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Allen, Viola b. October 27, 1869 d. May 9, 1948
Actress. Born into a theatrical family, she made her debut at age fifteen in "Esmeralda" with her father, character actor C. Leslie Allen. Over the years she took parts in various Shakespeare plays, including: "Twelfth Night," "The Winter's Tale," "Cymbeline" and "As You Like It." Also, she played lead roles in two silents: "The White Sister" and "Open Your Eyes."
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 50
Arden, Elizabeth b. December 31, 1878 d. October 17, 1966
Businesswoman. Born Florence Nightingale Graham, she founded the "Elizabeth Arden" cosmetics empire. She is interred in the Graham family plot under the name of Elizabeth N. Graham.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Astor, Brooke b. March 30, 1902 d. August 13, 2007
Philanthropist. Born Roberta Brooke Russell in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, her father was Major General John Henry Russell Jr., a military officer who eventually became Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. She dropped out of high school in 1919 to marry John Dryden Kuser, (her first serious relationship), when she was 17. The son of the founder of South Jersey Gas and Electric and the grandson of the founder...[Read More] (Bio by: Andrew A. Caruso)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 88, row 2
Astor, Vincent b. November 15, 1891 d. February 3, 1959
Financier, Businessman, Philanthropist. The son of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, he entered Harvard University only to leave after the death of his father in the sinking of the "RMS Titanic"'. He was the first Astor, in several generations, to take active control of the family investments, with interests in automobiles, shipping and air transportation, as well as the ancestral involvement in Manhattan, New York City, New York real estate. A Commodore of The New York Yacht Club, his yacht, "...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Bruce)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 88, row 2
Badeau, Adam b. December 29, 1831 d. March 19, 1895
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He grew up in what is now Sleepy Hollow, New York, and worked as a theatre critic in New York City before volunteering for the Union Army in 1862. He was appointed to the staff of Brigadier General Thomas Sherman in 1863, and was wounded during Battle at Port Hudson that year. In 1864, he joined the staff of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, serving as his military secretary and participating in the Appomattox and Wilderness campaigns. He accompanied...[Read More] (Bio by: Pat)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Old Dutch Churchyard, Section D, Lot 65
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik b. November 14, 1863 d. February 23, 1944
Scientist, Inventor. Having graduated from the University of Ghent in Belgium in 1882 and having received his doctorate from there in 1884, he immigrated to the United States in 1889. He invented Velox, a photographic paper, and received a fortune when he sold his Nepera Chemical Company to Eastman Kodak in 1899. Experimenting with synthetic resins, he introduced Bakelite in 1907 and formed the Bakelite Company the next year, serving as president of the company until 1939. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Beeckman, Robert Livingston b. April 15, 1866 d. January 21, 1935
Rhode Island Governor. He served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1915 to 1921.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Blinn, Holbrook b. January 23, 1872 d. June 24, 1928
Actor. He appeared in a number of films in the early 20th century, including "The Telephone Girl" (1927), "Zander The Great" (1925), "Janice Meredith" (1924), "Yolanda" (1924), "The Bad Man" (1923),, "Pride" (1917), "The Hidden Scar" (1916), "Husband And Wife" (1916), "The Weakness Of Man" (1916), "The Family Cupboard" (1915), "The Ivory Snuff Box" (1915), "The Boss" (1915), and "The Wishing Ring: An Idyll Of Old England" (1914). He died in 1928 after falling from a horse. (Bio by: K)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Bodanzky, Artur b. December 16, 1877 d. November 23, 1939
Conductor. He is remembered for his longtime leadership of the Germanic repertory at New York's Metropolitan Opera. The child of a merchant family, he studied violin and composition in his native city and was for a time conducting assistant to Gustav Mahler. Bodanzky held theatrical posts in Berlin, Prague, and Mannheim prior to being hired in 1915 by Metropolitan Opera Music Director Arturo Toscanini. In charge of leading the performance of German operas, he was to take the Metropolitan's...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Bowes, Edward b. June 14, 1874 d. June 13, 1946
Radio Entertainer.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Brady, Alice b. November 2, 1892 d. October 28, 1939
Actress. Born Mary Rose Brady in New York City, New York, she began her career in the theatre in 1911, at age 18. In 1914, she made her motion picture debut in the silent picture "As Ye Sow". She appeared in 53 films in the next 10 years, all while continuing to perform on stage, the film industry at the time being centered in New York City. When the silent era ended, she made the move to Hollywood appearing in MGM's "When Ladies Meet" (1933) and made another 25 films in seven years. She was...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Cancer
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Gibeon 57, next to the curb
Brush, Eleanor Van Tassel b. 1763 d. 1861
Literary Figure. She was the model for the character of 'Katrina' in the book, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Carnegie, Andrew b. November 25, 1835 d. August 11, 1919
Businessman, Industrialist, Philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of what is now USX Corporation. Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1848 his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He went to work at age 13, first as a mill hand, then as a telegraph messenger boy, learned telegraphy on his own time. After becoming a full time telegraph operator in 1851, he was hired at the age of 17 as a personal telegrapher and secretary to the local division...[Read More] (Bio by: Edward Parsons)
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Chrysler, Walter b. April 2, 1875 d. August 18, 1940
Industrialist. He was the first President and Founder of the Chrysler Corporation. Walter Chrysler was born in Wamego, Kansas, and shortly afterwards, his family moved to Oelwein, Iowa. His automotive career began when the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) decided to expand into making automobiles. Chrysler's interest in automobiles had begun in 1908, when he bought his first car. When ALCO's sales began to slide after just two years in the car-making business, Chrysler saw the handwriting...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Church, Francis Pharcellus b. February 22, 1839 d. April 11, 1906
Journalist. He served as the editor at the "New York Sun", and wrote the famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus", which appeared in print on September 21, 1897, as an answer to the question posed by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Douglas, William b. December 5, 1853 d. January 27, 1944
US Congressman. He was elected as a Republican to represent New York's 14th and 15th Congressional Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1901 to 1905.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Fennelly, Parker W. b. October 22, 1891 d. January 22, 1988
Parker Fennelly (October 22, 1891 � January 22, 1988) was an American actor who appeared in ten films, numerous television episodes and hundreds of radio programs.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Gompers, Samuel b. January 27, 1850 d. December 13, 1924
Labor Leader. He was born in London and together with his family immigrated to America in 1863. They lived on the Lower East Side, where he found work as a cigar-maker. In 1864 he joined the Cigar Makers' International Union. He became an American citizen in 1872. Gompers had seen what things were like for the workers back in England when they weren't paid enough and had to work under terrible conditions, and knew that as much as some of his co-workers might complain, they still weren't as bad...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Grant, Gabriel b. September 4, 1826 d. November 8, 1909
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. The official citation reads: "Removed severely wounded officers and soldiers from the field while under a heavy fire from the enemy, exposing himself beyond the call of duty, thus furnishing an example of most distinguished gallantry." He was a Newark, New Jersey physician with dgrees from Williams College (1846) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1851). During the Civil War, he served first as surgeon of the 2nd New Jersey Volunteer...[Read More] (Bio by: JVC)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Family Plot, Section 57 (Gibeon)
Grinnell, Moses Hicks b. March 3, 1803 d. November 24, 1877
US Congressman. He was elected as a Whig to represent New York's 3rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1839 to 1841. He was the younger brother of Massachusetts Congressman Joseph Grinnell
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA

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