Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago
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Rosehill Cemetery is a Victorian era
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...

 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...

 on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, USA, and at 350 acres (1.4 km²), is the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago. The name "Rosehill" resulted from a City Clerk's error – the area was previously called "Roe's Hill", named for nearby farmer Hiram Roe. He refused to sell his land to the city until it was promised that the cemetery be named in his honor.

Rosehill's Joliet-limestone entrance gate was designed by William W. Boyington
William W. Boyington
William W. Boyington was an architect who designed several notable structures in and around Chicago, Illinois. Originally from Massachusetts, W.W. Boyington studied engineering and architecture in the State of New York...

, the architect of the Chicago Water Tower
Chicago Water Tower
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 and the Old University of Chicago
Old University of Chicago
The University of Chicago, now known as the Old University of Chicago , was a school founded by Baptists in Chicago in 1857...

, who is buried in Rosehill. As Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate, it was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1975.

Like its sister cemetery Graceland
Graceland Cemetery
Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian era cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road...

, 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.http://www.graveyards.com/IL/Cook/rosehill/lulu.html

Several graves from the old City Cemetery, originally located in what is now Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is an urban park in Chicago, which gave its name to the Lincoln Park, Chicago community area.Lincoln Park may also refer to:-Urban parks:*Lincoln Park , California*Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California...

 were relocated to Rosehill. Some of the gravestones and monuments were also moved to Rosehill Cemetery and can be seen. Monuments relocated from City Cemetery are generally encased in protective glass.

Rosehill was featured in the films U.S. Marshals
U.S. Marshals (film)
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, Backdraft
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, and Next of Kin
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.

Notable burials

  • Levi Boone
    Levi Boone
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    , former mayor of Chicago
  • William W. Boyington
    William W. Boyington
    William W. Boyington was an architect who designed several notable structures in and around Chicago, Illinois. Originally from Massachusetts, W.W. Boyington studied engineering and architecture in the State of New York...

    , architect
  • Jack Brickhouse
    Jack Brickhouse
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    , baseball broadcaster
  • Avery Brundage
    Avery Brundage
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    , athlete, construction, president US and International Olympic Committees (USOC and IOC)
  • Leo Burnett
    Leo Burnett
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    , advertising executive
  • Harvey Doolittle Colvin
    Harvey Doolittle Colvin
    Harvey Doolittle Colvin served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the People's Party....

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • Charles G. Dawes
    Charles G. Dawes
    Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States . For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S...

    , 30th Vice President of the United States
  • Martin Emerich
    Martin Emerich
    Martin Emerich was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Emerich attended the public schools. He engaged in the importing business. He was appointed ward commissioner of the poor of Baltimore in 1870. He served as member of the Maryland House of Delegates 1881-1883. He...

     Maryland House of Delegates
    Maryland House of Delegates
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    , former Congressman from Chicago
  • Bobby Franks, murder victim of Leopold and Loeb
    Leopold and Loeb
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  • Lyman J. Gage
    Lyman J. Gage
    Lyman Judson Gage was an American financier and Presidential Cabinet officer.He was born at DeRuyter, New York, educated at an academy at Rome, New York, and at the age of 17 he became a bank clerk...

    , banker
  • Augustus Garrett
    Augustus Garrett
    Augustus Garrett twice served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Democratic Party.Garrett married Eliza Clark in 1825 and moved to Chicago from New York in 1834...

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • Elisha Gray
    Elisha Gray
    Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company...

    , inventor, founder of Western Electric
    Western Electric
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  • Dwight H. Green
    Dwight H. Green
    Dwight Herbert Green was the 30th Governor of the US state of Illinois, serving from 1941 to 1949.- From childhood to early adulthood :...

    , governor of Illinois
  • John Charles Haines
    John Charles Haines
    John Charles Haines served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Democratic Party....

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • John D. Hertz
    John D. Hertz
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    , Yellow Cab founder, Hertz Rent-A-Car
  • Otis Hinckley, co-founder of Hinckley & Schmitt
  • Nat Hudson
    Nat Hudson
    Nathaniel P. "Nat" Hudson was an American Major League Baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Browns from to ....

    , Major League Baseball
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     pitcher
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     from 1886-1889 for the St. Louis Browns
    St. Louis Cardinals
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    .
  • Charles J. Hull, Hull House
    Hull House
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     owner
  • Leonidas Lee
    Leonidas Lee
    Leonidas Pyrrhus Lee, born as Leonidas Pyrrhus Funkhouser was an American professional player who played one season in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the St. Louis Brown Stockings...

    , Major League Baseball player, 1877.
  • Benjamin F. Lindheimer
    Benjamin F. Lindheimer
    Benjamin Franklin Lindheimer was an American businessman who owned Chicago's Washington Park Race Track from 1935 to his death in 1960 and was the majority shareholder and Managing Director of Arlington Park Race Track...

