Lake View Cemetery

Creation of the Lake View Cemetery Association In 1868, prominent Cleveland businessmen Jeptha Wade, Henry B. Payne, and Joseph Perkins began discussing the need for a new cemetery for the city of Cleveland. They believed that the city's then-preeminent burial ground, Woodland Cemetery, was too small for the growing city as well as overcrowded, ill-maintained, and not scenic enough. They issued an invitation on May 8, 1869, to about 40 of the city's other leading businessmen, asking them to meet at the end of the month to discuss the organization of a new cemetery. Thirty of them showed up to the meeting on May 24. The group of 30 formed the nonprofit The trustees were Hinman B. Hurlbut (banking executive), Henry B. Payne (railroad investor), Joseph Perkins (banking and railroad executive), U.S. District Court Judge Charles Taylor Sherman, Amasa Stone (steelmaker and railroad investor), Worthy S. Streator (railroad executive and investor), Jeptha Wade (co-founder of Western Union), and Stillman Witt (railroad investor). Wade was named president, the association clerk. Selah Chamberlain (ironmaker, railroad investor, banker), Payne, Perkins, Stone, Wade, and Witt held $60,000 ($ in dollars) in bonds, while another 11 individuals held $55,000 ($ in dollars) in bonds. Site selection, design, and construction A committee was formed to choose a site for the new cemetery. Its members consisted of Holden, Payne, Perkins, Sherman, and J.C. Buell Located in what was then East Cleveland Township, the site was somewhat isolated. With the city pushing eastward at a swift pace, city and county government officials were already planning additional roads in the area, several of which would reach the new cemetery. The 300 plots in the first section went on sale on June 23, 1870, according to The Plain Dealer newspaper. The cost of a standard size in-ground grave was set at $4.00 ($ in dollars). Larger sites for families, monuments, or mausoleums went for 20 cents ($ in dollars) a square foot. The cemetery's distance from Cleveland's population center and the price of its plots meant that only those with a middle class income or better could afford to be buried at Lake View. ==Early years: 1869 to 1880==

It's not clear when the first interments at Lake View Cemetery were made, but several plots were in use by October 21, 1870. Improvements to and expansion of the cemetery continued over the next few years. The first ravine was bridged in November 1870, and in December the association purchased an unspecified number of acres that doubled the length of its frontage on Euclid Avenue. The cemetery sold $400,000 ($ in dollars) in bonds in 1871 to pay for more improvements. To secure the bonds, the cemetery pledged all but sold lots, roads, and water features. By August 1871, six sections of the cemetery were laid out and the receiving vault for use by plot-holders, designed by local architect Joseph Ireland, was almost finished. A superintendent's lodge at the front gate on Euclid Avenue was finished at the end of the year. By this time, several large, artistic funerary monuments had been erected at Lake View. The association purchased another of land in October 1872 and in January 1873. By June 1873, the cemetery had a total of . It had spent $65,643 ($ in dollars) on landscaping, with eight sections landscaped, plotted, and open for burials. The cemetery even dammed Dugway Brook in places to create ponds. Plots at Lake View Cemetery in its first three years sold for half the average price of plots in established cemeteries. and the cemetery's acreage totalled in 1876. Euclid Avenue was paved up to Lake View Cemeteryn in 1874. Lake View Cemetery purchased another of land in 1875, issuing $150,000 ($ in dollars) By 1877, The Plain Dealer estimated, more than $100,000 ($ in dollars) in funerary monuments dotted the landscape at Lake View Cemetery. These included the highly visible obelisks and shafts over the Doan, Kelley, McDermott, Potter, and Tisdale plots; the Goodrich and Jaynes memorials; the Keynes column (topped with a funerary urn); the Jeptha Wade shaft, which was topped by an angel; and the Hurlbut pillar topped with a weeping figure. There were also a number of monuments with well-designed, expertly carved bas-relief or freestanding sculptures. These included the angel atop the Truman P. Handy memorial, the weeping woman atop the Bucher and Hanna monuments, the group