Homewood Cemetery

Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

40°26′28″N 79°54′32″W / 40.441°N 79.909°W / 40.441; -79.909TypeUrbanSize650-acre (2.6 km²)No. of graves77,000+WebsiteOfficial websiteFind a GraveHomewood Cemetery

Homewood Cemetery is a historic urban cemetery^[1] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in Point Breeze and is bordered by Frick Park, the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and the smaller Smithfield Cemetery.^[2]

It was established in 1878 from William Wilkins' 650-acre (2.6 km²) estate, Homewood.^[3]

Notable interments

Business leaders

Edward Jay Allen (1830–1915), businessman
Michael Late Benedum (1869–1959), businessman, co-founder of Benedum-Trees Oil Company
David Lytle Clark (1864–1939), businessman, creator of Clark Bar and Zagnut
Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), industrialist, founder of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919), founder of H. J. Heinz Company
H. J. "Jack" Heinz II (1908–1987), industrialist^[4]
Henry Hillman (1918–2016), businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist
William Larimer Mellon Sr. (1868–1949), founder of Gulf Oil
Willard Rockwell (1888–1978), founder of Rockwell International
A.E. Succop (Augustus Ernest) (1847–1931), President Germania Savings Bank and German Fire Insurance Company
Ernest T. Weir (1875–1957), founder of Weirton Steel and National Steel Corporation^[5]
William Valentin Hartmann (1871–1947), VP of Gulf Oil

Political leaders

Edward V. Babcock (1864–1948), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1918–22
Matthew A. Dunn (1886–1942), member of the United States House of Representatives 1933–41
William Flinn (1851–1924), politician
Henry P. Ford (1837–1905), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1896–99
H. John Heinz III (1938–1991), United States Senator 1977–91^[6]
William McCallin (1842–1904), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1887–90
John K. Tener (1863–1946), Governor of Pennsylvania 1911–15
William Wilkins (1779–1865), United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1831–34, Secretary of War 1844–45^[7]
George Wilson (1816–1902), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1860–62

Military leaders

John Wilkins Jr. (1761–1816), Quartermaster General of the United States Army 1796–1802

Artists and musicians

Erroll Garner (1921–1977), jazz pianist and composer
Walt Harper (1926–2006), jazz pianist
Teenie Harris (1908–1998), photographer
George Hetzel (1826–1899), portrait and landscape painter
Churchill Kohlman (1906–1983), songwriter
Mac Miller (1992–2018), rapper, singer, record producer
Anna Woodward (1868–1935), portrait and landscape painter

Science and medicine

Mary Bidwell Breed (1870–1949), chemist and first female dean of Indiana University
Jared Cohon (1947–2024), engineer and president of Carnegie Mellon University
Bertha Lamme Feicht (1869–1943), first female engineering graduate from Ohio State University and first female engineer to be employed by Westinghouse
Bernard Fisher (1918–2019), pioneer of breast cancer treatment
Childs Frick (1883–1965), paleontologist
John Bell Hatcher (1861–1904), paleontologist
Edwin Ruud (1854–1932), mechanical engineer and inventor
Alvin P. Shapiro (1920–1998), physician and educator

Sports figures

Bill Bishop (1869–1932), baseball player
Chuck Cooper (1926–1984), first African-American to be drafted into the NBA^[8]
Earl Francis (1935–2002), baseball player
Bob Priddy (1939-2023), baseball player
Jock Sutherland (1889–1948), football coach
Pie Traynor (1899–1972), baseball Hall of Famer^[9]

Others

Edward Manning Bigelow (1850–1916), city planner
Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984), philanthropist
Rust Heinz (1914–1939), auto and boat designer
Elsie Hillman (1925–2015), philanthropist and former Republican National Committeewoman
John Barrett Kerfoot (1816–1881), first Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965), civil rights activist
Perle Mesta (1889–1975), Ambassador to Luxembourg 1949–53, and a noted Washington, D.C. socialite during Eisenhower and Nixon eras
Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier
Stephen Varzaly (1890–1957), priest, journalist, and cultural activist
Tom Boggs (1905–1952), poet

Gallery

Motherless (1897), George Anderson Lawson, sculptor
Bronze relief on Walker monument (ca. 1918–1921), Max Bachmann, sculptor

References

^ Linden, Blanche M.G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
^ "Point Breeze Map". Archived from the original on 2012-11-03. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
^ Toker, Franklin. Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986, p. 221.
^ Skrabec, Quentin R. H.J. Heinz: A Biography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2009, p. 205.
^ "Ernest T. Weir Dies At 81." Wall Street Journal. June 27, 1957.
^ Dodge, Andrew R. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774–2005. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005, p. 1232.
^ Alzo, Lisa A. Pittsburgh's Immigrants. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2006, p. 48.
^ Jackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen; and Markoe, Arnie. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Detroit: Gale, 1998, p. 180.
^ Forr, James and Proctor, David. Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2010, p. 8.