an eighty-five room house once used as a commune in Phalanx, New Jersey. The house was owned bye the Bucklin family, Woollcott's maternal grandparents. The Bucklins and Woollcotts were avid readers setting in young Alexander a lifelong love of literature...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Morosco)
Hamilton College Cemetery, Clinton, Oneida County, New York, USA

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