Brookside Cemetery (Englewood, New Jersey) Explained

Brookside Cemetery
Established:	1876
Country:	United States
Location:	Englewood, New Jersey
Coordinates:	40.9058°N -73.9663°W
Type:	Non denominational
Size:	6acres
Findagraveid:	99899

Brookside Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey.

History

It was started in May 1876, by a group of Englewood residents who purchased 6acres of land for a cemetery.^{[1] [2]} The property sits on the East side of Engle Street adjacent to Tenafly, New Jersey. The cemetery was named for the brook running beside its eastern boundary. A chapel built with the local pink sandstone was erected on East Palisades Avenue and dedicated in March 1860. It was the first Presbyterian Church in Englewood and the first in Bergen County, New Jersey.^[1] It had a seating capacity of 200, and was expanded to accommodate 800 people in 1880. In 1887, the chapel was donated to the cemetery, and moved, stone by stone, to its present site near the entrance gate to the east side of the cemetery.^[1] When the chapel was moved, and reconstructed, the building was rotated and the entrance moved from the west side of the building to the east side.^[3] Mayor, and historian, Austin Nicholas Volk calls it: "One of the most beautiful cemeteries in Bergen County, New Jersey."^[4] Schuyler Warmflash refers to is as an "outdoor museum" and he wrote "[The] change of attitude — which made sites devoted to the dead reassuringly pleasant to the living — is clearly manifest in Brookside Cemetery".^[5]

Notable interments

• William Weaver Bennett (1841–1912), first Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey.
• Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff (1838–1913), Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.^[6]
• Philip Bosco (1930–2018), actor.^[7]
• Frank Chapman, ornithologist.^[8]
• Gerald Cardinale (1934–2021), longtime member of the New Jersey Senate for District 39^[9]
• Carole Cardinale (1937–2022), former Demarest Councilwoman and GOP Municipal Chair, wife of the late Gerald Cardinale
• Davy Force (1849–1918), baseball pioneer.^[10]
• Dody Goodman (1914–2008), actress
• Dwight Morrow (1873–1931), represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1930 to 1931.^[11]
• Archibald E. Olpp (1882–1949), represented New Jersey's 11th congressional district from 1921 to 1923.^[12]
• Nance O'Neil (1874–1965), American stage and silent movie actress.
• Frank C. Osmers Jr. (1907–1977), represented New Jersey's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1939–1943 and again from 1951–1965.^[13]
• Cullen Sawtelle (1805–1887), represented Maine's 5th congressional district from 1845 to 1847 and from 1849 to 1851.^[14]
• Robert E. Speer (1867–1947), Religious leader.^[15]
• Thomas D. Thacher (1881–1950), one-time Solicitor General of the United States.^[16]
• Edmund W. Wakelee (1869–1945), President of the New Jersey Senate and the Public Service Corporation^[17]
• George W. Wickersham (1858–1936), United States Attorney General from 1909 to 1913.^[18]
• Downing Vaux (1856–1926), landscape architect
• There is one British Commonwealth war grave in the cemetery, of a Royal Canadian Air Force Sergeant of World War II.^[19]

See also

• Bergen County Cemeteries

External links

• • • Brookside Cemetery at The Political Graveyard

Notes and References

1. Book: Van Valen, James M. . History of Bergen County, New Jersey . New Jersey pub. and engraving Company . 1900 . In 1876, this site then a wild barren spot, filled with chestnut, dogwood and wild cedars, was purchased ... He has also been connected with Brookside Cemetery as its Superintendent, from the date of its organization, and still holds that position, as well as being ... .
2. Book: Bouton-Goldberg, Bobbie . Englewood and Englewood Cliffs . 1998 . . When the congregation outgrew its walls, the chapel was dismantled and reconstructed at Brookside Cemetery. ... . 0-7524-1324-4 .
3. Web site: The History of First Presbyterian Church in Englewood, Part II . 2007-08-26 . Built of random coursed rough-hewn red sandstone ashlar, the chapel was twice enlarged at its original location. The 1865 addition was built of wood on the east side of the south end. In 1877, before the construction of the Vermilye Memorial Chapel, the building was dismantled and moved to Brookside Cemetery. When reconstructed there, it was turned around so that the original end is now south and the entrance is on the east, rather than west. Brookside Chapel, with its diamond-paned lancet windows is the purest example of early ecclesiastic Gothic Revival architecture in the city and one of the finest 19th Century buildings in Englewood. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070822110328/http://www.englewoodpres.org/history2.htm . 2007-08-22 .
4. Web site: Brookside Cemetery History . 2007-08-26 . In May 1876, a group of Englewood residents purchased six acres of land to establish a cemetery. The property, on the east side of Engle Street near the Tenafly border, was named for the brook running along its eastern boundary. Charming as the site was, there was no building for memorial services. A chapel of pink sandstone native to the area had been built on East Palisades Avenue and dedicated in March 1860. It was the first Presbyterian Church in Englewood and the first in Bergen County, with a seating capacity of 200. The congregation grew and a new, larger church to accommodate 800 people was built in 1880. In 1887, the chapel was donated to Brookside Cemetery, and moved – stone by stone – to its present site near the entrance gate to the east side of the cemetery. . Brookside Cemetery .
5. Book: Warmflash, Schuyler . The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey . 2001 . . Picturesque funeral art and romantic landscaping are very much in evidence in this cemetery, which was laid out about 1875. ... This marked change of attitude — which made sites devoted to the dead reassuringly pleasant to the living — is clearly manifest in Brookside Cemetery, ... . 0-8135-2867-4 .
6. News: Brinckerhoff, Bank President, Dies. Head of Merchants Bank. Rode the First Pony Express in This Country. Member of the Vigilance Committee In California Under Coleman in Pioneer Days . Elbert Adrian Brinckerhoff, founder of the cotton firm of Brinckerhoff, ... . . March 24, 1913 . 2011-10-20 .
7. Web site: Philip Bosco Obituary (2018) – Haworth, NJ – The Record/Herald News. Legacy.com.
8. https://www.in.gov/library/files/S1230_Chapman_Frank_M_Letter.pdf Indiana State Library
9. McDonald, Terrence T. "'Unforgettable and irreplaceable': Gerry Cardinale, longtime NJ lawmaker, honored in Tenafly", The Record, February 24, 2021. Accessed January 20, 2023. "After Wednesday’s service, Cardinale was interred at Brookside Cemetery in Englewood."
10. https://books.google.com/books?id=4oEwCgAAQBAJ&dq=davy+force+brookside&pg=PA133 The Baseball Necrology
11. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001002 Dwight Whitney Morrow
12. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000082 Archibald Ernest Olpp
13. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000120 Frank Charles Osmers, Jr.
14. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000085 Cullen Sawtelle
15. Book: Piper, John F. . Robert E. Speer: Prophet of the American Church . 2000 . Geneva Press . 0-664-50132-X .
16. http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/aboutosg/thacher.htm Thomas D Thacher
17. News: 3 May 1945. E. W. Wakelee, Served State and Community. LVI. 2. The Englewood Press. 18. Englewood, N.J.. Englewood Public Library.
18. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#RFP1BP2KV George Woodward Wickersham
19. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2719892/SHANNON,%20CHARLES%20EDWARD