Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to
counties is subject to error. The intent is to locate places
according to current county names and boundaries. If you don't find
what you're looking for, check other nearby counties, the unassigned
page, or the Gazetteer.
Any corrections to county locations would be greatly appreciated.
See contact information on the Main Page.
(not intended to be complete)
David
Gelston (County Surrogate, 1787-1801)
John
Kelly (Sheriff, 1859-62)
John
Kelly (Sheriff, 1865-67)
Hugh
J. Grant (Sheriff, 1886-88)
Frank
T. Fitzgerald (Register of Deeds, 1890-92)
Frank
T. Fitzgerald (County Surrogate, 1893-1907)
William
M. K. Olcott (District Attorney, 1896-98)
William
Sohmer (County Clerk, 1898)
James
M. Varnum (County Surrogate, 1899)
William
F. Grell (Sheriff, 1900)
Eugene
A. Philbin (District Attorney, 1901)
Charles
S. Whitman (District Attorney)
Edward
Swann (District Attorney, 1916-21)
James
A. Foley (County Surrogate)
Joab
H. Banton (District Attorney, 1922-29)
William
T. Collins (County Clerk, 1926-28)
Thomas
C. T. Crain (District Attorney, 1930-31)
Thomas
E. Dewey (District Attorney, 1937-41)
Frank
S. Hogan (District Attorney, 1941-73)
William
T. Collins (County Surrogate, 1946-57)
S.
Samuel DiFalco (County Surrogate, 1957-76)
Morris
Aarons (County Surrogate, 1971)
Robert
M. Morgenthau (District Attorney, 1975-)
Alfred E. Smith Park
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians who have monuments here:
- Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873-1944) — also known as
Alfred E. Smith; Al Smith; "The Happy
Warrior"; "The Brown Derby" — of
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
30, 1873. Son of Alfred Emanuel Smith and Catherine (Mulvihill)
Smith; married, May 6,
1900, to Catherine A. Dunn. Democrat. Real estate
business; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 2nd District, 1904-15; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1913; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920,
1932,
1936;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 11th District, 1915;
Governor
of New York, 1919-21, 1923-29; defeated, 1920; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1920,
1932;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1928; delegate to
New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933. Catholic.
Irish,
German,
and Italian
ancestry. Died October
4, 1944. Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y.; statue at Alfred E.
Smith Park.
Brick Presbyterian Church
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Andover, Essex
County, Mass., February
3, 1748. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1780; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1781-84; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1784; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1789-91; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1800-02. Died August
12, 1813. Interment at Brick Presbyterian Church.
Church of Heavenly Rest
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- Thomas Lemuel James (1831-1916) — of Tenafly, Bergen
County, N.J. Born in Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y., March 29,
1831. U.S.
Postmaster General, 1881-82; mayor of
Tenafly, N.J., 1896. Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
11, 1916. Interment at Church of Heavenly Rest.
Dutch Burying Ground
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians formerly buried here:
- Theodorus Bailey (1758-1828) — of New York. Born
near Fishkill, Dutchess
County, N.Y., October
12, 1758. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1793-97, 1799-1801,
1801-03; member of New York
state assembly from Dutchess County, 1801-02; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1803-04; postmaster of New York City,
1804-28. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
6, 1828. Original interment at Dutch Burying Ground; reinterment
in 1864 at Poughkeepsie
Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
First Presbyterian Church
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- Walter Lowrie (1784-1868) — of Butler, Butler
County, Pa. Born in Scotland,
December
10, 1784. Father of Walter
Hoge Lowrie. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1811; member of Pennsylvania
state senate, 1813; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1819-25. Died December
14, 1868. Entombed at First Presbyterian Church.
- Alexander McDougall (1731-1786) — of New York. Born
in Scotland,
1731.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1781; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1783-86; died in office 1786.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 9,
1786. Entombed at First Presbyterian Church.
First Presbyterian Churchyard
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- John Laurance (1750-1810) — of New York. Born near
Falmouth, England,
1750.
Lawyer;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1785-87; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1787-89; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1789-93; U.S.
District Judge for New York, 1794-96; resigned 1796; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1796-1800. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
11, 1810. Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard.
- David Gelston (1744-1828) — of Suffolk
County, N.Y. Born in Bridgehampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 4,
1744. Delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1777; member of New York
state assembly from Suffolk County, 1777-85; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1784-85; New York
County Surrogate, 1787-1801; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1789; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1790-94, 1798-1802; U.S. Collector of Customs for
New York, N.Y., 1801-20. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
21, 1828. Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard.
