Notable Burials
See also Category:Burials at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum.The monuments, ranging from rugged boulders to Greek statues and temples, memorialize the lives of people who helped shape the nation and the city. Woodland is the final resting place for more than 100,000 people, including:
- Jordan Anderson, freed slave and letter writer
- John H. Balsley, inventor of the folding step-ladder
- Loren M. Berry, inventor of the Yellow Pages
- Erma Bombeck, humorist and writer
- Mrs. Leslie Carter, actress
- William Charch, DuPont Chemist, inventor of moistureproof cellophane for food packaging.
- Daniel C. Cooper, surveyor and Proprietor of Dayton
- James M. Cox, newspaper publisher, Governor of Ohio and Presidential candidate
- Edward A. Deeds, engineer, inventor and industrialist
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
- John Glossinger, popularized the Oh Henry! candy bar
- George P. Huffman, industrialist (Huffy Bicycles)
- Andrew Iddings, inventor of the stereoptic (3-D) camera.
- Charles F. Kettering, inventor
- Earl Kiser, bicyclist and auto racer, "Little Dayton Demon"
- L. L. Langstroth, father of American beekeeping
- George Mead, industrialist (Mead Paper)
- John H. Patterson, industrialist (NCR)
- James Ritty, inventor of the cash register
- James Findlay Schenck, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
- Robert Cumming Schenck, Civil War General, member of US Congress and Ambassador to Brazil and United Kingdom
- Levi and Matilda Stanley "King and Queen" of the Gypsies
- John W. Stoddard built the Stoddard-Dayton automobile
- Clement Vallandigham Congressman and Copperhead leader
- Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the first practical flying machine
- David Ziegler, first mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
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