page_title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
section_title: Notable burials
hierarchical_section_title: Laurel Hill Cemetery / Notable burials
caption_attribution_description: English: Henry Bohlen tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Photo taken July 2020.
context_page_description: Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic garden or rural cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major rural cemetery in the United States after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
  The cemetery is 74-acre in size and overlooks the Schuylkill River. The cemetery grew to its current size through the purchase of four land parcels between 1836 and 1861. It contains over 11,000 family lots and more than 33,000 graves, many adorned with grand marble and granite funerary monuments, elaborately sculpted hillside tombs and mausoleums.
  In 1977, Laurel Hill Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1998, became the first cemetery in the United States to be designated a National Historic Landmark.
context_section_description: Robert Adams, Jr. (1849–1906), U.S. Congressman
  Hilary Baker (1746–1798), mayor of Philadelphia
  Matthias W. Baldwin (1795–1866), founder of Baldwin Locomotive Works
  Alexander Biddle (1819–1899), Union Army officer in the U.S. Civil War
  Henry H. Bingham (1841-1912), Brevet Brigadier General, Medal of Honor recipient
  Robert Montgomery Bird (1803–1854), American novelist, playwright, and physician
  David Bispham (1857–1921), opera singer
  George A.H. Blake (1810-1884), cavalry officer in the U.S. Army
  Charles E. Bohlen (1904–1974), U.S. diplomat
  Francis Bohlen (1868-1942), legal scholar at the University of Pennsylvania
  Henry Bohlen (1810–1862), Civil War Union Brigadier General
  George Henry Boker (1823–1890), poet, playwright, and diplomat
  Joseph Bonnell (1802–1840), West Point graduate, hero of the Texas Revolution
  Adolph E. Borie (1809–1880), Secretary of the Navy
  John Bouvier (1781-1851), jurist and legal lexicographer
  Charles Brown (1797–1883), U.S. Congressman
  George Bryan (1731-1791), colonial Pennsylvania businessman and politician
  Lewis C. Cassidy (1829-1889), Pennsylvania State Attorney General
  John Cassin (1813–1869), ornithologist
  George William Childs (1829–1894), newspaper publisher
  Thomas Clyde (1812-1885), founder of the Clyde Line of steamers
  William P. Clyde (1839–1923), American shipping magnate
  Walter Colton (1797–1851), Chaplain, Alcalde of Monterey, author, publisher of California's first newspaper
  David Conner (1792–1856), U.S. naval officer
  Robert T. Conrad (1810–1858), mayor of Philadelphia
  Joel Cook (1842–1910), U.S. Congressman
  Robert Cornelius (1809–1893), pioneering photographer
  Martha Coston (1826–1904), inventor and businesswoman
  Thomas Jefferson Cram (1804-1883), engineer in the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers during the U.S. Civil War
  Samuel W. Crawford (1829–1892), Civil War Union army general
  Alexander Cummings (1810-1879), third Governor of the Territory of Colorado
  Louisa Knapp Curtis (1851–1910), journalist and magazine publisher
  John A. Dahlgren (1809–1870), U.S. naval officer, inventor of the Dahlgren gun
  Ulric Dahlgren (1842-1864), Union Army Captain during the Civil War, namesake of The Dahlgren Affair
  Richard Dale (1756–1826), Revolutionary War naval officer
  Henry Deringer (1786–1868), gunsmith
  Franklin Archibald Dick (1823-1885), attorney
  Hamilton Disston (1844-1896), industrialist and real-estate developer
  Henry Disston (1819–1878), businessman, Disston Saw Works
  Ida Dixon (1854–1916), socialite and first female golf course architect in the United States
  Percival Drayton (1812-1865), U.S. Navy officer
  William Drayton (1776-1846), politician, banker and writer
  William Duane (1760-1835), journalist
  William Duane (1872-1935), physicist
  William J. Duane (1780-1865), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in 1833
  Stephen Duncan (1787-1867), Mississippi planter and banker
  Robley Dunglison, (1798-1869), "Father of American Physiology"
  Nathan Dunn (1782-1844), businessman and philanthropist
  John Price Durbin (1800-1876), Chaplain of the Senate and president of Dickinson College
  George Meade Easby (1918–2005), great-grandson of General George Meade and a celebrity figure
  George Nicholas Eckert (1802–1865), U.S. Congressman
  William Lukens Elkins (1832-1903), businessman, inventor, art collector
  Charles Ellet, Jr. (1810-1862), civil engineer
  Charles Rivers Ellet (1843-1863), Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War
  Alfred L. Elwyn (1804-1884), Physician and pioneer in the management of the mentally disabled
  Jehu Eyre (1738-1781), businessman, veteran of the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War
  Edwin Henry Fitler (1825-1896), 75th mayor of Philadelphia
  Wilmot E. Fleming (1916-1978), Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator
  Robert H. Foerderer (1860–1903), U.S. Congressman
  Stanely Hamer Ford (1877-1961), U.S. Army General
  Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890), an entrepreneur, businessman, and circus owner
  Anne Francine (1917-1999) actress and cabaret singer
  Samuel Gibbs French (1818–1910), Confederate General has a cenotaph in his family's plot in Laurel Hill.
  Harriet Whitne
caption: Tombstone of Union Army General Henry Bohlen
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