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Cawein, Madison Julius b. March 23, 1865 d. December 8, 1914
Poet. One of the most prolific poets in American history, he published 31 books of verse. Known principally as a "nature" poet because his rhymes of nature, he earned the alliterative nickname, "The Keats of Kentucky" for his sensitive and descriptive works. William Dean Howells, the early twentieth century Dean of American Letters, lauded his verse as unique in an age that overflowed with poets.
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Clark, George Rogers b. November 9, 1752 d. February 13, 1818
Revolutionary War Militia General. He is best known for his military activities in what was then known as the British Northwest Territory during the Revolutionary War, which was ceded to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and was commonly referred to as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest," or the "Washington of the West." He was born near Charlottesville, Virginia, the second of ten child of John and Ann (Rogers) Clark. Around 1756, after the outbreak of the French and Indian War (...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section P
Clark Jr., Meriwether Lewis b. January 27, 1846 d. April 22, 1899
Established the Louisville (Ky.) Jockey Club, now known as Churchill Downs, and created the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks races in 1875. Grandson of famed explorer William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803 - 1806. (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
Cause of death: Suicide by pistol
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section A, Lot 699
Clements, Judson Claudius b. February 12, 1846 d. June 18, 1917
US Congressman. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War as a 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Georgia Infantry, and was wounded on July 22, 1864 at the Battle of Atlanta. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Georgia's 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1881 to 1891.
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Colgan, John b. December 18, 1840 d. February 2, 1916
Inventor. Druggist at Tenth and Walnut Streets, was the first to manufacture chewing gum by adding chicle, a new chewing substance, to the extract of balsam tolu, which he used in making cough syrup. With his son, William, marketing Colgan's Taffy Tolu, the Cogan Chewing Gum Company prospered and sold out in 1911. (Bio by: Marigay)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section 12, Lot 125
Collins, Harry Leon b. April 27, 1920 d. May 3, 1985
Noted Magician. He was a World War II hero and was wounded in Saipan. While in the army he performed his magic act as part of jazz bandleader Bob Crosby's show for military troops. In 1952 he began doing magic tricks as part of promotional campaigns for Frito Lay, a job that lasted him 45 years. He toured the nation, hawking potato chips and Fritos, doing television commercials, making appearances at supermarkets, conventions, fairs, schools, etc. And, of course, when he performed his feats of...[Read More] (Bio by: Jeffrey Scott Holland)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section 33
Cowan, Col. Andrew J. b. September 29, 1841 d. August 23, 1918
Brevet. Lieutenant-Colonel, US Army, Civil War. Cowan was an artillery officer who won fame at Gettysburg for directing his battery during the repulse of Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863.

