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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA

CEMETERY

Official Website:
http://www.mountauburn.org/

Location:
Cambridge, MA

Founding Date:
1831

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Louis Agassiz
Paleontologist
28-May-1807 14-Dec-1873 Ichthyologist at Harvard
Robert Bacon
Government
5-Jul-1860 29-May-1919 US Ambassador to France, 1909-12
John Bartlett
Author
14-Jun-1820 3-Dec-1905 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Jacob Bigelow
Botanist
27-Feb-1787 10-Jan-1879 American Medical Botany
E. Power Biggs
Organist
29-Mar-1906 10-Mar-1977 Anglo-American organist
Edwin Booth
Actor
13-Nov-1833 7-Jun-1893 Renowned 19th century American actor
Edwin G. Boring
Psychologist
23-Oct-1886 1-Jul-1968 A History of Experimental Psychology
Nathaniel Bowditch
Astronomer
26-Mar-1773 17-Mar-1838 American Practical Navigator
Charles Bulfinch
Architect
8-Aug-1763 15-Apr-1844 Architect of the U.S. Capitol
Mac Bundy
Government
30-Mar-1919 16-Sep-1996 National Security Advisor, 1961-66
William Bundy
Government
24-Sep-1917 6-Oct-2000 Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ
Anson Burlingame
Diplomat
14-Nov-1820 23-Feb-1870 US Ambassador to China, 1861-70
Rufus Choate
Attorney
1-Oct-1799 13-Jul-1859 Attorney and Senator from Massachusetts
Frank Conroy
Author
15-Jan-1936 6-Apr-2005 Stop-Time
Carl Cori
Scientist
5-Dec-1896 20-Oct-1984 Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Gerty Cori
Scientist
15-Aug-1896 26-Oct-1957 Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Robert Creeley
Poet
21-May-1926 30-Mar-2005 Founded Black Mountain Review
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Judge
4-Nov-1809 15-Sep-1874 US Supreme Court Justice, 1851-57
Samuel Dexter
Politician
14-May-1761 4-May-1816 US Secretary of War, Treasury
Dorothea Dix
Activist
4-Apr-1802 17-Jul-1887 Activist for the insane
Mary Baker Eddy
Religion
16-Jul-1821 3-Dec-1910 Founded Christian Science movement
Charles William Eliot
Educator
20-Mar-1834 22-Aug-1926 President, Harvard University, 1869-1909
Edward Everett
Politician
11-Apr-1794 15-Jan-1865 Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40
Felix Frankfurter
Judge
15-Nov-1882 22-Feb-1965 US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62
R. Buckminster Fuller
Architect
12-Jul-1895 1-Jul-1983 Futurist, invented the geodesic dome
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Philanthropist
14-Apr-1840 17-Jul-1924 Prominent art patron, collector
Curt Gowdy
Sports Journalist
31-Jul-1919 20-Feb-2006 Voice of the Red Sox
Robert Grant
Novelist
24-Jan-1852 19-May-1940 Unleavened Bread
Asa Gray
Botanist
18-Nov-1810 30-Jan-1888 Botany of the Northern United States
Horace Gray
Judge
24-Mar-1828 15-Sep-1902 US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-1902
Edwin Hall
Physicist
7-Nov-1855 20-Nov-1938 Discovered the Hall Effect
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author
29-Aug-1809 7-Oct-1894 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Winslow Homer
Painter
24-Feb-1836 30-Sep-1910 Maritime painter, Eight Bells
Julia Ward Howe
Activist
27-May-1819 17-Oct-1910 Battle Hymn of the Republic
Samuel Gridley Howe
Educator
10-Nov-1801 9-Jan-1876 Founder of Perkins Institution
Edwin H. Land
Inventor
7-May-1909 1-Mar-1991 Polaroid Land Camera
Henry Cabot Lodge
Politician
12-May-1850 9-Nov-1924 US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Politician
5-Jul-1902 27-Feb-1985 Ambassador, Massachusetts Senator
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet
27-Feb-1807 24-Mar-1882 Evangeline
Amy Lowell
Poet
9-Feb-1874 12-May-1925 What's O'Clock
James Russell Lowell
Author
22-Feb-1819 12-Aug-1891 The Biglow Papers
Bernard Malamud
Author
26-Apr-1914 18-Mar-1986 The Fixer
Richard Olney
Government
15-Sep-1835 8-Apr-1917 US Secretary of State, 1895-97
Francis Parkman
Historian
16-Sep-1823 8-Nov-1893 France and England in North America
Walter Piston
Composer
20-Jan-1894 12-Nov-1976 Symphony No. 3
Nathan M. Pusey
Educator
4-Apr-1907 14-Nov-2001 President of Harvard, 1953-71
Josiah Quincy
Educator
4-Feb-1772 1-Jul-1864 President of Harvard, 1829-45
Anne Revere
Actor
25-Jun-1903 18-Dec-1990 National Velvet
William Barton Rogers
Educator
7-Dec-1804 30-May-1882 Founder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Josiah Royce
Philosopher
20-Nov-1855 14-Sep-1916 The Religious Aspect of Philosophy
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
15-Oct-1917 28-Feb-2007 The Age of Roosevelt
Julian Schwinger
Physicist
12-Feb-1918 16-Jul-1994 Quantum electrodynamics
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist
20-Mar-1904 18-Aug-1990 Radical Behaviorism
Jared Sparks
Author
10-May-1789 14-Mar-1866 Life and Writings of George Washington
I. F. Stone
Journalist
24-Dec-1907 17-Jul-1989 I. F. Stone's Weekly
Joseph Story
Judge
18-Sep-1779 10-Sep-1845 US Supreme Court Justice, 1812-45
Charles Sumner
Politician
6-Jan-1811 11-Mar-1874 Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts
Helen B. Taussig
Doctor
24-May-1898 20-May-1986 Mother of pediatric cardiology
Charles Tufts
Business
17-Jul-1781 24-Dec-1876 Founder of Tufts University
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Journalist
20-Jan-1806 20-Jan-1867 Pencillings by the Way
Robert Charles Winthrop
Politician
12-May-1809 16-Nov-1894 Speaker of the 30th Congress


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