of angels supporting a cross atop the Cross grave, figures carved on the upright slabs over the Johnson and Garretson plots, a sculptural group named "Hope" atop the Perkins monument, and another sculptural group atop the Chamberlain monument. Although a number of large mausoleums had been built in the cemetery, the newspaper noted that the most elaborate of these was the tomb being erected by H.J. Wilcox. Wilcox had visited Italy, where he employed artisans to design a vault that mimicked the look of an Italian Renaissance chapel. With lots selling quickly, cemetery officials used the revenue to redeem debt. By 1878, only $10,000 of the 1871 bond issue remained unredeemed, and just $30,000 of the 1875 bond issue. The trustees decided to retire both debts by issuing $40,000 ($ in dollars) in new bonds at 7 percent annual interest. Although the new bonds were sold, the old debt was inexplicably not retired. ==Expansion: 1881 to 1890==

Building the Garfield Memorial President James A. Garfield, a resident of nearby Mentor, Ohio, was shot in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881. He died on September 19, 1881. Garfield himself had expressed the wish to be buried at Lake View Cemetery, and the cemetery offered a burial site free of charge to his widow, Lucretia Garfield. Mrs. Garfield agreed to bury her husband at Lake View. Garfield was temporarily interred in the cemetery's public vault on September 26, 1881, then transferred on October 22 to an empty mausoleum owned and designed by noted local architect Levi Scofield. Even before Garfield's funeral, plans were laid by his friends and admirers for a grand tomb to be erected at the highest point in the cemetery. The popularity of the garden-like cemetery and the public's desire to see Garfield's resting place were such that large crowds began thronging Lake View every Sunday. Roughly 50,000 people a year were visiting the crypt. The cemetery received no revenues from the memorial committee despite the wear and tear on its property. Cemetery officials began requiring tickets in the summer of 1882 to enter the grounds in order to control the crowds and maintain a suitable atmosphere for mourning. Relic hunters were so willing to vandalize the Scofield tomb (they even ripped up the grass around it) that a wire fence had to be erected to keep them away. In 1891, the cemetery barred all non-lotholding visitors from the cemetery on Sundays unless they had a pass. With only about 230 Sunday passes available, hundreds of people were turned away. The Garfield Memorial Committee selected the highest point in the cemetery in June 1883 for the president's final resting place. The Garfield Memorial was dedicated on May 30, 1890. Lucretia Garfield, the president's widow, died on March 13, 1918, and was interred in the Garfield Memorial on March 21. Rise of Little Italy Little Italy largely owes its inception to funerary monument maker Joseph Carabelli. In 1870, the 20-year-old northern Italian journeyman stonecarver emigrated to the United States. He spent 10 years in New York City, where he dressed stone and carved the statue Industry for the Federal Building and Post Office in Brooklyn. Carabelli relocated to Cleveland in 1880, establishing the Lake View Granite and Monumental Works on Mayfield Road adjacent to the cemetery. Carabelli began encouraging other Italian sculptors, stonecutters, and artisans to settle in Cleveland near his works, and by 1885 a substantial enclave of Italians, mostly immigrants, had grown up there. By 1892, the neighborhood adjacent to the cemetery's southwestern corner had become known as Little Italy. It was largely inhabited by Italian immigrants who worked as groundskeepers at Lake View or who worked in the funeral monument companies making headstones or memorials for placement in the cemetery. 