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Index for Notable Figures

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A

Aal, Thomas Henry Eaton - Specialized in Submarine Technology

Acker, Charles Henry - Head of the Oldest Tobacco Warehouse Firms in Manhattan

Adams​, CPT. Alonzo  Master Mariner

Allan, John T. - Estate & Building Appraiser

Allen, Belle - Magdalen

Allen, Elizabeth Johnston - Irish Immigrant

Allen, John "William" - Ferryboat Crewman & Irish Immigrant

Allen, Minnie  Vaudeville Actress & Singer

Altenkirch, Robert Max - House & Roadhouse Proprietor

Altenkirch-Westplaf, Elise Braun - Respected Wife & Mother

Alvarez, Arturo Gil – Cuban Writer/Journalist

Dr. Ambatchew, Abebe – Chief of Divisions at UNDP headquarters & UN Coordinator

Andruszkiewicz, Anthony John - Aviation Electronics Technician 

Anthony, Fannie M. Smith - Jamaican Stewardess

Archer, Theodore F.  Jamaica NY Businessman/Civic Leader

Arkwright, Joseph – Leading Entrepreneur & Co-inventor
Armbruster, Maria Reis – Richmond Hill Hotel Keeper

Armstrong, John Jackson - Former Judge of Queens County

Arniotis, Dimitrios George “Jimmy” - Vietnam War Veteran

Arrighi, Roswell Smith - Protestant Minister & School Superintendent

Attridge, Thomas Wilkinson Jr. - Maple Grove Cemetery President

Dr. Au Young, Sum Nung Writer

Aubinger, George – Queens Businessman

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B

Baboushkin, Raymond - Wine & Mozart Connoisseur

Backus, Isaac Wyckoff – Queens Coal Dealer

Bailey, John Edward Trist - Founder of Bayswater & Estate Developer
Baird, Charles Gamble - Career Soldier WWI Telegrapher

Baird, Teresa Menyhart - Respected Wife of Charles Baird
Baker, LaVern - Award Winning Rhythm & Blues Singer

Bakhmeteff, Helene Speranksky – Russian émigré

Balko, Anna - Patient at Ellis Island Hospital

Ball, Sarah E – Early Respected Woodhaven Resident

Balseca-Bahamonde, José Vicente - Professional Soccer Player

Bangert, Lawrence Eugene Jr. – Son of Civic Leader & Businessman

Bangert, Valentine – Builder & Civic Leader

Banister, Eleanor – Portrait Painter

Barrows, Haydn W. - U.S. Air Force Pilot

Benci, Bela Gustav – Musician/Drummer

Bedell, Dorothy Marjorie Columbine - Painter

Bell, James Milton MD - Army Medical Doctor
Bel-Jon, Nikos – Metal Muralist Artist

Benson, Philip Adolphus - Banker on the Board of Directors New York World's Fair

Benson, William Melville - Flight Engineer, Aviation Accident Victim

Benthin, Frederick Carl Jacob - Wheelwright & Blacksmith Shop Owner

Bernard, Clinton “Will” Percival - Survivor of the RMS Lusitania Disaster

Bernstein, Adolph - Musical Director

Bernstein, Anna C. Nack - Music Teacher

Berthet, Felix Daniel - Civil War Veteran & Businessman

Betz, Otto John - Owner of Betz Brewery

Beyers, Walter Sylvester - Lost at Sea | Cenotaph

Beyers, Howard Charles - US Navy Chief Quartermaster

Bidgood, George - Maple Grove Cemetery Associate

Biondo, Joseph "Little Rabbit" - Association with Organized Crime

Bishop, Charles B. – Stage Actor

Bishop, William Stillman - Sons of the American RevolutionBirch, Mabel Augusta Davis – Music Educator

Birdsall, John Thomas Thorne – Ice Dealer

Black, Mary - Plane Crash Victim

Blake, Florence Rosa "Flo" Sears - English Immigrant & a Member of the Daughters of St. George

Blake, George William - Craftsman & Member of the Brooklyn Royal Arch Masons

Boers, Leonard Stanley - District Soda Manager for Loft Candy Inc.

Boerem, Sarah Ann "Boreum" - Descendant of First European Child Born in the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam

Bourquin, Jeanne M. - Trained Hello Girl

Boursin, Henrietta Elizabeth Camden Clark – Witnessed the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Bosch, Albert Henry - Congressman & Judge

Boursin, Henry J. – Former Gold Prospector & Mining Engineer

Bradler, Margaret Teresa "Margie" O'Connor - Employed at Carnegie Hall & Majestic Theatre

Bradler, Robert Peter "Robbie" Sr. - WWII Veteran on the SS Normandie

Brauneiss, Alois – Musician – Glass Harmonica

Brieba, Lorenzo II - Pilot & Aviator
Bronk Jr., La Vergne - Descendant of Jonas Bronk of the Bronx

Brons, George - Froze to death in NYC Blizzard

Bryant, Irving Sumner - Musical Director

Bryant, William Harrison - WWI Veteran in Chemical Warfare

Budion, John - Master Stonecutter

Buff, Arthur Alvin - 1916 Mexican Punitive Expedition American Soldier

Bulss, Horst - German Actor

Burgess, Robert Diggins - Fireman

Burkhard, Thomas Jr. - Coopersmith | Family-owned Business, Thomas Burkhard Inc.

Burkhard, Thomas Sr. - Coopersmith

Burkhardt, Charles Martin - Machinist for the Dictograph Products Company

Burton, Daniel - Civil War Veteran on the Navy

Butler, Henry Clay - Civil War and WWI Veteran 

 

C
Camp, Reverend Charles William - Masonic Reverend Lodge Officer

Camarinos, John A. - Greek Restaurant Owner
Cannon, Henry - Magician/Author

Carlton, Gerald - Reporter, Journalist, & Novelist
Carter, William “Billy” - Banjo Player

Carmichael, Thomas McCann - Ship Steward, Possible Murder Victim

Cassidy, James Henry - Congressman

Caswell, Edward Colie - Illustrator & Artist

Cataldi, Zautziki Lucia - WWII Bride

Cataldi, Nancy Lucia - Richmond Hill Preservationist & Photographer

Chamberlain, Joseph B. - Director of Mount Olivet Cemetery

Chester, William Sidney - Owner of Horn & Hardart Automat

Chen, Richard A. - Stand Up Comedian & Musical Entertainer

Chipman, Charles R. - Captain Lost at Sea

Cisco, Samuel - Advocate Against School Segregation
Claghorn, Kate Holladay - Sociologist/Author

Clayton, Elizabeth Carroll - Born on the Sea

Clayton-Currier, Elizabeth Mary - Married three times

Cody, Henry - Brother of Novelist Marie Corelli

Cogswell, Colonel William Sterling - Established Maple Grove Cemetery & Civic Leader | Cenotaph
Coleman, George Montgomery - Naval Reserve Sailor

Collins, Joseph Edmund - Canadian Author

Colné, Charles - President Lincoln's Messenger & Friend of Frederic Bartholdi

Conklin, Peter - Clown Circus Performer
Cook, Charles Ferguson - Civil Engineer & Archeologist

Cooper, Thomas Powell - Merchant Mariner
Coward, Johnathan J. - Civil War Veteran

Coward, Mary Elizabeth Taggart Johnson - Veteran Johnathan’s Spouse
Crosby, Frances A. - Mother of Cartoonist Percy Crosby
Criss, Francis Hyman - American Painter

Curry, Dana Dawson - Singer/Actress
Czito, Coleman - Machinist & Nikola Tesla’s Personal Assistant

 

D
Dani, Ramiz - Founder of Dani’s House of Pizza

Daggett, Phoebe Ione Chase - Community Leader & Matriarch
Davis, Augustine - Inventor

Dennler, Mary L. Layton - Civil War Nurse

Dennler, Zachariah Philip - Physician
Doe, Mama - Inspired the Mama Doe Foundation

Dodson, Edith Georgina Annette - Hello Girl, WWI Veteran

Drysdale, Margaret - Actress

Dunton, Frederick W. - Businessman, Founder of Dunton, Queens​​

E
Eklund, Frule – Cemetery Worker for Maple Grove Cemetery

Ellis, Melville - Broadway Prodigy

Everett, Captain Charles P. - Deep Sea Diver

 

F
Failor, Issac Newton - Mathematician & RHHS’s First Principal
Fort, John Henry - Businessman & Civil War Veteran
Foster, Harrison La Tourette “Harry” - Journalist & Civil War Veteran

Foy, Harry "Henry Crowell" - American Vaudeville Performer

Fowx, Estelle “Ellen” Hewitt - Wet Plate Photographer


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Gabrin, Dr. Frank - First ER Physician to Pass Away from COVID

Granger, George W. - Civil War Veteran
Grebe, Alfred H. - Radio Pioneer

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H

Hambidge, James Edward “Jay” - Artist/Writer
Heath, Henry Roswell - Union Army Volunteer

Heath, Jane Maria Bush “Jennie” Williams - Descendant of the Founder of Rhode Island
Howson, Giralomo Frank Alfred - Composer & Conductor

 

I
Izzo, Giuseppe - Electricuted Railroad Worker

 

J
Japp, Elizabeth Milne Hodge - Mother & Wife

Jean-Baptiste, Kyle - Broadway Actor & Singer

Dr. Jenning, Ella Albertina – Physician & Social Reformer

Jobson, David Wemyss - Dental Surgeon for Queen Victoria & Author
Jones, George “Count Johnannes” - Shakespearean Actor

Johnson, George Washington - African American Superstar Singer

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K

Klimov, Gregory Petrovich - Writer & Political Commentator

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L

Loughlin, Delia “Bluebird of Mulberry Bend” - Missionary

Lhévinne, Josef - Gold Medal Russian Pianist
Lhévinne, Rosina - Gold Medal Russian Pianist
Lund, Issac Oscar - Carpenter at the Panama Canal

