Forest Home Cemetery

Landmark Chapel

The Forest Home Cemetery ( German: Forest Home Cemetery ) in today southern part of Milwaukee is the existing since 1847 local cemetery, where the graves of honor known personalities of the city are located. Overall, graves are for more than 110,000 people in the cemetery. Establishments, the cemetery as a public non-profit organization whose profits are in the conservation of the landscape, its buildings, monuments and memorials. More than three hundred species of trees growing on the grounds.

The cemetery with the lying therein Gothic Landmark Chapel was declared in 1973 a landmark in Milwaukee and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1980. Later, two mausoleums were erected in the cemetery, called Halls of History and the Chapel Gardens. The Newhall House Monument is a grave monument, by 64 victims of the fire were buried in Newhall House. In the Fire 1883 71 people were killed, 43 of them could not be identified.

History

The cemetery was founded by members of St. Paul 's Episcopal Church on the south side of Milwaukee later. As the site was chosen, it was about three miles outside the city limits at the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue ) in an area which was believed at the time, it was far enough away from the urban development to its rural to preserve character. In 1850 bought 72 acres ( about 28 hectares), up to the beginning of the 20th century, the area to almost 200 acres ( 80 hectares) had grown. The name of the first here on August 5, 1850 buried person was Orville Cadwell; However, he soon got plenty of company, because in the city broke out cholera.

The cemetery is located in an area where there were grave mound of Paleo- Indians and the settlers designated as Indian Fields. It included more than sixty such Erdanhäufungen that have been cataloged by the science pioneer Increase Lapham, including a rare intaglio for a big cat. Of these grave hills, none received more. An Indian village was located near the corner that is now on Lincoln Avenue. Probably the natives had chosen the location because it was located close to the Kinnickinnic River.

The construction of the Landmark Chapel began in 1890 and was completed two years later. It was designed by the architects George Ferry and Alfred Clas and built with sandstone, which was broken near the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. An installed the leaded conservatory room Decades Old collections of tropical plants.

The two mausoleums were built in recent times. The Hall of History is also a visitor center, an exhibition of the permanent and changing exhibits showing the columbarium and the crypts, the history of Milwaukee and more than a hundred of their former citizens closer brings the visitors.

Tombs of famous personalities

At the cemetery, among other 28 mayors of Milwaukee, seven governors of Wisconsin and other personalities are buried.

  • Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884), writer and journalist
  • Gerhard A. Bading (1870-1946), Milwaukeer mayor and U.S. ambassador to Ecuador
  • Sherburn M. Becker (1877-1949), mayor Milwaukeer
  • Victor L. Berger (1860-1929), politician and founding member of the Socialist Party of America
  • Jacob Best (1786-1861), brewer and founder of the Pabst Brewing Company
  • Valentin Blatz (1826-1894), banker, brewer and founder of the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company
  • Sherman Booth (1812-1904), newspaper publisher, abolitionist and politician
  • Lynde Bradley (1878-1942), co-founder of the company Allen- Bradley
  • James S. Brown (1824-1878), politician and attorney from Wisconsin
  • Horace Chase (1810-1886), politician and mayor Milwaukeer
  • Hans Crocker (1815-1889), lawyer, politician and publisher of the first newspaper of Milwaukee
  • Lysander Cutler (1807-1866), politician, businessman, and general in the Union Army
  • William A. Davidson (1870-1937), co-founder of the company Harley -Davidson
  • Susan Stuart Frackleton (1848-1932), painter and ceramic artist
  • Gus Hall (1910-2000), American politician of the CPUSA
  • Byron Kilbourn (1801-1870), surveyor, railroad officer and co-founder of Milwaukee
  • Charles King (1844-1933), General and author
  • Abner Kirby (1818-1893), businessman and mayor of the city
  • August Krug (1815-1856), original founder of the later Joseph slot Brewing Company
  • Increase Lapham (1811-1875), author and scientist
  • William Pitt Lynde (1817-1885), lawyer and politician
  • Harrison Ludington (1812-1891), Milwaukeer mayor and governor of Wisconsin
  • Alfred Lunt (1892-1977) and Lynn Fontanne (1887-1983), actor couple
  • Francis E. McGovern (1866-1946), politician and Governor of Wisconsin
  • Andrew G. Miller (1801-1874), Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
  • Alexander Mitchell (1817-1887), banker, politician, and leader of the Mitchell family
  • Billy Mitchell (1879-1936), General of the U.S. Army and so-called "Father of the U.S. Air Force "
  • John L. Mitchell (1842-1904), Senator from Wisconsin and father Billy Mitchell
  • Frederick Pabst (1836-1904), brewer and brewery magnate of Pabst Brewing Company
  • Henry C. Payne (1843-1904), U.S. Postmaster General
  • Emanuel L. Philipp (1861-1925), Governor of Wisconsin
  • William E. Smith (1824-1883), Governor of Wisconsin and co-founder of the supermarket chain Roundy 's
  • George Wilbur Peck (1840-1916), newspaper editor, Milwaukeer mayor and governor of Wisconsin
  • Ole Peter Petersen (1822-1901), founder of Methodism in Norway
  • Joseph slot (1831-1875), brewery magnate Joseph of today's slot Brewing Company
  • Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890), inventor of the first usable typewriter
  • Adonis Terry (1864-1915), the Major League Baseball Players
  • Don AJ Upham (1809-1877), United States Attorney and two-time mayor Milwaukeer
  • Henry Vianden (1814-1899), painter, lithographer and engraver
  • Alfred Wagenknecht (1881-1956), American Marxist politician
  • George H. Walker (1811-1866), politician and co-founder of Milwaukee
  • Isaac P. Walker (1815-1872), United States Senator and brother of George Walker
  • Emil Wallber (1841-1943), mayor Milwaukeer
  • Oscar Werwath (1880-1948), founder of the Milwaukee School of Engineering
  • Carl Zeidler (1908-1942), mayor Milwaukeer
  • Frank P. Zeidler (1912-2006), three-time Milwaukeer mayor and brother of Carl Zeidler
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