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.

Notable interments

Business leaders

• Edward Jay Allen (1830–1915), businessman
• Michael Late Benedum (1869–1959), businessman, co-founder of Benedum-Trees Oil Company
• David Lytle Clark (1864–1939), businessman, creator of Clark Bar and Zagnut
• Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), industrialist, founder of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
• Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919), founder of H. J. Heinz Company
• H. J. "Jack" Heinz II (1908–1987), industrialist
• Henry Hillman (1918–2016), businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist
• William Larimer Mellon Sr. (1868–1949), founder of Gulf Oil
• Willard Rockwell (1888–1978), founder of Rockwell International
• A.E. Succop (Augustus Ernest) (1847–1931), President Germania Savings Bank and German Fire Insurance Company
• Ernest T. Weir (1875–1957), founder of Weirton Steel and National Steel Corporation
• William Valentin Hartmann (1871–1947), VP of Gulf Oil

Political leaders

• Edward V. Babcock (1864–1948), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1918–22
• Matthew A. Dunn (1886–1942), member of the United States House of Representatives 1933–41
• William Flinn (1851–1924), politician
• Henry P. Ford (1837–1905), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1896–99
• H. John Heinz III (1938–1991), United States Senator 1977–91
• William McCallin (1842–1904), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1887–90
• John K. Tener (1863–1946), Governor of Pennsylvania 1911–1915
• Dick Thornburgh (1932-2020), United States attorney general 1988-1991
• William Wilkins (1779–1865), United States Senator from Pennsylvania 1831–34, Secretary of War 1844–45
• George Wilson (1816–1902), Mayor of Pittsburgh 1860–62

Military leaders

• John Wilkins Jr. (1761–1816), Quartermaster General of the United States Army 1796–1802

Artists and musicians

• Erroll Garner (1921–1977), jazz pianist and composer
• Walt Harper (1926–2006), jazz pianist
• Teenie Harris (1908–1998), photographer
• George Hetzel (1826–1899), portrait and landscape painter
• Churchill Kohlman (1906–1983), songwriter
• Anna Woodward (1868–1935), portrait and landscape painter
• Nikolai Lopatnikoff (1907-1976), composer
• Mac Miller (1992- 2018), rapper, songwriter, producer

Science and medicine

• Mary Bidwell Breed (1870–1949), chemist and first female dean of Indiana University
• Jared Cohon (1947–2024), engineer and president of Carnegie Mellon University
• Bertha Lamme Feicht (1869–1943), first female engineering graduate from Ohio State University and first female engineer to be employed by Westinghouse
• Bernard Fisher (1918–2019), pioneer of breast cancer treatment
• Childs Frick (1883–1965), paleontologist
• John Bell Hatcher (1861–1904), paleontologist
• Edwin Ruud (1854–1932), mechanical engineer and inventor
• Alvin P. Shapiro (1920–1998), physician and educator

Sports figures

• Bill Bishop (1869–1932), baseball player
• Chuck Cooper (1926–1984), first African-American to be drafted into the NBA
• Earl Francis (1935–2002), baseball player
• Bob Priddy (1939-2023), baseball player
• Jock Sutherland (1889–1948), football coach
• Pie Traynor (1899–1972), baseball Hall of Famer

Others

• Edward Manning Bigelow (1850–1916), city planner
• Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984), philanthropist
• Rust Heinz (1914–1939), auto and boat designer
• Elsie Hillman (1925–2015), philanthropist and former Republican National Committeewoman
• John Barrett Kerfoot (1816–1881), first Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh
• Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1883–1965), civil rights activist
• Perle Mesta (1889–1975), Ambassador to Luxembourg 1949–53, and a noted Washington, D.C. socialite during Eisenhower and Nixon eras
• Robert Lee Vann (1879–1940), publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier
• Stephen Varzaly (1890–1957), priest, journalist, and cultural activist
• Tom Boggs (1905–1952), poet
• Peter Oresick (1955-2016), poet

Gallery

See also

• Allegheny Cemetery
• Greenwood Cemetery
• List of cemeteries in the United States

References

External links

• Main Homewood Cemetery website