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Asakawa, Kanichi b. December 20, 1873 d. August 11, 1948
Historian. He became a graduate of Dartmouth and the Yale Graduate School. As a member of the Yale faculty, he became the first Japanese professor at a major university in the United States. He dedicated himself to serving as a bridge between the United States and Japan to promote amicable relations. Some of his remains are also interred at Konjiki cemetery at his hometown of Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan. (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Ashmun, Jehudi b. April 21, 1794 d. August 25, 1828
Religous Leader, Social Reformer. Agent of the African Colonization Society which promoted the settlement of Blacks at Monrovia, Liberia.
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Plot: Enter throught the main gates and make an immediate left. Sarcophagus is in line with the administra
Bacon, Delia Salter b. February 2, 1811 d. September 2, 1859
Author. She became convinced that works attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, and Sir Walter Raleigh, who, for political reasons, credited them to an obscure actor named William Shakespeare. She published "The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded" in 1857, but became insane immediately after. Her theories have continued to have continued to have proponents up to the present day.
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Bakewell, Charles Montague b. April 24, 1867 d. September 19, 1957
US Congressman. Elected to represent Connecticut as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1933 to 1935. He also served as a Member of the Connecticut State Senate from 1920 to 1924, and was a prominent Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Baldwin, Roger Sherman b. January 4, 1793 d. February 19, 1863
US Senator, Connecticut Governor.
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Baldwin, Simeon Eben b. February 5, 1840 d. January 30, 1927
Governor of Connecticut, 1911-1915.
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Baldwin, Simeon b. December 14, 1761 d. May 26, 1851
US Congressman. Elected to represent Connecticut as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1803 to 1805. He also served as a State Court Judge from 1806 to 1817, and as the Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1826.
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Bassett, Ebenezer Don Carlos b. October 6, 1833 d. November 15, 1908
America's first African-American diplomat. A man of African-American and Pequot Indian ancestry, Bassett was educated at the Connecticut Normal School and Yale University. A teacher by profession, Bassett resided in Philadelphia and played a vital role in the Union's Civil War effort by encouraging black men to enlist. In 1869 President Grant appointed him US Minister to Haiti, making him the first African-American to achieve such distinction. He served as Minister until 1877, including a...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
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Beecher, Lyman b. October 12, 1775 d. January 10, 1863
Religious Figure. Temperance Movement Leader. Father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher and Isabella (Beecher) Hooker. Lyman Beecher went to Yale College at the age of 18 and graduated in 1797. He spent 1798 in Yale Divinity...[Read More] (Bio by: John Graham)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Bingham, Hiram b. October 30, 1789 d. November 11, 1869
Early Hawaiian Missionary and Clergy.
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Boardman, William Whiting b. October 10, 1794 d. August 27, 1871
US Congressman. Elected to represent Connecticut's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1840 to 1843. He also served as a Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives from 1836 to 1839, in 1845, and 1849 to 1851, and as Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives in 1836, 1839, and 1845. (Bio by: K)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Brewster Jr., Kingman b. June 17, 1919 d. November 8, 1988
Educator, US Diplomat. He graduated from Yale in 1941, where he was chairman of the “Yale Daily News”, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1948. After teaching at Harvard Law School from 1950 to 1960, he accepted the post of Provost at Yale, serving from 1960 to 1963. Upon the death of President A. Whitney Griswold, he was named President of Yale University, serving from 1963 to 1977. He was justly celebrated for the improvements he made to Yale’s faculty, curriculum, and...[Read More]
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Camp, Walter b. April 7, 1859 d. March 14, 1925
Professional Football Coach. He is known as the "Father of American Football." Among his creations are the play from scrimmage, the numerical assessment of goals and tries, the restriction of eleven team players per side, the adoption of the forward pass, and other strategies for the game. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he attended Hopkins Grammar School there and entered Yale University in 1876. A naturally athletic young man, he was a good swimmer and runner. During his teen years, he...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Chapman, Jedediah d. July 2, 1863
Civil War Union Army Officer. Served as a Captain in the 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He was killed in the Wheatfield At the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, l863. There is a marker where he fell. (Bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Daggett, David b. December 31, 1764 d. April 21, 1851
US Senator from Connecticut. He served in the Senate from 1813-1819. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Dutton, Henry b. February 12, 1796 d. April 26, 1869
Connecticut Governor. He graduated from Yale in 1818 and served as Principal of Fairfield Academy while studying law, becoming an attorney in Newtown in 1823. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1828 and 1834. He moved to Bridgeport in 1837, and served in the Connecticut House again from 1838 to 1839. Dutton moved to New Haven in 1847 to become Kent Professor of Law at Yale, a position he held until his death. He was a Connecticut State Senator from 1848 to 1849, and served...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Eaton, Amos Beebe b. May 12, 1806 d. February 21, 1877
Civil War Union Brevet Major General. A West Point graduate, he served as a Lieutenant in the US Army Commissariat, 1834 to 1836 and in the Mexican American War. At the start of the Civil War in 1861, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel assistant commissary general. His task was to create an effective supply system for the large number of troops entering the Union Army for the war. For his work provisioning and distributing supplies to the troops, he was promoted Brigadier General Commissary...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Edwards, Henry Waggaman b. October, 1779 d. July 22, 1847
US Congressman and Governor of Connecticut. He served in the US Senate from 1823-1827. He also served as Governor of Connecticut from 1833-1834 and again from 1835-1838. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Edwards, Pierpont b. April 8, 1750 d. April 5, 1826
Continental Congressman. The youngest child of theologian Jonathan Edwards, he graduated from Princeton College (1768) and became a practicing attorney in New Haven, Connecticut in 1771. Following service in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War he began the first of five terms in the State House of Representatives (1777, 1784 to 1785, 1789 to 1790), the last two as speaker. Edwards was a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Connecticut from 1787 to 1788, and a member of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Foote, Andrew Hull b. September 12, 1806 d. June 26, 1863
Naval officer; successfully campaigned to end the rum ration in the United States Navy, 1862; commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1858-1861; in charge of Union naval forces on the upper Mississippi, he succeeded in capturing Island Number 10, opening up the lower Mississippi; wounded at Fort Donelson, 1862; promoted to Rear Admiral, 1862; named commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1863, he died before he could assume command. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA

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