Important people- Test 2

Question 1

An independent New Jersey undertaker who won a court case against the sextons’ monopoly in his area in 1850.

Answer 1

William Ensign

Question 2

In 1836, he received the first American patent on a metallic coffin which is produced in his workshop in Richmond, VA.

Answer 2

James A. Gray

Question 3

In 1835, he and his associates received a patent to make coffins of stone, marble, and hydraulic cement, but because of various difficulties the patent was allowed to expire in 1849.

Answer 3

John White

Question 4

He patented the Fisk Metallic Burial Case in 1848, modeling it on an Egyptian sarcophagus.

Answer 4

Almond D. Fisk

Question 5

This stove manufacturing company produced the Fisk Metallic Burial Case and went on to produce a whole line of funeral products.

Answer 5

Crane, Breed & Co.

Question 6

He patented a burial case with the ogee design in 1859, which simplified the earlier Fisk style.

Answer 6

A.C. Barstow

Question 7

He claimed to be the first to develop a straight-sided coffin in 1849, and used the word “casket” to describe his innovation.

Answer 7

William Cooley

Question 8

He was the Austrian cabinet maker who settled in Rochester, NY in 1850. His cloth-covered wooden caskets were extremely successful.

Answer 8

Samuel Stein

Question 9

He was buried with an E state casket with his initials embroidered on the pillow; over 200,000 people viewed his body before the funeral.

Answer 9

U.S. Grant

Question 10

He produced the earliest patent for a life signal coffin in 1843.

Answer 10

Christian Eisenbrandt.

Question 11

In 1872, he proposed encasing the entire casket in concrete to deter grave robbers.

Answer 11

Jacob Weidenmann

Question 12

He invented the burial safe in 1878.

Answer 12

Andrew Van Bibber

Question 13

He created the direct predecessor of the air seal metallic burial vault, with a domed iron cover and floor plate which were fastened together.

Answer 13

George W. Boyd

Question 14

These two Baltimore undertakers patented the first successful corpse cooler in 1846.

Answer 14

Robert Frederick and C.A. Trump

Question 15

He invented a metal box-like refrigerator that was too cumbersome for funeral service but was used in hospitals and morgues.

Answer 15

Charles Kimball

Question 16

He is called the father of American Embalming. He patented an injection pump apparatus and a portable elastic bag for shipping bodies.

Answer 16

Dr. Thomas Holmes

Question 17

He was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, and was the first ranking casualty of the Civil War.

Answer 17

Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth

Question 18

He received the first patent for a method of embalming in 1856.

Answer 18

J. Anthony Gaussardia

Question 19

He embalmed Little Willy Lincoln, and later Lincoln himself.

Answer 19

Harry P. Cattell

Question 20

He was the first recorded black embalmer and embalmed cases between 1863 and 1871.

Answer 20

Prince Greer

Question 21

His misconduct during the Civil War caused the government to require licenses for those who wanted to embalm military dead.

Answer 21

Dr. Richard Burr

Question 22

He sold a fluid called “fluid allekton” and patented the trocar in 1878.

Answer 22

Samuel Rogers

Question 23

He had the largest traveling embalming school in the country from 1898-1900; later he traveled to London and taught chemical embalming to English undertakers. He was called the “Dean of Embalmers of the English Speaking People.”

Answer 23

Professor Felix A. Sullivan

Question 24

These two men founded Champion Chemical Company.

Answer 24

Edward Hill and Scipio

Question 25

This company produced “the non-poisonous big four,” and is still in business today.

Answer 25

Embalmers Supply Company (ESCO)

Question 26

He was concerned with the sanitation movement, and had Jean Gannal’s “History of Embalming” translated and published in the US.

Answer 26

Richard Harlan

Question 27

He was considered the dean of early embalming instruction, and opened the Rochester School of Embalming in 1882.

Answer 27

Dr. August Renouard

Question 28

He began the Cincinnati School of Embalming in 1862, the oldest mortuary school in existence. He also founded a chemical company that is still in business today (Dodge Chemical Company).

Answer 28

A. Johnson Dodge

Question 29

He founded the first mortuary school in the state of Maryland.

Answer 29

William Hartley

Question 30

This company featured a “funeral car” at the New Orleans Cotton Exposition in 1884.

Answer 30

James Cunningham & Son & Co.

Question 31

This company introduced the eight poster, oval decked “funeral car” in 1889.

Answer 31

Hudson Sampson