Here are three more burial sites from Chicago’s historic Graceland Cemetery.
Tomb of William W. Kimball
Architect: McKim, Mead & White [1905]
William W. Kimball [1828-1904] Traveling salesman Kimball arrived in 1857 and started a piano and organ business. A firm that helped with the 1893 Columbian Exposition designed his monument.
Tomb of Henry H. Honore and family.
Henry Hamilton Honoré (1823-1916) came to Chicago from Kentucky in 1855 and made his fortune in real estate. Honoré’s daughter, Bertha, married Potter Palmer in 1871, shortly before the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the Honoré Building at Adams and Dearborn. The Honoré tomb is in the French Gothic style, and was designed by McKim, Mead and White in 1906.
William H. Mitchell Tomb
A Chicago banker he and his wife were killed in some kind of road rage incident. “Near Chicago last week death came to banker John J. Mitchell, and to Mrs. Mitchell. They were driving in an open motor car from their country home at Lake Geneva, Ill., to Chicago for the funeral of their elder daughter’s father-in-law, when their machine met a roadside brawl. Two motor cars, going in opposite directions had tried to pass a hay wagon at the same time. Both cars went into a ditch; the drivers jumped clear and fell to words and fisticuffs. The haywagon stopped as did several machines. Their drivers wanted to see…'” I woulld have had to subscribe to Time to get the whole story.
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