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]
Schoonmaker monument (Jakob Otto Schweizer, sculptor)
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It was established in 1878 from William Wilkins' 650-acre (2.6 km2) estate, Homewood.[3]
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
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
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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.