Cemetery in Westchester County, New York, US
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery inSleepy Hollow, New York , is thefinal resting place of numerous famous figures, includingWashington Irving , whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " is set in the adjacent burying ground of theOld Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow . Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, the site posthumously honored Irving's request that it change its name to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 2009.[ 2]
The cemetery is a non-profit, non-sectarian burying ground of about 90 acres (36 ha).[ 1] Old Dutch Church , the colonial-era church that was a setting for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ". TheRockefeller family estate (Kykuit ), whose grounds abut Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, contains the private Rockefeller cemetery.
In 1894 under the leadership ofMarcius D. Raymond , publisher of the localTarrytown Argus newspaper, funds were raised to build a granite monument honoring the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War buried in the cemetery.[ 4] [ 5]
Helmsley mausoleum The Helmsley mausoleum, final resting place ofHarry andLeona Helmsley , features a window showing the skyline of Manhattan in stained glass. It was built by Mrs. Helmsley at a cost of $1.4 million in 2007. She had her husband's body moved from its resting place inWoodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) to the new mausoleum.[ 6] [ 7]
Headstone ofWashington Irving Owen Jones monument Henry Villard Memorial byKarl Bitter Numerous notable people are interred at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, including:[ 1]
Viola Allen (1867–1948), actress[ 8] John Dustin Archbold (1848–1916), a director of the Standard Oil CompanyElizabeth Arden (1878–1966), businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire[ 9] Brooke Astor (1902–2007), philanthropist and socialite[ 10] Vincent Astor (1891–1959), philanthropist; member of theAstor family Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), the father of plastic; namesake ofBakelite Robert Livingston Beeckman (1866–1935), American politician and Governor ofRhode Island Marty Bergen (1869–1906), American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockeyHolbrook Blinn (1872–1928), American actorHenry E. Bliss (1870–1955), devised the Bliss library classification systemArtur Bodanzky (1877–1939), conductor at New YorkMetropolitan Opera Major Edward Bowes (1874–1946), early radio star, he hostedMajor Bowes' Amateur Hour Alice Brady (1892–1939), American actressAndrew Carnegie (1835–1919), businessman and philanthropist;[ 10] George Henry Paulin Louise Whitfield Carnegie (1857–1946), wife of Andrew CarnegieWalter Chrysler (1875–1940), businessman, commissioned theChrysler Building and founded theChrysler Corporation Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), editor atThe New York Sun Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus "William Conant Church (1836–1917), co-founder ofArmed Forces Journal and theNational Rifle Association of America Henry Sloane Coffin (1877–1954), teacher, minister, and authorWilliam Sloane Coffin, Sr. (1879–1933), businessmanKent Cooper (1880–1965), influential head of theAssociated Press from 1925 to 1948Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), landscape painter and architect; designed the now-demolishedNew York City Sixth Avenue elevated railroad stationsFloyd Crosby (1899–1985),Oscar -winning cinematographer, father of musicianDavid Crosby Daniel Draper (1841–1931), meteorologistGeraldine Rockefeller Dodge (1882–1973), heiress and patron of the artsWilliam H. Douglas (1853–1944), U.S. Representative fromNew York from 1901 to 1905.Maud Earl (1864–1943), British-American painter of caninesParker Fennelly (1891–1988), American actorMalcolm Webster Ford (1862–1902), champion amateur athlete and journalist; brother of Paul, he took his own life after slaying his brother.Paul Leicester Ford (1865–1902), editor, bibliographer, novelist, and biographer; brother ofMalcolm Webster Ford by whose hand he diedDixon Ryan Fox (1887–1945), educator and president of Union College, New YorkHerman Frasch (1851–1914), engineer, theSulphur King Samuel Gompers (1850–1924), founder of theAmerican Federation of Labor Madison Grant (1865–1937), eugenicist and conservationist, author ofThe Passing of the Great Race Moses Hicks Grinnell (1803–1877), congressman and Central Park CommissionerWalter S. Gurnee (1805–1903), mayor of ChicagoAngelica