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Index to Locations
Battle Ground Tippecanoe Battlefield
Park
Dayton Dayton Cemetery
Lafayette Unknown location
Lafayette Greenbush Cemetery
Lafayette Soldiers' Home Cemetery
Lafayette Spring Vale Cemetery
Stockwell Fairview Cemetery
West Lafayette Tippecanoe Memory
Gardens
Tippecanoe
Battlefield Park
Battle Ground, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
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Joseph Hamilton Daviess (1774-1811) —
also known as Joe Daviess —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., March 4,
1774.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for Kentucky, 1800-06; major in the U.S. Army during the
War of 1812.
Welsh
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Around 1801, he served as a second to John
Rowan in his duel
with James Chambers; after Chambers was killed, he fled
to avoid
prosecution as accomplice to murder,
and became a fugitive,
but when Rowan was arrested, he returned to act as Rowan's legal
counsel.
Shot
and killed
in the Battle of Tippecanoe, in what is now Tippecanoe
County, Ind., November
7, 1811 (age 37 years, 248
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe Battlefield Park.
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Dayton
Cemetery
Dayton, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Unknown
Location
Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
Greenbush
Cemetery
Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
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John Pettit (1807-1877) —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Sackets Harbor, Jefferson
County, N.Y., July 24,
1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1838-39; defeated, 1835, 1841; U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1839-41; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1843-49; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; candidate
for Presidential Elector for Indiana; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1853-55; circuit judge in Indiana, 1855-57;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1856,
1864
(alternate); chief
justice of Kansas territorial supreme court, 1859-61; mayor
of Lafayette, Ind., 1867-71; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1871-77.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., June 17,
1877 (age 69 years, 328
days).
Interment at Greenbush Cemetery.
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Albert Smith White (1803-1864) —
also known as Albert S. White —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Blooming Grove, Orange
County, N.Y., October
24, 1803.
Lawyer;
candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1832; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Indiana; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1837-39, 1861-63 (7th District
1837-39, 8th District 1861-63); U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1839-45; railroad
president.
Died in Stockwell, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., September
4, 1864 (age 60 years, 316
days).
Interment at Greenbush Cemetery.
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Godlove Stein Orth (1817-1882) —
also known as Godlove S. Orth —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born near Lebanon, Lebanon
County, Pa., April
22, 1817.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1843-49; Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1845; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Indiana; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1863-71, 1873-75, 1879-82 (8th
District 1863-69, 7th District 1869-71, at-large 1873-75, 9th
District 1879-82); died in office 1882; U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1875-76.
German
ancestry.
Died in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., December
16, 1882 (age 65 years, 238
days).
Interment at Greenbush Cemetery.
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Daniel Mace (1811-1867) —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Pickaway
County, Ohio, September
5, 1811.
Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836; U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1845-48; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1851-57; postmaster at
Lafayette,
Ind., 1866-67.
Suffered a stroke in
1866, never completely recovered, and became depressed over his
condition; killed
himself by gunshot,
in the post
office at Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., July 26,
1867 (age 55 years, 324
days).
Interment at Greenbush Cemetery.
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Godlove Orth Behm (1828-1888) —
also known as Godlove O. Behm —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Lebanon, Lebanon
County, Pa., January
7, 1828.
Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1851-52; colonel in the Union
Army during the Civil War.
Died in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., March
14, 1888 (age 60 years, 67
days).
Interment at Greenbush Cemetery.
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Soldiers' Home
Cemetery
Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
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Jasper Packard (1832-1899) —
of Indiana.
Born in Austintown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, February
1, 1832.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1869-75.
Died in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., December
13, 1899 (age 67 years, 315
days).
Interment at Soldiers' Home Cemetery.
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Spring Vale
Cemetery
Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
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William Robert Wood (1861-1933) —
also known as William R. Wood; Will R.
Wood —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Oxford, Benton
County, Ind., January
5, 1861.
Republican. Lawyer; law
partner of J.
Frank Hanly; director and attorney, City National Bank;
director, Lafayette Telephone
Co.; Tippecanoe
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1890-94; member of Indiana
state senate, 1896-1914; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1912,
1928
(speaker);
U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1915-33.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in 1933
(age about
72 years).
Interment at Spring Vale Cemetery.
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Thomas Bayless Ward (1835-1892) —
of Indiana.
Born in Marysville, Union
County, Ohio, April
27, 1835.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Lafayette, Ind., 1861-65; superior court judge in Indiana,
1875-80; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1883-87.
Died in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., January
1, 1892 (age 56 years, 249
days).
Interment at Spring Vale Cemetery.
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George Richard Durgan (1872-1942) —
also known as George R. Durgan —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Westpoint, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., January
20, 1872.
Democrat. Mayor
of Lafayette, Ind., 1904-13, 1917-25; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1912;
candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1924; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 2nd District, 1933-35; defeated, 1934.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., January
13, 1942 (age 69 years, 358
days).
Interment at Spring Vale Cemetery.
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James Beverly Milner (1857-1936) —
also known as James B. Milner —
of Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.; Niagara Falls, Niagara
County, N.Y.
Born in Middlefork, Clinton
County, Ind., October
31, 1857.
Lawyer;
U.S. Consul in Calais, 1898-1916; Niagara Falls, 1917-24.
Died in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., November
25, 1936 (age 79 years, 25
days).
Interment at Spring Vale Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Milner and Anna Elmira (Williams) Milner; married, May 25,
1885, to May Frances Allen; father of George
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Fairview
Cemetery
Stockwell, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
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Thomas H. O'Neall (1813-1889) —
of Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Newberry District (now Newberry
County), S.C., September
20, 1813.
Farmer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1849-51.
Quaker
or Methodist.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, from congestion of
the lungs, in Stockwell, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., March
31, 1889 (age 75 years, 192
days).
Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
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Tippecanoe Memory
Gardens
West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
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Earl Lauer Butz (1909-2008) —
also known as Earl L. Butz —
of West Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind.
Born in Albion, Noble
County, Ind., July 3,
1909.
Economist;
university
professor; U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture, 1971-76.
Member, Alpha
Gamma Rho; Sigma
Xi; Sigma
Delta Chi; Tau
Kappa Alpha; Alpha
Zeta; Kiwanis.
Resigned
in 1976 following a furor
over a racist
joke. In 1981, he pleaded
guilty to income
tax evasion; sentenced
to five years in prison
(served 30 days) and fined
$10,000.
Died in Kensington, Montgomery
County, Md., February
2, 2008 (age 98 years, 214
days).
Interment at Tippecanoe Memory Gardens.
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