Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum (200 acres), located at 118 Woodland Avenue,

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, is one of the oldest garden cemeteries in the

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. Woodland was incorporated in 1842 by John Whitten Van Cleve, the first male child born in Dayton.Zumwald 36 He was the son of Benjamin Van Cleve and Mary Whitten Van Cleve. The cemetery began with southeast of Dayton and has been enlarged to its present size of . Over 3,000 trees and 165 specimens of native Midwestern trees and woody plants grace the rolling hills. Many of the trees are more than a century old and 9 have been designated "Ohio Champions." The highest point in Dayton is within the cemetery, and during the

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of 1913, it became a place of refuge. The Romanesque gateway, chapel and office, completed in 1889, are on the

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. The buildings were constructed of the stone from the original cemetery wall. The chapel has one of the finest original Tiffany windows in the country. A

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, with a rock and bronze exterior, features twenty-two varieties of imported marble and twelve large stained glass windows inspired by famous literary works. It was added in 1970. The oldest original 105-acre section of the cemetery, known as "Victorian," received a second designation as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. A receiving vault large enough to contain 12 crypts was built in 1847 by Joseph Wuichert, who was said to be Dayton's premier stonemason. Throughout the 19th century it was used for temporary storage when burials were delayed due to bad weather or for other reasons (for example, refer to the article below on Levi and Matilda Stanley). Located near the main entrance to the cemetery and across from the mausoleum, it is constructed of giant limestone slabs and was designed as a replica of the Egyptian-style temple of Thebes and Karnak. It was unused for nearly 100 years but the exterior was restored in 2008 to its original condition.

Notable burials

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: * Orville and Wilbur Wright, inventors of the airplane *

Jordan Anderson Jordan Anderson or Jourdon Anderson (December 1825 – April 15, 1907) was an African-American and former slave noted for an 1865 letter he dictated, known as "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master". It was addressed to his former mast ...

, freed slave and letter writer * John H. Balsley, inventor of the folding step-ladder * Alice Pike Barney, artist *

Loren M. Berry Loren Murphy Berry (July 24, 1888 – February 10, 1980) was born in Wabash, Indiana, the son of Charles D. and Elizebeth (Murphy) Berry. He was a pioneer in the Yellow Pages business telephone directory industry. Early life His father died whe ...

, inventor of the Yellow Pages * Erma Bombeck, humorist and writer * Alex Campbell, professional golfer of early 20th century * Mrs. Leslie Carter, actress * William Charch, DuPont Chemist, inventor of moistureproof cellophane for food packaging. * Charlotte Reeve Conover, historian *

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, surveyor and Proprietor of Dayton *

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, newspaper publisher, Governor of Ohio and Presidential candidate *

Edward A. Deeds Edward Andrew Deeds (March 12, 1874 – July 1, 1960) was an American engineer, inventor and industrialist prominent in the Dayton, Ohio, area. He was the president of the National Cash Register Company and, together with Charles F. Kettering, ...

, engineer, inventor and industrialist *

Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American C ...

, poet * John Glossinger, popularized the

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candy bar *

Charles Herby Charles Herby (1846-1914) was an American architect. He designed the Centre City Building in Dayton, Ohio. Early life Charles Herby was born in Northamptonshire, England in 1846.

, architect * Marj Heyduck, ''Dayton Daily News'' columnist and editor *

George P. Huffman George Phillips Huffman (September 6, 1862 – December 31, 1897) was an American businessman. His Davis Sewing Machine Company, which began producing bicycles in the late 19th century, was the precursor to the Huffman Manufacturing Company (later ...

, industrialist (Huffy Bicycles) *

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, inventor of the stereoptic (3-D) camera. *

Charles F. Kettering Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 25, 1958) sometimes known as Charles Fredrick Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. For the list of patents issued to Kettering, see, Le ...

, inventor * Earl Kiser, bicyclist and auto racer, "Little Dayton Demon" *

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, father of American beekeeping * Leroy Tate Marshall, US representative *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

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and

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* Levi and Matilda Stanley, "King and Queen" of the

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* John W. Stoddard built the Stoddard-Dayton automobile * Gertrude Strohm, author, compiler, game designer * Stephen W. Thompson,

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Congressman and Copperhead leader * David Ziegler, first mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio * Milton Wright, father of aviation pioneers Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright, and a

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of the

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