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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Greene County, Ohio</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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M. Griffith</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CI-lived.html">Clinton County</a>, Ohio. Born in South Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CK-born.html">Clark County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/10-04.html">October 4, 1831</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a> from Clinton County; elected 1897. Died in Sabina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CI-died.html">Clinton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/09-19.html">September 19, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 350 days</a>). Interment at Fairfield Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Jesse Griffith and Lucy Peck (Munson) Griffith; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/">1871</a> to Barbara Anne Folck; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griffis-grim.html#521.16.35">Paul Merrill Griffith</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/77479909">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms06724">Wilberforce Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Benjamin William Arnett (1838-1906)</b> — also known as <b>Benjamin W. Arnett</b> — of Wilberforce, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio. Born in Brownsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/03-16.html">March 16, 1838</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">ordained minister</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a> from Greene County, 1886-87; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> Black state legislator elected to represent a majority white constituency; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">bishop</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896 /speakers.html">offered prayer</a>, Republican National Convention, 1896. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">African Methodist Episcopal</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amerind.html">American Indian</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">Lost a leg</a> due to a tumor in 1858. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">uremia</a>, in Wilberforce, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-died.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/10-07.html">October 7, 1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 205 days</a>). Interment at Wilberforce Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Samuel G. Arnett and Mary Louisa Arnett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/05-25.html">May 25, 1858</a>, to Mary Louisa Gordon.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">Arnett Hall, at Wilberforce <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-names.html">Wilberforce, Ohio</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin W. Arnett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10692">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms03999">Woodland Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Xenia, Greene County, Ohio <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Little (1837-1900)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio. Born near Grape Grove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-born.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/04-25.html">April 25, 1837</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/xenia.html">Mayor of Xenia, Ohio</a>, 1864; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1869; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/attygn.html">Ohio state attorney general</a>, 1872-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 8th District, 1885-87. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/10-18.html">October 18, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 176 days</a>). Interment at Woodland Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000351">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406843">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Alexander (1777-1848)</b> — of Ohio. Born in Crowsville, Spartanburg District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SP-born.html">Spartanburg County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/04-16.html">April 16, 1777</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 2nd District, 1813-17; defeated, 1816; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a>, 1822-23; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1830. Died in Xenia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-died.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/06-28.html">June 28, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at Woodland Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Anna (McCrory) Alexander and Alexander Alexander.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000096">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400754">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Alexander (Ohio)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9927348">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Thomas Edmund Scroggy (1843-1915)</b> — also known as <b>Thomas E. Scroggy</b> — of Xenia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio. Born in Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/index.html">1843</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 6th District, 1905-07. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/index.html">1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">about 72 years</a>). Interment at Woodland Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000195">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409700">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James January Winans (1818-1879)</b> — of Ohio. Born in Maysville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MA-born.html">Mason County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/06-07.html">June 7, 1818</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a>, 1857; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a>, 1863; common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1864-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 7th District, 1869-71. Died in Xenia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-died.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/04-28.html">April 28, 1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 325 days</a>). Interment at Woodland Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000626">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411780">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Leroy Tate Marshall (1883-1950)</b> — also known as <b>Leroy T. Marshall</b> — of Xenia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio. Born near Bellbrook, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-born.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/11-08.html">November 8, 1883</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-officials.html">Greene County Clerk of Courts</a>, 1909-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-parties.html">chair of Greene County Republican Party</a>, 1920-32; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a>, 1925-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 7th District, 1933-37. Died in Xenia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-died.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/11-20.html">November 20, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Woodland Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000158">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407180">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Linden Crise Weimer (1880-1949)</b> — also known as <b>Linden C. Weimer</b> — of Dayton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ohio. