RIVER VIEW CEMETERY (PORTLAND, OREGON)

'River View Cemetery' in the southwest section of Portland, Oregon, United States, is a non-profit cemetery founded in 1882. It is the final resting place of many prominent and notable citizens of Oregon, including many governors and United States Senators.Politcal Graveyard: River View Cemetery Other notable burials include the Weinhard family, football player Lyle Alzado, and Carl Mays the baseball player who killed an opposing player with a pitch in a Major League game.James, Peet. NECROPOLITAN: Portland's most interesting residents don't walk the streets. At least you'd better hope they don't. Willamette WeekFind A Grave: River View Cemetery

Contents

History

Facilities

Notable burials

References

External links

History

River View Cemetery was founded as a non-profit cemetery by William L. Ladd, James Terwilliger, Henry Failing, Henry Corbett, Henry Pittock, Simon Benson, and others in 1882.River View Cemetery: History All those who joined co-owned the cemetery. In 1902 a Roll Call statue was added to honor the 165 Oregonians that died in the Spanish-American War. The first adult burial was Dr. William Henry Watkins.^[1] In the 1940s a 135 person chapel was added, designed by Pietro Belluschi.River View Cemetery

Facilities

Overlooking the Willamette River, the cemetery has a variety of mausoleums including the Hilltop Garden Mausoleum and Main Mausoleum. There are also private mausoleums and crypts. River View is an endowment care cemetery as defined by the state of Oregon.^[2]

Notable burials

Henry W. Corbett

Abigail Scott Duniway

Grave of Henry W. Scott

Grave of Henry Weinhard

★ George Abernethy, (1807-1877) Governor of the Provisional Government of Oregon

★ George Forrest Alexander, (1882-1948) federal judge

★ Lyle Alzado, (1949-1992) professional football player

★ George H. Atkinson, (1819-1889) missionary and "Father of Oregon Schools"

★ Lola Baldwin, (1860-1957)^[3] first female police officer in the United States

★ Robert S. Bean, (1854-1931) federal judge, Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice

★ Simon Benson, (1852-1942) Portland businessman and philanthropist

★ Donald Cook, (1901-1961) movie and stage actor

★ Henry Winslow Corbett, (1827-1903) United States Senator

★ Maurice E. Crumpacker, (1886-1927) United States Congressman

★ Joseph N. Dolph, (1835-1897) United States Senator

★ Abigail Scott Duniway, (1834-1915) women’s rights pioneer

★ Virgil Earp, (1843-1905) lawman and brother of Wyatt Earp

★ Henry Failing, (1834-1898) mayor of Portland

★ Robert S. Farrell, Jr., (c.1906-1947) Oregon Secretary of State

★ A. C. Gibbs, (1825-1886) Oregon Governor

★ Alan Punch Green, Jr., (1925-2001) United States Ambassador to Romania

★ La Fayette Grover, (1823-1911) Oregon Governor

★ John Hicklin Hall, (1854-1937) United States Attorney, Oregon legislator

★ Rufus C. Holman, (1877-1959) United States Senator

★ Nan Wood Honeyman, (1881-1970) United States Congresswoman

★ James Jackson, (1833-1916) Congressional Medal of Honor recipient

★ Albertina Kerr, orphanage founder

★ William L. Ladd, (1826-1893) mayor of Portland

★ Charles Henry Martin, (1863-1946) Oregon Governor

★ Wallace McCamant, (1867-1944) United States Court of Appeals judge

★ Dorothy McCullough Lee, (1902-1908)^[4] first female mayor of Portland

★ John H. Mitchell, (1835-1905) United States Senator

★ Frederick W. Mulkey, (1874-1924) United States Senator

★ Paul L. Patterson, (1900-1956) Oregon Governor

★ Sylvester Pennoyer, (1831-1902) Oregon Governor

★ James Tilton Pickett, (1857-1889) newspaper writer, son of George Pickett

★ Henry Pittock, (1836-1919) publisher The Oregonian newspaper

★ Harvey W. Scott, (1838-1910) editor of The Oregonian newspaper

★ Joseph Showalter Smith, (1824-1884) United States Congressman

★ Lansing Stout, (1828-1871) United States Congressman

★ Owen Summers, (1850-1911) soldier, Oregon legislator

★ James Terwilliger, (d. 1892) Portland pioneer, street namesake

★ Frances Fuller Victor, (1826-1902) writer and historian

★ Henry Weinhard, (1830-1904)^[5] brewer and Portland businessman

★ George Henry Williams, (1823-1910) United States Attorney General

★ Richard Williams, (1836-1914) United States Congressman

★ George L. Woods, (1832-1890) Oregon Governor

References

Burial marker at the cemetery.

1. The Doctor in Oregon
2. Oregon DFCS: List of Endowment Care Cemeteries
3. Policewomen
4. Portland Online: Dorothy McCullough Lee
5. OHS: Henry Weinhard

External links

★ Portland Mercury: Buried in claims

★ 1932 picture inside River View

★ Picture of cemetery