Residents of Green-Wood Cemetery

Nate Folkert: there are 49 burials in the home's plot; they are separately recorded but they are not individually marked

Nate Folkert: sister of lajos kossuth, an important hungarian nationalist figure

Nate Folkert: diplomat who opened tokugawa japan to trade with the us. his refurbished gravesite was a gift from the nation of japan in 1986

Nate Folkert: revolutionary soldier, judge, founder of the new york manumission society, and college roommate and lifelong friend of alexander hamilton

Nate Folkert: bronze angel overlooking the grave of german american businessman adam weber and family

Nate Folkert: monument to george cuyler, who died at age 5 of scarlet fever, son of theodore cuyler, a prominent presbyterian minister for which cuyler gore park in fort greene is named

Nate Folkert: a pensive angel inspired by the 1882 angelo della resurrezione sculpture by giulio monteverde for the oneto tomb in genoa italy.

Nate Folkert: us navy rear admiral, fought in the mexican war and the civil war

Nate Folkert: son of charles pfizer, co-founder of pfizer pharmaceuticals

Nate Folkert: grave site marked by a pair of boots instead of a head stone

Nate Folkert: brigadier general in the union army as well as a base ball player in the early days of organized teams

Nate Folkert: charles higgins was an irish american india ink manufacturer, inventor of higgins american india ink. he funded the nearby minerva statue (altar of liberty) to commemorate the battle of brooklyn

Nate Folkert: al reeves was a vaudeville and minstrel performer, banjo player, vocalist, and entertainer. in later years known as the "king of burlseque". his catch phrase was "give me credit, boys"

Nate Folkert: silent film actor, screen writer, director, and producer, a major star of western films of the silent era.

Nate Folkert: james stranahan was a brooklyn politician instrumental in the creation of prospect park

Nate Folkert: samuel morse was a leading portrait painter, pioneering photographer, and most famously the inventor of the telegraph and morse code

Nate Folkert: peter cooper was an industrialist and inventor. he built america's first steam locomotive. his patent for gelatin manufacture was sold to create jell-o. he founded cooper union college.

Nate Folkert: henry bergh was the founder of the american society for the prevention of cruelty to animals (aspca). the sculpture in front of his mausoleum was unveiled during a ceremony honoring him in 2006

Nate Folkert: jean-michel basquiat died of a heroin overdose at age 27 in 1988. in 2017, a 1982 painting of his sold for $110.5 million, setting a record price for any american artist

Nate Folkert: niblo’s garden hosted p t barnum’s first exhibition and entry into show business

Nate Folkert: the grave of a former mayor of brooklyn marked by a sculpture of the angel of death by solon borglum, brother of gutzon borglum who sculpted mount rushmore

Nate Folkert: dewitt clinton was a senator, mayor, and governor, and champion of the erie canal and abolition of slavery in new york

Nate Folkert: union general and military scholar who was important in the admission of california to the union

Nate Folkert: “boss” of the tammany hall political machine that played a major role in new york city government of the mid 19th century

Nate Folkert: celebrated american composer, conducted historic performance of beethoven’s ninth in berlin to mark fall of the wall.

Nate Folkert: portrait artist who became famous for his paintings of anthropomorphic animals, especially bears

Nate Folkert: the largest private mausoleum in green wood hosts the remains of the family of henry steinway, piano maker

Nate Folkert: the bronze angel reliefs were sculpted by augustus saint gaudens, famous for designing the $20 gold piece

Nate Folkert: tobacconist once suspected of the murder of a salesgirl he hired to attract “men about town” to buy his cigars

Nate Folkert: charles feltman was the inventor of the hot dog, and a successful restauranteur in coney island

Nate Folkert: sculpted by the italian artist adolfo apollini for the charles valentine family

Nate Folkert: a haunting and beautiful memorial to rose merello guarino who was murdered by a disgruntled family employee

Nate Folkert: james weldon johnson was a writer, civil rights activist, and a leader of the NAACP. he wrote the lyrics to “lift ev’ry voice and sing”. he is buried with his wife in the nail family lot.

Nate Folkert: Frank Morgan (Wupperman) was the actor who portrayed the wizard in The Wizard of Oz

Nate Folkert: James Renwick, Jr. was the architect who designed St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan

Nate Folkert: susan smith mckinney-steward was the first female african american medical doctor in new york

Nate Folkert: do-hum-me was the daughter of the chief of the sauk tribe and was a popular performer at pt barnum’s american museum before she died of illness at age 18. she is buried in her wedding dress.

