Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New
York
The Tower at the upper entrance to Kensico Cemetery
The lake at Kensico Cemetery
An interesting grave marker in Kensico
Cemetery
Kensico Cemetery, located in
Valhalla
, Westchester County, New York
, was founded in 1889, when many
New York
City
cemeteries were becoming full, and rural cemeteries were being created near the
railroads which served the city. Initially 250 acres (1
km²), it was expanded to 600 acres (2.4 km²) in 1905, and reduced
to 461 acres (1.9 km²) in 1912 when a portion was sold to the
neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery
.
Many entertainment figures of the early twentieth century were
buried here. The cemetery has a special section for members of the
Actors' Fund of America and
the
National Vaudeville
Association, some of whom died in abject poverty.
Sharon Gardens is a 76 acre section of Kensico Cemetery which was
created in 1953 for
Jewish burials.
Notable burials
- John Alexander ,
(1897-1982), American stage and film actor
- Glenn Anders, (1889-1981), American
actor
- John Emory Andrus,
(1841-1934), mayor of Yonkers, New York, and a U.S.
Congressman
- Peter Arno, (1904 - 1968),
cartoonist
- Anne Bancroft, (1931-2005), stage,
screen, and television actress. Her most notable performance was
'Mrs. Robinson' in The
Graduate
- Wendy Barrie (1912–1978),
actress
- Ed Barrow, (1868-1953), hall of fame
baseball manager and executive
- Marion Bauer, (1882-1955), American
composer
- Henri Bendel, (1868-1936), fashion
designer, famed for the Bendel bonnet
- Vivian Blaine, (1921-1995),
actress and singer
- Ralph Albert Blakelock,
(1847-1919), Romanticist painter
- Paul Bonwit, (1862-1939) founder of
Bonwit Teller department store
- Evangeline Booth, (1865-1950),
evangelist, daughter of Salvation
Army founder
- Herbert Booth, (1862-1926),
songwriter
- Russ Brown , (1892-1964),
actor
- Billie Burke, (1885-1970), actress,
played "Glinda the Good Witch" in
The Wizard of
Oz
- Henry Burr, (1882-1941), Canadian
singer of popular songs
- William J. Butler, (1860-1927), Irish silent film
actor
- Paddy Chayefsky, (1923-1981),
screenwriter, winner of three Academy
Awards
- Andy Coakley, (1882-1963),baseball
player
- Frank Conroy, (1890-1964}, British
film and stage actor
- Harry Cooper, (1904-2000),
hall of fame golfer
- Frederick E. Crane (1869-1947), Chief Judge of the NY
Court of Appeals
- Cheryl Crawford, (1902-0986),
theatrical producer
- Milton Cross, (1897-1975), radio
announcer
- Edward W. Curley, (1873-1940), U.S. Congressman
- Harry Davenport, (1866-1949),
American film and stage acor
- Olive Deering, actress, Miriam in Samson and Delilah and
The Ten
Commandments
- Robert De Niro, Sr., father
of actor Robert De Niro
- William Wallace Denslow,
(1856-1915), illustrator
- Peter DeRose (1896-1953), Hall of
Fame composer
- Elliott Dexter, (1870-1941),
American film and stage actor
- Luigi Palma di Cesnola,
(1832-1904), Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
- Tommy Dorsey, (1905-1956),
swing-era trombonist
- Sherman Edwards, (1919-1981),
Tony Award winning composer and songwriter
- Angna Enters, (1897-1989),
entertainer
- Judith Evelyn (1913-1967), stage
actress
- Geraldine Farrar, (1882-1967),
opera singer
- Sid Farrar, (1859-1935), Major League
baseball player
- Emanuel Feuermann,
(1902-1942), master cellist
- Gloria Foster,(1933-2001).