1892 also saw the city of Cleveland annex Little Italy. The annexation included all of Lake View Cemetery west of a line running from the end of Brightwood Avenue south to Mayfield Road. Streetcar access Lake View, Collamer & Euclid Railway, a streetcar line, proposed a line to reach Lake View's main gate in July 1874. The first streetcar to reach Lake View Cemetery was the East Cleveland Railway Euclid Avenue Line in 1886. The company extended its tracks from its existing terminus at E. 107th Street up Euclid Avenue to Rosedale Avenue in East Cleveland (just short of the major thoroughfare of Noble Road). The East Cleveland Railway opened a second set of tracks, an extension of its Cedar Avenue Line, in 1889. This line began at the company's car barn at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Coltman Road. The line traveled south on Coltman to reach Mayfield Road, then south down Murray Hill Road to Cedar Avenue. A year after the Cedar Avenue Line extension opened, the Cleveland Electric Railway Company opened its Mayfield Road Line. This line went past Lake Views Mayfield Road gate. The line began at the East Cleveland Railway's car barn, went south down Coltman to Mayfield, and then east on Mayfield to Lee Road. This line closed in 1907. In 1902, Lake View Cemetery gave permission for the Cleveland Electric Railway to build a spur into the cemetery so that the streetcar firm's funeral car could be used to transport caskets and funeral parties to the cemetery. ==Financial difficulties==

Emergence of the financial crisis As of 1888, Lake View Cemetery had of land. About had been laid out, but only half had been sold. The cemetery association had spent $800,000 ($ in dollars) buying land and improving it. Mismanagement was part of the problem, and The Plain Dealer newspaper said the cemetery's financial records were in "deplorable" shape. The cemetery superintendent had spent $150,000 to $200,000 ($ to $ in dollars) on improvements, a figure officials privately admitted was too much. Bonds which formerly sold for $108 to $110 (the par value was $100) now began selling at $50 to $75. Quietly, the cemetery began accepting bonds as payment for lots. Usually, purchasers held few bonds, with those holding large amounts of bonds refusing to sell. Although the exchange of bonds for lots would impact revenues, cemetery officials believed that only $7,000 to $8,000 in bonds would be redeemed. The plan was amended at the end of April 1889 so that all interest coming due that year was paid in scrip. Excess income (after expenditures for maintenance and cash interest) would go toward the sinking funds, redemption of scrip, a fund to pay the next year's cash interest, and to pay other debts. Significant bondholder opposition to the plan began to emerge. In June 1889, the Lake View Cemetery Association paid only 3 percent of the 7 percent annual interest due in cash, the remainder in scrip. The redemption of bonds significantly impacted the cemetery's cash flow, and by the end of 1889 it could not pay any interest in cash. Angry bondholders began to threaten lawsuits to personally hold the trustees responsible for the payment of interest. At the beginning of October 1889, the association stopped accepting the full amount of bonds for the purchase of lots, and said it would accept bonds for only one-third of the lot sale price. a banker and bond dealer based on the East Coast, held all $10,000 of the outstanding 1871 bonds and $7,000 of the 1875 bonds. Samuel E. Williamson, a local judge, held $13,000 of the 1875 issue. A recession hit the U.S. economy in 1890 followed by a brief depression in 1891, further depressing lot sales. By 1892, the grounds at Lake View Cemetery were seriously neglected. Sections ready for sale were unmown, weeds and other plants grew wild, and erosion and drought had left some areas bare of vegetation. Only a small percentage of the cemetery's roads were paved, and the remainder, all dirt roads, were heavily eroded and rutted. Lake View's finances were so poor that many residents believed it was close to bankruptcy. The association needed revenue so badly that its trustees considered lowering the price of lots so that the poor could afford to be buried there. The cemetery generated so little revenue that it had incurred about $365,700 ($ in dollars) in debt above and beyond interest and principal owed on bonds. All 1871 and 1878 bondholders could turn in their bonds and receive a new "refunding bond" paying lower annual interest. Five months after Garfield began his lobbying effort, 75 percent of bondholders approved the plan. The remaining approvals were received in June 1892, and the LVCA board of directors authorized issuance of the refunding bonds. Legal work took longer than usual, however, and it was not until December that the bonds were finally issued. The cemetery's financial condition improved significantly over the next few years. Although some board members felt the cemetery should still be sold to the city of Cleveland, the board rejected this proposal overwhelmingly in June 1895. The cemetery board approved the erection of a crematorium in 1900, but no action was taken on the plan. ==Renewed improvement==

