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• Kettering, Charles Franklin    b. August 29, 1876  d. November 25, 1958
  Inventor. Born in an Ohio farmhouse, as an engineer he set up the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company where he invented his most significant engine devices. He is most noted for inventing the first electrical ignition system and the self-starter for automobile engines and the first practical engine-driven generator. Kettering's engine-driven generator, named the 'Delco,' provided electricity on millions of farms. In 1916, he sold his company to General Motors. With G.M. he set up and...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• King, Edward Augustin    d. September 20, 1863
  Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 68th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, being mustered in as the regiment's commanding officer on August 19, 1862. He was killed during the September 9, 1864 Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, while in command of the Army of the Cumberland's Second Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Army Corps. He was riding a horse during the battle, but was making a conspicuous target for Confederate sharp shooters. His men begged him...[Read More] (Bio by: Eric Lowman)
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: Section 68, Lot 177
   
• Langstroth, Lorenzo    b. December 25, 1810  d. October 6, 1895
  Scientist. Known as the "Father of American Beekeeping", he invented a better beehive that changed the industry.
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Lewber, Edward   b. June 26, 1917  d. April 24, 1995
  Race car driver.
  Dayton Memorial Park, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: Abby Mausoleum
   
• McMahon, John A.    b. February 13, 1833  d. March 8, 1923
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 4th and 3rd Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1875 to 1881. Also served as Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Ohio in 1872, and 1904. (Bio by: K)
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Moorehead, Agnes    b. December 6, 1900  d. April 30, 1974
  Actress. She was born Agnes Robertson Moorehead in Clinton, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. She was a graduate of Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio then went on to earn a master's degree in English and public speaking at the university of Wisconsin. She continued her studies in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and began appearing on Broadway and radio. With Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles, she was founder and charter member of the famed Mercury...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Cause of death: Uterine cancer
  Dayton Memorial Park, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: Memorial Abby Mausoleum
   
• Nevin, Robert Murphy    b. 1850  d. 1912
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1901 to 1907. (Bio by: K)
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Parrott, Marcus Junius    b. October 27, 1828  d. October 4, 1879
  US Congressman, Abolitionist. Elected as a Republican to represent the territory of Kansas in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1857 to 1861. The son of a Quaker, he graduated from Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1849, and earned a law degree at Cambridge University in 1851. Moving to Ohio, he practiced as an attorney in Dayton and served in the Ohio State House of Representatives. Parrott then moved to Kansas in 1855 and became a member of the Free...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Patrick, Marsena Rudolph    b. March 11, 1811  d. July 27, 1888
  Civil War Union Provost Marshal, Brevet Major General. Appointed to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, he graduated in 1835, 48th in his class, the same class as George Meade. He became a Brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Infantry in 1835 and a 1st Lieutenant in 1839 while serving in the Seminole Wars in Florida. He was promoted to Captain while serving in the Mexican American War in 1847 and was brevetted to Major in 1849 for meritorious service. In 1850, he then resigned...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
  Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: CIV, 2, 1
   
• Patterson, Frank S.    b. 1896  d. June 19, 1918
  US military test pilot. He was killed in a plane crash at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio while testing propeller and machine gun synchronization. His name was added to the field that is now known as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
  Cause of death: Airplane accident
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: section 13 lot 365
   
• Patterson, John H.    b. December 13, 1844  d. May 7, 1922
  Founder of NCR (National Cash Register) Corporation.
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Paul, Joe Calvin    b. April 23, 1946  d. August 19, 1965
  Viet Nam Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Lance Corporal, United States Marine Corps, Company H, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines (Rein), 3d Marine Division (Rein). He was awarded his medal for service near Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam, on August 18, 1965. His citation reads-For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. In violent battle, L/Cpl. Paul's platoon sustained 5 casualties as it was temporarily pinned down, by...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
  Dayton Memorial Park, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Richter, Elizabeth   b. 1840  d. 1923
  Famous 'Madam' and large real estate owner. Three of her 'girls' are buried with her. Her 'fallen angel' monument is said to have inspired Thomas Wolfe's 'Look Homeward Angel.'
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Rickey, James W.   b. November 10, 1871  d. April 19, 1943
  Chief Hydraulic Engineer for the Aluminum Company of America. Constructed numerous dams and power plants in the United States and Canada.
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Rinehart, Howard M.    b. 1885  d. 1949
  Aviation Pioneer. Born Howard Max Rinehart, he began his flying career as an instructor of the Wright Brothers Flying School, Dayton, Ohio in 1909. He had been an instructor in Augusta in 1911 and had flown for the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1914. He soon branched into aerial experiments, exhibitions and became one of the first international air racing competitors in the 1920s. In 1927, with Bernard L. Whelan, he formed the Rinehart-Whelan Company, which served planes and built a...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Dayton Memorial Park, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Ritty, James    b. 1837  d. 1918
  Inventor of the cash register. Sold patent to John H. Patterson for $6,500.00. Patterson then formed the National Cash Register Co. (NCR).
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Ritty, John    b. 1844  d. December 28, 1913
  Inventor. A skilled mechanic, he built the first practical cash register with the help of his brother James, and patented the design in 1879 as "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier". The Ritty brothers opened a small factory in Dayton to manufacture cash registers. The company did not prosper and was sold to a group of investors including Jacob H. Eckert of Cincinnati, a china and glassware salesman who formed the National Manufacturing Company, and John and Frank Patterson, who were then in the coal...[Read More] (Bio by: Helen L. Smith Hoke)
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Routzohn, Harry Nelson  b. 1881  d. 1953
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1939 to 1941. He was defeated in 1940. (Bio by: K)
  Dayton Memorial Park, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   
• Satchell, Clarence 'Satch'   b. April 15, 1940  d. December 25, 1995
  Musician. Had a 30-year career as a professional saxophonist and flutist. Noted for working with Wilson Pickett and 'Bobby Blue Band'. Noted foremost as a founding members of 'The Ohio Untouchables', who later became Grammy nominated Funk/Soul band 'The Ohio Players'. Co-wrote a number of top Billboard hits including "Fire", "Love Rollercoaster", "I Want To Be Free" and "Skin Tight".
  Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
  Plot: Section 308, Lot 2, Grave A
   
• Saylor, Everett    b. October 8, 1909  d. May 31, 1942
  Open-wheel Race Car Driver. A young Everett Saylor, a former school teacher in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, began his racing career in 1935, after he had approached "Pop" Dreyer (a noted midget-car master) before a race at Fairborn, Greene County, Ohio, asking for chance to drive. When asked about his experience, he said he had been racing at Walnut Gardens, Camby, Indiana, and without the available statistics we have today, "Pop" Dreyer took the risk. By 1936, as Dryer prepared to enter "...[Read More] (Bio by: genealogyfever)
  Cause of death: Racing accident
  Willow View Cemetery, Northridge, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
   

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