As the English poet John Keats (1795-1821) lay dying and destitute, his brother George Keats (1797-1841) had his funds tied up in Louisville investments.  He made a fortune in lumber, shipping, flour, and real estate only to lose it, too.  His Greek Revival house on Walnut Street, later used by Hampton College and the Elks’ Club, now is the site of Hilliard Lyons’ headquarters. Reinterred 1879, Section O, Lot 73.

Keat’s widow married Jon Jeffery (1817-1881) who designed the monument.  He had replaced Gideon Shryock as city architect and built Gas Works in Louisville, Cincinnati, Havana and elsewhere.

 Matthew Harris Jouett (1788-1827) was Kentucky’s favored student of Gilbert Stuart, he prodigiously recorded the likenesses of people of means and political persuasion, including George Rogers Clark, Leslie Combs, Gilbert deLafayette, Isaac Shelby, John and Samuel Brown, and Henry Clay.  Reinterred 1893, Section C, Lot 30.

 When Louisville was upgraded from town to city status in 1828, John C. Bucklin (1773-1844) became the first major (1828-1833) to uphold and defend the new charter.  A bronze plaque and new marker were put up in 1961.  Reinterred 1856, Section M, Lot 346.

 In 1804, Mammoth Cave’s environment failed as a treatment for Tuberculosis, so proprietor Dr. John C. Croghan (1790-1849) began promoting it as a tourist attraction soon to be known worldwide.  The son of Major William Croghan, a surveyor and early civic leader, was also the nephew of George Rogers Clark.  The remains of the Croghan family were reinterred from the Locust Grove graveyard in Section I, Lot 146 in 1916.

 Dr. William Craig Galt (1777-1853) was Louisville's most prominent physician.  He came from Williamsburg,Virginia, in 1802 when Louisville “was a miserable mud village, and he lived to see it one of the stately cities of the great west.”  Dr. Galt was also respected as a horticulturist.  His beautiful grounds on the northeast corner of Second and Main streets became the site of the first hotel so named in his honor.  Section I, Lot 136.

The best known and most easily recognized character in Louisville history is the Kentucky Giant, Jim Porter (1810-1859).  Charles Dickens said “he was a lighthouse among lamp posts.”  Nevertheless, he drove an omnibus and ran the Big Gun Tavern in nearby shippingport.  He was buried in the old Harrington vault in Section F, Lot 439.  Many dilapidated hillside vaults in this section were torn down before 1900.  Jim Porter’s marker simply states he was 7 foot, 8 inches tall-an inch shorter than he claimed.

Fortunatus Cosby, Jr. (1801-1871), writer, teacher, critic, and poet, conducted a female academy and later was superintendent of the Louisville public school system and consul to Geneva.  His ode prepared for the occasion was sung at the dedication of Cave Hill Cemetery.  Section M, Lot 232.

 Horatio Dalton Newcomb (1809-1874) was considered the wealthiest man in Louisville when he died.  He made his fortune in the commission business handling liquor flour and then sugars, molasses, and coffee.  He later converted grocery business into one of the largest distilleries and wholesale liquor houses in the country.  In between, he invested in cotton mills and coal mines at Cannelton, Indiana.  He was instrumental in rebuilding the Galt House, which burned in 1865.  He became president of the L & N Railroad when James Guthrie died in 1869, and he pledged his assets to keep it from bankruptcy.  Section P. Lot F.

 John Bull (ca. 1812-1875) was known worldwide for his patent medicine.  As a prescription clerk, he made a sarsaparilla remedy of such popularity that his income after the Civil War was greatest by far in Louisville.  When his medicine failed him, Dr. Bull gave up smoking and immediately died.  Section F, Lot 93.

 Thomas Elliott Bramlette (1817-1875), Lawyer, Commonwealth’s Attorney, circuit judge, soldier, and U.S. District Attorney for Kentucky, was governor of Kentucky from 1863-1867.  Section P, Lot 244.

