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• Ashford, Emmett Littleton 'Ash'   b. November 23, 1914  d. March 1, 1980
  Major League Baseball umpire. He was the first African-American to umpire a major league baseball game. After toiling in the minor leagues for 14 years, mostly in the Pacific Coast League, he was promoted to the majors for the 1966 season when he was 51 years old. During his brief five-year career he umpired the 1967 All-Star Game and the 1970 World Series. In an interview in Ebony magazine he called working the World Series the culmination of a lifelong dream. Ashford was known for his...[Read More] (Bio by: Jdrhook)
  Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Bowers, John Myer  b. 1772  d. 1846
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 15th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving in 1813. (Bio by: K)
  Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Cary, William Lucius    b. November 27, 1910  d. February 7, 1983
  Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1961-1964. He was an authority on corporate law.
  Christ Churchyard, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
  Plot: Cooper family plot
   
• Cooper, James Fenimore    b. September 15, 1789  d. September 14, 1851
  American Author. He was the first major American novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories as well as historical romances known as the "Leatherstock Tales," a series of frontier adventure novels featuring fictional character Natty Pumppo who lives free, close to nature while the settlers bring civilization that destroys the wilderness, "The Last of the Mohicans" an adventure story set in the Lake Champlain area is considered the Centerpiece of the series and is the best known having been made...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Christ Churchyard, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Cooper, William    b. 1754  d. December 22, 1809
  US Congressman. He was elected to represent New York's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1795 to 1797, and 1799 to 1801. He also served as a New York State Court Judge. (Bio by: K)
  Christ Churchyard, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Davidson, Andrew    b. February 12, 1844
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Citation: One of the first to enter the enemy's works, where, after his colonel, major, and one-third the company officers had fallen, he gallantly assisted in rallying and saving the remnant of the command. Battle of the Crater. Petersburg VA, July 30, 1864. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
  Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Nelson, Samuel    b. November 10, 1792  d. December 13, 1873
  Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Born in Hebron, New York, he graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, at the age of 15 and began a successful law career in his twenties. In 1821, he was the youngest delegate to serve in the New York state constitutional convention and was appointed as a judge to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1823. He was serving as chief justice of the New York Supreme Court, when President John Tyler appointed him a Justice seat on...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Prentiss, John Holmes  b. April 17, 1784  d. June 26, 1861
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 19th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1837 to 1841. (Bio by: K)
  Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Russell, John  b. 1772  d. 1842
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 14th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1805 to 1809. (Bio by: K)
  Christ Churchyard, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Starkweather, George Anson   b. May 19, 1794  d. October 13, 1878
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 21st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1847 to 1849.
  Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Van Horn, George    b. February 5, 1850  d. May 3, 1904
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 24th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1891 to 1893. (Bio by: K)
  Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   
• Williams Jr., Isaac  b. April 5, 1777  d. November 9, 1860
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 13th and 15th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1813 to 1815, 1817 to 1819, and 1823 to 1825. (Bio by: K)
  Warren Cemetery (Cooperstown), Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
   

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