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

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  Robert Adams Jr. served as a Republican Congressman for Philadelphia's 2nd congressional district from 1893 to 1906

  Robert Adams Jr. (1849–1906), U.S. Congressman
• Oscar Allis, M.D. (1838–1921), surgeon, inventor of the Allis clamp

B

• Hilary Baker (1746–1798), mayor of Philadelphia
• Matthias W. Baldwin (1795–1866), founder of Baldwin Locomotive Works
• 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), American novelist, playwright, and physician
• David Bispham (1857–1921), opera singer
• George A.H. Blake (1810–1884), cavalry officer in the U.S. Army

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  Charles E. Bohlen was an advisor to every U.S. president from 1943 to 1968

  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

• 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

• 

  Five birds are named in honor of the ornithologist John Cassin

  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), American 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
• Elliott Cresson (1845-1868), Philadelphia painter for whom the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship is named
• 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

D

• 

  John A. Dahlgren was a Rear admiral in the Union Navy and invented the Dahlgren gun

  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
• Frank Dumont (1848-1919), minstrel performer and entrepreneur, wrote "The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia"

• 

  Stephen Duncan was the 2nd highest slaveowner in the United States with 858 slaves

  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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890), entrepreneur, businessman, and circus owner
• Anne Francine (1917–1999), actress and cabaret singer
• John Fries Frazer (1812-1972), Vice Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
• Samuel Gibbs French (1818–1910), Confederate major general has a cenotaph in his family's plot in Laurel Hill.
• 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

  Frank Furness (1839–1912), architect, Medal of Honor recipient
• Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912), American Shakespearean scholar
• William Henry Furness (1802–1896), American 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

• William Evans Garrett Gilmore (1895–1969), Olympic rower 1924 Summer Olympics, 1932 Summer Olympics
• Charles Gilpin (1809–1891), Mayor of Philadelphia from 1851 to 1854
• Henry D. Gilpin (1801–1860), U.S. Attorney General
• Joshua Gilpin (1765–1840), paper manufacturer
• George Gliddon (1809-1857), English-born American Egyptologist
• Louis Antoine Godey (1804–1878), American editor and publisher
• Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749), optician and inventor
• Sylvanus William Godon (1809–1879), U.S. Naval officer
• Frederick Graff (1775–1847), hydraulic engineer, designer of the Fairmount Water Works
• George Rex Graham (1813–1894), Magazine editor and publisher
• Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917), prominent photographer

H

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

• 

  Sarah Josepha Hale was an advocate for making Thanksgiving a national holiday

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879), writer, poet, 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), American 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), American poet, companion of Edgar Allan Poe
• Henry Wilson Hodge (1865–1919), civil engineer, bridge designer
• 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 Constitution to victory over HMS Guerriere

J

• Caroline Furness Jayne (1873–1909) American 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's funeral was the largest in the United States until Abraham Lincoln's

  Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), polar explorer
• John K. Kane (1795–1858), U.S. District Judge, Attorney General of Pennsylvania
• 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
• 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
• Mathew Carey Lea (1823–1897), chemist and lawyer, father of mechanochemistry
• Napoleon LeBrun (1821-1901), architect
• 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, Presbyterian Church philanthropist, and namesake of Macalester 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

  George Gordon Meade (1815–1872), Civil War Union Army major general, victor at the Battle of Gettysburg
• Charles Delucena Meigs (1792–1869), American obstetrician who opposed anesthesia
• George Wallace Melville (1841–1912), U.S. Navy Admiral, engineer, Arctic explorer, author
• Hugh Mercer (1726–1777), Continental general in the American Revolution
• Samuel Mercer (1799–1862), Union naval officer
• Helen Abbott Michael (1857–1904), plant chemist
• Charles Karsner Mills, M.D. (1845–1930), "dean of American neurology"
• 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 the Civil War
• Samuel George Morton (1799–1855), physician, natural scientist and writer
• Alexander Murray (1755–1821), American officer during the Revolutionary War

N

• Henry Morris Naglee (1815–1886), Union Army general during the U.S. Civil War
• Charles Naylor (1806–1872), U.S. Congressman
• Matthew Newkirk (1794–1868), businessman, railroad president
• Albert Newsam (1809-1864), famed deaf artist who created paintings and drawings, including portraits
• Thaddeus Norris (1811–1877), "Uncle Thad," the "Father of American Fly Fishing"
• John Notman (1810–1865), architect and designer of Laurel Hill

O

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

P

• Samuel Longstreth Parrish (1849-1932), bibliophile, founder Parrish Art Museum
• 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

  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
• J.W. Pepper (1853-1919), sheet music publisher, musical instrument maker, inventor of the sousaphone
• 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
• Alonzo Potter (1800–1865), third Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania

R

• Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), U.S. Congressman
• George C. Read (1788–1862), U.S. Naval officer
• Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872), American poet, sculptor, portrait-painter
• 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

  William S. Reyburn (1882–1946), U.S. Congressman
• Benjamin Wood Richards (1797–1851), mayor of Philadelphia
• Jacob Ridgway (1768–1843), merchant and diplomat
• David Rittenhouse (1732–1796), astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor
• John Robbins (1808–1880), U.S. Congressman
• Moncure Robinson (1802–1891), civil engineer and railroad planner
• Fairman Rogers (1833–1900), civil engineer, educator and philanthropist, subject of Thomas Eakins painting The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand
• William Ronckendorff (1812–1891), U.S. Naval officer
• Richard Rush (1780–1859), U.S. Attorney General

S

• 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
• 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

  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 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
• A. Loudon Snowden (1835-1912), American 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
• 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 (1847-1921), American archaeologist specializing in Egyptology, cofounder University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, suffragist
• Alfred Stillé (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), soldier, painter, actor
• Rosalie Sully (1818-1847), painter, daughter of Thomas, had affair with actress Charlotte Cushman
• Thomas Sully (1783–1872), portrait painter
• William Swaim (1781–1846), inventor of Swaim's Panacea

T

• 

  M. Louise Thomas helped to organize the Women's Centenary   Association in Philadelphia during the American Civil War

  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, author
• Levi Twiggs (1793–1847), U.S. Marine Corps officer
• Hector Tyndale (1821–1880), Union general during the American Civil War and protector of the wife of abolitionist John Brown
• 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 Price Wetherill (1844-1906), industrialist, namesake for the Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Medal, 1917-1997
• Joseph Wharton (1826–1909), American 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 is considered one of the 100 wealthiest Americans

  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
• 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
• William B. Wood (1774-1861) American theater manager, actor
• Charles Stewart Wurts (1790-1859), coal merchant, founder Delaware and Hudson Canal; helped launch anthracite industry in U.S.
• John Wyeth (1834-1907), chemist, with brother founder Wyeth pharmaceuticals

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