Woodlawn Cemetery (Canandaigua, New York)
- Woodlawn Cemetery (Canandaigua, New York)
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Woodlawn Cemetery is the name of a cemetery in Canandaigua, New York, United States.
In June 1884, officers and trustees were elected and the original 28 acres of land were purchased from Lucius Wilcox. Over the years, people left adjacent land to the cemetery which now totals convert|64.4|acre|m2 in the city and seven acres in the town of Canandaigua and serves as a burial site for more than 13,000 people. The current Woodlawn Cemetery was dedicated in 1910.
Notable burials
* Myron Holley Clark (1806-1892) - Governor of New York
* Francis Granger (1792-1868) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Postmaster General; candidate for U.S. Vice President (1836)
* Gideon Granger (1767-1822) - New York State Senator and U.S. Postmaster General
* Elbridge Gerry Lapham (1814-1890) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Senate
* John Raines (1840-1909) - New York State Senator and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Frederick Ferris Thompson (1836-1899) - notable banker, co-founder of predecessor banks to Citibank and JP Morgan Chase
* Mary Clark Thompson (1835-1923) - philanthropist
* Stanton Davis Kirkham (1868-1944) - author
* Walter Knapp - the first licensed Navy helicopter pilot.
* Artists Lydia Atwater, Frank Hutchens and Charles Dickens Wader
* Edward Francis Winslow, a Civil War general, who died at Sonnenberg while visiting Mary Clark Thompson and her banker husband, Frederick Ferris Thompson
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