Actress, The Matrix
- Harry Frazee, (1880-1929), owner of
the Boston Red Sox who sold Babe Ruth
- Fred Friendly, (1915-1998),
broadcaster
- Lou Gehrig,
(1903-1941), Baseball Hall of Fame
baseball player
- Marion Harris, (1896-1944),
American popular singer
- Grace Henderson, (1860-1944),
stage actress
- Al Hodge, (1912-1979), actor ("Captain Video", "The Green Hornet") and director/producer
("The Lone Ranger", "Challenge of the Yukon")
- Danny Kaye, (1913-1987), comedic
actor
- Guy Kibbee, (1882-1956), American
stage and film actor
- Joseph Kilgour, (1863-1933),
Canadian actor of the silent era
- Ruth Laredo, (1937-2005),
pianist
- William
Van Duzer Lawrence (1842-1927), founder Sarah Lawrence
College
- Herbert H. Lehman, (1878-1963), politician
- Joseph J. Little, (1841-1913), U.S. Representative
from New York
- Cissie Loftus (1876-1943),
Glasgow, Scottish-born and reared actress, singer, comedian and
vaudevillian
- Dorothy Loudon, (1933-2003),
Tony Award winning actress
- Jack McGowan, (1894-1977),
Broadway, writer, performer, and producer
- Claudia McNeil, (1917-1993),
motion picture and television actress
- Robert Merrill,
(1917-2004), baritone, Metropolitan opera star, sang national
anthem at Yankee
Stadium
- Herman A. Metz, (1867-1934), U.S. Congressman
- Anna Moffo, (1932-2006), soprano
- William Muldoon, (1852-1933),
America's first wrestling champion
- Allan Nevins, (1890-1971), American
historian and journalist
- Anne Nichols, (1891-1966),
playwright and screenwriter
- Frank O'Connor ,
(1897-1979), American actor and husband of novelist and philosopher
Ayn Rand
- Caroline Love Goodwin
O'Day, (1875-1943), United States Representative from New
York
- Ann Pennington ,
(1893-1971), popular stage star
- David Graham Phillips,
(1867-1911), journalist and novelist
- Harriet Quimby, (1875-1912),
pioneer aviatrix
- Sergei Rachmaninoff,
(1873-1943), composer, pianist, and conductor
- Ayn Rand, (1905-1982), author,
philosopher
- Jacob Ruppert, (1867-1939), owned
the New York Yankees
- David Sarnoff, (1891-1971),
broadcaster and head of RCA
- Fritzi Scheff, (1879-1954),
American actress and vocalist
- Gordon Scott, (1926-2007), actor,
who starred in 6 Tarzan movies, including
Tarzan's Greatest
Adventure
- Ann Shoemaker, (1891-1978),
American actress
- Richard B. Shull, (1929-1999), American character
actor
- Alison Skipworth, (1863-1952),
English stage and screen actress
- Alfred Holland Smith,
(1863-1924), president of the New York Central Railroad
- Peter Moore Speer,
(1862-1933), U.S. Congressman
- Ellsworth Milton
Statler, (1863-1928), American hotel pioneer
- Henry Stephenson (1871-1956),
actor
- Lewis Stone, (1879-1953), motion
picture character actor
- Amos Sulka, founder of international
mens apparel store that outfitted celebrities
- Oscar W. Swift, (1869-1940), U.S. Congressman
- Fay Templeton, (1865-1939),
Broadway star
- Gertrude Thanhouser,
(1880-1951), actress
- Benjamin I. Taylor, (1877-1946), U.S.
Congressman
- Deems Taylor, (1885-1966), composer
and journalist
- William L. Ward, (1856-1933), U.S. Congressman
- Charles Weidman, (1901-1975),
pioneer of American modern dance
- James E. West, (1876-1948) first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America [Section 187,
Lot 14037, (Computer Number 15669]
- William B. Williams , (1923-1986), disc
jockey
- John North Willys,
(1873-1935), automobile manufacturer
- Francis Wilson ,
(1854-1935), American actor
- Blanche Yurka, (1887-1974),
American theatre and film actress
- Herbert Zelenko, (1906-1979),
U.S.Congressman
- Florenz Ziegfeld, (1869-1932),
producer of the Ziegfeld
Follies
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