About River View Cemetery
River View Cemetery is a cemetery in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. It is operated by Riverview Cemetery Association. Wikidata records 154 notable people buried here, including Edward Elmer Smith, Donald Cook and George Henry Williams. The nearest other listed cemetery is Riverview Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Riverview Abbey Funeral Home in Portland, about 0.2 mi away. It is one of 41 cemeteries we list in Multnomah County, and 65 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 6 of the 41 listings in Multnomah County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at River View Cemetery
Among them: 24 writers, 12 business leaders, 8 governors, 7 US representatives, 7 US senators, 6 football players, 5 journalists, 4 actors.
- Edward Elmer Smith1890-1965Food engineer and author
- Donald Cook1901-1961American actor
- George Henry Williams1823-1910American Lawyer, judge and politician, Oregon
- Lew Beck1922-1970American basketball player
- Virgil Earp1843-1905Deputy US marshal and soldier
- Abigail Scott Duniway1834-1915American suffragist, writer, journalist, pioneer
- Victor G. Atiyeh1923-2014American politician
- Will Vinton1947-2018American animator
- A. C. Gibbs1825-1886American politician
- Lyle Alzado1949-1992American professional football player and actor
- Charles Martin1863-1946Oregon politician
- George Lemuel Woods1832-1890American politician
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- La Fayette Grover1823-1911American politician
- Paul Hugh Emmett1900-1985American chemical engineer
- Frederick W. Mulkey1874-1924American politician
- Henry W. Corbett1827-1903American businessman and politician
- Joseph N. Dolph1835-1897American politician
- Rufus C. Holman1877-1959American politician
- David P. Thompson1834-1901American politician
- John H. Mitchell1835-1905American politician and criminal
- Sylvester Pennoyer1831-1902American mayor
- Carl Mays1891-1971American baseball player
- Corinne Barker1890-1928American actress
- Paul L. Patterson1900-1956American politician
- Frances Fuller Victor1826-1902American historian, poet, novelist, and journalist
- Hazel Ying Lee1912-1944Chinese-American pilot
- Melville W. Brown1887-1938American film editor
- Nan Wood Honeyman1881-1970American politician
- Catherine Amanda Coburn1839-1913Newspaper editor from Oregon, United States
- George Abernethy1807-1877American merchant and politician
- Lola Baldwin1860-1957Policewoman from Portland, Oregon
- Maurice E. Crumpacker1886-1927American politician
- Simon Benson1851-1942American businessman
- George Philbrook1884-1964American gridiron football player and athletics competitor
- Harvey Whitefield Scott1838-1910American journalist
- Joseph Showalter Smith1824-1884American politician
- Lansing Stout1828-1871American politician and lawyer
- Leslie M. Scott1878-1968American politician, historian, newspaper publisher
- Margaret Fristch1899-1993American architect
- Richard Williams1836-1914American lawyer and politician
- Frank G. Abell1844-1910American photographer
- George H. Atkinson1819-1889Oregon missionary and educator
- Hamilton Corbett1888-1966American football player, fullback
- Henry Pittock1835-1919American businessman and pioneer
- Joseph Hamilton Lambert1825-1909American pioneer
- Joseph Horace Eaton1815-1896Union Army general
- Reuben S. Strahan1835-1895American judge and politician
- Wallace McCamant1867-1944American judge
- George A. White1880-1941United States Army general and author
- Henry Failing1834-1898American businessman
- Henry L. Corbett1881-1957Oregon legislator and businessman
- Isaac W. Smith1826-1897American surveyor
- James Jackson1833-1916United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- John Hicklin Hall1854-1937American politician
- John W. Reynolds1875-1942American lawyer
- Mary Osborn Douthit1850-1908American suffragist from Oregon
- Owen Summers1850-1911Founder of Oregon National Guard
- Philip Augustus Marquam1823-1912American politician
- Robert S. Bean1854-1931American judge
- Robert S. Farrell, Jr.1906-1947American politician
