Author : Oak Woods Cemetery Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391618197
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (181 download)
Book Synopsis Chicago, as We Remember Her (Classic Reprint) by : Oak Woods Cemetery Association
Download or read book Chicago, as We Remember Her (Classic Reprint) written by Oak Woods Cemetery Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago, as We Remember Her Evious to the time of the incorporation of Oak Woods Cemetery, most burial places were church yards or small plots adjacent to cities or towns. But the nine men who organized Oak Woods secured the services of Adolph Strauch, foremost landscape architect and designer, and the foundation was laid for the conception of a cemetery capable of development into a beautiful park with wide lawns and winding roads, tastefully planted with trees and shrubbery. Chicago is indeed grateful to such early leaders Chicago as Joseph B. Wells, William B. Herrick, John Evins, Norman B. Judd, William B. Egan. Ebenezer Peck, J. Young Scammon, R. K. Swift and Charles N. Mckubbin, the original nine incorporators of Oak Woods Cemetery. These men bought a tract of land seven miles south from what is now Randolph Street. They commissioned Edmond Bixby to survey and plot the 183 acres. Then four man-made lakes were added and the grounds beautifully landscaped. At the same time the first officers were duly elected. They included J. Young Scammon, President; Elliott Anthony, Vice President. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.