Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

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Phone +1 734-663-5018

Address 415 Observatory St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA Burials Fielding H. Yost, James Burrill Angell, Thomas M. Cooley Similar Highland Cemetery, Washten Memorial Park, Sunset Hills Cemetery, United Memorial Gardens, Knollwood Memorial Park

Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan is a 65-acre (260,000 m²) cemetery founded in 1857. A civil engineer named James L. 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.

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.

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.

Notable persons interred at Forest Hill

James Burrill Angell, longest-serving president of the University of Michigan

Samuel Willard Beakes, Mayor of Ann Arbor and U.S. Congressman

Dr. Alvan Wood Chase, author of a publishing sensation: Dr. Chase's Recipes, or Information for Everybody

Marion LeRoy Burton, president of the University of Michigan

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

Alpheus Felch, Michigan Governor and U.S. Senator

William Asa Fletcher, first chief justice of the state of Michigan

Henry Simmons Frieze, president of the University of Michigan

Bradley F. Granger, U.S. Congressman

Ted Heusel, Ann Arbor radio personality and Board of Education president.

Harry Burns Hutchins, president of the University of Michigan

Rensis Likert, American statistician

Rusty Magee, American composer and lyricist for theater, film, and television

William S. Maynard, Mayor of Ann Arbor

Eugene B. Power, founder of University Microfilms and regent of the University of Michigan.

Elisha Walker Rumsey, co-founder of Ann Arbor

Alexander Grant Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan

Bo Schembechler, head football coach and athletic director at the University of Michigan

Bob Ufer, University of Michigan track star, sports broadcaster

Leslie White, anthropologist

Fielding H. Yost, head football coach and athletic director at the University of Michigan

References

Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Wikipedia

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