Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in

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. It is a historic

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. The non-sectarian, wooded hillside park is located at 4734 Butler Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood, and bounded by the Bloomfield,

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, and Stanton Heights areas. It is sited on the north-facing slope of hills above the

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. In 1973 the cemetery's Butler Street Gatehouse was listed on the

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and, in 1980, the entire cemetery was listed on the National Register.

History

Incorporated in 1844, the Allegheny Cemetery is the sixth oldest

in the United States. It has been expanded over the years and now encompasses . Allegheny Cemetery memorializes more than 124,000 people. Some of the oldest graves are of soldiers who fought in the

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. Their remains were reinterred here, moved from their original burial site at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh. Many notables from the city of

are buried here. The cemetery was among those profiled in the

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documentary '' A Cemetery Special''. In 1834, three members of the Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, Dr. J. Ramsey Speer, Stephen Colwell and John Chislett Sr. determined to establish a rural cemetery near Pittsburgh. Dr. Speer later visited several famous rural cemeteries,

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in Boston,

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in Philadelphia, and

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in Brooklyn, New York. In 1842 the group selected the 100-acre farm of Colonel Bayard for the site. An Act of Incorporation passed the Pennsylvania Legislature and was signed by Gov. David R. Porter on April 24, 1844. Mt. Barney was selected as the site of a memorial to naval heroes in 1848, and Commodore Joshua Barney and Lt. James L. Parker were reinterred there. On Memorial Day, 1937, a new memorial was unveiled at Allegheny Cemetery, dedicated to the more than 7,000 servicemen buried here.

Notable interments

* Gabriel Adams (1790–1864),

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(1847–49) * John Arbuckle (1838–1912), coffee and sugar businessman * Marcus E. Baldwin (1863–1929), Major League Baseball player * Joseph Barker (1806–1862), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1850–51) * Joshua Barney (1759–1818),

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in the

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and

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veteran (Moved to new site in 1848) * Richard Biddle (1796–1847), US Congressman * Lem Billings (1916–1981), friend and campaigner for President

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* William Bingham (1808–1873), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1856–57) * James Blackmore (1821–1875), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1868–69 & 1872–75) * Francis B. Brewer (1820–1892), US Congressman * Don Brockett (1930–1995), motion picture and television actor, "Chef Brockett" on the PBS series ''

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'' * Adam M. Brown (1826–1910), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1901) * James W. Brown (1844–1909), US Congressman * Jared M. Brush (1814–1895), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1869–72) * Eben Byers (1880–1932), wealthy American industrialist and socialite noted for his gruesome death caused by consumption of the radioactive

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Radithor. * John Caldwell Jr. (1827–1902), George Westinghouse partner and member of the

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* Louis Semple Clarke (1867–1957), automotive pioneer, founder of the

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and member of the

* James Wallace Conant (1862–1906), manager of the Schenley Park Casino and

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, and founder of the

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. * Beano Cook (1931–2012), college football commentator * Daniel William Cooper (1830–1920), one of the founders of the Sigma Chi Fraternity * John Dalzell (1845–1927), US Congressman * Cornelius Darragh (1809–1854), US Congressman *

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(1761–1822), first Mayor of Pittsburgh (1816–17),

veteran * Harmar Denny (1794–1852), U.S. Congressman * Harmar D. Denny Jr. (1886–1966), US Congressman * William J. Diehl (1845–1929), politician and Mayor of Pittsburgh (1899–1901) * Samuel Diescher (183–1915), engineer who designed the

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and the majority of such projects in Pennsylvania and the US, also designed many industrial projects * Harry Allison Estep (1884–1968), US Congressman *

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(1811–1903), industrialist, founder of

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and Ford City, Pennsylvania * Walter Forward (1786–1852),

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(1826–1864), songwriter * Andrew Fulton (1850–1925), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1884–87) * Edward D. Gazzam (1803–1878), doctor, politician, and abolitionist *

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(1911–1947), baseball great of the

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* Gus Greenlee (1893–1952), Major League Baseball Team Owner * George W. Guthrie (1848–1917), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1906–09) * John B. Guthrie (1807–1885), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1851–53) * Lizzie M. Guthrie (1838–1880), missionary * Moses Hampton (1803–1878), US Congressman * Alexander Hay (1806–1882), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1842–45) * General Alexander Hays (1819–1864) * William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1903–06) * Joseph Horne (1826–1891), founder of Pittsburgh department store Horne's; this chain closed in 1994 * Thomas Marshall Howe (1808–1877), US Congressman * Alfred E. Hunt (1855–1899), co-founder of the company that became

