Riverview Cemetery
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Riverview Cemetery is a cemetery located in Trenton, New Jersey on 870 Centre Street. It was founded in 1858, being incorporated in that year by an act passed by the New Jersey Legislature. It still serves the community today as an active cemetery, with an office and full time staff.
The cemetery contains a number of notable people interred there, the most famous being American Civil War Union Army Major General and New Jersey Governor George B. McClellan, whose grave is marked by the tallest monument in the cemetery. His wife, Mary Ellen Marcy McClellan, is interred with him.
Other notables interred in Riverview are:
- George Antheil (1900 - 1959)- American Composer
- William Archinal (1840 - 1919) - Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient
- John Taylor Bird (1829 - 1911) - United States Congressman from New Jersey
- John Hart Brewer (1844 - 1900) - United States Congressman from New Jersey
- Frank O. Briggs (1851 - 1913) - United States Senator from New Jersey
- William L. Dayton (1807 - 1864) - United States Senator from New Jersey and Republican Party Vice Presidential Candidate
- William Halsted (1794 - 1878) - United States Congressman from New Jersey and Civil War Army officer (founder and first Colonel of the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry regiment)
- George Peter Ihrie (1827 - 1903) - Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General.
- Randolph B. Marcy (1812 - 1887 - Civil War Union Army Brigadier General, and father of Mary Ellen Marcy McClellan
- Gershom Mott (1822 - 1884) - Civil War Union Army Major General
- Samuel D. Oliphant (1824 - 1904) - Civil War Union Army Brevet Brigadier General
- David Lane Powers (1896 - 1968) - United States Congressman from New Jersey
- John Augustus Roebling (1800 - 1869) - German-American Industrialist and Civil Engineer
- James F. Rusling (1834 - 1918) - Civil War Union Army Brevet Brigadier General
- William S. Truex (1819 - 1889) - Civil War Union Army Brevet Brigadier General.
- Evan M. Woodward (1838 - 1904) - Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient
