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Rosehill Cemetery (founded 1859) is an American garden cemetery on the North Side of Chicago , Illinois , and at 350 acres (1.4 km 2 [2] Lincoln Square community area.
Rosehill Cemetery Co. 1894 ad
Rosehill's Joliet-limestone entrance gate (added in 1864) was designed by William W. Boyington , the architect of the Chicago Water Tower and the Old University of Chicago , who is buried in Rosehill. The Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
Like its sister cemetery Graceland , Rosehill is the burial place of many well-known Chicagoans. The cemetery contains many monuments that are notable for their beauty and eccentricity, such as that of Lulu Fellows.[3]
The cemetery is also the final resting place of 61 victims of the Iroquois Theatre fire , in which over 600 people died.
Several graves, gravestones and monuments from the old City Cemetery, originally located in what is now Lincoln Park were relocated to Rosehill Cemetery.
Landmarks [ edit ]
Rosehill Mausoleum [ edit ]
Original wing of the mausoleum
Dedicated in 1914, Rosehill Mausoleum was designed by architect Sidney Lovell . It is the largest mausoleum in Chicago and has two levels, the lower level being partially underground. The interior is constructed almost entirely of marble. The floors are Italian Carrara marble . There are many small family-owned rooms with heavy bronze gates. Some of these private rooms feature stained glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany among other artists. Richard B. Ogilvie , Governor of Illinois, is entombed near the ceiling in the west part of the Mausoleum. Other notables include Aaron Montgomery Ward , his business rival Richard Warren Sears , and John G. Shedd , philanthropist and president of Marshall Field & Company . The mausoleum has been expanded several times.
1975 expansion
Horatio N. May Chapel [ edit ]
Built in 1899, the Horatio N. May Chapel was designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee . It is designed in a blend of Gothic and Romanesque styles, with an exterior of granite and an interior appointed with mosaic floors and a graceful oak roof with "hammer-beam trusses and curved brackets."[4]
Civil War Memorials [ edit ]
Battery A Chicago Light Artillery Monument
Civil War buffs have long been attracted to Rosehill, where approximately 350 Union soldiers and sailors and at least three Confederates who gave their lives in service are entombed. It is the final resting place for several members of the 8th Illinois Cavalry , the unit that fired the first shots in the Battle of Gettysburg , and of a general whose troops helped Ulysses S. Grant avoid surrender in the Battle of Shiloh , Grant's first major engagement of the war. Rosehill Cemetery maintains the distinction of being the largest private burial ground of Union veterans, including 16 generals, in the state of Illinois. To honor those who fought for country and cause, Rosehill officially opened its own Civil War Museum on January 15, 1995.
Chicago Volunteer Firefighter's Memorial [ edit ]
A monument "To Honor All the Courageous Volunteer Firefighters of Chicago" was erected in Rosehill Cemetery in 1864. The monument, designed by Leonard Volk , features a vigilant fireman standing atop a tall column. A fire hose is wrapped around the base. Four old-style hydrants make up the corners of the memorial. The granite marker at the base contains the names of all firefighters killed in the line of duty.
Volunteer Firemen's Monument
In film [ edit ]
Rosehill was featured in the film Next of Kin Backdraft U.S. Marshals
West Ridge Nature Preserve [ edit ]
In 2015, the Chicago Park District Park No. 568 – West Ridge Nature Preserve was established along the north western edge of Rosehill Cemetery. The park land, which was once part of the cemetery, features 20.585 acres of restored woodland, native plants, boardwalks, a 4.5 acre pond, a multipurpose trail around the park with elevated overlooks, educational and interpretive signage for easy identification of plantings, fishing stations and wildlife viewing opportunities.[5]
Notable burials [ edit ]
James Aldrich , U.S. Congressman, Illinois 1st Congressional District (1893–97)
William Aldrich , U.S. Congressman, Illinois 1st Congressional District (1877–83)
George Bangs , Railway Mail Service
George Bell Jr. , United States Army Major General who commanded the 33rd Infantry Division in World War I
John Lourie Beveridge , Illinois Governor (1873–77)
Lester L. Bond , Chicago Mayor (1873)
Levi Boone , Chicago Mayor (1855–56), anti-immigrant American Party (a.k.a. The Know-Nothing Party )
Mary McVicker Booth , actress
William W. Boyington , architect, Chicago Water Tower and Rosehill Cemetery entrance
Myra Colby Bradwell , Illinois lawyer and political activist, founder of Chicago Legal News
James B. Bradwell , Illinois lawyer, judge, and politician
Jack Brickhouse , Hall of Fame sports broadcaster
Austin Brooks , Editor, Quincy Herald
Avery Brundage , athlete, construction contractor, president of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Henry Buker , baseball shortstop. right fielder 1884 Detroit Wolverines
Jacob Burck , Pulitzer prize -winning editorial cartoonist and artist for St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago Sun-Times
Leo Burnett , advertising executive, founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide
Edward Dean Cooke , U.S. Congressman, Illinois 6th Congressional District (1895–97)
Joseph Cummings , president of Wesleyan University (1857–75), president of Northwestern University (1881–90)
Albert Blake Dick , founder of A.B. Dick Company , coined the word "mimeograph "
Jim Dooley , Chicago Bears football player, coach
Harvey Doolittle Colvin , Chicago Mayor (1873–75)
Dewitt Clinton Cregier , Chicago Mayor (1889–91)
George R. Davis , U.S. Congressman, Illinois (1879–85), Director General, World's Columbian Exposition
Charles G. Dawes , 30th Vice President of the United States
Martin Emerich , Maryland House of Delegates , U.S. Congressman, Illinois 1st Congressional District (1903–05)
Charles Benjamin Farwell , U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator from Illinois
Bernhard Felsenthal , rabbi
Milton S. Florsheim , founder of Florsheim Shoe Company
Mimi Forsythe, actress Three Russian Girls The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Bobby Franks , murder victim of Leopold and Loeb
Lyman J. Gage , U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1897–02), banker, president of the World's Columbian Exposition
Augustus Garrett , Chicago Mayor (1843–44, 1845–46)
Samuel Robert Gibson , folk singer Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn
Solomon Harry Goldberg, founder Hump Hairpin Manufacturing Company, patented hairpin made with ridges
Harry Grabiner , Major League Baseball executive, first general manager of Chicago White Sox
Elisha Gray , inventor, founder Western Electric
Dwight H. Green , Governor of Illinois (1941–49)
Henry Greenebaum , banker
Charles Frederick Gunther confectionery manufacturing magnate, created Cracker Jack
John Charles Haines , Chicago Mayor (1858–60)
Winifred M. Hausam , one of the most creative educators in Southern California and credited with organizing many vocational and counseling bureaus
John D. Hertz , founder Yellow Cab , Hertz Rent-A-Car ; Re-interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York
Otis Hinckley, co-founder Hinckley & Schmitt
Ida Sophia Hippach, RMS Titanic survivor
Jerome Holtzman , Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, known as "The Dean" of baseball press boxes
Nat Hudson , Major League Baseball pitcher (1886–89) for the St. Louis Browns .
Charles J. Hull, real estate magnate, Hull House owner
Edgar Allan Jonas , U.S. Congressman Illinois 12th Congressional District (1949–55)
Edward Jump , artist, cartoonist
Andrew Thomas Kearney , founder of management consulting firm A.T. Kearney
John H. Kedzie , lawyer, real-estate developer, politician (namesake: Kedzie Avenue in Chicago and Kedzie Street, Evanston)
Harry Stephen Keeler , pulp mystery writer, The Case Of The Barking Clock , The Man With The Magic Eardrums
James Scott Kemper, founder of Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company, predecessor of Kemper Corporation
Edward Kimball (1823–1901), Sunday School teacher and church debt raiser
Edward N. Kirk , Union Army brigadier general, U.S. Civil War
Philip Knopf , U.S. Congressman Illinois 7th Congressional District (1903–09)
Leonidas Lee , Major League Baseball player (1877)
Felix A. Levy , rabbi
Benjamin F. Lindheimer , Chicago horse racing and football executive
Benjamin Berl Lipsner (1887–1971), first supervisor of the U.S. Post Office Department[6]
John Mason Loomis , lumber baron, philanthropist, and Civil War colonel.
Sidney Lovell , architect of Rosehill Mausoleum
Alexander Loyd , Chicago Mayor (1840–41)
Peter C. Lutkin , composer
Benjamin Drake Magruder , Illinois Supreme Court Justice
George W. Maher , architect, Prairie School-style
Robert Marsh, victim in the Herrin Massacre (unmarked grave)
Roswell B. Mason , Chicago Mayor (1869–71), mayor during Great Chicago Fire
Victor Andre Matteson , architect Cardinal Hill Reservoir
Oscar F. Mayer , business magnate, founder Oscar Mayer Company
John McArthur Union general, U.S. Civil War
Edward McWade , actor Arsenic and Old Lace Yankee Doodle Dandy Mr. and Mrs. North
Margaret McWade , actress Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Robert McWade , theater, film actor Grand Hotel The Lemon Drop Kid
Darius Miller ,[7] [8]
Isaac Lawrence Milliken , Chicago Mayor (1854–55)
Buckner Stith Morris , Chicago Mayor (1838–39)
Richard B. Ogilvie , Governor of Illinois (1969–73)
Martha O'Driscoll , actress: Li’l Abner Ghost Catchers House of Dracula The Daltons Ride Again Under Western Skies
George Arthur Paddock , U.S. Congressman Illinois 10th District (1941–43)
Legrand Winfield Perce , U.S. Congressman (1870–73)
John W. Pollard and members of his prominent and pioneering family
Eliza Emily Chappell Porter , first school teacher in Chicago (1835), established schools for African American children in the south
Thomas E. G. Ransom , brevet major general in the US Civil War, division commander in the Thirteenth , Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps , died 1864[9]
Henry Riggs Rathbone , U.S. Congressman, Illinois Congressman At-Large (1923–28)
Ira G. Rawn ,[10]
John Blake Rice , Chicago Mayor (1865–69)
Bruce Roberts , television pioneer, longtime WBBM-TV weekend sportscaster
John A. Roche , Chicago Mayor (1887–89)
Julius Rosenwald , merchant, early partner with Richard Sears, founder the Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park.
