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- OAK_060224_12.JPG: This is the grave of John Howard Payne. Born in New York, he wrote the song "Home Sweet Home" (be it ever so humble...) in 1822 which was first sung in Covent Garden, England in 1823 as part of the opera "Clari, the Maid of Milan." Payne served as American Consul to Tunis, Africa in the last years of his life and died there in 1852.
- OAK_060224_20.JPG: This is where Katharine Graham, and her husband Phil, both publishers of the Washington Post, are buried.
- OAK_060224_28.JPG: Stephen Osusky (1889-1973), co-founder of Czecho-Slovakia, envoy to France, pillar of the League of Nations, advisor to the U.S. Presidents W. Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt, H.S. Truman.
- OAK_060224_43.JPG: The column in the middle marks the grave of Edwin Stanton (1814-1869). He was born in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1827 his father died, forcing the 13-year-old to leave school and work in a Steubenville bookstore to supplement the family's income. Keeping up with his studies in his spare time, in 1831 he was able to enter Kenyon College, where he attended for 2 years until his funds became low. In Columbus he completed his studies in law in the office of his guardian and became a lawyer in 1836.
From 1849 to 1856 he was counsel for the state of Pennsylvania, establishing a national reputation as he practiced before the United States Supreme Court. It was also during this time, (in 1855), that he first met Abraham Lincoln during the McCormick v. Manny case. Afterward his most important work was as special counsel for the United States government in 1858 litigating fraudulent land claims in California.
A year later, he served as Congressman Daniel Sickles attorney. Sickles, had found his young wife in a compromising situation with Francis Barton Keys, son of Francis Scott Key, the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Sickles chased young Key from his house onto Lafayette Square, (which is in front of the White House), and in front of dozens of witnesses, he drew a pistol, shot, and killed Keys. Sickles even admitted to him that he killed Keys because he deserved it. So he presented a novel defense, arguing that Sickles was temporarily insane when he committed the crime, and asked the court to acquit the congressman by reason of insanity. The court agreed, and for the first time in American law the insanity defense had been used successfully.
His earlier success in California, won for him the appointment of attorney general on December 20, 1860, under President James Buchanan. Opposed to slavery, he nonetheless felt that the South's rights had to be protected in order to save the Union. Thus he accepted the Dred Scott decision, supported the Buchanan programs, and backed John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 presidential race. After Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president, he returned to private life and back to his law practice. He was serving as legal adviser to Secretary of War Simon Cameron; when Lincoln removed Cameron from office; he was appointed in his place. With his acceptance to join Lincoln's cabinet, he sacrificed a yearly income of $40,000 to $50,000 as a successful lawyer for a cabinet salary of just $8,000.
With no military experience, he moved into the office with zeal, fighting fraud and waste in the rapidly enlarged military. A capable organizer, he brought order out of chaos. He worked well with congressional leaders and his generals in the field. When one, George B. McClellan, a personal friend, failed to perform adequately he was one of the leading forces pushing for his removal. His opinion of Lincoln began to change when he found out that the president also wanted McClellan removed from command.
His manner and his restrictions on the press earned him few friends and later led to some apparently unfounded charges that he was behind the assassination of Lincoln. After the war, he remained in Andrew Johnson's Cabinet while advocating Reconstruction, he worked with the Radical Republicans in their efforts to secure harsher treatment for the South. This brought him into conflict with Johnson. Matters came to a head in 1868 when the president sought to remove him from office. Congress reinstated him under the Tenure of Office Act but Johnson persisted. At that point he refused to leave his office until removed by force. He finally resigned on May 26, 1868, when it became apparent that the president would win out. Even though he left office, this affair would lead to the impeachment of Johnson.
Worn by his hard work during the Civil War, he refused several opportunities to run for public office in order to recover his strength. On Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, he offered him a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Sadly he died 4 days after Congress had confirmed his nomination to the Court.
