List of burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery

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.

Contents: 

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W
• References

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
• 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, Massachusetts

B

• Hosea 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, founder 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), actor
  

  Nathaniel Bowditch
• Edwin Boring (1886–1968), psychologist
• Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838),[2] 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
• 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
• Anson Burlingame (1820–1870), lawyer, legislator, diplomat

C

• George Cabot (1752–1823), statesman
• James Henry Carleton (1814–1873), United States Army officer
• William Ellery Channing (1780–1842),[2] Unitarian theologian
• Stanley Cavell (1926–2018), philosopher[3]
• Joyce Chen (1917–1994), chef
• John Ciardi (1916–1986), poet, translator
• Alvan Clark (1804–1887), astronomer and telescope maker
• 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

D

• Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821–1888), artist
• Charles Devens (1820–1891), jurist and Union general
• Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), congressman
• Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), nurse, hospital reformer
• George Dorr (1853–1944), preservationist, founder of today's Acadia National Park
• Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–2017), physicist

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
• Martha May Eliot (1891–1978), foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health
• 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 T. 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
• 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 plot

G

• Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), art collector, museum founder
• 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 (psychologist)
• Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), conchologist and malacologist[4]
• Curt Gowdy (1919–2006), sportscaster
• Asa Gray (1810–1888),[2] 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), sculptor

H

• Charles Hale (1831–1882), journalist, statesman
• Mary Whitwell Hale (1810–1862), teacher hymnwriter
• Edward Needles Hallowell (1836–1871), Union Army officer
• Charles Hayden (1870–1937), financier and philanthropist
• George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879), author, lawyer, legislator
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), physician/author[5]
• 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),[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
• Edward Kent (1802–1877), governor of Maine
• Jon Franklin Kropper (1933–1992) High Tech Industrialist.

Jon Kropper obituary

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
• 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),[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
• 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
• 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
• 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 America

N

• Shahan Natalie (1884–1983), principal organizer of Operation Nemesis, Armenian national philosophy writer
• Rose Standish Nichols (1872–1960), landscape architect
• Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and author
• Richard Norton (1872-1918), professor of archaeology, organizer of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
• Robert Nozick (1938–2002), philosopher

O

• Richard Olney (1835–1917), statesman
• Joseph Wallace Oman (1864–1941), admiral and governor of US Virgin Islands
• 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
• 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), novelist

Q

• Josiah Quincy III (1772–1864), statesman and educator

R

• John Rawls (1921–2002), philosopher
  

  Charles Sumner's grave
• Anne Revere (1903–1990), actress
• George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886), first African-American judge in the United States
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924), suffragist, publisher of Women's Era
• William Eustis Russell (1857–1896), governor of Massachusetts

S

• 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
• B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), psychologist
  

  Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse's grave
• 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[6]
• 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),[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
• 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

V

• Maribel Vinson (1911–1961), nine-time U.S. skating champion and coach

W

• Charles F. Walcott (1838–1887), Union Army colonel and brevet brigadier general
• Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846), physician
• Anne Whitney (1821–1915), sculptor, buried together with her companion, Abby Adeline Manning.
• Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), publisher, editor, author, poet[7]
• 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

1. Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
2. Corbett, William. Literary New England: A History and Guide. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993: 106. ISBN 0-571-19816-3
3. "Stanley Cavell Obituary". Legacy.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2018.
4. Wyman J. (1903). Biographical memoir of Augustus Addison Gould 1805–1866. 91–113. Read before The National Academy of Sciences, April 22, 1903.
5. Novick, Sheldon M. (1989). Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 200. ISBN 0-316-61325-8.
6. Daniel C. Stillson (1830–1899)
7. Beers, Henry A. (1913). Nathaniel Parker Willis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 350.