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Thomas Hart Benton

1782–1858 (age 76)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Prominent U.S. Senator who championed western expansion and the Homestead Act.

Mary Odilia Berger

1823–1880 (age 57)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Founder of the Sisters of St. Mary in 1872 in St. Louis, which established hospitals throughout the Midwestern United St...

Thekla M. Bernays

1856–1931 (age 75)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Women's suffrage activist, author and lecturer.

Daniel Bissell

1768–1833 (age 65)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

U.S. Army officer in War of 1812 and on the American Frontier.

Horace Bixby

1826–1912 (age 86)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Steamboat pilot and captain whose cub pilot was Mark Twain.

Francis Preston Blair Jr.

1821–1875 (age 54)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Union Army general in the Civil War and politician.

Susan Blow

1843–1916 (age 73)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Educator known as the Mother of Kindergarten.

Benjamin Bonneville

1796–1876 (age 80)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West.

James B. Bowlin

1804–1874 (age 70)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

U.S. Representative of Missouri.

Henry Clay Brockmeyer

1826–1906 (age 80)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Poet, politician, and philosopher.

Robert S. Brookings

1850–1932 (age 82)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Brookings Institution and donor to Washington University in St. Louis.

Don Carlos Buell

1818–1898 (age 80)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

U.S. Army general who led Union armies in the battles of Shiloh and Perryville.

William Seward Burroughs

1857–1898 (age 41)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Inventor of the mechanical calculator and founder of Burroughs Corporation.

William S. Burroughs

1914–1997 (age 83)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Author of the novel Naked Lunch and icon of the Beat Generation.

Adolphus Busch

1838–1913 (age 75)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Founder of the Anheuser Busch Company.

Lilly Eberhard Anheuser

d. 1928

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Wife of Adolphus Busch.

Isidor Bush

1822–1898 (age 76)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Intellectual, publisher, and viticulturalist.

James Gay Butler

1840–1916 (age 76)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Tobacco manufacturer and major supporter of Lindenwood University.

Given Campbell

1835–1906 (age 71)

Bellefontaine Cemetery

Confederate officer.

James A. Garfield

1831–1881 (age 50)

Lake View Cemetery

Assassinated 20th President of the United States whose memorial was erected at Lake View Cemetery in 1890.

Jeptha Wade

1811–1890 (age 79)

Lake View Cemetery

Co-founder of Lake View Cemetery and Western Union Telegraph Company, honored by Wade Memorial Chapel completed in 1901.

Russell A. Alger

1836–1907 (age 71)

Elmwood Cemetery

Governor of Michigan and U.S. Secretary of War who served as a U.S. Senator.

William Edmond Armitage

1830–1873 (age 43)

Elmwood Cemetery

Second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wisconsin from 1870 to 1873.

John Biddle

1792–1859 (age 67)

Elmwood Cemetery

Delegate to U.S. Congress from Michigan Territory and Mayor of Detroit.

Henry Billings Brown

1836–1913 (age 77)

Elmwood Cemetery

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1890 to 1906.

Lewis Cass

1782–1866 (age 84)

Elmwood Cemetery

Michigan Territorial Governor and Democratic presidential nominee in 1848 who served as U.S. Secretary of War and State.

Zachariah Chandler

1813–1879 (age 66)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Senator from Michigan and Secretary of the Interior who served as Mayor of Detroit.

Philip St. George Cooke

1809–1895 (age 86)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Civil War General.

Donald M. Dickinson

1846–1917 (age 71)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Postmaster General from 1888 to 1889.

J. P. C. Emmons

1818–1877 (age 59)

Elmwood Cemetery

Michigan State Representative and Florida Attorney General.

Elon Farnsworth

1799–1847 (age 48)

Elmwood Cemetery

Attorney General and Chancellor of Michigan from 1843 to 1845.

William Webb Ferguson

1857–1910 (age 53)

Elmwood Cemetery

First African-American man elected to the Michigan House of Representatives.

Harry P. Guy

1870–1950 (age 80)

Elmwood Cemetery

Ragtime composer.

Douglass Houghton

1809–1845 (age 36)

Elmwood Cemetery

Geologist and Mayor of Detroit in 1842.

Jacob M. Howard

1805–1871 (age 66)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Senator from Michigan who helped draft the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Bela Hubbard

1814–1896 (age 82)

Elmwood Cemetery

Geologist and surveyor.

Jonathan Kearsley

1786–1859 (age 73)

Elmwood Cemetery

Two-time Mayor of Detroit and War of 1812 veteran.

Charles Larned

1787–1834 (age 47)

Elmwood Cemetery

Attorney General of Michigan Territory and War of 1812 veteran.

Lucius Lyon

1800–1851 (age 51)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Senator and first congressman from Michigan's second district who helped found Grand Rapids.

Margaret Mather

1859–1898 (age 39)

Elmwood Cemetery

Victorian actress.

Nathaniel Mayer

1944–2008 (age 64)

Elmwood Cemetery

Rhythm and blues singer.

James McMillan

1838–1902 (age 64)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Senator from 1889 to 1902.

Robert McClelland

1807–1880 (age 73)

Elmwood Cemetery

4th United States Secretary of the Interior.

Charles Merrill

1792–1872 (age 80)

Elmwood Cemetery

American entrepreneur and lumber tycoon.

Truman H. Newberry

1864–1945 (age 81)

Elmwood Cemetery

Businessman and U.S. Senator from Michigan who served as Secretary of the Navy.

John Norvell

1789–1850 (age 61)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Senator and War of 1812 veteran who worked as a newspaper editor.

Thomas W. Palmer

1830–1913 (age 83)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Senator from 1883 to 1889.

Zina Pitcher

1797–1872 (age 75)

Elmwood Cemetery

Physician and two-time Mayor of Detroit.

Andrew Porter

1820–1872 (age 52)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Army general in the Civil War.

Jerome H. Remick

1867–1931 (age 64)

Elmwood Cemetery

Music publisher.