name appears on plaques outside the main doors. His son, Mortimer M. Leggett, was accidentally killed on October 14, 1873, during an initiation to the Cornell University chapter of the Kappa Alpha Society. The younger Leggett was blindfolded and walking along a railroad trestle with other initiates, when he fell, striking the back of his head. Leggett was the first person known to die in a college fraternity initiation. Leggett died in Cleveland, Ohio, aged 74, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery. See also List of American Civil War generals (Union) References Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964, . Notes External links 1821 births 1896 deaths People from Ithaca, New York People from Akron, Ohio Lawyers from Cleveland People from Zanesville, Ohio Ohio lawyers People of Ohio in the American Civil War Union Army generals School superintendents in Ohio Burials at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland United States Commissioners of Patents Educators from New York (state) Educators from Ohio 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century American educators