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Frederick Clarke Withers

Birth: 4 Feb 1828
Shepton Mallet, Mendip District, Somerset, England
Death: 7 Jan 1901 (aged 72)
Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA
Burial: Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum

Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 40.8342978, Longitude: -73.9486782
Plot: 751
Memorial ID: 63935435 View Source

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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63935435/frederick_clarke-withers: accessed ), memorial page for Frederick Clarke Withers (4 Feb 1828–7 Jan 1901), Find a Grave Memorial ID 63935435, citing Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA; Maintained by RR (contributor 47378554).

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FC Withers in Civil War uniform 1861 from American Architecture

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In the early 1870s, Frederick Clarke Withers collaborated with Calvert Vaux - co-creator with Frederick Law Olmsted of Central Park - to make improvements to this cemetery. Vaux was the principal landscape architect for the cemetery project, however the most salient feature of that improvement was a suspension bridge across Broadway that linked the Easterly- and Westerly Divisions of the burial grounds. Given his fame, Vaux has often been credited for creating the bridge, but other sources including the Architectural Record of the American Institute of Architects attribute the structure to Withers, "whose origination and control of the design are plain." The bridge stood for forty years, between 1871 and 1911, when it was torn down to make way for the Chapel of the Intercession (the present-day Church of the Intercession) in the Easterly Division.

The inscription is barely legible now, however, according to Ray C. Sawyer's 1931 survey of "Gravestone Inscriptions of Trinity Church Cemetery", the monument inscription reads:

Frederick Clark [sic]* Withers, b. Feb. 4, 1828; d. Jan. 7, 1901.

*Sawyer omits the letter "e" at the end of Withers' middle name. The New York Times also omits the "e" in Withers' obituary, but includes it sometimes in other items about the architect. The gravestone was too weathered for me to decipher the spelling on the day I found it, but it might be more evident in different light.

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View North of Jefferson Market Courthouse (now a library) up 6th Ave with El and ladies prison.

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Frederick Withers' monument is the only free-standing one on the family plot, the others being flat marble tablets. Here is Ray C. Sawyer's 1931 transcription of the gravestone markers on Withers' family plot:

Withers Frederick Clark, b. Feb. 4, 1828; d. Jan. 7, 1901.
Beulah Alice Higbee, b. Jan. 28, 1842; d. May 2, 1888.
Mabel, 1874 - 1895.
Robert Henley, 1839 - 1869.
Katherine Rowe, 1868 - 1870.
Edward, 1870 - 1872.
F. Howland de Windt, 1860 - 1875.

According to Withers' obituary in the NY Times, his first wife, Emily A. Dewint [sic[, was a descendant of President Adams, and his second wife, Beulah A. Higbie [sic}, who is buried here, was a great-grandniece of Martha Washington.

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Sketch of the Jefferson Market Courthouse by FC Withers. book cover for the pre-eminent bio by F. Kowsky.

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