Editing Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Westchester County, New York, US}}
{{for|the cemetery in Massachusetts|Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)}}
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'''Sleepy Hollow Cemetery''' in [[Sleepy Hollow, New York]], is the [[cemetery|final resting place]] of numerous famous figures, including [[Washington Irving]], whose 1820 short story "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]" is set in the adjacent burying ground of the [[Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow]]. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, the site posthumously honored Irving's request that it change its name to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2009.<ref name=NRHP2009/>

==History==
The cemetery is a non-profit, non-sectarian burying ground of about {{convert|90|acre|ha}}.<ref name=SH-Famous/> It is contiguous with, but separate from, the churchyard of the [[Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow|Old Dutch Church]], the colonial-era church that was a setting for "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]". The [[Rockefeller family]] estate ([[Kykuit]]), whose grounds abut Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, contains the private Rockefeller cemetery.

In 1894 under the leadership of [[Marcius D. Raymond]], publisher of the local ''Tarrytown Argus'' newspaper, funds were raised to build a granite monument honoring the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War buried in the cemetery.<ref name="WFR">{{cite news |title=Monument for Sleepy Hollow: Tarrytown to Honor Men Who Fought is the Revolution. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/07/01/archives/monument-for-sleepy-hollow-tarrytown-to-honor-men-who-fought-is-the.html |date=1 July 1894 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="PALO">{{cite news |title=Tarrytown Heroes Honored: Beautiful Shaft Dedicated in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. War Ships Boom Salutes, Thousands of Patriotic Americans Look On |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/10/20/archives/tarrytown-heroes-honored-beautiful-shaft-dedicated-in-sleepy-hollow.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=20 October 1894 |url-access=subscription |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Notable monuments==
[[File:Harry Helmsley mausoleum.jpg|thumb|Helmsley mausoleum]]
The Helmsley mausoleum, final resting place of [[Harry Helmsley|Harry]] and [[Leona Helmsley]], features a window showing the skyline of Manhattan in stained glass.  It was built by Mrs. Helmsley at a cost of $1.4 million in 2007.  She had her husband's body moved from its resting place in [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)]] to the new mausoleum.<ref name="dtm">{{cite news |last1=Trotta |first1=Daniel |title=New York's Helmsley to rest in $1.4 mln mausoleum |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-leona-helmsley/new-yorks-helmsley-to-rest-in-1-4-mln-mausoleum-idUSN2019070920070821 |access-date=30 January 2020 |website=[[Reuters]] |date=20 August 2007 |df=mdy}}</ref><ref name="ksl">{{cite news |last1=Lombardi |first1=Kate Stone |title=Why Leona Buried Harry Not Once, But Twice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/nyregion/county-lines-why-leona-buried-harry-not-once-but-twice.html |access-date=30 January 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 April 2006 |url-access=subscription |df=dmy}}</ref>

== Notable burials ==
[[File:Washington Irving's headstone Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.jpg|thumb|280px|Headstone of [[Washington Irving]]]]
[[File:Owen Jones Monument.jpeg|thumb|Owen Jones monument]]
[[File:Henry Villard Memorial 2010.JPG|thumb|right|Henry Villard Memorial by [[Karl Bitter]]]]

Numerous notable people are interred at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, including:<ref name=SH-Famous>{{cite web |title=Famous Interments |website=Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |url=http://sleepyhollowcemetery.org/about/famous-interments/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030150859/http://sleepyhollowcemetery.org:80/about/famous-interments/ |archive-date=2017-10-30 |df=dmy}}</ref>

