Princeton Cemetery

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name = Princeton Cemetery


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established = 1757
country = USA
location = Borough of Princeton, New Jersey
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owner = Nassau Presbyterian Church
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website = [http://www.princetonol.com Princeton Cemetery]

Princeton Cemetery is located in Borough of Princeton, New Jersey. cite web |url=http://www.princetonol.com/groups/cemetery/ |title=The Princeton Cemetery |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote= Princeton Cemetery is owned by the Nassau (formerly First) Presbyterian Church located opposite Palmer Square in the center of town. The Square was named after Edgar Palmer, a benefactor of both the University and the community. The Cemetery was established in 1757, and the oldest surviving monument is that of Aaron Burr, Sr., located in the Presidents' Plot. The cosmopolitan character of the Cemetery continues, and interment has never been restricted to Church members and their families. |publisher=Princeton Online ] It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church. [cite book |last=Sarapin |first=Janice Kohl |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey |year=2002 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |quote= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=uDfIJt5RFWgC&dq=&pg=PP1&ots=auks4TKY6W&sig=SZl5W1s0xzASDS2kY9a9srYICb0&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3DOld%2BBurial%2BGrounds%2Bof%2BNew%2BJersey%26sourceid%3Dnavclient-ff%26ie%3DUTF-8%26rls%3DGGGL,GGGL:2006-11,GGGL:en&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title |isbn=0813521114 ] 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), theologian
*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), owner of Rockingham (home)
*Aaron Burr (1756-1836), politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States
*Aaron Burr, Sr. (1716-1757), reverend
*Alonzo Church (1903-1995), mathematician
*Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), President of the United States
*Frances Cleveland (1864-1947), first lady
*Ruth Cleveland (1891-1904), first daughter and candy Baby Ruth
*Edward Samuel Corwin (1878-1963), professor
*Samuel Davies
*Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), theologian
*Richard Stockton Field (1803-1870)
*John Huston Finley (1863-1940), New York Times
*George Horace Gallup (1901-1984), pollster
*Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), mathematician
*Charles Hodge (1797-1878), theologian
*David Hunter (1802-1886), Civil War General
*Joseph Karge, Civil War General
*George Frost Kennan (1904-2005), diplomat
*Frank Lewin (1925-2008), composer
*David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001), philosopher
*Jose Menendez murdered by Lyle and Erik Menendez
*Kitty Menendez murdered by Lyle and Erik Menendez
*Moses Taylor Pyne (1855-1921), owner of Drumthwacket
*Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919), Civil War General
*William Drew Robeson (1844-1918), father of Paul Robeson
*Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957), astronomer
*William Milligan Sloan, Olympic committee
*Howard Alexander Smith (1880-1966), Senator from New Jersey
*John P. Stockton, Senator
*Richard Stockton (1764-1828), Senator from New Jersey. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000941 Richard Stockton (1764 - 1828)] , Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 20, 2007.]
*Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866), naval officer
*Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (1914-1997), astronomer
*John Renshaw Thomson, Senator
*William G. Thompson, Mayor of Detroit
*John W. Tukey (1915-2000), Statistician
*Paul Tulane (1801-1887), Tulane University benefactor cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place |url= |quote= The story goes that Paul Tulane, who made his fortune as a haberdasher in 19th-century New Orleans, wanted to give part of that fortune to the university in his hometown, Princeton. The catch was that he wanted the university renamed for him. When that didn't happen, he gave his money to the university in New Orleans that now bears his name. He eventually came back home. But before he died it is said that he demanded that the statue on his grave face away from the Princeton University campus. "That seems to have been pretty much debunked by now," said George Brown, Princeton Cemetery's historian. "But he must have been a pretty egotistical guy. He's the only one here with a big statue of himself." Mr. Tulane (1801-1877) would probably come up short on the list of accomplished people buried in Princeton Cemetery, which is just off the heart of town at Witherspoon and Wiggins Streets. All right, so Mr. Tulane is credited with developing the crease in trousers -- "He was cranking them out so fast he stuffed them in little boxes so they got the crease," Mr. Brown said. ... Yet also buried there are a United States president, Grover Cleveland; a vice president, Aaron Burr Jr.; and other people of great accomplishment, from the pollster George Gallup to the novelist John O'Hara to the mathematician John von Neumann. Mr. Brown calls Princeton Cemetery "the Westminster Abbey of America" for the abundance of stars buried in its compact space. ... |publisher=New York Times |date=March 28, 2004 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]
*John von Neumann (1903-1957), mathematician
*Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, theologian
*Canvass White (1790-1834), engineer and inventor
*Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995), physicist
*John Witherspoon (1723-1794), signer of Declaration of Independence

References

External links

* [http://www.nassauchurch.org/cemetery/index.html Nassau Presbyterian Church: Princeton Cemetery]
* [http://www.princetonol.com/groups/cemetery Princeton Online: Princeton Cemetery]
* [http://www.richardsibbes.com/Princeton.Cemetery.htm A photographic tour through Princeton Cemetery]
* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSln=von+neumann&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=7333144&CRid=100174& Findagrave: Princeton Cemetery]