Forest Home Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

Forest Home Cemetery is home to 28 Milwaukee mayors, seven Wisconsin governors, noted industrialists and over 110,000 burials. The Newhall House Monument is a mass grave for 64 people of the Newhall House fire of 1883, in which 71 individuals (43 unidentified) died.

• Gerhard Bading, mayor and U.S. Minister to Ecuador
• Sherburn Becker, known as the "boy mayor" of Milwaukee
• Victor Berger, newspaper editor and founding member of the Socialist Party of America
• Jacob Best, founder of what became the Pabst Brewing Company
• Valentin Blatz, founder of the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company
• Sherman Booth, newspaper editor and abolitionist
• Lynde Bradley, co-founder of the Allen-Bradley corporation
• James Brown, politician and first attorney general of Wisconsin
• George Brumder, newspaper publisher (largest circulation of German language papers in the U.S.)
• Horace Chase, politician who served as mayor of Milwaukee
• Hans Crocker, editor of Milwaukee's first newspaper and politician
• Lysander Cutler, politician and Union Army general during the American Civil War
• Arthur Davidson, One of the four original founders of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company
• William Davidson, One of the four original founders of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company
• Walter Davidson, President and co-founder of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company
• Charles Hammersley, 1930 candidate for governor
• Harrison Carroll Hobart, Union Army general
• Byron Kilbourn, American surveyor, railroad executive and co-founder of the City of Milwaukee
• Charles King, U.S. General and distinguished writer
• Abner Kirby, businessman and mayor of Milwaukee
• August Krug, founder of what became the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company
• Increase A. Lapham, author, scientist, and early American naturalist
• William Lynde, lawyer and Wisconsin politician
• Harrison Ludington, Milwaukee mayor and governor of Wisconsin
• Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, famous award winning husband and wife Broadway acting team
• Francis McGovern, American politician and Wisconsin governor
• Andrew Miller, justice of the territorial Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Alexander Mitchell, wealthy banking magnate and Mitchell family patriarch
• Billy Mitchell, U.S. Army general regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force
• John Mitchell, Senator and father of General Billy Mitchell
• Frederick Pabst, brewing magnate of Pabst Brewing Company fame
• Henry Payne, U.S. Postmaster General
• Emanuel Philipp, governor of Wisconsin
• William Smith, politician and co-founder of Roundy's supermarket chain
• George Peck, newspaper publisher, mayor of Milwaukee and governor of Wisconsin
• Ole Petersen, founder of Methodism in Norway
• John Rugee, Wisconsin politician
• Joseph Schlitz (cenotaph), brewing magnate of the now defunct Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company
• Christopher Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewriter with its QWERTY key layout
• Adonis Terry, 19th century Major League Baseball player.
• Don Upham, United States Attorney and two-term Milwaukee mayor
• George Walker, early settler and co-founder of the City of Milwaukee
• Isaac Walker, U.S. Senator and younger brother of George Walker
• Emil Wallber, Mayor during the Bay View Tragedy
• Oscar Werwath, founder of the Milwaukee School of Engineering
• Frederick Charles Winkler, Union Army general
• Carl Zeidler (cenotaph), brother to Frank Zeidler and Milwaukee's "singing mayor"
• Frank Zeidler, three term socialist mayor of Milwaukee and 1976 United States Presidential Candidate