|
Copyright @ 2010 Carpet Cleaning Frederick MD | Carpet Cleaning Frederick MD Carpet Cleaners
There are a number of historically prominent figures buried at Oakwood. At least fourteen members of the United States House of Representatives (all from New York) are buried there, including E. Harold Cluett,[40] John Paine Cushman,[41] John Dean Dickinson,[42] William Henry Draper,[43] Edward Whitford Greenman,[44] Job Pierson,[45] Russell Sage,[46] Dean Park Taylor,[47] John Richardson Thurman,[48] George Tibbits,[49] Martin Ingham Townsend,[50] Henry Vail,[51] Joseph Mabbett Warren (also the mayor of Troy),[33] and Eliphalet Wickes.[52] The cemetery also has its fair share of military men, such as J. B. Carr, a general during the Civil War;[53] John Augustus Griswold, a promoter of ironclad ships and manufacturer of iron panels for the USS Monitor;[11] George Henry Thomas, a general during the Civil War, nicknamed the "Rock of Chickamauga";[53] and John E. Wool, commander-in-chief of the American forces during the Mexican-American War.[53]
As previously mentioned, the founders of Troy and Lansingburgh, Jacob D. Vanderheyden and Abraham Jacob Lansing respectively, were both reintered at Oakwood, having been moved there from downtown in 1869.[5] Some of education's finest teachers are also buried there, including Amos Eaton, a well-known botanist and geologist and founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;[54] Mary Warren, founder of America's first educational institution for "problem children";[11] and Emma Willard, pioneer of women's education and founder of the Troy Female Seminary, which was later renamed Emma Willard School in her honor.[11] Finally, Oakwood is also the final resting place of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of America's national symbol, Uncle Sam.[55]
|
