List of burials in Mount Auburn Cemetery
This is a list of notable burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, USA.
A
- Hannah Adams (1755–1831), author[1]
- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822–1907), scientist, author
- Louis Agassiz (1807–1873),[2] scientist
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907),[2] author
- Nathan Appleton (1779–1861), congressman
- William Appleton (1786–1862), congressman
- Thomas F. August (1926–2005), attorney and politician who served as the 31st Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts
B
- Hosea Ballou (1771–1852), Universalist theologian and minister
- Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet and translator
- Benjamin E. Bates (1808–1878), industrialist, founder of Bates College
- Jeremy Belknap (1744–June1798), clergyman and historian
- Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), designer of Mt. Auburn Cemetery
- J. W. Black (1825–1896), photographer
- Edwin Booth (1833–1893), actor
Nathaniel Bowditch - Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838),[2] mathematician, seaman, author; his monument was the first life size bronze to be cast in America
- William Brewster (1851–1919), ornithologist
- Peter Bent Brigham (1807–1877), Boston businessman and philanthropist
- Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), American Episcopal bishop
- Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), architect
- McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), presidential cabinet official
C
- George Cabot (1752–1823), statesman
- James Henry Carleton (1814–1873), United States Army officer
- William Ellery Channing (1780–1842),[2] Unitarian theologian
- Joyce Chen (1917–1994), chef
- John Ciardi (1916–1986), poet, translator
- Alvan Clark (1804–1887), astronomer and telescope maker
- Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892)), Transcendentalist writer and artist
- Robert Creeley (1926–2005), poet
- Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772–1851), statesman, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
- Frank Crowninshield (1872–1947), creator and editor of Vanity Fair magazine
- Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), United States Supreme Court justice
- Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), actress
D
- Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821–1888), artist
- Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), congressman
- Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), nurse, hospital reformer
E
Mary Baker Eddy Memorial
- Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910),[2] religious leader
- Harold "Doc" Edgerton (1903–1990), engineer, scientist
- Charles William Eliot (1834–1926), Harvard University president
- Edward Everett (1794–1865),[2] Governor of Massachusetts, President of Harvard University, United States Secretary of State, speaker at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- William Everett (1839–1910), congressman
F
- Achilles Fang (1910–1995), sinologist, comparatist, and friend of Ezra Pound
- Fannie Farmer (1857–1915), cookbook author
Mount Auburn Cemetery - Fanny Fern (1811–1872), feminist author
- Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915),[2] author and hostess; wife of James Thomas Fields
- James Thomas Fields (1817–1881),[2] writer and publisher
- William M. Folger (1844–1928), United States Navy rear admiral and grandson of Mayhew Folger
- Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), United States Supreme Court Justice
- Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect
G
- Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), art collector, museum founder
- Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), illustrator
- Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), conchologist and malacologist[3]
- Curt Gowdy (1919–2006), sportscaster
- Asa Gray (1810–1888),[2] 19th century American botanist
- Horace Gray (1828–1902), United States Supreme Court justice
- Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), sculptor
H
- Charles Hale (1831–1882), journalist, statesman
- Charles Hayden (1870–1937), financier and philanthropist
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), physician/author[4]
- Winslow Homer (1836–1910), artist
- Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), Union army general
- Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910),[2] activist, poet, and author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Hunnewell family obelisk - Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876), physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind
- Horatio Hollis Hunnewell (1810–1902), banker, railroad financier, philanthropist, amateur botanist
- Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805–1875), early female physician; her monument, a statue of Hygieia, was carved by Edmonia Lewis
J
- Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897), escaped slave and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Melvin Johnson (1909–1965), lawyer, Marine officer, and firearms designer
- Edward F. Jones (1828–1913), New York lieutenant governor 1886–1891
