Princeton Cemetery
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Presidents row, showing the grave of Vice-President Aaron Burr, Jr. in front of those of his father, Aaron Burr, Sr., and grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, both presidents of Princeton University.
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Established | 1757 [1] |
Location | Princeton, New Jersey |
Country | USA |
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Owned by | Nassau Presbyterian Church |
Website | Princeton Cemetery |
Princeton Cemetery
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Part of | Princeton Historic District (#75001143[2]) |
Added to NRHP | 27 June, 1975 |
Princeton Cemetery is located in Princeton, New Jersey.[1] It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church.[3] John F. Hageman in his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey refers to the cemetery as: "The Westminster Abbey of the United States." [1][4]
Notable burials
- 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
- Leon Ida Audenaerd (1930–2010), Korean War veteran - Belgian Army
- Joseph Paul Bald Eagle (1896–1970), teacher, first Native American graduate of Princeton University
- George Wildman Ball (1909–1994), diplomat
- George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), Civil War general
- Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), bookshop owner
- John Berrien I (1712–1772), New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of Rockingham House
- 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
- Alonzo Church (1903–1995), mathematician
- Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the United States
- Frances Cleveland (1864–1947), wife of Grover Cleveland
- 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
- 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 Evangelical Fellowship
- George Horace Gallup (1901–1984), pollster
- William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), naval architect
- Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), mathematician
- 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
- Joseph Karge (1823–1892), Civil War General and Princeton University professor
- George Frost Kennan (1904–2005), diplomat
- 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
- Jose Menendez (1944–1989) and Mary Louise (Kitty) Menendez (1941–1989), murder victims of their sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez
- 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 US senator
- Richard Stockton (1764–1828), US senator from New Jersey[5]
- Robert Field Stockton (1795–1866), naval officer
- Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (1914–1997), astronomer
- John Renshaw Thomson (1800–1862), US senator from New Jersey
- William G. Thompson (1840–1904), mayor of Detroit
- 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 (artist) (1867–1921), portraitist and stained glass designer
References
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- ↑ Richard Stockton (1764–1828), Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 20, 2007.
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