Exam 2 People

Question 1

First wholesale coffin warehouse

Answer 1

John L Dillon and Shroud Warehouse of New York

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Almond D. Fisk (Fisk Metallic Coffin)

Question 3

First to develop the straight sided coffin

Answer 3

William Cooley

Question 4

Coined the word Casket

Answer 4

William Cooley

Question 5

Austrian Cabinet maker who produced a glass and wood casket, but was too fragile

Answer 5

Samuel Stein

Question 6

Developed the Style E Casket

Answer 6

Samuel Stein

Question 7

Invented the burial safe in Cincinnati Ohio, meant to protect the remains against resurrectionists

Answer 7

Andrew Van Bibber

Question 8

Developed a domed iron cover and floor plate vault, which was the direct predecessor to the air seal metallic burial vault

Answer 8

George Boyd

Question 9

Credited with the first successful corpse cooler

Answer 9

Robert Frederick and C.A. Trump

Question 10

Invented a metal box like refrigerator used mainly in hospitals and city morgues

Answer 10

Charles Kimball

Question 11

Each filed patents for more portable corpse cooling devices

Answer 11

Howard V. Griffith and R.C. Andrus

Question 12

Father of American Embalming

Answer 12

Dr. Thomas Holmes

Question 13

Formulated a fluid of arsenic and zinc chloride, which he called inominata

Answer 13

Dr. Thomas Holmes

Question 14

Patented an injection pump apparatus and body bags

Answer 14

Dr. Thomas Holmes

Question 15

Claims to have embalmed 4,028 officers and soldiers

Answer 15

Dr. Thomas Holmes

Question 16

Embalmed Colonel Elmer E Ellsworth

Answer 16

Dr. Thomas Holmes

Question 17

His final wish was to not be embalmed

Answer 17

Dr. Thomas Holmes

Question 18

Has the first patent for embalming dead bodies, involving injection of an arsenic alcohol mixture and electricity charging the body

Answer 18

J. Anthony Gaussardia

Question 19

Embalmed Willy Lincoln - Abe’s son

Answer 19

Henry Cattel

Question 20

Embalmed President Lincoln

Answer 20

Henry Cattel

Question 21

The first black embalmer

Answer 21

Prince Greer

Question 22

Medical embalmer during the Civil War who patented and sold Crane’s electro dynamic mummifier

Answer 22

Professor E.H Crane

Question 23

Sold Crane’s fluid as Professor Rhodes’ electrical balm

Answer 23

Professor George M Rhodes

Question 24

Patented the Trocar

Answer 24

Professor Samuel Rogers

Question 25

Dean of Embalmers of the English Speaking people

Answer 25

Professor Felix A Sullivan

Question 26

Founded Champion Chemical Company

Answer 26

Edward Hill and Scipio Baker

Question 27

Founded Clarke Chemical Works

Answer 27

Joseph H Clark

Question 28

Founded Dodge Chemical Company

Answer 28

A Johnson Dodge

Question 29

Brought Jean Gannal’s book History of Embalming to America and had it translated to english

Answer 29

Dr Richard Harlan

Question 30

Opened the Plute Medical College’s Ampitheater, later to be called Cincinnati School of Embalming, the oldest mortuary school still in existence

Answer 30

Joseph H. Clarke

Question 31

Opened the first mortuary school in the state of Maryland

Answer 31

Dr William Hartley

Question 32

Introduced the eight poster, oval decked funeral car, marking the end of the ornamental deck hearse

Answer 32

Hudson Sampson

Question 33

Invented a combined Hearse passenger vehicle, none of which were ever sold

Answer 33

Fred Hulberg