- 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 fromMichigan Territory
*Henry Billings Brown ,Associate Justice of theSupreme 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 theWar 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 MichiganBook
* 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 = 34354886External 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]
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