Roll of Honor
Incident
Patrolman Louis Klusman was killed while attempting to stop a runaway horse pulling a buggy. Patrolman Klusman was able to prevent the horse from crashing into a crowd of people. Patrolman Klusman had served with the Cincinnati Police Department for 10 years. He was survived by his wife and five children. His wife became the first widow to receive a pension from the city. Patrolman Klusman was posthumously awarded the Henshaw Medal of Valor. He is buried in the German Protestant Cemetery.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and five children.
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Tributes
130 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Patrolman Klusman gave the Cincinnati Police Department 11 years.
Thank you for your service to the Cincinnati community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Patrolman Louis Edward Klusman is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In OH, 318 of 991 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32.1% of this state's fallen. That is 1.1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Cincinnati Police Department, 32 of 106 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Louis Edward Klusman's cause is highlighted.
How Louis Edward Klusman Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Louis Edward Klusman is highlighted in Dec.
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