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• Armstrong, James  b. August 29, 1748  d. May 6, 1828
  US Congressman and Revolutionary War Doctor. During his educational years he attended the Philadelphia Academy and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton). He studied medicine at Doctor John Morgan's School in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He moved to Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia and established a medical practice. During the Revolutionary War he served as a medical officer. After the war he went to England for three years to further his...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
  Old Graveyard, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Armstrong Sr., John    b. October 13, 1717  d. March 9, 1795
  Revolutionary War Major General. He received his education in Ireland and became a civil engineer. He came to Pennsylvania as a surveyor for the Penn family. He laid out the plans for Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1750 and became one of its first settlers. He was then appointed as surveyor for the newly established Cumberland County. When the French and Indian Wars began, he was a colonel in charge of militia troops stationed in Cumberland County. When a group of Indians and Frenchmen overtook Fort...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
  Old Graveyard, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Beltzhoover, Frank Eckels    b. 1841  d. 1923
  U.S. Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 19th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1879-1883 and 1891-1895. Served as a Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania in 1876.
  Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Cart, Jacob   b. 1843  d. April 24, 1882
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Sergeant in the Union Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor as a Private in Company A, 7th Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, for action on December 13, 1862 at Fredericksburg, Virginia. His citation reads "Capture of flag of 19th Georgia Infantry (C.S.A.), wresting it from the hands of the color bearer." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Minick, John W.   b. June 14, 1908  d. November 21, 1944
  World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Staff Sergeant Squad Leader in Company I, 3d Battalion, 121st Infantry, 8th Infantry Division. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on November 21, 1944 near Hurtgen, Germany. He was killed in action. His citation in part reads "Voluntarily, S/Sgt. Minick led four men through hazardous barbed wire and debris, finally making his way through the minefield for a distance of 300 yards. When an enemy machine gun opened fire, he...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  Westminster Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Plot: Section F, Lot 304
   
• Montgomery, John  b. July 6, 1722  d. September 3, 1808
  Continental Congressman. His family migrated to Carlisle at its founding in 1740, and Montgomery became a successful merchant and farmer. He was one of Cumberland County's first Justices of the Peace and became active in the militia. As a Captain in the Third Pennsylvania Battalion he served in the French and Indian War during the late 1750s. An advocate of independence from England, he became a member of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety in 1775. In 1777 he was appointed Colonel and commander...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Old Graveyard, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Otis, Glenn K.   b. March 15, 1929  d. February 21, 2013
  US Army General. Born Glenn Kay Otis, he enlisted in the US Army in 1946, and began his career serving on occupation duty in post World War II Korea. About three years later he was chosen from the Army ranks to attend the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1953. He later taught at West Point and received a master's degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and in 1965 he was one of the first student Army officers to receive a Master of...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
  Saint Patricks Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Pitcher (McCauley), Molly (Mary Ludwig Hayes)    b. October 13, 1744  d. January 22, 1832
  Revolutionary War Heroine. Born Mary Ludwig near Trenton, New Jersey, she was sent to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, at a young age to become a servant in the home of Colonel William Irvine. In 1769, she married John Casper Hays, a young barber who lived in the village. In 1775, her husband enlisted in the First Pennsylvania Artillery as a gunner. He spent the winter of 1777 and 1778 at Valley Forge. As with many other soldier wives, Molly joined her husband in the camp, and helped by cooking, washing...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Old Graveyard, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Ramsey, William  b. September 7, 1779  d. September 29, 1831
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 11th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1827 to 1831.
  Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Ramsey, William Sterrett  b. June 12, 1810  d. October 18, 1840
  US Congressman. Elected as a Democrat to represent Pennsylvania's 13th District in the US House of Representatives, he served from 1839 until his death. Ramsey was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and studied the classics at Dickinson College there. He continued his education in England while employed as an attache with the American Legation in London, and sought no public office before his successful run for the Twenty-Sixth Congress in 1838. During his last months on Capitol Hill he...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Rupley, Arthur Ringwalt  b. November 13, 1868  d. 1920
  U.S. Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives at-large, serving from 1913 to 1915.
  Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Shughart, Randall David    b. August 13, 1958  d. October 3, 1993
  Somalia Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was a Sergeant First Class with the U.S. Army Rangers and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Mogadishu, Somalia on October 3, 1993. Sergeant Shughart is one of two of the first Snipers in History to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (the other being his comrade in Somalia Sergeant Gary Ivan Gordon). His official CMOH citation reads as follows: Sergeant First Class Shughart, United States Army, distinguished...[Read More]
  Westminster Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Thompson, William   b. 1736  d. September 3, 1781
  Revolutionary War Continental Brigadier General. First officer to be commissioned as a Colonel in the United States Army. Commander of Thompson's Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion from 1775 to 1776. Eventually promoted to Brigadier General.
  Old Graveyard, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
• Todd, Lemuel   b. July 29, 1817  d. May 12, 1891
  US Congressman. He attended the local schools in Carlisle and pursued a classical course of studies. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1839. He established a law practice in Carlisle after passing the bar in 1841. Upon entering the political arena he was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth US Congress and served from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1857. His 1856 bid for reelection was unsuccessful, so he returned to his law practice. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army as...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
  Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
   

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