Princeton Cemetery Explained

Princeton Cemetery
Country:	United States
Location:	Princeton, New Jersey
Coordinates:	40.355°N -74.66°W
Map Type:	USA New Jersey Mercer County#New Jersey#USA
Owner:	Nassau Presbyterian Church
Graves:	9,000+
Findagraveid:	100174
Website:	Princeton Cemetery
Embedded:	Embed: yes Princeton Cemetery Partof Refnum: 75001143^[1] Nrhp Type: cp Nocat: yes Added: 27 June 1975

Princeton Cemetery is located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.^[2] It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church.^[3] In his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey, John F. Hageman refers to the cemetery as "The Westminster Abbey of the United States."^[2]

Notable burials

• Archibald Alexander (1772–1851), Presbyterian theologian
• James Waddel Alexander (1804–1859), Presbyterian theologian and eldest son of Archibald Alexander
• Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), Presbyterian biblical scholar and third son of Archibald Alexander
• William Cowper Alexander (1806–1874), politician, businessman and second son of Archibald Alexander
• Frank Anscombe (1918–2001), statistician, known for Anscombe's quartet
• John N. Bahcall (1934–2005), astrophysicist
• George Wildman Ball (1909–1994), diplomat
• George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), Civil War general
• Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), bookshop owner
• Harold H. Bender (1882–1951), philologist
• John Berrien (1711–1772), New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of Rockingham, Washington's headquarters
• William G. Bowen, (1933–2016), president of Princeton University
• Aaron Burr (1756–1836), controversial Revolutionary War hero and politician, third vice president of the United States, killer of Alexander Hamilton, adventurer who was eventually tried and acquitted of treason
• Aaron Burr Sr. (1716–1757), Presbyterian minister, second president of Princeton University and father of Aaron Burr
• Brendan Byrne (1924–2018), 47th governor of New Jersey
• Alonzo Church (1903–1995), mathematician
• Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the United States
• Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864–1947), wife of Grover Cleveland and First Lady of the United States
• Ruth Cleveland (1891–1904), first child of Grover and Frances Cleveland and supposed name sake of the Baby Ruth candy bar
• Edward Samuel Corwin (1878–1963), author and professor of law
• Samuel Davies (1723–1761), president of Princeton University
• Erling Dorf (1905–1984), Renowned paleobotanist, professor of Geology at Princeton University
• Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), president of Princeton University and Calvinist theologian
• Richard Stockton Field (1803–1870), US senator and New Jersey Attorney General
• John Huston Finley (1863–1940), author, president of Knox College and University of the State of New York
• Donald B. Fullerton (1892–1985), missionary and founder of the Princeton Christian Fellowship
• Harold Furth (1930–2002), physicist
• George Horace Gallup (1901–1984), pollster
• William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), naval architect
• Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), mathematician
• Michael Graves (1934–2015), architect and product designer
• Peter Charles Harris (1865–1951), adjutant general of the U.S. Army
• Charles Hodge (1797–1878), Calvinist theologian
• David Hunter (1802–1886), Civil War General
• Louis "Lajos" Jambor (1884–1954), Hungarian-born American painter, illustrator and muralist.^[4]
• William Hallock Johnson (1865–1963), president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
• Joseph Kargé (1823–1892), Civil War General and Princeton University professor
• George Frost Kennan (1904–2005), diplomat
• Alan Krueger (1960–2019), economist
• Frank Lewin (1925–2008), composer
• David Kellogg Lewis (1941–2001), philosopher
• Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837–1892), diplomat
• John Maclean Jr. (1800–1886), president of Princeton University
• Robert McNutt McElroy (1872–1959), historian and professor of history at Princeton University, Oxford University, and Cambridge University
• José Menendez (1944–1989) and Mary Louise (Kitty) Menendez (1941–1989), murder victims of their sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez
• John O'Hara (1905–1970), author of Appointment in Samarra, BUtterfield 8, and many short stories
• Moses Taylor Pyne (1855–1921), financier, philanthropist and owner of Drumthwacket Estate
• Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828–1919), Special US Minister to Greece, US congressman from Virginia, Confederate congressman and general, journalist, New York Supreme Court justice
• William Drew Robeson (1844–1918), father of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson
• Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), astronomer
• William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928), first US Olympic Committee president
• Howard Alexander Smith (1880–1966), US senator from New Jersey
• John P. Stockton (1826–1900), New Jersey attorney general and U.S. senator
• Richard Stockton (1764–1828), U.S. senator from New Jersey^[5]
• Robert Field Stockton (1795–1866), naval officer
• Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), astronomer
• John Renshaw Thomson (1800–1862), U.S. senator from New Jersey
• William G. Thompson (1840–1904), mayor of Detroit
• Augustus Trowbridge (1870–1934), professor and dean at Princeton University^[6]
• John W. Tukey (1915–2000), statistician
• Paul Tulane (1801–1887), Tulane University benefactor^[7]
• John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician
• Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921), Presbyterian theologian
• Canvass White (1790–1834), engineer and inventor
• Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• John Witherspoon (1723–1794), signer of the Declaration of Independence
• William Willet (1867–1921), portraitist and stained glass designer

See also

• List of burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States

External links

• Nassau Presbyterian Church: Princeton Cemetery
• Princeton Online: Princeton Cemetery
• A photographic tour through Princeton Cemetery

Notes and References

1. Web site: Princeton Historic District . National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . 2023-08-18 . 2023-04-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230406011724/https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/75001143_text . live .
2. Web site: The Princeton Cemetery . 2007-08-26 . Princeton Online . 2007-08-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070826173720/http://www.princetonol.com/groups/cemetery/ . live .
3. Book: Sarapin, Janice Kohl . Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey . 2002 . . 0813521114 . 2020-10-18 . 2023-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230818033939/https://books.google.com/books?id=uDfIJt5RFWgC&pg=PP1 . live .
4. Web site: Louis Jambor, 69, Versatile Artist; Portraitist and Mural Painter Who Also, Did Book, Film Work Succumbs Here . 1954-06-12 . . en . 2020-02-22 . 2023-08-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230818034008/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/06/12/92827963.html?pageNumber=15 . live .
5. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000941 Richard Stockton (1764–1828)
6. Book: Biographical Memoir of Augustus Trowbridge 1870–1934 . . 1937 . . 2021-07-15 . 2021-06-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210607203515/http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/trowbridge-augustus.pdf . live .
7. News: Robert . Strauss . Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place . . March 28, 2004 . 2013-09-06 . 2008-06-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080604002810/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD71230F93BA15750C0A9629C8B63 . live .