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Jackson, Joseph Cooke b. August 5, 1835 d. May 22, 1901
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A Yale and Harvard trained lawyer, he was admitted to the New York Bar, and practiced law in New York City prior to the Civil War. At the beginning of the conflict he served as a volunteer Aide-de-Camp for Brigadier General Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter fame before receiving a commission of 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry on October 11, 1861. He then was tabbed to act as an Aide-de-Camp to brigade commander Brigadier...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Plot: Section 1, Lot 21
GPS coordinates: 41.7210083, -72.6992111 (hddd.dddd)
Jewell, Marshall b. October 20, 1825 d. February 10, 1883
Jewell served as Governor of Connecticut from 1869-1870 and 1871-1873, United States Minister to Russia from 1873-1874 and United States Postmaster General from 1874-1876.
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Jewell, Pliney b. 1797 d. 1869
Belting industrialist. The use of belting to transport steam power throughout a factory was an innovation of the Jewell Belting Company.
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
McCook, John James b. February 4, 1843 d. January 9, 1927
Social Reformer, Clergyman and Educator. He was a member of "the Fighting McCooks", the Ohio family that had seventeen members fight for the Union during the Civil War. John James McCook graduated from Connecticut's Trinity College in 1863 and was ordained in the Episcopal Church. He served as a chaplain in the 1st [West] Virginia Infantry, a regiment recruited primarily in Ohio. After the war he became a pastor in...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
GPS coordinates: 41.7231293, -72.6973801 (hddd.dddd)
Morgan, Edwin Denison b. February 8, 1811 d. February 14, 1883
Civil War Union Major General, New York Governor, US Senator. Born in Washington, Massachusetts, he was in the wholesale grocery business when elected as the Republican Governor of New York, serving 1859 to 1862. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army as a Major General commander of the Department of New York, 1861 to 1863. In 1863, he was elected as a Republican to the US Senate, serving until 1869. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
GPS coordinates: 41.7199593, -72.7014465 (hddd.dddd)
Morgan, John Pierpont 'J.P.' b. April 17, 1837 d. March 31, 1913
Businessman. Considered a legendary figure in American Financial History, he is best known as founder of the banking house of "J. P. Morgan & Co.", which played a central role in the formation of General Electric Company, United States Steel Corporation, General Motors Corporation, and other major corporate deals of that era. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of a successful international investment banker who operated mainly out of London, England, he was educated in Boston, Massachusetts...[Read More] (Bio by: Edward Parsons)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Oakey, Peter Davis b. February 25, 1861 d. November 18, 1920
US Congressman. Elected to represent Connecticut's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1915 to 1917. (Bio by: K)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Pratt, Francis Ashbury b. February 15, 1827 d. February 10, 1902
U.S. mechanical engineer and machine-tool manufacturer. Francis Ashbury Pratt was the founder of Pratt & Whitney. He founded the company with Amos Whitney in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. He is credited with being first to permit production of fine gear work. He manufactured machine tools and tools for gun making and sewing machines. He promoted interchangeable parts and the adoption of standard system of gauges for the United States and Europe. Among several machine-tool patents, his most...[Read More] (Bio by: David Stelly)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Roberts, Henry b. January 22, 1853 d. May 1, 1929
Connecticut Governor. Served as the Governor of Connecticut from 1905 to 1907. Also served as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1903 to 1905. (Bio by: K)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Seymour, Thomas Henry b. September 29, 1807 d. September 3, 1868
US Congressman. Elected to representConnecticut's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1843 to 1845. Also served as a State Court Judge from 1836 to 1838, Governor of Connecticut from 1850 to 1853, United States Minister to Russia from 1853 to 1858, and Candidate for the Democratic Nomination for President in 1864 (Bio by: K)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Shipman, Nathaniel b. August 22, 1828 d. June 26, 1906
US Congressman and Judge. Served as a Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives in 1857, Judge of the United States District Court for Connecticut in 1873, and Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd District from 1892 to 1902. (Bio by: K)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Stedman, Griffin b. 1838 d. 1862
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. At the start of the Civil War, he was a lawyer in practice when he joined the Union Army and was a commissioned a Captain in the 14th Connecticut Infantry. He was transferred to the 11th Connecticut as Major, took part in the Battle of Antietam and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel in June, 1862. He commanded the regiment at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, being promoted Colonel in January 1864. At the beginning of the Overland Campaign...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
GPS coordinates: 41.7213898, -72.6989975 (hddd.dddd)
Stevens, Wallace b. October 2, 1879 d. August 2, 1955
Poet. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, he was considered one of the major American poets of the 20th Century. Educated at Harvard University, he graduated from the New York Law School with a law degree 1903 and was admitted to Bar in 1904. Although he had a serious determination to become a successful lawyer, he also had a interest in writing and sent a group of poems titled "Phases", to Poetry Magazine which were published in 1914. In 1916, he moved to Connecticut, found employment at the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Strong, Julius Levi b. November 8, 1828 d. September 7, 1872
US Congressman. Elected to represent Connecticut's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1869 until his death in 1872. Also served as a Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives in 1852, and Member of the Connecticut State Senate in 1853. (Bio by: K)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Toucey, Isaac b. November 15, 1792 d. July 30, 1869
United States Representative from Connecticut, 1835-1839; Governor of Connecticut, 1846-1847; United States Attorney General, 1848-1849; United States Senator from Connecticut, 1852-1857; Secretary of the Navy under President Buchanan, 1857-1861. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Tyler, Robert Ogden b. December 22, 1831 d. December 1, 1874
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Graduated from the USMA in 1853, and served in the artillery in a number of various posts across the United States. In April 1861 he was part of the relief expedition that was prevented from reinforcing Fort Sumter by the Confederates. In September of that year he was commissioned in the Volunteers as Colonel of the 4th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, which, after his tutelage, was renamed the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. His unit fought in the 1862...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Plot: Section 2, Lot 54
GPS coordinates: 41.7218704, -72.6994171 (hddd.dddd)
Waldo, Loren Pinckney b. 1802 d. 1881
US Congressman. Elected to represent Connecticut's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1849 to 1851. Also served as a Member of the Connecticut State Legislature, and State Court Judge. (Bio by: K)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Welles, Gideon b. July 2, 1802 d. February 11, 1878
Civil War Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, to an old family of the state, he completed studies at Norwich Academy in Vermont and turned to journalism and politics. By 1826 he had become part owner and editor of the Hartford Times. That same year he was elected to his state's legislature, serving there till 1835. A Jeffersonian in his emphasis on individual freedoms and states' rights, he became an early supporter of Andrew Jackson and then was a personal adviser...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
GPS coordinates: 41.7205086, -72.6990814 (hddd.dddd)
Wing, Yung b. 1828 d. 1912
The first Chinese individual to come to the United States to receive a college education (Yale University). He was counted Rev. Joseph Twichell and Mark Twain among his close friends. He founded the China Educational Mission in 1871. He returned to China to join the Reform Movement in 1898 and a price was placed on his head. He returned to the US in 1902 and wrote his memoirs, "My Life in China and America."
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

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