THE ORIGINOF THE ROSE QUARTZMONUMENT

and became a highly respected tailor in

Rochester. Both he and Leona were ac­

tive in their church, including its Mis­

sionary Society. Julius was a member of

and sister, Allan and Sybil Cummings,

on June 1, 1927. Unfortunately, Sybil

died about three weeks after the lease

date, leaving no last will and testament.

This rose quartz stone came.from the Bumpus Q¥any in 04iJrd Coun!Jl

Maine. The Andersen monument is in Range 7, Lot 17.

After a mourning period, the

quarry started operations in Sep­

tember of that year, but the process

of probate lasted four years and

Sybil's heirs were anxious to get

their share of the mining profits.

Rose quartz had been found almost

immediately in the quarry, but it

initially did not have appreciable

value. The quarry should have

yielded about $1,000 profit per year

for its feldspar output, but there

was a complication. An enormous

quantity of beryl crystals were soon

discovered, and there was great

fanfare about the crystals being of

record size.

The weight of the beryl sold from

the quarry was about 100 tons,

and the heirs hoped to get their

share, but a family feud prevented

disbursement of funds. Finally, a

comment in Business Week maga­

zine in 1930 sent the probate issue

to court: the quarry is "better than

owning an oil well". During the

Depression the heirs were very ea­

ger to get their share of the "oil

well". Unfortunately, as is usually

the case, expectations had been

raised to unsupportable levels, and

the family feud eventually resulted

in the heirs getting about $175

each-along with the loss of love

and family.

Rose quartz continued to be pro­

duced by the quarry, whenever min­

ing was active, and it eventually

was a large share of income for a

minor who grew up to be a gift shop

owner, Stanley I. Perham (1907-1973).

Sometime in 1950, Julius Andersen,

at age 71, ordered his rose quartz

monument from Perham's store. Leona

Andersen died twelve years earlier, and

she mayor may not have already had a

marker for her plot. Julius' motivation

to acquire a rose quartz monument for

himself and his wife is unknown.

Monuments made of South Dakota rose

quartz were known well enough, but

the Masons, Fireman's Benevolent Soci­

ety, and the Rochester Chamber of

Commerce.

I became interested in discovering

the current location of this rose quartz

monument as part of researching the

history of feldspar mining in Oxford

County, Maine and the Bumpus Quarry

of Albany, in particular. It was a small

quarry that had a turbulent history at

several levels. The quarry was leased by

Harry Bumpus from his wife's brother

The block qf rose quartz weighed 5, 000 pounds when it was shipped to

Rochester. The suiface has some transparency and vanes in

color.from deep rose to almost white.

By Jim King

Rose quartz monuments

are not rare. Scotts Rose Quartz

Quarry in Custer, South Dakota

gets orders for rose quartz on a

frequent enough basis that they

set aside any suitablemonument-size blocks for that

purpose during their mining

operations and have done so

since the 1920s. My interest in

the beautiful rose quartz

monument in Mount Hope

Cemetery is that it isn't from

South Dakota, but from Albany,

Maine.

Only within the last ten

years has there been an ex­

planation for the wonderful

color of rose quartz. Themineral has sub-microscopicparticles of a reddish purple

to a bluish purple mineral

called dumortierite. Thatmineral occurs in such minute

quantities that proving what

the mineral actually was had to

wait for modern technology to

answer the question. Because

the color is due to particles in­

cluded in the host quartz, even

the most transparent pieces of

rose quartz have a "sleepy"haze and most pieces are really

cloudy pink.

Rose quartz is found in

rocks that are common sources

of raw material used in making

the finest porcelain glaze. That

mineral is called feldspar. Such was the

origin of this block in Mount Hope

Cemetery. The stone is about 4.5 x 3 x 2

feet and weighs about 4,500 pounds.

This rose quartz monument marks

the resting place of Julius J. Andersen

(l879-September 25, 1954) and Leona M.

Andersen (1879-February 1, 1938). From

Julius' obituary in the Rochester Demo­

crat and Chronicle, we learn only the

highlights of who the Andersens were.

Julius emigrated from Germany in 1893

rose quartz from Maine had yet to befashioned into grave markers of anykind. One must imagine that Julius and(perhaps) Leona had been tourists inMaine and had visited Perham's storewhere they became familiar with rosequartz's beauty. The personal visit is theonly reason that seems adequate to haveinspired Julius to pick the rare Mainerose quartz for his monu ment.

The Oxford Countynewspa per, AdvertiserDemocrat, in Maine pub­lished a photo of the rawrose quartz block as it wasbeing crated for shipmentto Rochester on October 27,1950. At the time of ship­ment, the block weighedabout 5,000 pounds andwas claimed to be a rosequartz block of record sizefor any loca Ii ty east of theMississippi River. It wasalso revealed that the stonewas destined for use as acemetery monument in"New York". It may besurmised that it was a spe­cial order and that StanleyPerham had directed theexcavation of the block.