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* Thomas Irwin (1785–1870), US Congressman * William Wallace Irwin (1803–1856), US Congressman, Mayor of Pittsburgh (1840–41) * William Freame Johnston (1808–1872), Governor of Pennsylvania * William Kerr (1809–1853), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1846–47) * Samuel Kier (1813–1874), pioneer oil refiner * Charles H. Kline (1870–1933), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1926–33) *

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(1797–1873), US Congressman * F. T. F. Lovejoy (1854–1932), Industrialist, associate of

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* James Lowry Jr. (1820–1876), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1864–66) * William McClelland (1842–1892), US Congressman * Charles McClure (1804–1846), US Congressman * James McCord (1822–1894), millionaire owner of the oldest hattery west of the Allegheny Mountains and member of the

* Henry Sellers McKee (1843–1924), millionaire glass manufacturer, founder of Jeannette, Pennsylvania and member of the

* Robert McKnight (1820–1885), US Congressman * William McNair (1880–1948), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1934–36) * Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), founder of Mellon Bank * Alexander Pollock Moore (1867–1930), publisher of the '' Pittsburgh Leader'' and ambassador who was married to actress

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* James Kennedy Moorhead (1806–1884), US Congressman * Philip H. Morgan (1825–1900), lawyer, jurist, diplomat * General James S. Negley (1826–1901),

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and U.S. Congressman * John Neville (1731–1803),

veteran and tax collector during the

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* George Tener Oliver (1848–1919), publisher of the Pittsburgh ''Gazette Times'' and ''Chronicle Telegraph'', US Senator * Alfred L. Pearson (1838–1903),

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officer * Henry Kirke Porter (1840–1921), US Congressman * James Hay Reed (1853–1927), founding partner, Knox & Reed (now Reed Smith LLP), and member of the

* Robert M. Riddle (1812–1858), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1853–54) * John Buchanan Robinson (1846–1933), US Congressman * William Robinson Jr. (1785–1868), politician, businessman and militia general *

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(1879–1912), aviation pioneer * James Ross (1762–1847), US Senator * Archibald H. Rowand Jr. (1845–1913), Civil War Congressional

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Recipient *

(1861–1922), singer, actress * Ted Sadowski (1936–1993), Major League Baseball Player *

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(1932–2014), billionaire supporter of conservative causes, publisher of the ''

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'' * George Shiras Jr. (1832–1924), United States Supreme Court Associate Justice * Jacob B. Sweitzer (1821–1888), Pennsylvania lawyer and soldier. He commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division/5th Corps of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg * Jane Swisshelm (1815–1884),

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, and

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advocate *

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(1750–1820), Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer, US Congressman * Benjamin Thaw (1859–1933), Pittsburgh financier and member of the

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(1871–1947), murderer of architect

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, husband of Evelyn Nesbit * James Thomson (Pittsburgh mayor), James Thomson (1790–1876), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1841–42) * Stanley Turrentine (1934–2000), jazz musician * Ferdinand E. Volz (1823–1876), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1854–56) * Rachel Mellon Walton (1899–2006), member of the prominent Mellon family, centenarian, and prominent Pittsburgh Philanthropy, philanthropist * Henry A. Weaver (1820–1890), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1857–60) * Calvin Wells (1827–1909), industrialist, financier and member of the

* Jane McDowell Foster Wiley (1829–1903), wife of Stephen Foster and inspiration for his song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" * Thomas Williams (Pennsylvania politician), Thomas Williams (1806–1872),

congressman, prosecutor in the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. * The unidentified remains of 54 victims of the 1862 Allegheny Arsenal explosion.

Gallery

File:Angel of the Resurrection (side view), James B. Hogg Monument, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA - March 2016.JPG, ''Angel of the Resurrection'' on James B. Hogg monument (sculpted by Henry Kirke Brown, ca. 1850) File:Angel of the Resurrection (front view), James B. Hogg Monument, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA - March 2016.JPG, ''Angel of the Resurrection'' on James B. Hogg monument (sculpted by Henry Kirke Brown, ca. 1850) File:Faith, Hope and Charity by Carl Conrads on Moorhead Column, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA - March 2016.JPG, ''Faith, Hope and Charity'' on Moorhead Column (sculpted by Carl Conrads, 1877)

References

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Historic Landscape Survey of Allegheny County Records
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History

Notable interments

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See also

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