Identifier: historyofcuyahog00glea (find matches)
Title: History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its completion.--Description of the memorial structure, and roll of honor
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gleason, William J. (William John), b. 1846
Subjects: Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland, Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- History Civil war
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Monument commissioners
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aywell be claimed by all its citizens. We are pleased to be able to give a full sketch of oneof Americas noblest and gentlest women: Lucy Webb Hayes was the only daughter of Dr.James Webb and Maria Cook, and was born atChillicothe, Ohio, August 28, 1831. Both of her grand-fathers, three of her great-grandfathers, and two of hergreat-great-grandfathers served in the RevolutionaryWar in regiments of the Connecticut and Virginia Line.Awards of land made them in return for militaryservice lead to the ultimate transfer of the family resi-dence to Kentucky and Ohio. Her father, Dr. James Webb, when quite young,served in the War of 1812 as a member of theKentucky Mounted Riflemen, and was a member ofBalls Squadron, which had several engagements withthe Indians just south of Lower Sandusky, now Fre-mont, Ohio, prior to the memorable defense of Ft.Stephenson by Major Croghan on the 2nd of August,1813. Dr. Webb died while at Lexington, Kentucky,whither he had gone from Ohio to arrange for manu-
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LUCY WEBB HAYES IN FIELD HOSPITAL AT FREDERICK,MARYLAND, AFTER BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, 1862. PUBLIC Lm, soldiers and sailors monument. 465 mitting the slaves of his inheritance, with the intentionof sending them to Liberia. This trip occurred duringthe cholera scourge of 1833, and, being a physician, helingered among his old-time friends with a loyalty untodeath, giving them care and medical attendance untilhe himself was stricken fatally by the disease. Most of the years of Mrs. Hayes childhood werepassed with her mother at Chillicothe, and at the homeof her grandfather, Judge Isaac Cook, who had servedthrough the Revolutionary War in the regiment of hisfather, Col. Isaac Cook, of Connecticut, and had re-moved to Chillicothe, the first capital of Ohio, in 1791,and who for fifty years was one of the foremost men ofhis time, serving the State in legislative and judicialpositions for more than thirty years. After the death other husband, Mrs. Webb removed to Delaware, in orderto be near the

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