 Ben Casseday (ca. 1824-1878), journalist and newspaper editor, was author of The history of Louisville, 1852.  Section B, Lot 75

 Zachariah Madison Sherley (1811-1879) operated mail packets and ferry lines, was a founder of Citizens’ National Bank and was active in the Kentucky Institute for the Blind, the medical school of the University of Louisville, and the Cave Hill Cemetery Company.  Section D, Lot 75.

 Bland Ballard (1819-1879), Lawyer, judge of U.S. District Court and at the same time president of Kentucky National Bank and Cave Hill Cemetery Company, had been active in the Institution for the Blind, the waterworks, Louisville School Board, the street railway, and city council.  Section G, Lot 22.

 William Kendrick (1810-1880) Learned the trade of jeweler and watchmaker growing up in the home of E. C. Beard, whom he left to join James J. Lemon.  They failed in 1837 panic, but Kendrick paid his debts and prospered.  Section F, Lot 10

 Gideon Shryock (1802-1880) designed the State Capital in 1829-the first Greek Revival building in Kentucky, as well as Morrison Hall at Transylvania University, the Franklin County Courthouse, the Orlando Brown House in Frankfort, the Arkansas State Capital, and the Louisville City Hall/Courthouse (Jefferson County Courthouse). Section H, Lot 44.

 Henry Pirtle (1798-1880), lawyer, editor, historian, and once a partner of Bland Ballard, also served as a circuit judge, chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court, and professor in the Law Department of the University of Louisville.  Section O, Lot 205.

 James C. Ford (1798-1881), successful dry-goods merchant turned Mississippi cotton grower, resided in Louisville in a Whitestone-designed home at Second and Broadway.  He tried raising, milling, and spinning cotton in Indiana.  Section A, Lot 192.

 Stuart Robinson (1814-1881) emigrated from Ireland and was educated at Amherst, Union Theological Seminary, and Princeton before teaching and preaching at Kanawha Country, West Virginia.  In 1858, Dr. Robinson became minister of the Second Presbyterian Church.  We was author and editor of church newspapers with strong Southern views, and a lecturer. Section A, Lot 147.

James Craik (1806-1882), son of George Washington’s secretary and grandson of the Washington Family physician, entertained medicine, but became a lawyer.  He came to Louisville from Kanawha where he studied for the ministry.  Dr. Craik was a writer, editor, and rector of Christ Church from 1844-1882.   Section P, Lot N.

 Benjamin F. Avery (1801-1885), schooled in law in New York State, started a small foundry specializing in plows and came to Louisville to help his nephew get started.  He remained and patiently built sturdy plows and a good reputation.  Section O, Lot 189.

James Speed (1812-1887), born at Farmington, lawyer, State legislator, professor in the Law Department of the University of Louisville, was a friend of President Lincoln and served as his attorney general.  Section P, Lot 681

Elisha D. Standiford (1831-1887), graduate of the Kentucky School of Medicine was physician to the Jefferson County Jail; a noted agriculturist; president of the Grand River Ironworks, Louisville Car-Wheel Company, Farmers’ and Drovers’ Bank, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and the Louisville Bridge Company; a member of the Louisville Board of Education, State senator, U.S. congressman, and a candidate for U.S. senate when he died.  Part of his homestead and farm holdings became Standiford Field.  Section P, Lot 210.

William Burke Belknap (1811-1889) successfully initiated transporting shelled corn down the Ohio, then headed to Louisville in 1840 to handle iron and nails for a Pittsburgh manufacturer and soon to import heavy hardware.  He helped launch the Louisville Rolling Mill, had coal mine interests, actively supported educational institutions, and was president of Citizens’ National Bank.  He was secretary of the committee of six which established Cave Hill Cemetery.  Section N, Lot 209.

George Washington Norton (1815-1889) established the Sourthern Bank in his native Russellville then moved to Louisville in 1866, starting the banking house that bore his name and investing in western land.  He supported the Baptist church and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and was considered the richest man in Kentucky when he died.   Section P, Lots 188-9.

