Lake View Cemetery - Cleveland Ohio

Henry Chisholm (1822 - 1881) was the founder of the Cleveland Rolling Mills, located on Cleveland's near south side. These mills specialized in making iron and steel and provided jobs for the thousands of European immigrants that flocked to the nearby Tremont and Slavic Village neighborhoods in the 19th century. (The Cleveland Rolling Mills eventually became part of US Steel, then Republic Steel, then LTV, then Int'l Steel Group...)

Chisholm was, by all accounts, a kind and benevolent employer. His monument at Lake View Cemetery reads "erected by 6000 employees and friends in memory of Henry Chisholm, christian, philanthropist, and everyone's friend." After Chisholm's death, his mills were the site of many violent clashes between workers and management.

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