In 1896, Lake View Cemetery's entrance was unprepossessing. Located next to Mayfield Road about southwest of the current entrance, it consisted of a small wooden gate, a two-room office in a wooden shack just inside the gate, and a small wood-frame home for the superintendent adjacent to the office. Henry R. Hatch was elected Lake View's president in June 1896. and cemetery engineering was improved. Lake View had long laid out lots according to the contour of the ground. Steep slopes were avoided, and roads with storm drains laid out before a section was plotted. The new engineering standards required that all sections have a wide infrastructure border around them. The outermost tier of graves was intended for monuments, and lots were deep. All other tiers had lots just in length, with a walkway between tiers. Any section deeper than in depth also needs to have an wide service road bisecting it. All ground was roughly graded before the construction of infrastructure and roads; wet ground was drained after rough grading. Section and lot corners were marked with cornerstones, and all permanent fixtures were recorded on the cemetery engineer's maps. With the Long Depression ending in the United States, the board believed lot sales would rise significantly. With the board's backing, Hatch began making new improvements to the cemetery and converting undeveloped land into sections 4, 10, with a new circle just inside the cemetery gate. and the cost of its construction donated by Hatch. Construction of Wade Memorial Chapel In 1896, Wade asked the newly founded Cleveland architectural firm of Hubbell & Benes to create a preliminary design. He was so happy with their work that he chose this concept as the design for the chapel and commissioned Hubbell & Benes to finalize the blueprints. Tiffany artist Frederick Wilson designed the wall mosaics, which feature verses from the Christian Bible (I Corinthians, the Book of John, and the Book of Job). The Favrile glass and gold tile mosaics depicted the passage of life to death. slightly northeast of the Garfield Memorial. Three people were buried in the John D. Rockefeller plot. Two of them were children of Frank Rockefeller, John's brother. They were William Scofield Rockefeller (81 days old, died on March 17, 1878) and Myra Rockefeller, 2 years and 81 days old, died on August 23, 1886). Rockefeller's mother, Eliza Rockefeller, died on March 28, 1889, in New York City. She was buried in the Rockefeller plot at Lake View on March 30. Construction began on the Rockefeller Monument in 1898. Quarried in Barre, Vermont, by the Wetmore and Morse Granite Co. of Montpelier, Vermont, several hundred tons of rock had to be blown before a piece of rock big enough for the obelisk could be found. alone was high with a bottom square. The Plain Dealer newspaper believed it to be the tallest shaft ever erected over a private grave anywhere in the world. It had minimal if graceful ornamental elements on the base, The Rockefeller monument arrived in Cleveland on Sunday, February 11, 1899. but the delays in moving the obelisk meant the derrick's use was required elsewhere. The derrick was erected again at Lake View about August 26. The obelisk was hoisted upright on September 11. The derrick's wooden superstructure proved too weak to lift the obelisk into the air, and had to be reinforced. The shaft was finally lifted into and cemented in place on September 12 while a large crowd of onlookers watched. Stoneworkers applied the finishing touches to the monument on September 13, 1899. The Rockefeller Monument cost $50,000 ($ in dollars) to quarry and erect, and another $10,000 ($ in dollars) to move. ==Continued improvement: 1900 to the Great Depression==

