BURIED AT LAKE VIEW CEMETERY
Pathfinder for Mr. Wood
Horace Mann Middle School
Eighth Grade
"Famous Clevelanders buried at Lake View Cemetery"
Your assignment is to use the resources of the Lakewood Public Library to research your prominent person. This pathfinder page will direct you to helpful web sites, reference databases and books dealing with your subject. Remember, if you have trouble finding anything in the Library, don't hesitate to ask for help! Need help getting started? Check out our Student Guides Page for how-to's from the Library staff for school assignments.
WEB PAGES
The following will help you locate additional information about your subject:
Politicians buried in Lake View Cemetery - if your prominent person was a politician, you'll find out about them here
The Sculpture Centers' Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory has descriptions of many of the monuments in Lake View Cemetery, including most of the names on your list. Go here for that extra detail!
Biographies of many of your subjects can be found in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History's online version. If there is no link for your subject on the list below be sure to look here.
REFERENCE DATABASES
To search for more information use the Lakewood Public Library launch site for links to additional electronic databases.
BOOKS
You can search the Libraries' online catalog for books about your prominent person
The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography [REF 920.077132 Dictionary] and the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History [REF 977.132 Encyclopedia] are also available in the Reference Departments of the Main and Branch Libraries.
SUBJECT LIST
There are some good web pages on the world wide web dealing with many of the prominent persons on your list and they are given below. If you don't see a link for your subject, search the web again - it changes every day and there may be a great new link for your topic! Also remember to search in the resources listed above.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt and his writings
Collinwood School Fire Memorial: information about the sculpture
Dr. George Washington Crile, Sr.
James Abram Garfield - the Presidents of the United States [POTUS] site includes Garfield's Presidential Election Results, Cabinet Members, Notable Events, Internet Biographies, Historical Documents, Other Internet Resources, and, Points of Interest
Frederick Harris Goff and more....
Jared Potter Kirtland and more.....
Samuel Livingston Mather and portrait
John David Rockefeller and portrait
Orris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen
