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Barclay, John Charles b. April 17, 1856 d. August 24, 1934
Inventor. Born in Greensburg, Pennslyvainia, he was best known for his many inventions associated with printing telegraphy. He beagn his career as a telegrapher for Western Union in 1875 and was associated with the company for the next 28 years. During the period of (1905-08), he developed the Barclay Electric Printing Telegraph System, stock market ticker tape and a self-winder machine. During his career he received a total of 38 U.S. Patents. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section GG
Bethell, Union Noble b. September 12, 1859 d. January 13, 1933
Businessman. He was a lawyer who joined all small phone companies to create AT&T. He was present at first cable crossing from Orleans, Massachusetts to Brest, France, and was chairman of operating board of AT&T from 1918 to 1919.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section KK
Booth, Shirley b. August 30, 1898 d. October 26, 1992
Actress. A prolific stage performer of the 20th Century, she is beloved by film audiences as the emotionally tortured but devoted wife, Lola Delaney in "Come Back Little Sheba" (1952), and by television viewers as Hazel Burke, the headstrong yet lovable housekeeper in the 1960s sitcom "Hazel". Born Marjory Ford in New York City, she began her theatre career in stock company productions, initially under the name Thelma Booth Ford. In 1925 she made her Broadway debut in "Hell's Bells", opposite...[Read More] (Bio by: katzizkidz)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Plane Lawn, Lot 8
Brown (Ellis), Clara Spalding b. 1853 d. July 1, 1935
Author. Married to a mining engineer in Tombstone, Arizona, he became a journalist and author who detailed events the that part of the Western Frontier, and was present in the town during the famous "Shootout at the OK Corral". She published the work "Life at Shut-In Valley and Other Pacific Coast Tales", and in 1998 the work "Tombstone from a woman's point of view: the letters of Clara Spalding Brown, July 7, 1880 to November 14, 1882" was published.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section EE, Lot 49 in the Valley
Cole, Edward Smith b. December 29, 1871 d. March 18, 1950
Inventor. He invented the Pitometer Log, which clocks ship speeds, along with instruments to gauge water velocity.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Dumont, Allen Balcom b. January 29, 1901 d. November 14, 1965
Inventor, Businessman. He created the first commercial television by perfecting cathode ray tube. Some of his other accomplisments were making radar possible by devising the first television guidance system for missiles; developing method to locate shrapnel in wounds, and inventing anti-knock gasoline and durable lacquer for cars.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Ellis, Edward Sylvester b. April 11, 1840 d. June 20, 1916
Author. He was a young schoolteacher when he published his most successful book, Seth Jones or the Captives of the Frontier, in 1860. Ellis was a major author of adventure stories during the nineteenth century era of inexpensive fiction, known as "dime novels." He wrote under dozens of pseudonyms, as well as his own name, and was so prolific, there is no complete listing of his works. His books are believed to number in the hundreds. In his later years he began writing accounts of historical...[Read More] (Bio by: Judith Julia Hull)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section EE, Lot 49 in the Valley
Hawkes, Albert Wahl b. November 20, 1878 d. May 9, 1971
US Senator. He was elected as a Senator from New Jersey to the United States Senate, serving from 1943 to 1949. (Bio by: K)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Hupfeld, Herman b. February 1, 1894 d. June 8, 1951
Composer, Lyricist. Best known for the song "As Time Goes By," immortalized in the film score of "Casablanca," Hupfeld was the son of a church organist, and began his musical career as a saxophonist in the United States Navy Band during World War I. In addition to the Princeton fight song "Here Comes That Tiger", he composed music for a few minor films in the early 1930's. His masterpiece, "As Time Goes By," was written in 1931 for the Broadway musical "Everybody's Welcome," and was...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section EE, Lot 27
GPS coordinates: 40.8538208, -74.1977921 (hddd.dddd)
Ingersoll, Charles Henry b. October 29, 1865 d. September 19, 1948
Co-founder of the Ingersoll Watch Company, with his brother Robert Ingersoll in 1892. Their company made the ‘Yankee', a popular, inexpensive watch that sold for a $1.00, a day's pay at that time. By 1899 they were mass producing 8,000 watches a day. In 1917 they introduced the ‘Reliance', another popular watch. By the end of World War I they had sold over 50 million watches. In 1922 they sold to Waterbury Clock, who continued to use the company's name. (Bio by: Ginny M)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Macy, John Albert b. April 10, 1877 d. August 26, 1932
Author. He was married for a time to Anne Sullivan, the teacher to Helen Keller. Besides his own books, hr edited Helen Keller's "Story of My Life." His principal works include "Edgar Allen Poe," "Feminism and Femininity," and "Walter James Dodd." His best known book was The Spirit of American Literature." (Bio by: Laurie)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Staub, William Edward b. November 3, 1915 d. July 19, 2012
Inventor, Developer. He was considered by many as one of the most influential figures in the development and manufacture of the home treadmill. A mechanical engineer by profession in the aerospace industry, he built and marketed his first treadmill in the late 1960s. At that time it was used almost exclusively by doctors to perform stress tests and other medical procedures on their patients. Shortly afterward, he saw the potential to market an inexpensive treadmill commercially for personal use...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA

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