Princeton Cemetery
| Princeton Cemetery | |
|---|---|
 Presidents row, showing grave of Vice-President Aaron Burr Jr. in front of those of his father, Aaron Burr Sr., and grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, both presidents of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1757[1] |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°21′18″N 74°39′36″W / 40.35500°N 74.66000°W |
| Owned by | Nassau Presbyterian Church |
| No. of graves | 9,000+ |
| Website | Princeton Cemetery |
| Find a Grave | Princeton Cemetery |
Princeton Cemetery | |
| Part of | Princeton Historic District (ID75001143[2]) |
| Added to NRHP | 27 June 1975 |
Princeton Cemetery is located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.[1] It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church.[3] In his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey, John F. Hageman refers to the cemetery as "The Westminster Abbey of the United States."[1][4]
Notable burials
[edit]- Archibald Alexander (1772–1851), Presbyterian theologian
- James Waddel Alexander (1804–1859), Presbyterian theologian and eldest son of Archibald Alexander
- Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), Presbyterian biblical scholar and third son of Archibald Alexander
- William Cowper Alexander (1806–1874), politician, businessman and second son of Archibald Alexander
- Frank Anscombe (1918–2001), statistician, known for Anscombe's quartet
- John N. Bahcall (1934–2005), astrophysicist
- George Wildman Ball (1909–1994), diplomat
- George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), Civil War general
- Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), bookshop owner
- Harold H. Bender (1882–1951), philologist
- John Berrien (1711–1772), New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of Rockingham, Washington's headquarters
- William G. Bowen, (1933–2016), president of Princeton University
- Aaron Burr (1756–1836), controversial Revolutionary War hero and politician, third vice president of the United States, killer of Alexander Hamilton, adventurer who was eventually tried and acquitted of treason
- Aaron Burr Sr. (1716–1757), Presbyterian minister, second president of Princeton University and father of Aaron Burr
- Brendan Byrne (1924–2018), 47th governor of New Jersey
- Alonzo Church (1903–1995), mathematician
- Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the United States
- Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864–1947), wife of Grover Cleveland and First Lady of the United States
- Ruth Cleveland (1891–1904), first child of Grover and Frances Cleveland and supposed name sake of the Baby Ruth candy bar
- Edward Samuel Corwin (1878–1963), author and professor of law
- Samuel Davies (1723–1761), president of Princeton University
- Erling Dorf (1905–1984), Renowned paleobotanist, professor of Geology at Princeton University
- Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), president of Princeton University and Calvinist theologian
- Richard Stockton Field (1803–1870), US senator and New Jersey Attorney General
- John Huston Finley (1863–1940), author, president of Knox College and University of the State of New York
- Donald B. Fullerton (1892–1985), missionary and founder of the Princeton Christian Fellowship
- Harold Furth (1930–2002), physicist
- George Horace Gallup (1901–1984), pollster
- William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), naval architect
- Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), mathematician
- Michael Graves (1934–2015), architect and product designer
- Peter Charles Harris (1865–1951), adjutant general of the U.S. Army
- Charles Hodge (1797–1878), Calvinist theologian
- David Hunter (1802–1886), Civil War General
- Louis "Lajos" Jambor (1884–1954), Hungarian-born American painter, illustrator and muralist.[5]
- William Hallock Johnson (1865–1963), president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
- Joseph Kargé (1823–1892), Civil War General and Princeton University professor
- George Frost Kennan (1904–2005), diplomat
- Alan Krueger (1960–2019), economist
- Frank Lewin (1925–2008), composer
- David Kellogg Lewis (1941–2001), philosopher
- Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837–1892), diplomat
- John Maclean Jr. (1800–1886), president of Princeton University
- Robert McNutt McElroy (1872–1959), historian and professor of history at Princeton University, Oxford University, and Cambridge University
- José Menendez (1944–1989) and Mary Louise (Kitty) Menendez (1941–1989), murder victims of their sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez
- John O'Hara (1905–1970), author of Appointment in Samarra, BUtterfield 8, and many short stories
- Moses Taylor Pyne (1855–1921), financier, philanthropist and owner of Drumthwacket Estate
- Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828–1919), Special US Minister to Greece, US congressman from Virginia, Confederate congressman and general, journalist, New York Supreme Court justice
- William Drew Robeson (1844–1918), father of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson
- Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), astronomer
- William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928), first US Olympic Committee president
- Howard Alexander Smith (1880–1966), US senator from New Jersey
- John P. Stockton (1826–1900), New Jersey attorney general and U.S. senator
- Richard Stockton (1764–1828), U.S. senator from New Jersey[6]
- Robert Field Stockton (1795–1866), naval officer
- Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), astronomer
- John Renshaw Thomson (1800–1862), U.S. senator from New Jersey
- William G. Thompson (1840–1904), mayor of Detroit
- Augustus Trowbridge (1870–1934), professor and dean at Princeton University[7]
- John W. Tukey (1915–2000), statistician
- Paul Tulane (1801–1887), Tulane University benefactor[4]
- John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician
- Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921), Presbyterian theologian
- Canvass White (1790–1834), engineer and inventor
- Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- John Witherspoon (1723–1794), signer of the Declaration of Independence
- William Willet (1867–1921), portraitist and stained glass designer
Gallery
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Graves of Grover Cleveland (center), his wife Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (right), and daughter Ruth Cleveland (left) -
Grave of New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "The Princeton Cemetery". Princeton Online. Archived from the original on 2007-08-26. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
- ^ "Princeton Historic District". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2023-04-06. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
- ^ Sarapin, Janice Kohl (2002). Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813521114. Archived from the original on 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
- ^ a b Strauss, Robert (March 28, 2004). "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2008-06-04. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
- ^ "Louis Jambor, 69, Versatile Artist; Portraitist and Mural Painter Who Also, Did Book, Film Work Succumbs Here". The New York Times. 1954-06-12. Archived from the original on 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
- ^ Richard Stockton (1764–1828) Archived 2008-05-24 at the Wayback Machine, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 20, 2007.
- ^ Karl T. Compton (1937). Biographical Memoir of Augustus Trowbridge 1870–1934 (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Princeton Cemetery.
- Nassau Presbyterian Church: Princeton Cemetery
- Princeton Online: Princeton Cemetery
- A photographic tour through Princeton Cemetery
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