Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, which at the 2020 United States census had a population of 29,308. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from por ...
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History
It was started in May 1876, by a group of Englewood residents who purchased of land for a cemetery. The property sits on the East side of Engle Street adjacent to Tenafly, New Jersey. The cemetery was named for the brook running beside its eastern boundary. A chapel built with the local pink sandstone was erected on East Palisades Avenue and dedicated in March 1860. It was the first
Presbyterian Church
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in Englewood and the first in
Bergen County, New Jersey
Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.seating capacity of 200, and was expanded to accommodate 800 people in 1880. In 1887, the chapel was donated to the cemetery, and moved, stone by stone, to its present site near the entrance gate to the east side of the cemetery. When the chapel was moved, and reconstructed, the building was rotated and the entrance moved from the west side of the building to the east side. Mayor, and historian, Austin Nicholas Volk calls it: "One of the most beautiful cemeteries in
Bergen County, New Jersey
Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Schuyler Warmflash refers to is as an "outdoor museum" and he wrote " hechange of attitude — which made sites devoted to the dead reassuringly pleasant to the living — is clearly manifest in Brookside Cemetery".
Notable interments
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William Weaver Bennett
William Weaver Bennett (February 4, 1841 – June 13, 1912) chaired the three-man township committee at the formation of Teaneck, New Jersey, making him the first Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey.
Biography
Bennett was born in Derbyshire, England o ...
Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood, New Jersey was incorporated on March 17, 1899. Beginning in 1980, Englewood switched from a Mayor-Council form of government to a modified Council-Manager plan of government in accordance with a Special Charter granted by the New Je ...
ornithologist
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Davy Force
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New Jersey's 11th congressional district
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The 11th congressional district, along with the 12 ...
from 1921 to 1923.
* Nance O'Neil (1874–1965), American stage and silent movie actress.
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Frank C. Osmers Jr.
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. (December 30, 1907 – May 21, 1977) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1939–1943 and again from 195 ...
(1907–1977), represented
New Jersey's 9th congressional district
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Cullen Sawtelle
Cullen Sawtelle (September 25, 1805 – November 10, 1887) was an American attorney and politician from Maine. He was most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative from 1845 to 1847 and 1849 to 1851.
Biography
Sawtelle was born in Norr ...
(1805–1887), represented
Maine's 5th congressional district
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from 1845 to 1847 and from 1849 to 1851.
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Robert E. Speer
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Biography
He was born at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on 10 September 1867. He graduated from Phillips Academ ...
(1867-1947), Religious leader.
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Thomas D. Thacher
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New Jersey Senate
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and the
Public Service Corporation
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George W. Wickersham
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Downing Vaux
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Career
Born to Calvert Vaux, a noted architect ( ...
(1856-1926),
landscape architect
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*There is one British
Commonwealth war grave
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