Lake View Cemetery (Ithaca, New York)
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| Established | 1894 |
| Location | 605 E Shore Dr, Ithaca, New York |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 42°27′25″N 76°29′42″W / 42.45694°N 76.49500°W |
| No. of graves | 8,000 |
| Website | lakeview-ithaca |
| Find a Grave | Lake View Cemetery |
Lake View Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the city of Ithaca, in Tompkins County, New York named for its original view of nearby Lake Cayuga.
History
[edit]The cemetery was established in 1894. It includes an Egyptian Revival style mausoleum and receiving vault, a distinctive serpentine road system and architectural works by William Henry Miller and Liberty Hyde Bailey.[1]
Lake View Cemetery was hit with a series of embezzlement scandals in the twenty-first century. In 2006, a groundskeeper pled guilty to stealing $87,709 from the cemetery.[2] In 2014, a former caretaker and president of Lake View Cemetery was charged with embezzling over $50,000 and "selling or giving away" much of the cemetery's equipment.[2] The cemetery is currently in operation, selling burial lots and providing burial services.[3]
Notable burials
[edit]Given its proximity to Cornell University, the cemetery includes a number of significant figures from the university's history, including members of the Cornell family, and the graves of faculty members.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954), American horticulturalist and designer
- Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889–1983), American botanist and curator
- Juanita Breckenridge Bates (1860–1946), American suffragist and early woman ordained as a minister
- Sophronia Bucklin (1828–1902), American Civil War nurse
- John "Honest John" Clapp (1851–1904), early American baseball player and manager
- Robert Gilmour Dobie (1878–1948), American football player and record-setting coach
- Estevan Antonio Fuertes (1838–1903), Cornell astronomer and namesake of Fuertes Observatory
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927), American ornithologist, illustrator and artist
- James R. Houck (1940–2015), pioneer of infrared observational astronomy
- William Henry Miller (1848–1922), American architect
- Carl Sagan (1934–1996), American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer
References
[edit]- ^ "Cemetery History". Lake View Cemetery. Archived from the original on August 7, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hart, Glynis (March 19, 2014). "Lakeview Cemetery Tries to Regroup After Embezzlement". ithaca.com. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- ^ "Cemetery Home Page". Lake View Cemetery. Archived from the original on November 2, 2023. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