John F. Morton (1807-1889) clerked in the Louisville bookstore established by Lexington publisher W. W. Worsley.  The operation began publishing books and the newspaper Focus, which merged with the Journal and eventually the Courier.  The book printing concern became one of the largest in the West.  Morton was Episcopalian and founded the Morton Church Home.  Section N, Lot 205.

Joseph Peterson (1824-1889), a successful tobacco merchant, developed the Main Street property of Fort Nelson Block and the present home of Louisville Science Center.  He built a summer home in Crescent Hill in 1869.  Section B, Lot 69.

Norvin Green (1818-1893) was graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Louisville and State Legislator.  While in charge of the Federal Building’s (1853) construction, Dr. Green got involved with the United Morse and People’s telegraph line between Louisville and New Orleans.  He became president of Western Union Telegraph Company but for several years headed the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway Company.   Section B, Lot 77.

Henry Whitestone (1819-1893), Dublin born and trained architect, came to Louisville in 1853 and gained a national reputation in the use of the Italian Renaissance style with the Louisville Hotel, Second Galt House, and the Ford, Newcomb, Miller, and Buchanan residences. Section C, Lot 39

Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs (1827-1896), The daughter of the exceedingly wealthy Robert J. Ward, was a celebrated belle, traveler, and patron, whose brother, Matthew Flournoy Ward, killed schoolmaster William Butler for reprimanding their younger brother William Ward.  The trial in 1854 brought together the best legal minds and character witnesses ever assembled and produced an unpopular, not guilty verdict.  Sallie married T. Bigelow Lawrence of Boston, but “never learned the secret of obedience” and freely used “paints and other cosmetics.”    She subsequently married Dr. Robert Hunt of Lexington, Venerando Politza Armstrong, a port packer, and Major George F. Downs.  Section D, Lot 52.

 Albert Fink (1821-1897), engineer, designer of the Fink Bridge Truss, and architect of the rotunda and other improvements to the Jefferson County Courthouse in 1858-1860, became vice president of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.  Section P, Lot 328.

 Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. (1846-1899), whose father was named for his father’s partner in the most famous of all American odysseys.  His father had married Abigail Prather Churchill, so it was natural when Col. Clark established the Louisville Jockey Club and Driving Park Association and old Churchill Land, that the grounds would be call Churchill Downs.  He created the Kentucky Derby in 1875.  Section A, Lot 699.

John James Byron Hilliard (1831-1901), a North Carolina native schooled in law at Harvard and a Civil War veteran, was a partner in the Louisville banking firm A. D. Hunt & Co.  Its successor, which bore his name, specialized in investment securities.

Major Hilliard was a founder of the Fidelity Trust Company and vice president of the Falls City Jeans Company.  He married the widow Maria Henning Hobbs, the daughter of J. W. Henning.  The Hilliard home at Cherokee Road and Grinstead Drive helped open the Highlands.  Section N, Lot 59.

Walter Newman Halderman (1821-1902) clerked in grocery and for Prentice’s Lousiville Daily Journal before establishing a circulating library and then acquiring The Daily Dime.  He changed its name to The Louisville Daily Courier.  He engineered the merger with the Journal in 1868 and created The Louisville Times in 1884.  His son, Bruce, became president of the newspaper company, while son William edited the Times.  Section O, Lot 234.

Theodore Ahrens, Sr. (1825-1903), a German native trained as a machinist in Norway and Sweden, settled in Louisville in 1858.  With Henry Ott, he created the largest manufactory of plumbing, brass, iron, and enameled goods in the South.  He was president of the Louisville Turngemeinde.  Section 4, Lot 60.

Louis Rogers “Pete”  Browning (1861-1905) was a professional baseball player in Louisville from 1882-1894.  “The Gladiator” was one of the best right-handed hitters and fighters ever.  The slugger also broke bats, and the one replaced by John F. Hillerich, who was fashioning beer keg faucets in 1884, would eventually put the Louisville name and the label of Hillerich & Bradsby on every playground in the country.   Section A, Lot 549.

