Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 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. Irving's grave overlooks the setting of his best known story. The cemetery is located in the community formerly known as North Tarrytown, New York, which changed its name in 1997 to Sleepy Hollow, New York. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, it posthumously honored Irving's request that it change its name to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

• Elizabeth Arden (1878-1966), business woman 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
• Henry E. Bliss (1870-1955) - devised the Bliss library classification system
• Major Edward Bowes (1874-1946) - early radio star, he hosted an "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
• 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.
• 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
• Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) - editor of the New York Tribune
• 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 (1882-1933) - 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.