General Grant Memorial
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Location maps, from U.S. Census Tiger Map Server:
Politicians buried here:
- Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) — also known as
Ulysses S. Grant; "Savior of the Union";
"Lion of Vicksburg"; "The Austerlitz of
American Politics"; "Unconditional Surrender
Grant"; "The Galena Tanner"; "The
Silent Soldier"; "The Silent General"
— of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill. Born in Point Pleasant, Clermont
County, Ohio, April 27,
1822. Married, August
22, 1848, to Julia Boggs Dent; father of Frederick
Dent Grant and Ulysses
S. Grant, Jr.. Republican. General in the Union Army during the
Civil War; President
of the United States, 1869-77; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1880.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Loyal
Legion. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. $50
bill, and also appeared on $1
and $5 silver certificates in 1887-1927. Died of throat
cancer, at Mt. McGregor, Saratoga
County, N.Y., July 23,
1885. Interment at General Grant Memorial. Grant counties in Ark., Kan., La., Minn., Neb., N.M., N.Dak., Okla., Ore., S.Dak., Wash. and W.Va. are
named for him.
- Cross-reference: Horace
Porter; Ayres
Phillips Merrill
- See also Grant
family of New York and Ohio
- See also: Wikipedia
article.
- Books about Ulysses S. Grant: Jean
Edward Smith, Grant;
Frank J. Scaturro, President
Grant Reconsidered; William S. McFeely, Grant
: A Biography; William S. McFeely, Ulysses
S. Grant: An Album: Warrior, Husband, Traveler, Emancipator,
Writer; Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses
S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865; Brooks D. Simpson,
Let
Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and
Reconstruction, 1861-1868; James S. Brisbin, The
campaign lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (out of
print); Josiah Bunting III, Ulysses
S. Grant; Michael Korda, Ulysses
S. Grant : The Unlikely Hero; Edward H. Bonekemper, A
Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military
Genius; Harry J. Maihafer, The
General and the Journalists: Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, and
Charles Dana
- Critical books about Ulysses S.
Grant: Nathan Miller, Star-Spangled
Men : America's Ten Worst Presidents
- Fiction about
Ulysses S. Grant: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Grant
Comes East; Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Never
Call Retreat : Lee and Grant: The Final Victory
Madison Square Park
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians who have monuments here:
- Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886) — also known as
Chester A. Arthur; Chester Abell Arthur; "The
Gentleman Boss"; "His Accidency";
"Elegant Arthur"; "Our Chet";
"Dude President" — of New York. Born in
Fairfield, Franklin
County, Vt., October
5, 1829. Son of Rev. William Arthur and Malvina (Stone) Arthur;
married, October
25, 1859, to Ellen Lewis "Nell" Herndon (died 1880).
Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Collector of Customs for
New York, N.Y., 1870-78; New York
Republican state chair, 1879-81; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1880;
Vice
President of the United States, 1881; President
of the United States, 1881-85; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1884.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Union
League; Psi
Upsilon. Died, of Bright's
disease and a cerebral
hemorrhage, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
18, 1886. Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.; statue at Madison Square Park. Arthur County,
Neb. is named for him.
- William Henry Seward (1801-1872) — also known as
William H. Seward — of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y. Born in Florida, Orange
County, N.Y., May 16,
1801. Lawyer;
co-founded (with Thurlow
Weed), the Albany Evening Journal newspaper
in 1830; member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1831-34; Governor of
New York, 1839-43; defeated (Whig), 1834; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1849-61; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1861-69. Survived an assassination
attempt on April 14, 1865 (the same night Abraham
Lincoln was shot), when Lewis Payne, an associate of John Wilkes
Booth, broke into his bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly. Payne was
arrested, tried with the other conspirators, and hanged. As
Secretary of State in 1867, made a treaty with Russia for the
purchase of Alaska; critics dubbed the territory "Seward's Folly".
His portrait appeared on the $50
U.S. Treasury Note in the 1890s. Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., October
16, 1872. Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.; statue at Madison Square Park;
statue at Volunteer
Park, Seattle, Wash.
- Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888) — also known as
"The Oneida Chieftan"; "My Lord
Roscoe" — of Utica, Oneida
County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., October
3, 1829. Son of Alfred
Conkling and Eliza (Cockburn) Conkling; brother of Frederick
Augustus Conkling; married 1855 to Julia
Catherine Seymour (daughter of Henry
Seymour; sister of Horatio
Seymour); uncle of Alfred
Conkling Coxe, Alfred
Ronald Conkling and Howard
Conkling. Republican. Lawyer; mayor of
Utica, N.Y., 1858-59; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1859-63, 1865-67 (20th District
1859-63, 21st District 1865-67); U.S.
Senator from New York, 1867, 1869-81; resigned 1881; candidate
for Republican nomination for President, 1876;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1880.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 18,
1888. Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y.; statue at Madison Square Park.
Morningside Park
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians who have monuments here:
- Carl Schurz (1829-1906) — of Watertown, Jefferson
County, Wis.; Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis.; St.
Louis, Mo.; New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Liblar (now part of Erfstadt), Germany,
March
2, 1829. Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Wisconsin, 1857; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Wisconsin, 1860;
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1868;
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1869-75; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1877-81. German
ancestry. Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 14,
1906. Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; statue at Morningside Park.
New York City Marble Cemetery
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Founded 1832
Location maps, from U.S. Census Tiger Map Server:
Politicians buried here:
- Stephen Allen (1767-1852) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born July 2,
1767. Mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1821-24; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1829-32. Killed when the steamboat
Henry Clay burned and
sank,
killing about eighty passengers, in the Lower Hudson
River, next to what is now the Riverdale section of the Bronx, July 28,
1852. Entombed at New York City Marble Cemetery.
- Marinus Willet (1740-1830) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Schenectady
County, N.Y. Born in Jamaica, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., July 31,
1740. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of New York
state assembly, 1783-84, 1819-20 (New York County 1783-84,
Schenectady County 1819-20); mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1807-08. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., August
22, 1830. Interment at New York City Marble Cemetery.
- Isaac L. Varian — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1831-33; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1839-41; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1842-45. Interment at New York City
Marble Cemetery.
- David Sherwood Jackson (1813-1872) — of New York.
Born in New York, 1813.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 6th District, 1847-49. Died in 1872.
Interment at New York City Marble Cemetery.
- Thomas Addis Emmet — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. New York
state attorney general, 1812-13; appointed 1812. Interment at New
York City Marble Cemetery; cenotaph at St.
Paul's Churchyard.
Politicians formerly buried here:
- James Monroe (1758-1831) — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., April 28,
1758. Nephew of Joseph
Jones; son of Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married
1786 to
Eliza Kortright; distant cousin of Thomas
Bell Monroe; uncle of James
Monroe (1799-1870); great-great-granduncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson and Corinne
Robinson Alsop. Colonel in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-86; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to France, 1794-96; Great Britain, 1803-07; Governor of
Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1811-14, 1815-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1814-15; President
of the United States, 1817-25; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829. Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1930. His portrait appeared on the
U.S. $100
silver certificate in the 1880s and 1890s. Died, probably of tuberculosis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 4,
1831. Originally entombed at New York Marble
Cemetery; subsequently entombed at New York City Marble Cemetery;
reinterment in 1858 at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va. Monroe counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him.
New York Marble Cemetery
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Founded 1830
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1980
Location maps, from U.S. Census Tiger Map Server:
Politicians buried here:
- Aaron Clark — of New York. Mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1837-39. Interment at New York Marble
Cemetery.
- James Tallmadge, Jr. (1778-1853) — of New York. Born
in Stanford, Dutchess
County, N.Y., January
28, 1778. Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1817-19; delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1821, 1846; member of
New
York state assembly, 1824; Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1825-26; president
of New York University, 1830-46. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
29, 1853. Interment at New York Marble Cemetery.
- Myndert Van Schaick (1782-1865) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in 1782.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1832; member of New York
state senate 1st District, 1833-36. One of the founders of New
York University. Died in 1865.
Interment at New York Marble Cemetery.
