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Title: King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: King, Moses, 1853-1909 Clogston, William
Subjects: Springfield (Mass.) -- Description and travel Springfield (Mass.) -- Bibliography
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : J.D. Gill, Publisher
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Mary Holyoke Gravestone, Springfield Cemetery. or VfAR,if„» laphat Chapin Gravestone. The cemetery contains an appropriate monument, on Willow Avenue, tothe memory of the soldiers and sailors of the late war. It is the figure of asoldier, in bronze, on a white granite pedestal, guarded by four bronze can-non, the gift of the government. This is the Soldiers Lot; and there isa fund that was raised during the war to sustain a Soldiers Rest* in thecity, the balance of which is still used for the relief of soldiers who areneedy, and to bury them when they die. It contains also an appropriate monument to the memory of Rev. W. B.O. Peabody, D.D., erected by citizens of Springfield, in grateful recognitionof his services in securing for them this beautiful resting-place for theirdead. It is a graceful memorial in the shape of a Gothic shrine of lightfreestone, erected on a knoll near the Maple-street entrance. To him, for
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THE SPRINGFIELD CEMETERY.The Soldiers Monument. One of the Tombs KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. his early suggestions, unremitting supervision, and tender address of con-secration; to George Eaton, then a citizen of this town, for his untiringassiduity in laying out and ornamenting the grounds; and to the Hon.George Bliss, for his wise counsel, and constant devotion to its interests formore than thirty years, who sleeps himself in the spot he loved so well,—to these pre-eminently are we indebted for this resting-place of our dead. Among the men of widest repu-tation, whose remains rest here,are Samuel Bowles, the editor of The Springfield Republican ; Dr. J. G. Holland, the poet,novelist, and editor of Scrib-ners Monthly, — whose monu-ment, in Hudson-river blue-stone, bears a bronze portraitrelief by Augustus St. Gaudens;Chester Harding, the portrait-painter; William S. Elwell, hispupil, so long known as theCrescent-hill artist: ChesterW. Chapin. the president of theBoston and Alb

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