Funeral History Quarter 2

Where does rhe word "Hease" originate?

French word: Herse
Latin word:
Hirpex meaning rake or harrow.

The first hearse was a stationary framework to hold...

Lighted tapers and decorations

The civil war created a stable sideline business for...

Carriage manufacturers.

Undertakers were replacing their hearses in a ......... cycle in order to keep up with fashion trends

15 year

Who exhibited a funeral car at the NOLA cotton expo in 1884?

James Cunningham, Son & Co.

Who created the 1889 eight poster oval decked funeral car featuring a bell for a death knell?

Hudson Samson

Who created the most elaborate and outstanding heads of the 19th centigrade that was exhibited at the Chicagos World Fair 1893

Crane and Breed

Who was the funeral trolley invented by?

Street Railway Company of Atchinson, Kansas

Where did the funeral trolley operate to?

Mt. Vernon Cemetery

The funeral trolley was designed for..

Casket egress (escapes)

In ______ Most major cities put funeral trolleys to use and lasted until ______

1890s, 1920s.

The first patents for hearses were granted to______ in 1908

Fred Hulberg

________ marketed the first gas powered hearse in_______

crane and breed; 1909

Crane and Breed added _____ to their product line.

Ambulances

Post WWI saw the intro of _______ hearses

Limo

The ________ from ______ contained many skilled Craftsman

exodus from England

_______________ in the colonies created a desire for coffins

prosperity

Colonists did not ____________ their caskets

import or stock pile

___________ caskets for the rich

hard polished or stained

_________ caskets for the poor

Pine painted lamp black and glue

The emergence of __________ ___________ who supplied goods to undertakers to people dealing with public

Furnishing undertakers

John Dillion had one of the fist __________ in the US

coffin warehouses

Design ideas being introduced resulted in better:
1.
2.
3.
4.

1. Utility
2. Reflection of Status
3. Protection
4. Appearance

Utility of Casket creates a better _________, more ________, and more __________

use of casket, profitable, beneficial

Reflection of Status created caskets with _____, _____, and _______

more expensive material, adornments, better craftsmanship

Protection created from the new ideas of caskets protected against ____ and during _____

grave robbers, ship outs

Appearance of the new ideas for caskets moved from ___- to ____-

gloom to beauty

1860 Patents for caskets included:
1.
2.
3.
4.

1. Iron
2. cement
3. Marble
4. Potters Clay

Fisk Metallic Coffin:
return to ______ shape
intro to _____ casket
claimed to be light and stop _______
adapted a ____ process

anthropoidal shape
airtight
decomp
manufacturing

What casket helped make embalming popular?

Fisk Metallic

Ogee Design" casket in _____ (year)
______ (shape) sided casket
reduces excess ____ and _____
characterized by ____ shape curvature

1859
Square
space and weight
"s

First use of the word casket was in ____ in the year _____

Boston
1849

The modern rectangular design of the casket was introduced in _____

1860

Cloth Burial Caskets
1. Created by?
2. Constructed out of?
3. Covered with?
4. "Style E State Casket for ______ helped acceptance

Samuel Stein
Wood
Cloth
US Grant

name of the cloth covered casket designed for US Grant

Style E State Casket