University Archives News
October 22, 2009
In Perpetual Care
Halloween is almost here…have you visited a graveyard lately? If not, why not try Rosehill Cemetery? It's just a few miles away, contains features such as abandoned staircases, and many notable characters in Chicago history are buried there--including Oscar Mayer, John G. Shedd, A. Montgomery Ward, and Richard Warren Sears. There are also a number of NU and Evanston founders and their affiliates buried at Rosehill—Frances Willard (social reformer and Dean of Women), Henry Noyes (former NU interim president), Henry Bannister, and Philo Judson, just to name a few (click on the names to see their monuments).
Also present here are Grant Goodrich and Orrington Lunt (two NU founders), as well as Nathan Davis, who together (among their various accomplishments) just happened to convene as the Board of Trustees' first Library Committee in 1856.
Charles Gates Dawes, Vice President of the U.S. under Calvin Coolidge, may not have been a founder of Evanston or NU, but he has contributed much to both, including his house. He also contributed his papers to the NU Library—they're in Special Collections.
And if you're interested in the Leopold and Loeb case, you might be surprised to know where Bobby Franks is buried. He's here, in his father's mausoleum.
Stop by the Archives on the first floor of Deering for a lesson on any of NU's founders and a map to find the location of their place of rest before heading out to meet them on your own. We hold and care for the papers of many of these local notables—in perpetuity.
