Mount Olivet Cemetery (Salt Lake City) Explained
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was established on May 16, 1874, by an act of the U.S. Congress[1] which granted 20 acres of land for public use as a cemetery. The first use of the cemetery was in 1877. The cemetery land originally consisted of exactly 20 acres and was part of the U.S. Army's Camp Douglas military reservation.[2] Since that time, the allotment has been expanded and contracted; the present cemetery is approximately 80 acres.[3]
Notable burials
- Clarence Emir Allen (1852–1932), US Representative
- Clarence Bamberger (1886–1984), mining executive, member of the Utah House of Representatives and philanthropist[4]
- Jacob B. Blair (1821–1901), US Representative
- Arthur M. Brown (1843–1906), US Senator
- Ina Claire (1893–1985), actress
- George Dern (1872–1936), Governor of Utah
- Robert V. Derrah (1895–1946), architect
- William S. Godbe (1833–1903), journalist
- Elmer O. Leatherwood (1872–1929), US Representative
- J. Bracken Lee (1899–1996), Utah Governor
- James B. McKean (1821–1879), US Representative
- Charles C. Moore (1866–1958), Governor of Idaho
- Charles Eberhard Salomon (1824–1881), Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General
- Frederick Salomon (1826–1897), Civil War Union Brigadier General
- John Smith (1931–1995), actor (cenotaph to Robert Errol Van Orden)
- Jabez G. Sutherland (1825–1902), US Representative
- Amanda Swenson (1852-1919), soprano singer and instructor
- Arthur Lloyd Thomas (1851–1924), Utah Territorial Governor
- John Witcher (1839–1906), Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General
Notes and References
- An act granting a portion of the United States military reservation at Salt Lake City for cemetery purposes, May 16, 1874 . The Statutes at Large of the United States, from December, 1873 to March 1875, and Recent Treaties, Postal Conventions, and Executive Proclamations . 1875 . 46–47 . 4 November 2020 . 43rd Congress, Session 1, Chapter 180 . Government Printing Office . Washington .
- General Orders No. 8, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, January 26, 1877 . Index of General Orders, Adjutant General's Office, 1877 . 1878 . 4 November 2020 . Government Printing Office . Washington . pdf.
- Web site: Salt Lake County Public GIS Portal . County of Salt Lake, Utah . 4 November 2020.
- News: Clarence Bamberger, Utah Financier, Dies . 1984-02-19 . The Salt Lake Tribune . 23 . . 2024-01-28.