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Physicians buried in Illinois
Wikidata records 93 physicians as buried in 34 of the cemeteries we list in Illinois. Graceland Cemetery in Chicago holds the most, with 18. Illinois has the 4th highest count of any state, out of 1,346 nationally.
People with physician among their recorded occupations.
93
physicians
34
cemeteries
3%
of notable burials in Illinois
1920s
the decade with the most deaths (12)
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In order of death
Physicians buried in Illinois
- Alexander Wolcott1790-1830American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- William Wagner1825-1872German-American physician and revolutionaryGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John H. Foster1796-1874American physician, landowner, and early settler of ChicagoRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Joseph Warren Freer1816-1877American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Charles V. Dyer1808-1878American activistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Thomas Bevan1830-1880American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Nicholas Francis Cooke1829-1885American physician and authorCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- Sarah Coates Harris1824-1886American suffragist reformer and naturalistGreenwood Cemetery, Galena, IL
- Charles E. Lippincott1825-1887American physician and politicianOak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL
- Patrick Henry Cronin1846-1889Irish immigrant to the U.S., physician, and murder victimCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- Jonathan Adams Allen1825-1890American physician, professor, editorGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Hosmer Allen Johnson1822-1891American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Ransom Dexter1831-1891U.S. physicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- George Elias Shipman1820-1893American physician and editorRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Charles Warrington Earle1845-1893American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Milo Adams McClelland1837-1898American physicianKnoxville Cemetery, Knoxville, IL
- Gerhard Paoli1815-1898Norwegian-American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- William Edward Clarke1819-1898American physicianForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Edwin Moses Hale1829-1899American physicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- James Henry Etheridge1844-1899American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Randolph N. Hall1844-1900American physician (1844-1900); first to operate on the vermiform appendix in the United StatesRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Mary Ann Bickerdyke1817-1901American nurse and philanthropistLinwood Cemetery, Galesburg, IL
- Samuel J. Jones1836-1901American physicianMount Greenwood Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Marie J. Mergler1851-1901American physician, surgeon, textbook authorGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Nathan Smith Davis1817-1904American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Henry M. Lyman1835-1904American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Williams Streeter1841-1905American physician and novelistLake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, IL
- Fernand Henrotin1847-1906Belgian-American physicianCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- Eugene Marguerat1829-1907Swiss-American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Frank W. Reilly1836-1909American physicianWheeling Township Arlington Heights Cemetery, Prospect Heights, IL
- Sarah Hackett Stevenson1841-1909American physicianSaint Boniface Catholic Cemetery, Lincolnwood, IL
- I. N. Danforth1835-1911American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Alexander Hugh Ferguson1853-1911Canadian-American physicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Samuel Willard1821-1913American physician, educator, and abolitionistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Vincent Clarence Price1832-1914(1832-1914) American businessmanOakwood Cemetery, North Chicago, IL
- Greene Vardiman Black1836-1915American dentistry academicDiamond Grove Cemetery, South Jacksonville, IL
- John Benjamin Murphy1857-1916American surgeonCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- Marie Louise White1868-1918American physicianForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Nathan Smith Davis Jr.1858-1920American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Edmund F. Burton1862-1921American physician who left medicine for Christian ScienceForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- George Frank Butler1857-1921American physicianMemorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, IL
- Edward A. Fischkin1862-1923American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Jacob Bolotin1888-1924American physicianJewish Waldheim Cemeteries, Forest Park, IL
- Eugene Solomon Talbot1847-1924American physician and dentistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Henry Lindlahr1862-1924American physicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Arthur DeLyons Butler1879-1924American physician (died 1924)Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- James Edward Inskeep1851-1925American physicianRose Hill Cemetery, Mount Carmel, IL
- Vaclav John Dvorak1863-1925Czech-American priest, physician in ChicagoBohemian National Cemetery of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Sanger Brown1852-1928Canadian-American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Alexander A. Maximow1874-1928Russian-American scientistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Julia Holmes Smith1839-1930American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Volodymyr Simenovych1859-1932American physicianSaint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Frank Billings1854-1932American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Otto L. Schmidt1863-1935American physicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Lena Sadler1875-1939American obstetricianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- William Bryce Mundie1863-1939Canadian-American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Henry Schmitz1871-1939German-American physicianAll Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Des Plaines, IL
