About Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery is a cemetery near New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. The grounds sit at about 43 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 309 notable people buried here, including Benoit Mandelbrot, Josiah Willard Gibbs and Lars Onsager. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 207546. The nearest other listed cemetery is New Haven Crypt Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is McClam Funeral Home in New Haven, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 163 cemeteries we list in New Haven County, and 82 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in New Haven County dates to 1793. 1 of the 163 listings in New Haven County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, New Haven. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Grove Street Cemetery
Among them: 40 scientists, 33 writers, 13 physicians, 11 US representatives, 10 artists, 9 inventors and engineers, 8 business leaders, 7 Civil War veterans.
- Benoit Mandelbrot1924-2010Polish-born, French and American mathematician
- Josiah Willard Gibbs1839-1903American scientist
- Lars Onsager1903-1976American physical chemist and theoretical physicist
- Thomas A. Steitz1940-2018American biochemist
- Charles Goodyear1800-1860American inventor
- Noah Webster1758-1843American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author
- Eli Whitney1765-1825American inventor
- James Dwight Dana1813-1895American mineralogist, scientist and zoologist
- Othniel Charles Marsh1831-1899American paleontologist
- Michael Rostovtzeff1870-1952Russian historian of ancient history
- Roger Sherman1721-1793Early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States
- Jaroslav Pelikan1923-2006US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale
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- William Dwight Whitney1827-1894American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer
- Øystein Ore1899-1968Norwegian mathematician
- Nathan Jacobson1910-1999American mathematician
- Ida Barney1886-1982American astronomer
- Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic1937-2003American neuroscientist
- Walter Camp1859-1925American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
- Benjamin Silliman Sr.1779-1864Early American chemist and science educator
- Shizuo Kakutani1911-2004Japanese mathematician
- Delia Bacon1811-1859American author best known for her work on Shakespearean authorship
- Jonathan Spence1936-2021British-born historian
- Hubert Anson Newton1830-1896American astronomer and scientist
- John Boswell1947-1994American historian
- Lyman Beecher1775-1863American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder
- James Rowland Angell1869-1949American psychologist and educator
- Elias Loomis1811-1889American science writer
- William Henry Brewer1828-1910American botanist
- Walter Feit1930-2004Austrian-American mathematician
- Andrew Hull Foote1806-1863Union Navy admiral and United States Navy admiral
- Ross Granville Harrison1870-1959American biologist
- Timothy Dwight IV1752-1817American historian
- Alice Mabel Bacon1858-1918American writer/women's educator/foreign advisor to the Japanese government in Meiji period Japan
- Charles Emerson Beecher1856-1904American paleontologist
- Hiram Bingham I1789-1869American missionary to the Kingdom of Hawai'i
- John William De Forest1826-1906Military officer, novelist
- Noah Porter1811-1892American academic
- Roger Sherman Baldwin1793-1863American politician
- Simeon Eben Baldwin1840-1927American judge
- Alfred Terry1827-1890Union Army general
- Ann Gerry1763-1849Wife of Elbridge Gerry, Second Lady of the United States
- David Daggett1764-1851American judge and politician
- Denison Olmsted1791-1859U.S. physicist and astronomer
- Henry Andrews Bumstead1870-1920American physicist
- Henry W. Edwards1779-1847American politician
- Kan'ichi Asakawa1873-1948Japanese historian
- Nathan Smith1770-1835American politician
- Theodore Winthrop1828-1861Union Army officer
- William Huntington Russell1809-1885American businessman
- Arthur Twining Hadley1856-1930United States economist, political scientist and president of Yale
- Charlotte Barnum1860-1934Mathematician
- Daniel Cady Eaton1834-1895American botanist
- Ithiel Town1784-1844American architect
- James Hillhouse1754-1832American lawyer, real estate developer and politician
- Nathaniel William Taylor1786-1858American theologian
- William Lyon Phelps1865-1943American author, critic and scholar
- A. Bartlett Giamatti1938-1989American baseball commissioner
- Arthur Tappan1786-1865American abolitionist
- Benjamin Silliman Jr.1816-1885Professor of chemistry, Yale University
- David Wooster1711-1777General of the Continental Army
- Ezra Stiles1727-1795American theologian, clergyman, Yale President 1727-1795
- James Hadley1821-1872American classical philologist
- Jedidiah Morse1761-1826American geographer and clergyman
- John Gamble Kirkwood1907-1959American scientist
- Robert P. Abelson1928-2005American psychologist and political scientist
- Arthur Williams Wright1836-1915American physicist
- Charles Montague Bakewell1867-1957American politician
- Charles Roberts Ingersoll1821-1903American politician
- Charles Seymour1885-1963President of Yale University
- Deno Geanakoplos1916-2007Greek-American historian, scholar of Byzantine cultural and religious history, Professor Emiterus at Yale University
- Eli Ives1779-1861American physician and botanist
- John Ferguson Weir1841-1926American painter and sculptor
- Kingman Brewster1919-1988American diplomat
- Leonard Bacon1802-1881American Congregational preacher and writer
- Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll1789-1872American politician
- Rudolph F. Zallinger1919-1995American painter
- Theodore Dwight Woolsey1801-1889American jurist; president of Yale University
- Alfred Whitney Griswold1906-1963American historian
- Bernadotte Perrin1847-1920American classical philologist
- Chester Lyman1814-1890American educator, clergyman, astronomer, and surveyor
- Edward Gaylord Bourne1860-1908American historian
- George J. Brush1831-1912American mineralogist, professor, Yale University
- Henry Baldwin Harrison1821-1901American politician
- Marcus H. Holcomb1844-1932American politician
- Mary C. Wright1917-1970American sinologist and historian
- Paul Hudak1952-2015American computer scientist
- Thomas Day Seymour1848-1907American classical philologist
- William Whiting Boardman1794-1871American politician
- Ada Comstock1876-1973American women's education pioneer, president of Radcliffe College 1923-1943.
