Cemetery in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton Cemetery is located in
Princeton, New Jersey , United States.
[1] It is owned by the
Nassau Presbyterian Church .
[3] In his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey, John F. Hageman refers to the cemetery as "The
Westminster Abbey of the United States."
[1]
[4]
Notable burials
Archibald Alexander (1772–1851),
Presbyterian theologian
James Waddel Alexander (1804–1859), Presbyterian theologian and eldest son of Archibald Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), Presbyterian biblical scholar and third son of Archibald Alexander
William Cowper Alexander (1806–1874), politician, businessman and second son of Archibald Alexander
Frank Anscombe (1918–2001), statistician, known for
Anscombe's quartet
John N. Bahcall (1934–2005), astrophysicist
George Wildman Ball (1909–1994), diplomat
George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), Civil War general
Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), bookshop owner
Harold H. Bender (1882–1951), philologist
John Berrien (1711–1772),
New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of
Rockingham , Washington's headquarters
William G. Bowen , (1933–2016), president of
Princeton University
Aaron Burr (1756–1836), controversial
Revolutionary War hero and politician, third
vice president of the United States , killer of
Alexander Hamilton , adventurer who was eventually tried and acquitted of treason
Aaron Burr Sr. (1716–1757), Presbyterian minister, second president of
Princeton University and father of Aaron Burr
Brendan Byrne (1924–2018), 47th governor of New Jersey
Alonzo Church (1903–1995), mathematician
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th
president of the United States
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864–1947), wife of Grover Cleveland and First Lady of the United States
Ruth Cleveland (1891–1904), first child of Grover and Frances Cleveland and supposed name sake of the
Baby Ruth candy bar
Edward Samuel Corwin (1878–1963), author and professor of law
Samuel Davies (1723–1761), president of
Princeton University
Erling Dorf (1905–1984), Renowned
paleobotanist , professor of Geology at
Princeton University
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), president of Princeton University and
Calvinist theologian
Richard Stockton Field (1803–1870),
US senator and
New Jersey Attorney General
John Huston Finley (1863–1940), author, president of
Knox College and
University of the State of New York
Donald B. Fullerton (1892–1985), missionary and founder of the
Princeton Christian Fellowship
Harold Furth (1930–2002), physicist
George Horace Gallup (1901–1984), pollster
William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), naval architect
Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), mathematician
Michael Graves (1934–2015), architect and product designer
Peter Charles Harris (1865–1951),
adjutant general of the U.S. Army
Charles Hodge (1797–1878), Calvinist theologian
David Hunter (1802–1886),
Civil War General
Louis "Lajos" Jambor (1884–1954), Hungarian-born American painter, illustrator and muralist.
[5]
William Hallock Johnson (1865–1963), president of
Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
Joseph Kargé (1823–1892), Civil War General and Princeton University professor
George Frost Kennan (1904–2005), diplomat
Alan Krueger (1960–2019), economist
Frank Lewin (1925–2008), composer
David Kellogg Lewis (1941–2001), philosopher
Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837–1892), diplomat
John Maclean Jr. (1800–1886), president of Princeton University
Robert McNutt McElroy (1872–1959), historian and professor of history at Princeton University,
Oxford University , and
Cambridge University
José Menéndez (1944–1989) and Mary Louise (Kitty) Menéndez (1941–1989), murder victims of their sons,
Lyle and Erik Menéndez
John O'Hara (1905–1970), author of
Appointment in Samarra ,
BUtterfield 8 , and many short stories
Moses Taylor Pyne (1855–1921), financier, philanthropist and owner of
Drumthwacket Estate
Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828–1919), Special US Minister to Greece,
US congressman from Virginia,
Confederate congressman and general, journalist, New York Supreme Court justice
William Drew Robeson (1844–1918), father of singer, actor and activist
Paul Robeson
Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), astronomer
William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928), first
US Olympic Committee president
Howard Alexander Smith (1880–1966), US senator from New Jersey
John P. Stockton (1826–1900), New Jersey attorney general and U.S. senator
Richard Stockton (1764–1828), U.S. senator from New Jersey
[6]
Robert Field Stockton (1795–1866), naval officer
Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), astronomer
John Renshaw Thomson (1800–1862), U.S. senator from New Jersey
William G. Thompson (1840–1904), mayor of
Detroit
Augustus Trowbridge (1870–1934), professor and dean at
Princeton University
[7]
John W. Tukey (1915–2000), statistician
Paul Tulane (1801–1887),
Tulane University benefactor
[4]
John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921), Presbyterian theologian
Canvass White (1790–1834), engineer and inventor
Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995),
Nobel Prize -winning physicist
John Witherspoon (1723–1794), signer of the
Declaration of Independence
William Willet (1867–1921), portraitist and stained glass designer
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