Politicians formerly buried here:
- James Monroe (1758-1831) — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., April 28,
1758. Nephew of Joseph
Jones; son of Spence Monroe and Elizabeth (Jones) Monroe; married
1786 to
Eliza Kortright; distant cousin of Thomas
Bell Monroe; uncle of James
Monroe (1799-1870); great-great-granduncle of Theodore
Douglas Robinson and Corinne
Robinson Alsop. Colonel in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1782, 1786, 1810-11; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1783-86; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1790-94; U.S. Minister to France, 1794-96; Great Britain, 1803-07; Governor of
Virginia, 1799-1802, 1811; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1811-14, 1815-17; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1814-15; President
of the United States, 1817-25; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829. Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1930. His portrait appeared on the
U.S. $100
silver certificate in the 1880s and 1890s. Died, probably of tuberculosis,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 4,
1831. Originally entombed at New York Marble Cemetery;
subsequently entombed at New York City Marble
Cemetery; reinterment in 1858 at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va. Monroe counties in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., Tenn., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him.
- Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843) — also known as
Stevens T. Mason; Tom Mason; "The Boy
Governor"; "Young Hotspur"; "The
Stripling" — of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich. Born near Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., October
27, 1811. Great-grandnephew of George
Mason; great-grandson of Thomson
Mason; grandson of Stevens
Thomson Mason (1760-1803); grandnephew of John
Thomson Mason (1765-1824); second cousin once removed of Thomson
Francis Mason and James
Murray Mason; nephew of Armistead
Thomson Mason; son of John
Thomson Mason (1787-1850) and Elizabeth Baker (Moir) Mason
(1789-1839); married, November
1, 1838, to Julia Elizabeth Phelps (1818-1870); first cousin once
removed of John
Thomson Mason, Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Charles
O'Conor Goolrick. Secretary
of Michigan Territory, 1831; Governor of
Michigan Territory, 1834-35; Governor of
Michigan, 1835-40. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1843. Originally entombed at New York Marble Cemetery;
reinterment in 1905 at Capitol
Park, Detroit, Mich. Mason County,
Mich. is named for him.
- Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835) — also known as
Philip J. Schuyler — of Dutchess
County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
21, 1768. Son of Philip
John Schuyler; brother of Elizabeth Schuyler (who married Alexander
Hamilton). Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Dutchess County, 1797-98; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1817-19. Died, of
consumption (tuberculosis),
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
21, 1835. Original interment at New York Marble Cemetery;
subsequent interment at a
private or family graveyard, Dutchess County, N.Y.; reinterment
at Poughkeepsie
Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Old Collegiate Dutch Church
Cemetery
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (1764-1831) — also known
as Gurdon S. Mumford — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Connecticut, 1764.
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1805-11 (3rd District 1805-09, 2nd
District 1809-11). Died in 1831.
Interment at Old Collegiate Dutch Church Cemetery.
Old St. Patrick's Cathedral
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- John Kelly (1822-1886) — also known as
"Honest John" — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 20,
1822. Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 4th District, 1855-58; New York
County Sheriff, 1859-62, 1865-67; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1864,
1868,
1872,
1876,
1880,
1884;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1868. Member, Tammany
Hall. Leader of Tammany Hall for many years. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 1,
1886. Interment at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral.
- John McKeon (1808-1883) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, 1808.
Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1832-34; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1835-37, 1841-43; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1854-58; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1864.
Died in 1883.
Entombed at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Riverside Park
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians who have monuments here:
- Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886) — also known as
Samuel J. Tilden; "The Great Reformer";
"The Great Forecloser" — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New Lebanon, Columbia
County, N.Y., February
9, 1814. Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly, 1846, 1872; delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1846; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York, 1864;
New York
Democratic state chair, 1872-82; Governor of
New York, 1875-77; candidate for President
of the United States, 1876. Died near Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., August 4,
1886. Interment at Cemetery
of the Evergreens, New Lebanon, N.Y.; statue at Riverside Park.
St. Andrew's Cemetery
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
St. Mark's Church
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- Josiah Ogden Hoffman (1793-1856) — also known as
Ogden Hoffman — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 3,
1793. Member of New York state legislature, 1825; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1837-41; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1841-45; New York
state attorney general, 1854-55. Died May 1,
1856. Entombed at St. Mark's Church.
St. Mark's Churchyard
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y. Born in Scarsdale, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 21,
1774. Son of Jonathan G. Tompkins; brother of Caleb
Tompkins; married 1798 to Hannah
Minthorne. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1801, 1821; member of
New
York state assembly from New York County, 1802-03; U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1805; Governor of
New York, 1807-17; Vice
President of the United States, 1817-25. Presbyterian
or Christian
Reformed. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Staten Island, Richmond
County, N.Y., June 11,
1825. Entombed at St. Mark's Churchyard. Tompkins County,
N.Y. is named for him.
