Green Mount Cemetery

39°18′27″N 76°36′26″W / 39.30750°N 76.60722°W / 39.30750; -76.60722

Green Mount Cemetery is a historic

The cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Guided tours are available at various times of the year.

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Green Mount Cemetery was dedicated in 1839 on the site of the former country estate of Robert Oliver. This was at the beginning of the "rural cemetery movement"; Green Mount was Baltimore's first such rural cemetery and one of the first in the U.S. The movement began both as a response to the health hazard posed by overcrowded church graveyards, and as part of the larger Romantic movement of the mid-1800s, which glorified nature and appealed to emotions.

Green Mount reflects the romanticism of its age, not only by its very existence, but also by its buildings and sculpture. The gateway, designed by

J. Crawford Neilson, are Gothic Revival

, a romantic style recalling medieval buildings remote in time.

Nearly 65,000 people are buried here, including the poet

Napoleon Bonaparte's sister-in-law Betsy Patterson, John Wilkes Booth

, and numerous military, political and business leaders.

• Arunah Abell
  (1808–1888), journalist, newspaper publisher.
• William Julian Albert
  (1816–1879), U.S. Congressman.
• Harry W. Archer Jr. (died 1910), American politician and lawyer^[4]
• Henry W. Archer (1813–1887), American politician and lawyer^[5]
• James J. Archer (1860–1921), American politician^[6]
• Samuel Arnold (1834–1906), Lincoln assassination conspirator.
• James Bankhead (1783–1856), U. S. Army General that served in the War of 1812, Second Seminole War, and Mexican–American War.
• Robert T. Banks (1822–1901), Mayor of Baltimore^[7]
• Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806–1873), a United States Congressman and diplomat.
• James Lawrence Bartol (1813–1887), American jurist^[8]
• Joseph Colt Bloodgood (1867–1935), American surgeon^[9]
• A. Aubrey Bodine (1906–1970), photographer.
• Elizabeth ("Betsy") Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879), Baltimore-born wife of Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte.
• Carroll Bond (1873–1943), jurist.^[10]
• Elijah Bond, (1847–1921), lawyer and inventor.
• Asia Frigga (Booth) Clarke, (1835–1888), author and sister of John Wilkes Booth
  .
• John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865), assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
• Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852), English actor.
• Augustus Bradford (1806–1881), Governor of Maryland.
• Joseph Lancaster Brent (1826–1905) lawyer and politician in California, Louisiana and Maryland, and general in the Confederate army.
• Jesse D. Bright (1812–1875), United States Senator from Indiana.
• Nathan C. Brooks (1809–1898), American educator, historian and poet^[11]
• Frank Brown (1846–1920), Governor of Maryland^[12]
• Edward Nathaniel Brush (1852–1933), psychiatrist and superintendent of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital^[13]
• United States Ambassador to Denmark
  .
• James Buck (1808–1865), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient.
• United States Supreme Court Justice
  .
• John Lee Chapman (1811–1880), Mayor of Baltimore, glass maker, railroad executive.^[14]
• George Colton (1817–1898), member of the Maryland House of Delegates^[15]
• Albert Constable (1805–1855), member of the U.S. House of Representatives^[16]
• Henry Winter Davis (1817–1865), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1863–65.
• William Daniel, state legislator and Prohibition Party vice presidential candidate, 1884.
• Allen Welsh Dulles (1893–1969), director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of the Warren Commission
  .
• Wendell E. Dunn (1894–1965), educator and principal of Forest Park High School.
• Wendell E. Dunn, Jr.
  (1922–2007), metallurgist and chemical engineer.
• Thomas Dunn (1925–2008), musician and conductor.
• Johnny Eck (1911–1991), American freak show performer born without legs.
• Arnold Elzey (1816–1871), Confederate Civil War general.
• George F. Emmons (1811–1884), Rear Admiral, United States Navy.
• D. Hopper Emory (1841–1916), Maryland state senator^[17]
• George Hyde Fallon (1902–1980), U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Maryland.
• Henry D. Farnandis (1817–1900), Maryland state politician and lawyer.^[18]
• Charles W. Field (1857–1917), Maryland state delegate.^[19]
• Elizabeth Gault Fisher (1909–2000), entomologist, bacteriologist, and bryologist.
• Richard Fuller (1804–1876), minister and founder of the Southern Baptist movement.^[20]
• William H.B. Fusselbaugh, member of the Maryland House of Delegates^[21]
• Charles D. Gaither (1860–1947), U.S. Army officer, Baltimore police commissioner, member of the Maryland House of Delegates^[22]
• George M. Gill (1803–1887), lawyer.
• Maryland-in-Africa^[23]
• Robert G. Harper (1765–1825), United States Senator
  from Maryland.
• Solomon Hillen Jr. (1810–1873), Mayor of Baltimore, U.S. Representative from Maryland, member of the Maryland House of Delegates^[24]
• Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), businessman and philanthropist. His bequests helped found the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• United States Supreme Court
• Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), a career United States Army ordnance officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
• Jesse Hunt (1793–1872), mayor of Baltimore.^[25]
• Obed Hussey (1792–1860), inventor and rival of Cyrus McCormick.
• Henry Barton Jacobs (1858–1939), physician and educator^[26]
• John Hanson Thomas Jerome (1816–1863), Mayor of Baltimore^[27]
• Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876), statesman, United States Senator and United States Attorney General.
• Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807–1891), military officer in the Confederate States Army.
• Isaac Dashiell Jones (1806–1893), U.S. Congressman^[28]
• Anthony Kennedy (1810–1892), United States Senator.
• John P. Kennedy (1795–1870), congressman and United States Secretary of the Navy.
• Harriet Lane (1830–1903), niece of President James Buchanan, acted as First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861.
• Sidney Lanier (1842–1881), musician and poet.
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Jr. (1806–1878), civil engineer and Green Mount's landscape architect.^[29]
• Mayor of Baltimore and speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates^[30]
• John H. B. Latrobe (1803–1891), lawyer and inventor.^[31]
• Mayor of Baltimore and merchant.^[32][33]
• James Fenner Lee (1843–1898), member of the Maryland Senate^[34]
• RMS Titanic, A Night to Remember
  .
• Presbyterian theologian and founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia
  , Pennsylvania.
• John MacTavish (1787–1852), British Consul to Maryland in the 1840s.
• aide de camp, assistant adjutant general, and military secretary for the Army of Northern Virginia and Gen. Robert E. Lee
  .
• Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland
  .
• Louis McLane (1786–1857), United States Congressman from Delaware, United States Secretary of the Treasury, and later the United States Secretary of State.
• Robert Milligan McLane (1815–1898), Governor of Maryland.
• Louis Wardlaw Miles (1873–1944), World War I Medal of Honor Recipient.
• Norfolk and Western Railroad
  .
• John Nelson (1794–1860), United States Attorney General.
• Benjamin Franklin Newcomer (1827–1901), railroad executive and bank president.^[35]
• Harry W. Nice (1877–1941), Governor of Maryland
  .
• Daniel S. Norton (1829–1870), United States Senator
  from Minnesota.
• Michael O'Laughlen (1840–1867), Lincoln assassination conspirator.
• Enoch Pratt (1808–1896), businessman and philanthropist, founder of Baltimore's public library system and co-founder of the Sheppard Pratt Hospital.
• James H. Preston (1860–1938), 35th Mayor of Baltimore.
• James R. Price (1862–1929), sports journalist and executive.
• Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828), poet.
• John P. Poe, Sr. (1836–1909), Attorney General of Maryland
  , 1891–95.
• Isaac Freeman Rasin (1833–1907), Baltimore politician and political boss^[36]
• William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874), sculptor.^[37]
• U.S. Navy
  officer.
• Albert C. Ritchie (1876–1936), Governor of Maryland
  , 1920–35.
• Winford Henry Smith (1877–1961), physician.^[38]
• William Wallace Spence (1815–1915), financier.^[39]
• Major General George H. Steuart (1790–1867), a United States Army general in the War of 1812
  .
• George H. Steuart (1828–1903), Confederate Civil War general.
• Mayor of Baltimore
  , 1856–60.
• Joseph Pembroke Thom (1828–1899), member of the Maryland House of Delegates, military officer in the Mexican–American War and Confederate States Army.^[40]
• U.S. Army officer, civil engineer, railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate
  general in the Civil War.
• Daniel Turner (1794–1850), United States Navy officer during the War of 1812.
• Erastus B. Tyler (1822–1891), Union Army general in the American Civil War.
• Martha Ellicott Tyson (1795–1873), Quaker elder, author, and co-founder of Swarthmore College.
• John B. Van Meter (1842–1930) U.S. Navy chaplain, academic, and co-founder of Goucher College.
• Joshua Van Sant (1803–1884), Mayor of Baltimore.^[41]
• John Carroll Walsh (1816–1894), state senator^[42]
• art collector whose bequest to the City of Baltimore in 1931 started the Walters Art Museum
  .
• art collector
  .
• Teackle Wallis Warfield (1869–1896) Father of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Wife of Prince Edward Duke of Windsor.
• Attorney General
  .
• Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer (1812–1878), Episcopal bishop of Louisiana.
• John H. Winder (1800–1865), Confederate general during the Civil War.

References

External links

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• Official website
• Green Mount Cemetery at Find a Grave
• Green Mount Cemetery at The Political Graveyard
• Green Mount Cemetery Famous People Map Grave Marker Locations
• Green Mount Cemetery at Explore Baltimore Heritage
• Photos of Green Mount Cemetery on Flickr
• Green Mount Cemetery at Cold Marble
• Plan, Prospectus, and Terms, for the Establishment of a Public Cemetery, at the City of Baltimore (1838)