In an election decided by the House of Representatives, Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Democratic candidate Samuel Jones Tilden in the most controversial election in American history to date. Tilden ...

Born: October 4, 1822, in Delaware, Ohio... Hayes' reputation as a man of integrity proved a welcome relief from Andrew Johnson's contentious and Ulysses Grant's scandal-ridden administrations ...

Taps is played at the conclusion of the wreath-laying ceremony. At right, members of the 29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company G, with flag, and Robert D. Pollock, commander, the Ohio Commandery ...

"Rutherford, born in Brightwater, raised in Foxhill and Havelock and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury University went on to split the atom in 1917 at Victoria University in Manchester in ...

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