    , Chicago horse racing and football executive
  • Sidney Lovell
    Sidney Lovell
    Sidney Lovell was an American architect best known for designing mausoleums.-Biography:Lovell apprenticed his trade starting in 1882 with Colonel James Wood a recognized Chicago architect who specialized in the designing of theaters.-Theater years:During 1885 to 1888, Wood and Lovell traveled from...

    , architect of the Rosehill Mausoleum
  • George W. Maher
    George W. Maher
    George Washington Maher was a significant contributor to the Prairie School-style of architecture during the first-quarter of the 20th century. He also was known for blending the traditional with the Arts & Crafts-style. According to architectural historian H...

    , architect
  • Roswell B. Mason
    Roswell B. Mason
    Roswell B. Mason served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Citizens Party....

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • Oscar F. Mayer
    Oscar F. Mayer
    Oscar Ferdinand Mayer was a German American who founded the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer that bears his name....

    , Founder of the Oscar Mayer weiner company
  • Isaac Lawrence Milliken
    Isaac Lawrence Milliken
    Isaac Lawrence Milliken served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1854 to 1855. He was a member of the Democratic Party...

    ,former mayor of Chicago
  • Buckner Stith Morris
    Buckner Stith Morris
    Buckner Stith Morris served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Whig Party.Morris traveled north from Georgia in 1832, marrying Evelina Barker in Kentucky. The couple arrived in Chicago in 1834 where Morris established a law practice with J. Young Scammon and created the Chicago Lyceum, the...

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • Richard B. Ogilvie
    Richard B. Ogilvie
    Richard Buell Ogilvie was the 35th Governor of Illinois from 1969 to 1973. A wounded combat veteran of World War II, he achieved fame as the mafia-fighting Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois in the 1960s....

    , governor of Illinois
  • Martha O'Driscoll, actress
  • Henry Riggs Rathbone
    Henry Riggs Rathbone
    Henry Riggs Rathbone was a congressman from Illinois, USA. During their engagement to be married, his future parents were present at Abraham Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865...

    , Illinois congressman
  • John Blake Rice
    John Blake Rice
    John Blake Rice was an American actor, theatrical producer and politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois as a member of the Republican Party....

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • John A. Roche
    John A. Roche
    John A. Roche served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Republican Party. He was elected as 30th mayor, 39th term He was born in Utica New York, and served as an apprentice to his brother for three years...

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • Julius Rosenwald
    Julius Rosenwald
    Julius Rosenwald was a U.S. clothier, manufacturer, business executive, and philanthropist. He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for the Rosenwald Fund which donated millions to support the education of African American children in the rural South, as well...

    , Sears
  • George J. Schmitt, co-founder of Hinckley & Schmitt
  • Charles M. Schwab
    Charles M. Schwab
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    , U.S. Steel
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  • Richard Warren Sears, Sears, Roebuck
  • John G. Shedd
    John G. Shedd
    John Graves Shedd was the second president and chairman of the board of Marshall Field & Company.Born on a New Hampshire farm, Shedd arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1871 and began working as a stock clerk for Marshall Field. By 1901, he had worked his way up to a vice-presidency and took over as...

    , Shedd Aquarium
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    The John G. Shedd Aquarium is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930. The aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time the largest indoor aquarium in the world with of water. The Shedd Aquarium was the first inland aquarium with...

  • Milton Sills
    Milton Sills
    Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century....

    , stage and film actor
  • George Bell Swift
    George Bell Swift
    George Bell Swift served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Republican Party. He was selected to replace the assassinated Carter Harrison, Sr. as Mayor pro tem in 1893 and lost his re-election bid. He was re-elected when he ran in 1895.Swift was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Samuel W...

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • Edmund Dick Taylor, "Father of the Greenback"
  • Burr Tillstrom
    Burr Tillstrom
    Franklin Burr Tillstrom was a puppeteer and the creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie....

    , puppeteer, creator of "Kukla, Fran and Ollie
    Kukla, Fran and Ollie
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    "
  • Aaron Montgomery Ward
    Aaron Montgomery Ward
    Aaron Montgomery Ward was an American businessman notable for the invention of mail order.The mail-order industry was started by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872 in Chicago...

    , Montgomery Ward
    Montgomery Ward
    Montgomery Ward is an online retailer that carries the same name as the former American department store chain, founded as the world's #1 mail order business in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward, and which went out of business in 2001...

     stores & catalogue
  • "Long John" Wentworth
    John Wentworth (mayor)
    "Long" John Wentworth was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives....

    , former mayor of Chicago
  • Frances Willard
    Frances Willard (suffragist)
    Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution...

    , temperance leader and suffragist
  • Ned Williamson
    Ned Williamson
    Edward Nagle "Ned" or "Ed" Williamson was an American Major League Baseball player for 13 seasons from 1878 until 1890...

    , Major League Baseball player, 1878-1890

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