Princeton Cemetery is located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church. In his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey, John F. Hageman refers to the cemetery as "The Westminster Abbey of the United States."
Notable burials
Archibald Alexander (1772–1851), Presbyterian theologian James Waddel Alexander (1804–1859), Presbyterian theologian and eldest son of Archibald Alexander Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), Presbyterian biblical scholar and third son of Archibald Alexander William Cowper Alexander (1806–1874), politician, businessman and second son of Archibald Alexander Frank Anscombe (1918–2001), statistician, known for Anscombe's quartet John N. Bahcall (1934–2005), astrophysicist George Wildman Ball (1909–1994), diplomat George Dashiell Bayard (1835–1862), Civil War general Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), bookshop owner Harold H. Bender (1882–1951), philologist John Berrien (1711–1772), New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of Rockingham, Washington's headquarters William G. Bowen, (1933–2016), president of Princeton University Aaron Burr (1756–1836), controversial Revolutionary War hero and politician, third vice president of the United States, killer of Alexander Hamilton, adventurer who was eventually tried and acquitted of treason Aaron Burr Sr. (1716–1757), Presbyterian minister, second president of Princeton University and father of Aaron Burr Brendan Byrne (1924–2018), 47th governor of New Jersey Alonzo Church (1903–1995), mathematician Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the United States Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (1864–1947), wife of Grover Cleveland and First Lady of the United States Ruth Cleveland (1891–1904), first child of Grover and Frances Cleveland and supposed name sake of the Baby Ruth candy bar Edward Samuel Corwin (1878–1963), author and professor of law Samuel Davies (1723–1761), president of Princeton University Erling Dorf (1905–1984), renowned paleobotanist, professor of Geology at Princeton University Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), president of Princeton University and Calvinist theologian Richard Stockton Field (1803–1870), US senator and New Jersey Attorney General John Huston Finley (1863–1940), author, president of Knox College and University of the State of New York Donald B. Fullerton (1892–1985), missionary and founder of the Princeton Christian Fellowship Harold Furth (1930–2002), physicist George Horace Gallup (1901–1984), pollster William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), naval architect Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), mathematician Michael Graves (1934–2015), architect and product designer Peter Charles Harris (1865–1951), adjutant general of the U.S. Army Charles Hodge (1797–1878), Calvinist theologian David Hunter (1802–1886), Civil War General Louis "Lajos" Jambor (1884–1954), Hungarian-born American painter, illustrator and muralist. William Hallock Johnson (1865–1963), president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania Joseph Kargé (1823–1892), Civil War General and Princeton University professor George Frost Kennan (1904–2005), diplomat Alan Krueger (1960–2019), economist Frank Lewin (1925–2008), composer David Kellogg Lewis (1941–2001), philosopher Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837–1892), diplomat John Maclean Jr. (1800–1886), president of Princeton University Robert McNutt McElroy (1872–1959), historian and professor of history at Princeton University, Oxford University, and Cambridge University José Menendez (1944–1989) and Mary Louise (Kitty) Menendez (1941–1989), murder victims of their sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez John O'Hara (1905–1970), author of Appointment in Samarra, BUtterfield 8, and many short stories Moses Taylor Pyne (1855–1921), financier, philanthropist and owner of Drumthwacket Estate Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828–1919), Special US Minister to Greece, US congressman from Virginia, Confederate congressman and general, journalist, New York Supreme Court justice William Drew Robeson (1844–1918), father of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), astronomer William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928), first US Olympic Committee president Howard Alexander Smith (1880–1966), US senator from New Jersey John P. Stockton (1826–1900), New Jersey attorney general and U.S. senator Richard Stockton (1764–1828), U.S. senator from New JerseyRichard Stockton (1764–1828) , Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 20, 2007. Robert Field Stockton (1795–1866), naval officer Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), astronomer John Renshaw Thomson (1800–1862), U.S. senator from New Jersey William G. Thompson (1840–1904), mayor of Detroit Augustus Trowbridge (1870–1934), professor and dean at Princeton University John W. Tukey (1915–2000), statistician Paul Tulane (1801–1887), Tulane University benefactor John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921), Presbyterian theologian Andrew Fleming West (1853–1943), classicist, Giger Professor of Latin and first dean of the Princeton University Graduate School Canvass White (1790–1834), engineer and inventor Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Witherspoon (1723–1794), signer of the Declaration of Independence William Willet (1867–1921), portraitist and stained glass designer
Gallery
See also List of burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States
References
External links
Nassau Presbyterian Church: Princeton Cemetery Princeton Online: Princeton Cemetery A photographic tour through Princeton Cemetery