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Cemetery in North Brunswick, New Jersey, US
The Elmwood Cemetery is located at 425 Georges Road in
North Brunswick ,
Middlesex County, New Jersey . It borders
New Brunswick, New Jersey . The cemetery was established in 1868.
[1]
Notable burials
John Baillie McIntosh (1829–1888),
Union Army
brigadier general in the
American Civil War
[2]
Charles H. Bell (1798–1875), Rear Admiral in the
United States Navy , served during the
War of 1812 , the
Second Barbary War , and the
American Civil War
James Bishop (1816–1895),
Opposition Party politician, represented
New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the
United States House of Representatives from 1855–1857
Henry de la Bruyere Carpender (1882–1934), of the
Hall–Mills murder case
William Henry Steele Demarest (1863–1956), eleventh President of Rutgers College (now
Rutgers University )
Robert Wood Johnson II (1893–1968), president of
Johnson & Johnson
[3]
Frederick Barnett Kilmer (1851–1934), director of Scientific Laboratories for
Johnson & Johnson , developed their baby powder, father of Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), who was buried in France, is honored by a
cenotaph erected in his family's plot in the cemetery.
[4]
[5]
George C. Ludlow (1830–1900),
25th
Governor of
New Jersey , from 1881–1884
[6]
John Baillie McIntosh (1829–1888),
Union Army
brigadier general in the
American Civil War
Miles Ross (1827–1903),
Mayor of New Brunswick , represented
New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the
United States House of Representatives from 1875–1883
[7]
Rev. Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, D.D., LL.D. (1819–1905), Reformed clergyman, professor at
Rutgers College (1857–1864) and
New Brunswick Theological Seminary (1857–1901), led the seminary (1883–1901)
[8]
Gallery
References
^ Clayton, W. Woodford, ed. (1882). "North Brunswick: Elmwood Cemetery".
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey . Everts & Peck. p.
754 .
^ Welsh, Jack D. (1998).
Medical Histories of Union Generals .
Kent State .
ISBN
0873388534 .
^
Johnson, Robert Wood, Jr. ,
The Political Graveyard . Accessed August 16, 2007.
^
"Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) – Author of Trees and Other Poems" . Miriam A. Kilmer. Retrieved 2007-08-26 .
^ Strauss, Robert (March 28, 2004).
"Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2007-08-21 . . Note that Kilmer is not buried at Elmwood Cemetery (he is buried in France), but he does have a
cenotaph at Elmwood.
^
New Jersey Governor George Craig Ludlow
Archived 2007-09-30 at the
Wayback Machine ,
National Governors Association . Accessed August 16, 2007.
^
Miles Ross ,
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Accessed August 29, 2007.
^ Staff. Brief news item in New Brunswick Daily Times (27 June 1905), page 5, column 2.
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