Contains a historical sketch and a list of interments.

This book provides a detailed report on the operations and management of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the year 1857. Founded in 1844, Spring Grove is one of the largest and most beautiful cemeteries in the United States, with over 700 acres of landscaped grounds and historic monuments. The report contains information on the cemetery's finances, burials, landscaping, and other activities, as well as descriptions of notable individuals interred there. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from The Cincinnati Cemetery of Spring Grove: Report for 1857 Some of the members of the, Society being sagacious enough to perceive the dangers that threatened their original plan, determined to organize a new Association which should have but one object, viz: that of establishing and conducting a public, rural Cemetery, upon such principles and under such a system of management as would best accord with the feelings and wishes of the community. These had been excited by the examples of Mount Auburn, in Boston, of Greenwood, in New York, and of Laurel Hill, in Philadelphia, asthose had been by Perela Chaise, in Paris. The design of these rural Cemeteries was to remove from the last resting places of the friends loved and lost that gloom and dread with which a future state was regarded by the ancient Pagans - which made them look forward to the happiest state hereafter as one far inferior to the lowest condi[4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.