- Charles Edward Clark1889-1963United States federal judge
- Colin M. Ingersoll1819-1903American politician
- David Humphreys1752-1818American Revolutionary War soldier and politician
- Diana Kleiner1947-2023Dunham Professor in the History of Art and Classics, Yale University
- Eli Whitney Blake1795-1886American inventor
- George Burton Adams1851-1925American historian
- George Park Fisher1827-1909American theologian and historian
- Henry R. Storrs1787-1837American politician
- Henry Walcott Farnam1853-1933American economist
- Hezekiah Augur1791-1858American artist
- Jared Mansfield1759-1830American surveyor and mathematician
- Jehudi Ashmun1794-1828Religious leader and social reformer
- Jonathan Ingersoll1747-1823American politician
- Leonard Cutler Sanford1868-1950American surgeon and ornithologist
- Nathan Smith1762-1829American physician
- Ruth Maxon Adams1883-1970American architect
- Simeon Baldwin1761-1851American politician
- Theophilus Eaton1590-1658Founder of New Haven, Connecticut, first governor of the New Haven Colony
- Thomas G. Bergin1904-1987American scholar of Italian literature
- Timothy Pitkin1766-1847American lawyer, politician and historian
- Albert Stanburrough Cook1853-1927Professor of English
- Amos Beebe Eaton1806-1877Union Army General
- Amos Doolittle1754-1832American artist
- Benjamin Wisner Bacon1860-1932American theologian
- Charles A. Ingersoll1798-1860United States federal judge
- Chauncey Allen Goodrich1790-1860American lexicographer
- Ebenezer Bassett1833-1908American diplomat
- Elizur Goodrich1761-1849American politician
- Ethan Allen Andrews1859-1956U.S. biologist
- Francis Gregory1789-1866United States Navy admiral
- Frederic Brenton Fitch1908-1987American logician
- Henry Austin1804-1891American architect
- Henry Leavitt Ellsworth1791-1858American businessman
- Henry S. Graves1871-1951American forest administrator
- Jeremiah Evarts1781-1831American missionary
- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Sr.1790-1861American linguist and theologian 1790-1861
- Louis Ezekiel Stoddard1878-1948American polo player
- Sylvanus Dryden Phelps1816-1895Hymnwriter
- Timothy Dwight V1828-1916American academic
- William Bristol1779-1836United States federal judge
- Worthington Hooker1806-1867American physician
- Aeneas Munson1734-1826American physician
- Alexander Catlin Twining1801-1884American scientist and inventor
- Charles Brinckerhoff Richards1833-1919American inventor
- Charlton Miner Lewis1866-1923American academic
- Edward Elias Atwater1816-1887American minister and author
- Franklin Bowditch Dexter1842-1920American historian and librarian
- Henry Gould Lewis1820-1891American politician
- James Morris Whiton1833-1920American teacher and lexicographer
- Jeremiah Day1773-1867Congregational minister and President of Yale College
- Joel Root1770-1847Supercargo and author
- John Bassett1915-1998Canadian media proprietor & politician
- John Henry Niemeyer1839-1932German-American artist
- Louisa Caroline Tuthill1798-1879American children's book author
- Otto T. Bannard1854-1929American attorney, businessman and philanthropist
- Pierpont Edwards1750-1826United States federal judge
- Samuel Harris1814-1899American academic administrator
- Sidney Mason Stone1803-1882Architect and builder
- Thomas Burr Osborne1859-1929American biochemist
- William H. Goetzmann1930-2010American historian of philosophy
- Alfred Blackman1807-1880American politician and judge
- Arthur B. Woodford1861-1946American economist, university professor, and grammar school rector
- Boris Bittker1916-2005American lawyer and legal writer
