Search the Kids Internet
Encyclopedia > Woodlawn Cemetery
Article Content
Woodlawn Cemetery
Located in The Bronx, the Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City.
Notable people interred there include:
- Irving Berlin
- Nellie Bly
- Ralph Bunche[?]
- George M. Cohan
- Miles Davis
- Clarence Day[?]
- Duke Ellington
- David Farragut
- Frankie Frisch[?]
- Antoinette Perry Frueauff - The Tony Award is named after her
- Jay Gould
- Archibald Gracie[?]
- Oscar Hammerstein II, composer
- Lionel Hampton
- W.C. Handy
- Victor Herbert
- Barbara Hutton[?], Woolworth heiress, America's "poor little rich girl"
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Collis P. Huntington[?]
- Augustus D. Juilliard[?]
- Fiorello LaGuardia
- Roland Macy[?]
- Bat Masterson[?], US Marshall
- George McManus[?]
- Herman Melville
- Marilyn Miller[?]
- Robert Moses[?]
- Thomas Nast
- James Cash Penny[?]
- Otto Preminger, actor and director
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Damon Runyon
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Joseph Stella[?]
- John William Sterling, one of Yale's largest benefactors
- Olive Thomas[?], actress and wife of Jack Pickford
- C. J. Walker[?], she was the first African-American millionaire
- Frank Woolworth, chain store founder
See also: List of other famous cemeteries
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
|
Search Encyclopedia
|