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For other uses, see Spring Grove Cemetery (disambiguation)
Spring Grove Cemetery (disambiguation)

Spring Grove Cemetery can refer to:...
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres) is a notable, nonprofit garden cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 and arboretum
Arboretum

An arboretum is a collection of trees. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study....
 located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
.

The cemetery dates from 1844, when members of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society formed a cemetery association. They took their inspiration from contemporary rural cemeteries such as Père Lachaise in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, and Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery

Founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery", or the first "rural cemetery", Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain....
 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
.






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For other uses, see Spring Grove Cemetery (disambiguation)
Spring Grove Cemetery (disambiguation)

Spring Grove Cemetery can refer to:...
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres) is a notable, nonprofit garden cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 and arboretum
Arboretum

An arboretum is a collection of trees. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study....
 located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
.

The cemetery dates from 1844, when members of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society formed a cemetery association. They took their inspiration from contemporary rural cemeteries such as Père Lachaise in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, and Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery

Founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery", or the first "rural cemetery", Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain....
 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
. On December 1, 1844 Salmon P. Chase
Salmon P. Chase

Salmon Portland Chase was an United States politician and jurist in the American Civil War era who served as United States Senator from Ohio and List of Governors of Ohio of Ohio; as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States....
 and others prepared the Articles of Incorporation. The cemetery was formally chartered on January 21, 1845, and the first burial took place on September 1, 1845. In 1855 Adolph Strauch
Adolph Strauch

Adolph Strauch was a renowned landscape architect born in Silesia, Prussia, known particularly for his layout designs of cemeteries like Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio and Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois....
, a renowned landscape architect
Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person involved in the planning, design and sometimes oversight of an exterior landscape or space. Their professional practice is known as landscape architecture....
, was hired to renovate the grounds. His sense and layout of the "garden cemetery", made of lakes, trees and shrubs, is what visitors today still see. In 1987, the association officially changed its name to "Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum" to better represent its remarkable collection of both native and exotic trees, as well as its State and National Champion Trees.

On March 29, 2007, the cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, :wiktionary:site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the Federal government of the United States for its historical significance....
 

Spring Grove encompasses of which are currently landscaped and maintained. Its grounds include 12 ponds, many fine tombstones and memorials, and various examples of Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an Architectural style which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive Middle Ages forms in contrast to the Neoclassical architecture styles which were then prevalent....
. As of 2005, its National Champion trees were Cladrastis
Cladrastis

Cladrastis kentukea is a species of Cladrastis native to the southeastern United States, with a restricted range from western North Carolina west to eastern Oklahoma, and from southern Missouri and Indiana south to central Alabama....
 kentukea and Halesia
Halesia

Halesia , also known as is a small genus of four or five species of deciduous large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, native to eastern Asia and eastern North America ....
 diptera; its State Champion trees included Abies cilicica, Abies koreana, Cedrus libani, Chionanthus
Chionanthus

Chionanthus is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae.The genus has a wide distribution primarily in the tropics and subtropics, but with two species extending north into temperate regions, one in eastern Asia and one in eastern North America....
 virginicus, Eucommia
Eucommia

Eucommia is a small tree Native plant to China. It is extinct in the wild, but is widely cultivated in China for its bark, highly valued in herbology such as Traditional Chinese medicine ....
 ulmoides, Halesia
Halesia

Halesia , also known as is a small genus of four or five species of deciduous large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, native to eastern Asia and eastern North America ....
 parvifolia, Metasequoia
Metasequoia

Metasequoia is a fast growing tree genus in the pinophyta family Cupressaceae of which Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China, is the only living species....
 glyptostroboides, Phellodendron
Phellodendron

Phellodendron or Cork-tree, is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Rutaceae, native to east and northeast Asia. It has leathery, pinnate leaf and yellow, clumped flowers....
 amurense, Picea orientalis, Picea polita, Pinus flexilis, Pinus griffithi, Pinus monticola, Quercus cerris, Quercus nigra, Taxodium
Taxodium

Taxodium is a genus of one to three species of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. Within the family, Taxodium is most closely related to Glyptostrobus and Cryptomeria ....
 distichum, Ulmus serotina, and Zelkova
Zelkova

Zelkova is a genus of six species of deciduous trees in the elm family Ulmaceae, native to southern Europe, and southwest and eastern Asia. They vary in size from shrubs to large trees up to 35 m tall ....
 serrata.

