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.

There is an important instance in which burial at Mt, Auburn was proposed, but did not happen: the abolitionist John Brown, executed by Virginia in 1859. His friend Wendell Phillips, meeting the funeral party in Troy, New York, hoped to take the body to Boston for burial in Mount Auburn Cemetery,[1] as Charles Turner Torrey had been. An impromptu announcement said this was not going to happen, since Brown had wanted to be buried at his farm in North Elba, New York.[2] Phillips, speaking at the funeral, "intimated that Massachusetts would yet possess the remains of John Brown."[3]

In the 2nd half of the 19th century, The Ladies' Repository magazine published a series of brief articles on "The Distinguished Dead of Mt. Auburn", six in 1870.[4]

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Mary Baker Eddy Memorial

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  • Nina Fagnani (1856–1928), American-born French painter of portrait miniatures
  • Achilles Fang (1910–1995), sinologist, comparatist, and friend of Ezra Pound
  • Fannie Farmer (1857–1915), cookbook author[8]: 4058 
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  • Michael Kelly (1957–2003), journalist, writer, columnist, and editor
  • Edward Kent (1802–1877), governor of Maine
  • György Kepes (1906-2001), painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist
  • Juliet Kepes (1919-1999), illustrator, painter and sculptor

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Grave of John Simmons

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

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References

  1. ^ "Telegraphic to the Daily Whig & Courier". Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (Bangor, Maine). 5 Dec 1859. p. 3. Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "The remains of John Brown". New York Daily Herald. 6 Dec 1859. p. 8. Archived from the original on 20 August 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "The final disposition of the Remains of John Brown". Elizabethtown Post (Elizabethtown, New York). December 10, 1859. p. 2. Archived from the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2021-07-25 – via NYS Historic Newspapers.
  4. ^ "Contents of Volume XLIII". The Ladies' Repository: iii. 1870.
  5. ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Corbett, William. Literary New England: A History and Guide. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993: 106. ISBN 0-571-19816-3
  7. ^ "Burial of Bishops Brooks and Dwenger". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1893-01-27. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-11-18 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Listing by #'s". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
  9. ^ "Stanley Cavell Obituary". Legacy.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2018.
  10. ^ "The News". New York Herald. 1859-07-24. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-09-21 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  11. ^ Wyman J. (1903). Biographical memoir of Augustus Addison Gould 1805–1866. 91–113. Read before The National Academy of Sciences, April 22, 1903.
  12. ^ Novick, Sheldon M. (1989). Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 200. ISBN 0-316-61325-8.
  13. ^ Daniel C. Stillson (1830–1899)
  14. ^ Beers, Henry A. (1913). Nathaniel Parker Willis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 350.