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Baker, Nathaniel Bradley b. August 29, 1818 d. September 11, 1876
New Hampshire Governor. He graduated from Harvard in 1839, studied law under future President Franklin Pierce, and became an attorney in Concord in 1842. He also became active in the newspaper business as co-owner and publisher of the New Hampshire "Patriot". In 1845 he became Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and in 1846 Clerk of the Merrimack County Superior Court. Baker was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1850, and served as Chief Engineer of the Concord Fire...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Campbell, William b. April 28, 1840 d. April 19, 1919
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Born in Polk County, Iowa, he served as a Private in Company I, 30th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Union Army. During the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 22, 1863, he was a member a volunteer storming party against the Confederate Stockade Redan. For gallantry in the face of the enemy, he was awarded the Medal of Honor on August 14, 1894. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Block 15 #50
Crocker, Marcellus Monroe b. February 6, 1830 d. August 26, 1865
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Born in Franklin, Indiana, he entered West Point in 1847, but resigned in 1849. Though he did not graduate, he had great military ability and was later praised by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant as one of the army's best division commanders. Beginning his military career in Iowa, where he had lived for most of the preceding decade while practicing law in Des Moines, he enlisted when the 2nd Iowa Infantry was being raised for the Civil War. Elected one of...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Block 6, Lot 109
Cummins, Albert Baird b. February 15, 1850 d. July 30, 1926
Iowa Governor, US Senator. He served as Governor of Iowa from 1902 to 1908. He resigned the Governorship after being elected to the US Senate and served until he died in office in 1926. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Cunningham, Paul Harvey b. June 15, 1890 d. July 16, 1961
US Congressman. He graduated from Pennsylvania's State Teachers College in 1911, and received bachelor's (1914) and law (1915) degrees from the University of Michigan. He practiced law in Grand Rapids Michigan until joining the Army for World War I, serving at Camp Dodge, Iowa as a First Lieutenant of Infantry. After the war he moved to Des Moines, where he continued to practice law, also serving in the Iowa National Guard from 1920 to 1923. From 1933 to 1937 Cunningham served in the Iowa House...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Masonic Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Dowell, Cassius C. b. February 29, 1864 d. February 4, 1940
US Congressman. He was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced law practice in Des Moines, Iowa. From 1894 to 1898, he served as member of the State House of Representatives and in the State Senate, 1902 to 1912. In 1915, he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress and to the nine succeeding Congresses, serving until 1935, and again from 1937 until his death. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Eberhart, Gustavus Adolphus b. November 27, 1836 d. 1916
Civil War Union Army Officer. A civil engineer residing in Des Moines, Iowa when the Civil War started, he enlisted in the Union Army, and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry on June 10, 1861, only seven days after he was married. He served with the until until May 1, 1862, when he resigned due to poor health. Recovering sufficiently by the later part of the year, he again offered his services, and was commissioned as Major of the 32nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry on...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Block 22
Fitz, Joseph b. May 24, 1886 d. February 24, 1945
Philippine Insurrection Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the United States Navy as an Ordinary Seaman. His Medal of Honor citation reads "On board the U.S.S. Pampanga, Mount Dajo Jolo, Philippine Islands, 8 March 1906. Serving in the presence of the enemy on this date, Fitz displayed bravery and extraordinary heroism." (Bio by: Kent Kooi)
Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Block 30-B, #50
Given, Josiah b. August 31, 1828 d. February 3, 1908
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A veteran of the the Mexican War, he served in the Civil War first as a Captain in the 24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, then as Lieutenant Colonel of the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, then finally as Colonel and commander of the 74th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "faithful and meritorious services during the war". After the end of the conflict he became a prominent lawyer and judge, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Block 14, Lot 86
Gray, Paul b. April 8, 1972 d. May 24, 2010
