List of burials at Green-Wood Cemetery

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Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east. Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery.

A[]

  • Samuel Akerly (1785–1845), founder of the New York Institute for the Blind
  • Augustus Chapman Allen (1806–1864), co-founder of the City of Houston
  • Harvey A. Allen (1818?–1882), United States Army officer, was Commander of the Department of Alaska 1871–1873
  • Albert Anastasia (1903–1957), mobster and contract killer for Murder, Inc.
  • Othniel Boaz Askew (1972–2003; cremated), politician and assassin of New York City Council member James E. Davis, whose remains were relocated to another cemetery

B[]

  • James Bard (1815–1897), marine artist, buried in unmarked grave
  • Peter Townsend Barlow (1857–1921), New York City Magistrate
  • Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923), landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), artist
  • William Holbrook Beard (1824–1900), painter of Bulls and Bears representing the market cycle; a bear statue sits on top of his headstone
  • Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), abolitionist
  • George Wesley Bellows (1882–1925), painter
  • James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795–1872), founder/publisher of the New York Herald
  • Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012; cremated), composer of film, TV and concert music
  • Henry Bergh (1818–1888), founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  • Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), pianist, composer, and conductor; alongside his wife, actress Felicia Montealegre (1922–1978)
  • Sid Bernstein (1918–2013), American music promoter
  • Jane Augusta Blankman (1823–1860), courtesan
  • Samuel Blatchford (1820–1893), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  • Stanley Bosworth (1927–2011), Founding headmaster of prestigious Saint Ann's School
  • William R. Brewster (1828–1869), Civil War Union Brevet Brigidier General
  • Andrew Bryson (1822–1892), United States Navy rear admiral

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D[]

  • Marcus Daly (1841–1900), Irish-born copper industrialist in Montana
  • James E. Davis (1962–2003), assassinated City Councilman, was buried here for a few days; upon learning his killer's ashes were also in Green-Wood, his family had his body exhumed and reinterred in the Cemetery of the Evergreens[3]
  • Charles Schuyler De Bost (1826–1895), baseball pioneer
  • Richard Delafield (1798–1873), Chief of Engineers and Superintendent of West Point
  • Francis E. Dorn (1911–1987), U.S. Naval Commander, attorney and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 12th congressional district
  • Mabel Smith Douglass (1874–1933), founder and first dean of the New Jersey College for Women
  • Dorothea A. Dreier (1870-1923), painter
  • Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952), artist and social reformer
  • Thomas Clark Durant (1820–1885), key figure in building the First Transcontinental Railroad
  • William West Durant (1850–1934), son of Thomas Clark Durant and designer and developer of camps in the Adirondack Great Camp style
  • James Durno (1795–1873), husband of labor activist Sarah Bagley (1806–1883)

E[]

F[]

  • Charles Feltman (1841–1910), claimed to be the first person to put a hot dog on a bun
  • Edward Ferrero (1831–1899), American Civil War General at the Battle of the Crater and in the Appomattox Campaign
  • Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), was an American scientist, physicist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner from Seneca Falls, New York. Her experiments on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases were overlooked until the 21st century
  • Edwin Forbes (1839–1895), American Civil War and postbellum artist, illustrator, and etcher
  • Margaretta and Catherine Fox (1833–1893; 1837–1892), mediums and important figures in the Spiritualism movement
  • Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839–1912), American editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer

G[]

  • Joey Gallo (1929–1972), mobster
  • William Delbert Gann (1878–1955), Stock Market author and visionary
  • Asa Bird Gardiner (1839–1919), controversial soldier, attorney, and prosecutor
  • Robert Selden Garnett (1819–1861), brigadier general of the Confederate States Army and the first general killed in the American Civil War
  • Henry George (1839–1897), writer, politician and economist
  • Henry George, Jr. (1862–1916), United States Representative from New York
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869), composer
  • John Franklin Gray (1804–1882), the first practitioner of Homeopathy in the United States
  • Horace Greeley (1811–1872), unsuccessful U.S. presidential candidate 1872; founder of the New York Tribune
  • Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895), Governor of New Jersey
  • Dudley Sanford Gregory (1800–1874), first mayor of Jersey City, U.S. House of Representatives (1847–1849)
  • Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857), literary critic

