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Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)

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George Meade
United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872)
Robert Cornelius
American photographer and lamp manufacturer (1809–1893)
Sarah Josepha Hale
American writer and editor (1788–1889)
Richard Rush
former United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Treasury (1780-1859)
Titian Peale
American ornithologist, entomologist, photographer, artist and explorer (1799-1885)
Thomas McKean
American Founding Father and politician (1734–1817)
David Rittenhouse
American astronomer (*1732 – †1796)
Owen Wister
American writer (1860–1938)
John Cassin
U.S. ornithologist (1813–1869)
Mary Engle Pennington
American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (1872-1952)
James Juvenal
American rower (1874–1942)
John C. Pemberton
Confederate Army officer (1814–1881)
Samuel George Morton
American physician and naturalist (1799–1851)
Florence Kelley
American activist (1859–1932)
William Gilmore
American rower (1895-1969)
William J. Duane
American politician, Jackson administration cabinet member (1780-1865)
Thomas Sully
American painter (1783-1872)
Meredith Colket
American tennis player (1878-1947)
Henry Charles Lea
American historian (1825-1909)
Witmer Stone
American ornithologist (1866-1939)
Elisha Kent Kane
American explorer and military medical officer (1820–1857)
Charles E. Bohlen
American diplomat (1904–1974)
Henry D. Gilpin
United States Attorney General (1801-1860)
Samuel J. Randall
politician, attorney, soldier (1828-1890)
Matthias W. Baldwin
American inventor and machinery manufacturer
Joseph Wharton
American industrialist (1826–1909)
Robert Montgomery Bird
American novelist, playwright, physician (1806–1854)
Charles Thomson
American patriot leader (1729-1824)
Martha Coston
American inventor (1826-1904)
William Duane
American physicist (1872–1935)
George Horace Lorimer
American journalist and writer
Henry Deringer
American gunsmith (1786-1868)
Isaac Lea
American geologist and Philadelphia publisher (Carey & Lea)
Sara Yorke Stevenson
American archaeologist and egyptologist
Joseph Reed
Pennsylvania lawyer, military aide and statesman (1741–1785)
A. B. Frost
American artist; (1851-1928)
Adolph E. Borie
United States merchant; Secretary of the Navy briefly (1809-1880)
Elias Durand
French-born American pharmacist and botanist (1794–1873)
Edwin J. Houston
American businessman (1847-1914)
Arthur Donaldson Smith
American explorer and scientific collector (1866-1939)
Samuel W. Crawford, Jr.
United States Army surgeon and Union general (1829-1892)
Thomas Ustick Walter
American architect (1804–1887)
Thomas Godfrey
American optician and inventor (1704-1749)
Thomas Buchanan Read
American artist (1822-1872)
Hugh Mercer
Jacobite and General in the American Revolutionary War
Franklin Peale
employee and officer of the Philadelphia Mint
Michael Leib
American politician (1760-1822)
George Henry Boker
American poet, playwright, and diplomat
William D. Kelley
American politician (1814-1890)
Isaac Hull
American naval officer
Richard Dale
American admiral (1756-1826)
William Pepper
United States physician (1843–1898)
James Nelson Barker
American mayor (1784-1858)
Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
American artist (1871–1927)
Helen Abbott Michael
American chemist (1857-1904)
Ebenezer Hazard
American postmaster (1744-1817)
Charles Ferguson Smith
Union Army General
William Short
1759–1849 Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789, later ambassador
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Swiss-American mathematician and surveyor (1770-1843)
John Adolphus Dahlgren
United States Navy admiral (1809–1870)