During the time pe­riod, the Cold War betweenthe U.S. and Russia wasescalating and the FederalGovernment was payinghigh premiums for quarriesto produce beryl. It was thechief ore of beryllium,which was essential to ini­tiating the nuclear reactionresulting in atomic bombs.The Bumpus Quarry, whichhad spawned a feud overits beryl production, wasagain producing beryl forthe Strategic MineralsStockpile in 1950.

Unfortunately, the ravages ofweather have not been kind to themonument in Mount Hope Cemetery.Hidden cracks have been affected byfrost and ice and have widened so thatthe monument is now in fragile condi­tion.

WILLIAM T. CLARKE(1859-1930)PHOTOGRAPHEROF 19TH CENTURYPENNSYLVANIALUMBER CAMPS

by Richard 0. Reisem

William Townsend Clarke spent morethan three decades of his adult life photo-

Logging campfamilies posefor aphoto by William Clarke.

graphing northern Pennsylvania loggingcamps. He had planned to attend YaleUniversity in the late 1870s, but he waschronically iII and his doctor advised restand an outdoor life.

He took his 8x10-inch, glass-plate viewcamera that he loved and had used forseveral years and moved to north-centralPennsylvania, where logging camps weredecimating the virgin forests. He recordedthe workers, their families, the forests, thelogs being shipped by railroad, and all ofthe other activities at these lumber camps.

He made a living for more than 30 yearsprinting these glass-plate photographsand selling them to the loggers, as well asto the logging companies to provide arecord of their activities.

By the second decade of the 20th century,the forests were gone, along with the log­ging camps. Clarke decided to move toRochester around 1915 to live with histwo sisters at 5 Madison Park South, just

off west MainStreet. Theirhouse is acharming1830s board­and-battencottage onthe southeastcorner of theSusan B. An­thonySquare, stillstanding asyou can seein the photo­graph.

Of the thou­sands ofglass-platenegativesthat he madeover thosedecades,Clarke se­lected 98 totake withhim to Roch­ester, wherethey werestored in atool sheduntil theywere discov­ered in 1972and storedagain until2004, whenthey wererediscovered

and historians

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Hope Cemetery. Rochester, New York 14620, a nonprofit member

orgatli:.arionfolltlded in /980.© 2009 The Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery

Richard O. Reisem. Editor

Jan Wyland. Associate Editor

Frank A. Gillespie, Photographer

Dan Malczewski. Art Director

Lucille Malczewski. Editorial Assistant

Basic annual membership is $20

Call (585) 461-3494 for a free pockel

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called them artful, museum-quality pho­tographs about a seminal period inAmerican history.

William Clarke, who was born in ewYork City of Irish parents in 1859, died inRochester in 1930 at age 71 years. He isburied in Mount Hope Cemetery, Range8, Lot 272.

(The author is thankful to Cynthia Hawk, Land­mark Society, for passing along knowledge ofClarke's historic glass-plate 'Jegatives she leamed atRochester Photographic on Park Avenue.)

Clorke's monument is in Range 8, Lot 272.

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Logsfi"O/n northern Penns)'ll'anialoadedfor mil transport to a lumber mill.

Seffportrait qfWilliam Clarke at a

logging campsite.

5 Madison Park South where IVilliam Clarke lived

zl1ltilhediedin 1930.

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It is our generous members who support our preservation, restoration, beautification,educational, and promotional programs benefiting the great cultural resource in our

community, Mount Hope Cemetenj. We are profoundly grateful for your financial

assistance, and we thank each of the following 515 members for helping to make

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WAGNER COLLEGE HONORSFOUNDER, JOHANN GEORG WAGNER

By Richard 0. Reisem

Wagner College was founded in Roches­ter, ew York in 1883. It was named inmemory of Johann Georg Wagner III, whodied at age 19 years in 1873. His father,John George Wagner, Jr., was a Rochesterindustrialist who financed the first per­manent facility for the newly formed Lu­theran proseminary, presenting the finan­cial gift in memory of his deceased sonwhose untimely death denied him a fu­ture in the Lutheran ministry.

In 1917, Wagner College moved to StatenIsland and today is a coeducational liberalarts college with more than 2,000 stu­dents. On the 125th anniversary of thebeginning of Wagner College, representa­tives from the ew York campus traveled

to Rochester to lay a wreath on the graveof the person who gave the institution itsname. Wagner College graduates living inthe Rochester area joined the celebrationand are gathered around the Wagner fam­ily monument. Twelve Wagner familymembers are buried in the plot.

The event occurred on Saturday, ovem­ber 8, 2008, a chilly gray day in MountHope Cemetery. Addressing the smallgathering is Wagner College President Dr.Richard Guarasci. Directly behind him,with a wreath in front of the headstone, isthe gravesite of J. George Wagner III. Justvisible on the far right is Lee Manchester,director of Media Relations at Wagner,who is videotaping the event. In front of

him is Marilyn olte, president of theFriends of Mount Hope Cemetery. Afterthe ceremony, the group gathered at theGeorge Eastman House for a reception.

