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Bartholomew, Joseph b. March 15, 1766 d. November 3, 1840
United States Army Major General. He fought in the battle of Tippecanoe which is located near Lafayette Indiana, He also fought in the Revolutionary war, the War of 1812, and the Black Hawk War. He fought with William Henry Harrison before he became President at the the battle of Tippecanoe.
Cause of death: pneumonia
Clarksville Cemetery, Clarksville, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Bates, Gilbert Henderson b. February 13, 1836 d. February 17, 1917
Folk Figure, Author. During the Civil War he was a Sergeant in the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. In 1868 his radical Republican neighbor told him anti-Union feeling meant no representative of the United States was safe in the former Confederacy. Bates, a Democrat, wagered he could walk unscathed through the southern states while carrying an American flag. He agreed to start in Mississippi, march without weapons or money, and arrive in Washington, DC before July 4th, and his neighbor agreed to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Cheney Grove Township Cemetery, Saybrook, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Bliss, Leonard 'Baby' b. May 4, 1865 d. January 4, 1912
He was world famous in the late 1800s as the fattest man in the world. You can see some of his clothes and pictures at the Mclean County museum in Bloomington, Illinois.
Smith Grove Cemetery, Towanda, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Brennan, Martin Adlai b. September 21, 1879 d. July 4, 1941
US Congressman. He was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced the practice of law in Bloomington, Illinois. From 1913 to 1917, he served as presiding judge of the Illinois Court of Claims and was a member of the State House of Representatives, 1921 to 1923. In 1933, he was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses, serving until 1937. Not a candidate for re-nomination, he resumed his legal practice until his death. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Saint Marys Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Collie Sr., James E. b. May 13, 1922 d. May 2, 2006
College Basketball Coach. He was the head men's basketball coach at Illinois State University from 1957 to 1970. During his 13 seasons as head coach he led the Redbirds to 209 victories against 139 losses, ranking him as the second winning-est coach in Illinois State University history. In 1958 he led the Redbirds to a school record 24 victories, including a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) district championship, and recognition as Illinois State "Coach of the Year."...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
East Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Davis, David b. March 9, 1815 d. June 26, 1886
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. Born in Cecil County Maryland, he attended public school, graduated from Kenyon College Ohio, in 1832 and with a law degree form Yale University in 1835. He also served as a member of the Illinois State House of Representatives in 1845 and presided a judge over the 8th Circuit Court of Illinois (1848-62). On October 17, 1862, he received an appointment to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court form President Abraham Lincoln. In March 1877, he resigned...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section G, Lot 659
Dick, George Frederick b. February 22, 1829 d. November 12, 1914
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He entered upon his Civil War service as Captain of Compay D, 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, rising to the rank of Major in that regiment. He was later commissioned Colonel and commander of the 86th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was brevetted Brigadier General on March 13, 1865 for “meritorious services during the war”. (Bio by: Steve Dunn)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section 16, Lot 6
Doubleday, Ulysses Freeman b. December 15, 1792 d. March 10, 1866
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 24th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1831 to 1833, and 1835 to 1837. (Bio by: K)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section 8, Row 5
Fell, Jesse Weldon b. November 10, 1808 d. February 25, 1887
Educator. Founder of Illinois State University. He is purported to be the man who talked Abraham Lincoln into running for president.
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Fifer, Joseph Wilson b. October 28, 1840 d. August 6, 1938
Illinois Governor. He served as Governor of Illinois from 1889 to 1893. During the Civil War he served as a Private in the 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was severely wounded at the Battle of Jackson, Mississippi.