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* [[Viola Allen]] (1867–1948), actress<ref name=SeattleTheatre>{{cite web |title=Viola Allen (Viola Emily Allen) |website=The Early History of Theatre in Seattle |url=http://www.seattletheatrehistory.org/collections/people/viola-allen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106063633/http://www.seattletheatrehistory.org/collections/people/viola-allen |archive-date=2018-01-06}}</ref>
* [[John Dustin Archbold]] (1848–1916), a director of the Standard Oil Company
* [[Elizabeth Arden]] (1878–1966), businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire<ref name="Morton2011">{{cite book |last=Morton |first=Camilla |title=A Year in High Heels |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gNA1AgAAQBAJ |year=2011 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-4447-1709-9}}</ref>
* [[Brooke Astor]] (1902–2007), philanthropist and socialite<ref name=abc>{{cite web |title=Take a Tour of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |first1=Meghan |last1=Keneally |first2=Olivia |last2=Smith |date=12 October 2015 |website=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tour-sleepy-hollow-cemetery/story?id=34418374 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105180435/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tour-sleepy-hollow-cemetery/story?id=34418374 |archive-date=2018-01-05 |df=dmy}}</ref>
* [[Vincent Astor]] (1891–1959), philanthropist; member of the [[Astor family]]
* [[Leo Baekeland]] (1863–1944), the father of plastic; namesake of [[Bakelite]] 
* [[Robert Livingston Beeckman]] (1866–1935), American politician and Governor of [[Rhode Island]]
* [[Marty Bergen (jockey)|Marty Bergen]] (1869–1906), American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey
* [[Holbrook Blinn]] (1872–1928), American actor
* [[Henry E. Bliss]] (1870–1955), devised the Bliss library classification system
* [[Artur Bodanzky]] (1877–1939), conductor at New York [[Metropolitan Opera]]
* [[Major Edward Bowes]] (1874–1946), early radio star, he hosted ''[[Major Bowes Amateur Hour|Major Bowes' Amateur Hour]]''
* [[Alice Brady]] (1892–1939), American actress
* [[Andrew Carnegie]] (1835–1919), businessman and philanthropist;<ref name=abc/> monument by Scots sculptor [[George Henry Paulin]]
* [[Louise Whitfield Carnegie]] (1857–1946), wife of Andrew Carnegie
* [[Walter Chrysler]] (1875–1940), businessman, commissioned the [[Chrysler Building]] and founded the [[Chrysler Corporation]]
* [[Francis Pharcellus Church]] (1839–1906), editor at ''[[The Sun (New York City)|The New York Sun]]'' who penned the editorial "[[Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus]]"
* [[William Conant Church]] (1836–1917), co-founder of [[Armed Forces Journal]] and the [[National Rifle Association of America]]
* [[Henry Sloane Coffin]] (1877–1954), teacher, minister, and author
* [[William Sloane Coffin, Sr.]] (1879–1933), businessman
* [[Kent Cooper]] (1880–1965), influential head of the [[Associated Press]] from 1925 to 1948
* [[Jasper Francis Cropsey]] (1823–1900), landscape painter and architect; designed the now-demolished [[New York City]] Sixth Avenue elevated railroad stations
* [[Floyd Crosby]] (1899–1985), [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-winning cinematographer, father of musician [[David Crosby]]
* [[Daniel Draper (meteorologist)|Daniel Draper]] (1841–1931), meteorologist
* [[Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge]] (1882–1973), heiress and patron of the arts
* [[William H. Douglas]] (1853–1944), U.S. Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]] from 1901 to 1905.
* [[Maud Earl]] (1864–1943), British-American painter of canines
* [[Parker Fennelly]] (1891–1988), American actor
* [[Malcolm Webster Ford]] (1862–1902), champion amateur athlete and journalist; brother of Paul, he took his own life after slaying his brother.
* [[Paul Leicester Ford]] (1865–1902), editor, bibliographer, novelist, and biographer; brother of [[Malcolm Webster Ford]] by whose hand he died
* [[Dixon Ryan Fox]] (1887–1945), educator and president of Union College, New York
* [[Herman Frasch]] (1851–1914), engineer, the ''Sulphur King''
* [[Samuel Gompers]] (1850–1924), founder of the [[American Federation of Labor]]
* [[Madison Grant]] (1865–1937), eugenicist and conservationist, author of ''[[The Passing of the Great Race]]''
* [[Moses Hicks Grinnell]] (1803–1877), congressman and Central Park Commissioner
* [[Walter S. Gurnee]] (1805–1903), mayor of Chicago
* [[Angelica Hamilton]] (1784–1857), the older of two daughters of [[Alexander Hamilton]]
* [[James Alexander Hamilton]] (1788–1878), third son of [[Alexander Hamilton]]
* [[Havell family|Robert Havell, Jr.]] (1793–1878), British-American engraver who printed and colored John James Audubon's monumental Birds of America series, also painter in the style of the [[Hudson River School]]
* [[Mark Hellinger]] (1903–1947), primarily known as a journalist of New York theatre; producer of ''[[The Naked City]]'', a 1948 [[film noir]] and namesake of the [[Mark Hellinger Theatre]] in New York City
* [[Harry Helmsley]] (1909–1997), real estate mogul who built a company that became one of the biggest property holders in the United States, and his wife [[Leona Helmsley]] (1920–2007), in a mausoleum with a stained-glass panorama of the Manhattan skyline. Leona famously bequeathed $12&nbsp;million to her dog.
* [[Eliza Hamilton Holly]] (1799–1859), younger daughter of [[Alexander Hamilton]]
* [[Raymond Mathewson Hood]] (1881–1934), architect<ref name=SH-Famous/>
* [[William Howard Hoople]] (1868–1922), a leader of the nineteenth-century American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, and one of the early leaders of the [[Church of the Nazarene]]
* [[Washington Irving]] (1783–1859), author of "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]" and "[[Rip Van Winkle]]"
* [[William Irving (New York)|William Irving]] (1766–1821), U.S. Congressman from [[New York (state)|New York]]
* [[George Jones (publisher)|George Jones]] (1811–1891), co-founder of ''[[The New York Times]]''
* [[Albert Lasker]] (1880–1952), pioneer of the American advertising industry, part owner of baseball team the Chicago Cubs, and wife [[Mary Lasker]] (1900–1994), an American health activist and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal
* [[Walter W. Law, Jr.]] (1871–1958), lawyer and politician, son of [[Briarcliff Manor]] founder [[Walter W. Law]]
* [[Lewis Edward Lawes]] (1883–1947), reformist warden of [[Sing Sing]] prison
* [[William E. Le Roy]] (1818–1888), United States Navy rear admiral
* [[Ann Lohman]] (1812–1878), {{aka}} [[Madame Restell]], 19th century purveyor of [[patent medicine]] and abortions
* [[Charles D. Millard]] (1873–1944), member of U.S. House of Representatives from [[New York (state)|New York]]
* [[Darius Ogden Mills]] (1825–1910), made a fortune during California's gold rush and expanded his wealth further through New York City real estate
* [[Belle Moskowitz]] (1877–1933), political advisor and social activist
* [[Robertson Kirtland Mygatt]] (1861–1919), noted American landscape painter, part of the Tonalist movement in Impressionism
* [[Nathaniel H. Odell|N. Holmes Odell]] (1828–1904), U.S. Representative from [[New York (state)|New York]]
* [[George Washington Olvany]] (1876–1952), New York General Sessions Court judge and leader of [[Tammany Hall]]
* [[William Orton (businessman)|William Orton]] (1826–1878), President of [[Western Union]]<ref name=Reid1886>{{cite book |last=Reid |first=James D. |title=The Telegraph in America and Morse Memorial |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YewOAAAAYAAJ |year=1886}}</ref>
* [[Peter A. Peyser]] (1921–2014), served as a Member of Congress from New York from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat
* [[Whitelaw Reid]] (1837–1912), journalist and editor of the ''[[New-York Tribune]]'', vice-presidential candidate with [[Benjamin Harrison]] in 1892, defeated by [[Adlai E. Stevenson I]]; son-in-law of D.O. Mills
* [[William Rockefeller]] (1841–1922), New York head of the [[Standard Oil]] Company<ref name=abc/>
* [[Edgar Evertson Saltus]] (1855–1921), American novelist
* [[Francis Saltus Saltus]] (1849–1889), American decadent poet & bohemian
* [[Carl Schurz]] (1820–1906), senator, secretary of the interior under President [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] and namesake of Carl Schurz Park in New York City
* [[Charles Sheeler]] (1883–1965), painter and photographer, and his wife [[Musya S. Sheeler|Musya]] (1908–1981), photographer, are buried together.
* [[William G. Stahlnecker]] (1849–1902), U.S. Representative from New York
* [[Egerton Swartwout]] (1870–1943), New York architect
* [[William Boyce Thompson]] (1869–1930), founder of [[Newmont Mining Corporation]] and financier
* [[Joseph Urban]] (1872–1933), architect and theatre set designer
* [[Henry Villard]] (1835–1900), railroad baron whose monument was created by [[Karl Bitter]].<ref name=Dennis1967>{{cite book |last=Dennis |first=James M. |title=Karl Bitter: Architectural Sculptor, 1867–1915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRlQAAAAMAAJ |year=1967 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |location=Madison |pages=94–96 |isbn=978-0-5980-9236-6}}</ref>
* [[Oswald Garrison Villard]] (1872–1949), son of [[Henry Villard]] and grandson of [[William Lloyd Garrison]]; one of the founders of the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]]
* [[William A. Walker]] (1805–1861), U.S. Representative from New York
* [[Paul Warburg]] (1868–1932), German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S. Federal Reserve system.
* [[Worcester Reed Warner]] (1846–1929), mechanical engineer and manufacturer of telescopes
* [[Thomas J. Watson]] (1874–1956), transformed a small manufacturer of [[adding machine]]s into [[IBM]]
* [[Theodore Whitmarsh]] (1869–1936), administrator of the [[United States Food Administration]], director of the [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York]]
* [[Hans Zinsser]] (1878–1940), microbiologist and a prolific author

