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Perry, Oliver Hazard

Born
8/23/1785
Titles and Honors
1813 - Commanded American fleet against British on Lake Erie
Oct. 5, 1813 - Battle of the Thames River, 30 miles east of Detroit.
Notes
Ref: Wayne County Chron & Pioneer Bio. p. 106

Died on his thirty-fourth birthday, August 23, 1819, of yellow fever.
Occupation
Naval Officer / Commodore
Spouse
Elizabeth Champlin Mason, m. 1811