Editing Henry Bergh (section)

==Death and legacy==
[[File:Henry Bergh mausoleum (33819).jpg|thumb|Bergh's mausoleum at [[Green-Wood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn, New York City]]]]
Bergh died on March 12, 1888, in New York City. Poet [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] eulogized Bergh as "among the noblest in the land, Though he may count himself the least,That man I honour and revere, Who without favour,without fear,In the great city dares to stand The friend to every friendless beast."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Longfellow |first1=Henry Wadsworth |author-link=Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |url=http://www.bartleby.com/356/191.html |quote=Thus spake the Poet with a sigh;/ Then added, with impassioned cry,/ As one who feels the words he speaks,/The color flushing in his cheeks,/ The fervor burning in his eye:/ "Among the noblest in the land,/ Though he may count himself the least,/ That man I honor and revere/ Who without favor, without fear,/ In the great city dares to stand/ The friend of every friendless beast... |title=The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |chapter=[[Tales of a Wayside Inn]], Part Second: Interlude |editor-last=Scudder |editor-first=Horace Elisha |editor-link=Horace Scudder |location=New York |publisher=Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. |year=1893 |access-date=2015-07-12 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Henry Bergh: 'The great meddler' |journal=UU World Magazine |date=2011-08-01 |last=Millspaugh |first=John Gibb |issue=Summer 2011 |url=http://www.uuworld.org/articles/bergh-great-meddler |access-date=2015-07-12 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.nyhistory.org/henry-bergh-angel-in-top-hat-or-the-great-meddler/ |title=Henry Bergh: Angel in Top Hat or the Great Meddler? |last=O'Reilly |first=Edward |work=From the Stacks |publisher=[[New-York Historical Society]] Museum and Library |date=2012-03-21 |access-date=2015-07-12 }}</ref> Henry Bergh is interred at [[Green-Wood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Death Of Henry Bergh. Helpless Animals Losing Their Protector. Career Of The Man Whose Monument Is The Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E6D8173AE033A25750C1A9659C94699FD7CF |quote=The death of Henry Bergh, who has been so long and universally known as the defender of abused animals, occurred yesterday morning at about 5 o'clock at his residence, 429 Fifth Avenue. For several months, in fact since the death of his wife in June last, Mr. Bergh has been gradually failing. He suffered from chronic bronchitis and enlargement of the heart, and although he was out last Tuesday for a ... |work=[[New York Times]] |date= March 13, 1888 |access-date=2010-03-30 }}</ref>

A 1982 children's book about Bergh, ''The Man Who Loved Animals'', was written by [[Syd Hoff]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Loved-Animals/dp/B016SDE4C2|access-date=2020-12-23|via=www.amazon.com|title=The Man Who Loved Animals|date=January 1982}}</ref>

In the spring of 2006 at [[Green-Wood Cemetery]], while making preparations to honor Bergh, the ASPCA discovered that his wife was also in that mausoleum. On May 6, substantive ceremonies were held before a large audience which was allowed to bring their pets into the cemetery – including dogs, for the first time in over a century. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mausoleums.com/portfolio/bergh-mausoleum/|title=Bergh Mausoleum {{!}} Classic Mausoleum Images and Information|website=Mausoleums.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-21}}</ref> The NYPD Emerald Society bagpipers and ASPCA HLE Agents were there also. After a walk to Bergh's tomb, the bas-relief statue was revealed that now rests in front. At the same time as these ceremonies, in the cemetery's large chapel building an exhibit was opened celebrating the history of the ASPCA and Henry Bergh. {{Citation needed | reason = scenarios described in detail, but no source |date=October 2018}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pisano |first=Nicholas |date=2006 |title=The Arch |url=https://www.green-wood.com/wp-content/uploads/apdf/gwhf_the_arch_fall2006.pdf |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=The Greenwood Historic Fund}}</ref>