- C. Lee Buxton1904-1969American gynecologist and professor
- Charles Henry Smith1842-1933American history professor at Yale
- Charles Linnaeus Ives1831-1879American physician
- Chauncey Jerome1793-1868British clockmaker
- Dennis Kimberly1790-1862American politician
- Eugene Lamb Richards1838-1912American mathematician
- Frederick S. Jones1862-1944American academic and football coach
- Frederick Wells Williams1857-1928American historian
- George Munger1781-1825Engraver known for portraits and miniatures
- Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon1833-1906American author
- Henry Collins Flagg1792-1863American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician 1792-1863
- Henry Farnam1803-1883American businessman
- Henry Noble Day1808-1890American philosopher
- Henry Roseman Lang1853-1934American university teacher
- Hezekiah Beardsley1748-1790American physician
- Isaac Pendleton Langworthy1806-1888
- James Luce Kingsley1778-1852American classical and biblical scholar
- John Christopher Schwab1865-1916American librarian
- Joseph Earl Sheffield1793-1882American railroad executive, philanthropist
- Lewis Orsmond Brastow1834-1912American theologian
- Naphtali Daggett1727-1780American academic administrator
- Norris G. Osborn1858-1932American journalist and author
- Richard Ruggles1916-2001American economist
- Robert Patterson Hughes1839-1909United States Army general
- Seth Perkins Staples1776-1861American lawyer and politician
- Sherman Converse1790-1873American publisher
- Sybil Moseley Bingham1792-18481792-1848 , missionary and teacher
- Thomas Clap1703-1767American academic and Congregational minister
- Thomas Hinckley Bond1804-1882American politician
- Willard Gibbs Van Name1872-1959American zoologist
- William Augustus Larned1806-1862American pastor and professor
- William Kneeland Townsend1849-1907American judge
- Addison Van Name1835-1922American philologist and librarian
- Augustus Russell Street1792-1866American philanthropist
- Benjamin Silliman1848-1901American architect (184_-1901)
- Bruce Simonds1895-1989
- Charles Henry Farnam1846-1909American lawyer and genealogist
- David Curtis DeForest1774-1825Merchant
- Edgar S. Furniss1890-1972American economist
- Eli Whitney Jr.1820-1895American firearms manufacturer
- Elizabeth H. Jocelyn Cleaveland1824-1911American poet
- Forbes Hawkes1865-1940American physician and surgeon
- Frances Berkeley Young1878-1969American educator and writer
- Francis Metcalf Root1889-1934Entomologist
- George Candee1837-1907American landscape artist
- Gustavus Loomis1789-1872Union Army officer
- Hawley Olmstead1793-1868Politician
- Henry Coit Kingsley1815-1886American businessman
- J. Evarts Greene1834-1902American lawyer
- James Bishop1625-1691English-born 23rd Deputy Governor of Connecticut
- James Kingsley Thacher1847-1891American professor of medicine
- John Collins Pope1904-1997American literature professor and scholar of Old English
- John Edwin Smith1921-2009American philosopher
- John Pitkin Norton1822-1852American biochemist
- Jonathan Knight1789-1864American physician
- Lemuel Swift Punderson1824-1903American illustrator
- Lynde Harrison1837-1906American jurist and politician
- Marian Parker Whitney1861-1946American educator and translator
- Melancthon Taylor Woolsey1780-1838(1780-1838) US Navy commodore
- Paul F. Mundé1846-1902American physician
- Robert H. Bonner1870-1926American teacher
- Ron Whyte1941-1989American playwright and activist
- Samuel Peck1813-1879American photographer, photo case manufacturer under the name S. Peck & Co.
