Please note the biographical information on those interred in the Elmhurst College Cemetery was gathered from the DuPage County Genealogical Society (October 12, 1992), the Elmhurst Historical Society, records maintained by St Peter's United Church of Christ in Elmhurst, and the Elmhurst College archives.


Legal description of the Elmhurst College Cemetery (located near the northwest corner of the campus):

That part of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 39 North, Range 11, east of the third principal meridian, being described as follows: beginning at the southeast corner of the 1 acre cemetery land granted to the German Evangelical Synod by deed dated May 13, 1878 and recorded as document 25708, said cemetery being presently named The German Evangelical St Peter's Cemetery; thence south 03 degrees 27 minutes, 19 seconds west along the southerly extension of the east line of said St Peter's Cemetery, 101.88 feet to a point on the easterly extension of the southerly line of the Catholic cemetery, a 2 acre tract of land described in deed recorded February 20, 1865 as document 6183; thence north 89 degrees 42 minutes 09 seconds along said easterly extension of the southerly line, 128.38 feet to the southeast corner of said Catholic cemetery, said corner being on a line which is 1 chain (66 feet)east of and parallel with the west line of said southeast quarter of Section 2: thence north 03 degrees 23 minutes 41 seconds east along said parallel line and east line of said Catholic cemetery, 102.17 feet to the southwest corner of said German Evangelical St Peter's Cemetery; thence south 89 degrees 40 minutes 13 seconds east along the south line of said St Peter's Cemetery, 1.95 chains (128.70 feet)to the point of beginning, in DuPage County, Illinois.