John Thompson Street Brown (1829-1905) married Emily Graham, the daughter of an eminently successful tobacco dealer, but he became a prominent distiller and wholesale whiskey merchant like his brother George Garvin Brown.  Section 1, Lots 83-86.

John Callahan (1823-1907) apprentices in the old Tarascon mill near Shippingport and for Thomas Anderson before opening his own milling operation for trade in feed and grain.  He championed smoke eliminators for factories and a canal for drainage and power that would encircle Louisville.  Section P, Lot 298.

William Shakespeare Hays (1837-1907) claimed he wrote the words to “Dixie,” but no one denies the River Columnist for The Courier-Journal composed the almost as popular “Mollie Darling,” which sold one million copies when published in 1871.   Mary Ormsby “Mollie” Gray Nalle (Section 1, Lot 138) had been his inspiration.  Section 5, Lot 254.

John Watson Barr (1826-1908), lawyer, judge of the U.S. District Court for Kentucky, was a close friend of the Jurist and Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, who would become President.  Section D, Lot 53.

Charles Hermany (1830-1908), chief engineer and superintendent of the Louisville Water Company, who had served under R. R. Scowden in erecting the classical-style complex on River Road, built the Crescent Hill Reservoir and designed systems for Bowling Green and Frankfort.  His map of a park system for the Salmagundi Club was the genesis for Olmstead’s work.   Section 2, Lot 44.

Emmet Field (1841-1909), lawyer, and judge of the Jefferson Circuit Court for 23 years, was special judge in the famous Goebel-Taylor election case.   He was succeeded on the bench by his son, William H. Field (1870-1959), who served for 36 years and was a playwright, law professor, and president of the Board of Managers of Cave Hill Cemetery Co.  Section 14, Lot 196.

James Breckinridge Speed (1844-1912), capitalist, philanthropist, Union veteran, and president of the Louisville Cement Company, Louisville Street Railway Company, and the Ohio Valley Telephone Company, presented the Lincoln statue in the State Capital, contributed to mountain education as well as to the establishment of Louisville departmental schools.  His widow, Hattie Bishop Speed (1858-1942), and family would continue to generously support education (the University of Louisville) and the cultural arts (The Speed Art Museum).  Section 1, Lot 203.

Reuben Thomas Durrett (1824-1913), newspaper editor, lawyer, collector of historical materials, and author, was a founder and first president of the Louisville Free Public Library and the Filson Club.  Section P, Lot 256.

Josiah Stoddard Johnston (1833-1913), farmer, Confederate soldier, lawyer, secretary of state and adjutant general of Kentucky, and editorial writer for The Courier-Journal, is best remembered for his two-volume Memorial History of Louisville (1896).  Section G, Lot 21.

Thomas Brennan (1839-1914), Irish emigrant, manufacturer and foundry-man, merged Brennan & Company with the Southwestern Agricultural Co.   His home on Fifth Street is now an historic museum.  Section 15, Lot 93.

Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914), a prolific and published poet of worldwide reputation whose poems depict the beauty and nature of Kentucky, was Louisville’s most distinguished man of letters.  Section 3. Lot 41.

John T. Mcauley (1846-1915), Union veteran, took over an ailing Walnut Street theater built in 1873 by his brother and with innovative booking of traveling companies and headliners made it successful and an important part of Louisville’s cultural life until it closed in 1925.  Section 14, Lot 274.

John Colgan (1840-1916), druggist at Tenth and Walnut Streets, was the first to manufacture chewing gum by adding chicle, a new chewing substance, to the extract of balsam tolu, which he used in making cough syrup.  With his son, William, marketing Colgan’s Taffy Tolu, the Cogan Chewing Gum Company prospered and sold out in 1911.  Section 12, Lot 125.

George Garvin Brown (1846-1917) clerked for a wholesale druggist and was a Main Street tobacco merchant before becoming a whiskey broker, distiller, and president of the Brown-Forman Company.  He was the first to realize the merit in bottling whiskey, was the fist president of the National Liquor Dealer’s Association, and wrote strongly and frequently against Prohibition.  Section A, Lot 398.

Nicola Marchall (1829-1917), a Prussian emigrant, designed the flag and uniform for the Confederate army and was a draftsman for its engineers.   He moved to Louisville and continued painting portraits.  Section 5, Lot 231.

John Breckinridge Castleman (1841-1918), a Conferderate veteran, led the Louisville Legion in the Spanish-American War and took charge of the State militia when governor Goebel was assassinated.  General Castleman also handled fire insurance, fostered the American Saddle Horse Breeders’ Association, and was instrumental in the development of the Louisville park system.  Section O, Lot 95.

Andrew Cowan (1841-1919) formed the wholesale hardware, leather, and mill supply firm that bore his name.  A Union Veteran, Colonel Cowan was active in military organizations, agencies to help the blind, and clubs including the Salmagunti Club through which he fostered the concept of the Louisville park system.  Section 1, Lot 205.

Sebastian Zorn (1853-1919) was a leader in the grain business and as president of the Louisville Water Company was greatly responsible for its modern filtration system and the mammoth old Crescent Hill swimming pool.  Section 1, Lot 78.

Milton Hannibal Smith (1836-1921), farmer, telegraph operator, and the self effacing head of the L & N Railroad from 1882 until his death, opened the Eastern Kentucky coal fields and built the railroad into predominance in the South.   Section 1, Lot 200.

James Fauntleroy Grinstead (1845-1921), a wholesale grocer in Louisville after 1866, was elected mayor in the special election mandated by the Court of Appeals in 1907.  “Honest Jim” was elected commissioner on the revised Jefferson Fiscal Court in 1917 and again in 1919.  Section A, Lot 473.

Henry Watterson (1840-1921), journalist, writer, lecturer, and Confederate veteran, followed George Prentice as editor of the Journal which soon merged with Haldeman’s Courier.  He was one of the last of the editors whose personal fame and recognition surpassed their newspapers.   Marse Henry was fond of music, art, drama, cards, conversation, and German beer, although his best remembered utterance “To hell with the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs” was the First World War battle cry.  Section P, Lot 579.

Biderman du Pont (1837-1923) was born near Wilmington, Delaware, of the powder manufacturing family, but cam to Louisville at the start of the Civil War and with his brother, A. V. du Pont, formed the Louisville Paper Mill.  Biderman was president of the Central Passenger Railway Company, the Central Iron & Coal Company, the 1883 Southern Exposition, and principal owner of The Commercial, which became The Herald.  A. V. du Pont gave the school bearing his name to the city.   Section A, Lot 217.

Louis Seelbach (1852-1925), a native of Germany, started as a bellboy in the old Galt House, then developed a hotel at Sixth and Main before he and his brother Otto (1864-1933) built the Preston (1903-1905) soon called the Seelbach at Fourth and Walnut that shifted the center of downtown.  He was also on the Board of Park Commisioners.  Section 13, Lot 54.

Jennie C. Benedict (1860-1928), confectioner and caterer, was an institution on Fourth Street from 1900 until she retired in 1924.  Benedictine sandwiches continue to spread her name.  She was also a leader in public health nursing services.   Section G, Lots 52-3.

Alexander Galt Barret (1870-1931) went off to Harvard at fourteen and returned to practice law with John W. Barr, Jr.  An active civic leader and member of the Board of Education, judge Barret was respected as a chancellor of the Jefferson Circuit Court from 1926 until his death.  Section 1, Lot 201.

Augustus Everett Willson (1846-1931) was brought up in his brother’s Cambridge home which frequently entertained the likes of Holmes, Lowell, Longfellow, and Emerson.  Trained at Harvard, in whose affairs he would remain active, he returned to his native state to practice law in Louisville.  He was governor of Kentucky from 1907-1911.  National Cemetery Section B, Lot Gr. 5104-1.

