Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)
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Notable interments
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- 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, and writer
- Samuel Colgate (1822–1897), founder of Colgate-Palmolive
- Lee Crystal (1956-2013), drummer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Member
- 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, and 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), 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]
References
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- ↑ John Lauris Blake, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.
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- ↑ William Halsted Wiley, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.
- ↑ [1] CWGC Cemetery Report, detail obtained from casualty record.
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External links
- Rosedale Cemetery (Official)
- Rosedale Cemetery Walking Guide of Notable Interments
- Rosedale Cemetery at Find a Grave
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