Locust Valley Cemetery

First cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill

Edith Bouvier Beale

(September 14, 1895 Ð May 7, 1986) Fourth United States Secretary of Defense

Robert Abercrombie Lovett

(1928–2011), fashion model, socialite and philanthropist, wife of Lewis Thompson Preston

Patsy Pulitzer

(1870-1930) New York state Senator

William J. Tully

served as a United States Representative from West Virginia from 1911 to 1913, then as Solicitor General of the United States and US Ambassador to the UK under President Woodrow Wilson.

John W. Davis

as an American World War I aviator, Assistant United States Secretary of War, Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency, and President of the American Museum of Natural History.

F. Trubee Davison

Guthrie Shaped the surrounding community. Early purchase of Lattingtown in what is now Lattingtown Harbor in the late 19th, early 20th centuries. Guthrie successfully carried out the fight against US Federal income tax until 1913 He was a big financial backer of the Matinecock Neighborhood Association, which in turn supported our fire department, library and worked in conjunction with our school system. The village was officially incorporated in 1931 with William Guthrie as mayor and town offices located at Meudon.

William Dameron Guthrie

an American professional boxer and one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history. He is interred at the Cemetery along with his wife, Norma Unger.

Rocky Graziano

an American actor and comedian who worked together with Bob Elliott and formed the comedy duo of Bob and Ray.

Ray Goulding

an American aeronautical engineer and co-founder of Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co., later renamed Grumman Aerospace Corporation.

Leroy Randle “Roy” Grumman

American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co., one of the largest financial firms in the United States.

Edward Francis Hutton

American socialite, fashion icon and philanthropist.

Mona von Bismarck

American industrialist and philanthropist.

Arthur Vining Davis

Publisher.

Franklin Nelson Doubleday

Lady Ribblesdale (1868-1958), Socialite, First wife of John Jacob Astor IV.

Ava Lowle Willing

was an American railroad executive and banker.

James Blanchard Clews

pitcher for the New York Yankees from 1950 to 1967 who won the 1961 Cy Young Award and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.

Whitey Ford

professional basketball player

Ray Lumpp

United States Army general and the president of United States Lines.

John M. Franklin

American actor in both feature films and B-movie westerns between 1935 and 1944. Buried with his wife Evelyn Peirce American film actress during the silent film era, and into the 1930s.

Robert "Tex" Allen

American actress and singer noted for her comic talents and rich contralto.

Lisa Kirk

President and chairman of International Mercantile Marine Company (IMM) from 1916 to 1936.

Philip Albright Small Franklin

American financier, sportsman, art patron and philanthropist. He funded a series of expeditions to study marine life.

Harry Payne Bingham

American who served as editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine from 1914 to 1952.

Edna Woolman Chase

American lawyer and philanthropist who was a member of J.P. Morgan & Co. for 39 years.

Charles Steele

American entrepreneur, investor, and multi-millionaire, and third husband of Mona von Bismarck.

Harrison Williams

Insurance, railroad and business executive, a major owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, as well as a collector of Americana and an important philanthropist for the academic discipline of American Studies.

William Robertson Coe

American champion polo player in the early to mid-twentieth century. He was one of a group of Americans known as the Big Four in international polo, winning the Westchester Cup six times.

Devereux Milburn

was an American actress, radio host, and novelist.

Ilka Chase

was an American businessman, naval aviator, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Artemus Gates

was an American aeronautical engineer and an early proponent of air-cooled aircraft engines.

Charles Lawrance

was an internationally known artist, lepidopterist, museum director, professor, bibliophile and iconographer, who served as the director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh from 1926 to 1945.

Dr Andrey N. Avinoff

was an American financier and politician from New York.

Allan Aloysius Ryan Jr.

was a prominent Manhattan lawyer and presiding partner of the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.He devised the Cravath System, was a leader in the Atlantist movement, and was a founding member and director of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Paul Drennan Cravath

was a prominent lawyer in Buffalo, New York and New York City, a president of the New York City Bar Association, and a partner at the law firm Carter Ledyard & Milburn.

John G. Milburn

was an American businessman. He was the vice-chairman of General Electric and the chairman of General Electric International, having served many years as a vice president of General Electric. In addition, he was a director for several public utility companies.

Anson Wood Burchard

was the president of Harriman National Bank and Trust Company. He was the nephew of railroad tycoon Edward H. Harriman and cousin of diplomat, statesman and future New York Governor W. Averell Harriman.

Joseph Wright Harriman

was an American businessman who was the co-founder and first president of General Electric corporation.

Charles Albert Coffin

was an American journalist, translator, author, and historian. She was a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.

Priscilla Johnson McMillan

was an American industrialist, and later a diplomat involved in many of the most important geopolitical events during and after World War II.

Myron Charles Taylor

was a lawyer, New York City real estate investor, and brother of Myron Charles Taylor. Willard was also a member of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York and the President of the Underhill Society of America between 1932 and 1940.

Willard Underhill Taylor

was an early electrical engineer and graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded Stone & Webster with his friend Edwin S. Webster. He served as chairman of the company for many years.

Charles Augustus Stone

was an American executive. He was president of Diamond Match Company in Barberton, Ohio, for a time. After the start of World War I, he worked at J. P. Morgan and Company coordinating the purchase of war supplies for the Allies. When the United States entered the war, he went to work in its War Department.

Edward R. Stettinius

was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1920s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he won a silver medal in the five-man bobsleigh event at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.

Lyman Hine

was an American lawyer and railroad executive. He was president and chairman of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad and a Director of both The National City Bank of New York and Western Union.

Robert Scott Lovett

was a member of the Gardiner family, who were prominent bankers and landowners, known for their ownership of 3,300-acre (13 km2) Gardiners Island, located off the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.

Alexandra Gardiner Creel

was a portrait painter who painted the Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Other paintings of White House residents include portraits of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson.

Elizabeth Shoumatoff

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