Find A Grave - Scott County

Palmer, Daniel David b. March 7, 1845 d. October 20, 1913
Medical Pioneer. He was the founder of "Chiropractic." Born in the small town of Port Perry in Ontario, Canada, he moved to Davenport Iowa when he was 20. There he founded the Davenport College of Chiropractic. His son, Dr. B.T. Palmer later became head of this college, and the cause of his own fathers death. A rift had grown between father and son 10 years earlier. Dr. Palmer Sr. went to Iowa to attend a parade, he stepped out of the vehicle because his son was in this same vehicle. Then was...[Read More] (Bio by: Scott Buschlen)
Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Cremains interred in Heritage Wall at College
Price, Hiram b. January 10, 1814 d. May 30, 1901
US Congressman. A prominent banker in Iowa in the days before the Civil War, upon that conflict's outbreak he served in the war's early years as Iowa's Paymaster General. He was elected twice to represent Iowa's 2nd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving first from March 4, 1863 to March 4, 1869, then serving from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881. He declined to run for re-election, accepting the appointment of Chief Clerk in the Indian Affairs Office. He...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Sanders, Addison Hiatt b. September 13, 1823 d. November 7, 1912
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. During the Civil War he served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 16, 1865 for “gallant and meritorious conduct during the war”. Following the war he served from 1870 to 1872 as Secretary of State of the Montana Territory. (Bio by: Steve Dunn)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Section 1, Lot 27
Skelly, Hal b. May 31, 1891 d. June 16, 1934
Stage and screen actor. He made his debut on Broadway with "Fiddler's Three." His first film was the version of the Broadway play "Burlesque," retitled "Dance of Life" (1929). He also appeared in "Woman Trap" (1929) and "The Shadow Laughs" (1933). He died in a car accident. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
St. Ann's Guild World War II Monument [memorial]
Erected by the St. Ann's Guild Committee in June 1946, the monument is dedicated to the memory of all the US Veterans who served in World War II. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Saint Anns Catholic Church Cemetery, Long Grove, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Sudlow, Phebe W. b. July 11, 1831 d. June 8, 1922
Educator. She was the first female public school principal in the United States, the first female school superintendant in the United States, the first female president of the Iowa School Teachers' Association, and the first female professor at the University of Iowa. She accomplished all of this despite her lack of official academic credits. She was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by Grinnell College in 1878, the only college degree she held. She also assisted in the funding and...[Read More] (Bio by: Dustin Oliver)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Thanet, Octave b. 1850 d. 1934
Author. She was one of the most well-known popular magazine contributors of the 1890's. She sold her first story to Lippincott's magazine in 1878, and was published frequently until 1913. At the height of her popularity, from 1896 to 1900, she published fifty short stories and five books. She also wrote the book "Man of the Hour," which made it to number four on the best seller list in 1905. Her real name was Alice French. (Bio by: Dustin Oliver)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Thorington, James b. May 7, 1816 d. June 13, 1887
US Congressman and Foreign Diplomat. He was born in 1816 (in Alabama by some accounts, or Wilmington, North Carolina by others), and moved with his family to Saint Louis, Missouri 1833. In 1839, the family moved again, this time to Davenport, Iowa, where James was a school teacher for two years, and his father was a lawyer and the second mayor of Davenport. In the early 1840's he served as Justice of the Peace for Scott County, Iowa, was elected, as a member of the Whig party, mayor of...[Read More] (Bio by: Dustin Oliver)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Vale, John b. August 9, 1835 d. February 4, 1909
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Born in London, England, he was a farmer in Rochester, Minnesota, when he enlisted in the Union Army at the start of the Civil War. Assigned to picket duty, he served as a Private in Company H, 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. On February 15, 1863, he was a member of a detachment in a wagon train when 125 Confederate Cavalry attacked them near Nolensville, Tennessee. Private Vale together with his comrades moved to a log building for cover and...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Section 7, Lot 62
Van Sant, Samuel Rinnah b. May 11, 1844 d. October 3, 1936
Politician and soldier. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Van Sant was the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1895, and served as Minnesota governor from 1901 to 1905. He was also a three-time delegate from Minnesota to the Republican National Convention, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. (Bio by: Dustin Oliver)
Glendale Cemetery, Le Claire, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Von Maur, Charles J. b. February 15, 1863 d. January 24, 1926
Businessman. Founder of Von Maur Department Stores. Von Maur is now a leading Midwest department store chain, with headquarters in Davenport, Iowa, where CJ Von Maur opened his first store in 1887. (Bio by: Dustin Oliver)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Section 13, Lot 185
Von Maur, Henry W. b. 1869 d. 1933
Businessman. President of Henry W. Von Maur company, which operated Von Maur Department Stores, now a prominent Midwest department store chain. Von Maur stores are located in six Midwestern states. (Bio by: Dustin Oliver)
Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
Plot: Public Mausoleum, SE Center, Tier D, Elevation 2

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