Park Benjamin Sr.

Birth: 13 Aug 1809
Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana
Death: 12 Sep 1864 (aged 55)
New York, New York County, New York, USA
Burial: Green-Wood Cemetery

Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot: Section 157, Lot 15523
Memorial ID: 28043692 View Source

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The Departed The Departed
They visit us in dreams
And they glide above our memories
Like shadows over streams
But where the cheerful light of home
In constant lustre burn
The Departed The Departed
Can never more return
P.B.

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Parke Benjamin

1769–1824
Mary Judith Gall Lanman

1778–1848

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Mary Brower or Brouwer Western Benjamin

1826–1906 (m. 1848)

Siblings

Mary Elizabeth Benjamin Motley

1813–1874
Susan Margaret Benjamin Stackpole

1815–1896
Benjamin Henry Benjamin

1815–1851

Children

Park Benjamin

1849–1922
George Hillard Benjamin

1852–1927
Walter Romeyn Benjamin

1854–1943
Charles Membery Benjamin

1856–1916
Mary Western Benjamin

1857–1912
William Evarts Benjamin

1859–1940
Edith Susan Benjamin

1861–1940
Henry Western Benjamin

unknown–1864

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Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889
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BENJAMIN PARK 1864-12-01 lot# 15523 Sec 157

His son was Park B Jr., a grad of Annapolis who also designed the Navy seal/emplem still used today. His granddaughter and daughter of Park Jr was Dorothy Park Benjamin who married Enrico Carusso and was his only wife.

Park Sr. was a West Point Graduate and friend of General McClellan from the Civil War days

Park Sr was born in now Georgetown British Guiana

1825 entered Harvard but then after 2 years went to Trinity College in Hartford CT admitted to bar 1833 1835 connected to NEW ENGLAND magazine named changed a year later to the "American Monthly Magazine"

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Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 157, Lot 15523
There are 5 stones on the lot, 3 of which are completely illegible. Only 2 of the 9 individuals buried here are memorialized on legible stones. Inscriptions on the two large stones follow:
---LEFT (penned by Park Benjamin himself):
The departed, the departed
They visit us in dreams
And they glide above our memories
Like Shadows over streams
But where the cheerful lights of home
In constant lustre burn
The departed, the departed
Can never more return.
PB
BENJAMIN
---RIGHT:
Nellie
wife of Park Benjamin
Born April 17th 1854
Died July 22nd 1877
(Nellie [Ellen] was the first wife of Park Benjamin, Jr, son of Park Benjamin, Sr. Park Benjamin Jr (5/11/1849 NYC – 8/21/1922 Stamford, CT) was cremated and his ashes scattered over the Atlantic Ocean.)
[NOTE: Complete lot burial list from cemetery staff, with burial dates, which may represent reburials after removal from previous graves. Contact cemetery for complete information about this lot at http://www.green-wood.com:
BENJAMIN: Charles Membery, 2/22/1916; Edith, 10/3/1940; Ellen (Nellie), 7/25/1877; Henry W, 12/1/1864; Isabel, 6/1/1887; Isabelle, 4/30/1888; Mary B, 1/2/1907; Mary Western, 3/12/1912; and Park, 12/1/1864.]

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Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 157, Lot 15523.
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The departed, the departed
They visit us in dreams
And they glide above our memories
Like Shadows over streams
But where the cheerful lights of home
In constant lustre burn
The departed, the departed
Can never more return.
PB
BENJAMIN

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Parke Benjamin

Mary Judith Gall Lanman

Mary Brower or Brouwer Western Benjamin

Mary Elizabeth Benjamin Motley

Susan Margaret Benjamin Stackpole

Benjamin Henry Benjamin

Park Benjamin

George Hillard Benjamin

Walter Romeyn Benjamin

Charles Membery Benjamin

Mary Western Benjamin

William Evarts Benjamin

Edith Susan Benjamin

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