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Title: The official guide book to Philadelphia..
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Westcott, Thompson
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter and Coates
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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re mouldering the remains of Elisha Kent Kane,the celebrated Arctic explorer, and of his father, John Kin-tzing Kane, eminent as a lawyer, and for many years judgeof the United States District Court. On the brow of the hilla statue monument in white marble represents a woman clasp-ing two babes in her arms. It is a portrait group of the wifeand children of Henry Demchowski Saunders, a Polish sculp-tor, who at one blow lost his whole family, and has thus com-memorated his grief. Charles Ellet, architect and engineer,constructor of the wire suspension-bridge at Fairmount, thefirst bridge of that character in the country, lies not far fromthis. He was famous during the war of the Rebellion as theoriginal constructor of the steam-ram fleet upon the Missis-sippi. Two sons served with him ; one of them died while onduty with the Mississippi fleet; the other afterward becamea brigadier-general. Near by is a very handsome family vaultstanding above ground. It is of marble, and the property of
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310 CEMETERIES. L. A. Godey. Matthias W. Baldwin, well known as one of thefirst builders and improvers of the locomotiye engine, and subse-quently an extensive manufacturer of those machines, is buriednot far from this. There are numerous other monuments, someof them exceedingly grand, in this portion of the ground. Central Laurel Hill seems to be dedicated to monumentsof the largest and most imposing character. Here are to befound several bronze statues^ effigies of the persons whomoulder below. In South Laurel Hill the altar-tomb erected to the mem-ory of Sarah Ann Harrison, and the Townsend monument,elaborate ornamented Gothic^ and the Hayes monument,are worthy of examination. West Laurel Hill, situate on the west bank of the Schuylkill,at Pencoyd station, on the Philadelphia and Eeading Eail-road, is under the same control as Laurel Hill Cemetery, andis but newly established. It occupies 110 acres. The com-pany which has charge of it was formed in 1869. It occupiesa romantic posit

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