Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)
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Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, is one of Michigan's most important historic cemeteries.
Conceived in 1846 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.
[edit] 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
- Lewis Cass, Michigan territorial governor
- Zachariah Chandler, U.S. Senator from Michigan
- Philip St. George Cooke, U.S. Civil War general
- Douglass Houghton, geologist and mayor of Detroit
- Truman H. Newberry, businessman and U.S. Senator from Michigan
- 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
- Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit
[edit] Book
Michael S. Franck, Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery, Wayne State University Press, 1996 (ISBN 0-8143-2591-2)
