Lake View Cemetery (Ithaca, New York)
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| Details | |
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| Established | 1894 |
| Location | 605 E Shore Dr, Ithaca, New York |
| Country | United States |
| Website | http://lakeview-ithaca.org |
| Find a Grave | Lake View Cemetery |
Lake View Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the city of Ithaca, in Tompkins County, New York named for its original view of nearby Lake Cayuga.
History[]
The cemetery was established in 1894. It includes an Egyptian Revival style mausoleum / receiving vault, a distinctive serpentine road system and architectural works by William Henry Miller and Liberty Hyde Bailey.[1]
Lake View Cemetery was hit with a series of embezzlement scandals in the twenty-first century. In 2006, a groundskeeper pled guilty to stealing $87,709 from the cemetery.[2] In 2014, a former caretaker and president of Lake View Cemetery was charged with embezzling over $50,000 and "selling or giving away" much of the cemetery's equipment.[2]
Notable burials[]
Given its proximity to Cornell University, the cemetery includes a number of significant figures from the university's history, including members of the Cornell family, and the graves of faculty members.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954). American horticulturalist and designer.
- Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889-1983) American botanist and curator
- Juanita Breckenridge Bates (1860-1946). American suffragist and early woman ordained as a minister.
- Sophronia Bucklin (1828–1902). American Civil War nurse.
- John "Honest John" Clapp (1851-1904). Early American baseball player and manager.
- Robert Gilmour Dobie (1878-1948). American football player and record-setting coach
- Estevan Antonio Fuertes (1838-1903). Cornell astronomer and namesake of Fuertes Observatory
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927). American ornithologist, illustrator and artist
- James R. Houck (1940-2015). Pioneer of infrared observational astronomy
- William Henry Miller (1848-1922). American architect
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996). American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer
References[]
- ^ Cemetery History - Lake View Cemetery website http://lakeview-ithaca.org/cemetery-history/
- ^ a b Hart, Glynis (19 March 2014). "Lakeview Cemetery Tries to Regroup After Embezzlement". ithaca.com. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
Coordinates: 42°27′25″N 76°29′44″W / 42.457080°N 76.495510°W
- 1894 establishments in New York (state)
- Cornell University
- Cornell family
- Cemeteries in Tompkins County, New York