John McDougal Atherton (1841-1932) sold his vast distillery interests to focus on developing downtown real estate.  A former State legislator, and president of the old Lincoln Bank, he was active in Louisville’s business, civic, and educational affairs.  Section 13, Lot 110.

Enid Yandell (1870-1934), daughter of Dr. Lunsford Pitts Yandell and a pupil of Rodin, was a sculptor of international reputation.  Her principle works in Louisville include Hogan Fountain (1905) and the Daniel Boone monument (1906). Section O, Lot 396.

Henry Vogt (1856-1936) was a machinist’s apprentice before opening his own shop.  The elevator manufacturing component was old off to concentrate on refrigeration machinery for oil refineries and valves and fittings for high temperature and pressure industrial operations.   Section 15, Lots 88-89.

Robert Worth Bingham (1871-1937) came to Louisville from North Carolina to study law and remained to become a vital citizen.  He was appointed interim mayor and later judge of the Jefferson Circuit Court Chancery Division and in 1918 purchased The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times, ending Henry Watterson’s involvement.  He was ambassador to Great Britain from 1933 until he died.  He was succeeded by Joseph P. Kennedy.  Section 13, Lot 100.

Thomas Pickett Taylor (1858-1938), pharmacist, began a chain of drug stores in Portland and expanded into Louisville.  His real estate and stock holdings were considerable.  Section 13, Lot 100.

William Heyburn (1861-1939) cam to Louisville in 1886 and worked his way up to lead Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company into a jobbing house giant.  He also built the Heyburn Building and was president of the Board of Trade, the YMCA, and the Board of Aldermen, and he also served as a Jefferson Country Commissioner.  Section 1, Lot 201.

 James Buckner Brown (1872-1940), a self-made, shrewd genius for merger with strange work habits, was the City’s tax receiver, a bank president and head of Banco Kentucky.  He led that holding company into receivership taking many prominent people down with him and pitting a conservative edge on Louisville banking that would last for three decades.  His consolidation of The Herald-Post for political expression also failed.  Section 17, Lot 16.

Frederic Moseley Sackett (1868-1941), lawyer, utility, coal, and cement executive, and president of the Board of Trade, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1924, and was appointed ambassador to Germany in 1929, returning when Hitler cam to power in 1933.  He married Olive Speed, daughter of J. B. Speed.  Section 1, Lot 203.

Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942), prolific novelist and short-story writer, grew up on Fourth Street, but became internationally known for Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, published in 1901 and later made into a popular movie.  She married the poet and scholar, Cale Young Rice, in 1902.  Section Q, Lot 107.

Patty Smith Hill (1868-1946) directed the Free Kindergarten Association’s 10 kindergartens into national attention before moving to New York to teach at Columbia.  In 1893, she and her sister Mildred J. Hill, published Song Stories for the Sunday School which contained the tune for one of three most frequently sung songs of all time: “Happy Birthday.”  The words were added later and the copyright still holds.  Section G, Lot 96.

William Shallcross Speed (1873-1955) succeeded his father as head of the Louisville Cement Company and in 1925 endowed the Speed Scientific School in his memory.  He continued to serve and contribute to the University of Louisville and he and his wife founded and supported the Louisville Collegiate School.  Section 26, Lots 26-29.

 James Graham Brown (1881-1969), a Madison, Indiana, native, parlayed his father’s mill and timber interest in Eastern Kentucky into a fortune by which he supported a myriad of philanthropic and educational causes through the James Graham Brown Foundation created in 1953.  He developed downtown real estate, owned and operated hotels and theaters and was a millionaire perhaps a hundred times over.  He had an interest in horses and was the largest stockholder in Churchill Downs.  Section 26, Lots 71-4.

 Archibald Prentice Cochran (1898-1970), aluminum foil manufacturer, civic leader, and expediter, guided the riverfront development and the admission of the University of Louisville into the State higher education system, while raising money for numerous projects, and planting trees.  Section 13, Lot 109.

