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The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York, is a town-owned rural cemetery encompassing 47 acres (19 ha) and has been operational since October 1851. In 2013 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.




Description


The Dale Cemetery located in Ossining, New York, is a town-owned cemetery encompassing 47 acres (190,000 m2). The cemetery was originally owned by the Dale Cemetery Association which was incorporated on 16 January 1851 and was dedicated in October 1851. It was designed by Howard Daniels. At its dedication Professor C. Mason said, that we build cemeteries "for the use, the pleasure, the instruction, the edification of the living." Its first President was Aaron Ward, retired congressman. The cemetery was acquired by the Town of Ossining in 2004.




Notable interments


Thomas Allcock (1815–1891), Civil War General for the Union Army
Franz Boas (1858–1942), the "Father of American Anthropology"
Benjamin Brandreth (1807–1880), proprietor of Brandreth's Pills, one of the earliest mass market consumer branded products in the United States, founder of Brandreth Park
Chester Hoff (1891–1998), Oldest ex-Major League Baseball player at time of death. He played for the NY Highlanders (later the NY Yankees) and St. Louis Browns.
John Thompson Hoffman (1828–1888), governor of New York (1869–72), Mayor of New York City (1866–68)
Ingersoll Lockwood (1841–1918), lawyer and writer (Section A)
Edwin A. McAlpin (1848–1917), president of the D.H. McAlpin & Co tobacco company, builder of the Hotel McAlpin, the largest hotel in the world, and Adjutant General of the State of New York
Sonny Sharrock (1940–1994), jazz guitarist
Aaron Ward (1790–1867), American congressman
Samuel Youngs (1760–1839), who in 1851 was moved from his earlier burial site and became the first person interred at Dale Cemetery. He was a possible inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in his friend Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".




See also


National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York




References

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