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Alvord, Benjamin b. August 18, 1813 d. October 16, 1884
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Graduated from the USMA in 1833, placing 22nd out of 43 (his classmates included future Union Generals John G. Barnard and Rufus King, as well as future Confederate Generals Henry C. Wayne and Daniel Ruggles). Served with the 4th United States Infantry, and participated in the Seminole Wars in Florida and in the Mexican War, where he fought in the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and in the march from Vera Cruz to Mexico City. His service there...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 20, Lot 4
Clement, Percival Wood b. July 7, 1846 d. January 9, 1927
Governor of Vermont. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and was employed as a Clerk in his family's business, Clement & Sons Marble. He became a partner in 1871, and in 1876 sold the business to the Rutland Marble Company. Clement then became active in numerous other ventures, including Rutland's State Trust Company and Clement National Bank, the Rutland Railroad, and the Rutland Herald newspaper. A Republican, he served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1892...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 4 (Clement Circle)
Dorr, Julia b. February 13, 1825 d. January 18, 1913
Poet. Notable for her novels that portrayed young women lifting themselves from poverty through education and persistence. Her best known works include 'Sybil Huntington,' 'Friar Anselmo and Other Poems,' and 'The Legend of the Babouhka.' (Bio by: Laurie)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Ripley Circle, north of Sec. 28
Foot, Solomon b. November 19, 1802 d. March 28, 1866
US Senator, US Congressman. He represented Vermont's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1843 to 1847. He then represented Vermont in the United States Senate, serving from 1851 until his death in office in 1866.
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 26
Hodges, George Tisdale b. July 4, 1789 d. August 9, 1860
US Congressman. Elected to represent Vermont's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1856 to 1857. Also served as a Member of the Vermont State Legislature.
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 23
Joyce, Charles Herbert b. January 30, 1830 d. November 22, 1916
US Congressman. Elected to represent Vermont's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1875 to 1883. Also served as a Member of the Vermont State House of Representatives in 1869.
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 24
McCormick, Michael P. b. January 23, 1848 d. March 27, 1909
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a First Sergeant in the United States Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor as a Private in Company G, 5th US Calvary for action between October 21, 1876 and January 8, 1877 at Cedar Creek, etc.Montana. His citation reads "Gallantry in action." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Calvary Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 3, Row 13
Mead, John Abner b. April 20, 1841 d. January 12, 1920
Vermont Governor. He enlisted for the Civil War in Company K, 12th Vermont Regiment, serving from 1862 to 1863. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1864 and in 1868 received a medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He practiced in New York City for two years, and then in Rutland from 1870 to 1888. In 1890 Mead was Surgeon General of Vermont's Grand Army of the Republic, serving as a Brigadier General on the staff of Governor Redfield Proctor. He also...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 9
Myers, John Ripley b. October 8, 1864 d. December 22, 1899
Businessman. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1887 and purchased Clinton Pharmaceutical Company in upstate New York with friend and fellow Hamilton alumnus William McLaren Bristol. He continued with the business, renamed Bristol, Myers and Company in 1898, until his death from pneumonia. Bristol, Myers was not immediately profitable, but proved successful after Myers's death when it produced and marketed Sal...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 16, west edge by Ripley Circle
Nichols, William Thomas b. March 24, 1829 d. April 10, 1882
Civil War Union Army Officer. Enlisted in the Union Army upon the outbreak of the Ciivl War as a Private in Compaby K, 1st Vermont Volunteer Infantry in May 9, 1861. He served in the unit until it was mustered out of service on August 25, 1861. Over a year later he was commissioned as Colonel and commander of the 14th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, a unit that was enlisted for 9-month service. He commanded the regiment from September 25, 1862 until it was mustered out on July 30, 1863 and led it...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 22, Lot 12
Page, John Boardman b. February 25, 1826 d. October 24, 1885
Vermont Governor. When he was 16 he began work at the National Bank of Rutland, where his father was Cashier, and he eventually became bank President. He was also a partner in the Brandon Manufacturing Company, producer of world famous Howe Scales, a partner in the Sutherland Falls Marble Company, which was later acquired by the Vermont Marble Company, President of the Rutland Railroad, and Vice President of the Central Vermont Railroad. He served in the Vermont House of Representatives from...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Page Circle, bet. Sections 14 & 15
