Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

The cemetery Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow ( upstate New York) was Washington Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Canyon ( Original title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ) is known. The cemetery has a size of about 36 hectares and is located near the traditional ' Old Dutch Burying Ground. " It was founded in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery and renamed in honor of Irving after his death in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

The cemetery is the final resting place among other things, the following personalities:

  • Elizabeth Arden (1878-1966), founder of the well-known cosmetics company
  • Leo Baekeland (1863-1944), inventor of Bakelite
  • Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), founder of the Carnegie Steel Company and philanthropist
  • Walter Chrysler (1875-1940), founder of the automotive group of the same name
  • Washington Irving (1783-1859), author of " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
  • George Jones (1811-1891), founder of the New York Times
  • Albert Lasker (1880-1952) was an American advertising executive and philanthropist
  • William Rockefeller (1841-1922), brother of John Rockefeller and co-founder of the Standard Oil Company
  • Carl Schurz (1820-1906), revolutionary and Minister of the Interior in March of the United States
  • Francis Pharcellus Church (1839-1906), author of the famous article "Is there a Santa Claus? "
  • Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM from 1949-1956
  • Harry Helmsley (1909-1997), real estate tycoon
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