Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)

Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, is one of Michigan's most important historic cemeteries.

Conceived in 1846 as a rural cemetery and incorporated in 1849, Elmwood was Detroit's elite burial ground for almost a century.

The cemetery, located at 1200 Elmwood Street on Detroit's east side, consists of about 86 acres of landscaped grounds, redesigned in 1890 by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Some prominent burials

* Russell A. Alger, Michigan governor, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War
* John Biddle, delegate to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory
* Henry Billings Brown, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Lewis Cass, Michigan territorial governor
* Zachariah Chandler, U.S. Senator from Michigan
* Donald M. Dickinson, U.S. Postmaster General
* Elon Farnsworth, Attorney General and Chancellor of Michigan
* Philip St. George Cooke, U.S. Civil War general
* Douglass Houghton, geologist and mayor of Detroit
* Jonathan Kearsley, two-time mayor of Detroit and veteran of the War of 1812
* Charles Larned, attorney general of Michigan Territory and veteran of the War of 1812
* Margaret Mather, Victorian actress
* Truman H. Newberry, businessman and U.S. Senator from Michigan
* Zina Pitcher, physician and two-time mayor of Detroit
* Solomon Sibley, delegate to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, Territorial Supreme Court justice, and first mayor of Detroit under the first charter
* John R. Williams, first mayor of Detroit under the second charter
* Thomas R. Williams, American Civil War general killed at the Battle of Baton Rouge
* Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit
* Lucius Lyon, U.S. stateman from Michigan

Book

* Citation
last = Franck
first = Michael S.
title = Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery
year = 1996
publisher = Wayne State University
publication-place = Detroit
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Q0KBYj8v_ZMC
isbn = 0814325912
oclc = 34354886

External links

* [http://elmwoodhistoriccemetery.org/ Elmwood Cemetery official site]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=447 Findagrave: Famous burials in Elmwood]
* [http://www.interment.net/data/us/mi/wayne/elmwood.htm Interment.net: Elmwood Cemetery]
* [http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=107&category=locations Tales from the Crypts: Elmwood Cemetery stories] (Detroit News)
* [http://www.thecemeteryproject.com/Cemeteries/cemetery-elmwood-detroit.htm The Cemetery Project: Elmwood Cemetery]
* [http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=S0453.htm Michigan Historical Markers: Elmwood Cemetery]