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Astor (Schermerhorn), Caroline Webster b. September 22, 1830 d. October 30, 1908
Socialite. She was "the" Mrs. Astor and the granddaughter-in-law of patriarch John Jacob Astor, who had amassed a family fortune even greater than her own. Married to William Astor in 1853, she became the queen of Gilded Age society, disdaining to associate with those not named to her elite "List of 400." A feud with her nephew William Waldorf Astor was eventually resolved with the establishment of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Astor III., John Jacob b. June 10, 1822 d. February 22, 1890
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, Financier. Grandson of patriarch John Jacob Astor I and son of William Backhouse Astor. He devoted his life to philanthropy and civic affairs. He and his wife Charlotte provided funding for a host of charities, including the Children's Aid Society, the Astor Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York Cancer Hospital. During the Civil War, he served as an volunteer Aide-de-Camp to General George B. McClellan, and recieved the brevet of...[Read More]
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Plot: Westerly Division, Lots 743-786
Astor IV., John Jacob b. July 13, 1864 d. April 15, 1912
Businessman, Disaster Victim. A victim of the RMS Titanic sinking, he was the great-grandson of patriarch John Jacob Astor I, the grandson of "landlord of New York" William Backhouse Astor, and the son of THE Mrs. William Astor, nee Caroline Schermerhorn, legendary queen of New York's elite "400." He and his older cousin, William Waldorf Astor, built...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
Cause of death: Titanic sinking
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Plot: Westerly Division, Lots 743-786
Astor (Talmadge Dick Fiermonte), Madeline b. June 19, 1893 d. March 24, 1940
Socialite. The wife of John Jacob Astor IV, she survived of the sinking of the "RMS Titanic" on April 14/15, 1912 which took her husband. She was 18 years old at the time. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Audubon, John James b. April 26, 1785 d. January 27, 1851
Artist. Indelibly linked with the painting of birds, Audubon was the son of a French sea captain and his Creole mistress. Educated in his father's native France, he had spent a disastrous year at a military school before studying art in Paris with the great David. At age 18 he emigrated to the United States, where he set out for the frontier. An excellent shot and horseman, Audubon could also dance with grace and perform parlor tricks, but his one obsession was painting birds. In the course of...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Plot: East side of church
Bella, Alma b. March 13, 1910 d. May 11, 2012
Actress. A Filipina starlet who got her start in silent films, she was perhaps her country's leading movie sex kitten for a generation. Born to a family of wealth and position, she was drawn to the stage after attending a London performance of "Hamlet" at 17. Alma made her silver screen debut in the 1932 "Sa Pinto ng Langit" then went on to appearances in roughly 20 features including "Ama" (1936) and 1938's "Ang Batang Tulisan", along the way having a box office rivalry with the equally...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Bennett, Estelle b. July 22, 1941 d. February 11, 2009
Vocalist. She was a member of the 1960s music group The Ronettes. They are best known for the hits "Be My Baby" (1963), "Baby, I Love You" (1964) and "Walking In The Rain" (1964). Along with her younger sister Veronica "Ronnie" Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley, they began performing in 1959 as The Darling Sisters and later under the name Ronnie and the Relatives. During the early 1960s, they gained recognition performing at the Peppermint Lounge in New York and would tour with the group...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Chanler, John Winthrop b. September 14, 1826 d. October 19, 1877
Civil War US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent New York's 7th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1869.
(Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Chanler, William Astor b. September 14, 1867 d. October 19, 1934
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 14th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1899 to 1901. Also served as a Member of the New York State Assembly in 1898. (Bio by: K)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Colden, Cadwallader David b. April 4, 1769 d. February 7, 1834
US Congressman, New York City Mayor. He was the grandson of Cadwallader Colden, New York's royal Governor in the 1760s and 1770s. Privately tutored and studied in England before becoming an attorney in 1791, he was District Attorney of New York County in 1798 and again in 1810. He served as a militia officer and Colonel in the War of 1812, as a member of the New York Assembly in 1818, and Mayor of New York City, New York from 1818 to 1821. He was an unsuccessful Federalist candidate to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Plot: Westerly Division 732
Darling, William Augustus b. December 27, 1817 d. May 26, 1895
Civil War US Congressman. He was elected as a Republican to represent New York's 9th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1867. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
De Acosta, Mercedes b. March 1, 1893 d. May 9, 1968
Author, folk figure. Born in New York City to wealthy Cuban immigrants, Mercedes often claimed she thought she was a boy named "Raphael" until she was seven. Through her sister Rita, who posed for well-known painters, Mercedes met Rodin, Stravinsky, and other notables in the artistic, musical, and literary circles. She married Abram Poole in what was called at the time a "lavendar marriage," meaning he was a cover for her lesbian affairs. Alice B. Toklas said of her, "Say what you will about...[Read More] (Bio by: Jennifer M.)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
DeLancey, James b. November 27, 1703 d. July 30, 1760
Colonial Governor of New York. The son of a prominent merchant, he was sent to England to attend college at Cambridge and study law in London. In 1729 he married Anne Heathcote, whose father Caleb had served as Mayor of New York City. The same year DeLancey became a member of the Governor's Council and the New York Assembly, and in 1731 he became a Justice New York's Supreme Court. In 1733 he replaced [Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Dickens, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson b. October 28, 1845 d. 1912
The sixth child and fourth son of Charles and Catherine Dickens was born at 1 Devonshire Terrace, on the South side of Regent's Park, and was named after his godfathers, Lord Tennyson and Count D'Orsay. Along with his brothers Frank and Sydney, he was educated at a private school in Boulogne. He contemplated a career in the Army, in medicine, or in business. Instead, when he was twenty, he emigrated to Australia. In 1875, he married Jessie Devlin, 'The Belle of Melbourne", with whom he had two...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Dix, John Adams b. July 24, 1798 d. April 21, 1879
United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Union Major General of Volunteers, Minister to France, Governor of New York. He was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire. He first saw action as an ensign at 14, serving under his father, Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Dix Jr., in the War of 1812. Resigning from the service in 1828, he pursued commercial interests in Cooperstown, New York, and entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat. He soon became a power in the party, serving as New York adjutant...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Ellison, Ralph Waldo b. March 1, 1913 d. April 16, 1994
Author and Educator. He is best known for his novel, Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He is included in the group of great African-American authors of the 20th Century which includes Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and James Baldwin. Invisible Man is considered by some to be the most significant American novel since World War II and has been called the Moby Dick of the 20th century. The unnamed narrator of the book moves from a frontier belief in freedom and harmony to...[Read More] (Bio by: Richard Cheek)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Evans, Oliver b. September 13, 1755 d. April 15, 1819
Inventor. He is best known for inventing the "Oruktor Amphibolos", or "Amphibious Digger", which technologically was a foreunner of the modern automobile. It was a device commissioned by the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Board of Health that was a steam powered, wheeled amphibious dock cleaning scow.
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Haight, Edward b. March 26, 1817 d. September 15, 1885
Civil War US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent New York's 9th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Hall, Abraham Oakey b. July 26, 1826 d. October 7, 1898
New York City Mayor. Known as A. Oakey Hall and nicknamed "Elegant Oakey," he graduated from New York University in 1844 and studied law at Harvard for one semester. He completed his legal studies at a New Orleans law office and became a lawyer in 1849. He was elected New York District Attorney as a Republican, serving from 1853 to 1859 and again from 1861 to 1869. Hall became affiliated with the Tammany Hall Democratic organization in 1864 and edited Tammany's newspaper, The Leader. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Jumel, Eliza b. April 7, 1775 d. July 16, 1865
Socialite. The penniless beauty Eliza Bowen acquired a life of luxury upon her marriage to Stephen Jumel, a wealthy French wine merchant who bought the elegant Morris Mansion for her in 1810. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a prostitute named Phebe Kelley Bowen and a sailor who had been her lover, the stigma of illegitimacy and life in the local poorhouse fired Eliza's obsession with wealth and social status, and she would later claim to have have been born on the high seas, the daughter...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Plot: Jumel Vault, Eastern section

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