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- Location 1
- Gravesite of Thomas Eakins, (1844-1916)
America's finest realist painter/portraitist, sculptor, teacher; his wife,
Susan MacDowell Eakins (1851-1938) was also an accomplished artist; their mixed ashes were interred in the lot of his father, Benjamin Eakins (1818-1899), a writing-master. (Painted by Thomas Eakins) - Gravesite of Samuel David Gross, M.D.
(1805-1884)
pioneering surgeon, influencial medical author, professor at Jefferson Mdical College, founder of American Surgical Association, "no finer mind was ever devoted to...surgery", subject of Eakins' painting, "The Gross Clinic". His eldest son,
Samuel Weissel Gross, M.D. (1837-1889) succeeded his father as coepartment of Surgery. (painted by Thomas Eakins) - Gravesite of Frank Richard Stockton (1834-1902)
wood engraver, comic novelist and author of the short story, "The Lady or the Tiger?" - Gravesite of Silas Weir Mitchell, M.D.
(1829-1914)
internationally famed physiologist, neurologist, medical author, poet, author of short stories and novels, often with Philadelphia settings; his father,
John Kearsley Mitchell, M.D. (1793-1858) was the son, grandson, father and grandfather of physicians; a research chemist; writer on malaria, cholera, plague and yellow fever as well as "The wisdom of God as Displayed in the Formation of Water". - Gravesite of Commodore David Porter (1780-1843)
naval officer; first to show the flag in the Pacific (1813); court marshalled for hostile acts against Spain; commander of the Mexican navy; U.S. minister at Constantinople; buried in Lot #1 of the cemetery. - Gravesite of Thomas Wiltberger Evans (1823-1897)
dentist to Napoleon III and European royalty, pioneered use of nitrous oxide, estate created Dental School, University of Pennsylvania. - Gravesite of John Conrad Otto, M.D. (1774-1844)
physician, pupil of Benjamin Ruch, first to adequately describe hemophilia, one of the first interments in the cemetery. - Gravesite of John Edgar Thomson (1808-1874)
third president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, engineer of the Main Line between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. - Gravesite of William C. Bullitt (1892-1967)
diplomat, novelist, with Freud wrote psychoanalytical studies of American statesmen, first ambassador to Soviet Union (1932-1936), ambassador to France (1936-1940) - Gravesite of Ebenezer Maxwell (1827-1870)
manufacturers' representative, after being named executor of rich father-in-law's estate, joined board of Mechanics Nation Bank (later Provident National Bank), builder of spectacular eclectic Victorian mansion in Germantown, now a museum. - Gravesite of Alice Fisher (1839-1888)
nurse, educator; founder (1884) of school of nursing, Blockley, later Philadelphia General Hospital; English-born and educated, recommended by Florence Nightengale. - Gravesite of Wilson Eyre, Jr. (1858-1944)
architect; founder and editor of House and Gardens; proponent of English-influenced residential design; architect, with others, of the Unversity Museum (1893). - Gravesite of Lewis H. Redner (1831-1908)
organist of the Church of the Holy Trinity, composed music for "O Little Town of Bethlehem". - Gravesite of Jacob Mendez DaCosta, M.D.
(1833-1900)
physician, author, teacher (Pennsylvania Hospital, Jefferson Medical College), pioneering cardiologist, Civil War father of "irritable heart of the soldier" (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder); had "an almost uncanny power of diagnosis", called "the physician's physician". (Painted by Thomas Eakins) - Gravesite of Paul Philipe Cret (1876-1945)
architect, University of Pennsylvania professor, one of the most influential Philadelphia architects of the Beaux-Arts tradition, Pan American Union Building (D.C.) Benjamin Franklin Bridge, numerous American War memorials in Europe. - The Woodlands Cemetery Main
Gates
designed by Paul Philipe Cret (see also "Location 15"), a resident of nearby Woodland Terrace, where a roadside marker locates his home. - Gravesite of Thomas Somerville Stewart
(1806-1889)
architect, most notably of classical revival St. Luke of the Epiphany (1839) (13th Street below Spruce Street) and Egyptanesque Richmond (Virginia) Medical College (1844). - Gravesite of Asa Whitney (1791-1874)
locomotive builder, partner of Matthias Baldwin, developed the largest manufactory of cast iron railroad car wheels. - Gravesite of Thomas Alexander Scott (1823-1881)
railroad executive (Pennsylvania Rail Road, Union Pacific, Texas and Pacific), patron of Andrew Carnegie, and, Secretary of War under Lincoln. - Gravesite of John Ashhurst, M.D. (1839-1900)
surgeon, professor of clinical surgery, University of Pennsylvania; author; child prodigy; his home in Haverford Township, "The Grange," is now a house museum - Gravesite of Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935)
illustrator, especially of children (Good Housekeeping, Child's Garden of Verses, Waterbabies), student of Thomas Eakins (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) and Howard Pyle (Drexel, founder of the Brandywine school of illustration). - Mausoleum of Francis Martin
Drexel (1792-1863)
banker, born Austrian Tyrol, began as artist in Europe and America, experiences in South America led to banking, foudning of Drexel and Co. brokerage house.
Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826-1893) banker, philantropist, founder of Drexel University, partner of J. P. Morgan and financial advisor to President Grant.
Joseph William Drexel (1833-1888)
banker, philanthropist, partner of Baring Brothers in London and Rothschild et Fis in Paris. - Gravesite of Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860)
portrait and historical painter, son of Charles Willson Peale, known for portraits of George Washington and other notables, author. - Gravesite of Admiral Charles Stewart (1778-1869)
naval commander; lead expedition against Tripoli (1804); commanded U.S. Frigate "Constitution" (1813); rear-admiral in Civil War. - Gravesite of Edward Townsend Stotesbury
(1849-1938)
banker, entered Drexel & Co. at age 17 as a clerk, made a partner in 1883, also of J. P. Morgan; leading Philadelphia financier, major American investment banker, pursued active social life in palation Whitemarsh Hall (Chestnut Hill), died at work at age 90. - Gravesite of Sidney George Fisher (1809-1871)
lawyer, author (constitutional law, slavery, currency, agriculture), and, from 1834 to 1871, "the most complete and most revealing (diary) ever compiled by a Philadelphian, and surely on e of the best written ever kept by an American". His son,
Sydney George Fisher (1856-1927) author and historian of the American colonial period, especially Pennsylvania - Gravesite of Horatio C. Wood, M.D. (1841-1920)
medical author and teacher of botany, entomology, physiology, pharmacology, pathology, therapy, neurology and internal medicine, University of Pennsylvania. (painted by Thomas Eakins) - Gravesite of Tatsui Baba (1850-1888)
statesman, political author, founded Japanese democratic Liberal Party, silenced and inprisoned by Japanese police for his radicalism, died in exile. - Gravesite of Major General David Bell Birney
(1825-1864)
son of abolitionist James G. Birney, commander of Pennsylvania volunteers for entire Civil War, died of malaria, last words: "Boys! Keep your eyes on that flag!" (see gravestone for details of war record). - Original cemetery receiving vault
used to house caskets prior to burial. - Gravesite of Dr. David Jayne (1799-1866)
doctor, wealthy patent medicine manufacturer. - Gravesite of William M. Swain (1809-1868)
founder fo the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the first daily to establish a pony express, one of the first to use the magnetic telegraph and, in 1847, to be printed on the first rotary press ever built. Following Swain's sale of the Ledger in 1864, his son
William J. Swain (1839-1903) founded the Philadelphia Public Record in 1870. - William H. Moore's family vault elaborate Gothic pinnacle with four figures for 19th century undertaker.
- Gravesite of Eli Kirk Price (1797-1884)
lawyer, real estate law reformer, author of the Consoliddation Act (1854) creating the present city of Philadelphia, afounder of the Fairmount Park Commission and The Wodlands Cemetery. His grandson,
Eli Kirk Price II (1860-1933) lawyer and "the foremost civic and cultural leader in early 20th century Philadelphia" through service on the boards of the University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, the American Philosophical Society, the Preston Retreat, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Fairmount Park commission, the city Parks Association and The Woodlands Cemetery Company; the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Parkway created under his direction. - Gravesite of John Hill Brinton, M.D. (1832-1907)
surgeon and professor at Jefferson Medical College, authority on gunshot wounds acquired during Civil War service; founder of the United States Army Medical Museum; major contributor to The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65). painted by Thomas Eakins - St. Andrews Society lot
"last resting place for friendless Scotchmen dying far from home and kindred". - Gravesite of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle
(1874-1948)
author, explorer, amateur pugilist and subject of a Broadway hit, "The Happiest Millionaire".
