Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)
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| Details | |
| Established | 1840 |
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| Country | United States |
| Type | Non denominational |
| Size | 92 acres (370,000 m2) |
| Website | Official website |
| Find a Grave | Rosedale Cemetery |
Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery located at the tripoint of Orange, West Orange and Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Cyrus Baldwin drew up the original plan for the cemetery in 1840.[1][2]
Notable interments
[edit]- Platt Adams (1885–1961), American Olympic athlete and member of the New Jersey State Assembly from Essex County
- Jim Barnes (1886–1966), golfer
- John L. Blake (1831–1899), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1879 to 1881[3]
- Dudley Buck (1839–1909), organist, composer, writer
- Samuel Colgate (1822–1897), founder of Colgate-Palmolive
- Lee Crystal (1956-2013), drummer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Member
- Mary Fenn Robinson Davis (1824–1886), a spiritualist and feminist who was a poet, author, editor, and lecturer.[4]
- Sarah Jane Corson Downs (1822-1891), president, New Jersey Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Charles Edison (1890–1969), son of Thomas Edison and the 42nd Governor of New Jersey
- Frank Emil Fesq (1840–1920), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient.
- Wilfred J. Funk (1883–1965), lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls)
- Althea Gibson (1927–2003), the first African American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour[5]
- Henry Judd Gray (1892–1928), murderer of Albert Snyder
- George Huntington Hartford (1833–1917), Mayor of Orange, New Jersey, from 1878 to 1890 and owner of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, the country's largest food retailer at the time of his death[6]
- Frances Cox Henderson (1820–1897), wife of Governor James Pinckney Henderson of Texas, retired in East Orange, established Good Shepherd home for aged women
- James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911), physician, philologist, missionary.
- George Inness (1825–1894), painter
- George Inness Jr. (1854–1926), painter
- Frank Louis Kramer (1880–1958), cyclist
- Hazel May Kuser (?–1924), Radium Girl
- Mary Artemisia Lathbury (1841–1913), poet and hymnwriter
- Amelia Maggia (?–1922), Radium Girl
- Lowell Mason (1792–1872), hymn composer and music educator
- Quinta Maggia McDonald (?–1929), Radium Girl
- Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), architect
- George W. Merck (1894–1957), pharmacist, president of Merck & Co.
- John Pingry (1818–1894), minister, founder of the Pingry School
- Ruth A. Saxer (?–1942), Radium Girl
- George J. Seabury (1844–1909), chemist and pharmacist
- Michelle Thomas (1968–1998), American actress best known for roles in Family Matters and The Cosby Show
- George C. Tichenor (1838–1902), member and president of the Board of General Appraisers
- Aaron B. Tompkins (1844–1931), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient.
- William A. Wachenfeld (1889 – 1969) was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1946 to 1959.
- George James Webb (1803–1887), composer
- William H. Wiley (1842–1925), represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1909 to 1911[7]
- Earl Williams (1948–2013), professional baseball player
- Three British Commonwealth war servicemen – a Royal Air Force officer and Canadian Army Sergeant of World War I and a Canadian airman of World War II[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Urquhart, Frank John (1913). A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey.
- ^ "Rosedale Cemetery". Rosedale Cemetery. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
- ^ John Lauris Blake, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.
- ^ James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S.; Radcliffe College (1974). Notable American women, 1607-1950 : a biographical dictionary. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 441–442. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5.
- ^ American Sports
- ^ Levinson, Marc (2011). The Great A&P and the struggle for small business in America. Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0809095438.
- ^ William Halsted Wiley, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.
- ^ [1] CWGC Cemetery Report, detail obtained from casualty record.