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Description: View of the Symmes Family Cemetery, North Bend, Ohio, May 5, 1939. John Cleves Symmes, father of First Lady Anna Symmes Harrison and father-in-law of President William Henry Harrison, was a captain in the War of 1812, an educator, a surveyor, and the philosopher responsible for the "Theory of Concentric Spheres and Polar Voids." John Cleves Symmes Jr. was a big proponent of the Hollow Earth Theory. He and other members of the Symmes family are buried here. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06251
Subjects: Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Presidents--Death and burial; Cemeteries--Ohio
Places: North Bend (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)