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Hannibal Thomas
1842-Nov. 15, 1935 merican student at Otterbein
e the Civil War and was Otterbein’s first Afriand students were split on him. Many weld minds. Those that opposed his enrollment ng. n the Civil War and was shot in the arm during r. He had to have his arm amputated. erbein after the war, serving as a lawyer in the t in Central Ohio. moved into a hotel and died in poverty and
s marker in the cemetery, making his plot stand
wednesday, oct. 26, 2011
Mausoleum Alzo Pierre Rosselot
Oscar O. Koeppel
Jan 18, 1882-July 18, 1966 Otterbein student and professor
July 25, 1875-Nov. 18, 1946 Distinguished Service Cross recipient
Rosselot played football during his time as a student from 1902-1904 and was an assistant coach from 1905-1911. Rosselot was a French professor at Otterbein for several years after he graduated. In the early days when professors taught multiple subjects, he also taught history and government. He was one of the first students to be involved in country clubs, which were social groups similar to Greek Life before it was established. He was one of the proponents of the Greek system becoming formalized on campus. His daughter developed the “immersion courses” that Otterbein uses to teach language and that became a national standard for foreign language courses. He was known for being an outspoken civil rights believer. In the 1920s, the KKK marched through town and he jumped in his car and drove through the parade to break it up. The next day he had a flaming cross on his lawn. Rosselot is interred in the mausoleum.
Koeppel was a member of the Aeolian Male Quartet at Ohio Wesleyan University. He was wellknown as a singer. He was a participant in both the Spanish-American War in the 4th Infantry and World War I in the 42nd Regiment. During World War I, Koeppel received the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest honor behind the Medal of Honor. As the story goes, he was wounded by shrapnel. Against the urging of his men, he directed them across a river while under fire and made sure everyone crossed and that the next person in command knew what to do before he sought the attention of the medics. Koeppel’s third wife, parents and two of his children are buried in the cemetery.
rd Hyde Russell
Ernest Cherrington
, 1855-June 30, 1949 f the Anti-Saloon League
Nov. 24, 1877-March 13, 1950 Anti-Saloon League publication Editor-in-Chief
the Anti-Saloon League, which was the birthville and subsequently the United States in the
gave up the profession to study ministry at
eaker that back when chapel was mandatory for their two excused absences per year for when
omoting Prohibition and made the Anti-Saloon d a nonpartisan issue, gaining 5 million pledges
, “This is a dry funeral. We’ll take a slice if we we’ll take the crust if we can’t get a whole slice.”
In 1908, Cherrington was the assistant editor of an Anti-Saloon publication that printed 40 tons of anti-alcohol literature a month. A year later, he became the editor-in-chief. He helped form the World League Against Alcoholism in 1919, and in the 1920s, he wrote The Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem, a six-volume set of encyclopedias used to educate people about the evils of alcohol. He spent most of his life working for the Anti-Saloon League.
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