Some of the most important mausoleums and memorials at Cypress Lawn are built on the commercial fortunes of certain products. Can you connect the merchandise with the merchant?
Hugh McCrum / Gustave Niebaun / Claus Spreckels / Andrew Jackson Pope / William Fuller / Gertrude Atherton / Raymond Bocci / Charles De Young / Paul Kalmanovitz / Herman Nager / Charles Howard
Answers at end of post
Answers (in order of product pictures)
Paul Kalmanovitz – The Beer Baron Wholesaler of Northern California
William Fuller – The Fuller Paint Company, still operating
Andrew Jackson Pope (with partner Frederic Talbot, also buried at Cypress Lawn) – Pope And Talbot Lumber Company, still operating
Hugh McCrum – The largest liquor distributor on the West Coast
Charles Howard – First West Coast distributor of Buick (and owner of the race horse, Seabiscuit)
Gertrude Atherton – Novelist
Raymond Bocci – Master cemetery memorial monument maker, located in Colma
Claus Spreckels – The Sugar King
Herman Nager: The Potato Chip King
Gustave Niebaum – Inglenook Wine
Charles De Young – founded with his brother The San Francisco Chronicle
Terry Hamburg, Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation