About Allegheny Cemetery
Allegheny Cemetery is a cemetery near Bloomfield, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 0.8 mi south of Bloomfield. It carries a heritage listing (heritage level yes). The grounds sit at about 902 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 294 notable people buried here, including Stephen Foster, Lillian Russell and Stanley Turrentine. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1168162. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the south. The nearest cremation provider we know of is D'Alessandro Funeral Home & Crematory in Pittsburgh, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 342 cemeteries we list in Allegheny County, and 219 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Allegheny County dates to 1824. 5 of the 342 listings in Allegheny County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Bloomfield. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Allegheny Cemetery
Among them: 33 business leaders, 24 US representatives, 12 journalists, 11 baseball players, 9 football players, 8 Civil War veterans, 7 artists, 6 architects.
- Stephen Foster1826-1864American songwriter
- Lillian Russell1861-1922American opera singer and actress
- Stanley Turrentine1934-2000American jazz saxophonist and record producer
- Eben Byers1880-1932Industrialist, amateur golfer
- Josh Gibson1911-1947American Hall of Fame baseball player
- Walter Forward1786-1852American politician
- William Jacob Holland1848-1932American zoologist, palaeontologist, and Presbyterian minister
- Calbraith Perry Rodgers1879-1912American aviator
- George Shiras, Jr.1832-1924US Supreme Court justice from 1892 to 1903
- George T. Oliver1848-1919American politician
- James Ross1762-1847Pennsylvania politician
- Richard Mellon Scaife1932-2014American Mellon family heir, and newspaper owner
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- Samuel W. Black1816-1862American territorial governor of Nebraska
- Thomas Mellon1813-1908American businessman (1813-1908); founder of Mellon Bank
- Harry Kendall Thaw1871-1947American playboy
- Jane Swisshelm1815-1884American journalist
- William F. Johnston1808-1872American politician
- Charles Stanley Reinhart1844-1896American painter and illustrator
- Don Brockett1930-1995American actor
- Walter Conrad Arensberg1878-1954American art collector, critic and poet
- William Anderson Coffin1855-1925American landscape and figure painter
- Alexander Hays1819-1864Union Army general
- Henry Kirke Porter1840-1921Union United States Army soldier
- James S. Negley1826-1901Union Army general and politician
- James W. Brown1844-1909American politician, Pennsylvania
- John Buchanan Robinson1846-1933Union Navy sailor and politician in Pennsylvania
- Lem Billings1916-1981American businessman
- Richard Biddle1796-1847American author and politician
- William W. Irwin1803-1856American politician
- Alexander Pollock Moore1867-1930American diplomat
- Andrew W. Loomis1797-1873American politician
- Daniel O'Neill1830-1877American journalist
- Derrick Bell1930-2011American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist
- Francis B. Brewer1820-1892American politician
- Harmar D. Denny, Jr.1886-1966American politician
- James K. Moorhead1806-1884American politician
- John Covert1882-1960American artist
- John Dalzell1845-1927American politician
- John Gibson1740-1822American soldier and Governor
- John Neville1731-1803Continental Army officer
- Joshua Barney1759-1818United States Navy officer
- Magnus Miller Murray1787-1838American mayor
- Marcus Wilson Acheson1828-1906United States federal judge
- Mark Baldwin1863-1929American baseball player
- Neville B. Craig1787-1863American newspaper editor, politician, historian, and lawyer
- Philip Hickey Morgan1825-1900American diplomat
- Robert M. Riddle1812-1858American mayor
- Samuel S. Brown1842-1905American businessman
- Thomas Marshall Howe1808-1877American politician
- Thomas Shields Clarke1860-1920American painter and sculptor
- Thomas Williams1806-1872American politician from Pennsylvania, died 1872
- William Ralph Badger1884-1911American aviator
