Notable People at the Rosehill Cemetery

George Buchanan Armstrong – Founder of the U.S. Railway Mail Service

Frances E. Willard – Founder of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Volunteer Firefighters’ Monument – Designed by Leonard Volk.

Augustus Garrett – Mayor of Chicago 1843-44 and 1845- 46. Founder of Northwestern’s Garrett Biblical Institute.

George S. Bangs – Designer of first railway mail car. Monument is replica of railway mail car resting at base of tree, with ivy leaves curling around trunk, all hewn from limestone.

George Bell Swift – Interim mayor for Carter Harrison, 1893. Mayor 1895-87.

“Long” John Wentworth – Mayor 1857-58 and 1860-61. Monument is tallest obelisk in Chicago, rising 72 feet.

Albert W. Dick – Inventor of the duplicating machine.

Roswell B. Mason – Mayor from 1869-71. During his term the Great Fire ravaged the city.

Rock of Chicamauga – A boulder from the Georgia Civil War Battlefield bearing the nickname of General George Henry Thomas, who held the field during the entire second day of the battle.

Isaac Lawrence Milliken – Mayor 1854-55.

Dewitt Clinton Cregier — Mayor from 1889-91.

Byron L. Smith – Founder of the Northern Trust Company.

Charles G. Dawes – Vice President to 30th President, Calvin Coolidga, 1925-29. Co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. Ambassador to Great Britain 1929-32.

Norman W. Harris – Banker. Mausoleum is a replica of the Pantheon.

Henry Windsor – Magazine publisher, Popular Mechanics.

P.A. Starck – Piano manufacturer.

Horatio N. May Chapel – Commissioned by his widow in memory of the coffee and tea merchant,

Robert S. Scott – Merchant (Carson, Pirie, Scott).

Avery Brundage – Industrialist/sportsman. President of the U.S. Olympic Association and International Olympic Committee.

John Charles Haines – Mayor from 1858-60.

Morris B. Sachs – Merchant.

Rosehill Mausoleum – Dedicated in 1914. Dasigned by architect Sidney Lovell, it is the largest mausoleum in Chicago. The two level interior is constructed almost entirely of marble.

Nelson Morris – Meat packer

Ignaz Schwinn – Bicycle manufacturer.

John B. Kirk – Soap manufacturer (American Family Flakes and Kirk’s Castile).

Julius Rosenwald – Merchant/philanthropist. Founded the Museum of Science And industry.

Levi Day Boone – Mayor 1835-36. Grand-nephew of Daniel Boone.

Leonard V. Volk — Sculptor, best known for his bust of Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol Building in Springfield. Also designed the Douglas tomb.

John A. Roche – Mayor from 1887-89.

John Blake Rise – Mayor in 1865. An actor who built Chicago’s first theatre.

Buckner Stith Morris – Mayor 1838-39. Chicago’s second Mayor.

Harvey Doolittle Colvin – Mayor from 1873- 75.

Veterans’ Memorial Rose Garden

J.C. Vaughn – Horticulturist/seed store founder.

Civil War Memorial Area – Soldiers from Camp Douglas (Union).

Civil War Monument “Our Heroes” – designed by Leonard Volk (island).

General Thomas C.G. Ransom – Commander of the 11th Illinois Infantry.