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Ogle County
Illinois

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Ogle County

Index to Locations ByronMiddlecreek Cemetery Grand DetourJohn Deere HistoricSite Mt. MorrisOakwood Cemetery MiddlecreekCemetery Byron, Ogle County, Illinois Joseph Medill McCormick (1877-1925) — also known asMedill McCormick — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,May 16,1877.Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,1916,1920(member,ResolutionsCommittee;speaker);member of Illinois state legislature, 1910;U.S.Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1917-19;U.S.Senator from Illinois, 1919-25; died in office 1925.Scotch-IrishandDutchancestry.Died bysuicide,through anoverdose ofbarbiturates (reported at the time as a heart attack), in hisroom at theHotelHamilton,Washington,D.C.,February25, 1925 (age47 years, 285days).Interment at Middlecreek Cemetery. Politicians buriedhere:     Relatives: SonofRobertSanderson McCormick and Katherine Van Etta (Medill) McCormick;brother ofRobertRutherford McCormick; married,June 10,1903, toRuthHanna (daughter ofMarcusAlonzo Hanna); grandson ofJosephMeharry Medill; grandnephew ofCyrusHall McCormick; first cousin ofJosephMedill Patterson; first cousin once removed ofWilliamMcCormick Blair Jr..   Political family:Guggenheim-McCormick-Morton-Medillfamily of Illinois and New York.   See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial

John Deere (1804-1886) — of Moline,RockIsland County, Ill.Born in Rutland,RutlandCounty, Vt.,February7, 1804.Blacksmith;inventorof the first successful steel plow; founder of John Deere &Company, manufacturers offarmimplements; president, NationalBank ofMoline;mayor ofMoline, Ill., 1873-75.Died in Moline,Rock IslandCounty, Ill.,May 17,1886 (age82 years, 99days).Interment atRiversideCemetery, Moline, Ill.; statue at John Deere Historic Site.

	Relatives: Sonof William Rinold Deere and Sarah (Yates) Deere; married,January28, 1827, to Demarias Lamb (aunt ofCharlesOtis Nason (1828-1903)); married1867 toLucenia Lamb (aunt ofCharlesOtis Nason (1828-1903)).
		Political family:FourThousand Related Politicians..
		The World War IILibertyshipSS John Deere (built 1942 atPortland,Oregon; scrapped 1961) wasnamed forhim.
		See alsoWikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier

Robert Roberts Hitt (1834-1906) — also known asRobert R. Hitt — of Mt. Morris,OgleCounty, Ill.Born in Urbana,ChampaignCounty, Ohio,January16, 1834.Republican. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, 1881;U.S.Representative from Illinois, 1882-1906 (5th District 1882-83,6th District 1883-95, 9th District 1895-1903, 13th District 1903-06);died in office 1906.Died in Narragansett Pier, Narragansett,WashingtonCounty, R.I.,September20, 1906 (age72 years, 247days).Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.

Politicians buriedhere:

	Relatives: Sonof Thomas Smith Hitt and Emily (John) Hitt; married1874 to SarahAnn 'Sally' Reynolds; father ofRobertStockwell Reynolds Hitt.
		Political family:Hitt-Grayfamily of Mt. Morris, Illinois.
		ThecommunityofHitt,Missouri, isnamed forhim.
		See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —U.S.State Dept career summary —Find-A-Gravememorial
		Image source: Autobiographies andPortraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)

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