 Thurston Ballard Morton (1907-1982) worked for the old Ballard & Ballard Mills before he entered politics.  He served three terms in the U.S. Congress, two in the U.S. Senate, was assistant secretary of state and chairman of the Republican National Committee.  After retirement from the senate, he served as vice chairman of Liberty National Bank and chairman of Churchill Downs.  Section 11, Lot 207.

Mary Jo Lazarus Gheens Hill (1892-1982) was vice president of her husband’s candy company and when widowed, she married lawyer and former circuit court judge Richard Harrison ?Hill, who was director of the Filson Club.  She was interested in gardening, cultural, and civic matters, and actively supported The Filson Club, Historic Homes Foundation, and the Baptist church.  Section 33, Lot 16

Harland Sanders (1890-1980) was perhaps the most recognized personage in the world.  At an age when others contemplate retirement, he set out to franchise his pressure-cooked fried chicken.   When the Colonel (by governor’s commission) sold Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1964, the company continued to market his image on every corner of the world.  Section 33

George Barry Bingham, Sr. (1906-1988) assumed full control of the family newspaper, radio, and printing enterprises at this father’s death in 1937.  The Courier Journal became one of the nation’s most respected newspapers, WHAS radio and television assumed dominance, and Standard Gravure was made profitable.  He championed civil rights, the performing arts, education, historic preservation, and conservation.  Section 13, Lots 101-102.

Jane Lewis Morton Norton (1908-1988), artist, author, civic leader, businesswoman, and philanthropist, headed the WAVE radio and television stations after the deaths of her husband and her son.  George Norton III and IV, in 1964.  She served on many boards and was a benefactor of numerous arts and educational institutions, including Centre College , whose center for the arts bears her name.  Section P, Lots 188-189.

Clarence R. “Skip” Graham (1907-1989) was director of the Louisville Free Public Library for 35 years before retiring in 1977.  During his tenure, the library system grew dramatically and gained national recognition for innovations that included collections of phonograph records, motion pictures, tape recordings, and framed works of art, as well as the first library-operated RD radio station.  Section P, Lots 188-189.

Charles Rowland Peaslee Farnsley (1907-1990), former state and U.S. congressman, was Louisville’s colorful and imaginative Mayor from 1948-1953.  He brought national recognition to the city through his innovative improvements and promotion.  He enjoyed philosophy and history, and vigorously encouraged the arts and the Louisville Free Public Library.  He later established the Lost Cause Press, which through microfsche dispensed Americana to libraries internationally. Section F, Lots 192-193.

John Edward Tarrant (1998-1990), prominent Republican attorney, came to Louisville upon graduating from the Harvard Law School to join William Marshall Bullitt’s law firm.  Eventually, Bullitt, Dawson & Tarrant was formed, and finally Wyatt, Terrant & Combs, the states largest law firm.  Tarrant helped formulate numerous large acquisitions, and was general counsel of the Louisville Transit Company.  He served on the board of Churchill Downs, and was instrumental in turning back a hostile takeover attempt.   Section D, Lots 96-97.

Henry Rueter Heyburn (1920-1991), former state representative and Republican Party activist, joined his father’s law firm, Peter, Heyburn & Marshall, after graduating from Harvard Law School.  He co-founded Brown, Todd and Heyburn in 1972.  He was a director of various companies, and on the board of many charitable and civic groups.  He had an abiding interest in history and published local historic maps.  Section Q, Lot 54.

Carl Theodore Fischer, Sr. (1899-1992) took over his father’s Butchertown meat-packing concern in 1942.  Adding innovative machinery and modern packaging equipment, he built the Fischer Packing Company into a respected regional supplier, known by its slogan “the Bacon Makin’ People.”  Fisher never attended college, but became an overseer of Transylvania University and a director of Stock Yards Bank.  Section 31, Lots 82-83.

Paul Fancois Semonin, Jr. (1907-1993) guided the real estate firm that bears his father’s name to prominence and preeminence in Kentucky.  He took over the 27-year-old Paul Semonin Realtors in 1941 when his father died.  He was active in the City and County’s first merger proposal in 1956.  Section 17, Lot 150.

