Find A Grave - District of Columbia

Bache, Alexander Dallas b. July 19, 1806 d. February 17, 1867
Graduated West Point in 1825 at the top of his class. Professor of natural philosophy and chemistry University of Pennsylvania. Appointed Superintendent of the Coast Survey by Pres. Tyler in 1843, a position he held until 1861. Bache introduced many new and innovative ideas into the Coast Survey including the involvement of many of the top scientific minds of the day. When President Lincoln established the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, Bache and about four dozen other scientists, many...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Connelly)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 32, Site 194
Bailey, Goldsmith Fox [cenotaph] b. July 17, 1823 d. May 8, 1862
US Congressman. Elected as a Republican to represent Massachusetts' 9th District in the Thirty-Seventh Congress, he served from 1861 until his death. Bailey was born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. After the death of his father in 1826 he moved with his mother to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, which he called home for the rest of his life. At age 17 he was sent to Vermont to apprentice at the Bellows Falls Gazette and in 1844 became that newspaper's editor and publisher, while studying law...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 59, Site 143
Baird, Spencer Fullerton b. February 3, 1823 d. August 19, 1887
Naturalist. The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, he graduated from Dickinson College in 1840 and became professor of natural history there in 1845. Becoming assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1850, he began amassing the Smithsonian's huge collection of birds, reptiles, and other animals. He published "Birds" (1858), "Mammals of North America" (1859), and "History of North American Birds" (1875 to 1884). He was appointed Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries in 1871 and...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Balch, Rev. Stephen Bloomer b. April 5, 1747 d. September 22, 1833
Presbyterian Minister, Educator, Revolutionary War Officer. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1774 and became head of the Lower Marlborough Academy in Calvert County, Maryland. During the Revolution he served as a Captain and led a charge of students on missions that harassed the British along the Chesapeake Bay and Patuxent River, a strategy that the more famous Joshua Barney would copy during the War of 1812. In 1780, Balch established Georgetown...[Read More]
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Lot 632 1/2
Baldwin, Abraham b. November 23, 1754 d. March 4, 1807
US Senator and Congressman, Signer of Constitution. He attended Yale in his native Connecticut with the desire to become a minister, but his involvement as an army chaplain during the Revolutionary War changed his career path. While in the Army the young theologian began to study law. Following the war he was encouraged to move to Georgia to help establish the frontier state's education system. He moved there in 1784 establishing a law practice near Augusta. In 1785 he was elected to the state...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Ball, William Lee b. January 2, 1781 d. February 29, 1824
US Congressman from Virginia. The son of Colonel James Bell, a longtime member of the Virginia House of Delegates, he received a liberal education before following his father into a political career. He served seven terms in the House of Delegates (1805 to 1806, 1810 to 1814) and four in the State Senate (1814 to 1817). During the War of 1812 he was assigned as paymaster for the 92nd Virginia Regiment. An early Republican, Ball was elected to four consecutive terms in the US House of...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 29, Site 38
Barbour, Philip Pendleton b. May 25, 1783 d. February 25, 1841
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 57, Site 144
Barnes, Joseph K. b. July 21, 1817 d. April 5, 1883
Civil War Union Brigader General
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Lot 626
Barrett, Richard b. 1838 d. 1898
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a First Sergeant in the US Army in Company A, 1st US Cavalry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at Sycamore Canyon, Arizona on May 23, 1872. His citation reads "Conspicuous gallantry in a charge upon the Tonto Apaches." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section K-6765
Barrow, Alexander [original burial site] b. March 27, 1801 d. December 29, 1846
US Senator. Elected as a Whig to represent Louisiana in the US Senate, he served from 1841 until his death in office. Barrow was born near Nashville, Tennessee, and attended the US Military Academy at West Point from 1816 to 1818. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822 and moved to Louisiana. By the late 1820s he had abandoned legal practice to run a successful plantation, Afton Villa, in the West Feliciana Parish. As a Democratic member of the State House of Representatives...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Public vault
Barry, Henry W. b. 1840 d. 1875
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. In 1861, he helped organize a regiment of colored troops and was commissioned a 1st lieutenant in the Tenth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted Colonel in command of the 8th US Colored Artillery Corps and particapated in the Kentucky Wilderness Campaigns the entire Civil War. For dedication of duty, he was brevetted Brigadier General of US Volunteers in March 1865. After the war, he was admitted to the bar in 1867...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Bartley, Thomas Welles b. February 11, 1812 d. June 20, 1885
Ohio Governor. Born in Jefferson County, Ohio, he moved to Mansfield, Ohio with his family in 1814 when he was a child. Bartley graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1829 and returned to Mansfield to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced to practice as an attorney. He was elected as the Richland County Prosecuting Attorney and served from 1835 to 1839. He then became a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives and served from 1839 until he...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
GPS coordinates: 38.9226799, -77.0058289 (hddd.dddd)
Bayard, Thomas Francis [memorial] b. June 4, 1868 d. July 12, 1942
US Senator. Elected as a Senator from Delaware to the United States Senate, serving from 1922 to 1929. He was the son of Senator and Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard Sr.