Nate Folkert: louis comfort tiffany is famous for his work in decorative arts, stained glass, lamps, and jewelry as design director at tiffany & co, the family firm founded by his father

Nate Folkert: grave of the last enslaved african american in new york

Nate Folkert: charles ebbets was owner of the brooklyn dodgers and built their stadium, ebbets field, in flatbush

Nate Folkert: henry chadwick was a sportswriter, often called the father of baseball, who created box scores and many baseball statistics

Nate Folkert: eliza gilbert, also known as lola montez, was an irish dancer and adventuress who became mistress to the king of bavaria and made a countess

Nate Folkert: documented and restored by high school interns in 2017, the "colored lots" (lots reserved for african americans) were renamed the "freedom lots".

Nate Folkert: Laura Keene was the lead actress in Our American Cousin, the play being performed at Ford Theater the night Lincoln was assassinated.

Nate Folkert: resting place of theodore roosevelt's first wife, mother, parents, grandparents, and other members of the roosevelt family

Nate Folkert: john la farge was an american artist known for works and innovations in the medium of stained glass

Nate Folkert: at 117, sarah kairns is the oldest resident of green-wood cemetery. she was the mother of 22 children.

Nate Folkert: henry ward beecher was a clergyman, social reformer, and abolitionist. he was the brother of harriet beecher stowe.

Nate Folkert: this gothic revival pavilion was designed by richard upjohn for the pierrepont family, developers and planners of brooklyn, and founders of green-wood cemetery

Nate Folkert: tomb of pianist and egyptologist albert ross parsons and his wife alice schuyler van ness

Nate Folkert: gottschalk was a famed new orleans pianist whose tomb originally featured a marble statue of the angel of music. it was destroyed in 1959 by vandals, and replaced with the new statue in 2012

Nate Folkert: monument for the 103 victims of an 1876 theater fire

Nate Folkert: john matthews was an inventor and soda water known as the “soda fountain king”

Nate Folkert: henry george was a political economist known for advocacy of a single tax on land.

Nate Folkert: abram duryee was a union general in the civil war, leader of the north-africa inspired “duryee’s zouaves”, and later nyc police commissioner

Nate Folkert: newspaper editor and founder of the new york tribune

Nate Folkert: george catlin was a traveler and painter specializing in native american portraits. his grave is located in the trees behind The Greeter, a sculpture in his honor.

Nate Folkert: fred ebb was a musical theater lyricist who frequently collaborated with composer john kander

Nate Folkert: george tilyou was the founder of steeplechase amusement park in coney island

Nate Folkert: grave of the famed toy seller

Nate Folkert: leader of the bowery boys gang, was (heavily) fictionalized in scorsese’s gangs of new york

Nate Folkert: sculpture depicts the last moment her husband saw her alive as he left for work in the morning. by the time he returned she had died unexpectedly.

Nate Folkert: preheat oven to 350 degrees. line 2-3 baking sheets with parchment paper. bake until edges are slightly browned, 7 to 9 minutes

Nate Folkert: a monument to a debutante who was killed in a horse carriage accident on her seventeenth birthday

Nate Folkert: inventor of the modern lockstitch sewing machine

Nate Folkert: co-founder of the new york times

Nate Folkert: joseph “crazy joe” gallo was a mobster associated with the colombo crime family. he shares his gravestone with his brothers.

Nate Folkert: albert anastasia (named umberto anastasio on his tombstone) was a founder of what became the gambino crime family and the head of murder inc, the enforcement arm of the mafia

Nate Folkert: mafia mastermind who helped build the chicago outfit which he handed over to al capone

Nate Folkert: widow of the irish revolutionary wolfe tone

Nate Folkert: Thomas Sweeny, born in Cork, Ireland, was a soldier in the Mexican American war and a union general in the Civil War. He later was a leader of the Fenian raids of Canada.

Nate Folkert: medical pioneer known as the father of modern surgery, co-founded the johns hopkins medical school

Nate Folkert: founder of funk & wagnalls publishing house, known for the standard dictionary of the english language and for encyclopedias.

Nate Folkert: the best woman that ever lived

Nate Folkert: monument to sea captain john correja sculpted by patrizio piatti. originally held a bronze sextant.

