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• Anderson, Carl Carey    b. December 2, 1877  d. October 1, 1912
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 13th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1909 until his death in 1912. Also served as the Mayor of Fostoria, Ohio, in 1905. (Bio by: K)
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Bell, John  b. June 19, 1796  d. May 4, 1869
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving in 1851. Also served as a State Court Judge, Member of the Ohio State House of Representatives in 1844, and Mayor of Fremont, Ohio, in 1845.
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Buckland, Ralph Pomeroy    b. January 20, 1812  d. May 27, 1892
  Civil War Union Brevet Major General, US Congressman. He was admitted to the bar in 1837, was a delegate to the Whig National Convention of 1848 and served as a State Senator from 1855 to 1859. When the Civil War began in 1861, he was appointed Colonel in command of the 72nd Ohio Infantry. He led his regiment at the Battle of Shiloh and was the only unit in General Sherman's Division which survived the battle intact. For his actions, he was promoted Brigadier General in November, 1862. He went...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Croghan, LTC. George    b. November 15, 1791  d. January 8, 1849
  Lieutenant Colonel US Army. Known as the "Hero of Fort Stephenson" his leadership in deterring the British forces as they attempted to enter northern Ohio has been called the turning point of the War of 1812 by many historians. Born in Locust Grove, Kentucky he enlisted as a private in 1811 serving under Major General William Henry Harrison. The courage shown by the young soldier at the Battle of Tippecanoe prompted Harrison to promote him to captain. During the Siege at Fort Meigs he once...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
  Fort Stephenson Park, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Dickinson, Edward Fenwick  b. January 21, 1829  d. August 25, 1891
  US Congressman. During the Civil War he served as 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster of the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Ohio's 9th Congressional District in the United States House of representatives, serving from 1869 from 1871.
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Dickinson, Rodolphus  b. December 28, 1797  d. March 20, 1849
  US Congressman. Born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, he attended Williams College in Williamstown (1818 to 1821) before moving to Tiffin, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar and set up a law practice. He was prosecuting attorney for Seneca County (1824), Williams County (1826), and Sandusky County (1827), and a member of the Ohio Board of Public Works from 1836 to 1845. Dickinson was elected as a Democrat to represent Ohio's 6th District in the Thirtieth and Thirty-First US Congresses...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Hayes, Lucy Ware Webb    b. August 28, 1831  d. June 25, 1889
  Presidential First Lady. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio and with the death of her father at age two, her mother moved the family to Delaware, Ohio. Lucy Web enrolled at Ohio Wesleyan and then transferred to Wesleyan Female College outside of Cincinnati graduating with honors and a college degree. Lucy first met the future President Rutherford B. Hayes when she was fourteen. Her mother became a matchmaker constantly...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial , Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
  GPS coordinates: 41.3400002, -83.1303024 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Hayes, Rutherford Birchard [original burial site]   b. October 4, 1822  d. January 17, 1893
  19th United States President, Civil War Union Major General, US Congressman, Ohio Governor. He became President after one of the closest elections in United States history. Born in Delaware, Ohio in 1822, he was educated at Kenyon College and the Harvard Law School. After five years of law practice in Sandusky, Ohio, he moved to Cincinnati, where he continued to practice law. When the Civil War broke out, he joined the Union Army, and rose to the rank of Major General. While he was still...[Read More] (Bio by: Ryan Kordziel)
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Hayes, Rutherford Birchard    b. October 4, 1822  d. January 17, 1893
  19th United States President, Civil War Union Major General, US Congressman, Ohio Governor. He became President after one of the closest elections in United States history. Born in Delaware, Ohio in 1822, he was educated at Kenyon College and the Harvard Law School. After five years of law practice in Sandusky, Ohio, he moved to Cincinnati, where he continued to practice law. When the Civil War broke out, he joined the Union Army, and rose to the rank of Major General. While he was still...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial , Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
  GPS coordinates: 41.3400002, -83.1303024 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Hayes, Webb Cook    b. March 20, 1856  d. July 26, 1934
  Famous Son, Military Figure, Medal of Honor Recipient. He was the second son born to US President Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes. His birthplace was Cincinnati, Ohio, and his adolescent years were a small boy's dream. From age five, he spent six months every winter at the encampment of his father's regiment usually Camp White, West...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial , Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Haynes, William Elisha  b. October 19, 1829  d. December 5, 1914