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ST-born.html">Stark County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/05-05.html">May 5, 1880</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/dayton.html#2">Dayton, Ohio</a>, 1921-35 (acting, 1921-23); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/OH.html">1936</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/misc-occ.html">office building manager</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/10-22.html">October 22, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at Woodland Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Franklin Weimer and Catherine (Crise) Weimer; married to Jessie Bieler.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/80525751">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Andrew Chew (1882-1964)</b> — also known as <b>James A. Chew</b> — of Xenia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-born.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/07-10.html">July 10, 1882</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">Printing business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/OH.html">1932</a>. Died in Kettering, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MY-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/07-26.html">July 26, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 16 days</a>). Interment at Woodland Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Brown Chew and Anna Vida (McBurney) Chew; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/10-26.html">October 26, 1904</a>, to Jessie Ruth Baker.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/152484676">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name=" ">Unknown Location</a></b></span><br> Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians formerly buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=147864&img=1&mode=1&pg=1&tid=2028633"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/790/98.41.jpg" width=70 height=89 border=0 alt="Horace Mann"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Horace Mann (1796-1859)</b> — also known as <b>"The Father of American Public Education"</b> — of Dedham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass.; Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Franklin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/05-04.html">May 4, 1796</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1827-33; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1833-37; secretary, Massachusetts Board of Education, 1837-48; founder and editor of <i>The Common School Journal</i>; became a national leader in improving and reforming public schools; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 8th District, 1848-53; Free Soil candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">professor</a> at Antioch College, 1852-59. Elected to the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/hall-of-fame.html">Hall of Fame for Great Americans</a> in 1900. Died in Yellow Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-died.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/08-02.html">August 2, 1859</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 90 days</a>). Original interment somewhere; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-buried.html#cms00392">North Burial Ground</a>, Providence, R.I.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html# ">State House Grounds</a>, Boston, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/">1830</a> to Charlotte Messer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/05-01.html">May 1, 1843</a>, to Mary Tyler Peabody (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hawks-hawthorne.html#405.21.23">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0035.html">Roosevelt family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0894.html">Deming family</a> of Maryland and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Horace Mann</i> (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1970) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000102">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407126">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Mann">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/578/000050428">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/664">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> U.S. postage stamp (1940)</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms02460">Glen Forest Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Simeon Davison Fess (1861-1936)</b> — also known as <b>Simeon D. Fess</b> — of Yellow Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GR-lived.html">Greene County</a>, Ohio. Born near Lima, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/AL-born.html">Allen County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/12-11.html">December 11, 1861</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">University professor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a> of Ohio Northern University; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a> of Antioch College 1907-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention</a>, 1912; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a>, 1913-23 (6th District 1913-15, 7th District 1915-23); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Ohio</a>, 1923-35; delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/OH.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/OH.html">1932</a>; Temporary Chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/officers.html">1928</a>; chair, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee, chair, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">1928</a>; speaker, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/speakers.html">1928</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Chairman of Republican National Committee</a>, 1930-32. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/12-23.html">December 23, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Glen Forest Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Henry Fess and Barbara (Herring) Fess; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/">1890</a> to Eva Candice Thomas; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#564.31.98">Hamilton Lehr Fess</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Epitaph:</i> "A great teacher and orator whoe life and character were a source of inspiration in the lives of thousands. Authority on history and government, leader of his colleagues and confidant of presidents. A genuine patriot whose loyalty and unimpeachable integrity never yielded to expediency or compromised a conviction."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000096">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404053">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6774911">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Hamilton Lehr Fess (1891-1965)</b> — also known as <b>Lehr Fess</b> — of Ohio. Born in Ada, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HR-born.html">Hardin County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/11-13.html">November 13, 1891</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School principal</a>; Parliamentarian, U.S. House of Representatives, 1919-27; Parliamentarian, Republican National Convention, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/officers.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/officers.html">1944</a>; common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1943-45; Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals 6th District, 1945-65. Died in Toledo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LU-died.html">Lucas County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/08-15.html">August 15, 1965</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 275 days</a>). Interment at Glen Forest Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#294.53.21">Simeon Davison Fess</a> and Eva Candice (Thomas) Fess; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/">1915</a> to Dorothy Davis.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6774965">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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