Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey) Explained

Rosedale Cemetery
Established:	1840
Country:	United States
Location:	Orange, New Jersey
Type:	Non denominational
Size:	92acres
Findagraveid:	100196

Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery located at the tripoint of Orange, West Orange and Montclair in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Cyrus Baldwin drew up the original plan for the cemetery in 1840.^{[1] [2]}

Notable interments

• Platt Adams (1885–1961), American Olympic athlete and member of the New Jersey State Assembly from Essex County
• Jim Barnes (1886–1966), golfer
• John L. Blake (1831–1899), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1879 to 1881^[3]
• Dudley Buck (1839–1909), organist, composer, writer
• Samuel Colgate (1822–1897), founder of Colgate-Palmolive
• Mary Fenn Robinson Davis (1824–1886), a spiritualist and feminist who was a poet, author, editor, and lecturer.^[4]
• Sarah Jane Corson Downs (1822-1891), president, New Jersey Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Charles Edison (1890–1969), son of Thomas Edison and the 42nd Governor of New Jersey
• Frank Emil Fesq (1840–1920), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient.
• Wilfred J. Funk (1883–1965), lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls)
• Althea Gibson (1927–2003), the first African American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour^[5]
• Henry Judd Gray (1892–1928), murderer of Albert Snyder
• George Huntington Hartford (1833–1917), Mayor of Orange, New Jersey, from 1878 to 1890 and owner of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, the country's largest food retailer at the time of his death^[6]
• Frances Cox Henderson (1820–1897), wife of Governor James Pinckney Henderson of Texas, retired in East Orange, established Good Shepherd home for aged women
• James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911), physician, philologist, missionary.
• George Inness (1825–1894), painter
• George Inness Jr. (1854–1926), painter
• Frank Louis Kramer (1880–1958), cyclist
• Hazel May Kuser (?–1924), Radium Girl
• Mary Artemisia Lathbury (1841–1913), poet and hymnwriter
• Amelia Maggia (?–1922), Radium Girl
• Lowell Mason (1792–1872), hymn composer and music educator
• Quinta Maggia McDonald (?–1929), Radium Girl
• Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), architect
• George W. Merck (1894–1957), pharmacist, president of Merck & Co.
• John Pingry (1818–1894), minister, founder of the Pingry School
• Ruth A. Saxer (?–1942), Radium Girl
• George J. Seabury (1844–1909), chemist and pharmacist
• Michelle Thomas (1968–1998), American actress best known for roles in Family Matters and The Cosby Show
• George C. Tichenor (1838–1902), member and president of the Board of General Appraisers
• Aaron B. Tompkins (1844–1931), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient.
• William A. Wachenfeld (1889 – 1969) was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1946 to 1959.
• George James Webb (1803–1887), composer
• William H. Wiley (1842–1925), represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1909 to 1911^[7]
• Earl Williams (1948–2013), professional baseball player
• Three British Commonwealth war servicemen – a Royal Air Force officer and Canadian Army Sergeant of World War I and a Canadian airman of World War II^[8]

External links

• Rosedale Cemetery (Official)
• Rosedale Cemetery Walking Guide of Notable Interments
• Rosedale Cemetery at Find a Grave

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Notes and References

1. Book: Urquhart, Frank John . A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey . 1913 .
2. Web site: Rosedale Cemetery . 2007-08-26 . As a non-profit, non-sectarian Cemetery, Rosedale has respectfully served the local New Jersey community with care, compassion and dignity. Founded in 1840 and located in Montclair, Orange, and West Orange, Rosedale Cemetery remains dedicated to maintaining the same character that its original founders had envisioned over a century and a half ago. In fact, years of careful planning and expert maintenance have not only preserved the beauty and serenity of Rosedale’s 92acres but have, moreover, enhanced it. ... . Rosedale Cemetery .
3. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000532 John Lauris Blake
4. Book: James, Edward T. . Notable American women, 1607-1950 : a biographical dictionary . James . Janet Wilson . Boyer . Paul S. . Radcliffe College . 1974 . Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. . 978-0-674-62734-5 . 441–442.
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=tfTXAQAAQBAJ&dq=Althea+Gibson+rosedale&pg=PA478 American Sports
6. Book: Levinson, Marc . The Great A&P and the struggle for small business in America . Hill and Wang . 2011 . 978-0809095438.
7. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000470 William Halsted Wiley
8. https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/4001684/orange-(rosedale)-cemetery/