- Bernard Fantus1874-1940American physicianForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- A. Wilberforce Williams1865-1940American physician, surgeon, educator, and journalistLincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, IL
- Edmund Andrews1892-1941American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Ben Lewis Reitman1879-1942(1879-1943) American physicianForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Lucy Waite1860-1943American physicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- C. Howard Searle1873-1944American physicianMemorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, IL
- Edith Belle Lowry1878-1945American physicianUnion Cemetery, St. Charles, IL
- Jan F. Esser1877-1946Doctor, chess master, art collectorArcher Woods Memorial Park Cemetery, Justice, IL
- Ruth May Tunnicliff1876-1946American physician and bacteriologistOakwood Cemetery, Macomb, IL
- Jeremiah Frank Armstrong1877-1946Physician and first African-American graduate of CornellLincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, IL
- Theodore Charles Frederick Abel1869-1948(1869-1948) German American physicianGlen Oak Cemetery, Hillside, IL
- Kazys Grinius1866-1950Third President of Lithuania from 7 June 1926 until 17 December 1926Lithuanian National Cemetery, Justice, IL
- Fred C. Zapffe1873-1951American physician and bacteriologistQueen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, IL
- Oliver S. Ormsby1874-1954American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Arthur M. Walker1896-1955American physicianGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Abraham Levinson1886-1955Russian-American pediatricianMemorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, IL
- Julian Dawson1888-1955American physicianLincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, IL
- Alice Wynekoop1871-1955American physician and convicted murdererRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Julius Hess1876-1955American pediatricianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Joseph Francis Kaspar1876-1955Czech-American physician in Prague, NEBohemian National Cemetery of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Max Thorek1880-1960American surgeonRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Herman Niels Bundesen1882-1960American physician, author, and politicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Alfred Averill Knapp1868-1962(1868-1962) American authorSpringdale Cemetery, Peoria, IL
- Dorothy Hansine Andersen1901-1963American physicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Aleksandras Račkus1893-1965Lithuanian-American physician and numismatistSaint Casimir Catholic Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Dr. Thomas James Coogan1900-1974American PhysicianHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Calumet City, IL
- Morris Fishbein1889-1976American physicianRosemont Park Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Edith Farnsworth1903-1977American doctorGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- James Elzar Lebensohn1893-1979American physicianShalom Memorial Park, Arlington Heights, IL
- Evangeline S. Stenhouse1893-1987American physicianOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Gustav Anders Hemwall1908-1998(1908-1998) American physicianWoodlawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Arthur Falls1901-2000African-American physician and activist based in ChicagoQueen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, IL
- Simon D. Zivin1918-2002Jewish Waldheim Cemeteries, Forest Park, IL
- David I. Abramson1905-2002American physicianGlen Oak Cemetery, Hillside, IL
- Samuel Epstein1926-2018British American physicianRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Rosa Henrietta Engertborn 1828German-American physician (fl. 1828-1904)Saint Boniface Catholic Cemetery, Lincolnwood, IL
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1830s1
- 1870s4
- 1880s5
- 1890s10
- 1900s11
- 1910s7
- 1920s12
- 1930s7
- 1940s11
- 1950s9
- 1960s5
- 1970s4
- 1980s1
- 1990s1
- 2000s3
- 2010s1
By recorded year of death, for the 92 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, IL18
- Rosehill Cemetery · Chicago, IL16
- Oakwoods Cemetery · Chicago, IL12
- Forest Home Cemetery · Forest Park, IL5
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery · Evanston, IL4
- Lincoln Cemetery · Blue Island, IL3
- Memorial Park Cemetery · Skokie, IL3
- Jewish Waldheim Cemeteries · Forest Park, IL2
- Queen of Heaven Cemetery · Hillside, IL2
- Glen Oak Cemetery · Hillside, IL2
- Bohemian National Cemetery of Chicago · Chicago, IL2
- Saint Boniface Catholic Cemetery · Lincolnwood, IL2
- Shalom Memorial Park · Arlington Heights, IL1
- Oak Ridge Cemetery · Springfield, IL1
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery · Calumet City, IL1
- Lithuanian National Cemetery · Justice, IL1
- Springdale Cemetery · Peoria, IL1
- All Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum · Des Plaines, IL1
- Rosemont Park Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Saint Casimir Catholic Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Mount Greenwood Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Woodlawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park Cemetery · Forest Park, IL1
- Archer Woods Memorial Park Cemetery · Justice, IL1
- Greenwood Cemetery · Galena, IL1
Top 25 of 34 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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Other notable burials in Illinois
Business leaders265United States representatives260Writers and poets238Baseball players201Musicians and singers191Journalists129Painters, sculptors and photographers94American Civil War veterans88Actors80American football players78Architects74World War II veterans71World War I veterans70Scientists66Medal of Honor recipients57Inventors and engineers55Basketball players51Governors31United States senators25
Method
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.