In 1900, Lake View Cemetery had just over 10 percent () of its land developed into cemetery plots. Lot sales declined significantly in 1899 and early 1900, but the cemetery still grossed $35,500 ($ in dollars) in sales revenue Lake View was paying interest on its debt every six months, and the sinking fund was ample. the first of several donations. Rockefeller's gift was used to open a section for the poor, to lay fresh water pipes in several sections, and for other improvements. The cemetery received another $15,000 ($ in dollars) in other cash donations during year as well. The following year, lot sales increased and the cemetery spent $25,000 ($ in dollars) to make an unusually large number of improvements, rebuilding old roads, adding new roads, draining some land, and opening a number of new sections. John D. Rockefeller made another $10,000 donation ($ in dollars), and the cemetery received another $12,272 ($ in dollars) in donations from other sources. Lot sales rose again in 1903. Rockefeller made a third donation of $10,000 ($ in dollars), and other donations totaled about $7,000 ($ in dollars). Lake View Cemetery continued to see lot sales rise in 1904, generating $55,230 ($ in dollars). Donations brought in another $8,186 ($ in dollars). The cemetery made $20,040 ($ in dollars) in improvements during the year, adding fresh water pipes, stormwater sewers, and building three tool houses (each with a telephone) in the cemetery. With expenses and supplies requiring just $22,148 ($ in dollars), the cemetery had more than enough cash on hand for interest payments, the sinking fund, and scrip interest and redemption. Lot sales and associated revenues were even higher in 1905 ($63,201 [$ in dollars]), with expenses and supplies rising to $37,915 ($ in dollars) and improvement spending dropping to $14,840 ($ in dollars). Lake View was so flush with cash that it made an extraordinary $10,000 ($ in dollars) payment to the sinking fund. For the first time in years, Lake View Cemetery Association trustees discussed opening a number of new sections, and began discussing setting aside sections solely for the construction of large, expensive mausoleums. Section 23 experiment and the death of Hatch The 1910s and 1920s continued to be years of prosperity for Lake View Cemetery. Its maintenance staff had grown so much that it built an addition to its maintenance shop in 1909. It opened Section 23 in 1913. This section was "pre-designed" by cemetery staff, architects, landscape architects, and sculptors, many of them associated with the Cleveland School of Art. The landscaping around the lot's borders and at strategic points in its interior was designed to accommodate and complement only certain types of funerary monuments. In 18 of the 32 lots in these areas, the cemetery issued highly specific, narrow rules regulating the size and type of monument which could be erected. In the remaining 14 key lots, the cemetery "strongly suggested" to buyers that only certain kinds of funerary monuments be used in these locations (explicitly ruling out funerary vases). Headstones were allowed to rise only above the surface of the earth. All local funerary monument companies were furnished with a booklet on monument design to assist them in designing gravestones appropriate for Section 23, and for all other sections at Lake View. Lake View Cemetery suffered two setbacks in 1915. On January 28, the cemetery's old two-story wood office building burned to the ground. Maps, plot plans, and the blueprints for hundreds of mausoleums and monuments were lost. On May 20, Henry R. Hatch died suddenly, depriving Lake View of the energetic and visionary president who had led the organization since 1896. Hatch left a cemetery in excellent financial condition. Lake View was making so much money that cemetery was able to purchase $50,000 ($ in dollars) worth of Liberty Loan bonds in 1917 to support the American cause in World War I. In a snapshot of the cemetery's financial success, the trustees reported that it made a surplus of $62,165 ($ in dollars) in 1922. It had assets totaling $3,021,888 ($ in dollars), which included an endowment and sinking fund of $1,704,737 ($ in dollars). Its outstanding debts were $2,016,192 ($ in dollars). Modernization, ownership of the Garfield Memorial, and push east Part of the cemetery's success was attributed to its use of modern technology. For years, Lake View maintenance staff had used 50 lawn mowers and 30 hand-held scythe lawn trimmers. In 1917, the cemetery purchased a two-ton truck from the Acme Motor Truck Co. of Cadillac, Michigan. The truck was used to haul materials from Lake View's quarry around the cemetery for the construction of buildings and macadam roads and the setting of headstone foundations. By 1922, the cemetery also used Fordson tractors to dig graves, place monuments, clear snow, and maintain roads. About 1923, Lake View purchased two one-ton Ford trucks for general-duty use