- Samuel B. Huston1858-1920American politician
- Simeon Gannett Reed1830-1895American businessman
- Thomas Lamb Eliot1841-1936American clergyman
- William S. Ladd1826-1893American mayor
- Albertina Kerr1890-1911American historical figure
- Alfred H. Corbett1915-2000Oregon legislator, attorney, and businessman
- Anna Rankin Riggs1835-1908American temperance reformer
- Charles Henry Carey1857-1941Oregon lawyer, judge, and historian
- Cleota Gage Fry1910-2001American mathematician and physicist
- Elliott R. Corbett1884-1963
- Emma Osterman Elmer1867-1956American librarian and author
- Ernest Boyd MacNaughton1880-1960American banker and college president
- George Forrest Alexander1882-1948American judge
- Henry R. Adair1882-1916American cavalry officer
- Henry Weinhard1830-1904American brewer
- Hiland Orlando Stickney1867-1911American football player and coach
- James Terwilliger1809-1892
- Mandana Coleman Thorp1843-1916Union Army nurse and public official
- Marion Dolph1879-1921American football player
- Phil Metschan1840-1920Politician and businessman of Oregon
- Robert Lee Mathews1887-1947American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator
- Rodney Glisan1827-1890United States physician
- Sidona V. Johnson1875-1941American historian and humanitarian
- William D. Fenton1853-1925Oregon lawyer and politician in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- A. H. Brown1823-1910American politician
- Abbot Mills1898-1986American economist and government official
- Amanda Reed1832-1904Wife and widow of Simeon Gannett Reed
- Annice Florence Jeffrey Myersdied 1911Physician from Portland, Oregon; Leader in Oregon women's suffrage movement.
- Annie Mabel Haseltine1871-1967Oregon writer
- Cac Hubbard1896-1980American-football player
- Carrie Blake Morgan1850-1926American writer and poet
- Charles A. Fairweather1878-1939American football player and coach
- Charles Adolph Alisky1840-1915German-American businessman
- Charles William Alisky1866-1946American photographer
- Douglas C. Ingram1882-1929
- E. Henry Wemme1861-1914German American businessman, automobile enthusiast, philanthropist of Oregon
- George Neuner1878-1966
- Helen F. Spalding1837-1909Educator from Massachusetts and Oregon
- Howard McKinley Corning1896-1977American poet and historian
- J. P. Munro-Fraser1841-1899Scottish historian and interpreter
- James Asher Richardson1840-1911American physician
- Malcolm Hamilton Clark, Jr.1917-1989Historian from Portland,Oregon
- Margaret Watkins Gibbs1830-1915Wife of Oregon governor Addison Crandall Gibbs
- Marion Cook Stow1875-1910American poet and fiction writer
- Narcissa Edith White Kinney1854-1901American temperance worker
- Nellie Bowden Pipes McArthur1879-1978Historian of Oregon
- Preston Wilson Gillette1825-1905American writer and politician; Oregon pioneer
- Thomas Clarke Devlin1859-1923American city auditor and account, 1907 candidate for Mayor of Portland
- Thomas Nelson Strong1853-1927American author
- William Bittle Wells1872-1965American businessperson; founder of The Pacific Monthly
- William D. Wheelwright1849-1926American timber businessman and writer from Oregon
- Abbot Low Mills1858-1927
- Adeline Becht1937-2005First deafblind American to earn a Ph.D.
- Adolf Wolfdied 1918
- Ahio S. Watt1824-1909American poet and farmer
- Alma Sophia Bechly1875-195019 Apr 1875 - certain 20 Mar 1950
- Anna Mary Enoch Lewis Mann1842-1918Founder of Old People's Home in Portland, Oregon
- B.A. Thaxter1873-1964American educator and college president
- Charles Francis Adams1862-1943American art collector, banker, and financier
- Charles Sidney Chapman1880-1940American forester
- Dell Stuart1849-1905American judge
- Donald E. Pickering1923-2006Physician
- Edwin G. Wilson1887-1955American short story writer and poet
- Elizabeth Lambert Wood1871-1962American writer
- Evelyn Scott Lewis1865-1936
- Frances Gill1884-1937American poet and fiction writer
- Frank S. Doernbecher1861-1921Businessman and philanthropist
- George W. Lichtenthaler1832-1893American conchologist and botanist
- Harold A. Miller1903-1981American businessman (1903-1981); chairman of the board of Stimson Lumber Co.