George Washington Childs Drexel (1868-1944)
banker, philantropist, owner and editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. (1896-1961)
diplomat, sports enthusiast, Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambassador to Poland, France and WW II refugee governments-in-exile; his nephew, Angier Biddle Duke was ambassador under John F. Kennedy - Gravesite of William Rush (1756-1833)
first native American sculptor, carver of figureheads. "Spirit of the Schuylkill", "Schulykill Chained", "Schulykill Freed", a founder of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. (painted by Thomas Eakins) - Gravesite of Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885)
editor of children's and women's periodicals; author of Ten Nights in a Bar Room and What I Saw There (1854), a temperance tale and other reformist fiction. - Gravesite of Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden (1829-1887) geologist, surgeon, professor at University of Pennsylvania; his research in the Far West before and after the Civil War led to his appointment to the U.S. Geological Survey (1879-1886), Yellowstone National Park was established largely through his efforts.
- Gravesite of Andrew McCalla Eastwick (1810-1879)
locomotive developer; inventor of the steam shovel; from 1844 to 1851, commissioned by Czar Nicholas to build rolling stock for the Moscow to St. Petersburg railroad built by painter James Whistler's father; pruchased and preserved Bartram's Garden. - Gravesite of Rufus Welch (1800-1855)
pioneer circus showman, first to import giraffes to America, from 1828 his menageries and circus companies played the eastern United States, West Indies, Brazil and the Mediterranean with attractions advertized as "far exceeding any other establishments now traveling," his monument erected by his friends in 1860. - Gravesite of Charles Albert Ashburner
(1854-1889)
geologist; educated at University of Pennsylvania as civil engineer; organizer, Engineers' Club of Philadelphia (1873); surveyed iron & coal resources of Pennsylvania; unusual monument - Gravesite of William Bucknell, Jr. (1811-1890)
businessman, philantropist; fortune made in real estate, utilities, construction, stocks; life-long strict tithing totaled over $1 million; gifts to University of Lewisburg caused it to be renamed Bucknell University - Gravesite of Edward Collings Knight (1811-1890)
capatilist, inventor; developer fo Southwark Sugar Refinery, "Knight" sleeping car (a rival to Pullman's), steamship & railroad lines; Supreme Court case of U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895) established that a near-monopoly in sugar refining was not commerce "in restraint of trade". - Gravesite of Charles Wadsworth (1814-1882)
minister, author; pastor of Clinton Street Emmanuel Presbyterian Church (now Arch Street); poet Emily Dickinson's first great platonic love; founder, in 1862, of San Francisco's Calvary Presbyterian Church. - Gravesite of Oliver Tarbell Eddy (1799-1868)
portrait painter, inventor; active in NY, NJ, and Maryland, his inventions included a patented forerunner of the typewriter and an improved coffee pot. - Gravesite of Ann Bartram Carr (1779-1858)
botanist, artist, grand-daughter of John Bartram, with her husband,
Robert Carr (1778-1866), the last Bartram to own and operate Bartram's Garden from 1813 to 1850. Carr was also a distinguished printer (Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology), militia officer and politician. - Gravesite of James Aitkin Meigs, M.D.
(1829-1879)
physiologist at Jefferson Medical College; ethnologist at the Academy of Natural Schience; author of Cranial Characteristics of the Races of Man; his last valedictory address to the Jefferson graduating class was entirely in iambic pentameter; at his death, eight of his students founded the Meigs Medical Association, which is still active. - Gravesite of William Williams Keen, Jr., M.D.
(1837-1932 )
surgeon, professor at Jefferson Medical College and of Artistic Anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; first in Philadelphia to adopt Lister's principles of antisepsis; performed first successful removal of a brain tumor in the U.S., operated for cancer on President Grover Cleveland.
Charles Barton Keen (1868-1931), architect, especially fo 19th century Philadelphia suburban developments (Pelham, Overbrook, Ogontz Park, Glenside). - Gravesite of John Chalmers DaCosta, M.D.
(1863-19--)
surgeon, neurologist, medical author, professor at Jefferson Medical College; honorary Deputy Chief of the Philadlphia Fire Department; student of medical history and the works of Charles Dickens; noted for his "florid literary style and unconventional character", aphorisms and epigrams, sample: "A fashionable surgeon, like a pelican, can be recognized by the size of his bill". - Gravesite of James William Holland, M.D. (1849-1922) Professor of Medical Chemistry and Toxicology and Dean, Jefferson Medical college; medical writer, curriculum reformer;subject of Eakins' painting, "The Dean's Roll Call. (painted by Thomas Eakins)
- Gravesite of General William Duncan (1772-1864) merchant; Superintendant of U.S. Military Stores in the War of 1812; close friend of imprisoned Revolutionary financier, Robert Morris; a founder of Jefferson Medical College; grandfather of dancer Isadora Duncan.