around the cemetery. Cemetery shops manufactured a "tent wagon", a "grave wagon" and both metal- and concrete-lined "dump carts". Originally developed in 1913, the dump carts were used to carry earth from graves. Up to six carts could be attached to a single Ford truck. In late October 1923, the Garfield National Monument Association turned the Garfield Memorial over to Lake View Cemetery. Most of the Monument Association's members had died, and its charter did not permit for a self-perpetuating board. After accepting title to the memorial and its land, Lake View Cemetery immediately ended the practice of charging a 10 cent ($ in dollars) admission fee to the memorial. Lake View also began cleaning, repairing, and rehabilitating the memorial. Increasingly, Lake View Cemetery turned its attention to its Mayfield Road border and entrance. The city of Cleveland Heights, incorporated as a hamlet in 1901, included within its boundaries the southern portion of Lake View. Cleveland Heights grew very rapidly. Its population rose from 1,564 at the time of incorporation to 2,576 in 1910, a 64.7 percent increase. By 1920, Cleveland Heights had 15,264 residents, a six-fold increase. Cleveland Heights incorporated as a city in 1921. Lake View Cemetery was the burial ground of choice for the upper-middle class suburb. Although the Mayfield Road gate was locked, the cemetery gave keys to the gate to those Cleveland Heights residents who were lotholders. ==Great Depression and war: 1929 to 1945==

The Great Depression put significant financial stress on Lake View Cemetery. Those who had purchased large lots often failed to keep up payments. Cemetery officials allowed them to sell back a portion of their lots in order to retain at least some burial ground. When the owners of large lots defaulted on their purchase contracts completely, Lake View threatened to disinter the bodies in the plot and move them to single-grave lots in another part of the cemetery and re-sell the large plot. The cemetery responded to the economic crisis with retrenchment as well. It lowered the price of a single grave by 20 percent, to $60 ($ in dollars). The cemetery also cut wages for all maintenance workers and grave diggers making more than 55 cents an hour ($ in dollars), and laid off 10 men. In response, workers organized a trade union in 1937 under the auspices of the Arborists and Landscapers Union, LIUNA Local 344, AFL. Manpower shortages hit Lake View Cemetery during World War II as laborers enlisted in the military or were drafted. To assist in the war effort, the cemetery allowed large portions of unused land to be converted into Victory gardens. Wartime inflation and the rapidly declining number of wealthy families in the Cleveland area hurt lot sales. The cemetery subsequently shifted its marketing efforts to focus on middle and working class families. ==Latter half of the 20th century==

As more people chose cremation as a burial option in the latter half of the 20th century, Lake View Cemetery responded by constructing and opening a cremains mausoleum in 1990. Any member of the public may purchase a niche in the mausoleum for cremains. ==21st century==

Lake View Cemetery has been under persistent financial stress since the start of the new millennium. Operating deficits are common, and the LVCA has occasionally cut back services and staff. Even though the cemetery is a significant tourist attraction and the site of a presidential memorial, Lake View received no local, state, or federal funding as of 2017. In 2006, the Lake View Cemetery Foundation made education and tourism its top priorities. From 2001 to 2010, the number of individuals participating in officially sponsored foundation tours increased to 10,000 from 3,000, while the number of sponsored educational programs nearly doubled from 10 to 19. Lake View Cemetery spent $5 million in 2016 and 2017 conserving, repairing, and upgrading the James A. Garfield Memorial's structural elements. This included reinforcing beams and columns in the basement, In 2019, the cemetery began a multi-million-dollar project to clean the exterior and repoint any damaged or missing mortar. Lake View Cemetery celebrated its 150th anniversary with two years of events in 2019 and 2020. ==About the cemetery==

