Fairmount Cemetery, Newark

Infobox_cemetery
name = Fairmount Cemetery


imagesize = 250px
caption =The Pierson Monument
established = 1855
country = United States
location = Newark, New Jersey
coordinates = coord|40.7464|-74.2031|display=inline
type = Non denominational
owner =
size = 150 acre
graves= 150,000
website = [http://www.fairmountcemetery.com Fairmount Cemetery]
findagrave = [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=99967 Findagrave]
political = [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES5.html#R9T0XKFF2 Political Graveyard]

Fairmount Cemetery is a 150 acre (607,000 m²) Victorian cemetery in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey, in the neighborhood of Fairmount. [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 ] It opened in 1855, shortly after the Newark City Council banned burials in the central city due to fears that bodies spread yellow fever. The first burial in Fairmount Cemetery was a 24-year-old man named Lewis J. Pierson. Fairmount is still accepting internments.

Along with Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Fairmount has the graves of Newark’s most eminent turn of the century citizens. Clara Maass, who gave her life in the investigation of yellow fever. A high proportion of the graves belong to German families. Fairmount Cemetery has beautiful trees, rolling hills, and intricately carved monuments. By the old South Orange Avenue entrance there is the recently restored zinc Settlers' Monument, commemorating the founders of Newark. There is also a Civil War memorial. The modern entrance to Fairmount Cemetery is on Central Avenue. [cite web |url=http://www.newarkhistory.com/fairmountcemetery.html |title=Fairmount Cemetery |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote= |publisher=Newark History ] [cite web |url=http://www.virtualnewarknj.com/cemeteries/fairmount.htm |title=Fairmount Cemetery, Mausoleum & Crematory |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=Fairmount Cemetery was opened and incorporated on February 9, 1855 as a non-sectarian, non-profit organization to serve the community. The land was reportedly purchased from the First Presbyterian Church by some of the most influential and respected citizens of Newark. 1927 saw the opening of the Fairmount Memorial Mausoleum. The Fairmount Crematory opened in 1984. |publisher=Virtual Newark NJ ] cite web |url=http://www.fairmountcemetery.com/companyhistory.php |title=Fairmount Cemetery History |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=Fairmount Cemetery was founded in the fall of 1854. It is located between Central Avenue and South Orange Avenue, and also between South Twelfth and South Eighteenth Streets in Newark, New Jersey. It was incorporated on February 9, 1855 by a special act of the New Jersey Legislature. Fairmount Cemetery has continued as a public, not-for profit, and non-sectarian cemetery from 1855 to the present. All of its income is devoted to the care, beautification and welfare of its grounds and buildings. The first burial in Fairmount Cemetery was a 24-year-old man named Lewis J. Pierson. Today, there are approximately 150,000 burials in the cemetery. |publisher=Fairmount Cemetery ]

Notable burials

*Harriet Adams (1893-1982), pseudonymous author of many books in the "Nancy Drew" series and a few in the "Hardy Boys" series. [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14302158 Harriet Stratemeyer Adams] , Find A Grave. Accessed August 23, 2007.]
*Peter Angelo Cavicchia (1879-1967)
*Gottfried Krueger, brewer
*Henry Meade Doremus
*Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1891 to 1895. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000188 Thomas Dunn English profile] , Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 12, 2007.]
*Christian William Feigenspan (1836-1939), president of Newark's Feigenspan Brewing Company. [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8015 Christian W. Feigenspan] , Find A Grave. Accessed August 23, 2007.]
*James Fairman Fielder (1867-1954), Governor of New Jersey 1913-1917
*William Henry Frederick Fiedler (1847-1919), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1883 to 1885. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000103 William Henry Frederick Fiedler profile] , Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.]
*Gwen Guthrie (1950-1999), singer-songwriter. [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14001633 Gwen Guthrie] , Find A Grave. Accessed August 23, 2007.]
*Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (1902-1969)
*Henry Lang (1828 - 1897) - Mayor of Newark, NJ 1882-1883
*Frederick Lehlbach (1876-1937)
*Herman Lehlbach (1845-1904), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1885 to 1889. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000223 Herman Lehlbach profile] , Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.]
*Clara Maass (1876-1901), nurse who died as a result of volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever. [ [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5827 Clara Louise Maass] , Find A Grave. Accessed August 23, 2007.]
*Gerhard Heinrich Mennen, of the Mennen Corporation
*William Heinrich Mennen, of the Mennen Corporation
*Le Gage Pratt (1852-1911)
*Charles Emil Henry Stengel (1857-1914), Newark patent leather manufacturer who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
*Annie May Morris Stengel (1868-1956), wife of Charles Emil Henry Stengel, and also a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
*Arlene White Lawrence (1916-1990), of the Pillar of Fire Church [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Services tomorrow for church leader. Ex-president of Pillar of Fire remembered |url= |quote=Services for Arlene White Lawrence, who once headed the Pillar of Fire Church, will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Fairmount Cemetery Chapel. Burial will follow there. Mrs. Lawrence, who died Nov. 7 at her home in Belle Meade, New Jersey, was 73. The service will be conducted by J. Dean Cole, pastor of the Boulder Pillar of Fire Church. Mrs. Lawrence's grandmother, Alma White, founded the Pillar of Fire Church in Denver in 1901. Headquarters later were moved to Zarephath, New Jersey. |publisher=Denver Post |date=November 13, 1990 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.newarkhistory.com/fairmountcemetery.html Newark History Tour of Fairmount]
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES5.html#R9T0XKFF2 Fairmount Cemetery] at The Political Graveyard
* [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=99967 Fairmount Cemetery] at Find A Grave