Exam 2 People Flashcards
First wholesale coffin warehouse
John L Dillon and Shroud Warehouse of New York
Copied an Egyptian sarcophagus style mummy case with folded arms, made air tight of cast or raised metal and patented in 1948, falsely claiming that the airtight burial case would prevent putrefaction
Almond D. Fisk (Fisk Metallic Coffin)
First to develop the straight sided coffin
William Cooley
Coined the word Casket
William Cooley
Austrian Cabinet maker who produced a glass and wood casket, but was too fragile
Samuel Stein
Developed the Style E Casket
Samuel Stein
Invented the burial safe in Cincinnati Ohio, meant to protect the remains against resurrectionists
Andrew Van Bibber
Developed a domed iron cover and floor plate vault, which was the direct predecessor to the air seal metallic burial vault
George Boyd
Credited with the first successful corpse cooler
Robert Frederick and C.A. Trump
Invented a metal box like refrigerator used mainly in hospitals and city morgues
Charles Kimball
Each filed patents for more portable corpse cooling devices
Howard V. Griffith and R.C. Andrus
Father of American Embalming
Dr. Thomas Holmes
Formulated a fluid of arsenic and zinc chloride, which he called inominata
Dr. Thomas Holmes
Patented an injection pump apparatus and body bags
Dr. Thomas Holmes
Claims to have embalmed 4,028 officers and soldiers
Dr. Thomas Holmes
Embalmed Colonel Elmer E Ellsworth
Dr. Thomas Holmes
His final wish was to not be embalmed
Dr. Thomas Holmes
Has the first patent for embalming dead bodies, involving injection of an arsenic alcohol mixture and electricity charging the body
J. Anthony Gaussardia
Embalmed Willy Lincoln - Abe’s son
Henry Cattel
Embalmed President Lincoln
Henry Cattel
The first black embalmer
Prince Greer
Medical embalmer during the Civil War who patented and sold Crane’s electro dynamic mummifier
Professor E.H Crane
Sold Crane’s fluid as Professor Rhodes’ electrical balm
Professor George M Rhodes
Patented the Trocar
Professor Samuel Rogers
Dean of Embalmers of the English Speaking people
Professor Felix A Sullivan
Founded Champion Chemical Company
Edward Hill and Scipio Baker
Founded Clarke Chemical Works
Joseph H Clark
Founded Dodge Chemical Company
A Johnson Dodge
Brought Jean Gannal’s book History of Embalming to America and had it translated to english
Dr Richard Harlan
Opened the Plute Medical College’s Ampitheater, later to be called Cincinnati School of Embalming, the oldest mortuary school still in existence
Joseph H. Clarke
Opened the first mortuary school in the state of Maryland
Dr William Hartley
Introduced the eight poster, oval decked funeral car, marking the end of the ornamental deck hearse
Hudson Sampson
Invented a combined Hearse passenger vehicle, none of which were ever sold
Fred Hulberg
