Dale Cemetery

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Notable interments

• Thomas Allcock, Civil War General for the Union Army
• Franz Boas, the "Father of American Anthropology"
• Benjamin Brandreth, proprietor of Brandreth's Pills, one of the earliest mass market consumer branded products in the United States, founder of Brandreth Park
• John Thompson Hoffman, governor of New York, Mayor of New York City
• Edwin A. McAlpin, president of the D.H. McAlpin & Co tobacco company, builder of the Hotel McAlpin, the largest hotel in the world, and Adjutant General of the State of New York
• Sonny Sharrock, jazz guitarist
• Aaron Ward, American congressman
• Samuel Youngs, who in 1851 was moved from his earlier burial site and became the first person interred at Dale Cemetery. He was a possible inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in his friend Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
• Chester Hoff, Oldest ex-Major League Baseball player at time of death. He played for the NY Highlanders and St. Louis Browns.