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Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine)
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Evergreen Cemetery is a garden style
cemetery
in Portland
, Maine
, United States
. With 239 acre (0.96719954 km²) of land, it is the second largest cemetery
in the state. It was established in 1855 and became the city's main cemetery after the Western Cemetery
. As of March 2011, only 110 acre (0.4451546 km²) of the 239 acre (0.96719954 km²) were used for cemetery-related activities. The Cemetery holds the records for Forest City Cemetery
in South Portland
.
-style chapel. It was built as a mortuary chapel by Falmouth
native Mary Ellen Lunt Wilde in 1890. It was designed by Portland architect Frederick A. Tompson and gifted to the city in 1902. The granite
building is used for both memorial and wedding services, with a maximum capcity of 105.
Rural cemetery
The rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of burial ground that uses landscaping in a park-like setting.As early as 1711 the architect Sir Christopher Wren had advocated the creation of burial grounds on the outskirts of town, "inclosed with a strong Brick Wall, and having a walk round, and...
cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
in Portland
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...
, Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. With 239 acre (0.96719954 km²) of land, it is the second largest cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
in the state. It was established in 1855 and became the city's main cemetery after the Western Cemetery
Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine)
The Western Cemetery is an urban cemetery in Portland, Maine. At one time Portland's home for the "poor and indigent", the cemetery is named after for its location in Portland's West End neighborhood and proximity to the Western Promenade. Founded in the 18th century, the land was acquired by the...
. As of March 2011, only 110 acre (0.4451546 km²) of the 239 acre (0.96719954 km²) were used for cemetery-related activities. The Cemetery holds the records for Forest City Cemetery
Forest City Cemetery
Forest City Cemetery is a cemetery in South Portland, Maine, owned and operated by the adjacent city of Portland. There are approximately 30,000 burials in the cemetery. Forest City's burial records are kept at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland. As of 1870, the cemetery had 24 burials of...
in South Portland
South Portland, Maine
South Portland is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, and is the fourth-largest city in the state. Founded in 1895, as of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,002. Known for its working waterfront, South Portland is situated on Portland Harbor and overlooks the skyline of...
.
Wilde Memorial Chapel
Wilde Memorial Chapel is a GothicGothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
-style chapel. It was built as a mortuary chapel by Falmouth
Falmouth, Maine
Falmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 11,185 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area....
native Mary Ellen Lunt Wilde in 1890. It was designed by Portland architect Frederick A. Tompson and gifted to the city in 1902. The granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
building is used for both memorial and wedding services, with a maximum capcity of 105.
Notable interments
- John AppletonJohn AppletonJohn Appleton was born in Beverly, Massachusetts and raised in Cumberland County, Maine, USA. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834, also studied at Cambridge Law School, and was admitted to the Cumberland County bar in 1837, commencing practice in Portland, Maine.He also did editorial work on...
, congressman and assistant secretary of state - Carroll Lynwood Beedy, congressman
- Asa William Henry ClappAsa ClappAsa Clapp was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Portland on March 6, 1805. He graduated from the Norwich Military Academy in 1823. He engaged as a merchant in foreign and domestic commerce in Portland. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress . He was not...
, congressman - Nathan CliffordNathan CliffordNathan Clifford was an American statesman, diplomat and jurist.Clifford was born of old Yankee stock in Rumney, New Hampshire, to farmers, the only son of seven children He attended the public schools of that town, then the Haverhill Academy in New...
, US Attorney General and Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court - Neal S. DowNeal S. DowNeal S. Dow , nicknamed the "Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition", was mayor of Portland, Maine. He sponsored the "Maine law of 1851", which prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor...
, mayor, general and candidate for president - Francis H. Fassett, architect
- James D. Fessenden, general
- Francis FessendenFrancis FessendenFrancis Fessenden was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Maine who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
, general - Samuel Fessenden, lieutenant
- Samuel C. FessendenSamuel C. FessendenSamuel Clement Fessenden was a United States Congressman from Maine, son of abolitionist Samuel Fessenden, and brother of Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden and Congressman T. A. D. Fessenden. He was an uncle of Union Army generals, Francis Fessenden and James D...