St. Mark's-in-the-Bowerie
Churchyard
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- Charles O'Conor (1804-1884) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1804. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1853-54; senior
counsel for Jefferson
Davis during his treason trial; as special deputy attorney
general for New York State, was counsel for the prosecution in the
trial of William
M. Tweed; Straight Out Democratic candidate for President
of the United States, 1872. Catholic.
Irish
ancestry. Died in Nantucket, Nantucket
County, Mass., May 12,
1884. Entombed at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.
St. Paul's Cemetery
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- Campbell Patrick White (1787-1859) — also known as
Campbell P. White — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Ireland,
November
30, 1787. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1829-35; delegate to
New York state constitutional convention, 1845. Died in New York,
New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1859. Interment at St. Paul's Cemetery.
St. Paul's Chapel
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- William Houstoun (1755-1813) — of Georgia. Born in
Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., 1755.
Father-in-law of Duncan
Lamont Clinch. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1784-86; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787. Episcopalian.
Died in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., March 17,
1813. Interment at St. Paul's Chapel.
St. Paul's Churchyard
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- William Denning (1740-1819) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Canada,
1740.
Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1784-87, 1797-98; member of
New
York state senate Southern District, 1798-1808; U.S.
Representative from New York 2nd District, 1809. Died in New
York, New York
County, N.Y., October
30, 1819. Interment at St. Paul's Churchyard.
Politicians formerly buried here:
- Abner Nash (1740-1786) — of Craven
County, N.C. Born near Farmville, Prince
Edward County, Va., August 8,
1740. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1761-65; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1777-78; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1779-80; Governor of
North Carolina, 1780-81; member of North Carolina state
legislature, 1782; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782-86; died in
office 1786. Died while attending a session of the Continental
Congress, in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
2, 1786. Original interment at St. Paul's Churchyard; reinterment
at a
private or family graveyard, Craven County, N.C.
Other politicians who have monuments here:
St. Stephen's Cemetery
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians formerly buried here:
Straus Park
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians formerly buried here:
- Isidor Straus (1845-1912) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Otterberg, Germany,
February
6, 1845. Son of Lazarus Straus and Sara Straus; married, July 12,
1871, to Ida Blum; brother of Oscar
Solomon Straus; father of Jesse
Isidor Straus; uncle of Nathan
Straus, Jr.; grandfather of Stuart
Scheftel; granduncle of R.
Peter Straus. Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1894-95. Jewish.
One of the owners of the R. H. Macy & Co. department store in New
York. Perished
in the wreck
of the steamship Titanic, in the North
Atlantic Ocean, April 15,
1912; his body was subsequently recovered. Originally entombed at
Beth-El
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; later interred at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.; memorial monument at Straus Park.
Tompkins Square Park
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians who have monuments here:
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (1824-1889) — also known as
Samuel S. Cox; "Sunset Cox" — of
Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Zanesville, Muskingum
County, Ohio, September
30, 1824. Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1857-65 (12th District 1857-63, 7th
District 1863-65); delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Ohio, 1864;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1868,
1876;
U.S.
Representative from New York, 1869-73, 1873-85, 1886-89 (6th
District 1869-73, 1873-85, 9th District 1885, 1886-89); died in
office 1889; U.S. Minister to Turkey, 1885-86. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
10, 1889. Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; statue at Tompkins Square Park.
Trinity Cemetery
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Founded 1842
Politicians buried here:
- Fernando Wood (1812-1881) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Pennsylvania, 1812.
Brother of Benjamin
Wood. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1841-43, 1863-65, 1867-81 (3rd
District 1841-43, 5th District 1863-65, 9th District 1867-73, 10th
District 1873-75, 9th District 1875-81); died in office 1881; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1855-58, 1860-62. Died February
14, 1881. Interment at Trinity Cemetery.
- Abraham Oakey Hall (1826-1898) — also known as A.
Oakey Hall; "Elegant Oakey" — of New York,
New
York County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., July 26,
1826. Republican. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856;
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1869-72; indicted
and tried in
1871-73 on charges
of covering up corruption during his mayoralty; acquitted. Presbyterian;
later Catholic.
English,
Welsh,
and French
ancestry. Died, of heart
disease, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
7, 1898. Entombed at Trinity Cemetery.
