Near Phoenixville in Chester County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Michigan Medal of Honor Recipients
Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2023
1. Michigan Medal of Honor Memorial Obelisk
Frederick Alber · Army · Germany
Frank Dwight Baldwin · Army · Manchester, MI
Frederick A. Ballen · Army · Germany
Charles L. Barrell · Army · Conquest, NY
Joseph E. Brandle · Army · Seneca Co. OH
James Isaac Christianey · Army · Monroe Co. MI
George Washington Clute · Army · Marathon, MI
Gaberiel Cole · Army · Chena[n]go Co. NY
Cornelius Cronin · Navy · Ireland
Thomas Ward Custer · Army · New Rumley, OH
Byron M. Cutcheon · Army · Pembroke, NH
Robert Fulton Dodd · Army · Canada
John A. Falconer · Army · Washtenaw, MI
Charles S. Fall · Army · Noble County, IN
Alexander A. Forman · Army · Scipio Township, MI
Henry M. Fox · Army · Trumbull, OH
Samuel S. French · Army · Erie County, NY • John Hack · Army · Germany
Cornelius Minor Hadley · Army · Sandy Creek, NY • Sidney Haight · Army · Reading, MI
Smith H. Hastings · Army · Quincy, MI • Edward Hill · Army · Liberty, NY
Addison J. Hodges · Army · Hillsdale, MI • Charles Maynard Holton · Army · Potter, NY
Patrick Irwin · Army · Ireland
Joseph S. Keen · Army · Vale, Guernsey, England
Andrew John Kelley · Army · La Grange County, NY
Joseph Bell Kemp · Army · Lima, OH
Morgan D. Lane · Army · Monroe, NY
Henry Lewis · Army · Belleville,
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Moses Augustine Luce · Army · Payson, IL
Dante Robert McFall · Army · Niagara County, NY
Alexander U. McHale · Army · Ireland
John William Menter · Army · Palmer, NY
Benjamin Morse · Army · Livingston, NY
Walter L. Mundell · Army · Michigan
Henry H. Nash · Army · Lenawee County, MI
Conrad Noll · Army · Germany
Elliott Malloy Norton · Army · Connecticut
John R. Norton · Army · [blank]
Henry Carlton Peters · Army · Monroe County, MI
Henry E. Plant · Army · Oswego, NY
George E. Ranney · Army · Batavia, NY
James H. Robinson · Army · Oakland County, MI
Charles Francis Sancrainte (Sanscraintel) · Army · Monroe, MI
Edwin F. Savacool · Army · Jackson, MI
William Rufus Shafter · Army · Kalamazoo, MI
Irwin Shepard · Army · Skaneateles, NY
George Dallas Sidman · Army · Rochester, NY
Alonzo Smith · Army · Niagara County, NY
James Stoddard · Navy · Port Robinson, Canada
Frederic William Swift · Army · Mansfield Center, MI
Peter Sype · Army · Monroe County, MI
Charles Augustus Thatcher · Army · Perrysburg, OH
James (Jacobus) W. Toban · Army · Northfield, MI
William Henry Ward · Army · Adrian, MI
William G. Whitney · Army · Allen, MI
Orlando Bolivar Wilcox · Army · Detroit, MI
William Herbert Withington · Army · Dorchester, MI
Alonzo Woodruff
Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2023
2. Michigan Medal of Honor Recipients Memorial Plaza
Benjamin F. Young · Army · Canada
INDIAN CAMPAIGNS
Frank Dwight Baldwin · Army · Manchester, MI
George H. Eldridge · Army · Sacketts Harbor, NY
Joshua B. Hartzog · Army · Paulding County, OH
Marvin C. Hillock · Army · Port Huron, MI
Frederick Jarvis · Army · Essex County, NY
Henry Johnson · Army · Boydton, VA
William Leonard · Army · Ypsilanti, MI
Thomas Powers · Army · New York, NY
Henry Romeyn · Army · Galen, NY
John Walker · Army · Leon, France
Wilber Elliott Wilder · Army · Atlas, MI
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Alfred Poland · Army · Lapeer, MI
PHILIPPINE INSUR[R]ECTION
Charles Cawetzka · Army · Detroit, MI
James McConnell · Army · Syracuse, NY
MEXICAN CAMPAIGN
William Zuiderveld · Navy · Michigan
DOMINICAN CAMPAIGN
Joseph Anthony Glowin · USMC · Detroit, MI
WORLD WAR I
Harold Arthur Furlong · Army · Pontiac, MI
WORLD WAR II
George Hamm Cannon · USMC · Webster Groves, MO
Demas Thurlow Craw · Army · Traverse City, MI
Jesse Ray Drwoley · Army · St. Charles, MI
Francis Charles Flaherty · Navy · Charlotte, MI
Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg · Navy · Daggett, MI
Oscar Godfrey Johnson, Jr. · Army · Foster City, MI
John Carleton Siogren
Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2023
3. Michigan Medal of Honor Recipients Dedication Marker
Maynard Harrison Smith, Sr. · Army · Caro, MI
Charles L. Thomas · Army · [Detroit, MI]
William H. Thomas · Army · Wynne, AR
Dirk John Vlug · Army · Maple Lake, MN
Walter C. Wetzel · Army · Huntington, WV
Thomas W. Wigle · Army · Indianapolis, IN
Raymond Zussman · Army · Hamtramck, MI
KOREAN WAR
William Richard Charette · Navy · Ludington, MI
Duane Edgar Dewey · USMC · Grand Rapids, MI
John Essebagger, Jr. · Army · Holland, MI
Donald Raymond Moyer · Army · Pontiac, MI
Robert Ernest Simanek · USMC · Detroit, MI
Sherrod Emerson Skinner, Jr. · USMC · Hartford, CT
VIETNAM
James Leroy Bondsteel · Army · Jackson, MI
William Maud Bryant · Army · Cochran, GA
Dwight Hal Johnson · Army · Detroit, MI
Charles S. Kettles · Army · [Ypsilanti, MI]
Paul Ronald Lambers · Army · Holland, MI
Peter Charles Lemon · Army · Toronto, Canada
James C. McCloughan · Army · [Bangor, MI]
Robert Leslie Poxon · Army · Detroit, MI
Dewayne Thomas Williams · USMC · Brown City, MI
Gordon Douglas Yntema · Army · Bethesda, MD
PEACE TIME AWARDS
Albert Joseph Smith · USMC · Calumet, MI
This monument dedicated
May 2006
in honor of the
M.O.H. Recipients
from the Great State
of Michigan
Erected
Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 31, 2023
4. Michigan State Seal on Memorial Obelisk
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military. In addition, it is included in the Medal of Honor Recipients series list.
Location. 40° 6.305′ N, 75° 28.164′ W. Marker is near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, in Chester County. Marker is in the Medal of Honor Grove on the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge campus. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1601 Valley Forge Road, Phoenixville PA 19460, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Wisconsin Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Kennedy Memorial Gazebo (within shouting distance of this marker); Vermont Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); 29th Infantry Division Memorial Pavilion (within shouting distance of this marker); Ohio Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); New Hampshire Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Connecticut Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker); Delaware Medal of Honor Recipients (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Phoenixville.
Also see . . .
1. Medal of Honor Recipients. (Submitted on November 16, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.)
2. Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. (Submitted on November 16, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.)
Credits. This page was last revised on November 16, 2023. It was originally submitted on November 16, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 58 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on November 16, 2023, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
