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Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east. Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery.

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  • Charles Feltman (1841–1910), claimed to be the first person to put a hot dog on a bun
  • Edward Ferrero (1831–1899), American Civil War General at the Battle of the Crater and in the Appomattox Campaign
  • Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), was an American scientist, physicist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner from Seneca Falls, New York. Her experiments on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases were overlooked until the 21st century
  • Edwin Forbes (1839–1895), American Civil War and postbellum artist, illustrator, and etcher
  • Lockwood de Forest (1850–1932), American painter, interior designer, and furniture designer
  • Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839–1912), American editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer

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  • Steven C. Vincent (1955–2005), American journalist and author kidnapped and murdered in Iraq in August 2005
  • Ned Vizzini (1981–2013), American author
  • Leopold von Gilsa (1824–1870), American Civil War colonel and brigade commander

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  1. ^ James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. "Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary", p. 345, Harvard University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-674-62734-2. Accessed June 28, 2009.
  2. ^ Schweber, Nate (October 18, 2012). "Recalling a New Pitch and a Strange Death". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Mulligan, Thomas S. (August 3, 2003). "Slain New York City Councilman Reburied; Reinterment occurred after family learned his killer's ashes were in the same cemetery". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2009. 'If she had known that Askew's cremated remains were at Green-Wood, she never would have agreed to have her son buried there,' Hill said.
  4. ^ Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1. p. 282.
  5. ^ Ellen Tarry, "Grace Nail Johnson: A Remembrance," The Crisis (March 1977): 120-121.
  6. ^ Pop Smoke to be laid to rest in Brooklyn as suspects in his murder ‘still at large’
  7. ^ "Final Tributes To Montague. Thousands Of Friends Attend His Funeral Services". The New York Times. August 22, 1878. The mortal remains of Henry J. Montague were laid to rest yesterday within the quiet precincts of Green-Wood Cemetery....
  8. ^ Bellafante, Ginia (2018-04-18). "Statue of Doctor Who Did Slave Experiments Is Exiled. Its Ideas Are Not". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  9. ^ Tripp, Wendell E. (1982). Robert Troup: A Quest for Security in a Turbulent New Nation. Ayer Publishing. p. 322. ISBN 0-405-14074-6. Retrieved February 2, 2008.
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