Notables

1. John Divine Jones – Sec. 4

Founded the Memorial Cemetery in 1862. His estate is now the site of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Many insurance companies would not insure the US Navy ships because they feared heavy losses. John Devine Jones then insured the US Navy ships during the Civil War.

2. Benjamin Moore – Lawyer – Sec. 3 – Plot 13

Estate in East Norwich called Chelsea designed by Architect William Delano — grandson of Clement Moore who wrote “T’was the Night Before Christmas” and who was a descendant of Rev. Moore whose farm in Lower Manhattan was called Chelsea – which is now the district in NYC.

3. Col. Henry Stimson – Sec. 3 – Plot 14

Plot 14 World War II before it was changed to the Department of Defense.

4. Otto Kahn – Sec. 3 – Plot 18

Jewish banker and Philanthropist. When the Metropolitan Opera was going bankrupt, he set up a foundation that saved the opera house and to this day still funds the Met. Residence: Oheka Castle designed by Architect William Delano. First mansion in Morristown, NJ burned to the ground with all his art treasures. He contracted William Delano to design a house that would not burn. Oheka Castle is constructed out of concrete.

5. Alfred P. Sloan Jr. – Sec. 1 .- Plot 12

CEO, President and chairman of General Motors from l920’s through the l950’s. He introduced new styles annually marketed to low, middle and high end consumer. Founded Sloan Kettering Hospital with Charles Kettering, Vice President of GM.

6. William Delano – Sec. 2 – Plot 12

Architect – Designed the WW II Memorial in France.

Plot 12 Also designed Oheka Castle and the Chelsea Estate for Benjamin Moore among many others.

7. Henry & Robert DeForest – Sec. 1

Descendents of Issac DeForest who worked for the West Indies Company. Had one of the first contracts for a house to be built in New Amsterdam. They hired the Olmstead Brothers to landscape 10 acres they had purchased but they resold 7 acres back to the Memorial Cemetery.

8. Mortimer L. Schiff – Sec. 8 – Plot 8

Jewish American Banker, Philanthropist and notable Boy Scout leader.

9. William Paley – Sec. 8 – Plot 9

Chief Executive who built CBS from a small network into one of the leaders of radio and TV, Philanthropist

10. Alfred Hershey – Sec. 8

Chemist – Winner of Nobel Prize won for Physiology of Medicine in 1969.

11. David Houston – Sec. II

Statesman – Secretary of Agriculture 1913-1920 and Secretary of Treasury under President Wilson’s cabinet – Grandson of Sam Houston.

12. Nicholas Rey – Sec. 11-Block 3 – Plot 12

US Ambassador to Poland in the Clinton Administration

13. John Lindsay – Sec. 11 – Block 2 Plot 16

Politician, Mayor of New York City – 1966-1973

14. George B. Cortelyou – Sec. 11

President McKinley’s Secretary, President T. Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury, Postmaster General and Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

15. Arthur G. Dove – Sec. 9

Seminal abstract painter. Studied in Paris with other experimental artists. His second wife was artist, Helen Torr.

16. Mai (Mary) Rogers Coe

Her father, Henry Rogers operated the Warnsutta Oil Refinery. He then worked with Charles Pratt and developed a process for separating naphtha Hom crude oil for which he received a patent and then John D. Rockefeller acquired them to be part of Standard Oil. In 1913, they acquired the planting field property and began planting and landscaping the estate. She imported many species of trees, shrubs and flowers. This is one of the few remaining “Gold Coast” estates left intact. In 1949, the 353 acre estate was deeded to the State of New York and became the “Planting Fields Arboretum State Park”. (Coe Mausoleum)

17. “Killer” Joe Piro – Sec. 8 – Block D – Plot 78

Professional Dancer and instructor to the “Stars” and high society. appeared on the Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas shows where he would teach the Twist, Mambo, Cha Cha, Watusi and the Frug with his GoGo Girls.

18. Mary Gardiner Jones Livingston Short Plot – Sec. 8 – Block B

Nationally recognized feminist and consumer advocate. Died 12/23/2009. Pres. Johnson appointed her to the Federal Trade Commission. She was a trustee of Wellesley College and Colgate University. Last 15 years, dedicated to aged, homeless and inner City children mental health services and issues.

19. William John Matheson
Sec. 3

Founded Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation. He owned 2/3’s of Key Biscayne now occupied by Miami-Dade County’s Crandon Park.

20. Walter Burr Jennings – Sec. 1 – Plot 20

Director of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. His father, Oliver Burr Jennings was an original stock holder in Standard Oil. They may be relatives of Aaron Burr.

21. Arthur Dean – Sec. 8 – Block D

1899-1987 – NY Lawyer and diplomat. Chairman and Senior Partner of Sullivan and Cromwell. He worked closely with John Foster Dulles as chief negotiator at Panmunj eon and helped with the Truce and Cease Fire of the Korean War. He negotiated the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

22. Harold A. Abramson – Sec. 8 – Block B

1899-1980 -. US allergist who played a signilicanl role in the CIA’s program to investigate military applications of LSD.

23. Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks – Sec. 1 – Plot 14

1878-1964 – U.S. resident director of the Cunard Line.

24. John K. Colgate – Sec 8 – Block A – Plot 253-254

1905 – 1978 – President of Colgate, Inc.

25. Robert Koenig – Sec 8 – Block A – Plot 281

President of Cerro Corporation previously Cerrowire.

26. Harold Irving Pratt – Section 8 – Block B – Plot 163,4,5

died in 1976. Son of H. Irving Pratt who owned “Welwyn Manor” which is now the Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove. Presently it now houses the Nassau County Holocaust Museum. He was also founder of Pratt Institute in NY and director of Standard Oil of New Jersey.