 Phineas D. Ballou, who served as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, spent part of his youth residing in Troy and was buried at Oakwood after his accidental death in 1877.As previously mentioned, the founders of Troy and Lansingburgh, Jacob D. Vanderheyden and Abraham Jacob Lansing respectively, were both re-interred at Oakwood, having been moved there from downtown in 1869.Some of education's finest teachers are also buried there, including Amos Eaton, a well-known botanist and geologist and founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mary Warren, founder of America's first educational institution for "problem children"; Emma Willard, pioneer of women's education and founder of the Troy Female Seminary, which was later renamed Emma Willard School in her honor; Emma Willard's husband John Willard, and David Hillhouse Buel, a president of Georgetown University.