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Kensico Cemetery is a cemetery in Valhalla, Westchester Co., New York, founded in 1889, when many New York City cemeteries were becoming full and rural cemeteries were founded near the railroads which served the city. Initially 250 acres (1 km˛), it was expanded to 600 acres (2.4 km˛) in 1905, and reduced to 461 acres (1.9 km˛) in 1912 when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery .Many entertainment figures of the early nineteenth century were buried here. The cemetery has a special section for members of the National Vaudeville Association, some of whom died in abject poverty.
British spy Major John André was captured in 1780 in a house located on what is now cemetery ground.
Notable burials include:
- Ed Barrow , (1868-1953), hall of fame baseball manager and executive
- Henri Bendel , (1868-1936), fashion designer, famed for the Bendel bonnet
- Paul Bonwit , (1862-1939) founder of Bonwit Teller department store
- Evangeline Booth , (1865-1950), evangelist, daughter of Salvation Army founder
- Billie Burke, (1885-1970), actress, played "Glinda the Good" in The Wizard of Oz
- Paddy Chayefsky, (1923-1981), screenwriter, winner of three Academy Awards
- Harry Cooper, (1904-2000), hall of fame golfer
- Tommy Dorsey, (1905-1956), swing-era trombonist
- Sherman Edwards, (1919-1981), Tony Award winning composer and songwriter
- Geraldine Farrar, (1882-1967), opera singer
- Harry Frazee, (1880-1929), owner of the Boston Red SoxThe Boston Red Sox is a Major League Baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts. They are in the American League East Division. Founded 1893, as the Toledo, Ohio franchise in the minor Western League. Moved to Boston when that league became the Americ who sold Babe RuthGeorge Herman Ruth ( February 6, 1895 August 16, 1948), better known as Babe Ruth and also commonly known by the nicknames The Bambino and The Sultan of Swat was an American baseball player and United States national icon. He was one of the first five pla
- Fred Friendly, (1915-1998), broadcaster
- Lou GehrigLudwig Heinrich Gehrig americanized Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig ( June 19, 1903 June 2, 1941) was a baseball player and member of the United States Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born on Manhattan island in New York, New York, the son of German immigrants., (1903-1941), baseball player who gave his name to Lou Gehrig's disease
- Al Hodge , (1912-1979), actor
- Danny KayeDanny Kaye ( January 18, 1911 March 3, 1987) was an American actor and comedian. Born in Brooklyn as red-haired David Daniel Kaminski Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians by starring in films like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty White Chris, (1913-1987), comedic actor
- Hebert Henry Lehman , (1878-1963), politician
- Dorothy LoudonDorothy Loudon ( September 17, 1933 November 15, 2003) was a Broadway actress noted for her comedy and "belting" singing voice, which she used to deliver a wide range of musical comedy and Roaring Twenties songs. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and, (1933-2003), Tony AwardWhat is popularly called the Tony Award but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. Awarded by a panel of approximately 700 judges from various areas of the industr winning actress
- Anne Nichols , (1891-1966), playwright and screenwriter
- David Graham Phillips, (1867-1911), jounalist and novelist
- Harriet Quimby, (1875-1912), pioneer aviatrix
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, (1873-1943), composer
- Ayn Rand, (1905-1982), author
- David Sarnoff, (1891-1971), broadcaster and head of RCA
- Fay Templeton , (1865-1939), Broadway star
- John North Willys , (1873-1935), automobile manufacturer
- Florenz Ziegfeld, (1869-1932) producer of the Ziegfeld Follies
See also: List of famous cemeteries
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