{"id":42322,"date":"2024-10-11T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=42322"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:36:14","slug":"earle-city-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/earle-city-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Early Cornell Students Took a Sepulchral Shortcut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back when getting to class meant trudging uphill from downtown, the quickest route was through Ithaca\u2019s oldest cemetery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Cornell opened in 1868, its first buildings\u2014surrounded by undeveloped pastureland\u2014had a nearly unobstructed view of downtown Ithaca. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one development predated the University by several decades: Ithaca City Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With burials dating to the 1790s, the historic hillside graveyard today sits directly below Stewart Avenue and the West Campus residences, offering a macabre pathway to campus (particularly during the Halloween season).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In 1866, a book titled The Scenery of Ithaca<\/em> called the cemetery \u201can object of admiration to all visitors\u201d and an ideal place \u201cfor the dead to sleep, and the living to meditate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noting its commanding vista, the author declared that \u201cour truest, clearest, and most impressive view of life can only be gained from the standpoint of Death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Collegetown area largely undeveloped in the mid-19th century and residence halls for male students not built until the 1910s, much of the student body trekked up from downtown each day.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Today, the tombstones are in varying states of repair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The meandering cemetery pathway north of Cascadilla Gorge was called the \u201cboneyard cut\u201d at least as early as 1887, when the phrase appears in a poem in the Cornellian <\/em>yearbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Back then, “boneyard” was more commonly used as a synonym for “graveyard” than it is today, and wasn’t considered flippant or disrespectful.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Class of 1878 alum recalled that the cemetery was dubbed the \u201cBone Orchard\u201d in his time; more recently, novelist Matt Ruff \u201987 chose \u201cThe Boneyard\u201d as a key setting in his fantastical novel Fool on the Hill<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our truest, clearest, and most impressive view of life can only be gained from the standpoint of Death.<\/p>\nThe Scenery of Ithaca<\/strong><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere were no sidewalks or even a graveled way, but the route was like a cowpath beaten hard and smooth by many student feet,\u201d Jared Van Wagenen Jr. 1891, MS 1896, wrote in his memoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSometimes in winter when a northwest gale was blowing from off the lake it was a particularly bleak and windswept stretch. \u2026 I am sure that these days of cars and buses are bringing forth a softer generation than ours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cemetery’s many hillside crypts are now sealed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unfortunately, the cemetery\u2019s proximity to campus meant that it has occasionally been the target of student mischief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local Board of Public Works debated closing the pathway after a bout of vandalism in 1922. In 2019, the University contributed $75,000<\/a> toward preservation, particularly for the crumbling vaults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the graveyard route is no longer as popular as it once was, the cemetery offers ample history for curious Cornellians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mossy tombstones and timeworn crypts line the hillside\u2014each telling a story of early Ithacans, many of whom intersected with the University and its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The distinguished departed include …<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\"Thomas
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Thomas Frederick \u2018Tee Fee\u2019 Crane (1844\u20131927)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Immortalized in the fight song \u201cGive My Regards to Davy,\u201d Crane was a professor of romance languages who rose to become dean of Arts & Sciences and then dean of the faculty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beloved by students, he twice served as acting president. Before his passing in 1927, he was one of the last surviving members of Cornell\u2019s early faculty.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Francis Finch (1827\u20131907)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first secretary of the Board of Trustees, Finch was a judge on the New York Court of Appeals and the second dean of Cornell Law School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Finch was a trusted friend of both Ezra Cornell and A.D. White.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The inscription on his tombstone comes from a popular Civil War poem he wrote titled \u201cThe Blue and the Gray\u201d: \u201cUnder the sod and the dew \/ Waiting the judgment day<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hiram Corson (1828-1911)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If spirits haunt the City Cemetery, then the longtime English literature professor is likely one of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known for his eccentric appearance and habits, he was an avowed spiritualist, holding s\u00e9ances with dead poets like Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson. <\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Hiram
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His book of \u201cspirit messages\u201d documents these ghostly conversations and even includes several with Goldwin Smith\u2014who, Corson admits, \u201chad no belief whatever in spirit visitation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Schuyler (1810\u201388)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Schuyler was New York State treasurer at the time of Cornell\u2019s founding, and was subsequently elected to serve in that role on the University\u2019s board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Hamilton<\/em> fans: he\u2019s the third cousin once removed of the famous Schuyler sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eddy\u2019s commanding marker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Otis Eddy (1787\u20131843) & Jeremiah Beebe (1790\u20131861)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Ezra Cornell arrived in Ithaca in 1828, these local mill owners (namesakes of Eddy Street and Beebe Lake) were among his first employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Eddy\u2019s cotton mill on Cascadilla Gorge and Beebe\u2019s flour and plaster mills on Fall Creek Gorge, Ezra\u2019s work spanned the campus before there was any campus at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tombstones for both men tower over their neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edith Clifford Williams (1885\u20131971)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Williams\u2014the granddaughter of founding trustee Josiah Williams\u2014served as the Vet College\u2019s first full-time librarian from 1923\u201346. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Edith
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Williams\u2014known professionally as “Clifford”\u2014at age 13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Also a pioneering avant-garde artist and an associate of famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz, the Ithaca native had a decades-long friendship and romance with noted Chinese intellectual Hu Shih 1914, namesake of a North Campus residence hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctor Tarbell (1838\u201395)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tarbell\u2014who enrolled at Cornell\u2019s opening but left after two years, when he was elected county clerk\u2014was not a physician. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His name stems from his birth as the seventh son of a seventh son\u2014a rarity that, per English folklore, bestows healing powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He fought with the Union Army in such critical battles as Bull Run, Antietam, and Chancellorsville. <\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Doctor
Library of Congress<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Notably, he was in Ford\u2019s Theatre when Abraham Lincoln was shot\u201412 days before Cornell\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cornell Family<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The final resting place of Ezra Cornell (1807\u201374) is the memorial antechapel added to Sage Chapel in 1883, but his remains were originally interred in the family vault at the City Cemetery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(University benefactors John McGraw and his daughter Jennie were similarly relocated.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1909, a family mausoleum was built in the much larger Lake View Cemetery\u2014located across from Ithaca High School, and itself home to the graves of many local and University dignitaries, including astronomer Carl Sagan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cornell
The family mausoleum in Lake View cemetery includes numerous Cornell relations, including several relocated from the city facility.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Designed by Uris Library architect William Henry Miller, the impressive granite and marble tomb holds several generations of Ezra\u2019s relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Founder himself was clearly unafraid of ghostly spirits\u2014choosing to build his home, Llenroc, adjacent to the City Cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An expert on Big Red lore,\u00a0<\/em>Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/em><\/a>\u00a0teaches \u201cThe First American University,\u201d a wildly popular spring semester course on Cornell history.<\/em>
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(All cemetery photos by Sreang Hok \/ Cornell University.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published October 11, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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