A small book, Wagner College: Four Histo­ries, contains the story of the college'searly years in Rochester, including pro­files of the Wagner family. An electronicversion can be downloaded free from

htt1?: / /stores.lulu.com/ wagnercollegeA hardcopy version can be ordered atcost; details atlee.manchester@Wagner.edu.

A WALK IN MOUNTHOPE CEMETERY

(The following poem was printed in the NewGenesee Farmer, October 1840, which was justtwo years after Mount Hope Cemetery openedin October 1838.)

Come hither, he who fear the grave, and

call it lone and drear,

Who deem the burial place a spot to waken

grief and fear.

Oh, Come and climb with me this mount,

where sleep the silent dead,

And through these winding gravel walks

with noiseless footstep tread,

Stoop down and pluck the fragrant bud,

just opening fresh above.

The peaceful bed, where slumbers one who

died in youth and love.

Smell the pure air, so redolent with breath

of summer flowers,

And take this sprig of evergreen, a pledge

for future hours.

See yonder river sparkling through the foli­

age of the grove,

How gracefully its course doth bend; how

still its waters move.

Sit 'neath the branches of this tree that

spreads a grateful shade

To screen a spot for musing though, or holy

converse made.

Look round this garden of the dead, where

creep green myrtle vines,Where boxwood surrounds the sleeper's

home, and scented sweet grier twines;

Where lowly violets open to heaven their

tiny eyes of blue,

Filled oft at morn with glittering tears, the

drop of early dew.

And now bend upwards still your steps to

gain the highest peak,

And let your eyes the view beneath, and

distant prospect seek.

0, beautiful! thrice beautiful! - there

blended hill and dale,

And here the lofty mansion, with cottage

of the vale!

The city spires which look to Heaven, in

whose high cause they stand

As guides to point the pilgrim's eyes

toward this promised land;

The distant villages that speck with

white the wavy green,

And farther still, the deep blue lake, with

many a sail is seen.

Descend again and pause beside this vine­

encircled tomb,

And tell me, is there aught around to fill the

heart with gloom?

List to the feathered songsters' notes, that

warble from the trees,

And hear the music soft that steals upon

the whispering breeze?Oh! say, do not fair Nature's tones awake

the soul to bliss?

And does not thought ascent to heaven

from such a spot as this?

And even the grave, doth not its voice,

amid such flowery ground,

Say to the weary sons of earth, "Here sweet

repose is found?"

Mount Hope! thy consecrated walks I never

more may tread

And learn to die by copping here the les­

sons of the dead,

Yet sweet t'would be to rest my flesh in

hope beneath thy sod

Till the last trump should bid it rise, to see aFather, God!

BLUEBIRD REPORTFOR 2008

By Mari!Jn Nolte

During the 2008 nesting season, a lot ofactivity and competition took place for useof the bluebird nest boxes in Mount HopeCemetery. Several boxes were used bywrens and one by chickadees. The seasonwas considered a success, however, as atotal of five successful bluebird broodswere hatched-all using the boxes with theexception of one pair of bluebirds that util­ized a tree cavity.

In late fall, the boxes were winterized.Perches were placed into the boxes and theextra vents sealed with corks. This providesshelter for birds that winter over. Whenspring returns, the perches will be removedand floor-screen platforms will be put in.Vaseline is sometimes put on the ceilings toprevent wasps from using the boxes asnesting areas.

Volunteers are always needed during thenesting season to monitor the boxes. Infor­mation can be obtained by contacting theFriends of Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133Mount Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620or at 585-461-3494.

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MOUNT HOPEBECOMES A CERTIFIEDWILDLIFE HABITAT

In 2008, Mount Hope Cemeteryachieved the status of "CertifiedWildlife Habitat" from the NationalWildlife Federation. The certificate illus­trated here recognizes our establishmentand maintenance of an official wildlifehabitat. Our certificate No. 110,905 wassigned by David Mizejewski, naturalist,

ational Wildlife Federation, and host ofBackyard Habitat on Animal Planet.

With this certification, Mount HopeCemetery is added to the National Wild­life Federation's

world-wide network of mini-refuges. The organization recognizedthe Friends of Mount Hope for "conscien­tious planning, landscaping, and sustain­able gardening (where) wildlife may findquality habitat-food, water, cover, andplaces to raise their young."

For a number of years, the Friends ofMount Hope have demonstrated interest

in enhancing the pres­ence of wildlife in thecemetery. The organiza­tion assisted in the instal­lation and maintenance of

bluebird houses, whichwas enlarged with addi­tional houses last year. Lastfall, six owl boxes were in-

stalled, as well as severalboxes for flying squirrels.

Owls like to build nests indead trees, and since the cemetery isplanning to cut down dead trees, theFriends are working to develop suitablenesting places for owls. The cemeterycontinues to be home to many furry ani­mals, including faxes. And hawks are a

common sight gliding overhead.