Bloomfield Cemetery, designated a New Jersey Historic Site, is located at 383 Belleville Avenue, Bloomfield in

Essex County, New Jersey Essex County is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, and is one of the centrally located counties in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's second-most populous county,< ...

Grevestone of Charles Warren Eaton in Bloomfield Cemetery

Bloomfield Cemetery is one of New Jersey’s most significant rural cemeteries, and the only such landscape to be designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, one of America’s most important Victorian architects. Like nearby Mount Pleasant Cemetery (in Newark), it contains the graves of numerous individuals, families and social groups that were important to the history of Essex County and New Jersey as a whole. Parts of the landscape are recognizable as examples of picturesque cemetery design, and many 19th century markers evince characteristics of funerary art common during the Rural Cemetery Movement (c. 1840–1880).

Noteworthy interments

The Presbyterian Church burial ground in Bloomfield was a resting place for many veterans of the Revolutionary war, as might be expected for an Essex County town that had a significant 18th century population. Many names belong to the prominent families that helped to found Bloomfield, including members of the Dodd, Davis, Baldwin and Ward clans. Officers interred in the “Old Ground” included Captain Isaac Harrison (1757–1823) in Lots 22 and 23, Captain Jesse Baldwin (1754–1805) in Lot 51, Captain William Crane (1757–1832) in Lot 112, and Captain John Collins (1754–1806) in Lot 64. Others among the 32 marked burials were generally enlisted men. Moreover, the cemetery also has a large number of Civil War veterans from the town, many marked with elaborate symbols of valor and patriotism. More importantly, Bloomfield Cemetery contains the remains of a large number of political, cultural and civic leaders who contributed to the growth of the nation over a period of three centuries. These include *

Hank Borowy Henry Ludwig Borowy (May 12, 1916 – August 23, 2004) was an American professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1942 through 1951 for the New York Yankees (1942–45), Chicago Cubs (1945–48), Phi ...

(1916–2004), Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers. *

Randolph Bourne Randolph Silliman Bourne (; May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the young radicals living d ...

(1886–1918), a journalist and critic *

William Batchelder Bradbury William Batchelder Bradbury (October 6, 1816 – January 7, 1868) was a musician who composed the tune to " Jesus Loves Me" and many other popular hymns. Biography He was born on October 6, 1816, in York, Maine, where his father was the leader o ...

(1816–1868), composer of numerous hymns, including '' Just As I Am'' and ''

Jesus Loves Me "Jesus Loves Me" is a Christian hymn written by Anna Bartlett Warner (1827–1915). The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of an 1860 novel called ''Say and Seal'', written by her older sister Susan Warner (1819–1885), in whic ...

''. * Thomas Cadmus (1736–1821), businessman, Revolutionary War officer and community leader. * A. J. Davis (1803–1892), architect. *

Marguerite Dunlap Marguerite Dunlap (July 20, 1887 – January 7, 1959) was an American contralto opera singer. She is mainly remembered for her recordings for Victor Records from 1904 to 1928. She recorded a wide range of music from operas to Broadway musicals to ...

(1887–1959), opera singer *

Charles Warren Eaton Charles Warren Eaton (1857–1937) was an American artist best known for his tonalism, tonalist landscapes. He earned the nickname "the pine tree painter" for his numerous depictions of Eastern White Pine trees. Youth Eaton was born in Albany, ...

(1857–1937), artist *

Franklin W. Fort Franklin William Fort (March 30, 1880 – June 20, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey for three terms from 1925 to 1931. He was the son of Governor of New Jersey John Franklin ...

(1880–1937), represented

New Jersey's 9th congressional district New Jersey's 9th congressional district is an urban congressional district in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and is currently represented in Congress by United States Democratic Party, Democrat Nellie Pou following the death of Bill Pascrell in 2 ...

from 1925 to 1931. *

John Franklin Fort John Franklin Fort (March 20, 1852 – November 17, 1920) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 33rd governor of New Jersey, from 1908 to 1911. His uncle, George Franklin Fort, was a Democratic governor of New Jersey f ...

(1852–1920), Republican

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from 1908 to 1911. *

Charles Griffes Charles Tomlinson Griffes ( ; September 17, 1884 – April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and Vocal music, voice. His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German st ...

(1884–1920), composer.NNDB
/ref> * James N. Jarvie (1853–1929), businessman and philanthropist *

Roy Franklin Nichols Roy Franklin Nichols (March 3, 1896 – January 12, 1973) was an American historian who won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' The Disruption of American Democracy''. Biography Nichols was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Franklin Coriell a ...

(1896–1973), academic

References

External links

Official website
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