Princeton Cemetery

For the cemetery in Arkansas, see Princeton Cemetery (Princeton, Arkansas).

Princeton Cemetery

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Details
Established	1757
Location	Princeton, New Jersey
Country	USA
Coordinates
Owned by	Nassau Presbyterian Church
Website	Princeton Cemetery
Princeton Cemetery
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Coordinates
Part of	Princeton Historic District (#75001143)
Added to NRHP	27 June, 1975

Princeton Cemetery is located in Princeton, New Jersey. It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church. John F. Hageman in his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey refers to the cemetery as: "The Westminster Abbey of the United States."

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
• 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
• 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

External links

• Nassau Presbyterian Church: Princeton Cemetery
• Princeton Online: Princeton Cemetery
• A photographic tour through Princeton Cemetery
• Findagrave: Princeton Cemetery