Find A Grave - Upper Montclair

Barclay, John Charles b. April 17, 1856 d. August 24, 1934
Inventor. Born in Greensburg, Pennslyvainia, he was best known for his many inventions associated with printing telegraphy. He beagn his career as a telegrapher for Western Union in 1875 and was associated with the company for the next 28 years. During the period of (1905-08), he developed the Barclay Electric Printing Telegraph System, stock market ticker tape and a self-winder machine. During his career he received a total of 38 U.S. Patents. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section GG
Bertelli, Angelo b. June 18, 1921 d. June 26, 1999
College Football Player. Won the Heisman Trophy in 1943 as quarterback for Notre Dame. He later became a successful business man owning twenty liquor stores in New Jersey.
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section St. Joseph, Row 13A
Bethell, Union Noble b. September 12, 1859 d. January 13, 1933
Businessman. He was a lawyer who joined all small phone companies to create AT&T. He was present at first cable crossing from Orleans, Massachusetts to Brest, France, and was chairman of operating board of AT&T from 1918 to 1919.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section KK
Booth, Shirley b. August 30, 1898 d. October 26, 1992
Actress. A prolific stage performer of the 20th Century, she is beloved by film audiences as the emotionally tortured but devoted wife, Lola Delaney in "Come Back Little Sheba" (1952), and by television viewers as Hazel Burke, the headstrong yet lovable housekeeper in the 1960s sitcom "Hazel". Born Marjory Ford in New York City, she began her theatre career in stock company productions, initially under the name Thelma Booth Ford. In 1925 she made her Broadway debut in "Hell's Bells", opposite...[Read More] (Bio by: katzizkidz)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Plane Lawn, Lot 8
Brown (Ellis), Clara Spalding b. 1853 d. July 1, 1935
Author. Married to a mining engineer in Tombstone, Arizona, he became a journalist and author who detailed events the that part of the Western Frontier, and was present in the town during the famous "Shootout at the OK Corral". She published the work "Life at Shut-In Valley and Other Pacific Coast Tales", and in 1998 the work "Tombstone from a woman's point of view: the letters of Clara Spalding Brown, July 7, 1880 to November 14, 1882" was published.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section EE, Lot 49 in the Valley
Cole, Edward Smith b. December 29, 1871 d. March 18, 1950
Inventor. He invented the Pitometer Log, which clocks ship speeds, along with instruments to gauge water velocity.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Daniels, Bernard Elmer "Bert" b. October 31, 1882 d. June 6, 1958
Major League Baseball Player. He was an outfielder and a infielder, making his debut for the New York Highlanders on June 25, 1910. For five seasons, he played with the New York Highlanders-New York Yankees (1910-13) and Cincinnati Reds in 1914. He concluded his career with a record of 486 hits, 295 runs scored, 5 home runs, 130 runs batted in and a .255 batting average. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Dumont, Allen Balcom b. January 29, 1901 d. November 14, 1965
Inventor, Businessman. He created the first commercial television by perfecting cathode ray tube. Some of his other accomplisments were making radar possible by devising the first television guidance system for missiles; developing method to locate shrapnel in wounds, and inventing anti-knock gasoline and durable lacquer for cars.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Ellis, Edward Sylvester b. April 11, 1840 d. June 20, 1916
Author. He was a young schoolteacher when he published his most successful book, Seth Jones or the Captives of the Frontier, in 1860. Ellis was a major author of adventure stories during the nineteenth century era of inexpensive fiction, known as "dime novels." He wrote under dozens of pseudonyms, as well as his own name, and was so prolific, there is no complete listing of his works. His books are believed to number in the hundreds. In his later years he began writing accounts of historical...[Read More] (Bio by: Judith Julia Hull)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section EE, Lot 49 in the Valley
Haas, George William 'Mule' b. October 15, 1903 d. June 30, 1974
Major League Baseball Player. Played Major League Baseball as an outfielder for 12 seasons (1925, 1928 to 1938) with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox. Played 4 games for the Pirates in 1925 before returning to the Minors, and emerging in 1928 with the Athletics. He divided his playing time with future Hall of Famer Tris Speaker, who was in his last season, and who brought Mule Haas under his tutelage. He responded to Speaker's lessons in 1929 by hitting .313...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: East Section, Tier 9, Grave 60
GPS coordinates: 40.8543205, -74.1940918 (hddd.dddd)
Hawkes, Albert Wahl b. November 20, 1878 d. May 9, 1971
US Senator. He was elected as a Senator from New Jersey to the United States Senate, serving from 1943 to 1949. (Bio by: K)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Hooper, Bob (Robert Nelson) b. May 30, 1922 d. March 17, 1980
