Lake View Cemetery (Ithaca, New York)
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| Established | 1894 |
| Location | 605 E Shore Dr, Ithaca, New York |
| Country | United States |
| 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]
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. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
- ^ a b Hart, Glynis (March 19, 2014). "Lakeview Cemetery Tries to Regroup After Embezzlement". ithaca.com. Retrieved September 14, 2019.