- Source: Mount Olivet Cemetery (Salt Lake City)
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was established on May 16, 1874, by an act of the U.S. Congress which granted 20 acres of land for public use as a cemetery. The first use of the cemetery was in 1877. The cemetery land originally consisted of exactly 20 acres and was part of the U.S. Army's Camp Douglas military reservation. Since that time, the allotment has been expanded and contracted; the present cemetery is approximately 80 acres.
Notable burials
Clarence Emir Allen (1852–1932), US Representative
Clarence Bamberger (1886–1984), mining executive, member of the Utah House of Representatives and philanthropist
Jacob B. Blair (1821–1901), US Representative
Arthur M. Brown (1843–1906), US Senator
Ina Claire (1893–1985), actress
George Dern (1872–1936), Governor of Utah
Robert V. Derrah (1895–1946), architect
William S. Godbe (1833–1903), journalist
Elmer O. Leatherwood (1872–1929), US Representative
J. Bracken Lee (1899–1996), Utah Governor
James B. McKean (1821–1879), US Representative
Charles C. Moore (1866–1958), Governor of Idaho
Charles Eberhard Salomon (1824–1881), Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General
Frederick Salomon (1826–1897), Civil War Union Brigadier General
John Smith (1931–1995), actor (cenotaph to Robert Errol Van Orden)
Jabez G. Sutherland (1825–1902), US Representative
Amanda Swenson (1852-1919), soprano singer and instructor
Arthur Lloyd Thomas (1851–1924), Utah Territorial Governor
John Witcher (1839–1906), Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General
References
External links
Mount Olivet Cemetery at Find a Grave
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Olivet Cemetery