Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio

Notable Interments

• Newton D. Baker (1871–1937), Mayor of Cleveland and U.S. Secretary of War during World War I
• Ernest Ball (1878–1927), composer of the music for the song "When Irish Eyes are Smiling"
• Frances Payne Bolton (1885–1977), United States House of Representatives
• Charles Francis Brush (1849–1929), inventor and businessman
• William B. Castle (1814–1872), last Mayor of Ohio City, Mayor of Cleveland
• Ray Chapman (1891–1920), baseball player for the Cleveland Indians
• Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), African-American attorney and author
• Henry Chisholm (1822-1891), father of the Cleveland steel industry
• Henry D. Coffinberry (1841–1912), industrialist, founder of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company, builder of the Onoko: the first iron-hulled laker
• Collinwood school (Lake View School) fire victims of 1908
• Alfred Cahen (1880-1963)^[1] Founder of the World Publishing Company
• George Washington Crile (1864–1943), co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic and the first surgeon to successfully perform a direct blood transfusion
• Harvey Cushing (1869–1939), pioneer brain surgeon
• John A. Ellsler (1821–1903), actor and theatre manager
• Alan Freed (1921–1965), radio disc jockey who popularized the term "rock and roll" (previously interred at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
• James A. Garfield (1831–1881), 20th President of the United States
• Lucretia Garfield (1832–1918), former First Lady of the United States
• Marcus A. Hanna (1837–1904), U.S. Senator and Republican Party boss
• Gertrude Harrison (1871–1938), golf professional ^[2]
• Stephen V. Harkness (1818–1888), investor and founding partner of Standard Oil along with John D. Rockefeller
• John Hay (1838–1905), former United States Secretary of State and aide to President Abraham Lincoln (Hay's monument was created by sculptor James Earle Fraser.)
• Myron Herrick (1854–1929), former Governor of Ohio, US ambassador to France
• Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869–1950), founder of the Cleveland Orchestra
• Dick Latessa (1929–2016), actor
• Mortimer Dormer Leggett (1821–1896), lawyer, educator, Union Army Major General, Commissioner of Patents
• Al Lerner (1933–2002), former owner of the Cleveland Browns
• Garrett Morgan (1877–1963), inventor of the gas mask and the three-colored traffic light
• Eliot Ness (1903–1957), detective, investigator and Cleveland safety director best known member of The Untouchables (Ness's ashes and those of his wife Elizabeth and son Robert were scattered over a pond in the cemetery. A memorial marker stands nearby.)
• Charles A. Otis, Sr. (1827 - 1905) was a businessman and mayor of Cleveland from 1873 until 1874.
• Arthur L. Parker (1885–1945), founder of Parker Hannifin Corporation
• George W. "Peggy" Parratt (1883–1959), professional football player who threw the first legal forward pass in a professional game
• Harvey Pekar (1939–2010), comic book writer, known for his groundbreaking series American Splendor. Ashes scattered here.
• Georgia T. Robertson (1852-1916), educator and author.
• John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, notable philanthropist, and richest person in modern history
• James Salisbury (1823–1905), inventor of the Salisbury steak
• Viktor Schreckengost (1906–2008), noted American industrial designer and teacher, sculptor, and artist who taught industrial design at the Cleveland Institute of Art for more than 50 years and was a professor emeritus until his death.
• Henry Alden Sherwin (1842–1916), one of the two founders of the Sherwin-Williams Company in 1866
• Rufus P. Spalding (1798–1886), abolitionist, judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Anthony J. Stastny (1885–1923), composer, founder and president of Tin Pan Alley music publisher, A. J. Stasny Music Co.
• Louis Stokes (1925–2015), United States Congressman Cleveland, Ohio, first African American elected to US Congress from Ohio. Stokes argued Terry v Ohio Stop and Frisk
• Carl B. Stokes (1927–1996), Mayor of Cleveland, United States ambassador, first African American elected mayor of a major American city
• Amasa Stone (1818–1883), industrialist and philanthropist
• Worthy S. Streator (1816–1902), physician, railroad baron, founder of Streator, Illinois, Ohio State Senator, first mayor of East Cleveland, Ohio
• William R. Van Aken (1912–1993), Ohio State Representative
• Mantis James Van Sweringen (1881–1935), railroad baron, financier and co-founder of Shaker Heights, Ohio
• Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (1879–1936), railroad baron, financier and co-founder of Shaker Heights, Ohio
• Jeptha Homer Wade (1811–1890), founder of Western Union Telegraph company
• Edward Porter Williams (1843–1903), co-founder of Sherwin-Williams

Sources

1. ↑ Alfred I Cahen on Find A Grave: Memorial #73574491
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #22564

See also:

• Lake View National Cemetery on Wikipedia
• Lake View National Cemetery on Find A Grave
• Category:Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio