Woodlawn Cemetery (Canandaigua, New York)

Woodlawn Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	130 N. Pearl St, Canandaigua, New York
Coordinates	42°53′18″N 77°17′56″W / 42.88833°N 77.29889°W / 42.88833; -77.29889Coordinates: 42°53′18″N 77°17′56″W / 42.88833°N 77.29889°W / 42.88833; -77.29889
Area	64.4 acres (26.1 ha)
NRHP Reference #	14000914[1]
Added to NRHP	November 12, 2014

This article refers to the Woodlawn Cemetery in Canandaigua, New York. For other uses, see Woodlawn Cemetery (disambiguation).

Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, United States.

In June 1884, officers and trustees were elected and the original 28 acres (110,000 m²) of land were purchased from Lucius Wilcox. Over the years, people left adjacent land to the cemetery which now totals 64.4 acres (261,000 m²) in the city and 7 acres (28,000 m²) in the town of Canandaigua and serves as a burial site for more than 13,000 people.

The Woodlawn Cemetery chapel was dedicated in 1910. In 2014 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]

Notable burials

• Myron Holley Clark (1806-1892) - Governor of New York
• Francis Granger (1792-1868) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Postmaster General; candidate for U.S. Vice President (1836)
• Gideon Granger (1767-1822) - New York State Senator and U.S. Postmaster General
• Elbridge Gerry Lapham (1814-1890) - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Senate
• John Raines (1840-1909) - New York State Senator and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Frederick Ferris Thompson (1836-1899) - notable banker, co-founder of predecessor banks to Citibank and JP Morgan Chase
• Mary Clark Thompson (1835-1923) - philanthropist
• Stanton Davis Kirkham (1868-1944) - author
• Walter Knapp - the first licensed Navy helicopter pilot.
• Artists Lydia Atwater, Frank Hutchens and Charles Dickens Wader
• Edward Francis Winslow, a Civil War general, who died at Sonnenberg while visiting Mary Clark Thompson and her banker husband, Frederick Ferris Thompson

See also

• List of cemeteries in New York
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Ontario County, New York

References

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