- John Adams Dix (1798-1879) — also known as John
A. Dix — of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.; Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.; New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Boscawen, Merrimack
County, N.H., July 24,
1798. Son of Col. Timothy Dix, Jr.; son-in-law of John
Jordan Morgan. Democrat. Secretary of
state of New York, 1833-39; member of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1842; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1845-49; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; U.S. Minister to France, 1866-69; Governor of
New York, 1873-75; defeated, 1848, 1874; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1876. Fort Dix, New Jersey, is named for
him. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 21,
1879. Interment at Trinity Cemetery.
- John Winthrop Chanler (1826-1877) — also known as
John W. Chanler — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, September
14, 1826. Father of William
Astor Chanler and Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler. Democrat. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1858-59; U.S.
Representative from New York 7th District, 1863-69. Died October
19, 1877. Interment at Trinity Cemetery.
- Samuel Seabury (1873-1958) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; East Hampton, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
22, 1873. Son of Rev. William Jones Seabury and Alice Van Wyck
(Beare) Seabury; married, June 6,
1900, to Josephine Maud Richey. Democrat. Lawyer; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1907-14; judge of
New York Court of Appeals, 1914-16; candidate for Governor of
New York, 1916; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1920.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association. Died May 7,
1958. Interment at Trinity Cemetery.
- James Monroe (1799-1870) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Virginia, 1799.
Nephew of James
Monroe (1758-1831); great-grandfather of Theodore
Douglas Robinson and Corinne
Robinson Alsop. U.S.
Representative from New York 3rd District, 1839-41; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 10th District, 1850, 1852.
Died in 1870.
Interment at Trinity Cemetery.
- William Augustus Darling (1817-1895) — also known as
William A. Darling — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., December
27, 1817. Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1865-67. Died in New
York, New York
County, N.Y., May 26,
1895. Interment at Trinity Cemetery.
- William Astor Chanler (1867-1934) — also known as
William A. Chanler — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y. Born in Newport, Newport
County, R.I., June 11,
1867. Son of John
Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor (Ward) Clark Chanler; married
1903 to
Minnie 'Beatrice' Ashley (actress, comedienne, sculptor); brother of
Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler. Democrat. Explorer;
author;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 5th District, 1898; served in
the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S.
Representative from New York 14th District, 1899-1901. Member,
Tammany
Hall. Injured in an automobile accident in France, 1915, and lost a
lower leg. Died in Mentone, France,
March
4, 1934. Interment at Trinity Cemetery.
- Seth C. Hawley (1810-1884) — of Buffalo, Erie
County, N.Y. Born in Glens Falls, Warren
County, N.Y., February
10, 1810. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; member of New York
state assembly; railroad
builder; U.S. Consul in Nassau, 1863; chief clerk, New York City Police
Department; the New York Times called him "the brains of the
department.". English
ancestry. Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 1884. Interment at Trinity Cemetery.
Trinity Church Cemetery
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Politicians buried here:
- John R. Fellows (1832-1896) — Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., July 29,
1832. Democrat. Delegate
to Arkansas secession convention, 1861; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1866-67; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1891-93 (6th District 1891-93, 14th
District 1893); delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1896.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
7, 1896. Interment at Trinity Church Cemetery.
- Aaron Hackley, Jr. (1783-1868) — of Herkimer
County, N.Y. Born in Wallingford, New Haven
County, Conn., May 6,
1783. Member of New York
state assembly from Herkimer County, 1813-15, 1817-18, 1837; U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1819-21; county judge
in New York, 1823-24. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., December
28, 1868. Interment at Trinity Church Cemetery.
- William Hogan (1792-1874) — of Hogansburg, Franklin
County, N.Y. Born in England,
July
17, 1792. Member of New York
state assembly from Franklin County, 1823; state court judge in
New York, 1829; U.S.
Representative from New York 19th District, 1831-33. Died November
25, 1874. Interment at Trinity Church Cemetery.
- Edward Haight (1817-1885) — of New York. Born in New
York City (unknown
county), N.Y., March 26,
1817. Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 9th District, 1861-63; defeated,
1862. Died in Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., September
15, 1885. Interment at Trinity Church Cemetery.
