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Princeton Cemetery

Paul Tulane (Tulane University) Tomb
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Some of the noted people who are buried in Princeton Cemetery, according to Wikipedia:
Archibald Alexander (1772-1851), Presbyterian theologian
James Waddel Alexander (1804-1859), Presbyterian theologian and eldest son of Archibald Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander (1809-1860), Presbyterian biblical scholar and third son of Archibald Alexander
William Cowper Alexander (1806-1874), politician, businessman and second son of Archibald Alexander
George Wildman Ball (1909-1994), diplomat
George Dashiell Bayard (1835-1862), Civil War General
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), bookshop owner
John Berrien I (1712-1772), New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of Rockingham House
Aaron Burr (1756-1836), Revolutionary War hero, New York Attorney General and third Vice President of the United States
Aaron Burr, Sr. (1716-1757), Presbyterian minister, second president of Princeton University and father of Aaron Burr
Alonzo Church (1903-1995), mathematician
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), 22nd and 24th President of the United States
Frances Cleveland (1864-1947), wife of President Grover Cleveland
Ruth Cleveland (1891-1904), first child of Grover and Frances Cleveland and supposed name sake of the Baby Ruth candybar.
Edward Samuel Corwin (1878-1963), professor of law and author
Samuel Davies (1723-1761), president of Princeton University
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), president of Princeton University and Calvinist theologian
Richard Stockton Field (1803-1870), US Senator and New Jersey Attorney General
John Huston Finley (1863-1940), President of Knox College, University of the State of New York and author
George Horace Gallup (1901-1984), pollster
William Francis Gibbs (1886-1967), naval architect
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Albert Einstein Award-winning mathematician
Peter Charles Harris (1865-1951), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1922
Charles Hodge (1797-1878), Calvinist theologian
David Hunter (1802-1886), Civil War General
Joseph Karge (1823-1892), Civil War General and Princeton University professor
George Frost Kennan (1904-2005), diplomat
Frank Lewin (1925-2008), composer
David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001), philosopher
Edward Parke Custis Lewis (1837-1892), diplomat
John Maclean, Jr. (1800-1886), President of Princeton University
Jose Menendez (1944-1989), murder victim of sons Lyle and Erik Menendez
Mary Louise (Kitty) Menendez (1941-1989), murder victim of sons Lyle and Erik Menendez
Moses Taylor Pyne (1855-1921), Financier, philanthropist and owner of Drumthwacket Estate
Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919), Civil War General
Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957), Astronomer
William Milligan Sloane (1850-1928), First US Olympic Committee President
Howard Alexander Smith (1880-1966), US Senator from New Jersey
John P. Stockton (1826-1900), US Senator and New Jersey Attorney General
Richard Stockton (1764-1828), US Senator from New Jersey.
Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866), Naval officer
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (1914-1997), Astronomer
John Renshaw Thomson (1800-1862), US Senator from New Jersey
William G. Thompson (1840-1904), Mayor of Detroit
John W. Tukey (1915-2000), Statistician
Paul Tulane (1801-1887), Tulane University benefactor
John von Neumann (1903-1957), Mathematician
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921), Presbyterian theologian
Canvass White (1790-1834), Engineer and inventor
Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995), Nobel Prize-winning physicist
John Witherspoon (1723-1794), signer of Declaration of Independence
William Willet (artist) (1867-1921), portraitist and stained glass designer

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