Elmwood Cemetery (New Jersey) Explained

Elmwood Cemetery
Established:	1868
Location:	425 Georges Road North Brunswick, New Jersey
Coordinates:	40.475°N -74.4511°W
Type:	Public
Findagraveid:	99952

The Elmwood Cemetery is located at 425 Georges Road in North Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey. It borders New Brunswick, New Jersey. The cemetery was established in 1868.^[1]

Notable burials

• John Baillie McIntosh (1829–1888), Union Army brigadier general in the American Civil War^[2]
• Charles H. Bell (1798–1875), Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, served during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War, and the American Civil War
• James Bishop (1816–1895), Opposition Party politician, represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1855–1857
• Henry de la Bruyere Carpender (1882–1934), of the Hall–Mills murder case
• William Henry Steele Demarest (1863–1956), eleventh President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University)
• Robert Wood Johnson II (1893–1968), president of Johnson & Johnson^[3]
• Frederick Barnett Kilmer (1851–1934), director of Scientific Laboratories for Johnson & Johnson, developed their baby powder, father of Joyce Kilmer
• Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), who was buried in France, is honored by a cenotaph erected in his family's plot in the cemetery.^{[4] [5]}
• George C. Ludlow (1830–1900), 25th Governor of New Jersey, from 1881–1884^[6]
• John Baillie McIntosh (1829–1888), Union Army brigadier general in the American Civil War
• Miles Ross (1827–1903), Mayor of New Brunswick, represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1875–1883^[7]
• Rev. Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, D.D., LL.D. (1819–1905), Reformed clergyman, professor at Rutgers College (1857–1864) and New Brunswick Theological Seminary (1857–1901), led the seminary (1883–1901)^[8]

External links

• • Elmwood Cemetery at The Political Graveyard

Notes and References

1. Book: Clayton. W. Woodford . History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey . Everts & Peck. North Brunswick: Elmwood Cemetery . 1882. 754.
2. Book: Welsh, Jack D. . Medical Histories of Union Generals . 1998 . . 0873388534 .
3. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson7.html#08R1ER39V Johnson, Robert Wood, Jr.
4. Web site: Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) – Author of Trees and Other Poems . 2007-08-26 . Miriam A. Kilmer .
5. News: Robert. Strauss. Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place . The New York Times . March 28, 2004 . 2007-08-21 . . Note that Kilmer is not buried at Elmwood Cemetery (he is buried in France), but he does have a cenotaph at Elmwood.
6. http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=25bc2a7b22e89010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Governor George Craig Ludlow
7. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000452 Miles Ross
8. Staff. Brief news item in New Brunswick Daily Times (27 June 1905), page 5, column 2.