Uploads from swanksalot, tagged cemetery, with geodata

Keirnan - Calvary

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:18:33 -0800

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Not sure who this is, other than there seems to be a Edward F Keirnan in the 1940 Census…

Warning Parents

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:50:42 -0700

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Wonder if the fine has gone up any since 1969?

Conrad Sulzer - Lakeview

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:57:29 -0700

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Another early settler in Chicago.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_View,_Chicago

McClurg and Moe

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:00:05 -0700

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Graceland Cemetery.

The photo Moe took is here:

www.flickr.com/photos/sfmoe/7391439784/

Apparently Alexander McClurg was a general, and a publisher of such books as the Tarzan novels.

A.C. McClurg & Co. traces its origins to Chicago’s oldest book and stationery store which was founded in 1844. The young Alexander C. McClurg went to work for the company, then known as S. C. Griggs, in 1859. McClurg resumed working for Griggs after returning from the Civil War with the rank of general. S.C. Griggs lost all its contents in a fire in 1868. But when the store was completely destroyed by the great Chicago Fire of 1871, Griggs decided to sell his share of the company to E. L. Jansen, A. C. McClurg and F. B. Smith. Jansen, McClurg & Co. was established in 1872. The business flourished and in 1873 published its first title, Landscape Architecture by H. W. S. Cleveland. By 1880 McClurg’s ranked as one of the country’s largest book distributors. In addition to its wholesale book business, McClurg supplied to small-town retailers throughout the West and Midwest a variety of merchandise, including “blank books and tablets, stationery, typewriter paper and supplies, hair and tooth brushes, druggists’ sundries, pocketbooks, pipes, pocket cutlery, etc.”

Although the book distribution component of the company was more successful than its publishing side, General McClurg felt secure enough to start publishing the monthly literary magazine the Dial in 1880 and continued to do so until 1892. It was during this period that George Millard created the rare book section that became known as the “Saints and Sinners Corner.” In 1886 the company changed its name to A.C. McClurg & Co.

When the firm’s premises were destroyed by fire in 1899, General McClurg decided to reorganize as a corporation with shares sold to employees. He died soon thereafter in 1901. Little publishing took place until 1914 when the firm negotiated what turned out to be its most profitable publication, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. McClurg & Co. went on to publish 10 more Tarzan titles. Eventually Burroughs set up his own company to deal with all iterations of his famous character.

Most authors who published with McClurg are fairly unknown, but some of the better-known authors include Felix Borowski (Standard Concert Guide/Standard Opera Guide), Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, W. E. B. Du Bois, Byron A. Dunn, Oscar J. Friend, Zane Grey, Edith Ogden Harrison, Margaret Hill McCarter, and Clarence E. Mulford, author of the Hopalong Cassidy books.
mms.newberry.org/html/McClurg.html

Seth Taylor - Graceland Cemetery

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:29:10 -0700

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Maybe a Woodmen?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodmen_of_the_World

Girl In A Box

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:40:33 -0700

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There's obviously a story here. When did the Clarke family add the glass box?

Graceland Cemetery, Chicago

In Honor of Service In the War of 1812

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:17:45 -0700

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Graceland Cemetery Chicago.

One of the first settlers in Chicago, per his Wikipedia page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kinzie

Somebody Morgan - Calvary

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:34:33 -0800

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name obscured by snow. Can you read it?

Zahed - Jacobson-Clark

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:31:30 -0800

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Calvary Cemetery Evanston/Chicago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahed

Kelly Dwyer Requiescat in pace

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:23:00 -0800

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Calvary Cemetery Evanston/Chicago

John Carroll

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:48:49 -0700

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Died 1907.

Calvary Cemetery.

Per
www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html
the dollar bill looking thing is a styled version of IHS
”in hoc sign”, Latin for “by this sign we conquer”, referring to the cross.

and is used by several fraternal organizations:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_hoc_signo_vinces

Whitney - Graceland

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:53:09 -0700

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Not sure who this is, or why there are three स्वस्तिक
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

John Kinzie - Died 1828

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:58:17 -0700

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A very early resident of Chicago - the city was officially founded in 1833

T Drummond - Discarded

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:16:25 -0700

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I hope this tombstone was put in the Graceland Cemetery pond for a reason, and not because of any other reason (vampires, vandalism, neglect, etc.)

I Will Ransom Them From The Power of the Grave

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:19:13 -0700

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"I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. "

skepticsannotatedbible.com/hos/13.html

Graceland Cemetery, Chicago

Ebert

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:18:22 -0700

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Graceland Cemetery Chicago

Zimmerman

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:38:55 -0700

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Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Watts
Film: BlacKeys SuperGrain
Flash: Off

Iota Eta Sigma

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:50:39 -0700

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Calvary Cemetery, Rogers Park/Evanston

Long Silent Road Ahead - Agfa Scala

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:12:31 -0700

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Calvary Cemetery, Chicago

Better:
b12partners.net/photo/long-silent-road-ahead-agfa-scala/

Visiting Hours

nobody@flickr.com (swanksalot) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:12:34 -0700

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Calvary Cemetery, Chicago