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Collins Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged birthplace, dayton, grave art, locomotive, occupation, ohio, place of death, railroad, sculpture, tombstone tales, woodland cemetery, wordless wednesday on August 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »
A Grave Concern: Keller Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, conductor, grave art, harrisburg, harrisburg cemetery, occupation, pennsylvania, railroad, sculpture, sheriff, wordless wednesday on April 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Jeptha Homer Wade
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged angel, artist, cleveland, cleveland history, financier, history, jeptha wade, lake view cemetery association, lakeview cemetery, occupation, ohio, painter, philanthropist, railroad, sculpture, statues, tombstone tales, wade chapel, wade oval, wade park on December 6, 2010| 2 Comments »
Jeptha H. Wade is an important figure in not only Cleveland history, but cemetery history specifically. Wade helped to coordinate the creation of Lake View Cemetery and was the first president of the Lake View Cemetery Association, thus his huge monument at one of the highest points of the cemetery.
Nationally, Wade’s most significant contribution would have been in the construction of telegraph lines as one of the founders of Western Union. He was also a banker, railroad executive, painter, and philanthropist. His name lives on in Cleveland in the Wade Park (a park on land he donated) and the Jeptha Wade Chapel at Lake View Cemetery.