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River View Cemetery (Portland, Oregon)
River View Cemetery, located in the southwest section of Portland, Oregon in the United States, is a non-profit cemetery founded in 1882. It is the final resting place of many prominent and notable citizens of Oregon, including many governors and U.S. Senators.〔( Multnomah County, Oregon: River View Cemetery. ) The Political Graveyard. Retrieved on March 12, 2008.〕 Other notable burials include Henry Weinhard's family, Lyle Alzado, a football player as well as an actor, and Carl Mays a baseball player, remembered for killing an opposing player with a pitch in a Major League game,〔James, Peet. (Necropolitan: Portland's most interesting residents don't walk the streets. At least you'd better hope they don't. ) ''Willamette Week''. Retrieved on March 12, 2008.〕〔(River View Cemetery. ) Find A Grave. Retrieved on March 12, 2008.〕 and famous western lawman Virgil Earp.
==History==
River View Cemetery was founded as a non-profit cemetery by William S. Ladd, James Terwilliger, Henry Failing, Henry W. Corbett, Henry Pittock, Simon Benson, and others in 1882.〔(History. ) River View Cemetery. Retrieved on March 12, 2008.〕 All those who joined co-owned the cemetery.〔 In 1902 a Roll Call statue was added to honor the 165 Oregonians who died in the Spanish–American War.〔 The first adult burial was Dr. William Henry Watkins.〔(The Doctor in Oregon. ) Alibris. Retrieved on March 12, 2008.〕 In the 1940s a 135-person chapel was added, designed by Pietro Belluschi.〔(Home page, River View Cemetery. ) River View Cemetery. Retrieved on January 24, 2015.〕
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