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Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. It was said that it was the "ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the [Central] Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood".

Notables buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York:

Albert Anastasia[?], (1903 - 1957) mobster, "Lord High Executioner" for "Murder Inc."
Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) - abolitionist
Henry Bergh (1818 - 1888) - founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) - composer, conductor
Samuel Blatchford[?] - US Supreme Court Justice
Henry Chadwick (memorial), United States Baseball Hall of Fame member
DeWitt Clinton - unsuccessful US presidential candidate 1812; US Senator from New York; seventh and ninth Governor of New York
Peter Cooper[?] (1791-1883) - inventor, manufacturer, abolitionist, founder of Cooper Union[?]
Nathaniel Currier[?] (1813 - 1888) - artist ("Currier and Ives[?]")
Charles Ebbets[?] (1859 - 1925) - baseball team (Brooklyn Dodgers) owner; built Ebbets Field[?]
Charles Feltman[?] (1841 - 1910) - claimed to be the first person to put a hot dog on a bun
Joey Gallo (1929 - 1972) - mobster
Louis Moreau Gottshalk[?] (1829 - 1869) - composer
Horace Greeley (1811 - 1872) - unsuccessful US presidential candidate 1872; founder of the New York Tribune
Florence La Badie, (1888-1917) - actress
William S. Hart[?] - star of silent "Western" movies
Thomas Hastings[?] (1784 - 1872) - wrote the music to the hymn "Rock of Ages"
Elias Howe[?] - invented the sewing machine
Walter Hunt[?] (1785 - 1869) - invented the safety pin
James M. Ives[?] (1824 - 1895) - artist ("Currier and Ives[?]")
Laura Keene[?] - actress (on stage when Lincoln was shot)
Brockholst Livingston[?] - US Supreme Court Justice
William Livingston - signer of the US Constitution; first Governor of New Jersey
Pierre Lorillard[?] (1833 - 1901) - inventor of the tuxedo
Lola Montez (1821 - 1861) - actress; mistress of many notable men
Samuel F.B. Morse - invented the telegraph
James Kirke Paulding[?] - US Secretary of the Navy under Martin Van Buren; thought to be "author" of "Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers", although it had already been published in children's primers in Britain as early as 1813.
Samuel Reid[?] (1783 - 1861) - said to have designed the US flag
Bill Poole[?] - His character was portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in the motion picture Gangs of New York
Alice Roosevelt[?] (1861 - 1884) - first wife of US President Theodore Roosevelt
Martha Bulloch Roosevelt[?] (1834 - 1884) - mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Roosevelt[?] - uncle of US President Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.[?] - father of US President Theodore Roosevelt
Margaret Sanger (1879 - 1966) - birth control advocate
Ira Sankey[?] (1840 - 1908) - hymn composer
F.A.O. Schwarz (Frederick Augustus Otto Schwarz) (1836 - 1911) - toy store founder
Henry Steinway[?] (1797 - 1871) - founder of Steinway & Sons, piano manufacturers
William Steinway[?] (1836 - 1896) - son of Henry Steinway, and founder of Steinway, New York[?]
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 - 1933) - artist
William March "Boss" Tweed (1823 - 1878) - notorious New York politician
Frank Morgan Wupperman (1890 - 1949) - played the character of the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz.