Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
It is a nonsectarian, wooded hillside park located at 4734 Butler Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood and bounded by the Bloomfield, Garfield, and Stanton Heights areas. It is sited on the north-facing slope of hills above the Allegheny River.
In 1973 the cemetery's Butler Street Gatehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1980 the entire cemetery was listed on the National Register.
Incorporated in 1844, the Allegheny Cemetery is the sixth oldest rural cemetery in America and has expanded over the years to now encompass 300 acres (120 ha).
Allegheny Cemetery memorializes more than 124,000 people. Some of the oldest graves are of soldiers who fought in the French and Indian War, which were moved here from their original burial site at Pittsburgh's Trinity Cathedral downtown. Many notables from the city of Pittsburgh are buried here. The cemetery was amongst those profiled in the PBS documentary A Cemetery Special.
In 1834 three members of the Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, Dr. J. Ramsey Speer, Stephen Colwell and John Chislett, Sr. tried to establish a rural cemetery near Pittsburgh. Dr. Speer later visited several famous rural cemeteries, Mount Auburn Cemetery on Boston, Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, and Green-Wood Cemetery in New York. In 1842 the 100 acre farm of Colonel Bayard was selected for the site. An Act of Incorporation passed the Pennsylvania Legislature and was signed by Gov. David R. Porter on April 24, 1844.
"Mt. Barney" was selected as the site of a memorial to naval heroes in 1848 and Commodore Joshua Barney and Lt. James L. Parker were reinterred there. Another memorial was erected on Memorial Day, 1937 to the memory of over 7,000 servicemen buried in the cemetery.
Marcus E. Baldwin (1863–1929), Major League Baseball Player
Joseph Baker (1806–1862), mayor of Pittsburgh (1850–1851)
Joshua Barney (1759–1818), Commodore in the United States Navy and American Revolutionary War veteran
Richard Biddle (1796–1847), US Congressman
Lem Billings (1916-1981), friend and campaigner for John F. Kennedy
Marcus Peter Blakemore (1889–1959), founder Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Francis B. Brewer (1820–1892), US Congressman
Don Brockett (1930–1995), motion picture and television actor, "Chef Brockett" on the PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
James W. Brown (1844–1909), US Congressman
Eben Byers (1880–1932), wealthy American industrialist and socialite noted for his gruesome death caused by consumption of the radioactive patent medicine Radithor.
John Caldwell, Jr. (1827–1902), George Westinghouse partner and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
Louis Semple Clarke (1867–1957), automotive pioneer, founder of the Autocar Company and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
James Wallace Conant (1862–1906), manager of the Schenley Park Casino and Duquesne Gardens and founder of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League.
Beano Cook (1931–2012), college football commentator
John Dalzell (1845–1927), US Congressman
Cornelius Darragh (1809–1854), US Congressman
Ebenezer Denny (1761–1822), first mayor of Pittsburgh, American Revolutionary War veteran
Harmar Denny (1794–1852), U.S. Congressman
Harmar D. Denny, Jr. (1886–1966), US Congressman
William J. Diehl (1845–1929), Pittsburgh Mayor
Harry Allison Estep (1884–1968), US Congressman
John Baptiste Ford (1811–1903), industrialist, founder of PPG Industries and Ford City, Pennsylvania
Walter Forward (1786–1852), United States Secretary of the Treasury
Stephen Foster (1826–1864), songwriter
Josh Gibson (1911–1947), baseball great of the Negro Leagues
Gus Greenlee (1893–1952), Major League Baseball Team Owner
Moses Hampton (1803–1878), US Congressman
General Alexander Hays (1819–1864)
William B. Hays (1844–1912), Pittsburgh mayor
Joseph Horne (1826–1891), founder of Pittsburgh department store Horne's the chain of stores closed in 1994
Thomas Marshall Howe (1808–1877), US Congressman
Alfred E. Hunt (1855–1899), co-founder of the company that became Alcoa
Thomas Irwin (1785–1870), US Congressman
William Wallace Irwin (1803–1856), US Congressman, Pittsburgh Mayor
William Freame Johnston (1808–1872), Governor of Pennsylvania
Samuel Kier (1813–1874), pioneer oil refiner
Andrew W. Loomis (1797–1873), US Congressman
F. T. F. Lovejoy (1854–1932), Industrialist, associate of Andrew Carnegie
William McClelland (1842–1892), US Congressman
Charles McClure (1804–1846), US Congressman
James McCord (1822–1894), millionaire owner of the oldest hattery west of the Allegheny Mountains and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
Henry Sellers McKee (1843–1924), millionaire glass manufacturer, founder of Jeannette, Pennsylvania and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
Robert McKnight (1820–1885), US Congressman
William McNair (1880–1948), Pittsburgh mayor
Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), founder of Mellon Bank
Alexander Pollock Moore (1867–1930), publisher of the Pittsburgh Leader and ambassador who was married to actress Lillian Russell
James Kennedy Moorhead (1806–1884), US Congressman
General James S. Negley (1826–1901), Civil War general and U.S. Congressman
General John Neville (1731–1803), American Revolutionary War veteran
George Tener Oliver (1848–1919), publisher of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and Chronicle Telegraph, US Senator
Alfred L. Pearson (1838–1903), United States Army officer
Henry Kirke Porter (1840–1921), US Congressman
James Hay Reed (1853–1927), founding partner, Knox & Reed (now Reed Smith LLP), and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
John Buchanan Robinson (1846–1933), US Congressman
Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879–1912), aviation pioneer
James Ross (1762–1847), US Senator
Archibald H. Rowand, Jr. (1845–1913), Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Lillian Russell (1861–1922), singer, actress
Ted Sadowski (1936–1993), Major League Baseball Player
Richard Mellon Scaife (1932–2014), billionaire supporter of conservative causes, publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
George Shiras, Jr. (1832–1924), United States Supreme Court Associate Justice
Jane Swisshelm (1815–1884), journalist, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate
Adamson Tannehill (1750–1820), US Congressman
Benjamin Thaw (1859–1933), Pittsburgh financier and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
Harry Kendall Thaw, (1871–1947), murderer of architect Stanford White, husband of Evelyn Nesbit
Stanley Turrentine (1934–2000), jazz musician
Calvin Wells (1827–1909), industrialist, financier and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
Thomas Williams (1806–1872), Civil War congressman, prosecutor in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
The unidentified remains of 54 victims of the 1862 Allegheny Arsenal explosion.