Cemitério de Princeton

Cemitério de Princeton (em inglês: Princeton Cemetery) é um cemitério localizado em Princeton, Nova Jérsei, Estados Unidos.^[1] É administrado pela Nassau Presbyterian Church.^[2] John F. Hageman em sua publicação sobre Princeton de 1878 refere-se ao cemitério como: "A Abadia de Westminster dos Estados Unidos." ^[1]^[3]

Personalidades sepultadas

Archibald Alexander (1772–1851), teólogo presbiteriano
James Waddel Alexander (1804–1859), teólogo presbiteriano, filho mais velho de Archibald Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), erudito bíblico presbiteriano e terceito filho de Archibald Alexander
William Cowper Alexander (1806–1874), político, empresário e segundo filho mais velho de Archibald Alexander
Leon Ida Audenaerd (1930–2010), veterano da Guerra da Coreia - exército Belga
George Wildman Ball (1909–1994), diplomata
George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), general da guerra civil
Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), bookshop owner
John Berrien I (1712–1772), New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of Rockingham House
Aaron Burr (1756–1836), herói da Guerra da Independência dos Estados Unidos, New York Attorney General e terceiro Vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos
Aaron Burr, Sr. (1716–1757), ministro presbiteriano, segundo presidente da Universidade de Princeton, pai de Aaron Burr
Alonzo Church (1903–1995), matemático
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22º e 24º Presidente dos Estados Unidos
Frances Cleveland (1864–1947), mulher de Grover Cleveland
Ruth Cleveland (1891–1904), first child of Grover and Frances Cleveland and supposed name sake of the Baby Ruth candybar.
Edward Samuel Corwin (1878–1963), professor of law and author
Samuel Davies (1723–1761), presidente da Universidade de Princeton
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), presidente da Universidade de Princeton e teólogo calvinista
Richard Stockton Field (1803–1870), US Senator and New Jersey Attorney General
John Huston Finley (1863–1940), President of Knox College, University of the State of New York and author
George Horace Gallup (1901–1984), pollster
William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), engenheiro naval
Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), matemático receptor do Prêmio Albert Einstein de 1951
Peter Charles Harris (1865–1951), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1922
Charles Hodge (1797–1878), teólogo calvinista
David Hunter (1802–1886), general da Guerra de Secessão
Joseph Karge (1823–1892), Civil War General and Princeton University professor
George Frost Kennan (1904–2005), diplomat
Frank Lewin (1925–2008), composer
David Kellogg Lewis (1941–2001), philosopher
Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837–1892), diplomat
John Maclean, Jr. (1800–1886), President of Princeton University
Jose Menendez (1944–1989), murder victim of sons Lyle and Erik Menendez
Mary Louise (Kitty) Menendez (1941–1989), murder victim of sons Lyle and Erik Menendez
Moses Taylor Pyne (1855–1921), Financier, philanthropist and owner of Drumthwacket Estate
Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828–1919), Special US Minister to Greece, US Congressman from Virginia, CSA Congressman, CSA General, Journalist, New York Supreme Court Judge.
William Drew Robeson (1844–1918), Father of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson
Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), astrônomo
William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928), First US Olympic Committee President
Howard Alexander Smith (1880–1966), US Senator from New Jersey
John P. Stockton (1826–1900), US Senator and New Jersey Attorney General
Richard Stockton (1764–1828), US Senator from New Jersey.^[4]
Robert Field Stockton (1795–1866), Naval officer
Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), astrônomo
John Renshaw Thomson (1800–1862), US Senator from New Jersey
William G. Thompson (1840–1904), Mayor of Detroit
John W. Tukey (1915–2000), Statistician
Paul Tulane (1801–1887), Tulane University benefactor ^[3]
John von Neumann (1903–1957), Mathematician
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921), teólogo presbiteriano
Canvass White (1790–1834), engenheiro e inventor
Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Nobel de física
John Witherspoon (1723–1794), assinante da Declaração da Independência dos Estados Unidos
William Willet (1867–1921), portraitist and stained glass designer
Joseph Paul Bald Eagle (1896–1970), Lakota Chief and Teacher, first Native American Graduate of Princeton University

Referências

↑ ^a ^b «The Princeton Cemetery». Princeton Online. Consultado em 26 de agosto de 2007. Princeton Cemetery is owned by the Nassau (formerly First) Presbyterian Church located opposite Palmer Square in the center of town. The Square was named after Edgar Palmer, a benefactor of both the University and the community. The Cemetery was established in 1757, and the oldest surviving monument is that of Aaron Burr, Sr., located in the Presidents' Plot. The cosmopolitan character of the Cemetery continues, and interment has nevem bfstieçpr been restricted to Church members and their families.
↑ Sarapin, Janice Kohl (2002). Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey. [S.l.]: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2111-4
↑ ^a ^b Strauss, Robert (28 de março de 2004). «Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place». New York Times. Consultado em 6 de setembro de 2013. The story goes that Paul Tulane, who made his fortune as a haberdasher in 19th-century New Orleans, wanted to give part of that fortune to the university in his hometown, Princeton. The catch was that he wanted the university renamed for him. When that didn't happen, he gave his money to the university in New Orleans that now bears his name. He eventually came back home. But before he died it is said that he demanded that the statue on his grave face away from the Princeton University campus. "That seems to have been pretty much debunked by now," said George Brown, Princeton Cemetery's historian. "But he must have been a pretty egotistical guy. He's the only one here with a big statue of himself." Mr. Tulane (1801–1877) would probably come up short on the list of accomplished people buried in Princeton Cemetery, which is just off the heart of town at Witherspoon and Wiggins Streets. All right, so Mr. Tulane is credited with developing the crease in trousers—"He was cranking them out so fast he stuffed them in little boxes so they got the crease," Mr. Brown said. ... Yet also buried there are a United States president, Grover Cleveland; a vice president, Aaron Burr Jr.; and other people of great accomplishment, from the pollster George Gallup to the novelist John O'Hara to the mathematician John von Neumann. Mr. Brown calls Princeton Cemetery the Westminster Abbey of America for the abundance of stars buried in its compact space. ...
↑ Richard Stockton (1764–1828), Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 20, 2007.