Trinity Church Cemetery, Manhattan, NY

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Trinity Church Cemetery, Manhattan, NY

CEMETERY

Official Website:
http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

John Jacob Astor Business 17-Jul-1763 29-Mar-1848 Wealthiest man in America

John Jacob Astor Philanthropist 13-Jul-1864 15-Apr-1912 Died aboard the Titanic

John James Audubon Naturalist 26-Apr-1785 27-Jan-1851 Illustrated Birds of America

William Bradford Publisher 20-May-1663 23-May-1752 Colonial American printer

John Adams Dix Politician 24-Jul-1798 21-Apr-1879 Governor of New York, 1873-75

Ralph Ellison Novelist 1-Mar-1914 16-Apr-1994 Invisible Man

Robert Fulton Inventor 14-Nov-1765 24-Feb-1815 Inventor of the submarine and steamboat

Albert Gallatin Politician 29-Jan-1761 12-Aug-1849 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14

Horatio Gates Military 1728 10-Apr-1806 Defeated General Burgoyne at Saratoga

Alexander Hamilton Government 11-Jan-1757 12-Jul-1804 Primary author of The Federalist Papers

Francis Lewis Politician 21-Mar-1713 30-Dec-1802 Signatory to Declaration of Independence

Clement Clarke Moore Poet 15-Jul-1779 10-Jul-1863 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Jerry Orbach Actor 20-Oct-1935 28-Dec-2004 Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order

John Peter Zenger Journalist c. 1697 28-Jul-1746 Sedition against the Crown

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