Homewood Cemetery
Homewood Cemetery is a historic urban cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in Point Breeze and is bordered by Frick Park, the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and the smaller Smithfield Cemetery.
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Notable interments
Business leaders
- Edward Jay Allen, businessman
- Michael Late Benedum, businessman, co-founder of Benedum-Trees Oil Company
- David Lytle Clark, businessman, creator of Clark Bar and Zagnut
- Henry Clay Frick, industrialist, founder of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
- Henry J. Heinz, founder of H. J. Heinz Company
- H. J. "Jack" Heinz II, industrialist
- Henry Hillman, businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist
- William Larimer Mellon Sr., founder of Gulf Oil
- Willard Rockwell, founder of Rockwell International
- A.E. Succop , President Germania Savings Bank and German Fire Insurance Company
- Ernest T. Weir, founder of Weirton Steel and National Steel Corporation
- William Valentin Hartmann, VP of Gulf Oil
Political leaders
- Edward V. Babcock, Mayor of Pittsburgh 1918–22
- Matthew A. Dunn, member of the United States House of Representatives 1933–41
- William Flinn, politician
- Henry P. Ford, Mayor of Pittsburgh 1896–99
- H. John Heinz III, United States Senator 1977–91
- William McCallin, Mayor of Pittsburgh 1887–90
- John K. Tener, Governor of Pennsylvania 1911–1915
- Dick Thornburgh, United States attorney general 1988-1991
- William Wilkins, United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1831–34, Secretary of War 1844–45
- George Wilson, Mayor of Pittsburgh 1860–62
Military leaders
- John Wilkins Jr., Quartermaster General of the United States Army 1796–1802
Artists and musicians
- Erroll Garner, jazz pianist and composer
- Walt Harper, jazz pianist
- Teenie Harris, photographer
- George Hetzel, portrait and landscape painter
- Churchill Kohlman, songwriter
- Anna Woodward, portrait and landscape painter
- Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer
Science and medicine
- Mary Bidwell Breed, chemist and first female dean of Indiana University
- Jared Cohon, engineer and president of Carnegie Mellon University
- Bertha Lamme Feicht, first female engineering graduate from Ohio State University and first female engineer to be employed by Westinghouse
- Bernard Fisher, pioneer of breast cancer treatment
- Childs Frick, paleontologist
- John Bell Hatcher, paleontologist
- Edwin Ruud, mechanical engineer and inventor
- Alvin P. Shapiro, physician and educator
Sports figures
- Bill Bishop, baseball player
- Chuck Cooper, first African-American to be drafted into the NBA
- Earl Francis, baseball player
- Bob Priddy, baseball player
- Jock Sutherland, football coach
- Pie Traynor, baseball Hall of Famer
Others
- Edward Manning Bigelow, city planner
- Helen Clay Frick, philanthropist
- Rust Heinz, auto and boat designer
- Elsie Hillman, philanthropist and former Republican National Committeewoman
- John Barrett Kerfoot, first Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh
- Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin, civil rights activist
- Perle Mesta, Ambassador to Luxembourg 1949–53, and a noted Washington, D.C. socialite during Eisenhower and Nixon eras
- Robert Lee Vann, publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier
- Stephen Varzaly, priest, journalist, and cultural activist
- Tom Boggs, poet
- Peter Oresick, poet