Allegheny Cemetery

Allegheny Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark
Allegheny Cemetery in 2008
Location:	Roughly bounded by N. Mathilda and Butler Sts., and Penn, Stanton, and Mossfield Aves., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	40°28′21″N 79°56′52″W / 40.4725°N 79.94778°W / 40.4725; -79.94778Coordinates: 40°28′21″N 79°56′52″W / 40.4725°N 79.94778°W / 40.4725; -79.94778
Area:	300 acres (120 ha)
Built:	1844
Architect:	Chislett,John; Multiple
Architectural style:	Late Victorian, Tudor Revival, English Gothic
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	80003405 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP:	December 10, 1980
Designated PHLF:	1988[2]

Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

It is a nonsectarian, wooded hillside park located at 4734 Butler Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood and bounded by Bloomfield, Garfield, and Stanton Heights. It is sited on the north-facing slope of hills above the Allegheny River.^[3]

Incorporated in 1844, the Allegheny Cemetery is the sixth oldest rural cemetery in America and has expanded over the years to now encompass 300 acres (1.2 km²).^[3]

Allegheny Cemetery memorializes more than 100,000. Some of the oldest graves are of soldiers who fought in the French and Indian War, which were moved here from their original burial site at Pittsburgh's Trinity Cathedral downtown. Many notables from the city of Pittsburgh are buried here. The cemetery was amongst those profiled in the PBS documentary A Cemetery Special.^[3]

Notable interments

The Butler Street entrance (1870 portion)

The 1848 portion of the Butler Street Gatehouse (located beside the 1870 portion of the Butler Street entrance shown in the above picture)

The Penn Avenue Gatehouse, built in 1887

The cemetery has many hills, lakes, and wooded areas.

• Marcus E. Baldwin (1863–1929), Major League Baseball Player
• Joseph Barker (mayor) (1806–1862), mayor of Pittsburgh (1850–1851)
• Joshua Barney (1759–1818), Commodore in the United States Navy and American Revolutionary War veteran
• Richard Biddle (1796–1847), US Congressman
• Marcus Peter Blakemore (1889–1959), founder Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
• Francis B. Brewer (1820–1892), US Congressman
• Don Brockett (1930–1995), motion picture and television actor, "Chef Brockett" on the PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• James W. Brown (1844–1909), US Congressman
• Eben Byers (1880–1932), wealthy American industrialist and socialite noted for his gruesome death caused by consumption of the radioactive patent medicine Radithor.
• John Caldwell, Jr. (1827–1902), George Westinghouse partner and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• Louis Semple Clarke (1867–1957), automotive pioneer, founder of the Autocar Company and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• James Wallace Conant (1862–1906), manager of the Schenley Park Casino and Duquesne Gardens and founder of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League.
• John Dalzell (1845–1927), US Congressman
• Cornelius Darragh (1809–1854), US Congressman
• Ebenezer Denny (1761–1822), first mayor of Pittsburgh, American Revolutionary War veteran
• Harmar Denny (1794–1852), U.S. Congressman
• Harmar D. Denny, Jr. (1886–1966), US Congressman
• William J. Diehl (1845–1929), Pittsburgh Mayor
• Harry Allison Estep (1884–1968), US Congressman
• John Baptiste Ford (1811–1903), industrialist, founder of PPG Industries and Ford City, Pennsylvania
• Walter Forward (1786–1852), United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Stephen Foster (1826–1864), songwriter
• Josh Gibson (1911–1947), baseball great of the Negro Leagues
• Gus Greenlee (1893–1952), Major League Baseball Team Owner
• Moses Hampton (1803–1878), US Congressman
• General Alexander Hays (1819–1864)
• William B. Hayes (1844–1912), Pittsburgh mayor
• Joseph Horne (1826–1891), founder of Pittsburgh department store Horne's the chain of stores close in 1994
• Thomas Marshall Howe (1808–1877), US Congressman
• Thomas Irwin (1785–1870), US Congressman
• William Wallace Irwin (1803–1856), US Congressman, Pittsburgh Mayor
• William Freame Johnston (1808–1872), Governor of Pennsylvania
• Andrew W. Loomis (1797–1873), US Congressman
• F. T. F. Lovejoy (1854–1932), Industrialist, associate of Andrew Carnegie
• William McClelland (1842–1892), US Congressman
• Charles McClure (1804–1846), US Congressman
• James McCord (1822–1894), millionaire owner of the oldest hattery west of the Allegheny Mountains and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• Henry Sellers McKee (1843–1924), millionaire glass manufacturer, founder of Jeannette, Pennsylvania and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• Robert McKnight (1820–1885), US Congressman
• William McNair (1880–1948), Pittsburgh mayor
• Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), founder of Mellon Bank
• Alexander Pollock Moore (1867–1930), Pittsburgh newspaper publisher and ambassador who was married to actress Lillian Russell
• James Kennedy Moorhead (1806–1884), US Congressman
• General James S. Negley (1826–1901), Civil War general and U.S. Congressman
• General John Neville (1731–1803), American Revolutionary War veteran
• George Tener Oliver (1848–1919), publisher of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and Chronicle-Telegraph, US Senator
• Alfred L. Pearson (1838–1903), United States Army officer
• Henry Kirke Porter (1840–1921), US Congressman
• James Hay Reed (1853–1927), founding partner, Knox & Reed (now Reed Smith LLP), and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• John Buchanan Robinson (1846–1933), US Congressman
• Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879–1912), aviation pioneer
• James Ross (1762–1847), US Senator
• Archibald H. Rowand, Jr. (1845–1913), Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
• Lillian Russell (1861–1922), singer, actress
• Ted Sadowski (1936–1993), Major League Baseball Player
• George Shiras, Jr. (1832–1924), United States Supreme Court Associate Justice
• Jane Swisshelm (1815–1884), journalist, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate
• Adamson Tannehill (1750–1820), US Congressman
• Benjamin Thaw (1859–1933), Pittsburgh financier and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• Harry Kendall Thaw, (1871–1947), murderer of architect Stanford White, husband of Evelyn Nesbit
• Stanley Turrentine (1934–2000), jazz musician
• Calvin Wells (1827–1909), industrialist, financier and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• Thomas Williams (1806–1872), Civil War congressman, prosecutor in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
• The unidentified remains of 54 victims of the 1862 Allegheny Arsenal explosion.

References

External links

• Allegheny Cemetery Official website
• Allegheny Cemetery at Find A Grave

See also

• List of cemeteries in the United States

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