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Babcock, Edward Vose b. January 31, 1864 d. September 2, 1948
Industrialist, Philanthropist. Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1918 to 1922. Born and raised on a farm near Fulton, New York, he had only a grammar school education and entered the lumber business in Detroit at age 20. He later moved to Pittsburgh, where in 1887 he and his brother Fred founded the very successful Babcock Lumber Company. Incorporated in 1897, it eventually comprised five factories in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Tennessee. In 1911 Babcock took a seat on Pittsburgh's...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Benedum, Michael Late b. 1869 d. 1959
Oil Magnate, Philanthropist. After an early career selling milling machinery, he became involved in the oil industry with the South Penn Oil Company, an affiliate of Standard Oil. He reached the position of Assistant General Land Agent for South Penn in 1892, but left and founded the Benedum-Trees Oil Company in partnership with Joseph Trees. Known as the "Great Wildcatter," for the next fifty years he traveled across the globe in search for oil and built one of the most successful oil and gas...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Brown, William Harry b. August 11, 1856 d. April 28, 1921
Businessman. He and his brothers organized the firm of Wm. H. Brown & Sons of Pittsburgh in 1876. They were the largest shippers of coal on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Mr. Brown's private mausoleum, the Pyramid, was built in 1898-99. It is the only one of its type in Homewood Cemetery and has become a landmark within its grounds. (Bio by: EJD)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Brown Mausoleum, Section 14, lot 40
Campbell, Howard Edmond b. January 4, 1890 d. January 6, 1971
US Congressman. Elected to represent Pennsylvania's 29th District in the United States House of representatives, he served from 1945 to 1947. (Bio by: K)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Clark, David Lytle b. September 26, 1864 d. February 3, 1939
Businessman. He was the founder and president of the D. L. Clark Company of Pittsburgh, where the world famous Clark Bar was produced.
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 25, Lot 1
Cooper, Charles H. b. September 29, 1926 d. February 5, 1984
Cooper was a high school star at Pittsburgh's Westinghouse High, who elected to stay at home and continue to play collegiately at Duquense, where he starred from 1947 to 1950. Led the "Dukes" to a 78-19 record and two NIT appearances in his four-year career and captained a 1949-50 squad that finished with a 23-6 record and No. 6 national ranking. That 1950 edition of the Dukes were the first Duquesne team to be ranked for an entire season by the Associated Press. Cooper went on to become the...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Dunn, Matthew Anthony b. August 15, 1886 d. February 13, 1942
US Congressman. A Democrat, he represented Pennsylvania's 34th District in the US House of Representatives for four terms, from 1933 to 1941. Dunn was born in Braddock, Pennsylvania. He lost the sight of his left eye in an accident at age 12 and was blinded in his right eye during a wrestling match at age 20. For two years he worked as a newsboy to pay for his enrollment at schools for the blind in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, graduating from the latter in 1909. After working as an insurance...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Fleming, Ed b. July 25, 1933 d. April 10, 2002
Pro basketball player for five seasons in the NBA from 1955-60 with the Rochester Royals and Minnesota Lakers. He was a teammate of the legendary Maurice Stokes at Pittsbgurgh's Westinghouse High School. Played college ball at Niagra University graduating in 1954 and was a successful highschool coach for over 20 years in the Pittsburgh area. (Bio by: EJD)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Ford, Henry Parker b. October 15, 1837 d. April 21, 1905
Pittsburgh Mayor. He served as the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1896 to 1899.
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Frick, Henry Clay b. December 19, 1849 d. December 2, 1919
Businessman. He made his fortune in the coke making business and was known as the "Coke King." He merged his vast coke and railroad interests with those of Andrew Carnegie the "Steel King" to form the Carnegie Corp which later became the United States Steel Corp.
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 14, Lot 66
Garner, Erroll b. June 15, 1921 d. January 2, 1977
Musician. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was one of the most distinctive jazz pianist of all and noted for his classic compostions. A self-taught artist, he was a professional pianist at age seven and began to play regularly on Pittsburgh's KDKA radio station with a group called The Candy Kids. He developed a unique style of piano playing and toured throughout the world from the 1940s to 1970s, mostly with his own three-piece trio. He wrote more then 200 songs, including "All the Things...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 22.2, Lot 19-E
Gibson Jr., Josh b. 1930 d. September 10, 2003
Negro Leagues Baseball Player. Son of legendary slugger Josh Gibson. He and twin sister, Helen, were born on Pittsburgh's North Side, raised in the Hill District and graduated from Schenley High School. Followed father into the Negro Leagues. Batboy with the Pittsburgh Crawfords. Signed by the Youngstown Colts at the age of 17, spent time in the Canadian Provincial League. Played third base for the Homestead Grays 1949 to 1950. Broke ankle sliding into a base and never returned to playing ball...[Read More] (Bio by: Millennium Memorials)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Harris, Charles 'Teenie' b. July 2, 1908 d. June 12, 1998
Negro League baseball player for the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the early 1930s. After his baseball career Harris became the principal photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper for 39 years.
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 12-2, Lot 89
Heinz III., Henry John b. October 23, 1938 d. April 4, 1991
US Senator. He was elected as a Senator from Pennsylvania to the United States Senate, serving from from 1977 until his death in a helicopter crash in 1991.
Cause of death: Helicopter crashed into his plane
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Heinz, Henry John b. October 11, 1844 d. May 14, 1919
Henry John Heinz, Ketchup Magnate. At 8 years old he began peddling surplus home-grown vegetables to neighbors; by 1860 he was making three wagon deliveries of his vegetables a week to Pittsburgh grocers. In 1869 he formed his first partnership selling grated horseradish; by 1875 they were bankrupt. The next year the F. & J. Heinz Company was launched with his brother and cousin as partners (providing the initials in the company's name) and himself as manager, manufacturing pickles and...[Read More] (Bio by: Phantomht)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Hetzel, George b. January 17, 1826 d. July 4, 1899
One of Western Pennsylvania's most significant portrait and landscape painters. His first important sale, a small still life, was purchased by Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and hung in the White House during the Lincoln Administration.
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 7 Lot 62.
Koenig, Henry Titus b. 1891 d. May 20, 1934
Scientist. He gained world acclaim for his research with radium. In 1922 he and 20 other scientists went to Belgium to work with Madame Marie Curie. Not long after that research, many of the scientists began dying from malignancies caused by their exposure to radium. Realizing his fate, he nevertheless continued his research under a self-imposed death sentence. He was the last of the scientists to die. Madame Curie died less that two months later. He was hailed as "a martyr to radium research"...[Read More]
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 9, Lot 340
Matthews, John Calvin b. 1846 d. October 24, 1934
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Served in the Civil War as a Corporal in Company A, 61st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery in the final Union assaults on Petersburg, Virginia on April 2, 1865. His citation reads "Voluntarily took the colors, whose bearer had been disabled, and, although himself severely wounded, carried the same until the enemy's works were taken". His Medal was awarded to him on February 13, 1891. He was one of eight...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 3, Lot 79
Mellix, Ralph B. 'Lefty' b. April 29, 1896 d. March 23, 1985
Star pitcher in the Negro Baseball League in the 1920s and 1930s.
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 33, Division 1, Row 1, Grave 1
Mesta, George b. 1862 d. April 22, 1925
Business Entrepreneur. He created the world's most versatile machinery works at his mile-long plant in West Homestead. Mesta Machine Co. was for a generation the world's largest machine shop under one roof, manufacturing rolling equipment and other heavy machinery for steel mills around the country.
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 21, Lot 21 George Mesta Mausoleum

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