Jacob Wheaton
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1835-1924 Raised in Middletown in Frederick County, Wheaton has a prominent role in the post-Civil War civic involvement of African Americans in the state. Contemporary accounts credit Wheaton as the first African American in Maryland to vote when he participated in the 1868 Hagerstown city election.
He was the first of his race in Washington County to serve as a trial juror and as a court bailiff. Wheaton Park (1935) was named for him. He is buried nearby in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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