Rock Musician. A left-handed bass guitarist, he was best known as "#2, The Pig" for the heavy metal band Slipknot. He co-founded the Des Moines, Iowa-based group in 1995, which went on to multi-platinum success and seven Grammy Award nominations, winning the Best Metal Performance Grammy for "Before I Forget" in 2006. They have sold over 14 million records worldwide. Onstage, Gray was known as much for the grotesque masks he wore as for his musicianship. Outside of Slipknot he filled in...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Herring, Clyde LaVerne b. May 5, 1879 d. September 15, 1945
Iowa Governor, US Senator. He served as Governor of Iowa from 1933 to 1937 and in the United States Senate from 1937 to 1943. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Hollis, Herman E. b. January 27, 1903 d. November 27, 1934
US Federal Agent. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he was sworn in as criminal special agent for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, in August of 1927. On November 27, 1934, while pursuing members of the John Dillinger Gang, he with another FBI Agent pulled over gangster Lester Joseph Gillis, known as "Baby Face Nelson" near Barrington, Illinois. The agents had forced the suspect's car into a ditch in an arrest attempt when a gun fight ensued. The suspect came out of the ditch firing a Thompson...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Kasson, John Adam b. January 11, 1822 d. May 18, 1910
US Congressman, US Diplomat. Elected to represent Iowa's 5th and 7th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1863 to 1867, 1873 to 1877, and 1881 to 1884. He also served as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention from Iowa in 1860, Member of the Iowa State Legislature in 1868, and as a United States Minister to Austria-Hungary from 1877 to 1881. He was also a successful lawyer. (Bio by: K)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Meredith, Edwin Thomas b. December 23, 1876 d. June 17, 1928
Presidential Cabinet Secretary, Publisher. He was appointed as United States Secretary of Agriculture during the Woodrow Wilson administration, and served from 1920 to 1921). He published the magazine "Better Homes and Gardens" and was the founder of Meredith Publishing Company. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Masonic Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Merrill, Samuel b. August 7, 1822 d. August 31, 1899
Iowa Governor. During the Civil War, he served with the 21st Regiment, Iowa Infantry. He was Governor of the state from 1868 to 1872. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Pike, Emory Jenison b. 1876 d. September 16, 1918
World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was posthumously awarded the CMOH for meritorious actions near Vandieres, France, on September 15, 1918. He was Lieutenant Colonel and Division Machinegun Officer for the 82nd Division, and the first member of the 82nd Division to be awarded the Medal of Honor. (The second was Sergeant Alvin York.) Colonel Pike went forward during heavy artillery shelling to reconnoiter new positions for his guns. He rounded up several infantry platoons...[Read More] (Bio by: Kent Kooi)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Gold Star Plat
Prouty, Solomon F. b. January 17, 1854 d. July 16, 1927
US Congressman. From 1878 to 1882, he was a professor at Central University of Iowa and member of the State House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881. He was admitted to the bar in 1882 and engaged in the practice of law at Des Moines, Iowa. In 1891, he was appointed judge of the district court and served until 1899. In 1911, he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses, serving until 1915. Not a candidate for re-nomination, he resumed the practice of law and...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Rawson, Charles Augustus b. May 29, 1867 d. September 2, 1936
US Senator. He was appointed as a Republican Senator from Iowa to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy, and served from February 2 to December 1, 1922. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Smith, Hiram b. March 22, 1843 d. November 4, 1894
US Congressman. From 1862 to 1864, he was in the Post Office Department, Washington, D.C. and with the US Treasury Department in 1865. In 1866, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Des Moines, Iowa. From 1875 to 1879, he was district attorney of the fifth judicial district of Iowa. He was a member of the State senate from 1882 to 1884. In 1884, he was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Kasson and served...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Tuttle, James Madison b. September 24, 1823 d. October 24, 1892
Civil War Union Brigadier General. He was born in Summerfield, Ohio, but as a young man he migrated to Farmington, Iowa. Beginning in 1846 he worked as a farmer and merchant until 1855 when he was elected sheriff of Van Buren County. Two years later he was elected county treasurer and in 1859, recorder of deeds. On May 31, 1861, he joined the 2nd Iowa Infantry with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. A modestly capable soldier, serving best in combat, he never set aside personal ambitions during...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA

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