Nate Folkert: commander of the 71st new york national guard during the civil war, died of illness after the march to washington. monument was designed by sculptor patrizio piatti

Nate Folkert: the "father of modern gynaecology", he was a controversial figure due to use of slave women in development of surgical techniques to repair vaginal injuries resulting from obstructed childbirth

Nate Folkert: american lithographer and partner in the firm currier & ives

Nate Folkert: abiel abbot low is apparently interred in the family tomb of seth low, though there is no stone nearby that bears his name

Nate Folkert: black wall street broker and millionaire of mid 19th century who amassed a fortune equal to nearly a quarter billion in 2018 dollars but is virtually absent from modern historical literature

Nate Folkert: inventor of the safety pin

Nate Folkert: monument to the harbor pilot thomas freeborn who was among the 40 lost in the wreck of the packet ship john minturn during a violent nor'easter

Nate Folkert: cofounder of the printmaking firm, currier and ives

Nate Folkert: an interpretation of william wetmore story’s angel of grief holding a wreath

Nate Folkert: an interesting nautical themed monument

Nate Folkert: educator and politician, seth low was the mayor of brooklyn and new york city as well as president of columbia university

Nate Folkert: a high victorian pier designed by william or edward potter for their relatives

Nate Folkert: lawyer and new york state senator

Nate Folkert: steward of green wood cemetery, was memorialized by the trustees with a monument near the main gate

Nate Folkert: union general and later representative for new york state

Nate Folkert: actress and major star of the silent film era, but was tragically killed at the height of her career from injuries sustained in a serious automobile accident

Nate Folkert: vaudeville and musical theater star, was best known for his performance of the baseball poem, casey at the bat

Nate Folkert: astronomer and major general in the union army best known for ordering the raid that became famous as the great locomotive chase

Nate Folkert: union general who was court martialed after the loss at the second battle of bull run, but exonerated decades after the war

Nate Folkert: norwegian american civil engineer who innovated the ventilation system for the holland tunnel

Nate Folkert: us navy admiral, commanded the uss wasp during the spanish american war

Nate Folkert: union general during the civil war, later the first italian american elected to the us house of representatives for new york state

Nate Folkert: the family mausoleum of john delafield, merchant and founder and director of mutual insurance company

Nate Folkert: artillery officer and war diarist during the american civil war

Nate Folkert: mausoleum of the irish american industrialist john mackay whose fortune was won in the silver mines of the comstock lode

Nate Folkert: a monument erected by banker james brown in memory of six members of his family lost at sea in the ss arctic disaster. features a sculpture of the ship sinking in the waves

Nate Folkert: influential cabinetmaker in 19th century new york

Nate Folkert: known as the "progressive minstrel", was the first white owner of a minstrel troupe composed of black performers in the US

Nate Folkert: american doctor and astronomer known for pioneering astrophotography. in 1840 was the first person to photograph the moon through a telescope.

Nate Folkert: the exhausted angel, inspired by the romanelli angel monument in the cimitere delle porte sante in florence, italy.

Nate Folkert: angel, seated, with arm raised

Nate Folkert: monument to grandfather peter lawson who died at 84 and his granddaughter jensine who died a year later at 24

Nate Folkert: artist, genre painter, and co-founder of the metropolitan museum of art

Nate Folkert: considered to be baseball’s first superstar and developer of fast pitching, he died at age 21 from a hernia suffered while hitting a home run. his monument is topped with a large marble baseball.

Nate Folkert: founder, editor, and publisher of the new york herald newspaper

Nate Folkert: rapper, singer, and songwriter known professionally as pop smoke, murdered in los angeles during a home invasion

Nate Folkert: western frontiersman who helped establish the city of houston as capital of the republic of texas

Nate Folkert: 4th military commander of the department of alaska

Nate Folkert: music promoter known as "the father of the british invasion" who worked to introduce the beatles, the rolling stones, the kinks, and many others to american audiences

Nate Folkert: supreme court justice under president chester a arthur

Nate Folkert: actor and producer best known for leading a black-face troop known as christy's minstrels

Nate Folkert: one of the copper kings of the gilded age who built the anaconda mine in montana into the 4th largest company in the world

Nate Folkert: controversial soldier and lawyer involved in tammany hall corruption and the high profile court martial of one of the first black cadets at west point.

Nate Folkert: confederate brigadier general and first general officer on either side to be killed in battle during the american civil war

Nate Folkert: first lieutenant in union army, believed to be the first officer of the union volunteer cavalry killed in the civil war

Nate Folkert: american journalist executed in chile following the 1973 pinochet coup

Nate Folkert: financier and grandfather of winston churchill. during the new york draft riots he defended the new york times building with a gatling gun.

Nate Folkert: counterculture figure and part of the satirical rock group the fugs. allegedly appears in ginsburg’s poem howl

Nate Folkert: the son of a founder of the town of tuxedo park, he introduced the black tie formal suit now known as the tuxedo to america

Nate Folkert: a railroad and shipping magnate playing a leading role in developing transportation and commerce in the southern US in the mid to late nineteenth century

Nate Folkert: writer and secretary of the us navy who coined the tongue twister peter piper picked a peck of picked peppers

Nate Folkert: businessman who cofounded phelps-dodge corporation and a philanthropist who supported various religious and missionary causes

Nate Folkert: revolutionary war hero and benefactor of rutgers university, which was named after him

Nate Folkert: commodore in the united states navy who claimed california for the united states

Nate Folkert: american sculptor best known for the angel of the waters sculpture above the bethesda fountain in central park. she was the first woman to receive a public art commission from nyc

Nate Folkert: brigadier general in the union army who was wounded leading the assault on fort wagner and later died of tetanus in new york city

Nate Folkert: realist painter known for his depictions of urban life in new york city

Nate Folkert: under the professional name fanny white, was one of the most successful courtesans of antebellum new york city

Nate Folkert: officer in the us navy during the civil war and commander of the south atlantic squadron

Nate Folkert: sisters and well known poets of the mid 19th century

Nate Folkert: prolific modernist composer

Nate Folkert: impressionist painter who founded what became parsons school of design

Nate Folkert: stage actress who was performing the play the two orphans the night of the brooklyn theater fire disaster memorialized elsewhere in the cemetery (she survived)

Nate Folkert: a professor of medicine and one of new york's most prominent obstetricians in the late nineteenth century

Nate Folkert: us senator for new mexico, died in the twa flight 6 crash

Nate Folkert: grave of william west durant, designer of camps in the adirondack great camp style, several of which are now national landmarks

Nate Folkert: a scottish sculptor. his grave appears to be unmarked or else mislocated in the green-wood records.

Nate Folkert: a leading dance instructor, choreographer, and ballroom operator, as well as a general in the union army during the civil war

Nate Folkert: first scientist to theorize that proportion of carbon dioxide in atmosphere could have an effect on average temperature

Nate Folkert: landscape painter who gained fame during the civil war for detailed and dramatic combat scenes

Nate Folkert: economist and stock market analyst whose methods incorporated astrology, astronomy, geometry, and ancient mathematics

Nate Folkert: the first practitioner of homeopathy in the united states

Nate Folkert: commodore in the us navy, participated in anti-piracy, african slave trade patrols, and fought in the mexican war, puget sound war, and the civil war

Nate Folkert: author and journalist who was abducted and murdered in iraq after investigating corruption in shia militias

Nate Folkert: founder of pan american airline and aviation pioneer

Nate Folkert: involved in the construction of the transcontinental railway and may have been the inspiration for phileas fogg in jules vernes around the world in 80 days

Nate Folkert: rear admiral in us navy who saw service in the war of 1812, the 2nd barbary war, and the mexican american war, and who commanded the atlantic blockading squadron at the start of the civil war

Nate Folkert: shipbuilder and designer of the racing yacht america, for which the america's cup is named. died young in a wagon accident.

Nate Folkert: poet and founder of the philosophical movement aesthetic realism

Nate Folkert: irish immigrant who went from rags to riches building the largest iron ship building firm in the us after the civil war

Nate Folkert: naval officer who helped design the 1818 version of the flag of the united states, which established the rule of keeping 13 stripes and one star for each state

Nate Folkert: a presbyterian preacher who led an evangelical missionary movement

Nate Folkert: boss of the colombo crime family, allegedly participated in the killing of albert anastasia, buried elsewhere in green wood cemetery

Nate Folkert: the first woman to receive a public mural commission, oakley, among other works, painted 43 murals for the pennsylvania state capitol

Nate Folkert: revolutionary war general, governor of new jersey, and signer of the us constitution.

Nate Folkert: us supreme court associate justice

Nate Folkert: naval architect who was instrumental in establishing efficient transport of crude oil from venezuela and the persian gulf to the united states

Nate Folkert: banker and philanthropist, president of the american museum of natural history

Nate Folkert: a former confederate brigadier general in the civil war

Nate Folkert: lawyer, government official, and banker, served as governor of puerto rico

Nate Folkert: writer and politician, served in congress as a member of the know nothing party

Nate Folkert: bishop of the episcopal diocese of illinois

Nate Folkert: camilla was a french-born child prodigy who became regarded as one of the finest violinists of the late 19th century

Nate Folkert: english religious leader and founder of the christadelphian movement

Nate Folkert: irish american actor, comedian, and irish clog dancer known for playing the part of ragged pat and rory o'more

Nate Folkert: businessman and historian, known for founding the sons of the revolution

Nate Folkert: assistant secretary of war and president of the american delegation to the geneva conventions of 1906. the sanger family plot is found under a great weeping beech

Nate Folkert: attorney known for taking controversial clients. disbarred and imprisoned for passing messages from the blind sheikh omar abdel rahman to his followers. grave is either unmarked or mislocated.

