Toledo's Woodlawn Cemetery
By: Rebecca Deck Visser and Renee Ciminillo Jayne
Contributors: Jayne, Renee Ciminillo, author
Series: Images of America; Images of America
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charleston, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781467112956
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Cemeteries; Biography; Genealogy; Woodlawn Cemetery (Toledo, Ohio); Sepulchral monuments; Pictorial works; History
Description: "Historic Woodlawn Cemetery and Arboretum, founded in 1876, has provided a final resting place for thousands of individuals. The story of the cemetery and arboretum provides an in-depth look at Toledo as it developed from a small port on the Great Lakes to a major manufacturing center during the first 50 years of the cemetery's existence. Images of America: Toledo's Woodlawn Cemetery presents the heavy hitters whose success in life allowed them to construct the most elaborate mausoleums and monuments reflecting turn-of-the-century interest in Egyptian art and Greek architecture. Others resting at the cemetery stumbled upon fame, including the humble railroad ticket agent who was honored in death with a colossal 30-foot pyramid, perhaps the most celebrated of all the monuments in the cemetery. Placed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, historic Woodlawn Cemetery traces the storied past of Toledo"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Woodlawn's beginnings; title: The businessmen; title: The soldiers; title: The industrialists; title: Lawyers, politicians, and social advocates; title: Educators and other interesting Toledoans; title: The Lloyd brothers.