The new and improved visitors map is on racks now including an updated list of Notables.  Here you can find links to extended biographies for each individual.

Mount Auburn Cemetery’s Notables

The numbers correspond to the Visitors Map which can be purchased for $1 at the Visitors Center or Entrance Gate rack.

1. Louis Agassiz     (1807 – 1873)  Geologist, zoologist, ichthyologist
   Elizabeth Cary Agassiz     (1822 – 1907)  First president of Radcliffe College
2. George T. Angell     (1823 – 1909)  Founder of the MSPCA
3. John Bartlett      (1820 – 1905)  Author of Barlett’s Quotations
4. Jacob Bigelow     (1787 – 1879)  Botanist, Physician, Founder of Mount Auburn Cemetery
5. E. Power Biggs     (1906 – 1977)  Concert organist, recording artist
6. Katharine Burr Blodgett     (1898 – 1979)  Invented “invisible” glass
7. Edwin Booth     (1833 – 1893)  Shakespearean actor, Founder of the Players Club
8. Nathaniel Bowditch     (1773 – 1838)  Navigator, astronomer, mathematician
9. William Brewster     (1851 – 1919) Founder of Nuttall Ornithological Club
10. Phillips Brooks     (1835 – 1893)  Episcopal preacher and author of “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
11. Charles Bulfinch     (1763 – 1844)  Architect
12. Thomas Cass     (1821 – 1862)  Commander 9^th Massachusetts Reg., Civil War hero
13. William Ellery Channing     (1780 – 1842)  Unitarian clergyman, social reformer
14. Robert Creeley     (1926 – 2005)  Poet
15. Dorothea Dix     (1802 – 1887)  Nurse, hospital reformer
16. Mary Baker Eddy     (1821 – 1910)  Discoverer of Christian Science
17. Harold “Doc” Edgerton     (1903 – 1990)  Engineer, stroboscopic photographer
18. Edward Everett     (1794 – 1865)  Unitarian clergyman, statesman, orator
19. Fannie Farmer     (1857 – 1915)  Author, standardized cooking measurements
20. Felix Frankfurter     (1882 – 1965)  U. S. Supreme Court Justice
21. Buckminster Fuller     (1895 – 1983)  Inventor, popularized the geodesic dome
22. Isabella Stewart Gardner     (1840 – 1924)  Founder of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
23. Charles Dana Gibson     (1867 – 1944)  Artist, Illustrator (“Gibson Girl”)
24.  Curt Gowdy     (1919 – 2006)  Sportscaster for the Boston Red Sox
25. Asa Gray     (1810 -1888)  Botanist
26. Horatio Greenough     (1805 – 1852)  Sculptor
27. Ludlow Griscom     (1890 – 1959)  Ornithologist, “patron saint of birding”
28. Mary Hemenway     (1820 -1894)  Founder of Massachusetts Audubon Society
29. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.     (1809 – 1894)  Essayist, poet, physician
30. Winslow Homer     (1836 – 1910)  Painter, Illustrator
31. Harriet Hosmer     (1830 – 1908)  Sculptor
32. Julia Ward Howe     (1819 – 1910)  Author, poet, abolitionist
    Samuel G. Howe     (1801 – 1876)  Educator, humanitarian, abolitionist
33. Harriet Jacobs     (1813 – 1897)  Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
34. Edwin H. Land     (1909 – 1991)  Inventor and founder of Polaroid
35. Henry Cabot Lodge     (1850 – 1924)  U.S. Senator, historian
    Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.     (1902 – 1985)  U.S. Senator and ambassador
36. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow     (1807 – 1882)  Poet
37. Amy Lowell     (1874 – 1925)  Poet
38. James Russell Lowell     (1819 – 1891)  Poet, editor, diplomat
39. Maria White Lowell     (1821 – 1853)  Poet, abolitionist
40. Bernard Malamud     (1914 – 1986)  Pulitzer Prize winner author
41. Clement G. Morgan     (1859 – 1929)  Founder of the NAACP
42. Maud Morgan     (1903 – 1999)  Contemporary artist
43. Stephen P. Mugar     (1901 – 1982)  Founder of Star Market
44. John Murray     (1740 – 1815)  Founder of Universalism in the U.S.
45. Margaret Fuller Ossoli     (1810 – 1850)  Author, transcendentalist, feminist
46. Harrison Gray Otis     (1765 – 1848)  Lawyer, political leader
47. Emily Parsons     (1824 – 1880)  Founder of Mount Auburn Hospital
48. Eleanor Porter     (1868 – 1920)  Author of Pollyanna
49. John Rawls     (1921 – 2002)  Philosopher
50. Eleanor Raymond     (1887 – 1989)  Architect
51. Anne Revere     (1903 – 1990)  Academy Award-winning actress
52. William Barton Rogers     (1804 – 1882)  Founder of MIT
53. George L. Ruffin     (1834 – 1886)  Statesman and judge
    Josephine Ruffin     (1842 – 1924)  Civil rights leader and suffragist
54. Arthur Schlesinger Jr.     (1917 – 2007)  Historian, Pulitzer Prize
55. Clara Endicott Sears     (1863 – 1960)  Founder of Fruitlands Museum
56. John Simmons      (1796 – 1870)  Benefactor of Simmons College
57. B. F. Skinner     (1904 – 1990)  Psychologist, behaviorist
58. I. F. Stone     (1907 – 1989)  Journalist, editor ofThe Nation
59. Joseph Story      (1779 – 1845)  U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1^st President of Mount Auburn
60. Charles Sumner     (1811 – 1874)  U.S. Senator, abolitionist
61. Helen B. Taussig     (1898 – 1986)  Cardiologist, developed treatment for “blue baby syndrome”
    Frank William Taussig     (1859 – 1940)  Economist
62. Anne Whitney     (1821 – 1915)  Sculptor, poet
63. Minor White     (1908 – 1976)  Photographer, teacher