• Source: List of burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic garden or rural cemetery established in 1836 in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 74-acre grounds contain over 11,000 family lots and more than 33,000 graves, including many notable burials.




A


Robert Adams Jr. (1849–1906), U.S. Congressman
Oscar Allis, M.D. (1838–1921), surgeon, inventor of the Allis clamp
Sara Gwendolen Foulke Andrews (1863-1936), zoologist, marine biologist and poet
Francis Ayer (1848–1923) advertising businessman, founder N. W. Ayer & Son




B


Franklin Bache (1792–1864), great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, chemist, physician
Hilary Baker (1746–1798), mayor of Philadelphia
Matthias W. Baldwin (1795–1866), founder of Baldwin Locomotive Works
John Barker (1746-1818), served in the Revolutionary War, eventually retiring as Major General; three-time mayor of Philadelphia
James Nelson Barker (1784-1858), playwright, military officer in War of 1812, one-term mayor of Philadelphia, Assistant Comptroller of U.S. Treasury under Martin Van Buren
Wharton Barker (1846–1921), 1900 Candidate for U.S. President with Populist Party
John Rhea Barton (1794–1871), surgeon, namesake of Barton's fracture
Charles Ezra Beury (1879–1953), banker, 2nd president of Temple University, namesake for Beury Building
Alexander Biddle (1819–1899), Union Army officer in the U.S. Civil War
Henry H. Bingham (1841–1912), brevet brigadier general, Medal of Honor recipient
Robert Montgomery Bird (1803–1854), novelist, playwright, and physician
David Bispham (1857–1921), opera singer
George A.H. Blake (1810–1884), cavalry officer in the U.S. Army
Charles E. Bohlen (1904–1974), U.S. diplomat
Francis Bohlen (1868–1942), legal scholar at the University of Pennsylvania
Henry Bohlen (1810–1862), Civil War Union brigadier general
George Henry Boker (1823–1890), poet, playwright, and diplomat
Joseph Bonnell (1802–1840), West Point graduate, hero of the Texas Revolution
Adolph E. Borie (1809–1880), Secretary of the Navy
John Bouvier (1781–1851), jurist and legal lexicographer
Charles Brown (1797–1883), U.S. Congressman
George Bryan (1731–1791), colonial Pennsylvania businessman and politician




C


James Emmot Caldwell (1813-1881), founder of J.E. Caldwell & Co., jewelry retailer and silversmith
Hampton L. Carson (1852–1929), influential legal scholar and historian
Robert N. Carson (1844–1907), streetcar magnate, gave money to found Carson College for Orphan Girls
Lewis C. Cassidy (1829–1889), Pennsylvania State Attorney General
John Cassin (1813–1869), ornithologist
George William Childs (1829–1894), newspaper publisher
Thomas Clyde (1812–1885), founder of the Clyde Line of steamers
William P. Clyde (1839–1923), shipping magnate
Meredith Colket (1878–1947), Silver Medal winner pole vault, 1900 Summer Olympics
Walter Colton (1797–1851), Chaplain, Alcalde of Monterey, author, publisher of California's first newspaper
David Conner (1792–1856), U.S. naval officer
Robert T. Conrad (1810–1858), mayor of Philadelphia
Joel Cook (1842–1910), U.S. Congressman
Robert Cornelius (1809–1893), pioneering photographer, took first selfie in 1839
Martha Coston (1826–1904), inventor of Coston flare and businesswoman
Thomas Jefferson Cram (1804–1883), engineer in the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers
William Cramp (1807–1879), shipbuilder
Samuel W. Crawford (1829–1892), Civil War Union army general
Alexander Cummings (1810–1879), third Governor of the Territory of Colorado
Louisa Knapp Curtis (1851–1910), journalist, editor Ladies' Home Journal, wife of Cyrus H. K. Curtis
George Hewitt Cushman (1814-1876), engraver and painter of miniature paintings




