Riverside_Cemetery_(Rochester,_New_York) Knowpia

Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery
Details
Established	1892
Location	Rochester, New York
Country	US
Coordinates	43°13′05″N 77°37′33″W / 43.21806°N 77.62583°W
Type	public
Owned by	City of Rochester
Size	123 acres (498,000 m²)
No. of graves	250,000
Website	Riverside and Mount Hope Cemeteries
Find a Grave	Riverside Cemetery
The Political Graveyard	Riverside Cemetery

Riverside Cemetery in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States, was founded in 1892 to serve the growing population in the northern part of the city. Situated on 123 acres (498,000 m²) (0.2 square miles) of land between Lake Avenue and the Genesee River, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 250,000 people. Since 1942, the cemetery has been owned and operated by the City of Rochester.^[1]^[2]

Notable burials edit

Giuseppe Aiello, organized crime leader
William Joseph Beldue, inventor of the eyelash curler
Virgil Warden Finlay, renowned illustrator of science-fiction and fantasy during the Pulp Era
Kate Gleason, engineer and businesswoman
Martha Matilda Harper, businesswoman, inventor
Harold C. Mitchell, lawyer and New York State Assemblyman
Lee Morse, jazz musician and singer from Oregon^[3]
Allen J. Oliver, New York State Senator^[4]
George F. Rogers, New York State Senator^[4]
Blanche Scott, woman aviator
Robert Wilcox, actor

Riverside's Section O is the resting place of American military veterans of the American Civil War and World War I.^[5]

References edit

^ Riverside and Mount Hope Cemeteries
^ Riverside Cemetery
^ Spevak, Jeff (2011-04-29). "Lee Morse: Rochester's forgotten star". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester Arts Blog. Archived from the original on 2012-05-12. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
^ ^a ^b The Political Graveyard
^ Veteran burials in Section O of Riverside Cemetery