Luszczewski, Piotr Lucjan - Flight Attendant during 9/11

Lyod, Sam - America's Puzzle King & Chess Master

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M

MacDonald, Ella Jennings - Physician/Author

Magin, Bonnie - Actress at the Iroquois Theatre fire
Mann II, Albon Platt - Estate Developer
Manly, Charles Matthews - Engineer & Aviation Pioneer
Manninici, Alfio “Freddie” - Immigrant
Marquis, Don - Poet
Marsh, Francis Lincoln - Railroad Employee

Matson, William Agur - Clergyman

Matthews, Victoria Earle Smith - Journalist/Author

Mayrbaurl, Max - Arion Club Steward
McCarroll, James - Poet/Journalist
McGowan, Harry Roland - Silent Film Actor

McKenney, John J. - Civil War Veteran, Cenotaph

McKenney, Mary Esther Seaver - Respected Wife of Civil War Veteran

Meduri, Demetrio “Danny” - Opera Singer & Tenor

Merkt Sr., Adolph - Craftsman & Theatre Light Manufacturer

Merritt, Theresa - Broadway Singer & Actress

Mitchell, Clara C. Locker - Formally Enslaved

Mitran, Monica - Fashion Designer

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O

Otis, Charles Joseph - Bugler & WWI Veteran

O'Connor, Neva Aymar - Vaudeville Broadway Star

 

P
Paxton, George - Silent Film Actor

Pedersen, Bertha Christine - Early Richmond Hill Resident

Pedersen, Niels - Carpenter
Pollard, Julia - Dog of Marie Antoinette Nathalie Pollard
Portong, Ludolf Ferdinand - Victim of the 1920 Wall Street Bombing

Post, Kate Matson - Author of the First Book of Richmond Hill History
Profit, Clarence Albert - Jazz Pianist/Composer

Pryor, Josephine Baughman - Literary Agent

Purdy, Ada Spice - Descendant from Dutch Settlers/Headless Horsemen

 

R
Rapper, Irving - Hollywood Film Director - Now Voyager

Richardson, Thomas Haynes - Remembered through a statue on the grave
Ringeisen, Augusta Viltaro - Mother

Ringeisen, Jacob P. - Brick Layer
Rushing, Jimmy - Jazz & Blues Singer

 

S
Sbarbaro Sr., Anthony “Tony” - Jazz Drummer

Schiverea, Ferdinand S. - Author & Priest

Schott, Captain Charles Rudolph - Firefighter at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Serger, Frederick Bedřich - Modernist Painter
Serger, Helen Spitzer - Art Dealer & Collector
Shackelford, Theodore Henry - African American Poet & Violinist
Sprague, Edward H. - First Burial at Maple Grove in 1876

Stearns, Albert - Civil War Veteran/Inventor

Stearns, John Newton - Editor/Author of Prohibitionist

Stebbins, George Coles - Singer & Composer of hymns

Steel, Sarah Elizabeth Allison - Singer
St. Leon, Alfred - Circus Performer & Equestrian

Stowe, Susan Mitchell Munroe - Writer & Cultural Figure

Stier, Paul - Real Estate Developer & Sheriff
Surber, Wilfred Andrew - Athlete & WWI Veteran

Sutcliffe, Rev. Harry J. - Linguist & Blind Clergyman
Sutphin, Harry - Son of John Sutphin & Author
Sutphin, John H. - President of Jamaica Saving Bank & Jamaica Town Clerk
Swinyard, George L. H. - Theatre Usher

 

T
Taral, Frederick J. "Fred" - Jockey

Tavarez, Shannon Skye - Broadway Child Actress & Singer

Teagle, Joseph - African American Civil War Sailor

Tunnel, Millie & Family - Formally Enslaved Family

 

V
Vafides, Thomas A. - WWII Veteran

Van Gelder, Gerardus Martinus - Composer

Van Gelder, Marie - Opera Singer

Van Praag, Maurice - Violinist/French Horn Soloist
Vanderveer, Catalina Duryea - Devoted Mother
Vanderveer, Dominicus - Victim of Highway Robbery
Vickers, Nathaniel William - Centaurian Golfer

Voshell, Samuel Howard - WWI Veteran & Tennis Player

Voskerichian, Virginia G. - Victim of Son of Sam

Vourderis, Marinos - Creator of Marinos Italian Ices

 

W
Wah, Edouard King Fong - Haitian Painter

Ware, James Edward - Architect of Maple Grove Cemetery

Watson, Frederick Augustus - WWI Veteran & Manager of the Forest Hill Inns

Weber, Frederick Johann - Photographer

Weiden, Ernest - Richmond Hill Hotel Businessman

Weiden, Rosa Lippert - Richmond Hill Hotel Manager

Weir, Annie Healy - Died from the Spanish Flu/Influenza Epidemic

Wilkins, Ann - First Missionary in Africa

Wilson, Beatrice Mordaunt - Performer

Wilson, Kuniko Nakajima - Japanese Figure Skater
Winn, Thomas – Pirate & Buccaneer

Woodson, John Henry - First Active African American FDNY

 

Y
Youmans, Vincent Millie - Broadway Composer

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