The garden cemetery is located in the "heights" area of Greater Cleveland, with a view of Lake Erie to the north. The burying ground had of land in 2007, with more than 104,000 burials. There are two entrances, on Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road. The cemetery provides a plot in its Veterans Section free of charge to all honorably discharged U.S. armed forces veterans. Governance The nonprofit Lake View Cemetery Association owns and governs the cemetery. Originally, membership in the association was open to anyone who purchased a lot, with the LVCA now acting as a nonprofit association for the benefit for lotholders. Annual meetings of lotholders to elect directors and officers were no longer held. Instead, a self-perpetuating board of directors was elected which continues to own and govern the cemetery. Lake View's annual budget in 2012 was $6.1 million ($ in dollars). Income from lots sales and services to families made up 60 percent of all cemetery revenue in 2001, and 80 percent of all revenue in 2012. Charitable contributions make up much of the remaining income. The Lake View Cemetery Foundation provides a significant portion of this charitable income. Foundation donations were 6 percent of all cemetery revenue in 2001, rising to 16 percent of all revenues in 2011. As of 2017, roughly half of the cemetery's annual costs were spent on maintaining the grounds, headstones, monuments, and mausoleums. The other half goes to staff and office operations. Leadership Following is a partial list of the presidents of the Lake View Cemetery Association. The president oversaw the day-to-day operations of the cemetery along with the superintendent. • Jeptha H. Wade, 1869 to 1885 (his death) • Jeptha H. Wade, 1885 (his death) • William Edwards, 1890 to 1893 • Timothy Doane Crocker, 1893 • Douglas Perkins, 1915 to 1921 (his death) • Jerome B. Zerbe, 1921 to 1924 • Francis F. Prentiss, 1925 Lake View Cemetery Foundation The Lake View Cemetery Foundation was established by the Lake View Cemetery Association in 1986 as a 501(c)(13) organization. The foundation was originally chartered to raise money to repair and restore the James A. Garfield Memorial and to establish a fund for its ongoing maintenance. After the renovation was completed, the foundation expanded its goals to include enhancing, maintaining, and preserving the botanical gardens, buildings, horticulture, landscape, monuments, and areas at Lake View Cemetery to benefit the general public. The foundation's new mission specifically embraced education and outreach programs. Although the foundation provides assistance to the cemetery in maintaining historic buildings and monuments and historic or horticulturally significant aspects of the grounds, it is both separately governed and administered from the cemetery. The foundation's 2012 annual budget was $567,000 ($ in dollars). Foundation assistance is not unrestricted, but targeted to meet the goals established by the foundation's board of directors and its strategic plan. Charitable donations make up roughly half of the foundation's annual income, although these can vary widely from year to year. Donations provided 65 percent of income in 2013. Investment income also varies considerably over time, but has averaged about 30 percent of all foundation revenues between 2002 and 2012. Service fee income is a relatively negligible 2 percent of all revenues. Notable sites and funerary monuments The James A. Garfield Memorial is the most prominent point of interest at Lake View Cemetery. The ornate interior features a large marble statue, stained glass, bas relief, and various historical relics from Garfield's life and presidency. The monument also serves as a scenic observation deck and picnic area. President and Mrs. Garfield are entombed in the lower level crypt, their coffins placed side by side and visible to memorial visitors. Lake View Cemetery is home to the Wade Memorial Chapel, which features an interior designed by Louis Tiffany. Behind the chapel is a large pond. The cemetery is famous for its numerous statues of angels, sculpted in a Victorian style. A well-known memorial, the Angel of Death Victorious at the gravesite of the Haserot family, was created by sculptor Herman Matzen. ==In popular culture==

The cemetery is among those profiled in the 2005 PBS documentary A Cemetery Special. Scenes of the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier were filmed at the flood control dam at the cemetery. ==Notable interments==

