Frank E. Campbell, the founder of the business, was born on July 4, 1872, in
Camp Point, Illinois. He moved to New York around 1892, and married Amelia Klutz in 1898, setting himself up as an undertaker near Twenty-Third Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. His innovations in the business included the use of a funeral chapel, which he felt was preferable to having the services in the home of the deceased; advertising, which had previously been rare among undertakers, and the use of cars instead of horse-drawn carriages as
hearses. Campbell died on January 19, 1934, of heart disease. ==Notable funerals and memorial services== •
Aaliyah •
Amsale Aberra •
Elizabeth Arden •
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle •
Harold Arlen •
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. •
Arthur Ashe •
Isaac Asimov •
Yul Brynner •
James Cagney •
Milt Caniff •
Emilio Carranza •
Harry Carman •
Oleg Cassini •
Bennett Cerf •
Huguette Clark •
Montgomery Clift •
George M. Cohan •
Mario Cuomo •
Candy Darling •
Jack Dempsey •
Judy Garland •
Heavy D •
Leona Helmsley •
Lena Horne •
Vladimir Horowitz •
Peter Jennings •
Howard Deering Johnson •
Allyn King •
Georgette Klinger •
Ed Koch •
Andrew A. Lanyi •
Héctor Lavoe •
Mordecai Lawner •
Heath Ledger •
Ethel Merman •
Ayn Rand •
Tony Randall •
Charles Revson •
L'Wren Scott •
Cecil Taylor •
Nikola Tesla •
John Timoney •
Ernst Toller •
Arturo Toscanini •
Fred Trump •
Ivana Trump •
Rudolph Valentino •
Mae West •
Tennessee Williams •
Frank Woolworth •
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