- William Thaw1818-1889American businessman
- William Thaw II1893-1934American aviator
- Aaron S. French1823-1902American industrialist and philanthropist
- Adamson Tannehill1750-1820American politician
- Alfred E. Hunt1855-1899American businessman
- Alfred L. Pearson1838-1903Union Army general and Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Benjamin Franklin Jones1824-1903American businessman
- Charles McClure1804-1846American politician in Pennsylvania
- Christopher Magee1848-1901American politician
- Conrad M. Arensberg1910-1997American anthropologist
- Cornelius Darragh1809-1854American politician
- Ebenezer Denny1761-1822American mayor
- Eugene M. O'Neill1850-1926American lawyer and newspaper owner
- Harmar Denny1794-1852American politician
- Harry Allison Estep1884-1968American politician
- Henry W. Oliver1840-1904American businessman
- James Hay Reed1853-1927American federal judge
- Joseph Barker1806-1862Mayor of Pittsburgh
- Mary Sibbet Copley1843-1929American philanthropist and charity worker
- Moses Hampton1803-1878American politician
- Robert McKnight1820-1885American politician
- Thomas Algeo Rowley1808-1892Union United States Army general
- Thomas Irwin1785-1870United States federal judge
- William Larimer, Jr.1809-1875American politician
- Albert Prescott Mathews1871-1957American biochemist and professor
- Andrew Fulton1850-1925American mayor
- Benjamin Thaw1859-1933American banker
- Caroline Endres Diescher1846-1930American engineer
- Charles Bartberger1824-1896German architect
- Charles H. Kline1870-1933American politician
- David Logan1956-1999American football player
- Denny McKnight1848-1900American baseball manager and executive
- Euphemia Bakewell1870-1921American bookbinder
- George Wilkins Guthrie1848-1917American diplomat
- J. Heron Foster1822-1868American journalist
- Jacob B. Sweitzer1821-1888Union Army officer
- James Blackmore1821-1875American politician
- James Lowry, Jr.1820-1876American politician
- James McDevitt Magee1877-1949American politician
- John B. Guthrie1807-1885American mayor
- John Baptiste Ford1811-1903American businessman
- John Darragh1772-1828American mayor
- K. Leroy Irvis1919-2006American politician
- Marion Foster1851-1935Educator and composer
- Samuel Kier1813-1874American inventor and businessman who is credited with founding the American petroleum refining industry
- Ted Sadowski1936-1993American baseball player
- Thomas M. Carnegie1843-1886American businessman
- William B. Dickson1865-1942American business executive
- William B. Foster1779-1855American politician, father of Stephen Foster
- William J. Diehl1845-1929Mayor of Pittsburgh
- William J. Kountz Jr.1867-1899American-football player and author
- William Little1809-1887American mayor of Pittsburgh
- William McClelland1842-1892American politician
- William Metcalf1838-1909American businessman
- Willie Clark1870-1932American baseball player
- Wilson McCandless1810-1882United States federal judge
- Alexander Hay1806-1882Mayor of Pittsburgh
- Archibald H. Rowand, Jr.1845-1913
- Beano Cook1931-2012College football historian and commentator
- Cortlandt Whitehead1842-1922American clergyman
- Cy Rheam1893-1947American baseball player
- David Henry Williams1819-1891Railroad surveyor, civil engineer and writer
- David Hunter Riddle1805-1888American academic
- Evelyn Foster Morneweck1887-1973American writer
- Ferdinand E. Volz1823-1876American politician
- Frances L. Swift1837-1916American church and temperance worker
- Francis Peay1944-2013American football player and coach
- Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr.1872-1958American architect
- Gabriel Adams1790-1864Mayor of Pittsburgh
- George Courtauld1761-1823British businessman
- George D. Archibald1820-1902Presbyterian minister, author, and academic
- Harry McChesney1880-1960American baseball player
- Henry A. Weaver1820-1890American politician
- Isaac Craig1742-1826American mayor
- Jack Sack1902-1980American football player and coach
- Jacob Beltzhoover1770-1835American pioneer
- James Jerpe1885-1917American sportswriter
- James Laughlin1806-1882American businessman
- James M. Guffey1839-1930Oilman
