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• Beakes, Samuel Willard    b. January 11, 1861  d. February 9, 1927
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Michigan's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1913 to 1917, and 1917 to 1919. He was defeated in 1918. Also served as Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1888 to 1890, and Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Michigan in 1916. (Bio by: K)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Crane, Dr. Verner Winslow  b. August 28, 1889  d. December 11, 1974
  Author, Historian. His writings include "Benjamin Franklin And A Rising People", "The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732", and "Franklin's Letters To The Press, 1758-1775". Crane was also a noted professor of History at the University of Michigan, and an outstanding authority on the Southeastern Indian frontier. (Bio by: K)
  Botsford Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Elliott, Pete   b. September 29, 1926  d. January 4, 2013
  College Football Coach. The younger brother of College Hall of Fame player and coach Chalmers "Bump" Elliott, Pete attended Bloomington High School in Illinois and later enrolled at the University of Michigan. While with the Wolverines, he distinguished himself on the gridiron as well as on the hardwood, in addition to golf and totaled twelve letters. In basketball, he earned All-Big Ten honors in 1948 and while with Michigan's football squad, he played at the quarterback and defensive halfback...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Felch, Alpheus    b. September 28, 1804  d. June 13, 1896
  5th Governor of Michigan 1846-1847 (Bio by: Mark Pawelczak)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Fisher, Ray Lyle    b. October 4, 1887  d. November 3, 1982
  Professional Baseball Player, Collegiate Baseball Coach. Born in Vermont, he played Major League baseball for ten seasons as a right handed starting pitcher for the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds. Nicknamed "Pick" and the "Vermont Schoolteacher" by his teammates, he was versatile as an athlete in several sports including being a member of Vermont's state championship football team in 1904 before deciding to play baseball exclusively. Fisher began his professional baseball career in...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
  Washtenong Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Francis, Thomas    b. July 15, 1900  d. October 1, 1969
  Medical Pioneer. An epidemiologist, he isolated the viruses that caused Influenza A in 1934 and Influenza B in 1940. He also directed the trials of the Salk vaccine, the first that was successful against polio. (Bio by: Ginny M)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Granger, Bradley Francis    b. March 12, 1825  d. November 4, 1882
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Michigan's 1st District from 1861 to 1863. He was defeated as a Democrat in 1862, and 1866.
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Hayden, Robert    b. August 4, 1913  d. February 25, 1980
  Poet. In 1976 he served as as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that later became known as Poet Laureate of the United States. One of the most well known and venerated of the Bahá'í poets, he rceived the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. On April 21, 2012, a United States Postage Stamp, within a pane of 10 Twentieth Century Poets, was issued featuring Robert Hayden. (Bio by: Trent Olsen)
  Fairview Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Jessye, Dr. Eva   b. January 20, 1895  d. February 21, 1992
  Composer, Choir Director. The first black woman to gain note as a conductor, she was a key participant in several significant musical projects. Raised in Kansas, she was educated at her native state's Western University and at Oklahoma's Langston University, earning her degree in 1919. In the early 1920s she taught at Morgan State College in Baltimore, then in Oklahoma, before returning to Baltimore where in 1926 she organized the Original Dixie Jubilee Singers, a group that was to sing...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Kellogg, Charles  b. October 3, 1773  d. May 11, 1842
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 24th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1825 to 1827. Also served as a Member of the New York State Legislature in 1808. (Bio by: K)
  Fairview Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Kemp, Joseph Bell   b. July 1, 1844  d. July 13, 1917
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Captain in the Union Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor as a First Sergeant in Company D, 5th Michigan Infantry for action on May 6, 1864 at Wilderness Campaign, Virginia. His citation reads "Capture of flag of 31st North Carolina (C.S.A.) in a personal encounter." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
  Plot: Section 69, Lot 32
   
• Leith, Emmett Norman    b. March 12, 1927  d. December 23, 2005
  Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and the Co-inventor of three-dimensional holography. Professor Leith and his coworker Juris Upatnieks at the University of Michigan displayed the world's first three-dimensional hologram at a conference of the Optical Society of America in 1964. (Bio by: J Witkowski)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Noll, Conrad   b. February 20, 1836  d. May 26, 1925
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Sergeant in the Union Army in Company D, 20th Michigan Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on May 12, 1864 at Spotsylvania, Virginia. His citation reads "Seized the colors, the color bearer having been shot down, and gallantly fought his way out with them, though the enemy were on the left flank and rear." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
  Plot: Section 100, Lot 42
   
• Sauer, Charles August  b. December 16, 1866  d. December 6, 1915
  Ann Arbor Mayor. Served as Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1915. (Bio by: K)
  Bethlehem Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Schembechler, Bo (Glenn)    b. April 1, 1929  d. November 17, 2006
  College Football Coach. He was the head football coach at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1989. He attended Miami University of Ohio and Ohio State University as a student, earning a master's degree from Ohio State University in 1952. He was the winningest head coach in Michigan football history, compiling a record of 194 wins, 48 losses and five ties. He was named Big Ten coach of the year seven times and led the Wolverines to 13 Big Ten conference championships and Ten Rose Bowl...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
  Cause of death: Heart failure
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Thomas, Henry Franklin    b. December 17, 1843  d. April 16, 1912
  US Congressman. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Michigan's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1893 to 1897. He was defeated in 1896. Also served as a Member of the Michigan State House of Representatives from Allegan County for the 1st District from 1873 to 1874, Member of the Michigan State Senate for the 14th District from 1875 to 1876, and Delegate to the Republican National Convention from Michigan in 1884. (Bio by: K)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Vick, Henry "Ernie"    b. July 2, 1900  d. July 16, 1980
  Major League Baseball Player. The reserve catcher played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1922 and from 1924 to 1926. The right-handed hitter had a .232 lifetime batting average in 57 games. (Bio by: Ron Coons)
  Washtenong Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Welch, Norval E.    d. September 30, 1864
  Civil War Union Army Officer. Served during the Civil War as Colonel and Commander of the 16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry. His unit fought bravely in many engagements, but rendered particularly notable service while defending Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. He was killed in action at the Battle of Peebles Farm, Virginia (September 30, 1864) during there seige of Petersburg. Today a monument to his regiment stands on Little Round Top. (Bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   
• Yost, Fielding Harris    b. April 30, 1871  d. October 20, 1946
  Football coach and athletic director. Widely hailed as the "Father of Michigan athletics". Born and raised in West Virginia, he attended Ohio Northern and Lafayette Universities, earning a law degree at the University of West Virginia. After brief stints coaching football at Ohio Wesleyan, Kansas, and Nebraska, he joined the coaching staff at Stanford in 1900. In 1901, he made his way to the University of Michigan, where he left his greatest legacy. Between 1901 and 1905, his so-called "...[Read More] (Bio by: MDB)
  Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
   

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