Pond, Dr. Erasmus Arlington 'Arlie' [cenotaph] b. January 19, 1873 d. September 19, 1930
Major League Baseball Player and Army Officer. He graduated from the University of Vermont's medical school in 1895. A star baseball pitcher while an undergraduate, first at Norwich University and then at UVM (where he alternated starts with Bert Abbey), while attending a post-graduate course at the University of Maryland he joined the Baltimore Orioles. Pond pitched for parts of four seasons, compiled a record of 35...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 22
Ripley, Clements [cenotaph] b. August 26, 1892 d. July 22, 1954
Author. He graduated from Yale University and joined the Army for World War I. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment, he served until 1920, attaining the rank of Captain. While stationed in South Carolina he met and married Katherine Ball, the daughter of famed journalist W.W. Ball. The Ripleys lived on a North Carolina farm and grew peaches until 1927, when they relocated to Charleston, South Carolina and became writers. Clements Ripley's short stories...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Ripley Circle, north of Sec. 28
Ripley, Edward Hastings b. November 11, 1839 d. September 14, 1915
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Served inthe Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 9th Vermont Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on August 1, 1864. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Ripley Circle, north of Sec. 28
Ripley, Katharine [cenotaph] b. March 20, 1898 d. July 24, 1955
Author. The daughter of famed journalist W.W. Ball, during World War I she met and married Clements Ripley. After an unsuccessful venture as peach farmers in North Carolina, in the late 1920s the Ripleys relocated to Charleston, South Carolina and became writers. Clements Ripley published numerous short stories and novels and became a successful screenwriter. Katharine Ripley also became successful, beginning with her first work "Sand In My Shoes" (1931), which detailed life on the North...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Ripley Circle, north of Sec. 28
Ripley, William Young Warren b. December 31, 1832 d. December 16, 1905
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Served in the Civil War as Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st United States Sharpshooters. He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery at the Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia on July 1, 1862. His citation reads "At a critical moment brought up two regiments, which he led against the enemy himself, being severely wounded". His Medal was issued on March 11, 1893. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Ripley Circle, north of Sec. 28
Smith, Charles Manley b. August 3, 1868 d. August 12, 1937
Governor of Vermont. He graduated from Dartmouth College and served as private secretary to former Vermont Governor Redfield Proctor when Proctor was US Secretary of War. Smith was active in banking and insurance, and in 1920 he became President of Marble Savings Bank. A Republican, he served in the Vermont Senate from 1927 to 1929. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933, and was Ways and Means Committee Chairman. He served as Lieutenant Governor from 1933 to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 2, Row 1
Smith, Israel b. March 4, 1759 d. December 2, 1810
US Congressman, US Senator, 4th Vermont Governor. He was elected to represent Vermont's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1791 to 1797, and 1801 to 1803. He was then elected as a Senator from Vermont to the United States Senate, serving from 1803 to 1807. Finally, he served as Vermont's fourth Governor from 1807 to 1808. (Bio by: K)
West Street Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Spencer, John McCulloch b. December 14, 1917 d. January 18, 1965
Philanthropist, Political Leader. Born in New York City as Eric Winter, he was orphaned as a boy and adopted into the Troy, Ohio family that produced Spencer Corsets, a top selling women's undergarment from the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries. Spencer was educated at Alma College and Yale University. A heavy drinker, he was hospitalized for mental health issues in the early 1940s. Upon moving to Vermont in 1945, he turned this experience to his advantage, funding mental health services in...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Stafford, Robert Theodore b. August 8, 1913 d. December 23, 2006
US Congressman, Vermont Governor. Elected to represent Vermont in the United States House of Representaives, he served from 1961 to 1971. A native of Rutland, Vermont, Stafford also served as the Vermont State Attorney General from 1955 to 1957, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1957 to 1959, Governor of Vermont from 1959 to 1961, and as a United States Senator from Vermont from 1971 until his retirement in 1989. He also served in the United States Navy in both World War II, and the Korean...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
Plot: Section 9

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