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Business leaders buried in Connecticut
Wikidata records 56 business leaders as buried in 25 of the cemeteries we list in Connecticut. Cedar Hill Cemetery in Newington holds the most, with 10. Connecticut has the 13th highest count of any state, out of 3,027 nationally.
People recorded as businesspeople, entrepreneurs or industrialists.
56
business leaders
25
cemeteries
3%
of notable burials in Connecticut
1920s
the decade with the most deaths (8)
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In order of death
Business leaders buried in Connecticut
- David Humphreys1752-1818American Revolutionary War soldier and politicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Eli Whitney1765-1825American inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Ambrose Ives1786-1852American physician and businesspersonRiverside Cemetery, Waterbury, CT
- Seth Thomas1785-1859American clockmakerHillside Cemetery, Thomaston, CT
- Charles Goodyear1800-1860American inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Samuel Colt1814-186219th-century American industrialist and inventorCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Russell Goodrich Talcott1818-18631818-1863Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Arthur Tappan1786-1865American abolitionistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Gerard Hallock1800-1866American newspaper editor and businessmanEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Augustus George Hazard1802-1868American businessmanEnfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, CT
- Samuel Peck1813-1879American photographer, photo case manufacturer under the name S. Peck & Co.Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Oliver Winchester1810-1880American businessman and politicianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- William Wirt Winchester1837-1881American businessmanEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Edwin D. Morgan1811-1883Union Army general and politicianCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- General Tom Thumb1838-1883American circus performerMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- William Huntington Russell1809-1885American businessmanGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Henry Coit Kingsley1815-1886American businessmanGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- P. T. Barnum1810-1891American showman and politicianMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- Oliver Burr Jennings1825-1893American businessmanOaklawn Cemetery, Fairfield, CT
- Henry B. Plant1819-1899Railroad and Steamboat Company FounderBranford Center Cemetery, Branford, CT
- Francis A. Pratt1827-1902American businessmanCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Frederick Law Olmsted1822-1903American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administratorOld North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Elizabeth Jarvis Colt1826-1905Widow and heir of firearms manufacturer Samuel ColtCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- John Butler Talcott1824-1905American industrialistCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- August Rodney Macdonough1820-1907American lawyer and newspaper editorIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- J. P. Morgan1837-1913American financier, banker, and art collectorCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- James Talcott1835-1916American businessmanCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Lavinia Warren1841-1919American circus performerMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- Edwin S. Greeley1832-1920American industrialist, soldier, & philanthropistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Amos Whitney1832-1920American businessmanCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Elias Cornelius Benedict1834-1920American bankerPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- Morgan Bulkeley1837-1922American politicianCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- George Lauder1837-1924Scottish industrialistPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- John Leander Billard1842-1924American businessmanWalnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, CT
- Peter Paul Halajian1864-1927Armenia American confectioner and businessmanGrove Cemetery, Naugatuck, CT
- Henry C. Hull1849-1929American businessman and politicianIndian River Cemetery, Clinton, CT
- E. T. Bedford1849-1931American businessmanWillowbrook Cemetery, Westport, CT
- Arthur Pitney1871-1933American inventorSpring Grove Cemetery, Darien, CT
- Harry Bates Thayer1858-1936American businessmanLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- Powhatan Roberts Robinson1866-1939American businessmanEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- James B. Mabon1865-1941American stock exchange executiveNorfolk Center Cemetery, Winchester Center, CT
- Irving Hall Chase1858-1951American industrialistRiverside Cemetery, Waterbury, CT
- Frederick Rentschler1887-1956American aerospace engineer and executiveFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- Frank Cheney1860-1957American businesspersonEast Cemetery, Manchester, CT
- George Charles Boldt Jr.1879-1958American businessmanLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- Eugene W. Stetson1881-19595 Dec 1881 - 20 Jul 1959Oaklawn Cemetery, Fairfield, CT
- Earl D. Babst1870-1967American lawyer and industrialistPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- William Moore Robbins1901-1975American businessman (1901-1975); vice president of General FoodsPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- William A. Purtell1897-1978American politicianFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- John Franklin Enders1897-1985American medical researcherFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- William Finger1897-1991American businessman and diplomatLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- John Bassett1915-1998Canadian media proprietor & politicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Edwin D. Morgan1921-2001American businessmanCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- John S. Griswold1914-2005American businesspersonGriswold Cemetery, Old Saybrook, CT
- Sigmund Strochlitz1916-2006Holocaust survivorBethel Cemetery, Groton, CT
- George Devol1912-2011American inventorBald Hill Cemetery, Wilton, CT
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1810s1
- 1820s1
- 1850s2
- 1860s6
- 1870s1
- 1880s6
- 1890s3
- 1900s5
- 1910s3
- 1920s8
- 1930s4
- 1940s1
- 1950s5
- 1960s1
- 1970s2
- 1980s1
- 1990s2
- 2000s3
- 2010s1
By recorded year of death, for the 56 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Cedar Hill Cemetery · Newington, CT10
- Grove Street Cemetery · New Haven, CT8
- Evergreen Cemetery · New Haven, CT5
- Putnam Cemetery · Cos Cob, CT4
- Mountain Grove Cemetery · Bridgeport, CT3
- Lakeview Cemetery · New Canaan, CT3
- Fairview Cemetery · West Hartford, CT3
- Riverside Cemetery · Waterbury, CT2
- Oaklawn Cemetery · Fairfield, CT2
- Spring Grove Cemetery · Hartford, CT1
- Old North Cemetery · Hartford, CT1
- Enfield Street Cemetery · Enfield, CT1
- East Cemetery · Manchester, CT1
- Bethel Cemetery · Groton, CT1
- Branford Center Cemetery · Branford, CT1
- Walnut Grove Cemetery · Meriden, CT1
- Willowbrook Cemetery · Westport, CT1
- Indian River Cemetery · Clinton, CT1
- Norfolk Center Cemetery · Winchester Center, CT1
- Indian Hill Cemetery · Middletown, CT1
- Hillside Cemetery · Thomaston, CT1
- Griswold Cemetery · Old Saybrook, CT1
- Grove Cemetery · Naugatuck, CT1
- Bald Hill Cemetery · Wilton, CT1
- Spring Grove Cemetery · Darien, CT1
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Other notable burials in Connecticut
Writers and poets194United States representatives104Scientists91Painters, sculptors and photographers86Physicians59Actors49Inventors and engineers46Governors40Journalists39Musicians and singers38American Civil War veterans33United States senators29Architects27World War II veterans26American football players19Baseball players16World War I veterans16
Method
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.