Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic, "garden-style" burial ground in Boston , Massachusetts , located between Cambridge and Watertown , and dedicated in 1831. The 174-acre grounds has long been the preferred burial ground for the middle class and elite of New England .
This list highlights its notable internees, though many others are contained within the large and scenic grounds.
There is an important instance in which burial at Mt, Auburn was proposed, but did not happen: the abolitionist John Brown , executed by Virginia in 1859 . His friend Wendell Phillips , meeting the funeral party in Troy, New York , hoped to take the body to Boston for burial in Mount Auburn Cemetery ,[1] as Charles Turner Torrey had been. An impromptu announcement said this was not going to happen, since Brown had wanted to be buried at his farm in North Elba, New York .[2] Phillips, speaking at the funeral, "intimated that Massachusetts would yet possess the remains of John Brown."[3]
In the 2nd half of the 19th century, The Ladies' Repository magazine published a series of brief articles on "The Distinguished Dead of Mt. Auburn", six in 1870.[4]
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Hannah Adams (1755–1831), author[5]
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822–1907), scientist, author
Louis Agassiz (1807–1873),[6] scientist
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907),[6] author
George Thorndike Angell (1823–1909), advocate for the humane treatment of animals, founder of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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, MassachusettsHosea Ballou (1771–1852), Universalist theologian and minister
Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet and translator
John Bartlett (1820–1905), Writer and publisher of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Benjamin E. Bates (1808–1878), industrialist, benefactor of Bates College
Jonathan Bayliss (1926–2009), Gloucester (Mass.) novelist and playwright
Jeremy Belknap (1744–1798), clergyman and historian
Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), designer of Mt. Auburn Cemetery
J. W. Black (1825–1896), photographer
Edwin Booth (1833–1893), actorNathaniel Bowditch
Edwin Boring (1886–1968), psychologist
Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838),[6] mathematician, seaman, author; his monument was the first life size bronze to be cast in America
Ada Chastina Bowles (1836–1928), Universalist minister.
William Brewster (1851–1919), ornithologist
Peter Bent Brigham (1807–1877), Boston businessman and philanthropist
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), American Episcopal bishop[7]
Roger Brown (1925–1997), American social psychologist, buried together with his partner Albert Gilman
Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), architect
McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), presidential cabinet official[8] : 1721
Anson Burlingame (1820–1870), lawyer, legislator, diplomatGeorge Cabot (1752–1823), statesman
James Henry Carleton (1814–1873), United States Army officer
William Ellery Channing (1780–1842),[6] Unitarian theologian
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018), philosopher[9] : 1721
Joyce Chen (1917–1994), chef
Rufus Choate (1799–1859), lawyer, Massachusetts legislator and U.S. Senator[10]
John Ciardi (1916–1986), poet, translator
Alvan Clark (1804–1887), astronomer and telescope maker
John M. Clark (1821–1902), sheriff of Suffolk County
Nancy Talbot Clark (1825–1901), female physician
James B. Conant (1893–1978), president of Harvard University
Sherman Conant (1839–1890), Union major and 9th Florida Attorney General
Richard David Cowan (1909–1939), buried together with his partner Stewart Mitchell , intimate of Gerald and Sara Murphy
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[8] : 2965 Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821–1888), artist
Frederick B. Deknatel (1905–1973), art historian
Charles Devens (1820–1891), jurist and Union general
Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), congressman
Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), nurse, hospital reformer[8] : 3417
George Dorr (1853–1944), preservationist, founder of today's Acadia National Park
Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–2017), physicist
Julia Knowlton Dyer (1829-1907), philanthropistMary Baker Eddy Memorial Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910),[6] religious leader
Harold "Doc" Edgerton (1903–1990), engineer, scientist
Charles William Eliot (1834–1926), Harvard University president
Martha May Eliot (1891–1978), foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health
Abraham Eustis (1786-1843), lawyer and U.S. Army officer, first commander of Fort Monroe .
