Death and Legacy
Chief Justice Waite died unexpectedly of pneumonia. This created a stir in Washington, as there had been no hint that his illness was serious. His condition had been treated as confidential, in part to avoid alarming his wife who was in California. The Washington Post devoted its entire front page to his demise. Large crowds joined in the mourning. Except for Justices Bradley and Matthews, all the justices accompanied his body on the special train that went to Toledo. Mrs. Waite came by train from California, arriving just in time for the funeral. Published reports indicated the Chief Justice would be buried in a family plot he had purchased in Forest Hill Cemetery, but he was not in fact interred there.
For unknown reasons, his remains were not interred in the family plot, but are interred under a handsome monument in Woodlawn Cemetery, Plot: Section 42, by the river in Toledo, Ohio.
Waite High School (Toledo, Ohio) is named in his honor.
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