Elmwood Cemetery, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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The Elmwood Cemetery is located at 425 Georges Road in New Brunswick, New Jersey on the border of North Brunswick, New Jersey. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Robbers in Elmwood Cemetery. |url= |quote=Two Robbers, armed with a heavy sledge hammer, ... The burial plot of Joseph R. and Henry H. Palmer in Elmwood Cemetery last night. ... |publisher=New York Times |date=December 22, 1901, Sunday |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] Joyce Kilmer who was buried in France, is honored by a cenotaph erected in his family's plot in the cemetery. [cite web |url=http://www.risingdove.com/Kilmer/Trees.asp |title=Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918) - Author of Trees and Other Poems |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=Joyce Kilmer is buried in Oise-Aisne Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France. There is a picture of the Kilmer Family Cenotaph in Elmwood Cemetery, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Please note that Joyce Kilmer was never buried in the United States. |publisher=Miriam A. Kilmer ] cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place |url= |quote=New Jersey is, indeed, a home of poets. Walt Whitman's tomb is nestled in a wooded grove in the Harleigh Cemetery in Camden. Joyce Kilmer is buried [sic] in Elmwood Cemetery in New Brunswick, not far from the New Jersey Turnpike rest stop named in his honor. Allen Ginsberg may not yet have a rest stop, but the Beat Generation author of "Howl" is resting at B'Nai Israel Cemetery in Newark. |publisher=The New York Times |date=March 28, 2004 |accessdate=2007-08-21 . Note that Kilmer is "not" buried at Elmwood Cemetery (he is buried in France), but he does have a cenotaph at Elmwood.]

Notable burials

*John Bailie McIntosh (1829-1888), General [cite book |last=Welsh |first=Jack D. |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Medical Histories of Union Generals |year=1998 |publisher=Kent State |quote= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=epbbg1CA4CAC&dq |isbn=0873388534 ]
*Henry de la Bruyere Carpender (1882-1934), of the Hall-Mills Murder
*Robert Wood Johnson II (1893-1968), president of Johnson & Johnson. [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson7.html#08R1ER39V Johnson, Robert Wood, Jr.] , The Political Graveyard. Accessed August 16, 2007.]
*George C. Ludlow (1830-1900), served as the 25th Governor of New Jersey from 1881-1884. [ [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=25bc2a7b22e89010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Governor George Craig Ludlow] , National Governors Association. Accessed August 16, 2007.]
*Miles Ross (1827-1903), Mayor of New Brunswick, who also represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1875 to 1883. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000452 Miles Ross] , "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress". Accessed August 29, 2007.]

References

External links

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MI.html#RAO0Q4MQ9 Elmwood Cemetery] at The Political Graveyard
* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99952&CScn=elmw&CScntry=4&CSst=33& Elmwood Cemetery] at Find A Grave