- Harold C. Bean1889-1930American physician
- Ina Elizabeth Condon1857-193713 Nov 1857 - 11 Apr 1937
- Iva Baker Wilson1892-1953American poet and fiction writer
- James Laidlaw1847-1913British diplomat
- James Mcintosh Wood1854-1944Portland, Oregon businessman
- James Peter Rasmussen1853-1948Owner of one of early Portland, Oregon's leading paint and varnish businesses
- Jane Stimson1906-1993Former director of OHS and former president of Portland garden club
- John Churchhill Ainsworth1870-1943Financier
- June E. Foye1920-2016American poet
- Lawrence Raymond Wheeler1800-1900Lumber businessman and newspaper owner from Portland, Oregon
- Margaret Green Reed1865-1946Heiress
- Mary Alethea Woodward1873-1937American poet
- Mulugeta Seraw1960-1988American murder victim
- Nanny Wood1855-1933Grande Dame of early Portland 1855-1933
- Oliver Seymour Phelps1816-1902American judge and genealogist
- Ormond R. Bean1885-1975American architect and Portland, Oregon, city council member
- Philip Church Schuyler, Jr.1835-1889Oregon pioneer; businessperson and politician of Portland, Oregon
- Richard F. Scholz1880-1924American university president
- Rodney Lawrence Glisan Jr.1869-1934American lawyer and civic leader
- Sam Martin1904-1978American athletics competitor
- Samuel Eliot1882-1976American education administrator
- Shirley Millard1890-1977Nurse and diarist
- Wanetah D. Bell1919-1998Parasitologist
- Wilkie Collins Duniway1861-1927Printer, editor, and civic worker from Oregon
- William H. Jordan1837-1909American military officer
People whose Wikidata entry gives River View Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
45.46383, -122.67498
What River View Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Riverview CemeteryMilwaukie, ORCemetery0.2 mi
- Greenwood Hill CemeteryMilwaukie, ORCemetery0.3 mi
- Grand Army of the Republic CemeteryMilwaukie, ORCemetery0.4 mi
- Beth Israel CemeteryLake Oswego, ORJewish cemetery0.4 mi
- Ahavai Sholom CemeteryMilwaukie, ORCemetery0.5 mi
- Ahavai Shalom CemeteryMilwaukie, ORJewish cemetery0.5 mi
- Milwaukie Pioneer CemeteryMilwaukie, ORCemetery1.5 mi
- Christ Church Episcopal Parish Memorial GardenLake Oswego, ORMemorial park3.1 mi
- Kesher Israel CemeteryMilwaukie, ORJewish cemetery3.8 mi
- Keser Israel and Shaarie Torah CemeteryMilwaukie, ORCemetery3.8 mi
Funeral homes near River View Cemetery
- Riverview Abbey Funeral Home0.2 miFuneral home · Portland · (503) 244-7577
- River View Cemetery Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Portland · (503) 246-6488
- Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home and Crematory1.3 miCremation provider · Portland · (503) 298-4340
- Tulip Cremation1.3 miCremation provider · Portland · (844) 942-4909
- Heritage Wilhelm Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Portland · (503) 235-3101
- Farnstrom-Gable Funeral Chapel2.0 miFuneral chapel · Portland · (503) 253-7569
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Frequently asked questions
Where is River View Cemetery located?
River View Cemetery is at 300 South Taylors Ferry Road, Portland, OR 97219 in Multnomah County. GPS coordinates: 45.46383, -122.67498.
What are the visiting hours of River View Cemetery?
The recorded hours are: 08:00-sunset. Hours can change on holidays, so confirm with the cemetery at (503) 246-4251.
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