Forest Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery entrance
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Details
Established1857; 167 years ago (1857)
Location
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Size65 acres (26 ha)
Websiteforesthillcemeteryaa.org
Find a GraveForest Hill Cemetery

Forest Hill Cemetery is a 65-acre (260,000 m2) cemetery at 415 Observatory Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was designed by James Lewis Glenn and opened in 1857.[1]

History

Prior to its use a cemetery, the site was the location of the nation's first fraternity building, a hunting lodge, built by the Chi Psi fraternity in 1849.[2]

Civil engineer James Lewis Glenn 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.[3][4][2]

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.[3][4]

Grave of Elisha Walker Rumsey, co-founder of Ann Arbor
Grave of Elisha Walker Rumsey, co-founder of Ann Arbor

Notable persons interred at Forest Hill

Grave of Bo Schembechler
Soldiers and Sailors memorial, 1914
Grave of James Burrill Angell
Grave of James Burrill Angell

42°16′39.9″N 83°43′49.8″W / 42.277750°N 83.730500°W / 42.277750; -83.730500

References

  1. ^ a b Avellan, Jorge (June 19, 2018). "History Can Be Discovered In Cemeteries In Washtenaw County". www.wemu.org. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Ann Arbor - LocalWiki". arborwiki.org. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "History". foresthillcemeteryaa.org. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  4. ^ a b "The End of an Era: Ann Arbor historian's popular cemetery tours come to a close this fall". Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Andrews, Clarence A. (1992). Michigan in Literature. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2368-7.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Meader, George". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  9. ^ a b Vukelich, Liz (November 27, 2013). "'We know how it's been since the man left us': The graveyard walk to honor Michigan football history". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  10. ^ Burdette, Dwight (September 10, 2010). "English: Ted Heusel grave, Ann Arbor radio personality and Board of Education president, Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor Michigan". Retrieved April 12, 2018 – via Wikimedia Commons.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Burdette, Dwight (September 13, 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 April 12, 2018 – via Wikimedia Commons.

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