Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)

Lake View Cemetery

Nisei War Memorial, Lake View Cemetery
Details
Established	1872
Location	Seattle, Washington
Country	United States
Type	Public
Size	40 Acres
Number of graves	40,000

Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery located on Seattle, Washington, Capitol Hill just north of Volunteer Park. It is named for its view of Lake Washington to the east. It was founded in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery.

Notable interments

• Princess Angeline - daughter of Chief Seattle
• Walter B. Beals - Chief Justice Washington State Supreme Court. Presiding Judge, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1946-1947.
• Beriah Brown - Mayor of Seattle
• Gottlieb Burian - founder of the city of Burien, Washington
• Denny Party members (Seattle pioneers), including:
  • Carson Boren
  • Arthur A. Denny
  • David Swinson "Doc" Maynard
  • Thomas Mercer
• William Grose - second black resident of Seattle
• Granville O. Haller - Noted businessman and military officer
• Thaddeus Hanford - Seattle newspaper editor
• Bruce Lee - martial artist and actor
• Brandon Lee - actor; son of Bruce Lee
• Denise Levertov - poet
• William Harvey Lillard - First chiropractic patient
• Eugene McAllaster - naval architect; designer of the fireboat Duwamish
• John W. Nordstrom - founder of Nordstrom
• Guy Carleton Phinney - developer whose land became the Woodland Park
• A. W. Piper - pioneer, baker, socialist Seattle City Council member, eponym of Pipers Creek and Piper Orchard
• Cordelia Wilson - American Southwest painter

Monuments

The cemetery contains the Nisei War Memorial Monument, dedicated in 1949 to Japanese American veterans, some of whom are buried there.

Area

Just north of the cemetery is Seattle's Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery.

External links

• Official site
• FindAGrave Lake View Cemetery
• Biography of Eugene L. McAllaster, designer of Seattle's historic fireboat Duwamish.

Coordinates: 47°38′02″N 122°18′55″W / 47.63389°N 122.31528°W