List of burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery
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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.[1]
Robert Adams Jr. served as a Republican Congressman for Philadelphia's 2nd congressional district from 1893 to 1906 - Sara Gwendolen Foulke Andrews (1863-1936), zoologist, marine biologist and poet
- Francis Ayer (1848–1923) advertising businessman, founder N. W. Ayer & Son
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- 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
- Albert Barnes (1798-1870), theologian, clergyman, abolitionist, temperance advocate, and author
- 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 was an advisor to every U.S. president from 1943 to 1968[2] - 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
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- Hampton L. Carson (1852–1929), influential legal scholar and historian
- Lewis C. Cassidy (1829–1889), Pennsylvania State Attorney General
Five birds are named in honor of the ornithologist John Cassin[3] - 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
- 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
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John A. Dahlgren was a Rear admiral in the Union Navy and invented the Dahlgren gun[4] - 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
- Eleanor Widener Dixon (1891-1966), socialite and philanthropist
- Ida Dixon (1854–1916), socialite, first female golf course architect in the United States
- 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 owned the 2nd highest number of slaves in the United States with 858[5] - 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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880–1980), sculptor
- A.B. Frost (1851–1928), illustrator, graphic artist and comics writer
Frank Furness designed more than 600 buildings and received a Medal of Honor for bravery in the American Civil War[6] - 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
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- 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"
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- 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
- Anna Hallowell (1831-1905), abolitionist, education reformer
- 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
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- 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
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- Harry Kalas (1936–2009), Philadelphia Phillies Hall of Fame broadcaster
Elisha Kent Kane's funeral was the largest in the United States until Abraham Lincoln's[8] - 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
- 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
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- 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 was one of America's first ballerinas[9] - 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
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- 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)
Union Army major general George Meade was the victor at the Battle of Gettysburg[10] - 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
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- 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
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- Joshua T. Owen (1822–1887), Union brigadier general during the Civil War
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- 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
The families of Union military leaders protested again the burial of Confederate General John C. Pemberton in Laurel Hill Cemetery[11] - Garrett J. Pendergrast (1802–1862), U.S. Civil War naval officer
- Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), U.S. scientist and refrigeration innovator
- 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
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- Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), U.S. Congressman, 29th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1876 to 1881
- William H. Rau (1855-1920), photographer
- 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 served as a U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania's 2nd district from 1911 to 1913 - 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"
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- 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 was the publisher of The Philadelphia Record - 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
- Sarah Logan Wister Starr (1873-1956) humanitarian, philanthropist, president of Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1921-1941
- John Batterson Stetson (1830–1906), hat manufacturer, reinterred to West Laurel Hill Cemetery[12]
- 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
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M. Louise Thomas helped to organize the Women's Centenary Association in Philadelphia during the American Civil War[13] - 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
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- Pinkerton R. Vaughn (1841–1866), Medal of Honor recipient
- Richard Vaux (1816–1895), U.S. Congressman, mayor of Philadelphia
- William Sansom Vaux (1811–1882), mineralogist