Brevet Lt. Colonel Andrew Cowan

At Gettysburg, then Captain Cowan ("Double Canister at Ten Yards") commanded the 1st NY Independent Battery in Colonel C.H. Tompkins' 6th Corps artillery brigade. Cowan's battery played a prominent and deadly role in turning back Pickett's Charge at the epic "high...[Read More]
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section 1, Plot 205, West Part, Grave 3
Cowger, William Owen b. January 1, 1922 d. October 2, 1971
US Congressman, Louisville Mayor. Served in the United States Navy during World War II as a Midshipman. Served as the Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, from 1961 to 1965. He was elected as a Republican to represent Kentucky's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1967 until 1971. He was defeated in 1970 for re-election by Congressman Romano L. Mazzoli, who would hold the seat for the next 23 years. He died in Louisville, Kentucky in 1971, 9 months after the end...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Dembitz, Lewis Naphtali b. February, 1833 d. March 11, 1907
Attorney and scholar. Served as delegate to Republican National Convention in 1860, supporting Abramham Lincoln. Wrote one of the earliest known German translations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In 1888, drafted bill that became known as the Wallach Law, which required use of the secret ballot when voting, a first in the United States. (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
The Temple Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section B-4, Row 33, Grave B
Dodge, John b. April 27, 1889 d. June 19, 1916
Major League Baseball Player. He played Major League Baseball for two seasons (1912 to 1913) with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds. In 1916, he was killed by a pitch from future Major Leaguer Tom Rogers that hit him in the face while playing for Mobile of the Southern Association League. His totals for his brief career were 127 Games Played, 90 Hits, 4 Home Runs, 45 RBIs and a career .215 Batting Average. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section O, Lot 199, Grave 9
Duncan, William Garnett b. March 2, 1800 d. May 25, 1875
U.S. Congressman. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he was known by his middle name as Garnett Duncan. He graduated from the Law Department at Yale College in 1821 and became a lawyer in Louisville. He was elected as a Whig to represent Kentucky's 7th District in the United States House of Representatives and served from 1847 to 1849. While a Congressman, he was a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs and supported an act to extend time limitations on satisfying claims made during the War of...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Ekin, James Adams b. August 31, 1819 d. March 27, 1891
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A builder of ships and steamboats prior to the Civil War he entered service as 1st Lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the 12th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He reached the rank of Colonel in the Quartermaster Department holding various posts including that of Chief Quartermaster of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac. He received the brevet of Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 8, 1865. On March 13, 1865 he was brevetted...[Read More] (Bio by: Steve Dunn)
Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: National Cemetery, Section B, Row 3, Lot 1
Eudy, Mary b. February 17, 1874 d. June 7, 1952
Fashion designer and poet. Clients included Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Poems published in Harpers, Scribners, Palms and The Lyric. Putnams published first poetry volume "Quarried Crystals" in 1935. In 1949 Harper and Brothers published second volume "Quicken the Current." (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Eustis, James Biddle b. August 27, 1834 d. September 9, 1899
US Senator, US Diplomat. Served as a United States Senator from Louisiana from 1876 to 1879, and the United States Ambassador to France from 1893 to 1897. Also served as a Member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives, and Member of the Louisiana State Senate in 1874. (Bio by: K)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Evans, Walter b. September 18, 1842 d. December 30, 1923
U.S. Congressman, serving 1895-1899. Also captain in Union Army, 1861-1863. Appointed by President William McKinley as district court judge for Kentucky, serving from 1899-1923. (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Farnsley, Charles Rowland Peaslee b. March 28, 1907 d. June 19, 1990
U.S. Congressman, attorney, civic official. Known as an innovative leader and promoter of the city he served, was elected to the Kentucky House of Reprensentatives 1936-1940, Louisville Mayor 1948-1953 and U.S. House of Representatives 1965-1967. (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Fink, Albert b. October 27, 1827 d. April 3, 1897
Railroad engineer and operator, generally regarded as the "Father of Railway Economics and Statistics" in the United States; he was also known as the "Teutonic Giant" because he was 6' 7" tall. He was educated at private and polytechnic schools at Darmstadt, Germany, he graduated in engineering and architecture in 1848. Unsympathetic with the forces that triumphed in the German revolution of that year, he emigrated to the United States in 1849, and entered the drafting office of the Baltimore &...[Read More] (Bio by: Gene Phillips)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Fitzbutler, Henry b. December, 1837 d. December 28, 1901
Civil Rights activist, physician and publisher. Born of fugitive slave parents who had escaped to Canada, Fitzbutler became the first black graduate of the University of Michigan medical school. First black to run for elective office in Louisville, campaigning unsuccessfully several times for school board. Taught at state-chartered Louisville National Medical College, a fully integrated institution and one of only five medical schools in the nation to offer a degree program to black citizens. (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
Greenwood Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Flaget, Benedict Joseph b. November 7, 1763 d. November 11, 1850
Religious Leader. He came to America fleeing the turmoils of the French Revolution, and taught at Georgetown College in Washington D.C. and St. Mary's College in Baltimore, Maryland. Received by President George Washington, in 1808 he was appointed by Pope Pius VII first Bishop of the Bardstown Catholic Diocese - the western frontier area that included parts of 8 states. (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Cathedral Undercroft Chapel
Flexner, Abraham b. November 13, 1866 d. September 21, 1959
Medical Pioneer, Educator. He prepared the "Flexner Report" for the Carnegie Foundation based on medical education in America which prompted the now standard four year system. Worked for Rockefeller Foundation and became first director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University; recruited many scholars, including Albert Einstein to work there. Autobiography published 1940, "I Remember." Life Magazine numbered him among the 100 most important Americans of the twentieth century. (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA

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