This statue of Maj. Gen. Alexander Macomb, donated by the Michigan Soc'y of the Daughters of 1812, stands on Washington Boulevard in Downtown Detroit. According to the Congressional Cemetery's website (http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/major-general-alexander-macomb), Gen. Macomb was born in Detroit in the 1780s, and was in the War of 1812. He died in 1841. I also did some research on the Daughters of 1812, the group who donated the statue. According to their website (http://www.usdaughters1812.org/home.html), they were founded in 1892, for descendants of 1812 veterans, and are currently commemorating the war's bicentennial this year.
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