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Abbett, Leon b. October 8, 1836 d. December 4, 1894
34th and 36th New Jersey Governor. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he practiced law in New York City, New York before settling in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1862. Active in state politics, he served in the New Jersey state legislature from 1864 to 1866 and again from 1869 to 1870, and was chairman of his party's state convention in 1868. He served in the New Jersey state senate from 1875 to 1877 and served two non-consecutive terms as Governor of New Jersey from 1884 to 1887 and...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 156, Lot 22993
Adams, James Truslow b. October 18, 1878 d. May 18, 1949
Historian. He graduated from Yale University in 1900, served in the United States Army during World War I as an intelligence officer, and on the staff of the United States delegation at the post-War Versailles Peace Conference. After the war he began writing, and won a Pulitzer Prize for hiw work "The Founding of New England" in 1921. His other works include "Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776", "Hamiltonian Principles", "Jeffersonian Principles", "The Adams Family", "The Epic of America", "...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 140, Lot 26607
Adams, John Joseph b. September 16, 1848 d. February 16, 1919
US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent two different New York Congressional Districts in the United States House of Representatives. He first represented the 8th District, serving from 1883 to 1885, then the 7th District, serving from 1885 to 1887.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 8, Lot 10912 [unmarked]
Adams, Joseph Henry b. January 30, 1867 d. February 8, 1941
Scientist. He patented an oil cracking process that manufactured gasoline in 1919.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 23, Lot 2194
Adams Sr., Julius Walker b. October 18, 1812 d. December 13, 1899
Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 67th New York Volunteer Infantry, being commissioned its commander on June 24, 1861. He led the regiment, and it's brigade, until October 1862, when he resigned due to ill health. He had attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, but dropped out to be part of several engineering projects. He was one of the original twelve founders of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 93/94, Lots 2018/3490
Adams Jr., Julius Walker b. April, 1840 d. November 15, 1865
Civil War Union Army Officer. A Captain in the 4th United States Regular Infantry, he led the regiment in its' action in the Wheatfield during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 2, 1863).
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 93/94, Lots 2018/3490
Allen, Augustus Chapman b. July 4, 1806 d. January 11, 1864
Western Frontiersman. He was graduated at the Polytechnic Institute at Chittenango, New York, began to teach mathematics and he resigned his professorship to accept a place as bookkeeper for the H. and H. Canfield Company, New York in 1829. In 1832, he with his brother John moved to Texas and settled at San Augustine. By June 1833, they were established in Nacogdoches, joined a coterie of land speculators and soon were engaged in a variety of enterprises, chief of which was traffic in land...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 150, Lot 15156
Anastasia (Anastasio), Albert (Umberto) b. February 26, 1902 d. October 25, 1957
Oragnized Crime Figure. He was part of "Murder Incorporated", a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. The killers received assignments and payments to murder total strangers in the New York area or anywhere in the country, murdering anyone selected by the syndicate board. Murder, Inc. was destroyed when Murder Inc., hitman Abe Reles turned informant in 1940. Anastasia went on to become head of the Gambino crime family in the 1950s. He...[Read More]
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 39, Lot 38325, Grave 182
Appleton, Edwin Nelson b. August 28, 1877 d. September 26, 1937
Boxer Rebellion (China Relief Expedition) Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. He was awarded the CMOH as a Corporal. His citation reads "In action against the enemy at Tientsin, China, 20 June 1900. Crossing the river in a small boat while under heavy enemy fire, Appleton assisted in destroying buildings occupied by the enemy." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section K/111, Lot 13724/41 (Anderson Masoleum)
Aspinwall, William Henry b. December 16, 1807 d. January 18, 1875
Businessman. He was responsible for the building of the Panama Railroad, and owned the first clipper ship for use in his China Trading Company.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 21, Lot 2076
Baker, William Frazer b. 1866 d. December 4, 1930
Major League Baseball Team Owner. He owned the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball team from 1913 until his death in 1930. The former commissioner of the New York City, New York Police Department, he purchased the team from Horace Fogel after Fogel was banned from Baseball for making disparaging remarks about umpire officiating. This legacy is often described as "extremely tight-fisted". Believing the baseball team should pay for itself by generating it's own revenue, he sold off many...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 197A, Lot 33396
Barnes, Demas b. April 4, 1827 d. May 1, 1888
US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent New York's 2nd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1867 to 1869.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 119, Lot 25718
Bartlett, Franklin b. September 10, 1847 d. April 23, 1909
US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent New York's 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1893 to 1897.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 70, Lot 11725
Bartlett, Washington Allen b. 1816 d. February 6, 1865
Civil War Union Army Officer, San Francisco Mayor. A native of Maine, he joined the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1833. In 1844 he was commissioned to the rank of Lieutenant and assigned to serve on the "USS Portsmouth". With the coming of the Mexican War, the "Portsmouth", under the command of Captain John Montgomery, was ordered to the San Francisco Bay, California, where, on July 9, 1846, Montgomery and a detachment of men captured the coastal town of Yerba Buena without firing a...[Read More] (Bio by: G.Photographer)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 90, Lots 772-775
Basquiat, Jean-Michel b. December 22, 1960 d. August 12, 1988
Artist. The protege of pop artist Andy Warhol, he was the son of middle-class Brooklyn parents, and had a precocious success with his paintings from the start. His career was incubated by the short-lived graffiti movement, which started on the streets and subway cars in the early 1970s. Having no art training, he never tried to deal with the real world through drawing; he could only scribble and jot, rehearsing his own stereotypes, his pictorial nouns for "face" or "body" over and over again...[Read More] (Bio by: MC)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 176, Lot 44603
Beach, Lewis b. March 30, 1835 d. August 10, 1886
US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent two New York Congressional Districts in the United States House of Representatives. He first represented the 14th District from 1881 to 1885, then the 15th District from 1885 until his death in office in 1886.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 32, Lot 12945
Bean, Curtis Coe b. January 4, 1828 d. February 1, 1904
US Congressman. He was born in Tamworth, New Hampshire and raised in Gilmanton. After attending Union College in Schenectady, New York, he settled in New York City, where he worked in the United States Customhouse and became active in several business ventures. During the Civil War he was active as a contractor providing arms and supplies to the Union Army. In 1864 he moved to Tennessee, living in Columbia and Nashville. Having studied law in New York City, he attained admission to the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 188, Lot 31597
Beecher, Henry Ward b. June 24, 1813 d. March 8, 1887
Religious Leader. He was a prominent 19th Century Minister, and brother of author of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 140, Lot 25911
Bellows, George Wesley b. August 12, 1882 d. January 8, 1925
Artist. He was a realist painter-lithographer noted for his paintings of action scenes, expressive portraits and seascapes. While attending Ohio State University, he started by providing illustrations for the school's student yearbook, then relocated to New York in 1904, to study at the New york School of Art. By 1908, he had his own studio and achieved notice for artwork which depicted urban New York scenes and sports events. In 1919, he was teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago and...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 24, Lot 478/479
Bennett, DeRobigne Mortimer 'D.M.' b. December 23, 1818 d. December 6, 1882
Journalist. He was the founder, editor, and publisher of The "Truth Seeker", a freethought and reform periodical. Considered one of 19th-century America's most controversial publishers, he founded the "blasphemous" (as it was called) newspaper in 1873, and his publications were censored and prohibited from newsstands. In less than a decade, he became the most successful publisher of liberal literature in America, and provided a medium for figures such as Mark Twain, Clarence Darrow, and Robert...[Read More] (Bio by: Rod Bradford)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 18, Lot 13341

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