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• Axtell, Samuel Beach    b. October 14, 1819  d. August 6, 1891
  US Congressman. Elected to represent California's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1867 to 1871. He also served as Governor of Utah Territory in 1875, Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1875 to 1878, and as Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court from 1882 to 1885. (Bio by: K)
  First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Cobb, George Thomas  b. October 13, 1813  d. August 12, 1870
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New Jersey's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1861 to 1863. Also served as a Member of the New Jersey State Senate in 1865, Mayor of Morristown, New Jersey, in 1865, and Delegate to the Republican National Convention from New Jersey in 1868. On August 12, 1870, he was killed in an accident on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad near White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. (Bio by: K)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Cutler, Augustus William    b. October 22, 1827  d. January 1, 1897
  US Congressman. Elected as a Democrat to represent New Jersey's 5th District in the US House of Representatives, he served two terms, from 1875 to 1879. The great-grandson of prominent New Jersey politician Silas Condict, Cutler was born in Morristown, attended Yale College, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He served as prosecutor of pleas for Morris County (1856 to 1861), President of the State Board of Education (1870), as a member of the New Jersey Senate (1871 to 1874), and...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Doughty, John    b. 1754  d. September 16, 1826
  Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer. He enlisted on January 13, 1776 and served throughout the Revolutionary War. He was an adjutant under Colonel James Ford, Jr. in the Eastern Battalion of the Morris County (New Jersey) Militia in 1776; and also served as a Captain of artillery. He took part in the First and Second Battles of Trenton and the Battle of Princeton. In 1777 he was promoted to Captain of the Second Regiment of the Continental Corps of Artillery, where he served...[Read More]
  First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Ford Jr., Jacob   b. February 19, 1738  d. January 10, 1777
  American Revolutionary Militia Officer. Second son and sixth child of eight born to Jacob and Hannah Ford of Morristown, New Jersey. In 1762, he married Theodosia Johnes, the daughter of the local Presbyterian minister. They would have five children. Ford's father gifted the couple a 200 acre tract in Morristown upon which they built what was at the time the largest house in town. He also owned two iron forges at Long Meadow and Middle Forge, as well as grist and hemp mills, and an iron furnace...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
  First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Ford, Theodosia   b. September 1, 1741  d. August 31, 1824
  Born in Connecticut, the daughter of the Reverend Timothy Johnes and Elizabeth Sayre Johnes, she was less than a year old when her father was assigned as pastor to the Morristown, New Jersey First Presbyterian Church. On January 27, 1762 she married the younger Jacob Ford of Morristown. A land, mill, and mine owner, he eventually built her a large Georgian mansion house on two hundred acres, the largest private home in town at that time. She would have five children with him. After 1776, her...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
  First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Frelinghuysen Jr., Peter Hood Ballantine   b. January 17, 1916  d. May 23, 2011
  US Congressman. Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. represented Morris and Somerset Counties in New Jersey as a Republican in the House of Representatives from 1953 to 1974. In his first year in office, Frelinghuysen spoke out against the Communist witch-hunt of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. In 1959, Frelinghuysen successfully led the opposition against a proposed airport in Morris County on a piece of land that later became the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Frelinghuysen also supported...[Read More] (Bio by: Dan Silva)
  Saint Peter's Episcopal Church Memorial Garden, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Logan, Dorastus B. [cenotaph]   d. July 2, 1863
  Civil War Union Army Officer. Served in the Civil War as Captain and commander of Company H, 11th New Jersey Infantry. On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, command of the regiment fell to him when superior officers Colonel Robert McAllister and Major Philip Kearny were wounded, and senior Captain Luther Martin was killed. Captain Logan had just been informed that he was now in command of the 11th New Jersey when he was shot and killed. His remains were first buried on the battlefield...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Mann, Jacob  b. 1775  d. December 17, 1843
  Co-founder, with astronomer David Young, of "The Farmers' Almanac," one of America's oldest publications. He began printing annual editions of the reference book in Morristown, New Jersey in 1818. He was 68 years old at the time of his death. (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
  First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
  Plot: Mann Family Plot
   
