Homewood Cemetery
{{Short description|Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US}}{{Infobox cemetery|name=Homewood Cemetery|established=1878|type=Urban|image=Chapel, Homewood Cemetery, 2022-06-10, 01.jpg|coordinates={{Coord|40.441|N|79.909|W|type:landmark_region:US-PA|display=,inline,title}}|location=1599 South Dallas Ave.,
Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|country=United States|findagraveid=45139|website=[http://www.thehomewoodcemetery.com Official website]|graves=77,000+|size={{convert|650|acre|km2|adj=on}}|caption=Homewood Cemetery chapel}}
Homewood Cemetery is a historic urban cemetery{{cite book |last1=Linden |first1=Blanche M.G. |title=Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery |date=2007 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |location=Amherst|isbn=978-1-55849-571-5 |page=295 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AM-x8sYjQXcC&q=rural+cemetery |accessdate=15 September 2019}} in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in Point Breeze and is bordered by Frick Park, the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and the smaller Smithfield Cemetery.{{Cite web |url=http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cp/maps/point_breeze.html |title=Point Breeze Map |access-date=2012-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103030858/http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cp/maps/point_breeze.html |archive-date=2012-11-03 |url-status=dead }}
File:Schoonmaker Monument, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA - March 2016.JPG monument (Jakob Otto Schweizer, sculptor)]]
It was established in 1878 from William Wilkins' {{convert|650|acre|km2|adj=on}} estate, Homewood.Toker, Franklin. Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986, p. 221.
Notable interments
=Business leaders=
- Edward Jay Allen (1830–1915), businessman
- Michael Late Benedum (1869–1959), businessman, co-founder of Benedum-Trees Oil Company
- David Lytle Clark (1864–1939), businessman, creator of Clark Bar and Zagnut
- Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), industrialist, founder of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
- Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919), founder of H. J. Heinz Company
- H. J. "Jack" Heinz II (1908–1987), industrialistSkrabec, Quentin R. H.J. Heinz: A Biography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2009, p. 205.
- Henry Hillman (1918–2016), businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist
- William Larimer Mellon Sr. (1868–1949), founder of Gulf Oil
- Willard Rockwell (1888–1978), founder of Rockwell International
- A.E. Succop (Augustus Ernest) (1847–1931), President Germania Savings Bank and German Fire Insurance Company
- Ernest T. Weir (1875–1957), founder of Weirton Steel and National Steel Corporation"Ernest T. Weir Dies At 81." Wall Street Journal. June 27, 1957.
- William Valentin Hartmann (1871–1947), VP of Gulf Oil
=Political leaders=
- Edward V. Babcock (1864–1948), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1918–22
- Matthew A. Dunn (1886–1942), member of the United States House of Representatives 1933–41
- William Flinn (1851–1924), politician
- Henry P. Ford (1837–1905), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1896–99
- H. John Heinz III (1938–1991), United States Senator 1977–91Dodge, Andrew R. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774–2005. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005, p. 1232.
- William McCallin (1842–1904), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1887–90
- John K. Tener (1863–1946), Governor of Pennsylvania 1911–1915
- Dick Thornburgh (1932-2020), United States attorney general 1988-1991
- William Wilkins (1779–1865), United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1831–34, Secretary of War 1844–45Alzo, Lisa A. Pittsburgh's Immigrants. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2006, p. 48.
- George Wilson (1816–1902), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1860–62
=Military leaders=
- John Wilkins Jr. (1761–1816), Quartermaster General of the United States Army 1796–1802
=Artists and musicians=
- Erroll Garner (1921–1977), jazz pianist and composer
- Walt Harper (1926–2006), jazz pianist
- Teenie Harris (1908–1998), photographer
- George Hetzel (1826–1899), portrait and landscape painter
- Churchill Kohlman (1906–1983), songwriter
- Mac Miller (1992–2018), rapper, singer, record producer
- Anna Woodward (1868–1935), portrait and landscape painter
=Science and medicine=
- Mary Bidwell Breed (1870–1949), chemist and first female dean of Indiana University
- Jared Cohon (1947–2024), engineer and president of Carnegie Mellon University
- Bertha Lamme Feicht (1869–1943), first female engineering graduate from Ohio State University and first female engineer to be employed by Westinghouse
- Bernard Fisher (1918–2019), pioneer of breast cancer treatment
- Childs Frick (1883–1965), paleontologist
- John Bell Hatcher (1861–1904), paleontologist
- Edwin Ruud (1854–1932), mechanical engineer and inventor
- Alvin P. Shapiro (1920–1998), physician and educator
=Sports figures=
- Bill Bishop (1869–1932), baseball player
- Chuck Cooper (1926–1984), first African-American to be drafted into the NBAJackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen; and Markoe, Arnie. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Detroit: Gale, 1998, p. 180.
- Earl Francis (1935–2002), baseball player
- Bob Priddy (1939-2023), baseball player
- Jock Sutherland (1889–1948), football coach
- Pie Traynor (1899–1972), baseball Hall of FamerForr, James and Proctor, David. Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2010, p. 8.
=Others=
- Edward Manning Bigelow (1850–1916), city planner
- Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984), philanthropist
- Rust Heinz (1914–1939), auto and boat designer
- Elsie Hillman (1925–2015), philanthropist and former Republican National Committeewoman
- John Barrett Kerfoot (1816–1881), first Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh
- Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965), civil rights activist
- Perle Mesta (1889–1975), Ambassador to Luxembourg 1949–53, and a noted Washington, D.C. socialite during Eisenhower and Nixon eras
- Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier
- Stephen Varzaly (1890–1957), priest, journalist, and cultural activist
- Tom Boggs (1905–1952), poet
Gallery
File:Motherless Monument, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA - March 2016.JPG|Motherless (1897), George Anderson Lawson, sculptor
File:Walker Monument, Bronze Relief by Max Bachmann, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA - March 2016.JPG|Bronze relief on Walker monument (ca. 1918–1921), Max Bachmann, sculptor
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.thehomewoodcemetery.org Main Homewood Cemetery website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523214455/http://thehomewoodcemetery.org/ |date=2022-05-23 }}
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Category:Cemeteries established in the 1870s
Category:Cemeteries in Pittsburgh
Category:1878 establishments in Pennsylvania
Category:Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks