Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)

Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is located at 453 Fairfield Avenue. It was designed by landscape architect Jacob Weidenmann, who also designed Hartford's Bushnell Park. Its first sections were completed in 1866 and the first burial took place on July 17, 1866. Cedar Hill was designed as an American rural cemetery in the tradition of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The cemetery straddles three towns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, in Hartford, Newington, and Wethersfield. It includes the Cedar Hill Cemetery Gateway and Chapel, also known as Northam Memorial Chapel and Gallup Memorial Gateway, which is separately listed on the NRHP. Cedar Hill Cemetery encompasses 270 acres (110 ha) and includes several historic buildings, including the Northam Memorial Chapel (built 1882), which was designed by Hartford architect George Keller, and the Superintendent's Cottage (built in 1875), which continues to be occupied by Cedar Hill's Superintendent to this day. The cemetery gates are open from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm, April - September, and from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm during all other months. Notable monuments Cedar Hill has many unique monuments. One of the most recognizable is the 18-foot (5.5 m) tall pink-granite pyramid, and life-sized angel statue, erected in memory of Mark Howard and his wife, Angelina Lee Howard. Mark Howard was president of the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford and Connecticut's first internal revenue collector. John Pierpont Morgan's family monument was designed by architect George W. Keller. Made of either red Scottish or Nova Scotia granite, the monument was designed to portray Morgan's vision of the Ark of the Covenant. The Porter-Valentine mausoleum features a stained-glass window created by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Notable burials More than 30,000 people are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, including many notable people such as: Robert Downing Ames (1889–1931), actor Fern Andra (1893–1974), actress John Moran Bailey (1904–1975), Connecticut politician Henry Barnard (1811–1900), Connecticut educator James Goodwin Batterson, Connecticut businessman Charles E. Billings (1834–1920), engineer, inventor and businessman Thomas Church Brownell, founder of Trinity College John R. Buck, U.S. Congressman Francis M. Bunce, U.S. Navy rear admiral Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, Connecticut businessman Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, Governor of Connecticut and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame Ernest Cady (1842–1908), 45th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut George Capewell, Connecticut businessman Charles Chapman (1799–1869), U.S. Congressman William Closson, artist Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909), suffragist, activist, writer Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, Connecticut business woman Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver Helen Curry (1896–1931), stage actress Katharine Seymour Day (1870–1964) Charles Bancroft Dillingham, Broadway producer James Dixon (1814–1873), U.S. Congressman and Senator Virginia Dox, frontier educator and popular lecturer Johnny Duke or Giulio Gallucci (1924–2006), professional boxer and coach Robert G. Erwin (1854–1906), lawyer Edward Miner Gallaudet, teacher Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, teacher Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, educator of the deaf William James Glackens (1870–1938), artist Annie Warburton Goodrich, nurse, first dean of Yale University School of Nursing Charles Keeney Hamilton, aviator Joseph Roswell Hawley, Governor of Connecticut Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), actress Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951), women's rights legal activist Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907), women's rights legal activist Richard D. Hubbard (1818–1884), U.S. Congressman and 48th Governor of Connecticut Richard Jarvis (1829–1903), president of Colt Firearms Marshall Jewell (1825–1883), Connecticut businessman. Mary Goodrich Jenson, aircraft pilot John James McCook (1843–1927), professor and theologian Anne Morgan (1873–1952), philanthropist Edwin Denison Morgan (1811–1883), United States Senator Junius Spencer Morgan, financier John Pierpont Morgan Sr., financier Jane Norton Grew Morgan (1868–1925), socialite and wife of J.P. Morgan, Jr. Benjamin Wistar Morris (1870–1944), architect Frederick E. Olmsted (1872–1925), forester Peter Davis Oakley (1861–1920), U.S. Representative Francis Ashbury Pratt, inventor Henry Roberts (1853–1929), Governor of Connecticut from 1905 to 1907 Thomas Henry Seymour, Governor of Connecticut Nathaniel Shipman (1828–1906), U.S. Circuit Judge Virginia Thrall Smith, children's rights legal advocate Griffin Alexander Stedman, United States Civil War general of the Battle of Fort Stedman. The General Stedman monument was sculpted by John M. Moffit. Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), poet Julius L. Strong (1828–1872), U.S. Congressman Allen Butler Talcott, artist Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell, theologian Robert Ogden Tyler, Civil War general Edward Sims Van Zile (1863–1931), author Loren P. Waldo (1802–1881), U.S. Congressman Charles Dudley Warner, writer Jacob Weidenmann (1829–1893), Switzerland-born landscape architect Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia Amos Whitney, inventor Yung Wing (1828–1912), first Chinese graduate of Yale University Monuments See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut References External links Cedar Hill Cemetery and Foundation, official website Cedar Hill's Distinguished Heritage, official website subpage on history David F. Ransom, NPHP Nomination, Cedar Hill Cemetery, 1996. Mapquest link, showing the cemetery Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford Connecticut, 1863–1903, 1903, OL 2966925M