Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Some Important Folks Buried at Chicago's Rose Hill Cemetery

I found out that Mayor Levi Boone was buried at Chicago's Rose Hill Cemetery. I went to the site and found a lot of other notables are interred there as well.

JACK BRICKHOUSE-- baseball announcer
LEO BURNETT-- advertising executive
CHARLES G. DAWES-- 30th vice president of US
BOBBY FRANKS-- murder victim of Leopold and Loeb
ELISHA GRAY-- inventor and founder of Western Electric

JOHN D. HERTZ-- Rent-a-car
OTIS HINCKLEY-- co-founder of Hinckley & Schmitt
GEORGE J. SCHMITT-- the other co-founder
MANY FORMER MAYORS-- including Buckner Stith Morris, who along with Boone were imprisoned in Chicago's Camp Douglas for pro-southern sympathy during the Civil War.

OSCAR MAYER-- meatpacking
JULIUS ROSENWALD-- Sears, Rosenwald Schools
RICHARD B. OGILVIE-- governor of Illinois
RICHARD SEARS-- Sears & Roebuck
JOHN G. SHEDD-- Shedd Aquarium, president of Marshall Fields
AARON MONTGOMERY Ward-- Montgomery Ward and catalogue stores.

Some Interesting Names. --Cooter

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