Park Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Fitzhenry, Louis b. June 13, 1870 d. November 18, 1935
US Congressman. He was admitted to the bar in 1897, opened a law practice in Bloomington, Illinois and was City Attorney of Bloomington, 1907 to 1911. In 1913, he was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress, serving until 1915. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he was appointed United States district judge of Illinois in 1918, and judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in 1933, serving until his death. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Funk, Benjamin Franklin b. October 17, 1838 d. February 14, 1909
US Congressman. During the Civil War, he served in the 68th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. From 1871 to 1876 and 1884 to 1886, he was Mayor of Bloomington, Illinois. In 1893, he was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress, serving until 1895. An unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination, he resumed agricultural pursuits until his death. US Congressman Frank Hamilton Funk was his son. (Bio by: Tony Cannon)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Funk, Frank Hamilton b. April 4, 1869 d. November 24, 1940
US Congressman. From 1906 to 1912, he was a member of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee and a member of the State Senate, 1909 to 1911. He was commissioner on the Illinois Public Utilities Commission, 1914 to 1921 and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920. In 1921, he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses, serving until 1927. US Congressman Benjamin Franklin Funk was his father. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Funks Grove Cemetery, McLean, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Gage, Dorothy Louise b. June 11, 1898 d. November 11, 1898
Literary Figure. She was the niece of Maud (Gage) Baum and her husband, and "The Wizard of Oz" author, L. Frank Baum. Born to Sophie Jewel and Thomas Clarkson Gage in June 1898, she tragically died only 5 months later (the "official" cause of death was listed as "congestion of the brain"). The Baums had four sons, and Maud had always longed for a daughter. Maud was devastated by the infant's death, and it is said that her husband used the child's name in his Oz stories (and later books) to...[Read More]
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Hall, Homer W. b. July 22, 1870 d. September 22, 1954
US Congress Representative from Illinois. He graduated from Wesleyan University at Bloomington, was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced law practice in Bloomington, Illinois. From 1909 to 1914 he served as county judge and probate judge of McLean County also the master in chancery from 1916 to 1918. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916 and was elected as a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses, March 4, 1927 to March 3, 1933...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Park Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Laughlin, Rankin G. b. February 27, 1827 d. December 6, 1878
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Served in the Civil War first as Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the 94th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, then as the acting Asistant Inspector General on the staff of Maj. General Gordon Granger. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "gallant and meritorious conduct at Mobile, Ala.". (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section D, Lot 363
Litta, Marie b. June 1, 1856 d. July 7, 1883
Opera Singer. She was a soprano, who, in a brief career, sang in a number of major venues in America and Europe. Raised in Illinois by a family descended from German nobility, she started vocal training at four, sang for President US Grant at 12, and entered the Cleveland Conservatory of Music in 1872. She continued her training in London in 1874, and made her professional debut at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1876. Miss Litta made her Paris bow in 1878 (it was then that she changed her name in...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section B
McNulta, John b. November 9, 1837 d. February 22, 1900
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. Born in New York City, New York, he was studying law when he joined the Union Army at the start of the Civil War. Commissioned a Captain in the 1st Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, he later rose to the rank of Colonel in command of the 94th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "Gallant and meritorious services in the siege and reduction of Spanish Fort, Ala.". After the war, he...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Big Circle, Lot 1
Orme, William Ward b. February 17, 1832 d. September 13, 1866
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Born in the District of Columbia, he graduated from Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland. He moved to Chicago, and then to Bloomington, Illinois, where he was admitted to the bar and became a law partner of Leonard Swet, gaining the respect of future president Abraham Lincoln. He attended the 1861 Illinois constitutional convention, then answered the call to fight; on August 20, 1862, he joined the 94th Illinois Infantry as its colonel. He commanded a brigade...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Section B, Lot 12
Pike, Edward M. b. July 1, 1838 d. August 10, 1924
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a First Sergeant in the Union Army in Company A, 33d Illinois Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on July 7, 1862 at Cache River, Arkansas. His citation reads "While the troops were falling back before a superior force, this soldier, assisted by one companion, and while under severe fire at close-range, saved a cannon from capture by the enemy." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Chenoa Cemetery, Chenoa, McLean County, Illinois, USA

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