Mount Auburn Cemetery’s Notables

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