Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

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This article is about the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York; there is also a Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Massachusetts, for which see Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord. For the churchyard from Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, see Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, it posthumously honored Irving's request that it change its name to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a non-profit, non-sectarian burying ground of approximately 90 acres. It is contiguous with, but separate from, the church yard of the colonial-era church that was a setting for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". The Rockefeller estate, whose grounds abut Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, contain the private Rockefeller cemetery.

Several outdoor scenes from the 1970 feature film House of Dark Shadows were filmed at the cemetery's receiving vault.

Owen Jones monument, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

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John Dustin Archbold (1848-1916) - a director of the Standard Oil Company
Viola Allen (1869-1948), actress
Elizabeth Arden (1878-1966), businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire
Vincent Astor (1891-1959), philantrophist, member of the Astor family
Leo Baekeland (1863-1944) - the father of plastic: Bakelite is named for him. The murder of his grandson's wife Barbara by his great-grandson, Tony, is told in the book Savage Grace
Holbrook Blinn (1872-1928) - American actor
Henry E. Bliss (1870-1955) - devised the Bliss library classification system
Major Edward Bowes (1874-1946) - early radio star, he hosted Major Bowes' Amateur Hour
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) - Businessman and philanthropist. In 1918 the Carnegie Foundation established the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, now TIAA-CREF.
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940) - businessman, commissioned the Chrysler Building
Francis Pharcellus Church (1839-1906) - editor at the New York Sun who penned the editorial Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
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
Malcolm Webster Ford (1862-1902) - Champion Amateur Athlete and Journalist, Brother of Paul. 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
Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) - founder of the American Federation of Labor
Mark Hellinger (1903-1947) - primarily known as a journalist of New York theatre. The Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City is named for him. Produced The Naked City, a 1948 black-and-white film noir.
Harry Helmsley (1909-1997) - real estate mogul who built a company that became one of the biggest property holders in the United States
Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881-1934) - architect
Washington Irving (1783-1859) - author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip van Winkle
George Jones (1811-1891) - one of the founders of the New York Times
Ann Lohman (1812–1878) - aka Madame Restell
Darius Ogden Mills
Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) - Journalist and editor of the New York Tribune, Vice Presidential candidate with Benjamin Harrison in 1892, defeated by Grover Cleveland
William Rockefeller (1841-1922) - New York head of the Standard Oil Company
Carl Schurz (1820-1906) - Senator, secretary of the interior under Rutherford B. Hayes. Carl Schurz Park in New York City bears his name.
Joseph Urban (1872-1933) - architect and theatre set designer
Henry Villard (1835-1900) - railroad baron
Thomas J. Watson (1870-1955) - transformed a small manufacturer of adding machines into IBM
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.