Lake View Cemetery (Ithaca, New York) Explained
| Lake View Cemetery |
| Established: | 1894 |
| Country: | United States |
| Location: | 605 E Shore Dr, Ithaca, New York |
| Graves: | 8,000 |
| Findagraveid: | 65039 |
Lake View Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the city of Ithaca, in Tompkins County, New York named for its original view of nearby Lake Cayuga.
History
The cemetery was established in 1894. It includes an Egyptian Revival style mausoleum and receiving vault, a distinctive serpentine road system and architectural works by William Henry Miller and Liberty Hyde Bailey.[1]
Lake View Cemetery was hit with a series of embezzlement scandals in the twenty-first century. In 2006, a groundskeeper pled guilty to stealing $87,709 from the cemetery.[2] In 2014, a former caretaker and president of Lake View Cemetery was charged with embezzling over $50,000 and "selling or giving away" much of the cemetery's equipment. The cemetery is currently in operation, selling burial lots and providing burial services.[3]
Notable burials
Given its proximity to Cornell University, the cemetery includes a number of significant figures from the university's history, including members of the Cornell family, and the graves of faculty members.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954), American horticulturalist and designer
- Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889–1983), American botanist and curator
- Juanita Breckenridge Bates (1860–1946), American suffragist and early woman ordained as a minister
- Sophronia Bucklin (1828–1902), American Civil War nurse
- John "Honest John" Clapp (1851–1904), early American baseball player and manager
- Robert Gilmour Dobie (1878–1948), American football player and record-setting coach
- Estevan Antonio Fuertes (1838–1903), Cornell astronomer and namesake of Fuertes Observatory
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927), American ornithologist, illustrator and artist
- James R. Houck (1940–2015), pioneer of infrared observational astronomy
- William Henry Miller (1848–1922), American architect
- Carl Sagan (1934–1996), American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer
Notes and References
- Web site: Cemetery History . Lake View Cemetery . August 8, 2022 . August 7, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220807210139/https://lakeview-ithaca.org/hist/ . live .
- News: Hart . Glynis . Lakeview Cemetery Tries to Regroup After Embezzlement . September 14, 2019 . ithaca.com . March 19, 2014 . July 30, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140730165744/http://www.ithaca.com/news/lakeview-cemetery-tries-to-regroup-after-embezzlement/article_4fa6090e-af90-11e3-94ab-001a4bcf887a.html . live .
- Web site: Cemetery Home Page . Lake View Cemetery . November 2, 2023 . November 2, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231102145004/https://lakeview-ithaca.org/ . live .
