Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago
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Rosehill Cemetery is a 350 acre (1.4 km²) Victorian-era cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, the city's largest.
Rosehill's Joliet-limestone entrance gate was designed by William W. Boyington, the architect of the Chicago Water Tower and the First University of Chicago. 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.[1]
[edit] Notable burials
- Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago
- Jack Brickhouse, Baseball broadcaster
- Leo Burnett, Advertising executive
- Harvey Doolittle Colvin, Mayor of Chicago
- Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States
- Bobby Franks, Murder victim of Leopold and Loeb
- Lyman J. Gage, Banker
- Augustus Garrett, Mayor of Chicago
- John Charles Haines, Mayor of Chicago
- John D. Hertz, Yellow Cab founder, Hertz Rent-A-Car
- Charles J. Hull, Hull House owner
- Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago
- Oscar Mayer, Meat packing business, famous for his hot dogs
- Isaac Lawrence Milliken, Mayor of Chicago
- Buckner Stith Morris, Mayor of Chicago
- Henry Riggs Rathbone, Illinois congressman
- John Blake Rice, Mayor of Chicago
- John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago
- Julius Rosenwald, Sears, Roebuck
- Charles M. Schwab, US Steel
- Richard Warren Sears, Sears, Roebuck
- John G. Shedd, Shedd Aquarium
- Milton Sills, American stage and film actor
- George Bell Swift, Mayor of Chicago
- Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer, creator of "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"
- A. Montgomery Ward, Montgomery Ward stores & catalogue
- "Long John" Wentworth, mayor of Chicago
- Ned Williamson, 19th century baseball player