Hamilton (1784–1857), the older of two daughters ofAlexander Hamilton James Alexander Hamilton (1788–1878), third son ofAlexander Hamilton Robert Havell, Jr. (1793–1878), British-American engraver who printed and colored John James Audubon's monumental Birds of America series, also painter in the style of theHudson River School Mark Hellinger (1903–1947), primarily known as a journalist of New York theatre; producer ofThe Naked City film noir and namesake of theMark Hellinger Theatre in New York CityHarry Helmsley (1909–1997), real estate mogul who built a company that became one of the biggest property holders in the United States, and his wifeLeona Helmsley (1920–2007), in a mausoleum with a stained-glass panorama of the Manhattan skyline. Leona famously bequeathed $12 million to her dog.Eliza Hamilton Holly (1799–1859), younger daughter ofAlexander Hamilton Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881–1934), architect[ 1] William Howard Hoople (1868–1922), a leader of the nineteenth-century American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, and one of the early leaders of theChurch of the Nazarene Washington Irving (1783–1859), author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " and "Rip Van Winkle "William Irving (1766–1821), U.S. Congressman fromNew York George Jones (1811–1891), co-founder ofThe New York Times Albert Lasker (1880–1952), pioneer of the American advertising industry, part owner of baseball team the Chicago Cubs, and wifeMary Lasker (1900–1994), an American health activist and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold MedalWalter W. Law, Jr. (1871–1958), lawyer and politician, son ofBriarcliff Manor founderWalter W. Law Lewis Edward Lawes (1883–1947), reformist warden ofSing Sing prisonWilliam E. Le Roy (1818–1888), United States Navy rear admiralAnn Lohman (1812–1878),a.k.a. Madame Restell , 19th century purveyor ofpatent medicine and abortionsCharles D. Millard (1873–1944), member of U.S. House of Representatives fromNew York Darius Ogden Mills (1825–1910), made a fortune during California's gold rush and expanded his wealth further through New York City real estateBelle Moskowitz (1877–1933), political advisor and social activistRobertson Kirtland Mygatt (1861–1919), noted American landscape painter, part of the Tonalist movement in ImpressionismN. Holmes Odell (1828–1904), U.S. Representative fromNew York George Washington Olvany (1876–1952), New York General Sessions Court judge and leader ofTammany Hall William Orton (1826–1878), President ofWestern Union [ 11] Peter A. Peyser (1921–2014), served as a Member of Congress from New York from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a DemocratWhitelaw Reid (1837–1912), journalist and editor of theNew-York Tribune Benjamin Harrison in 1892, defeated byAdlai E. Stevenson I ; son-in-law of D.O. MillsWilliam Rockefeller (1841–1922), New York head of theStandard Oil Company[ 10] Edgar Evertson Saltus (1855–1921), American novelistFrancis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889), American decadent poet & bohemianCarl Schurz (1820–1906), senator, secretary of the interior under PresidentRutherford B. Hayes and namesake of Carl Schurz Park in New York CityCharles Sheeler (1883–1965), painter and photographer, and his wifeMusya (1908–1981), photographer, are buried together.William G. Stahlnecker (1849–1902), U.S. Representative from New YorkEgerton Swartwout (1870–1943), New York architectWilliam Boyce Thompson (1869–1930), founder ofNewmont Mining Corporation and financierJoseph Urban (1872–1933), architect and theatre set designerHenry Villard (1835–1900), railroad baron whose monument was created byKarl Bitter .[ 12] Oswald Garrison Villard (1872–1949), son ofHenry Villard and grandson ofWilliam Lloyd Garrison ; one of the founders of theNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People William A. Walker (1805–1861), U.S. Representative from New YorkPaul Warburg (1868–1932), German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S. Federal Reserve system.Worcester Reed Warner (1846–1929), mechanical engineer and manufacturer of telescopesThomas J. Watson (1874–1956), transformed a small manufacturer ofadding machines intoIBM Theodore Whitmarsh (1869–1936), administrator of theUnited States Food Administration , director of theFederal Reserve Bank of New York Hans Zinsser (1878–1940), microbiologist and a prolific authorSeveral outdoor scenes from the feature filmHouse of Dark Shadows Ramones ' 1989 music video "Pet Sematary ".[ 13]
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