==In popular culture==
Several outdoor scenes from the feature film ''[[House of Dark Shadows]]'' (1970) were filmed at the cemetery's receiving vault. The cemetery also served as a location for the [[Ramones]]' 1989 music video "[[Pet Sematary (song)|Pet Sematary]]".<ref name=Ramone>{{cite book |title=Punk Rock Blitzkrieg |author-link=Marky Ramone |last=Ramone |first=Marky |publisher=John Blake Publishing |year=2015 |page=277 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RXguCgAAQBAJ |isbn=978-1-78418-830-6}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York]]

==References==
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===Bibliography===
* {{cite book |author-link=Marcius D. Raymond |last=Raymond |first=Marcius Denison |url=https://archive.org/details/souvenirofrevolu00tarr |page=[https://archive.org/details/souvenirofrevolu00tarr/page/171 171] |title=Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N.Y. |publisher=Rogers & Sherwood |date=October 19, 1894 }}
* {{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/10/14/106876314.pdf |title=Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Monument |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 14, 1894 }}

== External links ==
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* {{Official website |http://www.sleepyhollowcemetery.org }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.visitsleepyhollow.com/things-to-do/sleepy-hollow-cemetery-tours |title=Sleepy Hollow Cemetery events |website=Visit Sleepy Hollow}}
* {{GNIS|type=retired|965402}}
* {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
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