- Gravesite of Capt. Alexander Wilson Russell, Jr.
(1864-1918)
first Captain (1897-1915) of the Color Guard of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution; his father,
Rear Adm. Alexander Wilson Russell (1824-1908) was Pay Director of the United States Navy. - Gravesite of Charles F. Haseltine (1840-1915)
Philadelphia art dealer; handled Eakin's work in early years; both the "Gross Clinic" and the "Agnew Clinic" were first exhibited at his gallery. (painted by Thomas Eakins) - Gravesite of Henry A. Dreer (1818-1873)
nurseryman; beginning in Hamilton's greenhouses at The Woodlands in 1835, his seed and plant business expanded in 1873 to 14 greenhouses in riverton, NJ specializing in bedding plants, palms, ferns and hybrid waterlilies to reach a total of 295 acres. - Gravesite of Carl Hermann Schmolze (1823-1859)
German-American revolutionary, poet, artist; active in the Revolution of 1848, jailed in Munich for his fiery criticisms of Ludwig of Bavaria, he fled to Philadelphia and a promising career as painter and book illustraton, exhibited and collected by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, his major commission was the ceiling of the Philadelphia Academy of Music, died at 36 of tuberculosis and lead poisoning
Carl Herman Schmolze (1823-1906) as his tombstone attests, "The inventor of the chrome tannage", although chromium was first used as a tanning agent in 1858, not until 1884 was it adapted to industrial practice by him, supported by Foerderer of Philadelphia. - Gravesite of Joseph Campbell (1817-1900)
canner, founder of the Campbell Soup Company, Camden, NJ, hired John T. Dorrance, inventor of process for removing water from canned soups, who acquired the company in 1915. - Gravesite of John Fraser (1825-1906)
architect, Scotish educated; one time partner with Frank Furness and George Hewitt; with others, founder of Philadelphia Chapter of the AIA; designer Union League of Philadelphia (1863). - Gravesite of Samuel Stockton White (1822-1879
dental manufacturer of "indescructible" porcelain teeth, his
S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company (So. 11th Street), founded 1844, was the largest dental supply company in the world. - Gravesite of Mary Grew (1813-1896) abolitionist, suffragist, born and educated in Hartford, Connecticut; came to Philadelphia in 1834; active, with Lucretia Mott, in Female Anti-Slavery Society; as delegate to World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London (1840) excluded from floor for demanding to speak; in thick of women's suffrage struggles until her death; subject of poem by John Greenleaf Whittier which ends: "The way to make the world anew is just to grow - as Mary Grew!"
- Gravesite of John Joseph Abercrombie (1798-1877)
soldier, graduate of West Point; saw service in the South, Northwest, Mexico; brigadier general of volunteers in Civil War; served at Falling Water, Seven Pines and other Virginia battle sites. - Gravesite of Elliott Cresson (1796-1854)
Quaker merchant and philanthropist; noted for interest in American Indians and Black slaves, support for colonization in Liberia, numerous bequests to Philadelphia institutions including Elliott Cresson medal of the Franklin Institute. - Gravesite of Frank Fontaine Maury, M.D.
(1840-1879)
surgeon, medical author; held appointments at both Jefferson and Philadelphia General Hospitals; co-editor fo the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, the source of some of the most published images in medical history. - Gravesite of John Redman Coxe, M.D. (1777-1864)
phusician; student of Benjamin Rush; early advocate of vaccination and pioneer in pharmacy; noted for scholarship in classical medicine. - Gravesite of Emily Bliss Souder (1814-1886)
volunteer nurse at the Battle of Gettysburg; author of Leaves from the Battle-field of Gettysburg (1864); her monument erected by 28th Pennsylvania Association in 1995. - Gravesite of Anne Hampton Brewster (1818-1892)
essayist, self-styled "social outlaw", poet and fiction writer for many of the best known nineteenth-century periodicals; one of America's first female foreign correspondents for at least a dozen American newspapers while conducting weekly Rome salon for American and English expatriates; her brother,
Benjamin Hampton Brewster (1816-1888) Attorney General (1882-1885) in the administration of Chester Arthur; on his advice, Arthur refused a stay of execution pending a psychiatric exam for Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of James A. Garfield. - Gravesite of James Barton Longacre (1794-1869)
engraver; published, with James Herring, The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans between 1834 and 1839; appointed Chief Engraver, U.S. Mint, 1844 where he designed a number of coins, including the Indian Head penny. - Gravesite of Unknown (18xx-18xx)
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- Carriage House, C.179X
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