Riverside Cemetery in

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, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 250,000 people. Since 1942, the cemetery has been owned and operated by the City of Rochester.Riverside and Mount Hope Cemeteries
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Notable burials

* Giuseppe Aiello, organized crime leader * William Joseph Beldue, inventor of the eyelash curler * Virgil Warden Finlay, renowned illustrator of science-fiction and fantasy during the Pulp Era * Kate Gleason, engineer and businesswoman *

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, businesswoman, inventor * Harold C. Mitchell, lawyer and New York State Assemblyman *

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, jazz musician and singer from

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* Allen J. Oliver, New York State SenatorThe Political Graveyard
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of the

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.Veteran burials in Section O of Riverside Cemetery
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