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25 November 2013

COOGAN story

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appearing in "Kalamazoo Telegraph" [MI], 30 DEC 1870, PAGE 4, COL 3:

[...Riverside Cemetery...]

This beautiful retreat for those who, after life's fitful fever, 
sleep well, has been greatly improved and beautified during the 
past season. Mr. Dennis Coogan, the well known gardener and florist, 
having been in charge of it, and devoting his best efforts to making 
it what it should be is encouraged by liberal appropriations by the 
people of the township. Heretofore it has been looked upon as a 
wilderness place, too wild and lonely for the purposes it was 
dedicated to, because it had been suffered to grow up weeds and 
underbrush, and the roads and pathways, to be almost lost. Now the 
change is great, and hereafter it will continue to grow in grace 
and beauty. A large number of lots have been purchased this season, 
and the place has come to be looked upon with great favor by those 
who a year or two ago believed it would never be made a pleasant 
looking burying ground. It is naturally the prettiest cemetery in 
the county, and in a few years will be all that we could wish it to 
be.

http://kalamazoogenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/04/kalamazoos-riverside-cemetery.html

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