Homewood Cemetery
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| Homewood Cemetery | |
|---|---|
 Homewood Cemetery chapel | |
 Interactive map of Homewood Cemetery | |
| Details | |
| Established | 1878 |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°26′28″N 79°54′32″W / 40.441°N 79.909°W |
| Type | Urban |
| Size | 650-acre (2.6 km2) |
| No. of graves | 77,000+ |
| Website | Official website |
| Find a Grave | Homewood Cemetery |
Homewood Cemetery is a historic urban cemetery[1] 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.[2]
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), industrialist[3]
- 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[4]
- 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 1977–91[5]
- 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 1844–45[6]
- 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
- Anna Woodward (1868–1935), portrait and landscape painter
- Nikolai Lopatnikoff (1907-1976), composer
- Mac Miller (1992- 2018), rapper, songwriter, producer
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 NBA[7]
- 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 Famer[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
- Peter Oresick (1955-2016), poet
Gallery
Motherless (1897), George Anderson Lawson, sculptor
Bronze relief on Walker monument (ca. 1918–1921), Max Bachmann, sculptor
