Find A Grave - Mount Hope Cemetery

Cooper, Emma Lampert b. 1855 d. 1920
Artist. Studied with William Merritt Chase in New York City, painted many famous scenes of Brittany and Holland. Exhibited at several national expositions including Chicago in 1893, St. Louis in 1904 and San Diego in 1916. Married to painter Colin Campbell Cooper. (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section C, Lot 215
Crapsey, Adelaide b. September 9, 1878 d. October 8, 1914
Poet. She studied at Vassar and served as instructor of poetetics at Smith College from 1911 to 1913. She became best known as a visionary poet writing in a highly concise style, and was the inventor of the cinquain (five line) verse. (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Range 2, Lot 334
Crapsey, Rev. Algernon Sidney b. June 28, 1847 d. December 31, 1927
Minister, Religious Activist. He became internationally known as one of the first ministers to support non-literal interpretations of The Bible and embrace evolution theory. Although he won many converts, he was vilified by established churches of all denominations, and was tried for heresy and excommunicated by his own Episcopal Church. He continued successfully in a self-ordained ministry at the Brotherhood Church, which he founded, financed by friends and supporters including William...[Read More] (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Range 2 Lot 334
Crone Jr., Edward R. b. October 26, 1923 d. April 11, 1945
Literary Figure. Born Edward Reginald Crone, he was a student at Hobart and William Smith in Geneva, New York when he enlisted in the Army in the spring of 1943. He was sent to the Advanced Engineering School at the University of Alabama but was eventually was sent to the European Theatre of Operations with the 106 Infantry. His unit took part in the Battle of the Bulge where he was captured in the Ardennes. Along with 150 other prisoners he was dispatched to Dreseden, Germany in cattle cars...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Range 4, Lot 116
Curr, John b. 1837 d. 1917
Business magnate. Co-founder of Sibley, Lindsay & Curr, for over a hundred years one of the most successful department stores in the U.S. Sibley's was eventually bought out by Kaufmanns in the late 20th century. (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section MM Lot 242
Danforth, Henry Gold b. June 14, 1854 d. April 8, 1918
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 32nd and 39th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1911 to 1917.
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section V
Davy, John Madison b. June 29, 1835 d. April 21, 1909
US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 30th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1875 to 1877. He was a close friend of President Ulysses S. Grant, who appointed him Collector of Customs at the Port of Rochester. His name is also spelled Davey.
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Range 4, Lot 132
Dolley, Sarah R b. March 11, 1829 d. December 27, 1909
Social Reformer. She was the second woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, graduating from Central Medical College, Rochester New York, in 1851. She worked with Clara Barton to found regional chapters of the Red Cross and also started various women's organizations, one of which established the first children's playgrounds in America. (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section I, Lot 107
Douglass, Anna Murray b. 1813 d. August 4, 1882
Activist, abolitionist and first wife of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Her unswerving loyalty throughout there 44 year marriage was the main-spring that supported her husband. She was an activist in her own right, participating vigorously in the circle of Massachusetts's reformers in the 1840's. Anna Murray Douglass, was born in Denton, Maryland. Her parents, Banarra and Mary Murray, were enslaved, as were her seven older siblings. Anna and her four younger brothers and sisters were...[Read More] (Bio by: Curtis Jackson)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section T Lot 26
Douglass, Frederick b. February 7, 1818 d. February 20, 1895
Social Reformer, Human Rights Leader. Black American who was one of the most eminent human rights leaders of the 19th century. His oratorical and literary brilliance thrust him into the forefront of the U.S. abolition movement and he became the first black citizen to hold hight rank in the U.S government. Separated as an infant from his slave mother, he never knew his white father, Frederick lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until at the age of eight, his owner sent him to...[Read More] (Bio by: Cinnamonntoast4)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section T, Lot 26
Douglass, Helen b. 1838 d. 1903
Suffragist, Abolitionist. Founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association. Born in Honeoye, NY, Helen was the daughter of Gideon Pitts, Jr. and Jane Wells. She attended school at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, NY and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1859. She taught for several years at the Hampton Institute in Virginia until controversy and bad health forced her to return home. She moved to Washington, DC in 1882, where she co-edited the feminist...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section T Lot 26
Dunn, Emeline Abbey b. 1859 d. 1929
Artist. She was a landscape and portrait painter who studied in France and Italy. On her return to America, she founded The New York Normal Art School for teachers. (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Range 4 Lot 37
Dunn, Thomas Byrne b. March 16, 1853 d. July 2, 1924
US Congressman, Businessman. He was elected to represent New York's 38th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1913 to 1923. As founder and President of the T. B. Dunn Company, manufacturer of perfumes and extracts, he invented the breath freshener Sen-Sen, forerunner of Tic-Tacs.
