Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, New Jersey



Fairmount Cemetery is a 150 acre Victorian cemetery in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey, in the neighborhood of Fairmount. It opened in 1855, shortly after the Newark City Council banned burials in the central city due to fears that bodies spread yellow fever. The first burial in Fairmount Cemetery was a 24-year-old man named Lewis J. Pierson. Fairmount is still accepting interments.

Along with Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Fairmount has the graves of Newark’s most eminent turn of the century citizens. Clara Maass, who gave her life in the investigation of yellow fever. A high proportion of the graves belong to German families. Fairmount Cemetery has beautiful trees, rolling hills, and intricately carved monuments. By the old South Orange Avenue entrance there is the recently restored zinc Settlers' Monument, commemorating the founders of Newark. There is also a Civil War memorial. The modern entrance to Fairmount Cemetery is on Central Avenue.

Notable burials

 * Harriet Adams (1893-1982), pseudonymous author of many books in the Nancy Drew series and a few in the Hardy Boys series.
 * Peter Angelo Cavicchia (1879-1967)
 * Gottfried Krueger, brewer
 * Henry Meade Doremus
 * Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1891 to 1895.
 * Christian William Feigenspan (1836-1939), president of Newark's Feigenspan Brewing Company.
 * James Fairman Fielder (1867-1954), Governor of New Jersey 1913-1917
 * William Henry Frederick Fiedler (1847-1919), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1883 to 1885.
 * Gwen Guthrie (1950-1999), singer-songwriter.
 * Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (1902-1969)
 * Henry Lang (1828-1897) - Mayor of Newark, NJ 1882-1883
 * Frederick Lehlbach (1876-1937)
 * Herman Lehlbach (1845-1904), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1885 to 1889.
 * Clara Maass (1876-1901), nurse who died as a result of volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever.
 * Gerhard Heinrich Mennen, of the Mennen Corporation
 * William Heinrich Mennen, of the Mennen Corporation
 * Le Gage Pratt (1852-1911)
 * Charles Emil Henry Stengel (1857-1914), Newark patent leather manufacturer who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
 * Annie May Morris Stengel (1868-1956), wife of Charles Emil Henry Stengel, and also a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
 * Bert Leslie (1871-1933), Vaudeville comedian and Broadway actor.  Vaudeville act Hogan "The King of Slang" 1902-1910. Broadway show "Naughty Marietta" 1910.  One of the original "White Rats" (prelude to the Actor's Guild).