H[]

I[]

J[]

K[]

L[]

M[]

  • John W. Mackay (1831–1902), millionaire, one of the Bonanza Kings of Virginia City, NV and the Comstock Lode
  • Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932), modernist painter
  • James Maury (1746–1840), first U.S. consul to Liverpool, England
  • Ormsby M. Mitchel (1805–1862), American astronomer and major general in the American Civil War
  • Henry James Montague (1840–1878), stage actor[7]
  • Lola Montez (1821–1861), actress and mistress of many notable men among them King Ludwig I of Bavaria
  • Charles Morgan (1795–1878), shipping magnate
  • Frank Morgan (1890–1949), actor (The Wizard of Oz)
  • Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), invented Morse code, language of the telegraph
  • Nicholas Muller (1836 - 1917), U.S. Congressman

N[]

O[]

P[]

  • James Kirke Paulding (1779–1860), U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Martin Van Buren
  • Mary Ellis Peltz (1896–1981), American drama and music critic, magazine editor, poet and writer on music.
  • Carmine Persico, (1933–2019), American mobster
  • Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), founder of Phelps, Dodge mining and copper company
  • Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854), cabinetmaker
  • Hezekiah Pierrepont (1768–1838) merchant and founder of Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
  • Arthur Tappan Pierson (1837–1911), an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, missionary and writer
  • William "Bill The Butcher" Poole (1821–1855), a member of the Bowery Boys gang and the Know Nothing political party; also a bare-knuckle boxer

R[]

  • Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820–1869), American journalist and politician and founder of The New York Times
  • Samuel C. Reid (1783–1861), suggested the design upon which all U.S. flags since 1818 have been based
  • John Roach (1815–1887), founder of shipbuilding company Roach & Sons
  • Alice Roosevelt (1861–1884), first wife of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
  • Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (1834–1884), mother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
  • Robert Roosevelt (1829–1906), uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831–1878), father of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
  • Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), Revolutionary War hero, philanthropist, namesake of Rutgers University

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T[]

U[]

V[]

  • Steven C. Vincent (1955–2005), American journalist and author kidnapped and murdered in Iraq in August 2005
  • Ned Vizzini (1981–2013), American author
  • Leopold von Gilsa (1824–1870), American Civil War colonel and brigade commander

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Y[]

References[]

  1. ^ James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. "Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary", p. 345, Harvard University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-674-62734-2. Accessed June 28, 2009.
  2. ^ Schweber, Nate (October 18, 2012). "Recalling a New Pitch and a Strange Death". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Mulligan, Thomas S. (August 3, 2003). "Slain New York City Councilman Reburied; Reinterment occurred after family learned his killer's ashes were in the same cemetery". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 19, 2009. 'If she had known that Askew's cremated remains were at Green-Wood, she never would have agreed to have her son buried there,' Hill said.
  4. ^ Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1. p. 282.
  5. ^ Ellen Tarry, "Grace Nail Johnson: A Remembrance," The Crisis (March 1977): 120-121.
  6. ^ Pop Smoke to be laid to rest in Brooklyn as suspects in his murder ‘still at large’
  7. ^ "Final Tributes To Montague. Thousands Of Friends Attend His Funeral Services". The New York Times. August 22, 1878. The mortal remains of Henry J. Montague were laid to rest yesterday within the quiet precincts of Green-Wood Cemetery....
  8. ^ Bellafante, Ginia (2018-04-18). "Statue of Doctor Who Did Slave Experiments Is Exiled. Its Ideas Are Not". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  9. ^ Tripp, Wendell E. (1982). Robert Troup: A Quest for Security in a Turbulent New Nation. Ayer Publishing. p. 322. ISBN 0-405-14074-6. Retrieved February 2, 2008.
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