D


John A. Dahlgren (1809–1870), U.S. naval officer, inventor of the Dahlgren gun
Ulric Dahlgren (1842–1864), Union Army Captain during the Civil War, namesake of The Dahlgren Affair
Richard Dale (1756–1826), Revolutionary War naval officer
Henry Deringer (1786–1868), gunsmith
Franklin Archibald Dick (1823–1885), attorney, politician and military officer
Hamilton Disston (1844–1896), industrialist and real-estate developer
Henry Disston (1819–1878), businessman, Disston Saw Works
Ida Dixon (1854–1916), socialite, first female golf course architect in the United States
Gustavus Savage Drane (1789–1846), apocryphal inspiration for The Cask of Amontillado
Percival Drayton (1812–1865), U.S. Navy officer
William Drayton (1776–1846), politician, banker and writer
William Duane (1760–1835), journalist
William Duane (1872–1935), physicist
William J. Duane (1780–1865), politician, lawyer, United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1833
Louis Adolphus Duhring (1845–1913), professor of dermatology at University of Pennsylvania, first described dermatitis herpetiformis (Duhring's disease)
Frank Dumont (1848–1919), minstrel performer and entrepreneur, wrote "The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia"
Stephen Duncan (1787–1867), Mississippi planter and banker
Robley Dunglison, (1798–1869), "Father of American Physiology", personal physician to Thomas Jefferson
Nathan Dunn (1782–1844), businessman, philanthropist and sinology pioneer
Elias Durand (1794-1873), French-born pharmacist and botanist, first person to bottle mineral waters in United States
John Price Durbin (1800–1876), Chaplain of the United States Senate, president of Dickinson College




E


George Meade Easby (1918–2005), great-grandson of General George Meade and a celebrity figure; owner of haunted Baleroy Mansion
George Nicholas Eckert (1802–1865), U.S. Congressman
William Lukens Elkins (1832–1903), businessman, inventor, art collector
Charles Ellet Jr. (1810–1862), civil engineer, built Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, many others
Charles Rivers Ellet (1843–1863), Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War
Alfred L. Elwyn (1804–1884), physician and pioneer in the education of the mentally disabled; namesake of Elwyn, Pennsylvania
Jehu Eyre (1738–1781), businessman, veteran of the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War




F


Wes Fisler (1841–1922), professional baseball player, nickname "The Icicle"
Edwin Henry Fitler (1825–1896), 75th mayor of Philadelphia
Wilmot E. Fleming (1916–1978), Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator
Robert H. Foerderer (1860–1903), U.S. Congressman
Stanley Hamer Ford (1877–1961), U.S. Army general, recipient Distinguished Service Medal
Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890), entrepreneur, businessman, and circus owner
William Parker Foulke (1816–1865), discovered first full dinosaur skeleton in North America, called Hadrosaurus foulkii in 1858
Anne Francine (1917–1999), actress and cabaret singer
John Fries Frazer (1812–1872), Vice Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
Samuel Gibbs French (1818–1910), Confederate major general has a cenotaph in his family's plot
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880–1980), sculptor
A.B. Frost (1851–1928), illustrator, graphic artist and comics writer
Frank Furness (1839–1912), architect, Medal of Honor recipient
Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912), Shakespearean scholar
William Henry Furness (1802–1896), clergyman, theologian, Transcendentalist, abolitionist, and reformer
William Henry Furness III (1866–1920), physician, ethnographer and author; he is in the Thomas Eakins painting The Agnew Clinic




G


Margaret Ralston Gest (1900-1965), painter, member of Philadelphia Ten
William Evans Garrett Gilmore (1895–1969), Olympic rower 1924 Summer Olympics, 1932 Summer Olympics
Charles Gilpin (1809–1891), Mayor of Philadelphia, 1851 to 1854
Henry D. Gilpin (1801–1860), U.S. Attorney General (1840-1841), presented U.S. government's side in the Amistad case
Joshua Gilpin (1765–1840), paper manufacturer
George Gliddon (1809–1857), English-born American Egyptologist
Louis Antoine Godey (1804–1878), editor and publisher Godey's Lady's Book
Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749), optician and inventor of the octant
Sylvanus William Godon (1809–1879), U.S. Naval officer (1819-1871)
Frederick Graff (1775–1847), hydraulic engineer, designer of the Fairmount Water Works
George Rex Graham (1813–1894), Magazine editor and publisher Graham's Magazine
Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917), "Dean of American Photographers"




H


Henry Schell Hagert (1826–1885), Philadelphia district attorney

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879), writer, poet (Mary Had a Little Lamb), instigator of Thanksgiving as a national holiday
Frederick Halterman (1831–1907), U.S. Congressman
James Harper (1780–1873), U.S. Congressman
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770–1843), first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
A. G. Heaton (1844–1930), artist, author and leading numismatist
Joseph Hemphill (1770–1842), U.S. Congressman
Alexander Henry (1823–1883), mayor of Philadelphia from 1858 to 1865
Henry Beck Hirst (1813–1874), poet, companion of Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Wilson Hodge (1865–1919), civil engineer Woolworth Building, bridge designer
Holger Hoiriis (1901-1942), Denmark-born barnstorming pilot, nickname "Hold Your Horses"
Emily Elizabeth Holman (1854–1925), better known by her professional name of E.E. Holman, she was one of the first female architects in Pennsylvania
Lucy Hamilton Hooper (1835–1893), poet, journalist, editor and playwright
Hub (1958–2021), Leonard Nelson Hubbard, bass player for The Roots
Isaac Hull (1773–1843), Commodore, USN, captained USS Constitution to victory over HMS Guerriere




