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Following is a roster of some of the more notable people interred
at Maple Grove Cemetery: |
MILITARY
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Maj. Sam Jones, Spanish-American War
Warren Hill Norton, Civil War hero
Maj. Sam Bird, directed JFK's funeral
George Johnson, "Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
J.F. Ritcherdson, served under Gen. Sherman |
Capt. Jonathn C. Kirk, Civil War Medal of Honor
Corp. Samuel Wright, Civil War Medal of Honor
William P. Burgess, first Naval burial in Wichita
Col. Woodcock, formed Wichita Militia
Joseph Able, Artilleryman in Civil War, 103 years old |
MUSIC
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Jessie Clark, Wichita School Music Supt.
Thomas Shaw, known as the "Music Man"
Albert A. (Sulley) Sullivan, bandleader & entertainer
Gerald Charles Garrett, bass singer for The Platters |
Charles Dooling, jazz guitarist & teacher
James Streeter, sax player, appeared in film "Fisherman's
Wharf"
Robert J. Love, songwriter |
FIRE
CHIEFS
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C.W. Brown, served 1943-49
P.M. Wendel, served 1941-42 |
Ira Martindale, served 1942-43 |
POLICE
CHIEFS
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Charles E. Burrows, served 1890-93
Rufus Cone, served 1893-95
G.C. (Jack) Hay, served 1915-19 |
Frank Burt, served 1895-97, 1902-05, 1909-10
G.T. Cubbon, served 1899, 1900-22, 1905-07, 1911-13
Bedford Wood, served 1907-08 |
GOVERNMENT
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Henry Allen, US Senator 1929-30 & Governor
1919-23
W.J. Babb, Wichita Mayor 1913-14
Richard E. Bird, KS State Judge, U.S. Rep. 1920-22
"Tiger Bill" Campbell, Judge & Asst. Atty. Gen.
1872
Frank Coleman, Wichita Mayor 1941-42
Frank S. Barr, City Manager, Post Office Director
George E. Harris, Wichita Mayor 1875
A.E. Howse, Wichita Mayor 1956-57
Lorenzo Lewelling, Kansas Governor 1893-94
Walter Minnick, Wichita Mayor 1911-12
Bert Wells, Wichita Mayor 1927-39 |
Col. Sam Amidon, Attorney, Natl. Democratic Leader
E.T. Battin, Wichita Mayor 1917-19
Frank S. Boone, Deputy U.S. Marshall
George W. Clement, Wichita Mayor 1889-1890
A.J. Coombs, Wichita Mayor 1927-28
J.H. Graham, Wichita Mayor 1907-08, 1911
Herman Hill, Wichita Mayor 1930-31
Wallace C. Kemp, Wichita Mayor 1921-22
Ben F. McLean, Wichita Mayor 1911-12
John L. Powell, Wichita Mayor 1919-20
Jerry "Sockless Jerry" Simpson, Congressman |
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BUSINESS
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James Allison, Friends University
Herman Hoffman, built Hillcrest Building
Charles Lawrence, founded Lawrence Photo
Hiram W. Lewis, founded Farmers & Merchants Bank
L.S. Naftzger, Banker
W.C. Woodman, founded Ark Valley Bank
Walter Morris, Real Estate Developer
William Dye, "Chili King of the West"
Col. E.E. Bleckley, VP Fourth National Bank
William R. Snook, Mgr. of Travel Air Corp.
Robert E. Lawrence, Member of State Legislature
George Litzenberg, Journalist "Farmer Doolittle"
C.E. Potts, Pioneer Druggist
A.A. Hyde, Founder of Maple Grove Cemetery, philanthropist, invented
Mentholatum
Lucetta Fassett Carter, entrepreneur & philanthropist |
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MEDICAL
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Andrew Fabrique, founded St. Francis Hospital
Dr. Edward Tihen, prominent physician and historian |
Martin Dewey, father of modern
orthodontsia |
PIONEERS
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Nereus Baldwin, photographer
Rea Woodman, author & educator
Donald "Cannonball" Green, stagecoach operator
Bill Isley, author & historian
Hiram W. Kendle, undertaker
John McCormick, developed west side
J.R. Mead, founder of Wichita
J.H. Todd, early settler
Helena S. Mason, originated Pavilion
"Father" Silas Bliss, town character
Burton Harvey (BBQ) Campbell, built Campbell Castle
A.W. Harden, photographer
Maj. Sam Jones, first black man elected to office
William H. King, horse trainer
Joseph McCoy, founded cattle-rail trade in western states
Charles Payne, naturalist & animal collector
Hugh S. Hall, early settler |
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EDUCATION
& THE ARTS
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Nathan J. Morrison, 1st President of Fairmount
College (WSU)
Arthur J. Hoare, Dean of Fairmount College (WSU)
Paul Roulet, professor of French
H. Rea Woodman, early pioneer teacher
James Allison, Friends University
Ulysses Grant Charles, architect
Elbert Dumont, architect |
Wm. H. Isely, 1st Dean of Fairmount College (WSU)
Elizabeth Sprague, professor & founder of Art Dept (WSU)
Grace Wilkie, Dean of Women, Fairmount College (WSU)
Mary B. Dimond, author
Edmund L. Davison, influential painter & banker
Albert Ellis, landscape architect
Lorenz Schmidt, architect |
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