• McGraw, James H.    b. December 17, 1860  d. February 21, 1948
  Publisher, co-Founder of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
  Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
  Plot: Section 36, Lots 15&16, Grave 3
   
• Miller, Alice Duer [cenotaph]    b. July 28, 1874  d. August 23, 1942
  Poet. Known for the poem 'White Cliffs of Dover'. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
  Plot: Section 37, Lot 58, Grave 2
   
• Miller, Jacob Welsh    b. August 29, 1800  d. September 30, 1862
  US Senator. Elected as a Senator from New Jersey to the United States Senate, serving as a Whig from 1841 to 1853.
  Saint Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Phoenix, Jonas  b. January 14, 1788  d. May 4, 1859
  US Congressman. He was a successful merchant in New York City when appointed a commissioner of the Croton Aqueduct Works in 1842. In 1843 he was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Congress, served one term and declined to be a candidate for re-nomination in 1844. From 1846 to 1847 he was chairman of the Whig General Committee and a member of the State assembly in 1848. In 1849 he was elected to the Thirty-first Congress serving until 1851, when he again declined to be a candidate for re-...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Pitney, Mahlon    b. February 5, 1858  d. December 9, 1924
  United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
  Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
  Plot: Section 1, Lot 25, Grave 2
   
• Randolph, Theodore Fitz    b. June 24, 1826  d. November 7, 1883
  29th New Jersey Governor, US Senator from New Jersey 1875-1881.
  Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
  Plot: Section 1, Lot 59 & 60, Grave 3
   
• Revere, Joseph Warren    b. May 17, 1813  d. April 20, 1880
  Civil War Union Brigadier General. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was the grandson of Revolutionary War Patriot Paul Revere. In 1828 at age sixteen, he joined the US Navy, fought in the Mexican American War and achieved the rank of Lieutenant. He resigned from the Navy in 1850, joined the Mexican Army at the rank of Colonel and was honored by the Spanish Government for rescuing of 13 citizens by being Knighted by Queen Isabella II in 1851. At the start of the Civil War, he was commissioned...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Holy Rood Cemetery, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
  Plot: St Ambrose Section, Lots 17/18/20
   
• Tuttle, Temperance   b. October 30, 1758  d. April 26, 1822
  Folk Figure. Born on her father's farm in Morris County, New Jersey, the youngest of Mary Cooper and Henry Wick's five children, she was likely named for her fraternal grandmother. Very little is know of her youth, but at the age of 21, she was the last of the Wick children living at home with her elderly parents. That winter, known as The Hard Winter, due to its unprecedented severity, over ten thousand soldiers of the Continental Army encamped upon her father's property in Jockey Hollow...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Vail, Alfred    b. September 25, 1807  d. January 18, 1859
  Inventor. He invented Morse Code, a system of representing letters, numbers and punctuation marks by means of a code signal sent intermittently, while he was helping Samuel Morse on his invention of the telegraph. Morse's original code consisted of sending dots and dashes that represented numbers. Each number represented a word. This required looking up the number in a book to find the word. The system had problems printing out the messages clearly, so Alfred Vail came up with an improved...[Read More] (Bio by: Richard H.)
  Saint Peter's Episcopal Churchyard, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Vail, George    b. July 21, 1809  d. May 23, 1875
  Democrat Congressman from New Jersey. He served in the House of Representatives from 1853-1857. He was later appointed by President James Buchanan, as consul to Glasgow, Scotland and served in that position until 1861. (Bio by: Richard H.)
  First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
   
• Walker, Henry Harrison    b. October 15, 1832  d. March 22, 1912
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He graduated from the United States Military academy in 1853, served as a Lieutenant in the 6th United states Infantry and as Aide-de-Camp to Governor Walker of Kansas. With the secession of his home state of Virginia, at the start of the Civil War, he received a commission as Lieutenant Colonel in the 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Serving in General Charles Field's brigade, he was involved in many engagements being wounded twice the Battle of Gaines'...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown (Morris County), Morris County, New Jersey, USA
  Plot: Section 17, Lot 25
   

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