- James Morris Morgan1845-1928Confederate naval officer
- James O'Hara1752-1819Army officer during the Revolutionary War and quartermaster general of the U.S. Army (1792-96)
- James Sterrett1822-1901American judge
- James Thomson1790-1876Mayor of Pittsburgh, born 1790
- Jane McDowell Foster Wiley1829-1903Wife of Stephen Foster
- John A. Moorhead1882-1931American college football coach
- John Arbuckle1838-1912American businessman
- John Baxter Barbour Jr.1862-1929American businessman and sports executive
- John M. Kindigdied 1869American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- John Moorhead Jr.1859-1927American football player
- Jonas R. McClintock1808-1879American politician
- Joseph M. Gazzam1842-1927American politician
- Lewis Woodson1806-1878American academic
- Louis Bellinger1891-1946American architect
- Louis Semple Clarke1866-1957American automotive engineer
- Rachel Mellon Walton1899-2006American philanthropist
- Rosey Rowswell1884-1955American radio sportscaster
- Samuel Diescher1839-1915American civil engineer
- Sarah Mellon1903-1965Niece of Andrew Mellon
- Ted Page1903-1984American baseball player
- Theodore R. Hostetter1870-1902American sportsman
- Thomas J. Bigham1810-1884American abolitionist, politician and journalist
- Walter H. Lowrie1807-1876American judge
- William B. Hays1844-1912American mayor
- William Bingham1808-1873American politician
- William Kerr1809-1853American politician
- William Kerr1847-1917American baseball executive
- William Robinson Jr.1785-1868US politician and business executive
- Zeke Wissinger1902-1963American football player
- Adam M. Brown1826-1910American mayor
- Alexander Addison1758-1807American lawyer
- Alexander McBurney Byers1827-1900Steel manufacturer of Pittsburgh, PA
- Alice Denniston Laughlin1895-1952American painter and engraver
- Augustus P. Davis1835-1899American army officer
- Calvin Wells1827-1909American industrialist
- Charles Avery1784-1858American preacher, philanthropist, abolitionist
- Charles Hart Spencer1852-1912American businessman
- Charles S. Miller1869-1945American sports administrator and executive
- Consuelo Morgan1901-1979American socialite
- Curtis Grubb Hussey1802-1893American copper and steel manufacturer
- Danny Nirella1873-1956Italian-American bandleader and composer
- Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster1788-1855Mother of Stephen Foster
- Felix R. Brunot1820-1898American civil engineer, philanthropist
- Francis Raymond Holland1886-1934American painter, 1886-1934
- Georg Wittmer1825-1910German entrepreneur
- George Dandy1890-1946Baseball player
- George McCully Laughlin1842-1908American businessman
- Hap Allen1900-1988American baseball player
- Harold Tinker1905-2000American baseball player
- Henry Blake Hays1829-1881Coal industry pioneer
- Isla Hays Woods1867-1950American suffragist
- J. Palmer O’Neil1843-1908Baseball executive
- James H. Hays1800-1876American businessman
- Jay Rial1852-1920American press agent and theatre manager
- Joseph Stockton1779-1832American clergyman
- Lizzie M. Guthrie1838-1890American missionary
- Lucy Dorsey Iams1855-1924American welfare worker
- Marcus Peter Blakemore1889-1959American fraternity founder
- Mary "Molly" Ella Bakewell1868-1960American suffragist and author
- Morrison Foster1823-1904Brother of Stephen Foster
- Mrs. J. Willis Dalzell1844-1929American philanthropist and donor to Carnegie Institute
- Oliver Ormsby Page1866-1940American writer; family genealogist
- Richard Biddle Roberts1825-1886American lawyer and Union Army officer during the American Civil War
- Roy Arthur Hunt1881-1966American industrialist and philanthropist
- Samuel R. Johnston1797-1854American printer and publisher
- Thorsten E. Billquist1867-1923American architect
- William A. Nimick1848-1907American baseball executive
- William Eichbaum1787-1866American printer, publisher, postmaster, treasurer
- William J. Howard1799-1862American mayor
- William Penn Snyder1861-1921American industrialist
- William Speer1822-1904Born 1822; died 1904
- Agnes Clarke Painter1868-1895
- Alan Waters Wood1850-1905Heir
- Alexander Bradley1812-1899Millionaire
- Amelia Catherine Schmertz1857-1944
