Woodlawn Cemetery (Toledo, Ohio)

Woodlawn Cemetery is a rural cemetery^[2] and arboretum located in Toledo, Ohio. It is one of several cemeteries in the United States to have that name, and one of a few to be on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3]

Woodlawn Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	1502 W. Central Ave., Toledo, Ohio
Coordinates	41°40′53″N 83°34′46″W
Built	1876
Architect	Eurich, Frank; et al.
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Late Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	98001396[1]
Added to NRHP	November 19, 1998

Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio, 1920

Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio, 1908

Established in 1876, it sits on 160 acres (0.65 km²) of land, 47 acres (190,000 m²) are undeveloped, and consists of 65,000 interments.^[4]

Notable interments

• Christian Albert (1842–1922), Medal of Honor recipient
• Horace Newton Allen^[5] (1858–1932), missionary, physician, and American ambassador to Korea
• James Mitchell Ashley (1824–1896), Member of the United States House of Representatives
• Lud Ashley^[6] (1923–2010), Member of the United States House of Representatives
• Walter Folger Brown^[7] (1869–1961) 49th Postmaster General
• Lave Cross (1866–1927), Baseball player
• Charles Doolittle (1832–1903), Civil War general
• John H. Doyle (1844–1919), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
• John W. Fuller (1827–1891), Civil War brevet major general
• Steve Gordon (1938–1982), screenwriter and film director
• William T. Jackson^[8] (1876–1933), mayor of Toledo from 1928 to 1931
• Samuel M. Jones (1846−1904), Progressive Era mayor of Toledo
• Addie Joss (1880–1911), Baseball Hall Of Fame pitcher
• David Ross Locke^[9] (1833–1888), Civil War journalist and commentator
• Frazier Reams (1897−1971), U.S. Representative
• Isaac R. Sherwood (1835–1925), Member of the United States House of Representatives
• James B. Steedman (1817–1883), Union Army Civil War General
• David L. Stine^[10] (1857–1941), architect
• Myles Thomas (1897–1963), MLB pitcher
• John Tiedtke (1907–2004), philanthropist, farmer, and scion of the founder of Tiedtke's
• Morrison Waite (1816–1888), 7th Chief Justice of the United States

See also

• List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States