The above from http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=104443
- Wikipedia Description: Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
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Oak Hill Cemetery is a historic 22-acre (8.9 ha) cemetery located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was founded in 1848 and completed in 1853, and is a prime example of a rural cemetery. Many famous politicians, business people, military people, diplomats, and philanthropists are buried at Oak Hill, and the cemetery has a number of Victorian-style memorials and monuments. Oak Hill has two structures which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel and the Van Ness Mausoleum.
The cemetery's interment of "Willie" Lincoln, deceased son of president Abraham Lincoln, was the inspiration for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
History
Oak Hill began in 1848 as part of the rural cemetery movement, directly inspired by the success of Mount Auburn Cemetery near Boston, Massachusetts, when William Wilson Corcoran (also founder of the Corcoran Gallery of Art) purchased 15 acres (6.1 ha) of land. He then organized the Cemetery Company to oversee Oak Hill; it was incorporated by act of Congress on March 3, 1849.
Oak Hill's chapel was built in 1849 by noted architect James Renwick, who also designed the Smithsonian Institution's Castle on Washington Mall and St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. His one-story rectangular chapel measures 23 by 41 feet (7×12 m) and sits on the cemetery's highest ridge. It is built of black granite, in Gothic Revival style, with exterior trim in the same red Seneca sandstone used for the Castle.
By 1851, landscape designer Captain George F. de la Roche finished laying out the winding paths and terraces descending into Rock Creek valley. When initial construction was completed in 1853, Corcoran had spent over $55,000 on the cemetery's landscaping and architecture.
Notable interments
* Alice Acheson (1895–1996), painter
* Dean Acheson (1893–1971), Secretary of State under President Harry Truman
* Frederick Aiken (1832–1878), attorney for Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Mary Surratt
* Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887), founder of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
* Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747–1833), Presbyterian minister and educator
* Henry W. Barry (1840–1875), Brevet Brigadier General in the Union Army and Representative from Mississippi
* Alice Birney (1858–1907), co-founder of the National Parent-Teacher Association
* Walker Blaine (1855–1890), assistant Secretary of State, solicitor of the Department of State
* Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921–2014), executive editor for The Washington Post
* Glenn Brenner (1948–1992), Washington, D.C., sportscasting legend
* Thomas Barbour Bryan, businessman and politician
* Wilkinson Call (1834–1910), Senator from Florida
* Frances Carpenter (1890–1972), photographer and writer
* Samuel S. Carroll (1832–1893), U.S.Army general
* Joseph Casey (1814–1879), Representative from Pennsylvania
* Adolf Cluss (1825-1905), architect
* William Wilson Corcoran (1798–1888), banker and philanthropist
* Richard Cutts (1771–1845), Representative from Massachusetts, Comptroller of the Treasury
* Rachel Davies – see Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) under "F"
* Josiah Dent (1817–1899), third president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
* Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834), frontier minister and writer
* William M. Dunn (1814–1887), Representative from Indiana, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army
* John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War
* George Eustis Jr. (1828–1872), Representative from Louisiana
* William Harrell Felton (1823–1909), politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister
* Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) (1846–1915), Welsh-born minister
* Uriah Forrest (1746–1805), Continental Congressman and Representative from Maryland
* Judith Ellen Foster (1840-1910), American lecturer, temperance worker and lawyer
* Thomas J. D. Fuller (1808–1876), Representative from Maine
* Charles C. Glover (1846-1936), banker and philanthropist
* Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906), Senator from Maryland
* Katharine Graham (1917–2001), president of The Washington Post
* Charles Griffin (1825–1867), Union general in the American Civil War
* Peter V. Hagner (1815–1893), U.S. Army officer
* John Harris (1793–1864), U.S. Marine Corps colonel and sixth Commandant of the Marine Corps
* James P. Heath (1777–1854), Representative from Maryland
* John J. Hemphill (1849–1912), Representative from South Carolina
* Joseph Henry (1797–1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
* Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), statistician and inventor
* Samuel Hooper (1808–1875), Representative from Massachusetts
* William H. Hunt (1823–1884), Secretary of the Navy
* Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831–1879), Representative from Illinois
* O.H. Irish (1830–1886), Chief, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, United States Department of the Treasury
* Thomas S. Jesup (1788–1860), Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army from 1818 to 1860
* Philip Barton Key (1757–1815), Representative from Maryland
* Philip Barton Key II (1815–1859), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
* William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative from New York
* John B. Montgomery (1794–1872), U.S. Navy officer during Mexican–American War and the American Civil War
* Gale W. McGee (1915–1992), Senator from Wyoming, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States
* Henrietta McKenney (1825-1887), painter
* John R. McPherson (1833–1897), Senator from New Jersey
* Richard Mohun (1864–1915), explorer and diplomat
* Charles Morris (1784–1856), Commodore, U.S. Navy, an officer from 1799 to 1847, during Quasi-War, First Barbary War, Second Barbary War and War of 1812
* John George Nicolay (1832–1901), private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln
* Štefan Osuský (1889–1973), Slovak diplomat
* Carlile Pollock Patterson (1816–1881), fourth superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
* John Barton Payne (1855–1935), politician, lawyer, and judge and United States Secretary of the Interior
* John Howard Payne (1791–1852), composer of "Home! Sweet Home!"
* Paul J. Pelz (1841–1918), architect of the Library of Congress
* Wendy Pepper (1964–2017), fashion designer
* George Peter (1779–1861), Representative from Maryland
* George Peter (1829–1893), Maryland politician, son of George Peter (1779–1861)
* Albert Pike (1809–1891), American attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason
* Charles Pomeroy (1825–1891), Representative from Iowa
* John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina
* William Radford (1808–1890), Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy
* Jesse L. Reno (1823–1862), U.S. Army officer from Virginia
* Zalmon Richards (1811–1899), Educator and first president of the National Education Association
* William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), U.S. Navy admiral, and naval and military historian
* Gustavus H. Scott (1812–1882), United States Navy rear admiral (exhumed in 1896 and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia)
* Willis Shapley (1917–2005), NASA executive
* Howard K. Smith (1914–2002), CBS and ABC newscaster; war correspondent; film star
* E. D. E. N. Southworth (1819-1899), novelist
* Samuel Sprigg (c. 1783 – 1855), governor of Maryland
* Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), Attorney General under President James Buchanan, Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln
* Hestor L. Stevens (1803–1864), Representative from Michigan
* Cornelius Stribling (1796–1880), United States Navy rear admiral, United States Naval Academy Superintendent[circular reference]
* Noah Haynes Swayne (1804–1884), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Lorenzo Thomas (1804–1875), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, acting Secretary of War under President Andrew Johnson
* Theodore Timby (1822–1909), inventor of the revolving turret first introduced on the Civil War ship USS Monitor, and many other inventions.
* Charles Henry Tompkins (1830–1915), brevet Brigadier General of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Recipient of the Medal of Honor. Later served as Assistant Quartermaster General.
* Robin Toner (1954-2008) journalist
* James True (1880–1946) Washington DC journalist.
* James Noble Tyner (1826–1904), Representative from Indiana, Postmaster General under President Ulysses S. Grant
* Henry Ulke (1821–1910), portrait painter, photographer, entymologist; painted more than 100 portraits of high government officials
* Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844), Secretary of State and Secretary of the Navy under President John Tyler; originally buried at the Congressional Cemetery
* Robert J. Walker (1801–1869), Secretary of the Treasury, Senator from Mississippi
* George Corbin Washington (1789–1854), Representative from Maryland, grand-nephew of George Washington
* Edward Douglass White (1844–1921), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States
* Cadmus M. Wilcox (1824–1890), U.S. Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War; Confederate general during the American Civil War
* David Levy Yulee (1810–1886), Senator from Florida, first Jew to serve in the U.S. Senate
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