Edward Everett (1794–1865),[6] Governor of Massachusetts , President of Harvard University , United States Secretary of State , speaker at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.[8] : 4001
William Everett (1839–1910), congressman Nina Fagnani (1856–1928), American-born French painter of portrait miniatures
Achilles Fang (1910–1995), sinologist, comparatist, and friend of Ezra Pound
Fannie Farmer (1857–1915), cookbook author[8] : 4058 Mount Auburn Cemetery Fanny Fern (1811–1872), feminist author
Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915),[6] author and hostess; wife of James Thomas Fields
James T. Fields (1817–1881),[6] writer and publisher
Williamina Fleming (1857−1911), astronomer
William M. Folger (1844–1928), United States Navy rear admiral and grandson of Mayhew Folger
George L. Fox (1825–1877), comedian[8] : 4426
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), United States Supreme Court Justice
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), writer, critic, and women's rights advocate; her body was lost in a shipwreck but a monument was erected to her memory in the Fuller family plotIsabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), art collector, museum founder[8] : 4675
Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), illustrator
Charles Hammond Gibson Jr (1874–1954), philanthropist and art collector
Albert Gilman (d. 1989), Shakespeare scholar and professor of English at Boston University, buried together with his partner Roger Brown
Archibald R. Giroux (1897–1968), president of the Boston Stock Exchange and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party
Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), conchologist and malacologist[11]
Curt Gowdy (1919–2006), sportscaster[8] : 5047
Asa Gray (1810–1888),[6] 19th century American botanist
Horace Gray (1828–1902), United States Supreme Court justice
James Monroe Gregory (1849–1915), Howard University Dean
Ludlow Griscom (1890–1959), field ornithologist
Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), sculptorCharles Hale (1831–1882), journalist, statesman
Mary Whitwell Hale (1810–1862), teacher hymnwriter
Morris Halle (1923-2018), linguist
Benjamin F. Hallett (1797–1862), American lawyer and politician, (first) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1848–1852)
Edward Needles Hallowell (1836–1871), Union Army officer
George W. Hammond (1833–1908), businessman
Charles Hayden (1870–1937), financier and philanthropist
George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879), author, lawyer, legislator
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), physician/author[12] Hunnewell family obelisk
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), artist
Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908), first female professional sculptor
Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), Union army general
George Howe (1886–1955), architect
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910),[6] activist, poet, and author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic "
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
Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805–1875), early female physician; her monument, a statue of Hygieia , was carved by Edmonia Lewis Michael Kelly (1957–2003), journalist, writer, columnist, and editor
Edward Kent (1802–1877), governor of Maine
György Kepes (1906-2001), painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist
Juliet Kepes (1919-1999), illustrator, painter and sculptorEdwin H. Land (1909–1991), scientist[8] : 7226 and inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera
Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906), legal educator
Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855), politician, philanthropist
Missy LeHand (1896–1944), private secretary to Franklin Roosevelt[8] : 7457
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), politician[8] : 7709
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985), politician
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), poet
Charles Greely Loring III (1881–1966), architect based in Boston, son of the Civil War general
Charles Greely Loring Jr. (1828–1902), Union Army general during the Civil War, later director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
Charles Greely Loring Sr. (1794–1867), lawyer and politician based in Boston, father of the Civil War general
Katharine Peabody Loring (1849–1943), educator and long-time companion of Alice James
A. Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), Harvard University president
Amy Lowell (1874–1925), poet[6] [8] : 7820
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), poet and foreign diplomat[6] [8] : 7822
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 LowellTom Magliozzi (1935–2014), auto mechanic and radio personality[8] : 8002
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), writer[8] : 8027
Abby Adeline Manning (1836–1906), artist, buried together with her companion, Anne Whitney
Jules Marcou (1824–1898), geologist
Brian G. Marsden (1937–2010), astronomer
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Augustus P. Martin (1835–1902), American politician and Union artillerist during the Civil War
Isaac McLellan (1806–1899), author and poet
William McMasters (1874–1968), journalist and publicist who exposed Charles Ponzi as a fraudster
Susan Minns (1839—1938), American biologist , philanthropist , and collector
Stewart Mitchell (1892–1957), American poet, editor, and professor of English literature, buried together with his partner, Richard David Cowan
Franklin B. Morse (1873–1929), football player and journalist
Leopold Morse (1831–1893), United States House of Representatives (five terms)
William T.G. Morton (1819–1868), demonstrator of ether anesthesia & his son William J. Morton , a noted doctor
Stephen P. Mugar (1901–1982), Armenian-American philanthropist and founder of the Star Market chain of supermarkets ; father of David Mugar
Harvey M. Munsell (1843–1913, American Union soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor
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 AmericaThomas Fyshe Palmer (1747–1802), English Unitarian minister, political reformer and convict
Daniel Pinckney Parker (1781–1850), merchant
Harvey D. Parker (1805–1884), hotelier
Francis Parkman (1823–1893),[6] historian
Fanny Parnell (1844–1882), poet, Irish Nationalist , and the sister of Charles Stewart Parnell
Robert Swain Peabody (1845–1917), architect, partner in the firm Peabody & Stearns
Charles Pickering (naturalist) (1805–1878), naturalist/race scientist
Benjamin Pitman (Hawaii judge) (1815 – January 17, 1888), American businessman who married Hawaiian nobility
Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman (1845 – 1863) eldest son of Benjamin Pitman and Kinoʻoleoliliha , a Hawaiian high chiefess , Union Soldier of Native Hawaiian descent
Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920), novelistGrave of John Simmons Paul A. Samuelson (1915–2009), economist, Nobel Prize winner
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), historian, presidential speechwriter, public intellectual
Julian Seymour Schwinger (1918–1994), theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861), chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Claude Shannon (1916–2001), mathematician, electrical engineer, cryptographer
John Simmons (1796–1870), pioneer in clothing manufacturing, founder of Simmons College
B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), psychologist
Charles Lewis Slattery (1867–1930), bishop, author
Henry Davis Sleeper (1878–1934), interior designer
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 [13]
I. F. Stone (1907–1989), journalist
Joseph Story (1779–1845), United States Supreme Court Justice
Gerry Studds (1937–2006), United States House of Representatives
Charles Sumner (1811–1874),[6] U.S. SenatorFrank 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
Frederic W. Tilton (1839–1918), American educator and 7th Principal of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts
William S. Tilton (1828–1889), Civil War brigade commander
Charles Turner Torrey (1813–1846), American abolitionist
George Makepeace Towle (1841–1893), lawyer, politician, author
Charles Tufts (1781–1876), businessman who donated the land for Tufts University Charles F. Walcott (1838–1887), Union Army colonel and brevet brigadier general Benjamin Waterhouse 's grave
Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846), physician
Norman H. White (1871–1951), publisher and politician
Anne Whitney (1821–1915), sculptor, buried together with her companion, Abby Adeline Manning.
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), publisher, editor, author, poet[14]
Joseph Winlock (1826–1875), astronomer
Robert Charles Winthrop (1809–1894), statesman
Roger Wolcott (1847–1900), governor of Massachusetts
Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865),[6] lexicographer
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