Princeton Cemetery

Princeton Cemetery
Princeton Cemetery
	Presidents row, showing grave of Vice-President Aaron Burr, Jr. in front of those of his father, Aaron Burr, Sr., and grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, both presidents of Princeton University.
Details
Established	1757
Location	Princeton, New Jersey
Country	USA
Coordinates	40°21′14.8″N 74°39′34.1″W / 40.354111°N 74.659472°W
Owned by	Nassau Presbyterian Church
Website	Princeton Cemetery
	Princeton Cemetery
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Part of	Princeton Historic District (ID75001143)
Added to NRHP	27 June 1975

Princeton Cemetery is located in Princeton, New Jersey.^[1] It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church.^[3] John F. Hageman in his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey refers to the cemetery as: "The Westminster Abbey of the United States." ^[1]^[4]

Notable burials

Archibald Alexander (1772–1851), Presbyterian theologian
James Waddel Alexander (1804–1859), Presbyterian theologian and eldest son of Archibald Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), Presbyterian biblical scholar and third son of Archibald Alexander
William Cowper Alexander (1806–1874), politician, businessman and second son of Archibald Alexander
George Wildman Ball (1909–1994), diplomat
George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), Civil War general
Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), bookshop owner
Harold H. Bender (1882–1951), philologist
John Berrien I (1712–1772), New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of Rockingham House
Aaron Burr (1756–1836), controversial Revolutionary War hero and politician, third vice president of the United States, killer of Alexander Hamilton, adventurer who was eventually tried and acquitted of treason
Aaron Burr, Sr. (1716–1757), Presbyterian minister, second president of Princeton University and father of Aaron Burr
Alonzo Church (1903–1995), mathematician
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the United States
Frances Cleveland (1864–1947), wife of Grover Cleveland
Ruth Cleveland (1891–1904), first child of Grover and Frances Cleveland and supposed name sake of the Baby Ruth candy bar
Edward Samuel Corwin (1878–1963), author and professor of law
Samuel Davies (1723–1761), president of Princeton University
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), president of Princeton University and Calvinist theologian
Richard Stockton Field (1803–1870), US senator and New Jersey Attorney General
John Huston Finley (1863–1940), author, president of Knox College and University of the State of New York
Donald B. Fullerton (1892-1985), missionary and founder of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship
George Horace Gallup (1901–1984), pollster
William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), naval architect
Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), mathematician
Peter Charles Harris (1865–1951), adjutant general of the U.S. Army
Charles Hodge (1797–1878), Calvinist theologian
David Hunter (1802–1886), Civil War General
Joseph Kargé (1823–1892), Civil War General and Princeton University professor
George Frost Kennan (1904–2005), diplomat
Frank Lewin (1925–2008), composer
David Kellogg Lewis (1941–2001), philosopher
Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837–1892), diplomat
John Maclean, Jr. (1800–1886), president of Princeton University
Jose Menendez (1944–1989) and Mary Louise (Kitty) Menendez (1941–1989), murder victims of their sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez
Moses Taylor Pyne (1855–1921), financier, philanthropist and owner of Drumthwacket Estate
Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828–1919), Special US Minister to Greece, US congressman from Virginia, Confederate congressman and general, journalist, New York Supreme Court justice
William Drew Robeson (1844–1918), father of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson
Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), astronomer
William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928), first US Olympic Committee president
Howard Alexander Smith (1880–1966), US senator from New Jersey
John P. Stockton (1826–1900), New Jersey attorney general and US senator
Richard Stockton (1764–1828), US senator from New Jersey^[5]
Robert Field Stockton (1795–1866), naval officer
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (1914–1997), astronomer
John Renshaw Thomson (1800–1862), US senator from New Jersey
William G. Thompson (1840–1904), mayor of Detroit
John W. Tukey (1915–2000), statistician
Paul Tulane (1801–1887), Tulane University benefactor^[4]
John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921), Presbyterian theologian
Canvass White (1790–1834), engineer and inventor
Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Nobel Prize-winning physicist
John Witherspoon (1723–1794), signer of the Declaration of Independence
William Willet (artist) (1867–1921), portraitist and stained glass designer

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "The Princeton Cemetery". Princeton Online. Retrieved 2007-08-26. 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.
^ "Princeton Historic District". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Srvice.
^ Sarapin, Janice Kohl (2002). Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2111-4. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ ^a ^b Strauss, Robert (March 28, 2004). "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-06. 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. ... {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ Richard Stockton (1764–1828), Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 20, 2007.

External links

[online-1] "The Princeton Cemetery". Princeton Online. Retrieved 2007-08-26. 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.

[2] "Princeton Historic District". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Srvice.

[3] Sarapin, Janice Kohl (2002). Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2111-4. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[nyt1-4] Strauss, Robert (March 28, 2004). "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-06. 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. ... {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[5] Richard Stockton (1764–1828), Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 20, 2007.

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