3-071-115 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio: view from the burial-place of the late President Garfield, 1881. 'In accordance with the desire he had expressed during his life, the interment of the late esteemed and lamented President took place in the Lake View Cemetery...The situation of this ground, like other parts of the environs of Cleveland, which are beautifully wooded and present commanding elevations, is remarkably fine...The precise spot chosen for [the] grave, to be marked hereafter by the erection of a grand monumental structure, is one that overlooks a wide extent of Lake Erie and its shores on the Ohio side, and that will be conspicuous far off to voyagers on the lake. Our Illustration shows the view that is seen from this spot looking towards Lake Erie, as it will be long beheld after visiting the tomb of President Garfield, by multitudes of American, British, and foreign travellers, who may be expected to come to a place hallowed by the remembrance of his noble career and its pathetic termination. The monument to be erected in commemoration of the virtues and wisdom of the almost idolised son of Ohio will therefore be visible from nearly every part of the neighbourhood in which he was born'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.