Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)

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Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, is one of Michigan's most important historic cemeteries.

Conceived in 1846 as a rural cemetery and incorporated in 1849, Elmwood was Detroit's elite burial ground for almost a century.

The cemetery, located at 1200 Elmwood Street on Detroit's east side, consists of about 86 acres of landscaped grounds, redesigned in 1890 by Frederick Law Olmsted.

[edit] Some prominent burials

Russell A. Alger, Michigan governor, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of War
John Biddle, delegate to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory
Henry Billings Brown, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Lewis Cass, Michigan territorial governor
Zachariah Chandler, U.S. Senator from Michigan
Donald M. Dickinson, U.S. Postmaster General
Elon Farnsworth, Attorney General and Chancellor of Michigan
Philip St. George Cooke, U.S. Civil War general
Douglass Houghton, geologist and mayor of Detroit
Jonathan Kearsley, two-time mayor of Detroit and veteran of the War of 1812
Charles Larned, attorney general of Michigan Territory and veteran of the War of 1812
Margaret Mather, Victorian actress
Truman H. Newberry, businessman and U.S. Senator from Michigan
Zina Pitcher, physician and two-time mayor of Detroit
Solomon Sibley, delegate to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory, Territorial Supreme Court justice, and first mayor of Detroit under the first charter
John R. Williams, first mayor of Detroit under the second charter
Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit
Junius LaVance Broxton