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being an undertaker who won a court case against the sextons, who had a monopoly in his area in 1850. |
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| Michael Jenkins is famous for |
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| being a cabinet-maker/undertaker who was appointed coroner in 1799 |
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| John L. Dillon is famous for |
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| having a coffin and shroud warehouse after the war of 1812, he made coffins on the wholesale level. |
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| James A. Gray is famous for |
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putting the first patent on a metal coffin in 1836. |
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Almond D. Fisk is famous for |
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| making the fisk metallic coffin in 1848 |
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| W.M. Raymond Company is famous for |
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| manufacturing the Fisk metallic burial case |
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| A.C. Barstow is famous for |
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| patented the Ogee design (an improvement on the fisk model) in 1859. |
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James Gordon Bennet is famous for |
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| being the owner and editor of the New York Herald newspaper, who was buried in Stein's cloth over wood casket in 1872 |
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| Samuel Stein was famous for |
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| creating a very successful cloth over wood casket in 1872, and claiming it could preserve as well as a metallic casket. |
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| Andrew Van Biber was famous for |
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| creating the burial safe in 1878. it was like a metal cage, and protected the body from resurrectionists. |
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| Andrew Von Biber was from |
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| George Boyde is famous for |
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| creating a vault that is very similar to the sealed vaults of today in 1900. |
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| Scipio Baker is famous for |
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| owning the Champion Embalming Chemical Company, he manufactured Boyde's vaults at the turn of the last century. he sold the vault through the springfield metallic casket company. |
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| Howard V. Griffith is famous for |
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| patented a portable corpse cooling device made of zinc and wood in 1870. |
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| Howard V. Griffith is from |
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| R.C. Andrus is famous for |
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| patenting a portable cooling device in 1870, at the same time as howard v. griffith. |
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| making the first corpse preserver (cooling device) in 1843, that didn't work at all. |
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| Robert Frederick is famous for |
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| making the first successful corpse cooler with C.A. Trump in 1846 |
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| making the first successful corpse cooler along with Robert Frederick in 1846. |
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| Baltimore, MD! and so is Robert Frederick! |
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| Dr. Thomas Holmes is famous for |
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so many, many things. read them know them. father of american embalming. seriously. |
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| Dr. Thomas Holmes is from |
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| Elmer E. Ellsworth is famous for |
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| being the first ranking casualty of the civil war. Thomas Holmes embalmed him in 1861, and it send embalming popularity through the roof. |
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| Dr. C.B. Chamberlain is famous for |
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| developing chemical formulations and embalming techniques during the civil war. |
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| Dr. F.A. Hutton is famous for |
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| making new techniques and chemicals for embalming during the civil war. |
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| Henry P. Cattel is famous for |
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| embalming the two year old son of Lincoln in 1863, and then embalming Lincoln himself in 1865. |
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| J. Anthony Guassardia is famous for |
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| obtained the first patent for embalming dead bodies in 1856. he used arsenic, alcohol, and electricity for some reason. |
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| J. Anthony Guassardia was from |
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| Prince Greer was famous for |
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| being the first black embalmer from 1863 to 1871. |
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| Felix A. Sullivan was famous for |
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| being one of the "professors". he had the largest travelling embalming school in the country from 1890 to 1900. he introduced chemical embalming to the Rnglish. was was called the "dean of embalmers of the english speaking people." |
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| Samuel Rogers was famous for |
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| patenting the trocar in 1878, and also selling his gluid, allekton. |
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| Joseph A. Clarke was famous for |
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| he made a three week embalming course in 1882. it later became the cincinnati school of embalming, which is now the oldest mortuary school still in existence. |
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| Dr. William Hartley is famous for |
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| created the school of sanitation and embalming at johns hopkins univeristy in baltimore. it was the first mortuary school in the state of maryland. (5 week course) |
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| Hudson Sampson was famous for |
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| introducing the eight poster, oval decked funeral car that ended the ornamental deck hearse. |
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| Fred Hulberg was famous for |
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| inventing a hearse/passenger vehicle in 1908. it was ridiculous and he never sold any. |
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