K
- Michael Kelly (1957–2003), journalist, writer, columnist, and editor
L
- Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), scientist
- Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906), legal educator
- Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855), politician, philanthropist
- Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), politician
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985), politician
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), poet
- A. Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), Harvard University president
- Amy Lowell (1874–1925),[2] poet
- Charles Russell Lowell (1835–1864), Civil War general and casualty of the Battle of Cedar Creek
- Francis Cabot Lowell (1855–1911), U.S. congressman and Federal judge
- James Russell Lowell (1819–1891),[2] poet and foreign diplomat
- Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843–1905), wife of Gen. Charles Russell Lowell, sister of Col. Robert Gould Shaw
- Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), poet and wife of James Russell Lowell
M
- Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), writer
- Jules Marcou (1824–1898), geologist
- Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Isaac McLellan (1806-1899), author and poet
- Leopold Morse (1831–1893), United States House of Representatives (five terms)
- William T.G. Morton (1819–1868), demonstrator of ether anesthesia
- Stephen P. Mugar (1901–1982), Armenian-American philanthropist and founder of the Star Market chain of supermarkets; father of David Mugar
- Joseph B. Murdock (1851–1931), United States Navy rear admiral who served as commander-in-chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet and as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
- John Murray (1741–1815), founder of the Universalist Church in America
N
- Shahan Natalie (1884–1983), principal organizer of Operation Nemesis, Armenian national philosophy writer
- Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and author
- Robert Nozick (1938–2002), philosopher
O
- Richard Olney (1835–1917), statesman
- Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850), poet
- Harrison Gray Otis (1765–1848), U.S. representative, mayor of Boston
- Laurence R. Owen (1944–1961), U.S. ladies skating champion
- Maribel Y. Owen (1940–1961), U.S. pairs figure skating champion
P
- Daniel Pinckney Parker (1781–1850), merchant
- Harvey D. Parker (1805–1884), hotelier
- Francis Parkman (1823–1893),[2] historian
- Fanny Parnell (1844–1882), poet, Irish Nationalist, and the sister of Charles Stewart Parnell
Q
- Josiah Quincy III (1772–1864), statesman and educator
R
- John Rawls (1921–2002), philosopher
Charles Sumner's grave - Anne Revere (1903–1990), actress
- Marjorie Newell Robb (1889–1992), last first class passenger and survivor of the RMS Titanic
- William Eustis Russell (1857–1896), governor of Massachusetts
S
- Julian Seymour Schwinger, theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861), chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), psychologist
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse's grave - Franklin W. Smith (1826–1911), promoter of historical architecture
- Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776–1832), phrenologist
- Daniel C. Stillson (1830–1899), inventor of the Stillson pipe wrench[5]
- I. F. Stone (1907–1989), journalist
- Joseph Story (1779–1845), United States Supreme Court Justice
- Charles Sumner (1811–1874),[2] statesman
T
- Frank William Taussig (1859–1940), economist
- Randall Thompson (1899–1984), composer
- William Ticknor (1810–1864), publisher and the founder of the publishing house Ticknor and Fields
- William Davis Ticknor, Sr. (1881–1938), president and chairman of the board of Commercial Solvents Corporation and president of Commercial Pigments Corporation
- William S. Tilton (1828–1889), Civil War brigade commander
- Charles Turner Torrey (1813–1846), American abolitionist
- Charles Tufts (1781–1876), businessman who donated the land for Tufts University
V
- Maribel Vinson (1911–1961), nine-time U.S. skating champion and coach
W
- Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846), physician
- Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), publisher, editor, author, poet[6]
- Joseph Winlock (1826-1875), Astronomer
- Robert Charles Winthrop (1809–1894), statesman
- Roger Wolcott (1847–1900), governor of Massachusetts
- Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865),[2] lexicographer
References
- ↑ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Corbett, William. Literary New England: A History and Guide. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993: 106. ISBN 0-571-19816-3
- ↑ Wyman J. (1903). Biographical memoir of Augustus Addison Gould 1805–1866. 91–113. Read before The National Academy of Sciences, April 22, 1903.
- ↑ Novick, Sheldon M. (1989). Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 200. ISBN 0-316-61325-8.
- ↑ Daniel C. Stillson (1830–1899)
- ↑ Beers, Henry A. (1913). Nathaniel Parker Willis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 350.
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