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Range 5, Lot 7 (Mausoleum)
Eastman, George [cremation location] b. July 12, 1854 d. March 14, 1932
American inventor and philanthropist, best known for revolutionizing photography by putting the first simple camera into the hands of consumers. In so doing, he made what had been a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone. He was born George Eastman in 1854 in Waterville, New York and was home-schooled. He became interested in photography through a boarder in his home, and in 1877 abandoned his early career as a bank clerk to work in the field. His...[Read More] (Bio by: Edward Parsons)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Old Chapel/Crematorium
Ellwanger, George b. December 2, 1816 d. November 26, 1906
Scientist. He was a prominent horticulture scientist, importing and propagating more new and rare species than any other horticulturalist of the time. Among his innovations were the dwarf apple and pear tree, several varieties of beech tree and the Northern Spy apple. Born in Germany and studied in Stuttgart, he moved to Tiffin, Ohio, in 1835, finally settling in Rochester, New York, in the late 1830's. Here he co-founded (with Patrick Barry) the Ellwanger and Barry Nursery in 1840, which grew...[Read More] (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section V, Lot 25
Ely, Alfred b. February 15, 1815 d. May 18, 1892
Civil War US Congressman. He was elected as a Republican to represent the 29th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1863. During the First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861) he joined the numerous politicians and Washington, DC citizens who had come to watch the battle, and was caught up in the stampede when the Southern forces routed the Union Army. He was captured by the Confederates in the confusion, and spent 6 months in Richmond's...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section D, Lot 19, Ely Mausoleum
Ericksson, Aaron b. February 25, 1806 d. January 27, 1880
Philanthropist. Initially a successful wool merchant, he went on to found the Rochester Institute for the Deaf, inspired by the struggles encountered by one of his children, who was deaf. The Ericksson monument, "The Weary Pilgrim," was executed in Rome by Italian sculptor Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti (sculptor to the Vatican, who also designed President Garfield's monument) and shipped to Rochester. The monument base was designed by renowned architect, designer, author and occultist Claude...[Read More] (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section G Lot 27
Everest, Hiram B b. 1830 d. 1913
Inventor. While an employee at the Vacuum Oil Company (later Mobil Oil) , he discovered that the thick oil which was a by-product of his distilled kerosene was able to stand the high pressures and temperatures of the new internal combustion engine. Previously the oil had been used only by tanners, but when George Selden tried it in his gasoline automobile engine in 1877 he found it to be the perfect lubricant and it was henceforth known as motor oil. (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Range 4 Lot 48
Fairchild, Harrison Stiles b. August 4, 1820 d. January 25, 1901
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Before the war he was a banker and served as an officer in the "Rochester Light Guards," a part of the New York Militia. In 1861, the Governor of New York State, J. S. Dickenson, appointed him Colonel in command of the 89th Infantry Regiment, New York Volunteers. He served with the 89th the entire Civil War with Major General Ambrose Burnside in North Carolina and during the Peninsular Campaign, participating in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Farsace, Duverne Konrick b. August 23, 1923 d. August 25, 1979
Author, Poet. He was best known as science fiction writer D. K. Farsace. (Bio by: Mount Hope NY)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section K Lot 155

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