Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a historic rural cemetery.

The non-sectarian, wooded hillside park is 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. ()

History Incorporated in 1844, the Allegheny Cemetery is the sixth oldest rural cemetery in the United States. It has been expanded over the years and now encompasses .

Allegheny Cemetery memorializes more than 124,000 people. Some of the oldest graves are of soldiers who fought in the French and Indian War. Their remains were reinterred here, moved from their original burial site at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh. Many notables from the city of Pittsburgh are buried here. The cemetery was among 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. determined to establish a rural cemetery near Pittsburgh. Dr. Speer later visited several famous rural cemeteries, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, and Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. In 1842 the group selected the 100-acre farm of Colonel Bayard 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. On Memorial Day, 1937, a new memorial was unveiled at Allegheny Cemetery, dedicated to the more than 7,000 servicemen buried here.

Notable interments

Gabriel Adams (1790–1864), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1847–49) John Arbuckle (1838–1912), coffee and sugar businessman Marcus E. Baldwin (1863–1929), Major League Baseball player Joseph Barker (1806–1862), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1850–51) Joshua Barney (1759–1818), Commodore in the United States Navy and American Revolutionary War, War of 1812 veteran (Moved to new site in 1848) Richard Biddle (1796–1847), US Congressman Lem Billings (1916–1981), friend and campaigner for President John F. Kennedy William Bingham (1808–1873), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1856–57) James Blackmore (1821–1875), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1868–69 & 1872–75) 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 Adam M. Brown (1826–1910), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1901) James W. Brown (1844–1909), US Congressman Jared M. Brush (1814–1895), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1869–72) 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 Daniel William Cooper (1830–1920), one of the founders of the Sigma Chi Fraternity John Dalzell (1845–1927), US Congressman Cornelius Darragh (1809–1854), US Congressman Ebenezer Denny (1761–1822), first Mayor of Pittsburgh (1816–17), American Revolutionary War veteran Harmar Denny (1794–1852), U.S. Congressman Harmar D. Denny Jr. (1886–1966), US Congressman William J. Diehl (1845–1929), politician and Mayor of Pittsburgh (1899–1901) Samuel Diescher (183–1915), engineer who designed the Duquesne Incline and the majority of such projects in Pennsylvania and the US, also designed many industrial projects 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 Andrew Fulton (1850–1925), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1884–87) Edward D. Gazzam (1803–1878), doctor, politician, and abolitionist Josh Gibson (1911–1947), baseball great of the Negro leagues Gus Greenlee (1893–1952), Major League Baseball Team Owner George W. Guthrie (1848–1917), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1906–09) John B. Guthrie (1807–1885), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1851–53) Lizzie M. Guthrie (1838–1880), missionary Moses Hampton (1803–1878), US Congressman Alexander Hay (1806–1882), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1842–45) General Alexander Hays (1819–1864) William B. Hays (1844–1912), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1903–06) Joseph Horne (1826–1891), founder of Pittsburgh department store Horne's; this chain 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, Mayor of Pittsburgh (1840–41) William Freame Johnston (1808–1872), Governor of Pennsylvania William Kerr (1809–1853), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1846–47) Samuel Kier (1813–1874), pioneer oil refiner Charles H. Kline (1870–1933), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1926–33) Andrew W. Loomis (1797–1873), US Congressman F. T. F. Lovejoy (1854–1932), Industrialist, associate of Andrew Carnegie James Lowry Jr. (1820–1876), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1864–66) 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), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1934–36) 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 Philip H. Morgan (1825–1900), lawyer, jurist, diplomat General James S. Negley (1826–1901), Civil War general and U.S. Congressman John Neville (1731–1803), American Revolutionary War veteran and tax collector during the Whiskey Rebellion 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 Robert M. Riddle (1812–1858), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1853–54) John Buchanan Robinson (1846–1933), US Congressman William Robinson Jr. (1785–1868), politician, businessman and militia general 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 Jacob B. Sweitzer (1821–1888), Pennsylvania lawyer and soldier. He commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division/5th Corps of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg Jane Swisshelm (1815–1884), journalist, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate Adamson Tannehill (1750–1820), Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer, 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 James Thomson (1790–1876), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1841–42) Stanley Turrentine (1934–2000), jazz musician Ferdinand E. Volz (1823–1876), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1854–56) Rachel Mellon Walton (1899–2006), member of the prominent Mellon family, centenarian, and prominent Pittsburgh philanthropist Henry A. Weaver (1820–1890), Mayor of Pittsburgh (1857–60) Calvin Wells (1827–1909), industrialist, financier and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club Jane McDowell Foster Wiley (1829–1903), wife of Stephen Foster and inspiration for his song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" 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.

Gallery

See also Homewood Cemetery Greenwood Cemetery List of burial places of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

References

External links

Historic Landscape Survey of Allegheny County Records, 1970–2002, AIS.2005.01, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh