Cedar Lawn Cemetery

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Cedar Lawn Cemetery is a Victorian rural cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey. It officially opened in September 1867, and the first burial took place on September 27, 1867.

Location and size:
- The cemetery sits on a multi-acre lot bordered by Lakeview Avenue (CR 624), Crooks Avenue, I-80, and NJ-20.
- It shares the area with the nearby Calvary Cemetery.
- More than 85,000 people are interred at Cedar Lawn.

History:
- In the Revolutionary War era, the land was farmland owned by Annatje Von Riper, her son Henry Doremus, and Hessel Peterse.
- The British army plundered these households in November 1776.

Noted interments:
- John Bancker Aycrigg (1798–1856), U.S. Representative from New Jersey
- William Warren Barbour (1888–1943), U.S. Senator from New Jersey
- Charles Dyer Beckwith (1838–1921), New Jersey politician
- Nicholas M. Butler (1862–1947), co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize; former president of Columbia University
- Dow H. Drukker (1872–1963), U.S. Representative
- John W. Griggs (1849–1927), Governor of New Jersey and U.S. Attorney General
- Garret Hobart (1844–1899), Vice President of the United States
- Jennie Tuttle Hobart (1849–1941), wife of Garret Hobart
- Charles Joughin (1878–1956), chief baker aboard the Titanic
- Eugene W. Leake (1876–1959), U.S. Representative
- Amos H. Radcliffe (1870–1950), Mayor of Paterson and U.S. Representative
- Julian Rix (1850–1903), American landscape artist
- John Ryle (1817–1887), silk manufacturer and Paterson mayor; called the “Father of the U.S. Silk Industry”
- Mary Danforth Ryle (1833–1904), philanthropist
- William Ryle (1834–1881), silk industrialist
- James F. Stewart (1851–1904), U.S. Representative

There is also one Commonwealth war grave of a Royal Canadian Air Force airman from World War II.