Kensico Cemetery
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Kensico Cemetery is a cemetery in
Valhalla,
Westchester Co., New York, founded in 1889, when many
New York City cemeteries were becoming full and rural cemeteries were founded near the railroads which served the city. Initially 250-acres, it was expanded to 600 acres in 1905, and reduced to 461 acres in 1912 when a portion was sold to the neighboring Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
Many entertainment figures of the early nineteenth century were buried here.
British spy Major Salvation Army
Billy Burke - actress who played Glenda the Good in ''The Wizard of Oz
Paddy Chayefsky - screenwriter, winner of three Academy Awards
Tommy Dorsey - swing-era trombonist
Geraldine Farrar - an opera singer who had a considerable popular following
Fred Friendly - broadcaster
Lou Gehrig - baseball player who gave his name to Lou Gehrig's disease''
Danny Kaye - comedic actor
Sergei Rachmaninoff - composer
Ayn Rand - author
David Sarnoff - broadcaster who received the distress call of the Titanic
Fay Templeton - actress
Florenz Ziegfeld - producer of the Ziegfeld Follies, husband of Billie Burke
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