List of burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery

This is a list of notable burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, USA.

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
• Jeremy Belknap (1744–June1798), 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
• 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

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
• 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
• Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), congressman
• Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), nurse, hospital reformer
• 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 Thomas 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

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
• Charles Hayden (1870–1937), financier and philanthropist
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), physician/author^[5]
• Winslow Homer (1836–1910), artist
• 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
• 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
• Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs
• Isaac McLellan (1806-1899), author and poet
• Stewart Mitchell (1892-1957), American poet, editor, and professor of English literature, buried together with his partner, Richard David Cowan
• 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
• 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
• Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and author
• Richard Norton (February 9, 1872 – August 2, 1918), professor of archaeology, organizer of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
• Robert Nozick (1938–2002), philosopher

O

• Richard Olney (1835–1917), statesman
• 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

Q

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

R

• John Rawls (1921–2002), philosopher
  

  Charles Sumner's grave
• Anne Revere (1903–1990), actress
• Marjorie Newell Robb (1889–1992), last first class passenger and survivor of the RMS Titanic
• William Eustis Russell (1857–1896), governor of Massachusetts

S

• Julian Seymour Schwinger, theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861), chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), psychologist
  

  Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse's grave
• 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
• William S. Tilton (1828–1889), Civil War brigade commander
• Charles Turner Torrey (1813–1846), American abolitionist
• 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

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