Politicians formerly buried here:
- John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) — also known
as "The Pathfinder"; "The Champion of
Freedom" — Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., January
21, 1813. Son of Jean Charles Frémont and Ann Whiting
(Pryor) Frémont; married, October
19, 1841, to Jessie Benton (daughter of Thomas
Hart Benton). Republican. Explorer;
Military
Governor of California, 1847; arrested
for mutiny,
1847; court-martialed;
found
guilty of mutiny,
disobedience,
and conduct
prejudicial to order; penalty remitted by Pres. James
K. Polk; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-51; candidate for President
of the United States, 1856; general in the Union Army during the
Civil War; Governor of
Arizona Territory, 1878-81. Episcopalian.
French
ancestry. Died, of peritonitis,
in a hotel
room at New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 13,
1890. Original interment at Trinity Church Cemetery; reinterment
in 1891 at Rockland
Cemetery, Nyack, N.Y. Fremont County,
Colo., Fremont County,
Idaho, Fremont County,
Iowa and Fremont County,
Wyo. are named for him.
Trinity Churchyard
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Founded 1697
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1976
Politicians buried here:
- Abraham Albert Alphonse Gallatin (1761-1849) — also
known as Albert Gallatin — of Fayette
County, Pa. Born in Geneva, Switzerland,
January
29, 1761. Son of Jean Gallatin and Sophia Albertina Rolaz du
Rosey Gallatin; married 1789 to Sophie
Allègre (died 1789); married, November
11, 1793, to Hannah Nicholson; cousin by marriage of Joseph
Hopper Nicholson; great-great-grandfather of May
Preston Davie. Democrat. Delegate to
Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1790; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1790-92; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1793-94; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 11th District, 1795-1801; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14; U.S. Minister to France, 1815-23; Great Britain, 1826-27. Swiss
ancestry. His portrait appeared on the $500
U.S. Note in the 1860s. Died in Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., August
12, 1849. Entombed at Trinity Churchyard; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C. Gallatin counties in Ill., Ky. and Mont. are
named for him.
- Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) — of New York
County, N.Y. Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757. Son of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton;
married 1780
to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of William
Stephen Hamilton. Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95. Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915. His portrait appears on the
U.S. $10
bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his portrait also appeared on
U.S. notes
and certificates of various denominations from $2
to $1,000. Shot and mortally wounded in a duel with
Aaron
Burr on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804. Interment at Trinity Churchyard; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C. Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him.
- Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton; Robert
Troup; John
Tayler
- See also Schuyler
family of New York
- See also: congressional
biography; Wikipedia
article; Find-A-Grave
page.
- Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American; Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography; Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton; Ron Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton; Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America; Arnold
A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr; Willard
Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life; John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy; Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth; Charles Cerami, Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution
- Francis Lewis (1713-1803) — of New York. Born in
Llandaff, Wales,
March
21, 1713. Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776. Died December
30, 1803. Interment at Trinity Churchyard.
- Hugh Williamson (1735-1819) — of North Carolina.
Born in West Nottingham, Chester
County, Pa., December
5, 1735. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1782; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1782; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1789-93. Presbyterian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 22,
1819. Entombed at Trinity Churchyard. Williamson
County, Tenn. is named for him.
- Luther Martin (1748-1826) — of Somerset
County, Md. Born in New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J., February
20, 1748. Son of Benjamin Martin and Hannah Martin; married, December
25, 1783, to Maria Cresap (c.1766-1796) (first cousin of Joseph
Cresap, James
Cresap and Thomas
Cresap). Lawyer; Maryland
state attorney general, 1778-1805, 1818-22; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1784; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; defense attorney for Samuel
Chase in his 1805 impeachment trial, and for Aaron
Burr in his 1807 treason trial. Episcopalian.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 10,
1826. Interment at Trinity Churchyard.
- John Alsop (1724-1794) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New Windsor, Orange
County, N.Y., 1724.
Father of Mary Alsop (who married Rufus
King). Merchant;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-76. Died in Newtown,
Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
22, 1794. Interment at Trinity Churchyard.
- John Morin Scott (1730-1784) — of New York. Born in
New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., 1730.
Member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1777-82; secretary of
state of New York, 1778-84; died in office 1784; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1780. Died September
14, 1784. Interment at Trinity Churchyard.
- Walter Livingston (1740-1797) — of Albany
County, N.Y. Born November
27, 1740. Great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); son of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); nephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; brother-in-law of James
Duane; brother of Peter
R. Livingston; first cousin by marriage of John
Cleves Symmes, John
Jay, William
Duer and John
Kean; first cousin of Henry
Brockholst Livingston; second cousin of Edward
Livingston; father of Henry
Walter Livingst
