Brookside Cemetery is a historical cemetery in

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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

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. The cemetery was named for the brook running beside its eastern boundary. A chapel built with the local pink

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was erected on East Palisades Avenue and dedicated in March 1860. It was the first

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in Englewood and the first in Bergen County, New Jersey. It had a

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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 Austin Nicholas Volk (December 28, 1918 – September 18, 2010) was an American businessman and politician from New Jersey. A member of the Republican Party, Volk served as the Mayor of Englewood, and in the New Jersey State Assembly for tw ...

calls it: "One of the most beautiful cemeteries in Bergen County, 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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(1841-1912), first Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey. * Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff (1838–1913),

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. *

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(1930-2018), actor. * Frank Chapman,

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. * Davy Force (1849–1918), baseball pioneer. * Dody Goodman (1914-2008), actress *

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(1873–1931), represented New Jersey in the

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from 1930 to 1931. *

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(1882–1949), represented

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from 1921 to 1923. *

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(1874–1965), American stage and silent movie actress. * Frank C. Osmers Jr. (1907–1977), represented

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in the

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from 1939–1943 and again from 1951-1965. * Cullen Sawtelle (1805–1887), represented

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from 1845 to 1847 and from 1849 to 1851. *

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(1867-1947), Religious leader. * Thomas D. Thacher (1881–1950), one-time

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. * Edmund W. Wakelee (1869–1945), President of the

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and the

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* George W. Wickersham (1858–1936),

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from 1909 to 1913.George Woodward Wickersham

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. Accessed August 22, 2007. * Downing Vaux (1856-1926),

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*There is one British

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in the cemetery, of a

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Sergeant of

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.
CWGC Casualty Record.

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