cemetery Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., first African American astronaut (cremated at Graceland, but not physically buried there) Victor F. Lawson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News Agnes Lee, poet and translator Frank Lowden, Governor of Illinois Franklin H. Martin, physician Alexander C. McClurg, bookseller and Civil War general Cyrus McCormick, businessman, inventor Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Daughter-in-law of reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick and one of the four adult children of John D. Rockefeller Katherine Dexter McCormick, Daughter-in-law of reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick, MIT grad, biologist, suffragist, philanthropist Maryland Mathison Hooper McCormick, second wife of Col. Robert R. McCormick Nancy "Nettie" Fowler McCormick, businesswoman, philanthropist Joseph Medill, publisher, mayor of Chicago Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect László Moholy-Nagy, influential photographer, teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and Institute of Design IIT in Chicago Dawn Clark Netsch, comptroller of Illinois, professor & spouse of architect Walter Netsch Walter Netsch, architect Richard Nickel, photographer, architectural historian and preservationist Ruth Page, dancer and choreographer Bertha Honoré Palmer, philanthropist Francis W. Palmer, newspaper printer, U.S. Representative, Public Printer of the United States Potter Palmer, businessman Richard Peck, author Allan Pinkerton, detective, progenitor of the Secret Service William Henry Powell, Medal of Honor recipient George Pullman, inventor and railway industrialist Wilhelm Rapp, newspaper editor Hermann Raster, newspaper editor, politician and abolitionist John Wellborn Root, architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect Washington Smith, pioneer wholesale grocer and philanthropist. The Washington and Jane Smith Home (now Smith Village) was named in his honor. Louis Sullivan, architect Charles Wacker, businessman and philanthropist, also director of the 1893 Columbian Exposition<ref>Lanctot. Barbara, ‘’A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery: A Chicago Architecture Foundation Walking Tour, A Chicago Architecture Foundation Walking Tour, Chicago, IL, 1992 p. 30</ref> Kate Warne, first female detective, Allan Pinkerton employee Hempstead Washburne, mayor of Chicago Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon who performed one of the first successful operations on the pericardium George Ellery Wood, lumber baron. His home, built in 1885, on 2801 S. Prairie Ave. in Chicago, IL is a historical landmark Other cemeteries in the city of Chicago Graceland is one of three large mid 19th-century Chicago cemeteries which were then well outside the city limits; the other two being Rosehill (further north), and Oak Woods (on the south-side) all in the elaborated pastoral cemetery style. In addition, directly south of Graceland across Irving Park Road are the smaller German Protestant Wunder's Cemetery (1859),