Annotation: This article was compiled using a number of resources. "Early History of Stow, Silver Lake and Munroe Falls" by William Lodge (1943), "Portrait and Biographical Record of Portage and Summit County", the Lombard, Illinois website (http://www.villageoflombard.org/), and the Village of Silver Lake website, created by Dee Topinka, which can be found at: www.geocities.com/villageofsilverlakeohio.
A photo of Col. William R. Plum, a photo of the Plum Monument at Oakwood Cemetery in Cuyhoga Falls, and a photo of