, congressman - Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden, congressman
- William P. FessendenWilliam P. FessendenWilliam Pitt Fessenden was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine.Fessenden was a Whig and member of the Fessenden political family...
, congressman, senator and secretary of the treasury - Frank FixarisFrank FixarisFrank Fixaris was an American sportscaster, anchor, and reporter, spending the majority of his career at WGME-TV in Portland, Maine. He also co-hosted a morning radio show on WJAB after his television run.Fixaris attended college in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Emerson College in 1956...
, sportscaster - Elbridge GerryElbridge Gerry (Maine)Elbridge Gerry was an American lawyer, who served as a U.S. Congressman from Maine from 1849 to 1851.Gerry was born on December 6, 1813 in Waterford, Maine and was a grandson of former U.S. Vice-President Elbridge Gerry...
, congressman - Charles Goddard (1879-1951), playwright and screenwriter
- Robert Christian Hale, lieutenant and congressman
- Obed HallObed HallObed Hall was a United States Representative from New Hampshire.He was born in Raynham, Massachusetts. He later moved to Madbury, New Hampshire and then to Upper Bartlett, New Hampshire and engaged in agricultural pursuits...
, congressman - Asher Crosby Hinds, congressman
- John LynchJohn Lynch (congressman)John Lynch was a nineteenth century politician, merchant, manufacturer and newspaper publisher from Maine....
, congressman - Charles Porter Mattocks, general
- Charles B. Merrill, general
- Joseph C. NoyesJoseph C. NoyesJoseph Cobham Noyes was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Portland and attended the common schools, and moved to Eastport in 1819...
, congressman - John J. PerryJohn J. PerryJohn Jasiel Perry was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Perry moved with his parents to Hebron , Maine, in 1812. He attended the common schools and Maine Wesleyan Seminary. He became deputy sheriff of Oxford County and served as member of the state house of...
, congressman - William Lebaron PutnamWilliam LeBaron PutnamWilliam LeBaron Putnam was a lawyer and politician in Maine and later served as a United States federal judge....
, mayor - Thomas Brackett ReedThomas Brackett ReedThomas Brackett Reed, , occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1889–1891 and from 1895–1899...
, congressman and Speaker of the US House of Representatives - Ether ShepleyEther ShepleyEther Shepley was an American politician.Shepley, a Democratic-Republican, served in the Maine State House before becoming one of the state's U.S. Senators. Shepley resigned from the Senate after two years to become a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.Shepley was born in Groton,...
, senator - George Foster ShepleyGeorge Foster ShepleyGeorge Shepley may refer to:* George F. Shepley , American Civil War general*George Foster Shepley , American architect...
, general - Francis Ormand Jonathan SmithFrancis Ormand Jonathan SmithFrancis Ormond Jonathan Smith was elected from the state of Maine to the United States House of Representatives to serve three terms from 1833 to 1839, serving at one point on the US House of Representatives Committee on Commerce.Smith was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New...
, congressman - Augustus Ervin Stevens, mayor
- John Calvin StevensJohn Calvin StevensJohn Calvin Stevens was an American architect who worked in two related styles — the Shingle Style, in which he was a major innovator, and the Colonial Revival style, which dominated national domestic architecture for the first half of the 20th century...
, architect - Lorenzo De Medici SweatLorenzo De Medici SweatLorenzo De Medici Sweat was a U.S. Representative from Maine.He was born in Parsonsfield, Maine, where he attended Parsonsfield Seminary, a Freewill Baptist school. Sweat then attended Bowdoin College, from where he graduated in 1837. He graduated from Harvard University in 1840, having studied...
, congressman - Sidney Warren Thaxter, major
- Henry Goddard ThomasHenry Goddard ThomasMajor General Henry Goddard Thomas was an Union general in the American Civil War. A native of Portland, Maine, Thomas graduated from Amherst College in 1858 and was admitted to the bar shortly thereafter. He enlisted as a private in the 5th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment...
, general - Charles W. WaltonCharles W. WaltonCharles Wesley Walton was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Mexico, Maine where he attended the common schools and was also instructed at home and by private tutors...
, congressman - Ansel Dyer Wass, general
- George Warren West, general