Francis Patrick (b. 1875 East Hartford, CT – d. 1937 NY) was an important lawyer and science administrator. He was an 1897 graduate of Yale University and received his LL.D. from New York University in 1899. He was an NYC an assistant district attorney in charge of homicide. Garvan made the opening address in the trial against Harry Thaw, who murdered the architect Stanford White (Thaw was found not guilty by reason of insanity.) Later, he was director of the United States Bureau of Investigation and as Alien Property Custodian. He was an architect and leader of the famous anti-communist Palmer Raids. In WW I,, he took control of he German dye monopoly, which had controlled the dye industry in the U.S. After he gave the patents as war reparations to the Chemical Foundation Inc., which he headed. President Harding demanded the patents be returned to the U.S. Government. Garvan refused. He was sued for his actions but found innocent. The Chemical Foundation, in turn, licensed patents for large fees to U.S. chemical companies. His actions helped start the U.S. chemical industry. The Chemical foundation, with its royalty money, financed the American Chemical Society and chemical labs at many universities.

Garvan served as dean of Fordham law School from 1919-23. He was a trustee of Catholic University. Garvan was a member of the Museum of Natural History, New York County Lawyers Association, Yale Alumni, Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the Piping Rock Association and Racquet and Tennis. As a philanthropist he gave Yale 10,000 objects of American painting, prints, silver, pewter, furniture, and other decorative arts that today form the Mabel B. Garvan Collection. He was a research associate at MIT. Mr. Garvan died of pneumonia and was buried out of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Also in the tomb is Garvan's friend Finley Peter Dunne (b. 1867 Chicago, IL. – d. NYC 1936). Dunne created the fictional saloonkeeper 'Martin Dooley who was known for humorous and incisive comments on social and political affairs. An example: 'Don't jump on a man unless he is down.'

Dunne's satire of the Spanish American War, delivered by Mr. Dooley to his constant companion 'Hinnissy,' made some powerful politicians quite unhappy. Dooley was frank and funny and pointed. An example: Dooley said to his audience regarding the casualties of the war: 'Up to this time th' on'y hero kilt on th' Spanish side was a jackass that poked an ear above th' batteries at Matzoonas f'r to hear what was goin' on. 'Behold' says Samson, 'th insolence iv th' foe,' he says. 'For-rm in line iv battle and hurl-rl death an' desthruction at yon Castilian gin'ral.' 'Wait,' says and officer, 'it looks like th' secrety iv---' 'Hush!' says the commander. 'It can't be an American jackass or he'd speak,' he says. 'Fire on him!' Shot aft shot fell'round th' intrepid ass.'

It is said Dunne got his inspiration for Dooley from Jim McGarry, who owned a Chicago saloon on the east side of Dearborn St. north of Madison. It was a rendezvous for reporters, politicians and public officials in 1893, the time of the Columbian Exposition. Dunne was an old-time newsman who drank and lived to write about it. He was a member in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. It is hard to overestimate his popularity then. Dunne's friend Payne Whitney left him a $500,000 bequest in 1927.

Dunne lived in Hollywood, California but had been in New York for five months where he was being treated for throat cancer. He died in the Hotel Delmonico attended by a doctor and his nurse. Mr. Dooley had not been heard from in ten years although Dunne was writing Dooley's memoirs.

Unfortunately White may best be remembered for his death. He was murdered by Harry K. Thaw on the Madison Square roof garden because White had had an affair with Evelyn Nesbit (Thaw's wife). The affair had ended before Nesbit's marriage to Thaw, but Thaw was an insanely jealous man who beat her on their honeymoon until she revealed all the details of her former affair with Stanford White. The murder was a scandal. Thaw (a Pittsburgh railroad heir) was twice tried for murder, but in the end he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. In 1926, Thaw (d. 1947) wrote a book called 'The Traitor' in which he attempted to justify killing White. Nesbit (d. 1961) returned to Vaudeville and married, then divorced and finished her life in obscurity. White's reputation suffered for many years because of the circumstances of his death.

White had a special four-car funeral train that left Grand Central Station for St. James, Long Island, where his funeral service was held in St. James Episcopal Church. Present at the services were his old partners. Arrangements had to be made to avoid the curious crowds. So hungry was the public for news of his scandalous death that a false rumor went around that a strange woman dressed in white had fainted in the church and caused a scene. His servants were reported to have wept. He was buried in the cemetery next to the church.