Henry Charles Grawemeyer (1912-1993), industrialist and philanthropist, endowed substantial monetary awards in music, education, and religion and world order administered by the University of Louisville and the latter jointly by the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.  He grew up in Crescent Hill, the son of Parents who spoke German before WWI.  He rose from laboratory chemist to head Reliance Universal Inc., before starting his own company.  Section 26, Lot 147.

 Warner La Valle Jones, Jr. (1916-1994) served as a director of Churchill Downs for more than fifty years, and during his tenure as chairman he set in motion the track’s revival to prominence.  His Hermitage Farm in Goshen produced many fine Thoroughbreds including the 1953 Kentucky Derby winner, Dark Star.  Section 5, Lot 1.

Frank Ella Haddad, Jr. (1928-1995) grew up in Louisville’s Haymarket and became the state’s most prominent and respected criminal-defense attorney.  Considered the dean of the bar, he served as president of the Kentucky and Louisville Bar associations, and garnered a national reputation.  His friendliness and sense of humor were universally experienced.  Section 31, Lot 102.

Mary Clifford Caperton Bingham (1904-1995), patron of the arts, civic leader, and philanthropist, was an outspoken advocate for liberal causes, who relished books, developed Kentucky’s bookmobile program, supported libraries, and was book editor of The Courier-Journal from 1942-1968.  The wife of Barry Bingham, Sr., and matriarch of the family played a crucial role in the rise of the family newspapers and media company to excellence and national respect.  After the empire was sold, the Binghams gave their portion of the proceeds away.  Section 13, Lots 101-102.

Wilson Watkins Wyatt, Sr. (1905-1996), former mayor of Louisville and Lieutenant governor of Kentucky, was a respected liberal Democratic activist on the national scene.  He participated in various civic capacities and received every award the community can bestow.  After serving as Truman’s housing administrator following WWII, he resumed his law practice, and was a senior partner in Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, the state’s largest law firm.  Section 33, Lot 13.

Jeptha Barnard “Barney” Bright IV (1927-1997), a Shelby County native, is Louisville’s best-known sculptor.  His whimsical clock was the centerpiece of the old Fourth Street mall, his “River Horse” marks the Romano Mazzoli Federal Building’s entrance, and “The Search” graces the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library.  His commissions included statues and busts of the famous, imaginary figures, and nudes.  Several prominent examples of his work can be seen in the cemetery, including his own monument.  Section 29, reserve.

John Watson Barr III (1921-1999), banker and civic leader, joined First National Bank in 1946.  He was chairman of First Kentucky National Corp. from 1973-1986, and served on numerous institutional boards including the Bellewood Children’s Home, the American Printing house for the Blind, and the Speed Art Museum.  He was board member of both the Cave Hill Cemetery Company the Cave Hill Cemetery Investment Company from 1974 until his death.  Section D, Lot 53.

Wayne Edward Oates (1917-1999), who had found education his deliverance from the South Carolina textile mills of his youth, taught at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for 45 years and was a prolific writer.  The term “workaholic” first appeared in one of his articles.  He began the pastoral care program at the old Kentucky Baptist Hospital, and became recognized national for his study of the psychology of religion.  Section 38, Lot 429.

Henry Vogt Heuser, Sr. (1914-1999) was the third generation of his family to head the Henry Vogt Machine Company.  He was a philanthropist and civic activist who led by example.  Providing funding for a computerized engineering design center at the Speed Scientific School and renovation of the Louisville Deaf Oral School, among other worthy projects.  Section 31, Lot 16.

Hugh Smith Haynie, Sr. (1927-1999), editorial cartoonist for The Courier-Journal from 1958 until he retired in 1995, was considered among the nation’s best satirists.  His cartoons began to appear while a student at William and Mary College, and after he married Lois Cooper they would deftly include her name.  He perfected his own distinctive style and technique, and his original cartoons are highly valued.   His “Christmas shopper” that first ran on December 24, 1961 has become a perennial.  Section 36, Lot 263.