Nate Folkert: co-founder if street & smith publishing company, specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and pulp fiction

Nate Folkert: served as us representative from new york in the early 19th century

Nate Folkert: author and founder of barnard college, was called the "best educated woman in america" and wrote a well received book on french painting. married to james stranahan.

Nate Folkert: gospel singer and composer most active in the late 19th century

Nate Folkert: first wife of theodore roosevelt, died at age 22 shortly after the birth of their first child

Nate Folkert: socialite and mother of theodore roosevelt. thought to be inspiration for the character of scarlett o'hara in gone with the wind.

Nate Folkert: businessman, philanthropist, and father of future president theodore roosevelt

Nate Folkert: drama and music critic, founder and director of the metropolitan opera's archives

Nate Folkert: english-american stage actor

Nate Folkert: classmate of thomas jefferson and consul to england

Nate Folkert: known as the “working-girl” novelist, libbey wrote 82 novels and 120 plays during her career

Nate Folkert: mayor of cleveland ohio

Nate Folkert: lebanese american singer songwriter known for writing oscar winning song “last dance”. died from complications of AIDS in 1992

Nate Folkert: psychiatrist and gay activist, was a pioneer who changed the way psychoanalysts view homosexuality

Nate Folkert: two time mayor of brooklyn and owner of an iron foundry whose name is on many cast iron buildings in soho

Nate Folkert: industrialist, politician, mayor of new york city, and considered to be the father of the new york city subway system

Nate Folkert: german american violinist, violist, and orchestra leader

Nate Folkert: harbor pilot who guided ships in and out of new york harbor as one of the oldest and best known sandy hook pilots. guided the ship that carried the statue of liberty safely to port.

Nate Folkert: amateur golfer and publisher of the first golf book written exclusively for female golfers. grave marker is apparently missing, but her husband charles t stout's is present

Nate Folkert: a minister and hymnist who wrote the popular hymn "rock of ages"

Nate Folkert: football coach, outdoorsman, and physician, friend and doctor to theodore roosevelt, and pioneer of thoracic surgery

Nate Folkert: lawyer and us congressman

Nate Folkert: an american labor leader. founding member and first president of the seafarers international union and later senior vice president of the afl-cio

Nate Folkert: anthologist, editor, poet, and critic, known for his anthologies of american poetry

Nate Folkert: first mayor of jersey city and a new jersey representative in congress

Nate Folkert: representative for new jersey in congress and later governor of new jersey

Nate Folkert: journalist and congressman, son of political economist and reformer henry george

Nate Folkert: painter, sculptor, and printmaker. his grave is apparently unmarked, or mislocated in the records.

Nate Folkert: mountaineer in the rockies and first woman to climb many of the peaks. also an accomplished painter and photographer, and niece of georgia o'keefe

Nate Folkert: a writer, historian, and poet, was the first to record the contributions of women in the american revolution

Nate Folkert: a member of the US house of representatives from new york

Nate Folkert: army officer for 52 years. in charge of new york harbor defenses during the civil war, including governor's island and the fort at sandy hook.

Nate Folkert: first president of the knickerbockers base ball club, the first known organized baseball club. he helped drafter the knickerbocker rules, the first official set of written rules of baseball.

Nate Folkert: a union general in the civil war, later superintendent of west point and the vice president of the american geographical society

Nate Folkert: rear admiral in the us navy, served in the african slave trade patrol, seminole war, mexican war, civil war, and korean expedition. commanded the north atlantic squadron.

Nate Folkert: a new york representative in congress and a director of the union pacific railroad

Nate Folkert: an ecologist whose work studying nuclear fallout helped lead to the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963, and the citizens party presidential candidate in 1980

Nate Folkert: English composer of film, TV, and concert music, jazz pianist, and vocalist.

Nate Folkert: american jurist who served as new york city magistrate

Nate Folkert: physician and founder of the new york institute for the blind

Nate Folkert: the havemeyer family made their fortune in the sugar business, and owned the domino sugar refinery in brooklyn, one of the world’s largest

Nate Folkert: found of the Truth Seeker, a radical free-thought and reform periodical

Nate Folkert: late chief engineer of the steamer lexington, headstone depicts a flaming ship

Nate Folkert: Only a dog, do you say, sir Critic? Only a dog but as Truth I prize, the Truest Love I have won in living lay in the Deeps of her limpid eyes.

Nate Folkert: a victim of the ss titanic disaster, his body was recovered by the mackay bennett

Nate Folkert: soap industrialist and founder of the colgate-palmolive company

Nate Folkert: first dean of the new jersey college for women, disappeared rowing on lake placid, her body was discovered thirty years later by scuba divers

Nate Folkert: founding headmaster of the st. ann's school in brooklyn

Nate Folkert: stephen whitney was one of the wealthiest merchants in new york city in the first half of the 19th century

Nate Folkert: there is a statue in his memory in fort greene

Nate Folkert: unique monument for a child: "A bed style marker; the headboard a child's tufted chair, a tasseled coat draped over the side and a small shoe on the seat and the footboard a stool with a sleeping dog"

Nate Folkert: an angel of grief, modeled after the tombstone of william wetmore story at the protestant cemetery in rome

Nate Folkert: san francisco pioneer in 1849 and teetotaler

Nate Folkert: fur trader and founder of the brooklyn female academy

Nate Folkert: a statue of the green philosopher and mathematician pythagoras rests above the grave of isaac hull brown, sexton of grace church and social arbiter

Nate Folkert: monument to a young child

Nate Folkert: among the first to enroll for the new york volunteers regiment that fought in some of the fiercest battles of the mexican american war

Nate Folkert: trade merchant and philanthropist

Nate Folkert: george whistler was the father of painter james whistler and a civil engineer credited with introducing the steam whistle to american locomotives

Nate Folkert: family mausoleum of william chauncey, a wealthy shipping merchant

Nate Folkert: a moorish revival monument to shipping magnate and one time mayor of san francisco, cornelius garrison

Nate Folkert: owned the gilsey house hotel at 29th and broadway

Nate Folkert: founder of the john m bradstreet financial company which later merged with dunn and company to the dunn and bradstreet company

Nate Folkert: founded the brooks brothers clothing company

Nate Folkert: businessman and mayor of new york city, founded the harper and brothers publishing company, which is now harper collins

Nate Folkert: a pair of monuments in the southeast corner of the cemetery memorializing firemen who died in the line of duty and telling part of their stories

Nate Folkert: it’s actually a sarcophagus, but people always ask why there’s a woman sitting on a bathtub in the cemetery.

Nate Folkert: elaborate monument with sculpture of an angel erected for the french family, who owned french's hotel

Nate Folkert: fire chief who made significant reforms to the fdny and movement toward professionalization

Nate Folkert: partner at howland & aspinwall and proponent of fast sailing clipper ships. their clipper, Sea Witch, held the record speed for a monohulled sailing vessel from hong kong to new york for 150 years

Nate Folkert: irish american writer, poet, playwright, and wealthy socialite who joined the union army and was wounded and died in maryland in 1862

Nate Folkert: the "mad poet of broadway" was an early influence on walt whitman

Nate Folkert: a sculptor who crafted, among other things, the memorial to jane griffith also found in green-wood cemetery

Nate Folkert: first pencil manufacturer to put rubber erasers on the ends of pencils

Nate Folkert: a single stone memorializing eight children lost to pediatrician abraham jacobi and physician mary putnam jacobi (first female student at the faculty of medicine of paris)

Nate Folkert: naturalist landscape painter of the hudson river school

Nate Folkert: founder of tiffany and co. jewelry manufacturer, introduced first retail catalog in the united states

Nate Folkert: revolutionary war soldier, died at age 101

Nate Folkert: architect who designed brooklyn borough hall as well as a number of prominent brooklyn churches and other buildings

Nate Folkert: representative and senator for the state of alabama

Nate Folkert: a wealthy miser who made his fortune in the fur trade but on his deathbed bequeathed $100,000 to the ASPCA

Nate Folkert: irish-american actress and playwright known for her role in the play camille, which she translated and adpated from a french play, la dame aux camelias

Nate Folkert: military and civil engineer and designer of green wood cemetery's "rural cemetery" style

Nate Folkert: captain of the ill fated s s morro castle. he died of a heart attack shortly before the ship caught fire and 135 of 549 aboard were lost

Nate Folkert: actor who became one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers, known for blackface folk trickster character "jim crow", after which the jim crow laws were named.

Nate Folkert: early new york architect, designer of new york city hall, gracie mansion, and the montauk light house.

