Schumacher

 

Schumacher's bronze memorial has been cleaned. Bronze becomes verdigris in color. Green Lawn has increased its maintenance.

Frederick W. Schumacher was born in Copenhagen in 1863. He died in 1963, and i read he is buried in another Greenlawn Cemetery, a Lutheran one in Mahoning County. Schumacher made money in mining in Ontario. A good portion of the original collection of Columbus' art museum came from him.

Three sides of this bronze has pastoral scenes from ancient times. Priessman, Bauer & Company, Munich 1930s.

Downtown Columbus was Wolf Ridge

Mike Major. "Departed Denizens".  public ceremony 16 October 2020. Columbus.

The wolf is on top of a 16 ton granite rock. This monument is for the remains of former cemeteries that were built over for other projects.

 

a monument to an airedale

Renate Fackler. Muggs Thurber. unveiled August 28, 2021. Columbus.

Thurber's drawing of Muggs

This is a cenotaph. Muggs was buried by Thurber in a forgotten ditch in 1928.

James Thurber was a writer, humourist, and cartoonist. He lost an eye as a child, and his vision continued to deteriorate. He went to Ohio State, and was refused graduation. A mandatory ROTC class disqualified him on account of his eyesight. He was given a degree, thirty-four years posthumously.

 

He wrote an essay, “The Dog That Bit People”. It ends:

Muggs died quite suddenly one night. Mother wanted to bury him in the family lot under a marble stone with some such inscription as “Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest” but we persuaded her it was against the law. In the end we just put up a smooth board above his grave along a lonely road. On the board I wrote with an indelible pencil “Cave Canem.” Mother was quite pleased with the simple classic dignity of the old Latin epitaph.