Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)

For the cemetery in California, see Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.

Rosedale Cemetery
Details
Established	1840
Location	Orange, New Jersey
Country	United States
Type	Non denominational
Size	92 acres (370,000 m2)
Website	Official website
Find a Grave	Rosedale Cemetery

Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery located at the tripoint of Orange, West Orange and Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Cyrus Baldwin drew up the original plan for the cemetery in 1840. ^{[1] [2]}

Notable interments

See also: Category:Burials at Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)

• Platt Adams (1885–1961), American Olympic athlete and member of the New Jersey State Assembly from Essex County
• Jim Barnes (1886–1966), golfer
• John L. Blake (1831–1899), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1879 to 1881 ^[3]
• Dudley Buck (1839–1909), organist, composer, and writer
• Samuel Colgate (1822–1897), founder of Colgate-Palmolive
• Lee Crystal (1956-2013), drummer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Member
• Mary Fenn Robinson Davis (1824–1886), a spiritualist and feminist who was a poet, author, editor, and lecturer ^[4]
• Sarah Jane Corson Downs (1822-1891), president, New Jersey Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Charles Edison (1890–1969), son of Thomas Edison and the 42nd Governor of New Jersey
• Frank Emil Fesq (1840–1920), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• Wilfred J. Funk (1883–1965), lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls)
• Althea Gibson (1927–2003), the first African American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour ^[5]
• Henry Judd Gray (1892–1928), murderer of Albert Snyder
• George Huntington Hartford (1833–1917), Mayor of Orange, New Jersey, from 1878 to 1890 and owner of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, the country's largest food retailer at the time of his death ^[6]
• Frances Cox Henderson (1820–1897), wife of Governor James Pinckney Henderson of Texas, retired in East Orange, established Good Shepherd home for aged women
• James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911), physician, philologist, and missionary
• George Inness (1825–1894), painter
• George Inness Jr. (1854–1926), painter
• Frank Louis Kramer (1880–1958), cyclist
• Hazel May Kuser (?–1924), Radium Girl
• Mary Artemisia Lathbury (1841–1913), poet and hymnwriter
• Amelia Maggia (?–1922), Radium Girl
• Lowell Mason (1792–1872), hymn composer and music educator
• Quinta Maggia McDonald (?–1929), Radium Girl
• Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), architect
• George W. Merck (1894–1957), pharmacist, president of Merck & Co.
• John Pingry (1818–1894), minister, founder of the Pingry School
• Ruth A. Saxer (?–1942), Radium Girl
• George J. Seabury (1844–1909), chemist and pharmacist
• Michelle Thomas (1968–1998), American actress best known for roles in Family Matters and The Cosby Show
• George C. Tichenor (1838–1902), member and president of the Board of General Appraisers
• Aaron B. Tompkins (1844–1931), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• William A. Wachenfeld (1889 – 1969), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1946 to 1959
• George James Webb (1803–1887), composer
• William H. Wiley (1842–1925), represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1909 to 1911 ^[7]
• Earl Williams (1948–2013), professional baseball player
• Three British Commonwealth war servicemen – a Royal Air Force officer and Canadian Army Sergeant of World War I and a Canadian airman of World War II ^[8]

References

1. Urquhart, Frank John (1913). A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey.
2. "Rosedale Cemetery". Rosedale Cemetery. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
3. John Lauris Blake, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.
4. James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S.; Radcliffe College (1974). Notable American women, 1607-1950 : a biographical dictionary. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 441–442. ISBN   978-0-674-62734-5.
5. American Sports
6. Levinson, Marc (2011). The Great A&P and the struggle for small business in America. Hill and Wang. ISBN   978-0809095438.
7. William Halsted Wiley, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.
8. CWGC Cemetery Report, detail obtained from casualty record.

External links

• Rosedale Cemetery (Official)
• Rosedale Cemetery Walking Guide of Notable Interments
• Rosedale Cemetery at Find a Grave

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