Morris Sachs, entrepreneur, Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour radio program
George Joseph Schmitt, co-founder of Hinckley & Schmitt bottled water
Reinhart Schwimmer, gangster, St. Valentine's Day Massacre victim
Ignaz Schwinn , founder of the Schwinn Bicycle Company
Richard Warren Sears , founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company
John G. Shedd , Chairman of Marshall Field & Company , philanthropist, founder of the Shedd Aquarium
Milton Sills , actor "The Heart Bandit", "The Hawk's Nest", "The Sea Wolf"
Edwin Silverman , co-founder of Essaness Theatres [11]
Roslyn Simon, Wife of Justice Seymour Simon, Chicago Philanthropist and Miss Philadelphia (1932)
Honorable Justice Seymour Simon, Illinois Supreme Court (1980–88), Illinois Appellate Court (1974–80), President, Cook County Board, (1962–66), 40th Ward Alderman (1955–62, 1966–74)
Byron Laflin Smith, founder Northern Trust Company
William Grant Stratton , Illinois Governor (1953–61)
Benjamin Sweet , lawyer, politician, administrator, colonel in the Union Army , two of whose daughters pioneered women's rights (1832–1874).
Charles Wheeler Sweet Sr., professional tennis player (1905–1971)
George Bell Swift , Chicago Mayor (1893, 1895–97)
Charles Marsh Thomson , U.S. Congressman Illinois 10th District (1913–15)
Narcissa Niblack Thorne , designer of the Thorne miniature rooms , Art Institute of Chicago
Burr Tillstrom , puppeteer, creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Belle Kellogg Towne , hymn composer, author and editor for the David C. Cook Publishing Company, buried with husband, T. Martin Towne, well-known composer
Daniel Brink Towner , hymn composer Trust and Obey , Grace Greater than our Sin , Saved by the Blood of the Crucified One
Robert Twyman , U.S. Congressman Illinois 9th District (1947–49)
Leonard W. Volk , sculptor, notable for making one of only two life masks of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
E. S. Wadsworth , co-founder Wadsworth, Dyer & Chapin , namesake Wadsworth, Illinois
Martin R. M. Wallace , Union brevet brigadier general, U.S. Civil War
Aaron Montgomery Ward , founder Montgomery Ward and Company, the world's first mail order business
John Wentworth (nicknamed "Long John"), U.S. Congressman, mayor of Chicago, marked by the tallest obelisk in the cemetery
George Elon White , U.S. Congressman Illinois's 5th District (1895–99)
Julius White brigadier general Union Army, U.S. Civil War
Frances Willard , temperance leader, suffragist, President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union
Ned Williamson , Major League Baseball player (1878–90), MLB record holder for single-season home runs from 1884-1919.
Prince Arnold zu Windisch-Graetz, pastor Concordia Lutheran Church of Chicago and member of the House of Windisch-Graetz
Henry Haven Windsor , founder, publisher of Popular Mechanics
Charles Walhart Woodman , U.S. Congressman Illinois 4th District (1895–97)
Warren Wright Sr. , Calumet Baking Powder Company , Calumet Farm (1875–1950)
References [ edit ]
^ Matt Hucke (2010). "Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum: Lulu Fellows" . Graveyards.com . Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
^ "Costly Tombs of the Rich" . Chicago Tribune . August 19, 1900. p. 51 . Retrieved April 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "West Ridge Nature Play Space" . Chicago Park District.
^ "Lipsner" . Chicago Tribune 11 . Retrieved April 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum: Darius Miller" . Graveyards.com . Retrieved November 30, 2013 .
^ "The Curse of King Tut" . Gravely Speaking . January 9, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013 .
^ Karamanski, Theodore J.; McMahon, Eileen M., eds. (2014). Civil War Chicago ISBN 978-0821444818
^ "Ira G. Rawn, 20 Jul 1910" . FamilySearch . "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878–1922", index. Retrieved November 22, 2013 .
^ "Edwin Silverman Services Set Saturday in Chicago" . Desert Sun . Vol. 43, no. 163. Palm Springs, California. February 12, 1970. p. 3.
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