J


Caroline Furness Jayne (1873–1909), ethnologist, expert in children's game cat's cradle
Horace Jayne (1859–1913), zoologist and educator; the Horace Jayne House is on the National Register of Historic Places
Owen Jones (1819–1878), U.S. Congressman
James Juvenal (1874–1942), Olympic rower, 1900 Summer Olympics, 1904 Summer Olympics




K


Harry Kalas (1936–2009), Philadelphia Phillies Hall of Fame broadcaster
Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), physician, polar explorer, lover or husband of spiritualist Margaretta "Maggie" Fox
John K. Kane (1795–1858), U.S. District Judge, Attorney General of Pennsylvania
Ida Augusta Keller (1866-1932), botanist and plant physiologist; organized Science Department at Bryn Mawr College
William D. Kelley (1814–1890), U.S. Congressman
Florence Kelley (1859–1932), social and political reformer
David J. Kennedy (1816-1898), railroad agent and amateur painter who produced more than 1,000 watercolors of Philadelphia
Edward King, (1794-1873) twice nominated and rejected for Supreme Court of the United States
Samuel George King (1816–1899), 73rd mayor of Philadelphia
Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809-1883), pioneering psychiatrist, first superintendent Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital
James Kitchenman (1825–1909), carpet manufacturer
Lon Knight (1853–1932), professional baseball player




L


Elie A. F. La Vallette (1790–1862), U.S. Navy, one of first rear admirals appointed in 1862
Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909), historian
Isaac Lea (1792–1886), conchologist, geologist and publisher
Langdon "Biffy" Lea (1874-1937), member College Football Hall of Fame
Mathew Carey Lea (1823–1897), chemist and lawyer, father of mechanochemistry
Napoleon LeBrun (1821–1901), architect Academy of Music (Philadelphia), many others
Mary Ann Lee (1823–1899), professional ballerina
Michael Leib (1760–1822), U.S. Congressman
Thomas Leiper (1745–1825), American Revolutionary War veteran, first American to construct a permanent working railway
Lewis Charles Levin (1808–1860), U.S. Congressman
Rachel Lloyd (1839–1900), first U.S. woman to receive Ph.D. in chemistry
George Horace Lorimer (1868–1937), editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post
Harry Luff (1856–1916), Major League Baseball player
Anna Lukens (1844–1917), physician




M


Charles Macalester (1798–1873), businessman, banker, philanthropist and namesake of Macalester College
Edward Yorke Macauley (1827–1894), U.S. naval officer
George McClellan, M.D. (1796-1847), founder, Jefferson Medical College
Alexander Kelly McClure (1828–1909), Pennsylvania State Senator
George Deardorff McCreary (1846–1915), U.S. Congressman
Jack McFetridge (1869–1917), Major League Pitcher with Philadelphia Phillies
Thomas McKean (1734–1817), lawyer and politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Morton McMichael (1807–1879), editor The Saturday Evening Post, publisher The North American, veteran American Civil War, Mayor of Philadelphia (1866–1869)
George Gordon Meade (1815–1872), Civil War Union Army major general, victor at the Battle of Gettysburg
James Mease (1771-1846) prominent scientist, horticulturist, and doctor who published the first known tomato-based ketchup recipe in 1812
Charles Delucena Meigs M.D. (1792–1869), obstetrician who did not believe in anesthesia or the germ theory
George Wallace Melville (1841–1912), U.S. Navy Admiral, engineer, Arctic explorer, author
Hugh Mercer (1726–1777), Continental Army general in the American Revolution
Samuel Mercer (1799–1862), U.S. naval officer
Samuel Vaughan Merrick (1801–1870), first president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Helen Abbott Michael, M.D. (1857–1904), early phytochemist, physician
E. Spencer Miller, (1817-1879), dean University of Pennsylvania Law School
Charles Karsner Mills, M.D. (1845–1930), neurologist
William Millward (1822–1871), U.S. Congressman
E. Coppée Mitchell (1836–1887), Professor and Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
James T. Mitchell (1834–1915), Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1903, Chief Justice from 1903 to 1910
John Moffet (1831–1884), U.S. Congressman-elect
Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881), U.S. Congressman
Roland S. Morris (1874–1945), U.S. Ambassador to Japan, President of American Philosophical Society
James St. Clair Morton (1829–1864), Union Army general in Civil War
Samuel George Morton (1799–1855), physician, natural scientist and writer
Alexander Murray (1755–1821), American officer during Revolutionary War




