General William Lingan Gaither (February 13, 1813 - August 2, 1858) was born in Locust Grove, Montgomery County, Maryland.
[1] Gaither served as Montgomery County's representative in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1839 to 1841.
[1] Gaither was appointed to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy in 1851 and served as Director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between 1856 and 1857.
[1] Gaither caught typhoid fever at the Barnum's Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland and died a year later on August 2, 1858, at Berkeley Springs, Virginia.
[1] He is buried at his ancestral home of Pleasant Fields in Cracklin, now Laytonsville, Maryland.