CEMETERY

Official Website:
http://www.gracelandcemetery.org/

Location:
Chicago, IL

Founding Date:
1860

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Peter Altgeld	Politician	30-Dec-1847	12-Mar-1902	Governor of Illinois, 1893-97
Philip Danforth Armour	Business	16-May-1832	6-Jan-1901	Founder of Armour & Co.
Daniel H. Burnham	Architect	4-Sep-1846	1-Jun-1912	Built skyscrapers and planned cities
Marshall Field	Business	18-Aug-1834	16-Jan-1906	Founder of Marshall Field's
Melville W. Fuller	Judge	11-Feb-1833	4-Jul-1910	US Chief Justice, 1888-1910
Jack Johnson	Boxing	31-Mar-1878	10-Jun-1946	First black heavyweight champion
Frank O. Lowden	Politician	26-Jan-1861	20-Mar-1943	Governor of Illinois, 1917-21
Franklin MacVeagh	Government	22-Nov-1837	6-Jul-1934	US Treasury Secretary, 1909-13
Cyrus McCormick	Inventor	15-Feb-1809	13-May-1884	Invented grain harvester
László Moholy-Nagy	Painter	20-Jul-1895	24-Nov-1946	Bauhaus professor
Cissy Patterson	Business	7-Nov-1881	24-Jul-1948	First female newspaper publisher
Allan Pinkerton	Business	25-Aug-1819	1-Jul-1884	Pinkerton National Detective Agency
George Pullman	Business	3-Mar-1831	19-Oct-1897	Inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	Architect	27-Mar-1886	17-Aug-1969	The Glass Skyscraper
Louis Sullivan	Architect	3-Sep-1856	14-Apr-1924	Early skyscraper architect

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