James Dascomb

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Title

James Dascomb

Section

Lot

Grave

05A

First Name

Last Name

Relationship

Husband of Marianne P. Dascomb (R-21-07)

Birth Date

02/21/1808

Birth: Month

Birth: Day

21

Birth: Year

Death Date

04/01/1880

Death: Month

04

Death: Day

01

Death: Year

Gender

Number of Persons on Marker

Composition

Condition

Shape

State

Legibility

Good

Dimension: Height

137 inches

Dimension: Width

36 inches

Inscription

"Forty six years professor of chemistry, botany and physiology in Oberlin College"

Source of Information

Information taken from Westwood Printout and grave marker, if available; check the original burial register at city hall for additional data

Biographical Information

For a brief biography, see Westwood: A Historical and Interpretive View of Oberlin's Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio (Oberlin: Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, 1997), p. 38.

Burial Date from Printout

04/04/1880

Burial: Month

Burial: Day

04

Burial: Year

Lot Owner

Dascomb, James

Date Transcribed

10/26/1999

Default Latitude

41.28395381

Default Longitude

-82.23293775

Default Zoom Level

20

Collection

Citation

“James Dascomb,” Westwood Database, accessed September 27, 2024, https://oberlinwestwood.org/omeka/items/show/44862.

Output Formats

Geolocation