- William E. Brockway1822-1920American counterfeiter
- William Gilbert Mixter1846-1936American chemist
- Aaron Cleveland1744-1815American poet and politician
- Abraham Augur1724-1798
- Albert A. Sturley1887-1922Canadian-American physics teacher
- Arthur Stevens Phelps1863-1948American clergyman
- Asahel Bacon1764-1838Profession:Political Office; Agriculture; Business/born:1764/died:1838
- Birdsey Grant Northrop1817-1898American educational administrator
- Charles Henry Farnam1873-1909Yale Graduate, Benefactor of Yale University
- Daniel Bradley1679-1723
- David Atwater1723-1806
- David Lewis Daggett1820-18961820-1896
- Dryden Linsley Phelps1892-1977American Baptist missionary
- Edith Cohen1865-1920Heiress
- Eleanor Cutler Daggett1870-1947
- Eli Whitney1847-1924American businessman
- Elisabeth Prescott Daggett1752-1813
- Elizabeth Breese Morse1761-1828Mother of Samuel F. B. Morse
- Elizabeth Cogswell Davenport1782-1877
- Elizabeth Upham Kingsley Farnam1860-1951
- Emilie Jeannette Daggett1899-1986
- Eunice Backus Trumbull1749-18261749-1826
- Ezekiel Hayes1753-1828
- Ezekiel Hayes Trowbridge1818-1893Millionaire
- Frances Ogden Edwards1749-1800
- Francis Bacon1831-1912American surgeon
- Frank Chamberlin Porter1859-1946Yale University theology professor
- Frank Landon Humphreys1858-1937American Episcopal priest and writer
- Frederick Bostwick1852-1922
- George Bronson Farnam1841-1886American physician
- George Edward Day1815-1905Dean of Yale Divinity School, 1888-1895; birth/death: 1815-1905
- George Nicholas Munger1803-1882Instrument maker, inventor, artist
- George Parmly Day1876-1959American publisher; president of Yale University Press 1908-1944
- Harriet Hayes1789-1851
- Henry Bronson1804-1893
- Henry E. Peck1795-1867American publisher and politician
- J. Aspinwall Hodge1831-1901Born 1831; died 1901
- James Bradford Cleaveland1821-1889American clergyman
- James H. Linsley1787-18431787-1843
- John Emory Clark1832-1921American mathematician
- John Skinner1765-1850Non-student///profession:Doctor/born:1765/died:1850
- Julia Wooster DeForest1795-1873
- Justus Street Hotchkiss1831-1915Millionaire heir of New Haven, CT
- Katherine Bacon1844-1934
- Katherine Cumnock Blodgett1898-1980
- Katherine Kingsley Farnham Harvey1893-1962
- Leonard Augustus Daggett1790-1867
- Leonard Mayhew Daggett1863-1949American jurist
- Louise Tracy1844-1912American genealogist
- Lucy Johnson Bacon1800-18442 Mar 1800 - 28 Nov 1844
- Lydia Coit Kingsley1789-1861
- Martha Day1779-1806
- Mary E. Andrews Stoddard1878-1945
- Mary Elizabeth Blake1823-1916
- Mary Shepherd Monsondied 1848
- Mary Woolsey1754-1845
- Mehetabel Wellington1687-1776
- Newman Trowbridge1738-1816
- Oliver P. Hubbard1809-1900American scientist
- Raphael Dickinson1781-1837
- Rebecca Greenleaf Webster1766-1847Wife of Noah Webster
- Rebecca McCullough Darlington1879-1913Millionaire heiress
- Rebecca Sherman Baldwin1764-1795
- Rebecca Taylor Bacon1826-1878Philanthropist
- Rebecca Taylor Porter1841-1902American artist
- Richard Simpson Fellowes1814-1884Millionaire of New Haven, CT
- Robert Nelson Corwin1864-1944American scholar of German
- Russell Sturgis Bartlett1896-1945
- Rutherford Trowbridge1744-1825
- Rutherford Trowbridge1851-1918
- Sally Beers Leffingwell1765-1830
- Samuel Nathaniel Slie1925-2019American pastor
- Sarah Louise Clarke1852-1906American botanist
- Sarah Perkins Dalliba1824-1909
- Sarah Sheffield Farnamborn 185024 Sep 1850 -
- Sidney Edwards Morse1835-1908American editor and publisher
- Susan Almira Bacon1869-1946American academic
- Susan Forbes Silliman Wright1841-1890
- Theodore Davenport Bacon1863-1930American clergyman
- Theodore Woolsey Heermance1872-1905American archaeologist
- Thomas Hubbard Russell1851-1916American surgeon
- Thomas Rossiter Barnum1857-1938American librarian
- Thomas Ruggles Pynchon1823-1904American educator
- Thomas Rutherford Trowbridge1810-1887American merchant
People whose Wikidata entry gives Grove Street Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
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What Grove Street Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
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Funeral homes near Grove Street Cemetery
- McClam Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 786-4732
- Weller Funeral Home0.4 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 624-6912
- Celentano Funeral Home0.4 miFuneral home · New Haven · (203) 865-1234
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