Mount Auburn Cemetery

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Est. 1831 175 acres 1,300+ memorials
America's first landscaped cemetery, founded in 1831, and a National Historic Landmark.

Memorials

Robert Bacon
1860–1919 (age 59)
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Robert Bacon (1860–1919) was an American statesman who served as Secretary of State under President Taft and was inter...
Josiah Royce
1855–1916 (age 61)
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Josiah Royce (1855–1916) was an American philosopher celebrated for his work on idealism and the idea of the community...
William Brewster
1851–1919 (age 68)
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William Brewster (1851–1919) of Wakefield was laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery after spending his final years nea...
Charles Follen Atkinson
1844–1915 (age 71)
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Charles Follen Atkinson (1844–1915) was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery after a lifetime that saw him connected to New...
Jane Crocker
1863–1912 (age 49)
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Jane Crocker (1863–1912) lies at Mount Auburn Cemetery, marking her Boston-area legacy.
Alice Munroe
1856–1914 (age 58)
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Alice Munroe (1856–1914) rests in Mount Auburn Cemetery, leaving behind a story anchored in nineteenth-century Massach...
Mary Dwight Flint
1828–1911 (age 83)
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Mary Dwight Flint (1828–1911) was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery after a long life in the Boston region.
Mary Hinckley Huntington
1833–1911 (age 78)
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Mary Hinckley Huntington (1833–1911) was laid to rest in Mount Auburn Cemetery after a life in Massachusetts high soci...
George Oliver Sears
1835–1914 (age 79)
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George Oliver Sears (1835–1914) was laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery after a life spanning the mid- to late 19th ...
Sarah Gardner Richards
1858–1914 (age 56)
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Sarah Gardner Richards (1858–1914) spent her life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is buried at Mount Aub...
Mary Rice Farnsworth
1841–1916 (age 75)
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Mary Rice Farnsworth (1841–1916) rests at Mount Auburn Cemetery following a lifetime in the Civil War era and beyond.
Amos Lawrence Mason
1842–1914 (age 72)
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Amos Lawrence Mason (1842–1914) of Salem was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery after living through the tumultuous pos...
Charles Wendell Townsend
1859–1934 (age 75)
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Charles Wendell Townsend (1859–1934) served as a U.S. Representative from Michigan and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemet...
Joseph Greene Francis
1849–1930 (age 81)
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Joseph Greene Francis (1849–1930) is commemorated among the interments at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachu...
Robert Means Lawrence
1847–1935 (age 88)
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Robert Means Lawrence (1847–1935) was an American physician and writer whose studies of folklore have earned him recog...
John Humphreys Storer
1859–1935 (age 76)
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John Humphreys Storer (1859–1935) of Milton, Massachusetts, was laid to rest in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Frank Warfield
1897–1932 (age 35)
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Susie H. Carr
1862–1936 (age 74)
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Benjamin Holt Ticknor
1882–1949 (age 67)
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Benjamin Holt Ticknor (1882-1949) of Hingham rests at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Charles Jesse Bullock
1869–1941 (age 72)
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Charles Jesse Bullock (1869-1941) of Boston is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Clifford P. Smith
1869–1945 (age 76)
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Clifford P. Smith (1869-1945) of Jennings County is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Cornelia Horsford
1861–1944 (age 83)
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Cornelia Horsford (1861-1944) of Cambridge lies at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Emma G. Cummings
1856–1940 (age 84)
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Emma G. Cummings (1856–1940) was a Cambridge resident whose life concluded with burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Charles Langdon Gibson
1864–1944 (age 80)
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Charles Langdon Gibson (1864–1944) was a Boston resident interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
James Henry Blake
1845–1941 (age 96)
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James Henry Blake (1845–1941) was a Boston resident memorialized at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Edward Laurens Mark
1847–1946 (age 99)
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Edward Laurens Mark (1847–1946) was an American zoologist from Hamlet whose final resting place is Mount Auburn Cemete...
George H. Lyman
1850–1945 (age 95)
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George H. Lyman (1850–1945) was a Boston resident laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Florida Ruffin Ridley
1861–1943 (age 82)
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Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943) was a Boston educator and civil rights activist buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Henry Hornblower
1863–1941 (age 78)
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Henry Hornblower (1863–1941) was a Lawrence-born financier interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
John Briggs Potter
1864–1949 (age 85)
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John Briggs Potter (1864–1949) was a Massachusetts resident laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Katharine Peabody Loring
1847–1943 (age 96)
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Katharine Peabody Loring (1847–1943) was a Beverly educator and historical preservationist buried at Mount Auburn Ceme...
Charles Bedaux
1886–1944 (age 58)
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Charles Bedaux (1886–1944) was a French-born industrial efficiency expert buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Charles Lee Underhill
1867–1946 (age 79)
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Charles Lee Underhill (1867–1946) was a Richmond-born politician interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Frederick Simpson Deitrick
1875–1948 (age 73)
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Frederick Simpson Deitrick (1875-1948) was a Massachusetts politician who represented the state in Congress and is burie...
Frank Burr Mallory
1862–1941 (age 79)
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Frank Burr Mallory (1862-1941) was an American pathologist known for the Mallory stain and is buried at Mount Auburn Cem...
Thomas Barbour
1884–1946 (age 62)
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Thomas Barbour (1884-1946) was an American herpetologist and naturalist whose career at Harvard is commemorated by his b...
John Templeton Bowen
1857–1940 (age 83)
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John Templeton Bowen (1857-1940) was an American dermatologist noted for Bowen's disease whose remains rest at Mount Aub...
Robert Luce
1862–1946 (age 84)
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Robert Luce (1862-1946) served as Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts before being laid to re...
Marguerite LeHand
1896–1944 (age 48)
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Marguerite LeHand (1896-1944) was Franklin D. Roosevelt's private secretary and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Marion Talbot
1858–1948 (age 90)
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Marion Talbot (1858-1948) was an educator and advocate for women in higher education who was laid to rest at Mount Aubur...
Maud Howe Elliott
1854–1948 (age 94)
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Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and social reformer buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Wallace Walter Atwood
1872–1949 (age 77)
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Wallace Walter Atwood (1872-1949) was a geographer and president of Clark University whose grave is at Mount Auburn Ceme...
William Lawrence
1850–1941 (age 91)
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William Lawrence (1850-1941) served as Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts and now rests in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Benjamin Pierce Cheney Jr.
1866–1942 (age 76)
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Benjamin Pierce Cheney Jr. (1866-1942) was a Boston banker and philanthropist buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Bowdoin B. Crowninshield
1867–1948 (age 81)
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Bowdoin B. Crowninshield (1867-1948) was a yacht designer and naval architect whose final resting place is Mount Auburn ...
Eugene Wambaugh
1856–1940 (age 84)
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Eugene Wambaugh (1856-1940) was a Harvard legal scholar who is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Frank Crowninshield
1872–1947 (age 75)
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Frank Crowninshield (1872-1947) was an influential magazine editor of Vanity Fair and is interred at Mount Auburn Cemete...
George David Birkhoff
1884–1944 (age 60)
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George David Birkhoff (1884-1944) was an American mathematician famed for the ergodic theorem and buried at Mount Auburn...
Thomas Curtis
1873–1944 (age 71)
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Thomas Curtis was a member of his community during an important period of American history.
Frank William Taussig
1859–1940 (age 81)
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A distinguished economist whose scholarship helped shape U.S. trade policy.