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Loudon Park Cemetery

Loudon Park Cemetery is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Loudon Park Cemetery rather than just read about it. In short: Loudon Park Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was incorporated on January 27, 1853, on 100 acres (40 ha) of the site of the "Loudon" estate, previously owned by James Carey, a local merchant and politician.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Loudon Park Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was incorporated on January 27, 1853, on 100 acres (40 ha) of the site of the "Loudon" estate, previously owned by James Carey, a local merchant and politician. The entrance to the cemetery is located at 3620 Wilkens Avenue. The cemetery and Loudon Park Funeral Home, Inc. are locally owned and operated. Both the cemetery and the funeral home became privately owned in 2014 when they were acquired from Service Corporation International (SCI). Loudon Park Funeral Home was built on the grounds of the historic cemetery by Stewart Enterprises in 1995. SCI acquired Stewart Enterprises in 2013.

Loudon Park National Cemetery

A portion of the eastern section is owned by the federal government as Loudon Park National Cemetery, acquired in 1861, and holds the remains of 2,300 Union soldiers killed during the Civil War. There is also a Confederate section where about 650 Confederate soldiers are buried, marked by a statue of a Confederate soldier. Since 2003, nearly all of the Confederates in this section have had new markers put on their graves under an "Adopt-a-Confederate" program. The entrance to the National Cemetery portion of Loudon Park is located along Frederick Avenue in the neighborhood of Irvington. The Confederate Memorial was designed by Frederick Volck in 1870, paid for by Loudon Park Confederate Memorial Association and inaugurated on June 17, 1873. The statue originally features a Confederate soldier (sometimes mistakenly thought to be Stonewall Jackson) standing above a pair of young children; but the children were removed from the statue sometime between 1924 and 1980.

Notable persons Notable persons interred here include:

Charles J. Baker (1821–1894), ex officio Mayor of Baltimore Thomas Beck (1909–1995), actor Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851–1921), former United States Attorney General, former United States Secretary of the Navy, founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (1805–1870), son of Jérôme Bonaparte, nephew of Emperor Napoleon I, father of Charles Joseph Bonaparte. William Samuel Booze (1862–1933, U.S. Congressman from Maryland's 3rd District, 1897–1899 Abel G. Cadwallader (1841–1907), Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. Charles L. Carson (1847–1891), architect Jack L. Chalker (1944–2005), author Clarence Lemuel "Cupid" Childs (1867–1912), Major League Baseball Player. Barnes Compton (1830–1898), former Congressman and Maryland state Treasurer. Frederick Nicholls Crouch (1808–1896), composer. Elijah Cummings (1951–2019), U.S Congressman from Maryland's 7th district, 1996–2019. Frederick George D'Utassy (1827–1892), Civil War Union Army officer David Danforth (1890–1970), Major League Baseball player James William Denny (1838–1923), Civil War Confederate Army officer and U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1899–1901 and 1903–1905 Lewis Pessano "Buttercup" Dickerson (1858–1920), Major League Baseball player Charles W. Field (1828–1892), military officer in the United States, Confederate and Egyptian armies John T. Ford (1829–1894), operator of Ford's Theater James Albert Gary (1833–1920), 38th United States Postmaster General Harry Gilmor (1838–1883), Confederate cavalry officer and Baltimore City Police Commissioner. William Henry Gorman (1843–1915), cofounder of Citizens Bank of Maryland Hart Benton Holton (1835–1907), member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Maryland Senate Bradley Tyler Johnson (1829–1903), Writer, Confederate Brigadier General, commanded the 1st Maryland Regiment (C.S.A.). William Kimmel (1812–1886), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1877–1881. Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873–1943), American author, playwright and screenwriter T. Leigh Marriott (1871–1941), state delegate William W. McIntire (1850–1912), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1897–1899. H. L. Mencken (1880–1956), journalist, critic, author, and essayist. Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854–1899), inventor of the Linotype. Howard S. O'Neill (1883–1966), state senator and lawyer J. Smith Orrick (died 1930), American politician George W. Padgett (1858–1916), Maryland state delegate and Baltimore sheriff W. Harry Pairo (died 1925), member of the Maryland House of Delegates Mary Young Pickersgill (1776–1857), seamstress who made the flag flying over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner". Robert John Reynolds (1838–1909), former governor of Delaware. Henry A. Schultz (1844–1916), Maryland state delegate Samuel J. Seymour (1860–1956), possible last surviving witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Frank S. Strobridge (1857–1918), American politician and insurance businessman Alpheus Waters Wilson (1834–1916), bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, South The Weiskittel-Roehle Burial Vault, faced with cast iron, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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References

External links Official website "Loudon Park" Political Graveyard Loudon Park – Explore Baltimore Heritage

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Loudon Park Cemetery

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Loudon Park Cemetery claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Loudon Park Cemetery before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Loudon Park Cemetery ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Loudon Park Cemetery

In research: Loudon Park Cemetery appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Loudon Park Cemetery in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Loudon Park Cemetery is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1853 establishments in Maryland, Buildings and structures completed in 1853, Burial sites of the House of Bonaparte, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Loudon Park Cemetery outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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