Nate Folkert: son of a wealthy judge, was disinherited after an affair with musical performer sylvia gerrish, whom he married after his wife died, living together in poverty in a dilapidated brooklyn mansion

Nate Folkert: led 7th regiment new york state militia in the civil war

Nate Folkert: mayor of new york who was shot by a disgruntled employee, but recovered and continued his term.

Nate Folkert: stage actor and comedian in the 19th century

Nate Folkert: businessman whose marriage to and subsequent separation from 15 year old actress "peaches" heenan was a major scandal of the roaring 20s

Nate Folkert: new york architect and promoter of cast-iron architecture

Nate Folkert: one of new yorks leading architects in the 19th century, worked with gamaliel king on brooklyn city hall

Nate Folkert: one of the greatest surgeons of his time, co-founded the department of surgery at NYU and was its first professor of surgery

Nate Folkert: threw a controversial costume ball at the waldorf astoria hotel costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and considered an example of the excesses of the gilded age

Nate Folkert: businessman. shot his associate, financier jim fisk, in rivalry over a woman (the singer josephine mansfield), spent four years in sing sing, and later was proprietor of a fashionable hotel

Nate Folkert: brevet brigadier general and congressional medal of honor recipient.

Nate Folkert: minister whose antipathy toward catholicism was seen as influencing many irish into supporting democrat grover cleveland as backlash

Nate Folkert: british american architect known for his gothic revival churches, designed the gothic archway at the entrance of green-wood cemetery

Nate Folkert: british architect known for his contributions to the design and construction of central park, as well as the metropolitan museum of art and the american museum of natural history

Nate Folkert: last and most trusted of george washington's dentists

Nate Folkert: one of the fox sisters, influential in the creation of the spiritualism movement, mediums who could supposedly communicate with the spirits

Nate Folkert: suffragist and social reformer. campaigned for the united nations and the 19th amendment and was the first female corporate director for standard & poors

Nate Folkert: union army officer who fought in the mexican american war and civil war

Nate Folkert: monument to oscar and maggie dietzel, killed along with 14 others in a train accident on the manhattan beach railroad

Nate Folkert: lithographer and photographer famous for portrait photography, particularly of theatrical stars of the 19th century and other well known personalities such as oscar wilde and nikola tesla

Nate Folkert: grandson of alexander hamilton and elizabeth schuyler

Nate Folkert: architect and sculptor. designed the new york city customs house as well as a number of monuments in green-wood cemetery including that of charlotte canda

Nate Folkert: first historian of green wood cemetery and author of "a handbook for green-wood"

Nate Folkert: william’s bust on the right is in better condition than hiram’s on the left because it is exposed to more direct sunlight and this less damaging dampness.

Nate Folkert: criminal lawyer who participated in over 600 murder trials. his grave is apparently unmarked

Nate Folkert: granddaughter of alexander hamilton. she is buried between her first husband, general henry halleck, and her second husband, his chief of staff geroge washington cullum

Nate Folkert: wife of rev edward wheeler hall and suspect in his murder

Nate Folkert: a ship builder who also designed parts of the brooklyn bridge

Nate Folkert: lieutenant in the new york militia, was mortally wounded at the battle of bull run, taken prisoner by the confederacy and died in richmond

Nate Folkert: architect and founder of the national academy of design

Nate Folkert: lawyer who prosecuted a slave trader. apparently resting in the garrison mausoleum

Nate Folkert: introduced nypd uniform after a visit to london in the early nineteenth century

Nate Folkert: "last soldier of the revolution in the city", grave is either unmarked or mislocated in records.

Nate Folkert: unmarked grave of a confederate executed on governor’s island. he was interred for five years before his remains were moved to virginia.

Nate Folkert: artist, brother of william hart, also buried in green wood. grave is decorated with bronze relief of an angel overlooking a calf with the words "he maketh me to lie down in green pastures"

Nate Folkert: artist, founder of the american watercolor society and first president of the brooklyn academy of design. his brother james hart was also a successful artist and is buried in green wood.

