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=

=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=

=Science and medicine=

=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=

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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