Notable burials


See also :Category:Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.

  • Salmon P. Chase
    Salmon P. Chase

    Salmon Portland Chase was an United States politician and jurist in the American Civil War era who served as United States Senator from Ohio and List of Governors of Ohio of Ohio; as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States....
    , Chief Justice of the United States
    Chief Justice of the United States

    The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal courts and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States....
  • Kate Chase
    Kate Chase

    Katherine Jane Chase , was the daughter of famous Ohio politician Salmon P. Chase, the Treasury Secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and later Chief Justice of the United States....
    , daughter of Salmon Chase and Washington, D.C. Civil War socialite
  • Henry Stanberry
    Henry Stanberry

    Henry Stanbery was an United States lawyer and United States Cabinet member.Born in New York, he moved to Ohio in 1814. He graduated from Washington College ...
    , Attorney General of the United States
  • Levi Coffin
    Levi Coffin

    Levi Coffin was an American Religious Society of Friends, educator, and Abolitionism.Levi Coffin was born in a factory near New Garden in Guilford County, North Carolina....
    , Quaker abolitionist
    Abolitionism

    File:BLAKE10.JPGAbolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups con...
  • Alphonso Taft
    Alphonso Taft

    Alphonso Taft was the United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of War under President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American Taft family....
    , politician
    Politician

    A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
    , father of William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the History of the United States Republican Party in the early 20th century, a pioneer in international arbitration and staunch advocate of world pe...
  • Louise Taft
    Louise Taft

    Louisa ?Louise? Maria Torrey was the second wife of Alphonso Taft, and the mother of U.S. President William Howard Taft....
    , second wife of Alphonso Taft
    Alphonso Taft

    Alphonso Taft was the United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of War under President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American Taft family....
    , and mother of President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
     William Howard Taft
    William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the History of the United States Republican Party in the early 20th century, a pioneer in international arbitration and staunch advocate of world pe...
  • John McLean
    John McLean

    John McLean was an United States jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court and U.S....
    , Associate Justice of the United States
    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

    Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States....
  • William Procter
    William Procter

    William Procter may refer to:*William Procter - co-founder of Procter & Gamble*William Cooper Procter - Grandson of William Procter, he headed Procter & Gamble from 1907 to 1930....
     and James Gamble
    James Gamble

    James Norris Gamble was a United States of America-based Ireland soapmaker and industrialist. He was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble in 1837, along with William Procter ....
    , founders of Procter and Gamble
  • Bernard Kroger, founder of Kroger
    Kroger

    File:KrogerGulfton1.JPGThe Kroger Co. is an United States Retailing supermarket chain and parent company, founded by Bernard Henry Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio....
     supermarkets
  • Charles L. Fleischmann
    Charles L. Fleischmann

    Charles Louis Fleischmann was an innovative manufacturer of yeast and other consumer food products during the 19th Century. In the late 1860s, he and his brother Maximilian created America?s first commercially produced yeast, which revolutionized baking in a way that made today?s mass production and consumption of bread possible....
    , yeast
    Yeast

    Yeasts are eukaryote microorganisms classified in the Kingdom fungus, with about 1,500 species currently described; they dominate fungal diversity in the oceans....
     manufacturer
  • John Morgan Walden
    John Morgan Walden

    John Morgan Walden was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He also gained notability as a newspaper editor and journalist, as a State Superintendent of Education in Kansas, as an officer in the Union Army, and as an Official in his Christian denomination....
    , Bishop
    Bishop

    A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
     of the Methodist Episcopal Church
    Methodist Episcopal Church

    The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States....
  • Theodore Sommers Henderson
    Theodore Sommers Henderson

    Theodore Sommers Henderson was an United States Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1912.Born in Millburn, New Jersey, he joined the New York East Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1893....
    , Bishop
    Bishop

    A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
     of the Methodist Episcopal Church
    Methodist Episcopal Church

    The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States....
  • Jacob Ammen
    Jacob Ammen

    Jacob Ammen was a college professor, civil engineer, and a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His younger brother, Daniel Ammen, was an admiral in the United States Navy....
    , Civil War
    American Civil War

    The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
     general
  • Kenner Garrard
    Kenner Garrard

    Kenner Garrard was a Brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. A member of one of Ohio's most prominent military families, he performed well at the Battle of Gettysburg, and then led a cavalry division in the army of Major general William T....
    , Civil War
    American Civil War

    The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
     general
  • Godfrey Weitzel
    Godfrey Weitzel

    Godfrey Weitzel was a Major general in the Union army during the American Civil War, as well as the acting Mayor of New Orleans during the Federal occupancy of the city....
    , Civil War
    American Civil War

    The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
     general
  • Joseph Hooker
    Joseph Hooker

    Joseph Hooker was a career United States Army officer, fought in the Mexican-American War, and was a Major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
    , Civil War
    American Civil War

    The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
     general and commander of the Army of the Potomac
    Army of the Potomac

    The Army of the Potomac was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War....
     at the Battle of Chancellorsville
    Battle of Chancellorsville

    The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, fought near the village of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, from April 30 to May 6, 1863....
  • Alexander Long
    Alexander Long

    Alexander Long was a Democratic United States Congressman who was born in Greenville, Pennsylvania on December 24, 1816. Before entering politics he studied and practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio....
    , congressman
  • Samuel Fenton Cary
    Samuel Fenton Cary

    Samuel Fenton Cary, Sr. was a congressman and significant temperance movement leader in the nineteenth century. Cary became well-known nationally as a prohibitionist author and lecturer....
    , congressman, prohibitionist
  • William Haines Lytle
    William Haines Lytle

    William Haines Lytle was a politician in Ohio, renowned poet, and military officer in the United States Army during both the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, where he was killed in action as a Brigadier general ....
    , 19th century Ohio, general, politician, poet
  • George Hunt Pendleton, Congressman
    United States Congress

    The United States Congress is the Bicameralism legislature of the Federal government of the United States of the United States of America, consisting of two houses, the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
     and a Senator
    United States Senate

    The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
     from Ohio
  • Skip Prosser
    Skip Prosser

    George Edward "Skip" Prosser was an United States college basketball coach who was head basketball coach at Wake Forest University at the time of his death....
    , Wake Forest University
    Wake Forest University

    Wake Forest University is a Private university, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, North Carolina, near the state capital Raleigh, North Carolina....
     men's basketball
    Basketball

    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
     head coach at the time of his death, former assistant and head men's basketball coach at Xavier University
    Xavier University (Cincinnati)

    Xavier University is a Private school, Jesuit, co-educational university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio. Today, Xavier University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities....
    .
  • Alexander McDowell McCook
    Alexander McDowell McCook

    Alexander McDowell McCook was a career United States Army officer and a Union army general in the American Civil War....
    , Union army
    Union Army

    The Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S....
     general
  • Miller Huggins
    Miller Huggins

    Miller James Huggins , nicknamed "Mighty Mite", was a baseball player and manager . He managed the powerhouse New York Yankees teams of the 1920s and won six American League pennants and three World Series championships....
    , Hall of Fame baseball manager of New York Yankees
    New York Yankees

    The New York Yankees are a professional baseball based in the Borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League....
     during Babe Ruth
    Babe Ruth

    George Herman Ruth, Jr. , also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an United States Major League Baseball baseball player from –....
     era
  • Elzie William Young, Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Churches Of The Apostolic Faith


See also

  • List of botanical gardens in the United States
    List of botanical gardens in the United States

    This list of botanical gardens in the United States is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States of America....


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