Nate Folkert: the only female artist to work for lithographers currier and ives

Nate Folkert: prosperous dentist and victim of a grisly murder that became a media circus. his alleged killer, emma cunningham, is buried nearby

Nate Folkert: mary johnson was born a slave in virginia. after emancipation was hired as a servant to the brown family, and is interred in their plot

Nate Folkert: volunteer fireman killed in the line of duty when a sugarhouse collapsed from fire damage

Nate Folkert: architect and designer of the first grand central station

Nate Folkert: the "brooklyn enigma" was injured and confined to bed for fifty years but allegedly developed clairvoyance and supernatural powers

Nate Folkert: pioneer in the chemical industry, mayor of brooklyn, and us representative for new york during the civil war

Nate Folkert: captain of the clipper ship "rainbow", lost en route to valparaiso and china

Nate Folkert: brevet brigadier general and congressional medal of honor recipient

Nate Folkert: a senator in the early 19th century, important in the construction of the erie canal

Nate Folkert: a famed sculptor whose works are still seen at the us capitol, buried in an unmarked grave

Nate Folkert: kitty floyd was the fiancee of a young james madison but broke off the engagement when she fell in love with another man, leaving madison broken hearted.

Nate Folkert: visitors often leave a stick for this good boy

Nate Folkert: famous hatter on broadway

Nate Folkert: chester jennings was a hotelier who introduced room service to new york city

Nate Folkert: brass and copper manufacturer, presented the city of new york with a heroic size statue of daniel webster, whom he admired, and also had his own monument here built before his death

Nate Folkert: suffragist and founder of brooklyn woman's club, became embroiled in a social scandal with the preacher henry ward beecher

Nate Folkert: founder of A B See elevator company, third largest elevator company in america when acquired by westinghouse in 1938

Nate Folkert: manufacturer of carousels and inventor of amusement park rides in coney island. patented the technology for making the horses go up and down.

Nate Folkert: "father of modern navigation technology", an inventor and entrepreneur known primarily for his work in gyroscopic compasses

Nate Folkert: construction contractor involved in creation of the brooklyn bridge. his grave stone is made from a piece of granite that was once part of the bridge.

Nate Folkert: a celebrity nutritionist who promoted diet enhancing the immune system, but who ultimately backslid and died from complications of obesity and cocaine abuse

Nate Folkert: architect and designer of a number of new york buildings such as the new york life insurance building as well as the cornelius garrison mausoleum in green-wood cemetery

Nate Folkert: daniel badger was a pioneer in architectural cast iron

Nate Folkert: Caspar Trepp was a civil war officer and sharp shooter killed in action at Mine Run, Virginia.

Nate Folkert: john george brown was an english painter known for paintings of idealized newsboys and other working children in new york

Nate Folkert: a brush manufacturer, james noe was the final victim of gang leader and robber dandy johnny dolan

Nate Folkert: A journalist and civil war correspondent. Was the mastermind of the Civil War Gold Hoax, the planting of a fake story to manipulate the price of gold for profit.

Nate Folkert: monument to allen and catherine loney whose bodies were lost at sea in the lusitania sinking and never recovered

Nate Folkert: An arbiter of social taste and authority on New York's elite families. Interred in a vault in the Green-Wood catacombs.

Nate Folkert: with brother bolossy, hugely influential burlesque and spectacle producer

Nate Folkert: baseball pioneer and one of the founding members of the knickerbocker base ball club of new york

Nate Folkert: american stage actor and theater producer of the 19th century who produced the first great american musical at niblo's garden

Nate Folkert: irish american comedienne and stage actress

Nate Folkert: a colonel in the union army, he was married to victoria woodhull, the first woman to run for the presidency of the united states

Nate Folkert: first bicyclist to ride a mile in less than a minute

Nate Folkert: a gravesend politician and construction magnate who transformed coney island into a tourist destination in the late 19th century

Nate Folkert: a landscape painter and a founder of the metropolitan museum of art

Nate Folkert: prussian american organizer of the all german de kalb regiment that fought in the civil war

Nate Folkert: swedish american illustrator known for his depictions of military scenes

Nate Folkert: engineer responsible for the brooklyn terminal, anchorage, and approaches to the brooklyn bridge

Nate Folkert: the statue perched atop the tomb is the archangel michael

Nate Folkert: accused of murdering harvey burdell, buried nearby, but acquitted after trial. the murder was never solved.

Nate Folkert: pioneer in the manufacture of typewriters and typewriter supplies, purchased the patent for, and improved upon, the front stroke typewriter which enabled the writer to see print as it was typed.

Nate Folkert: hymn writer and author of religious themed books

Nate Folkert: credited with coining the phrase "old glory"

Nate Folkert: one of 19th century america's great actors and co-founder of the shriners (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine)

Nate Folkert: author and journalist who covered the american civil war in the field

Nate Folkert: one of the earliest practicing female physicians in america and founder of the new york medical college and hospital for women

Nate Folkert: founder of the brooklyn daily eagle newspaper, mayor of brooklyn, and politician at state and national level