Homewood Cemetery

Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery chapel
Details
Established	1878
Location	1599 South Dallas Ave., Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°26′28″N79°54′32″W / 40.441°N 79.909°W / 40.441; -79.909
Type	Urban
Size	650-acre (2.6 km2)
No. of graves	77,000+
Website	Official website
Find a Grave	Homewood Cemetery

Homewood Cemetery is a historic urban cemetery ^[1] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in Point Breeze and is bordered by Frick Park, the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and the smaller Smithfield Cemetery. ^[2]

Schoonmaker monument (Jakob Otto Schweizer, sculptor)

It was established in 1878 from William Wilkins' 650-acre (2.6 km²) estate, Homewood. ^[3]

Notable interments

Business leaders

• Edward Jay Allen (1830–1915), businessman
• Michael Late Benedum (1869–1959), businessman, co-founder of Benedum-Trees Oil Company
• David Lytle Clark (1864–1939), businessman, creator of Clark Bar and Zagnut
• Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), industrialist, founder of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919), founder of H. J. Heinz Company
• H. J. "Jack" Heinz II (1908–1987), industrialist ^[4]
• Henry Hillman (1918–2016), businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist
• William Larimer Mellon Sr. (1868–1949), founder of Gulf Oil
• Willard Rockwell (1888–1978), founder of Rockwell International
• A.E. Succop (Augustus Ernest) (1847–1931), President Germania Savings Bank and German Fire Insurance Company
• Ernest T. Weir (1875–1957), founder of Weirton Steel and National Steel Corporation ^[5]
• William Valentin Hartmann (1871–1947), VP of Gulf Oil

Political leaders

• Edward V. Babcock (1864–1948), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1918–22
• Matthew A. Dunn (1886–1942), member of the United States House of Representatives 1933–41
• William Flinn (1851–1924), politician
• Henry P. Ford (1837–1905), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1896–99
• H. John Heinz III (1938–1991), United States Senator 1977–91 ^[6]
• William McCallin (1842–1904), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1887–90
• John K. Tener (1863–1946), Governor of Pennsylvania 1911–1915
• Dick Thornburgh (1932-2020), United States attorney general 1988-1991
• William Wilkins (1779–1865), United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1831–34, Secretary of War 1844–45 ^[7]
• George Wilson (1816–1902), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1860–62

Military leaders

• John Wilkins Jr. (1761–1816), Quartermaster General of the United States Army 1796–1802

Artists and musicians

• Erroll Garner (1921–1977), jazz pianist and composer
• Walt Harper (1926–2006), jazz pianist
• Teenie Harris (1908–1998), photographer
• George Hetzel (1826–1899), portrait and landscape painter
• Churchill Kohlman (1906–1983), songwriter
• Mac Miller (1992–2018), rapper, singer, record producer
• Anna Woodward (1868–1935), portrait and landscape painter

Science and medicine

• Mary Bidwell Breed (1870–1949), chemist and first female dean of Indiana University
• Jared Cohon (1947–2024), engineer and president of Carnegie Mellon University
• Bertha Lamme Feicht (1869–1943), first female engineering graduate from Ohio State University and first female engineer to be employed by Westinghouse
• Bernard Fisher (1918–2019), pioneer of breast cancer treatment
• Childs Frick (1883–1965), paleontologist
• John Bell Hatcher (1861–1904), paleontologist
• Edwin Ruud (1854–1932), mechanical engineer and inventor
• Alvin P. Shapiro (1920–1998), physician and educator

Sports figures

• Bill Bishop (1869–1932), baseball player
• Chuck Cooper (1926–1984), first African-American to be drafted into the NBA ^[8]
• Earl Francis (1935–2002), baseball player
• Bob Priddy (1939-2023), baseball player
• Jock Sutherland (1889–1948), football coach
• Pie Traynor (1899–1972), baseball Hall of Famer ^[9]

Others

• Edward Manning Bigelow (1850–1916), city planner
• Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984), philanthropist
• Rust Heinz (1914–1939), auto and boat designer
• Elsie Hillman (1925–2015), philanthropist and former Republican National Committeewoman
• John Barrett Kerfoot (1816–1881), first Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh
• Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965), civil rights activist
• Perle Mesta (1889–1975), Ambassador to Luxembourg 1949–53, and a noted Washington, D.C. socialite during Eisenhower and Nixon eras
• Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier
• Stephen Varzaly (1890–1957), priest, journalist, and cultural activist
• Tom Boggs (1905–1952), poet
• Peter Oresick (1955-2016), poet

Gallery

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  Motherless (1897), George Anderson Lawson, sculptor
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  Bronze relief on Walker monument (ca. 1918–1921), Max Bachmann, sculptor

See also

• Allegheny Cemetery
• Greenwood Cemetery
• List of cemeteries in the United States

References

1. Linden, Blanche M.G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 295. ISBN   978-1-55849-571-5 . Retrieved 15 September 2019.
2. "Point Breeze Map". Archived from the original on 2012-11-03. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
3. Toker, Franklin. Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986, p. 221.
4. Skrabec, Quentin R. H.J. Heinz: A Biography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2009, p. 205.
5. "Ernest T. Weir Dies At 81." Wall Street Journal. June 27, 1957.
6. Dodge, Andrew R. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774–2005. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005, p. 1232.
7. Alzo, Lisa A. Pittsburgh's Immigrants. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2006, p. 48.
8. Jackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen; and Markoe, Arnie. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Detroit: Gale, 1998, p. 180.
9. Forr, James and Proctor, David. Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2010, p. 8.

External links

• Main Homewood Cemetery website Archived 2022-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Homewood Cemetery at Find a Grave