Navy Yard Tour - 7th Stop

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.  William Thornton d. 30 Jun 1894 67 yrs R33 S39 Photos Born in the Bahamas. Attended medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland. Won the competition for the design of the U.S. Capitol. Negotiated with the British to save the Patent Office from being burned. Retreated to Tudor Place, Georgetown where he would have had a view of the burning of the Capitol. His wife, Anna, was nearly murdered by her house slave Aug. 5, 1835 and the Snow Riot resulted.  George Hadfield d. 6 Feb 1826 62 yrs R33 S30 Photos Born Florence, Italy. Studied architecture at the Royal Academy, London. First Architect of the Capitol. Designed Arlington House, DC City Hall and many other historical buildings.  Push-ma-ta-ha b. ca. 1760 – d. 24 Dec 1824 64 yrs R31 S41 Photos Chief of the Choctaw Nation. Close friend of Gen. Andrew Jackson with whom he served in the Indian Wars and in the War of 1812. Met Gen. Lafayette on his return visit to the U.S. in 1824.<\li>  Richard H. O'Brien b. ca. 1760 – d. 24 Dec 1824 64 yrs R31 S39 Photos Privateer in the Revolutionary War. Commander in the U.S. Navy. Consul General to Barbary and held captive in Algiers.  Dr. Frederick May b. 1773 – d. 23 Jan 1847 73 yrs R31 S9 Photos Came to D.C. in 1795, the only doctor in the city at the time. He attended most of the distinguished men of the early years of the city. Appointed to the Chair of Obstetrics when the first medical school was established in 1823.  Tillman B. Parks b. 1872 – d. 12 Feb 1950 77 yrs R29 S6 Photos Congressman from Hope, Arkansas 1921 - 1937. Prominent attorney. One of a handful of Congressmen who have private gravestones.  V.P. Elbridge Gerry b. 1744 – 23 Nov 1814 70 yrs R29 S9-11 Photos Only signer of the Declaration of Independence buried in the District. Member of the Continental Congress. Governor of Massachusetts, Vice President to James Madison. First to practice gerrymandering – the creative use of redistricting to favor one’s own party in future elections.  Tobias Lear b. 1762 - d. 11 Oct 1816 54 yrs R28 S14 Photos Tutor to the Washington family and private secretary to Geo. Washington (1786-99). U.S. Consul to Santo Domingo (1802), Consul General at Algiers (1804). Negotiated the treaty with he Barbary powers that released the prisoners captured after the loss of the "Philadelphia".  Benjamin Lincoln Lear b. 1792 - d. 1 Oct 1832 40 yrs R28 S13 Photos Son of Tobias Lear. Born in Geo. Washington's home in Philadelphia. Washington was his godfather. Named after Portsmouth's Col. Benjamin Lincoln who served under Gen. Horatio Gates in the Revolutionary War. Prominent lawyer in Washington, D.C. One of two private Latrobe-designed gravestones.