Washington National Cathedral, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Bayly, Thomas Henry [cenotaph] b. December 11, 1810 d. June 23, 1856
US Congressman. Elected as a Democrat to represent Virginia's 1st and 7th Districts in the US House of Representatives, he served from 1844 until his death in office. The son of US Congressman Thomas Monteagle Bayly, he was born at the family estate "Mount Custis" near Drummondtown, Virginia. Graduating from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1829, he was admitted to the bar the following year and practiced law in Accomack County. He was a member of the State House of Delegates (...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 60, Site 122
Beck, James Montgomery b. July 9, 1861 d. April 12, 1936
US Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 1st and 2nd Districts in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1927 until his resignation in 1934. He also served as an Assistant to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1888 to 1892, as United States Attorney from 1896 to 1900, and as the Solicitor General of the United States from 1921 to 1925. He also authored several books and articles on the First World War and the Constitution of...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Bell, James [cenotaph] b. November 13, 1804 d. May 26, 1857
US Senator. The son of Samuel Bell, the 14th Governor of New Hampshire, he was born in Francestown, Hillsborough County. He received an excellent education, attending the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut before being admitted to the bar in 1825. Returning to his home state, he had a successful practice in Gilmanton and, after 1831, in Exeter. In 1846 he closed his law office and moved to...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 60, Site 101
Benham, Henry Washington b. April 17, 1813 d. June 1, 1884
Civil War Union Mayor General. He graduated from West Point first in the class of 1837 and when the Civil War started he was assigned as Chief Engineer of the Department of Ohio in May 1861. Although assigned as an engineer he directed pursuits of Confederates forces in western Virginia and was commissioned Brigadier General in command of a brigade in the occupation of Union Armies in western Virginia. He took part in unsuccessful frontal assaults at Fort Pulaski and at Secessionville, South...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 52, Site 249
Berliner, Emile b. May 20, 1851 d. August 3, 1929
Inventor. Born in Hanover, Germany, he is best known for developing the disc record. In the 1870s, he relocated to Washington D.C. and in November 1887, he patented the first successful system for sound recording that could be mass-produced. He also invented the microphone device used as a telephone speech transmitter. Berliner's trademark, a picture of his dog Nipper listening to his master's voice being played from a gramophone was used by RCA Victor. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Berret, James G. b. 1815 d. April 15, 1901
Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He served in the Maryland state legislature from 1837 to 1839, was appointed to the United States Treasury by President Martin Van Buren, and as Postmaster of the District of Columbia by President Franklin Pierce. He also served as the Mayor of Washington D.C. from 1858 to 1861. In 1861, when the civil war broke out, Congress enacted a law requiring all officers of national, state and municipal governments to take an oath of allegiance to the United States. He...[Read More] (Bio by: DXA)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Berret Vault
Betts, Thaddeus [cenotaph] b. February 4, 1789 d. April 7, 1840
US Senator, Connecticut Lieutenant Governor. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1807, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1810 and returned to Norwalk to commence practice. After membership in the State House of Representatives (1815, 1830) and State Senate (1831), he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and served three terms, under Governors John Samuel Peters (1831 to 1833) and Samuel A. Foot (1834 to 1835). A Whig, Betts was elected to the US...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Range 57, Site 114

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