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Woodlawn Cemetery (Canandaigua, New York)

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NRHP Reference #
  
14000914

Phone
  
+1 585-394-0840

Area
  
26 ha

Added to NRHP
  
12 November 2014

Woodlawn Cemetery (Canandaigua, New York)

Location
  
130 N. Pearl St, Canandaigua, New York

Address
  
130 N Pearl St, Canandaigua, NY 14424, USA

Burials
  
Myron H. Clark, Frederick Ferris Thompson

Similar
  
West Avenue Cemetery, East Bloomfield Cemetery, Johnson Kennedy Funeral H, Ontario County Historical, Irondequoit Post

Profiles

Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, United States.

In June 1884, officers and trustees were elected and the original 28 acres (110,000 m2) of land were purchased from Lucius Wilcox. Over the years, people left adjacent land to the cemetery which now totals 64.4 acres (261,000 m2) in the city and 7 acres (28,000 m2) in the town of Canandaigua and serves as a burial site for more than 13,000 people.

The Woodlawn Cemetery chapel was dedicated in 1910. In 2014 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable burials

  • Myron Holley Clark (1806-1892) - Governor of New York
  • Francis Granger (1792-1868) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Postmaster General; candidate for U.S. Vice President (1836)
  • Gideon Granger (1767-1822) - New York State Senator and U.S. Postmaster General
  • Elbridge Gerry Lapham (1814-1890) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Senate
  • John Raines (1840-1909) - New York State Senator and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Frederick Ferris Thompson (1836-1899) - notable banker, co-founder of predecessor banks to Citibank and JP Morgan Chase
  • Mary Clark Thompson (1835-1923) - philanthropist
  • Stanton Davis Kirkham (1868-1944) - author
  • Walter Knapp - the first licensed Navy helicopter pilot.
  • Artists Lydia Atwater, Frank Hutchens and Charles Dickens Wader
  • Edward Francis Winslow, a Civil War general, who died at Sonnenberg while visiting Mary Clark Thompson and her banker husband, Frederick Ferris Thompson
  • References

    Woodlawn Cemetery (Canandaigua, New York) Wikipedia