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Index to Locations
Mansfield Unknown location
Mansfield Mansfield Cemetery
Plymouth Pioneer Cemetery
Shelby Oakland Cemetery
Unknown
Location
Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio
Mansfield
Cemetery
389 Altamont Avenue
Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio
Founded 1845
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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John Sherman (1823-1900) —
also known as "The Ohio Icicle" —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, May 10,
1823.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1855-61; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1861-77, 1881-97; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-81; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1880,
1884,
1888;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1897-98.
Methodist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
22, 1900 (age 77 years, 165
days).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Mary (Hoyt) Sherman and Charles
Robert Sherman; brother of Charles
Taylor Sherman, William
Tecumseh Sherman and Lampson
Parker Sherman; married, August
31, 1848, to Margaret Sarah Cecilia Stewart; uncle of Mary Hoyt
Sherman (who married Nelson
Appleton Miles); sixth great-grandson of Thomas
Welles; second cousin of David
Munson Osborne; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Mott Osborne; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Devens Osborne and Lithgow
Osborne; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont
Edwards and Aaron
Burr; third cousin of Phineas
Taylor Barnum; third cousin once removed of Ezekiel
Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche
M. Woodward; third cousin twice removed of John
Davenport, James
Davenport, Theodore
Dwight, Henry
Waggaman Edwards, Ira
Yale, Louis
Ezekiel Stoddard and Asbury
Elliott Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Jonathan
Brace, Chauncey
Goodrich and Elizur
Goodrich; fourth cousin of Philo
Fairchild Barnum, Andrew
Gould Chatfield, Henry
Jarvis Raymond and Edwin
Olmstead Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Yale, Theodore
Davenport, David
Lowrey Seymour, Chauncey
Mitchell Depew, Fred
Lockwood Keeler and Thomas
McKeen Chidsey. |
| | | Political families: Otis
family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS John Sherman (built 1943 at Richmond,
California; sold 1947; scrapped 1967) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: The Parties and The Men
(1896) |
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Mordecai Bartley (1783-1870) —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Fayette
County, Pa., December
16, 1783.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Ohio
state senate, 1816-17; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1823-31; Governor of
Ohio, 1844-46.
Died in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, October
10, 1870 (age 86 years, 298
days).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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Jacob Brinkerhoff (1810-1880) —
of Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Niles, Cayuga
County, N.Y., August
31, 1810.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1843-47; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1856-71; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1868.
Died in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, July 19,
1880 (age 69 years, 323
days).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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George Washington Geddes (1824-1892) —
also known as George W. Geddes —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Mt. Vernon, Knox
County, Ohio, July 16,
1824.
Democrat. Lawyer;
common pleas court judge in Ohio 5th District, 1856-73; candidate for
justice
of Ohio state supreme court, 1872; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1879-87 (15th District 1879-81, 14th
District 1881-85, 16th District 1885-87).
Died in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, November
9, 1892 (age 68 years, 116
days).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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William Johnston (1819-1866) —
of Ohio.
Born in Ireland,
1819.
Lawyer;
Whig candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1863-65; defeated, 1864.
Died of consumption (tuberculosis),
in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, May 1,
1866 (age about 46
years).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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Michael Daniel Harter (1846-1896) —
also known as Michael D. Harter —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Canton, Stark
County, Ohio, April 6,
1846.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1891-95 (15th District 1891-93, 14th
District 1893-95).
Lutheran.
Killed by self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Fostoria, Seneca
County, Ohio, February
22, 1896 (age 49 years, 322
days).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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William Patterson (1790-1868) —
of Ohio.
Born in Maryland, 1790.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1833-37.
Died of heart
disease, in Van Wert, Van Wert
County, Ohio, August
17, 1868 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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Winfield Scott Kerr (1852-1917) —
also known as Winfield S. Kerr —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Monroe, Richland
County, Ohio, June 23,
1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1888-92; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1895-1901.
Died, from valvular
insufficiency, in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, September
11, 1917 (age 65 years, 80
days).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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Christian G. Stough (1818-1893) —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in 1818.
Mayor
of Mansfield, Ohio, 1881-84.
Died in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., 1893
(age about
75 years).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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Thomas H. Ford (1814-1868) —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Rockingham
County, Va., August
23, 1814.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1856-58; colonel in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
29, 1868 (age 53 years, 190
days).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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Henry G. Brunner (c.1885-1963) —
also known as Heinie Brunner; "Mr.
Mansfield" —
of Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born about 1885.
Democrat. Insurance
business; newspaper
manager; banker; mayor
of Mansfield, Ohio, 1918-24; Ohio
Democratic state chair, 1927-31; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1928,
1932;
delegate
to Ohio convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Lutheran.
German
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows.
Died January
2, 1963 (age about 78
years).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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William Shakespeare Cappeller (1839-1911) —
also known as W. S. Cappeller —
of Mt. Healthy, Hamilton
County, Ohio; Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio.
Born in Somerset
County, Pa., February
23, 1839.
Republican. Dry goods
merchant; grocer;
postmaster at Mt.
Healthy, Ohio, 1866-72; Mansfield,
Ohio, 1902-10; Hamilton
County Auditor, 1878-1883; newspaper
publisher; Ohio
Republican state chair, 1886-88; Ohio state commissioner of
railroads and telegraphs, 1887-89; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from Ohio, 1896.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died in Mansfield, Richland
County, Ohio, November
1, 1911 (age 72 years, 251
days).
Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.
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Pioneer
Cemetery
Plymouth, Richland County, Ohio
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Henry Roelif Brinkerhoff (1787-1844) —
also known as Henry R. Brinkerhoff —
of Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Adams
County, Pa., September
23, 1787.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
New
York state assembly from Cayuga County, 1828-29; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 21st District, 1843-44; died in office
1844.
Slaveowner.
Died in Huron
County, Ohio, April
30, 1844 (age 56 years, 220
days).
Interment at Pioneer Cemetery.
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Oakland
Cemetery
Shelby, Richland County, Ohio
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