Business leaders buried in Rhode Island
Wikidata records 25 business leaders as buried in 8 of the cemeteries we list in Rhode Island. Swan Point Cemetery in Pawtucket holds the most, with 15. Rhode Island has the 25th highest count of any state, out of 3,027 nationally.
People recorded as businesspeople, entrepreneurs or industrialists.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Business leaders buried in Rhode Island
- William Vernon1719-1806American patriotCommon Ground Cemetery, Newport, RI
- William Hamlin1772-1869American engraverSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Ambrose Burnside1824-1881American general and politicianSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Benedict Lapham1816-1883American philanthropist and industrialistSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- John Russell Bartlett1805-1886American historian and linguistSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Elisha Dyer1811-1890American politician (1811-1890), 25th Governor of Rhode IslandSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Joseph Peace Hazard1807-1892American textile manufacturerRowland Hazard Lot, Middletown, RI
- William Francis Sayles1824-1894American businessmanSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Henry T. Drowne1822-1897American businessman and historianSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Christiana Carteaux Bannister1819-1902American business entrepreneur, hairdresser, and abolitionistNorth Burial Ground, Providence, RI
- Frederick C. Sayles1835-1903First mayor of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Whipple Van Buren Phillips1833-1904American businessmanSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- William Watts Sherman1842-1912American businessmanIsland Cemetery, Newport, RI
- Theodore M. Davis1838-1915American lawyer and egyptologistIsland Cemetery, Newport, RI
- Samuel P. Colt1852-1921American industrialist and politicianJuniper Hill Cemetery, Bristol, RI
- Robert Means Thompson1849-1930American naval officer and businessmanSaint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard, Middletown, RI
- Arnold Buffum Chace1845-1932American academicSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Henry F. Lippitt1856-1933American politicianSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Marsden J. Perry1850-1935Swan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Darius Lee Goff, Jr1890-1938Textile manufacturerSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Samuel Mowry Nicholson1861-1939American industrialistSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Robert R. Young1897-1958American railroad executiveSaint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard, Middletown, RI
- Harold Stirling Vanderbilt1884-1970American bridge player, yachtsman, and railroad executiveSaint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard, Middletown, RI
- Theodore Phinney Grosvenor1897-1985American businessmanBerkeley Memorial Cemetery, Newport East, RI
- Mary Ann Lippitt1918-2006American pilot, aviation business founder and philanthropistSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Deaths by decade
- 1800s1
- 1860s1
- 1880s3
- 1890s4
- 1900s3
- 1910s2
- 1920s1
- 1930s6
- 1950s1
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 2000s1
By recorded year of death, for the 25 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Swan Point Cemetery · Pawtucket, RI15
- Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard · Middletown, RI3
- Island Cemetery · Newport, RI2
- Rowland Hazard Lot · Middletown, RI1
- Common Ground Cemetery · Newport, RI1
- Berkeley Memorial Cemetery · Newport East, RI1
- Juniper Hill Cemetery · Bristol, RI1
- North Burial Ground · Providence, RI1
Other notable burials in Rhode Island
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.