N


Henry Morris Naglee (1815–1886), Union Army general during the U.S. Civil War, namesake for Naglee Park, San Jose, California
Charles Naylor (1806–1872), U.S. Congressman
Matthew Newkirk (1794–1868), businessman, president Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Albert Newsam (1809–1864), deaf lithographer and painter
John Notman (1810–1865), Scottish-born American architect




O


Joshua T. Owen (1822–1887), Union brigadier general during the Civil War




P


Francis E. Patterson (1821–1862), Union general in the Civil War
Robert Patterson (1743–1824), mathematician, Director United States Mint 1805–1824
Robert Maskell Patterson (1787–1854), chemist, mathematician, physician, Director United States Mint 1835–1851
Robert Patterson (1792–1881), Irish-born United States major general during the American Civil War
Franklin Peale (1795–1870), 3rd chief coiner at United States Mint at Philadelphia
Titian Peale (1799–1885), artist
John C. Pemberton (1814–1881), Confederate Civil War general
Garrett J. Pendergrast (1802–1862), U.S. Civil War naval officer
Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), U.S. scientist and refrigeration pioneer
Boies Penrose (1860–1921), U.S. Senator
Charles B. Penrose (1798–1857), Pennsylvania State Senator and Solicitor of the U.S. Treasury
Charles Bingham Penrose (1862–1925), physician, inventor of Penrose drain
William Pepper (1843–1898), physician, Provost of University of Pennsylvania, founder Free Library of Philadelphia
Charles Jacobs Peterson (1818–1887), author, publisher Peterson's Magazine
Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson (1811–1870), author of "Bouvier's Familiar Astronomy" and The Young Wife's Cookbook
Henry Peterson (1818–1891), editor for The Saturday Evening Post, novelist, poet, playwright, and abolitionist
Robert Evans Peterson (1812-1894), book publisher and writer
Alonzo Potter (1800–1865), third Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania




R


Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), U.S. Congressman, 29th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1876 to 1881
William Rawle (1759-1836) lawyer, first president Historical Society of Pennsylvania, trustee of University of Pennsylvania
George C. Read (1788–1862), U.S. Naval officer
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872), poet, sculptor, portrait-painter
Esther de Berdt Reed (1746-1780), First lady of Pennsylvania, Co-founder of Ladies Association during the American Revolution
Joseph Reed (1741–1785), Continental Congressman
John E. Reyburn (1845–1914), U.S. Congressman, mayor of Philadelphia
William S. Reyburn (1882–1946), U.S. Congressman
Benjamin Wood Richards (1797–1851), mayor of Philadelphia
Samuel Richards (1769-1842), New Jersey ironmaster, half brother of Benjamin Wood Richards
Jacob Ridgway (1768–1843), merchant and diplomat
David Rittenhouse (1732–1796), astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor
Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (1871-1927) painter, PAFA philanthropist, winner Mary Smith Prize
John Robbins (1808–1880), U.S. Congressman
Moncure Robinson (1802–1891), civil engineer and railroad planner
Fairman Rogers (1833–1900), civil engineer, educator and equestrian
William Ronckendorff (1812–1891), U.S. Naval officer
Richard Rush (1780–1859), U.S. Attorney General
Richard H. Rush (1825-1893), colonel who led 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, aka "Rush's Lancers"




