New York, Erie County, Buffalo
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Surgeon - Brigadier General - Inventor of the 'Wig-Wag' signal system - First director of the Army Signal Corps - Founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau - U.S. Delegate to the International Meteorological Conferences of Vienna, Austria, 1873 & Rome, Italy, 1879.
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Surgeon - Brigadier General - Inventor of the 'Wig-Wag' signal system - First director of the Army Signal Corps - Founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau - U.S. Delegate to the International Meteorological Conferences of Vienna, Austria, 1873 & Rome, Italy, 1879.(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Born in Beckett, Massachusetts, Williams College class of 1799, first lawyer west of the Genesee River.
Escaped captors during the War of 1812. Buffalo board of trustees president in 1816, founding member of the Buffalo Harbor Company, first Judge of Erie County Court of Common Pleas in 1823, Federalist Presidential Elector in 1828, appointed Mayor of Buffalo in 1838, father-in-law of Brigadier General Albert James Myer, instrumental figure in establishing the City of Buffalo and Erie County
Born in Newburgh, NY, raised in Buffalo, Geneva College 1847, University of Buffalo 1851, Telegraph operator, U.S. Navy assistant surgeon, invented motion telgraphy, U.S. Army Signal Corps founder, Civil War meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau founding director, International Meteorological Organization (IMO) co-founder, delegate to First IMO Congress in Vienna, Austria & Second IMO Congress in Rome, Italy in 1879, Son-in-law of Ebenezer Walden, father of six, honorary member Austrian Meteorological Society, Italian Geographical Society & Natural Philosophical Society of Emden, awarded three patents, expanded International Weather Service to fifty countries & territories by 1880.
*based on age certification in documents dated January 17, 1854, discovered in 2009
Placed by an anonymous benefactor and friend of Forest Lawn 2010
Giuseppe Verdi is credited with having invented the Italian national operatic style. Born the son of a poor grocer in LeRoncole, Italy, Verdi began composing at age 13. After failing the entrance exam at the Milan Conservatory, he began lessons with a former member of the orchestra at LaScala in Milan. He married the daughter of his patron and ultimately began his own career in opera in Milan in 1839. His best known works include Rigoletto, Aida, Il Trovatore and La Traviata 
Sa-Co-ye-Wat-Ha (He keeps them awake)
Died at Buffalo Creek January 20, 1830 aged 78 years.
"When I am gone and my warnings are no longer heeded, the graft and avarice of the white man will prevail. My heart fails me when I think of my people, so soon to be scattered and forgotten" 
13th President of the United States of America
Born January 7, 1800. Died March 8, 1874
Dedicated by The Millard Fillmore Republican Women's Club
Memorial Day May 30, 1932
Father Baker, Supt. of these charities (1882-1936), dedicated his life's work to Our Lady of Victory. He developed the institutions, founding the Infant Home, the Hospital, several schools and crowned his life by the building of the Basilica in 1928 from donations received from every state in the Union.
Erected by the Erie County Sesquicentennial Committee 1971
The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens
Designed by Lord & Burnham and opened in 1900 was placed on the National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior 1982
Honor To The Brave
During the Minnesota Sioux Uprising of 1862, eighteen men left New Ulm early on the morning of August 19, and travelled westward about 20 miles along the Big Cottonwood River to the area of Leavenworth. Searching for relatives and friends, they found dead settlers and wounded children. Two men took the wounded by wagon to New Ulm, and during the day another man left and two more joined the group.
In 1880 Dr. John W. Barcroft rebuilt the Arlington Mill. The name of the railroad station here was subsequently changed from Arlington to Barcroft, and that became the name of the residential community which developed eastward along Columbia Pike. This community, left to its own devices, developed an active civic league and its own church, school, and neighborhood house.
The land along Four Mile Run in this area belonged to George Washington and was known as Washington Forest. Later it became part of the Arlington estate. The Columbia Turnpike was built through here in 1808 to link the Long Bridge at Washington with the Little River Turnpike to the west. In 1836 G.W.P. Custis built a grist mill here where the turnpike crossed Four Mile Run. It was destroyed during the Civil War (as the supposed property of R.E. Lee), but was rebuilt in 1880, continued in operation until 1906, and was destroyed by fire in 1920.
This former school, now a residence, and cemetery were named for the David Haeger family, from Germany, who settled in this part of McHenry County. This area was the boyhood home of David Henry Haeger, the eldest son of the Haeger children, who founded the world renowned decorative pottery business in 1871, still in operation today. Prior to the pottery production, Haeger manufactured unique bricks that supplied Chicago with a vast inventory to help rebuild the city after the Great Fire of 1871.
Schonlau Park, named in honor of Theodore H. and Clara K. Schonlau, is the setting for the City of New Ulm’s unique Glockenspiel. Local contributors were joined by donors from three foreign countries, 31 States, and 51 other Minnesota cities, in matching a magnanimous gift from Clara Schonlau to provide the funds necessary to construct the first free-standing carillon tower in North America. New Ulm’s 45 feet tall musical clock tower was dedicated on May 25, 1980, with over 1500 people in attendance.
The Kiesling House is one of the three downtown buildings in New Ulm to survive the Dakota War of 1862. Frederick W. Kiesling, blacksmith and ferrier, had built the modest frame house ($125) the year before the outbreak of the war. In August of 1862 New Ulm defenders marked the Kiesling House for torching in the event that the Dakota attack broke through the downtown barriers. The downtown defenses held even though the city lost about 75% of the buildings to fire.