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 7th and 10th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1889 to 1893. (Bio by: K)
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Jackson, Amos Henry    b. May 10, 1846  d. August 30, 1924
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 13th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1903 to 1905. Also served as the Mayor of Fremont, Ohio, from 1897 to 1901. (Bio by: K)
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• McCleary, Charles H.    b. 1842  d. June 23, 1906
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Captain in the Union Army. He was awarded the CMOH as a First Lieutenant in Company C, 72d Ohio Infantry for action on December 16, 1864 at Nashville, Tennessee. His citation reads "Capture of flag of 4th Florida Infantry (C.S.A.), while in advance of his lines." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  McPherson Cemetery, Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• McPherson, James Birdseye    b. November 14, 1828  d. July 22, 1864
  Civil War Union Major General. Among McPherson's friends were Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant, all of them Ohioans who became Union Generals. Three became president. From 1849 to 1853, he was a top student of his class at West Point. At that time Robert E. Lee was the superintendent of the academy; Secretary of War Jefferson Davis was the commencement speaker at his graduation. He remained at West Point as an engineering instructor. He was later...[Read More]
  Cause of death: Killed at the Battle of Atlanta
  McPherson Cemetery, Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Old Whitey    b. 1849  d. March 20, 1879
  Civil War Warhorse. His origin is unknown. He came in the same manner as thousands of other Union horses during the civil war by quartermaster procurement. He indirectly became the property of Major Rutherford B. Hayes, destined to be the President of the United States, one of a group of horses assigned to his civil war command. Hayes at the outbreak of the civil war was appointed...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial , Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: On the hill behind Hayes' tomb, very near the fence. Inscriptions is on a boulder and is barely legible
  GPS coordinates: 41.3400002, -83.1299973 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Overmyer, Arthur W.    b. May 31, 1879  d. March 8, 1952
  US Congressman. He graduated from the Ohio Northern University Law School, was admitted to the bar and started practice in Fremont, Ohio in 1902. From 1907 to 1910, he was clerk of the Fremont Board of Health and city solicitor, 1910 to 1914. In 1915, he was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses serving until 1919. Unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he returned to law practice, was appointed judge of the Ohio court of common pleas in 1926, serving until his...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Four Mile House Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Rice, John Birchard    b. June 23, 1832  d. January 14, 1893
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 13th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1881 to 1883. (Bio by: K)
  Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Wood, Amos Eastman  b. January 2, 1810  d. November 19, 1850
  US Congressman. He was elected to represent Ohio's 6th District in the US House of Representatives, and served from 1849 until his death. Born in Ellisburg, New York, Wood moved to Sandusky County, Ohio in 1833 and was active as a farmer. Apparently he never studied law, though this did not hinder him from pursuing politics in his late 20s. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1840 to 1842, and the State Senate in 1845. Wood won a special 1849 election to the Thirty-...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Woodville Cemetery, Woodville (Sandusky County), Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   
• Yauco, Black  
  Spanish American War Horse. The conscripted Quartermaster horses used by Colonel Webb C. Hayes, the son of US President Rutherford B. Hayes, were many. "Chickamauga" was ridden at the time he was slightly wounded during a skirmish with Spanish forces during the Puerto Rico campaign, then later killed in the assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial , Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: The Knoll, horse burial area
   
• Young, Rodger Wilton   b. April 28, 1918  d. July 31, 1943
  World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served in the United States Army during World War II as a Private in the 148th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division (the "Ohio Buckeyes"). He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery on New Georgia, Solomon Islands, on July 31, 1943. His citation "The infantry company of which Pvt. Young was a member was ordered to make a limited withdrawal from the battle line in order to adjust the battalion's position for the night. At this time, Pvt. Young's...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Cause of death: casualty of war
  McPherson Cemetery, Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, USA
   

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