Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Forest Hill Cemetery entrance, Observatory St.
Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan is a 65-acre (260,000 m2) cemetery founded in 1857. A civil engineer named James Lewis Glenn[1] designed the cemetery in the rural or garden style popular in the second half of the 19th century. The cemetery's main gate was designed by James Morwick in the Gothic Revival style. Gordon W. Lloyd, a leading architect based in Detroit, Michigan, designed the cemetery's gatehouse and sexton's residence, also in the Gothic Revival style.[2][3][4]
In 1859 Dr. Benajah Ticknor was the first person to be buried in Forest Hill. Ticknor had been a surgeon in the U.S. Navy and the owner of property now known as Cobblestone Farm in Ann Arbor.[2][3]
Prior to the establishment of the cemetery, Chi Psi fraternity built the nation's first fraternity building (a hunting lodge) on the site, in 1849.[4]
Elisha Walker Rumsey grave and memorial, Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rumsey was the co-founder of Ann Arbor.
Notable persons interred at Forest Hill[]
Bo Schembechler grave
Soldiers and Sailors memorial, 1914
James Burrill Angell grave, Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- John Allen, American pioneer and co-founder of Ann Arbor
- James Burrill Angell, longest-serving president of the University of Michigan
- Scott Asheton, musician[5]
- Albert Moore Barrett, American physician and professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan
- Clara Doty Bates, author
- Samuel Willard Beakes, Mayor of Ann Arbor and U.S. Congressman[5]
- William Warner Bishop, librarian[6]
- William E. Brown, Jr.
- Marion LeRoy Burton, President of the University of Michigan
- William L. Clements
- Charles Horton Cooley, sociologist
- Thomas McIntyre Cooley, professor of law, justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, president of the Interstate Commerce Commission
- Cecil O. Creal, Mayor of Ann Arbor
- Lloyd Cassel Douglas, author[7]
- Pete Elliott, football coach[5]
- Elizabeth Farrand, author and librarian
- Alpheus Felch, Michigan Governor and U.S. Senator[5]
- William A. Fletcher, first chief justice of the state of Michigan
- Thomas Francis, medical pioneer[5]
- William Frankena, philosopher
- Henry Simmons Frieze, president of the University of Michigan
- Bradley F. Granger, U.S. Congressman[5]
- Ted Heusel, Ann Arbor radio personality and Board of Education president
- Daniel Hiscock, director at Ann Arbor Savings Bank[8]
- Harry Burns Hutchins, president of the University of Michigan
- Eleonore Hutzel, nurse and social worker
- Eva A. Jessye, composer and choir director[5]
- George Jewett, first African-American football player at both the University of Michigan and Northwestern University
- Oscar John Larson, U.S. Representative
- Emmett Norman Leith, professor of electrical engineering[5]
- Rensis Likert, American statistician
- Don Lund, baseball player[5]
- Rusty Magee, American composer and lyricist for theater, film, and television
- Charles H. Manly, Michigan politician
- Vincent Massey, Australian enzymologist and University of Michigan faculty[9]
- William S. Maynard, Mayor of Ann Arbor
- Ann Mikolowski, artist, co-founder of The Alternative Press
- Conrad Noll[5]
- Frederick George Novy, American bacteriologist, organic chemist, and instructor
- John Nowland
- Albert Benjamin Prescott, professor of chemistry and founder of the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
- Hereward Thimbleby Price, British writer
- Eugene B. Power, founder of University Microfilms and regent of the University of Michigan
- Elisha Walker Rumsey, co-founder of Ann Arbor
- Henry Rumsey, American judge and politician
- Israel Russell, American geologist and geographer
- Alexander Grant Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan
- Bo Schembechler, head football coach and athletic director at the University of Michigan[5]
- Joseph Beal Steere, American ornithologist[1]
- William C. Stevens, Michigan politician
- Louise Reed Stowell, scientist, microscopist, author, editor
- Henry Franklin Thomas[5]
- Bob Ufer, University of Michigan track star, sports broadcaster
- James Craig Watson, astronomer
- Norval E. Welch, Civil War Union Army Officer[5]
- Leslie White, anthropologist
- Fielding H. Yost, head football coach and athletic director at the University of Michigan[4][10][11][12][13][5]
Coordinates: 42°16′39.9″N 83°43′49.8″W / 42.277750°N 83.730500°W
References[]
- ^ a b Avellan, Jorge. "History Can Be Discovered In Cemeteries In Washtenaw County". www.wemu.org. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ a b "History". foresthillcemeteryaa.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
- ^ a b "The End of an Era: Ann Arbor historian's popular cemetery tours come to a close this fall". Retrieved 12 April 2018.
- ^ a b c "Ann Arbor - LocalWiki". arborwiki.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan - Find A Grave Cemetery". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ Norton, Joseph J.; Jackson, John H.; Sohn, Louis B. (1988). "In Memoriam— William Warner Bishop, Jr. (1906-1987)". The International Lawyer. 22 (3): 609–614. ISSN 0020-7810. JSTOR 40706143.
- ^ Andrews, Clarence A. (1992). Michigan in Literature. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2368-7.
- ^ Beakes, Samuel Willard (1906). Past and Present of Washtenaw County, Michigan. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 481.
- ^ Williams, Charles H.; Ballou, David P. (2003). "Vincent Massey 28 November 1926--26 August 2002". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 49: 335–350. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2003.0019. ISSN 0080-4606. JSTOR 3650229. S2CID 68101861.
- ^ http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2007/04/obituary_ted_he.html
- ^ Burdette, Dwight (10 September 2010). "English: Ted Heusel grave, Ann Arbor radio personality and Board of Education president, Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor Michigan". Retrieved 12 April 2018 – via Wikimedia Commons.
- ^ Power, Philip H. (1995). "Eugene Barnum Power (4 June 1905-6 December 1993)". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 139 (3): 301–304. JSTOR 987197.
- ^ Burdette, Dwight (13 September 2010). "English: Eugene Barnum Power grave, Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Power was the founder of University Microfilms and a regent of the University of Michigan". Retrieved 12 April 2018 – via Wikimedia Commons.
External links[]
Categories:
- Cemeteries in Michigan
- Protected areas of Washtenaw County, Michigan
- Tourist attractions in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- 1857 establishments in Michigan