Major League Baseball Player. Born in Ontario, Canada, he made his debut as a right handed pitcher with the Philadelphia Athletics on April 19, 1950. For six seasons, he played with the Philadelphia Athletics (1950-52) Cleveland Indians (1953-54) and Cincinnati Reds in 1955. He ended his career with a record of 40 wins, 41 loss, 16 complete games, 25 saves, 196 strikeouts and a 4.80 earned run average. He died at age 57 in Brunswick, New Jersey. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Our Lady Of Sorrows, Tier 3, Grave 25
GPS coordinates: 40.3528709, -74.1955185 (hddd.dddd)
Hupfeld, Herman b. February 1, 1894 d. June 8, 1951
Composer, Lyricist. Best known for the song "As Time Goes By," immortalized in the film score of "Casablanca," Hupfeld was the son of a church organist, and began his musical career as a saxophonist in the United States Navy Band during World War I. In addition to the Princeton fight song "Here Comes That Tiger", he composed music for a few minor films in the early 1930's. His masterpiece, "As Time Goes By," was written in 1931 for the Broadway musical "Everybody's Welcome," and was...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section EE, Lot 27
GPS coordinates: 40.8538208, -74.1977921 (hddd.dddd)
Ingersoll, Charles Henry b. October 29, 1865 d. September 19, 1948
Co-founder of the Ingersoll Watch Company, with his brother Robert Ingersoll in 1892. Their company made the �Yankee', a popular, inexpensive watch that sold for a $1.00, a day's pay at that time. By 1899 they were mass producing 8,000 watches a day. In 1917 they introduced the �Reliance', another popular watch. By the end of World War I they had sold over 50 million watches. In 1922 they sold to Waterbury Clock, who continued to use the company's name. (Bio by: Ginny M)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Lamb, Joseph Francis b. December 6, 1887 d. September 3, 1960
Composer. He was a self-taught piano player regarded as one of the best composers of classic ragtime music. Using great diversity, his contributions to ragtime music literature surpassed ragtime's usual four-measure phrase structure. His many scores which are still in publication to date, included "Ethiopia Rag" (1909), "Champagne Rag" (1910), "American Beauty Rag" (1913), "Ragtime Nightingale" (1915), "The Top Liner Rag" (1916) and "Bohemia Rag" (1919). He died of a heart attack. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: East Section, Tier 5, Grave 10
GPS coordinates: 40.8542099, -74.1943130 (hddd.dddd)
Macy, John Albert b. April 10, 1877 d. August 26, 1932
Author. He was married for a time to Anne Sullivan, the teacher to Helen Keller. Besides his own books, hr edited Helen Keller's "Story of My Life." His principal works include "Edgar Allen Poe," "Feminism and Femininity," and "Walter James Dodd." His best known book was The Spirit of American Literature." (Bio by: Laurie)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Monte (Scaglione), Lou (Louis) b. April 2, 1917 d. June 12, 1989
Singer, Entertainer. Best known for his novelty hits "Pepino the Italian Mouse," "Lazy Mary" and "Domenic the Donkey." His Italian-American dialect gave his songs a unique style which was featured on 13 albums. In the 1950s and 60s he was a frequent guest on TV variety shows such as Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Merv Griffin, Perry Como, and Dick Clark, who regularly featured him on "American Bandstand." Monte retired to Florida with his 2nd wife in 1982 and died there on June 12, 1989. His...[Read More] (Bio by: jazztbn)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: Calvary, Tier 19, Grave 6
GPS coordinates: 40.8536110, -74.1937027 (hddd.dddd)
O'Connell, Daniel Francis b. January 21, 1927 d. October 2, 1969
Major League Baseball Player. He was an infielder making his debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 14, 1950. For ten seasons, he played with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1950, 1953), Milwaukee Braves (1954-56), New York-San Francisco Giants (1957-59) and Washington Senators (1961-62). He his career ended with a record of 1049 hits, 39 home runs, 527 runs scored, 320 runs batted in and a .260 batting average. He died age of 42 in a car accident. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: St. Patrick's Tier 9 grave 30
GPS coordinates: 40.8553810, -74.1937027 (hddd.dddd)
Reulbach, Edward Marvin 'Big Ed' b. December 1, 1882 d. July 17, 1961
Major League Baseball Player. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he was a right handed pitcher making his debut for the Chicago Cubs on May 16, 1905. For thirteen seasons, he played with the Chicago Cubs (1905-13), Brooklyn Dodgers in 1914 and Boston Braves in (1916-17). His best year was in 1908, when he pitched two shutouts in one day and won 24 games for the World Series Champions Chicago Cubs. He finished his career with a record of 182 wins, 106 loss, 201 complete games, 40 shutouts, 13 saves...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot: East Section, Tier 36, Grave 39
GPS coordinates: 40.8560982, -74.1932907 (hddd.dddd)
Staub, William Edward b. November 3, 1915 d. July 19, 2012
Inventor, Developer. He was considered by many as one of the most influential figures in the development and manufacture of the home treadmill. A mechanical engineer by profession in the aerospace industry, he built and marketed his first treadmill in the late 1960s. At that time it was used almost exclusively by doctors to perform stress tests and other medical procedures on their patients. Shortly afterward, he saw the potential to market an inexpensive treadmill commercially for personal use...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA

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