of Eliot Ness inside the cemetery Notable people buried at Lake View Cemetery include: • Newton D. Baker (1871–1937), Mayor of Cleveland and U.S. Secretary of War during World War I • Ernest Ball (1878–1927), composer and author of "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" • Frances Payne Bolton (1885–1977), Member, U.S. House of Representatives • Helene Hathaway Britton (1879–1950), owner of the St. Louis Cardinals • Charles Francis Brush (1849–1929), inventor of the modern arc light and businessman • Theodore E. Burton (1851–1929), Member, U.S. Senate • William B. Castle (1814–1872), last Mayor of Ohio City, Mayor of Cleveland • Ray Chapman (1891–1920), baseball player for the Cleveland Indians • Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), an African-American attorney and author • Henry Chisholm (1822–1891), father of the Cleveland steel industry • Henry D. Coffinberry (1841–1912), industrialist, founder of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company • James Corrigan (1846–1908), industrialist, founder of Corrigan, McKinney & Co. • George Washington Crile (1864–1943), co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic and the first surgeon to successfully perform a blood transfusion • Harvey Cushing (1869–1939), pioneer neurosurgeon • Robert B. Dennis (1819–1884), member of the Ohio House of Representatives • John A. Ellsler (1821–1903), actor and theatre manager • Lethia Cousins Fleming (1876–1963), American suffragist, teacher, civil rights activist and politician. • Alan Freed (1921–1965), radio disc jockey who popularized the term "rock and roll " • Abram Garfield (1872–1958), architect • James A. Garfield (1831–1881), President of the United States • Lucretia Garfield (1832–1918), First Lady of the United States • Marcus A. Hanna (1837–1904), U.S. Senator and Republican Party boss • Gertrude Harrison (1871–1938), professional golfer • Stephen V. Harkness (1818–1888), investor and founding co-partner of Standard Oil • Minnie Hartness (1867-1957), stenographer, writer, lecturer, and lady of letters • John Hay (1838–1905), former United States Secretary of State and aide to President Abraham Lincoln • Myron T. Herrick (1854–1929), Governor of Ohio, U.S. ambassador to France • Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869–1950), founder of the Cleveland Orchestra • Mortimer Dormer Leggett (1821–1896), lawyer, educator, Union Army Major General, Commissioner of Patents • Al Lerner (1933–2002), owner of the Cleveland Browns • Flora Stone Mather (1852–1909), philanthropist • Garrett Morgan (1877–1963), inventor of the gas mask and the three-colored traffic light • Eliot Ness (Cenotaph, 1903–1957), Cleveland Safety Director and a member of The Untouchables • George Willis Pack (1831–1906), timber tycoon • Charles A. Otis Sr. (1827–1905), businessman and Mayor of Cleveland • Arthur L. Parker (1885–1945), founder of Parker Hannifin Corporation • George W. "Peggy" Parratt (1883–1959), a professional football player who threw the first legal forward pass in a professional game • Oliver Hazard Payne (1839–1917) American businessman and organizer of the American Tobacco trust • Harvey Pekar (1939–2010), comic book writer known for the American Splendor series • Dave Pope (1921–1999), professional baseball player • John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company and philanthropist • James Salisbury (1823–1905), inventor of the Salisbury steak • Viktor Schreckengost (1906–2008), industrial designer, teacher, sculptor, and artist • Heinrich Christian Schwan (1819–1905), third president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod • Henry Alden Sherwin (1842–1916), co-founder of the Sherwin-Williams Company • Anthony J. Stastny (1885–1923), composer, founder and president of Tin Pan Alley music publisher, A. J. Stasny Music Co. • Carl B. Stokes (1927–1996), Mayor of Cleveland, United States ambassador • Louis Stokes (1925–2015), Member, U.S. House of Representatives • Amasa Stone (1818–1883), industrialist and philanthropist • Worthy S. Streator (1816–1902), physician, railroad baron, founder of Streator, Illinois, Ohio State Senator, first mayor of East Cleveland, Ohio • Mantis James Van Sweringen (1881–1935), railroad and real estate baron • Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (1879–1936), railroad and real estate baron • Jeptha Homer Wade (1811–1890), founder of Western Union • Thomas H. White (1836-1914) founder of the White Sewing Machine Company. ==See also==