Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge, Massachusetts
America's first landscaped cemetery, founded in 1831, and a National Historic Landmark.
Memorials
Lawrence Joseph Henderson
1878–1942 (age 64)
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Helen Hopekirk
1856–1945 (age 89)
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A celebrated pianist-composer and teacher whose artistry bridged continents.
Flora Virginia Milner Livingston
1862–1949 (age 87)
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Ada Eliot
1869–1943 (age 74)
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A devoted community supporter who championed education and charitable causes.
Harold Woods Baker
1881–1948 (age 67)
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Ethel Cushing
1882–1948 (age 66)
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A caring civic-minded individual who enriched her community through steadfast service.
Marie Tudor Garland
1870–1949 (age 79)
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Marie Tudor Garland (1870–1949) rests at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Marion Lincoln Lewis
1874–1947 (age 73)
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Marion Lincoln Lewis (1874–1947) of Natick is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Emma Kaan
1860–1949 (age 89)
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Emma Kaan (1860–1949) is laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Charles Emerson Cook
1869–1941 (age 72)
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Charles Emerson Cook (1869–1941) of Parsonsfield is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Edward Vermilye Huntington
1874–1952 (age 78)
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Edward Vermilye Huntington was an American mathematician known for his work on ordered sets and algebraic structures, bu...
William Scott Ferguson
1875–1954 (age 79)
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William Scott Ferguson was a Canadian-American classical scholar who taught at Harvard and rests at Mount Auburn Cemeter...
Merritt Lyndon Fernald
1873–1950 (age 77)
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Merritt Lyndon Fernald was a distinguished American botanist whose lifelong research on the flora of New England conclud...
Alfred Tozzer
1877–1954 (age 77)
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Alfred Tozzer was a celebrated American anthropologist and archaeologist who taught at Harvard and is interred at Mount ...
Edwin S. Webster
1867–1950 (age 83)
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Edwin S. Webster was an American electrical engineer and cofounder of Stone & Webster, laid to rest at Mount Auburn Ceme...
Henry Asbury Christian
1876–1951 (age 75)
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Henry Asbury Christian was an American pathologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital’s medical laboratory an...
Henry E. Warren
1872–1957 (age 85)
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Henry E. Warren was an American inventor and entrepreneur credited with electrical timekeeping innovations, resting at M...
Huntley Nowel Spaulding
1869–1955 (age 86)
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Huntley Nowel Spaulding (1869-1955) was an American manufacturer and governor of New Hampshire whose burial site is Moun...
Berta Ottenstein
1891–1956 (age 65)
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Berta Ottenstein (1891-1956) was a German dermatologist who later worked in the United States after fleeing Nazi persecu...
G. W. Pierce
1872–1956 (age 84)
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George Washington Pierce (1872-1956) was an American physicist noted for his work in electronics and communication, buri...
Theodore Lyman
1874–1954 (age 80)
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Theodore Lyman (1874-1954) was an American physicist known for the discovery of the Lyman series in the hydrogen spectru...
Daniel Gregory Mason
1873–1953 (age 80)
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Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953) was an American composer and music critic who taught at the New England Conservatory an...
George Henry Chase
1874–1952 (age 78)
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George Henry Chase (1874-1952) was an American archaeologist and Harvard professor whose remains are at Mount Auburn Cem...
Ralph Barton Perry
1876–1957 (age 81)
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Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American philosopher and educator who taught at Harvard and is interred at Mount A...
Richard von Mises
1883–1953 (age 70)
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Richard von Mises (1883-1953) was an Austrian-American mathematician and scientist renowned for his work on probability ...
Ludlow Griscom
1890–1959 (age 69)
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Ludlow Griscom (1890-1959) was an American ornithologist and museum curator noted for promoting birdwatching, whose grav...
Witold Hurewicz
1904–1956 (age 52)
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Witold Hurewicz (1904-1956) was a Polish-American mathematician known for contributions to topology, buried at Mount Aub...
James Jackson
1881–1952 (age 71)
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James Jackson (1881-1952) was a Boston-area figure whose life concluded with his burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
George Howe
1886–1955 (age 69)
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George Howe (1886-1955) was an American architect associated with early modernism and is laid to rest at Mount Auburn Ce...
John Dunlop
1874–1957 (age 83)
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John Dunlop (1874-1957) hailed from Cambridge and was laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
John Wells Farley
1878–1959 (age 81)
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John Wells Farley (1878-1959) was a Brookline native whose final resting place is Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Wallace H. White
1877–1952 (age 75)
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Wallace H. White generously supported his community with quiet determination.
John Kenneth Howard
1891–1965 (age 74)
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John Kenneth Howard (1891–1965) is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Anna Woolson Paine
1901–1960 (age 59)
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Anna Woolson Paine (1901–1960) went to her final rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Mary Cleveland Bigelow
1884–1968 (age 84)
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Mary Cleveland Bigelow (1884–1968) rests at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Mary Beidler Camp
1889–1969 (age 80)
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Mary Beidler Camp (1889–1969) is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Jeannette Elizabeth Graustein
1892–1982 (age 90)
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Jeannette Elizabeth Graustein (1892-1982) lived in Cambridge and was laid to rest at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Joyce Chen
1917–1994 (age 77)
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Joyce Chen was a Beijing-born chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author who introduced Americans to Mandarin cuisine.
Trang Ho
1974–1995 (age 21)
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Trang Ho’s brief life ended in 1995, and little publicly documented information beyond her burial site is available.
Franklin Patterson
1916–1994 (age 78)
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Franklin Patterson was the founding president of Hampshire College, guiding the new liberal arts institution in its earl...
Achilles Fang
1910–1995 (age 85)
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Achilles Fang was a noted sinologist and translator who taught at Harvard University and specialized in Chinese literatu...
Julian Schwinger
1918–1994 (age 76)
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Julian Schwinger (1918–1994) was a Nobel-winning theoretical physicist born in New York City and buried at Mount Aubur...
B. F. Skinner
1904–1990 (age 86)
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B. F. Skinner (1904–1990) was a pioneering behaviorist psychologist from Susquehanna Depot who rests at Mount Auburn C...
Anne Revere
1903–1990 (age 87)
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Anne Revere (1903–1990) was an Academy Award-winning actress born in New York City and buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery...
Edwin H. Land
1909–1991 (age 82)
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Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) was the Bridgeport-born inventor and entrepreneur behind the Polaroid camera who was laid to...
Irving Segal
1918–1998 (age 80)
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Irving Segal (1918–1998) was the Bronx-born mathematician known for his work on quantum field theory and buried at Mou...
Harold Eugene Edgerton
1903–1990 (age 87)
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Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903–1990) was a pioneering electrical engineer and photographer originally from Fremont who i...
John Patrick Spiegel
1911–1991 (age 80)
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John Patrick Spiegel (1911–1991) was a psychiatrist whose career advanced psychoanalytic thought and who is buried at ...
Gian-Carlo Rota
1932–1999 (age 67)
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Gian-Carlo Rota (1932–1999) was an Italian-born mathematician and philosopher who taught at MIT and is buried at Mount...
McGeorge Bundy
1919–1996 (age 77)
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McGeorge Bundy, a Boston native, served as National Security Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and was buried at...