Spring Grove Cemetery

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caption = Dexter Memorial at Spring Grove Cemetery
location= Cincinnati, Ohio
locmapin = Ohio
area =
built =1855
architect= Strauch,Adolph; Et al.
architecture= Gothic Revival
added = May 13, 1976
governing_body = Private
refnum=76001440cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] : For other uses, see Spring Grove Cemetery (disambiguation)Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres) is a notable, nonprofit garden cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.

The cemetery dates from 1844, when members of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society formed a cemetery association. They took their inspiration from contemporary rural cemeteries such as Père Lachaise in Paris, and Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On December 1, 1844 Salmon P. Chase and others prepared the Articles of Incorporation. The cemetery was formally chartered on January 21, 1845, and the first burial took place on September 1, 1845. In 1855 Adolph Strauch, a renowned landscape architect, was hired to renovate the grounds. His sense and layout of the "garden cemetery", made of lakes, trees and shrubs, is what visitors today still see. In 1987, the association officially changed its name to "Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum" to better represent its remarkable collection of both native and exotic trees, as well as its State and National Champion Trees. On March 29, 2007, the cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20070413.HTM]

Spring Grove encompasses convert|733|acre|km2 of which convert|400|acre|km2 are currently landscaped and maintained. Its grounds include 12 ponds, many fine tombstones and memorials, and various examples of Gothic Revival architecture. As of 2005, its National Champion trees were "Cladrastis kentukea" and "Halesia diptera"; its State Champion trees included "Abies cilicica", "Abies koreana", "Cedrus libani", "Chionanthus virginicus", "Eucommia ulmoides", "Halesia parvifolia", "Metasequoia glyptostroboides", "Phellodendron amurense", "Picea orientalis", "Picea polita", "Pinus flexilis", "Pinus griffithi", "Pinus monticola", "Quercus cerris", "Quercus nigra", "Taxodium distichum", "Ulmus serotina", and "Zelkova serrata".

Notable burials

"See also ."

* Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States
* Kate Chase, daughter of Salmon Chase and Washington, D.C. Civil War socialite
* Henry Stanberry, Attorney General of the United States
* Levi Coffin, Quaker abolitionist
* Alphonso Taft, politician, father of William Howard Taft
* Louise Taft, second wife of Alphonso Taft, and mother of President of the United States William Howard Taft
* John McLean, Associate Justice of the United States
* William Procter and James Gamble, founders of Procter and Gamble
* Bernard Kroger, founder of Kroger supermarkets
* Charles L. Fleischmann, yeast manufacturer
* John Morgan Walden, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
* Theodore Sommers Henderson, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
* Jacob Ammen, Civil War general
* Kenner Garrard, Civil War general
* Godfrey Weitzel, Civil War general
* Joseph Hooker, Civil War general and commander of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Chancellorsville
* Alexander Long, congressman
* Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist
* William Haines Lytle, 19th century Ohio, general, politician, poet
* George Hunt Pendleton, Congressman and a Senator from Ohio
* Skip Prosser, Wake Forest University men's basketball head coach at the time of his death, former assistant and head men's basketball coach at Xavier University.
* Alexander McDowell McCook, Union army general

See also

* List of botanical gardens in the United States

References

External links

* [http://www.springgrove.org/ Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum]
* [http://www.cincinnaticwrt.org/data/ohio%20in%20the%20war/barnett_forty_for_the_union/barnett_article.html Forty Civil War generals buried in Spring Grove Cemetery]
* [http://www.cincinnatimemory.org/gsdl/collect/greaterc/archives/HASH013e/558da729.dir/ocp001931pccpc.jpgSpring Grove Entrance]