- Amelia Neville1763-1849Daughter of John Neville and wife of Isaac Craig
- Amy Susette Hostetter1858-1941Millionaire heiress
- Andrew Hartupee McKee1870-1931Heir
- Asa Childs1767-1850
- Augustus E. W. Painter1844-1903Millionaire
- Benjamin Thaw Jr.1888-193711 Dec 1888 - 8 Mar 1937
- Byron Hays Painter1837-1870
- Calbraith Perry Rodgers Sr.1845-1878
- Caroline Mitchell Morris1886-1934
- Charles Cooke Scaife1844-1915Heir
- Charles Henderson Bradley1848-1916Heir
- Charles John Clarke1833-1899Millionaire
- Charles Lockhart1818-19051818-1905 , petroleum producer and refiner
- Charles Meredith DuPuy Sr.1884-1925President of Pennsylvania Rubber
- Chet Smith1898-1973American sportswriter
- Christopher Lyman Magee1808-1863
- Clara Palmer Howe1848-1934Heiress
- Edward Brown Alsop1835-1922Steel magnate
- Edward McConaghay Quinby1851-1909Millionaire
- Eliza Irwin Phillips1844-19293 Nov 1844 - 18 Dec 1929
- Elizabeth Darragh1799-1883
- Elizabeth McCullough1856-1918Millionaire heiress
- Elizabeth O'Hara Denny1826-1855
- Elizabeth O'Hara Denny McKnight1824-1896Daughter of politician Harmar Denny, wife of politician Robert McKnight, mother of baseball executive Denny McKnight
- Elizabeth Singer1864-1937
- Elizabeth Steel Magee1814-18891814-1889
- Elma Ellsworth Dows Thaw1861-19311861-1931 Pittsburgh PA Collector
- Emma Hussey1852-1907
- Francis Dring Wetherill Lukens1899-1978American physician
- George Edward Painter1862-1942
- George H. Evans1848-1905West Point graduate, class of 1872
- George Sturges Oliver1878-1963
- Gertrude St. John1854-1923
- Harmar Denny Denny1852-1918
- Harry Darlington1888-1931Millionaire heir
- Harry Keck1897-1965American sportswriter
- Harry Loomis1852-1883
- Henry Alexander Laughlin1838-1922American manufacturer
- Henry Hughart Laughlin1878-1938
- Isabel Bowman McKennan1843-1891
- Jacob Painter1851-1937Millionaire
- James B. Laughlin1864-1928American manufacturer
- James Laughlin1847-1919Millionaire heir
- James Park Jr.1820-1883American steel manufacturer
- Joe Steen1873-1932American football, ice hockey, and baseball player
- John B. Butler1793-1870US Army officer, publisher, editor
- John Frederic Byers1912-1969
- John Geise1903-1990American historian and university administrator
- John Hopson Shoenberger1809-1889Millionaire heir
- John Howland Ricketson1875-1951
- John Pitcairn1802-1884
- John Walton, Jr.1893-1974Peerage person ID=334721
- Joseph Patterson1752-1832A Presbyterian minister, was born in the north of Ireland, March 20, 1752.
- Josiah Copley1803-1885American newspaper editor and writer
- Laura Gilpin Wood1853-1918Heiress
- Leonard G. Woods1867-1934American businessman
- Luther Halsey1794-1880American theologian
- Margaret Morrison Carnegie1810-1886Mother of Andrew Carnegie
- Marie Elise Whitney1893-1978
- Martha Krug Shoenberger1826-1863
- Mary Ann Palmer Howe1815-1901Millionaire
- Mary Franklin Jones1851-1931
- Mary Harden Hays1812-1871
- Mary Howard Howe1835-1903Heiress
- Mary Murray1788-18721788-1872
- Mary Snyder Drew1892-1957
- Mary Stevenson Lothrop1834-1924
- Mary Thaw Thompson1856-1944Philanthropist and Vassar College trustee
- Narcissa Knox1849-1876
- Nellie Andrews Gazzam1871-1957American activist, suffragist
- Oliver Garrison1778-1840
- Persifor Frazer Smith1849-1918
- Press C. Dowler1877-1964
- Sidney Ford Page1848-1925
- St. Clair Denny1797-1858West Point graduate, class of 1822
- Waters Dewees Wood1826-1899Millionaire
- William Borrett Scaife1812-1876Wealthy industrialist
- William Carnegie1804-1855Father of Andrew Carnegie
- William Croghan Denny1823-1866Millionaire heir
- William Falconer1850-1928Botanist
- William Henry Brown1815-1875Coal mine owner
- William Henry Singer1835-1909Millionaire
- William J. Kountz1817-1904Steamboat entrepreneur
- William McConway1842-1925American businessman and philanthropist
- William Moorhead1774-1817
- William Penn Snyder1888-1967Heir
- William Ross Proctor1863-1930
People whose Wikidata entry gives Allegheny 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 Allegheny 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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