S


Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous (1852-1929) physician, specialist in laryngology and endocrinology, prolific author
John Morin Scott (1789–1858), mayor of Philadelphia from 1841 to 1844
John Sergeant (1779–1852), U.S. Congressman and 1832 Republican vice presidential nominee
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746–1793), Continental Congressman
Thomas Sergeant (1782-1860), lawyer, judge and politician
Adam Seybert (1773–1825), U.S. Congressman
George Sharswood (1810–1883), Pennsylvania jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
William Short (1759–1849), private secretary and "adopted son" for Thomas Jefferson
William M. Singerly (1832–1898), businessman and newspaper publisher
Arthur Donaldson Smith (1866–1939), physician, hunter, explorer of Africa
Charles Ferguson Smith (1807–1862), Civil War Union Army general
John K. Smith (1800-1845) pharmacist and businessman, founder of SmithKline as in GlaxoSmithKline
John Rowson Smith (1810–1864), panorama painter
John T. Smith (1801–1864), U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1843 to 1845
Persifor Frazer Smith (1798–1858), U.S. Army officer
Richard Penn Smith (1799–1854), playwright, wrote fake biography of Davy Crockett
William Smith (1727-1803), first Provost of the College of Philadelphia
A. Loudon Snowden (1835–1912), politician, diplomat, superintendent of Philadelphia Mint
James Ross Snowden (1809–1878), director United States Mint 1853–1861
William Clinton South (1866–1938), color photography pioneer, violin maker and collector
William Steele (1839-1908) Philadelphia builder; designed Shibe Park, Quaker City Dye Works, Terminal Commerce Building, and many others
John Batterson Stetson (1830–1906), hat manufacturer, reinterred to West Laurel Hill Cemetery
Christine Wetherill Stevenson (1878–1922), cofounder Plays and Players Theatre, Philadelphia Art Alliance, and Hollywood Bowl
Sara Yorke Stevenson, PhD, (1847–1921), archaeologist specializing in Egyptology, cofounder University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, suffragist
Alfred Stillé, M.D. (1813–1900), expelled from Yale for Conic Sections Rebellion, received medical degree from University of Pennsylvania, president American Medical Association
William S. Stokely (1823–1902), 72nd mayor of Philadelphia
Witmer Stone (1866–1939), ornithologist, botanist
Alfred Sully (1820–1879), military officer
Rosalie Sully (1818–1847), painter, daughter of Thomas, had affair with actress Charlotte Cushman
Thomas Sully (1783–1872), portrait painter




T


M. Louise Thomas (1822–1907), social reformer
Charles Thomson (1729–1824), secretary of the Continental Congress
George Washington Toland (1796–1869), U.S. Congressman
Laura Matilda Towne (1825–1901), abolitionist and educator
George Alfred Townsend (1841–1914), Civil War correspondent who used pen name 'Gath', author
Levi Twiggs (1793–1847), U.S. Marine Corps officer killed at the Battle of Chapultepec
Hector Tyndale (1821–1880), Union army general
Job Roberts Tyson (1803–1858), U.S. Congressman




V


Pinkerton R. Vaughn (1841–1866), Medal of Honor recipient
Richard Vaux (1816–1895), U.S. Congressman, mayor of Philadelphia
William Sansom Vaux (1811–1852), mineralogist




W


Thomas Ustick Walter (1804–1887), architect
John Welsh (1805-1886), merchant and diplomat who served as US Minister to the Court of St. James's.
John Price Wetherill (1844–1906), industrialist, namesake for the Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Medal, 1917–1997
Joseph Wharton (1826–1909), industrialist who founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College
Stephen French Whitman (1823–1888), chocolatier, founder Whitman's
Eleanor Elkins Widener (1861/1862–1937), wife of George Dunton Widener, survivor of RMS Titanic sinking, responsible for Harry Elkins Widener Library at Harvard University
George D. Widener Jr. (1889–1971), thoroughbred racehorse owner
Joseph E. Widener (1871–1943), thoroughbred owner/breeder
Peter A. B. Widener (1834–1915), business tycoon, philanthropist
Jonathan Williams (1751–1815), U.S. Army officer and first superintendent of West Point
John Rhea Barton Willing (1864–1913), music enthusiast and violin collector
Joseph Lapsley Wilson (1844–1928), railroad executive, author, horticulturalist, Captain of First City Troop, 1889–1894; subject of Thomas Eakins painting
Annis Lee Wister, (1830-1908); translator who specialized in translations from German to English
John Caspar Wister (1887–1982), one of the United States' most highly honored horticulturists, first director of John J. Tyler Arboretum
Langhorne Wister (1834–1891), Union Army officer
Owen Wister (1860–1938), novelist, author of The Virginian
George Bacon Wood (1797–1879), physician, professor, and writer
William B. Wood (1774–1861), theater manager, actor
Charles Stewart Wurts (1790–1859), coal merchant, founder Delaware and Hudson Canal; helped launch anthracite industry in U.S.
John Wyeth (1770-1858), printer, best known for printing "Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second" (Harrisburg, PA: 1813)




Z


Jacob Zeilin (1806–1880), 7th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps's first general officer
J. Fred Zimmerman Jr. (1871–1948), theatre manager and stage producer
J. Fred Zimmerman Sr. (1843–1925), theatre magnate




References

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• List of burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Laurel Hill Cemetery
• List of burials at West Laurel Hill Cemetery
• West Laurel Hill Cemetery
• List of burials at Oak Hill Cemetery
• Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)
• Laurel Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Nebraska
• Crown Hill Cemetery
• Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
• Lone Mountain Cemetery