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West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a
rural cemetery established in 1869 in
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania . The cemetery was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1992 and contains the burials of many notable persons.
[1]
A
Timothee Adamowski (1858–1943), composer, violinist and first conductor of the
Boston Pops Orchestra
Green Adams (1812–1884), U.S. Congressman
Randolph Greenfield Adams (1892–1951), librarian and historian
David Hayes Agnew was a surgeon and the subject of
Thomas Eakins ' painting
The Agnew Clinic
[2]
David Hayes Agnew (1818–1892), surgeon
Raymond Pace Alexander (1897–1974), American civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898–1989), first
African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States.
[3]
Harrison Allen (1841–1897), professor of comparative anatomy and medical zoölogy at the
University of Pennsylvania
Sarah A. Anderson (1901–1992), first Black woman to preside over
Pennsylvania House of Representatives general assembly
Robert Arthur Jr. (1909–1969), writer of speculative fiction, winner of three
Edgar Awards
Samuel Howell Ashbridge (1848–1906), "Stars and Stripes Sam", Philadelphia mayor 1899–1903
B
Hobey Baker (1892–1918), amateur athlete, namesake of
Hobey Baker Award and
Hobey Baker Memorial Rink at
Princeton University
Russell Ball (1891–1942), Hollywood glamor photographer, husband of gossip columnist
Gladys Hall
Samuel L. M. Barlow II (1892–1982), composer, pianist and art critic
Joseph Beam (1954–1988), African American gay rights activist, writer and poet
Cecilia Beaux was the first female instructor at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
[4]
Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter
Joe Berry (1894–1976), professional baseball player
Edward Julius Berwind (1848–1936), founder of
Berwind-White Coal Mining Company , owner of
The Elms in
Newport, Rhode Island ,
Edward J. Berwind House in New York City
Julia Berwind , (1865–1961), socialite, social welfare activist, owner of
The Elms in
Newport, Rhode Island
Frank Bettger (1888–1981), professional baseball player
Charles M. Betts (1838–1905), Medal of Honor recipient
Richard Binder (1839–1912), Medal of Honor recipient
Oliver Bosbyshell (1839–1921), Civil War veteran, superintendent
United States Mint (1889-1894)
Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973), writer best known for biographies, winner 1958
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Caroline G. Boughton (1854–1905), educator and philanthropist.
Benjamin Markley Boyer (1823–1887), represented
Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1865 to 1869.
[5]
Anna Robeson Brown (1873–1941), writer
Edward G. Budd (1870–1946), founder of the
Budd Company
William M. Bunn (1842–1923), American newspaperman, Governor of
Idaho Territory from 1884 to 1885
Jervis Burdick , (1889–1962),
track and field athlete , competed in
1912 Summer Olympics
Edward Bushnell (1876–1951),
distance runner , competed in
1900 Summer Olympics
C
Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor
Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945), sculptor
James Emmot Caldwell (1813–1881), American jeweler who founded
J.E. Caldwell & Co. in 1839
Alan Calvert (1875–1944), weightlifter, bodybuilder, founder Milo Bar-bell Company
John Carbutt (1832–1905) photography and radiology pioneer
Arthur Beecher Carles (1882–1952),
Modernist painter
William E. Carter (1875–1940), American millionaire, polo player, and survivor of the
RMS Titanic
Emma C. Chappell (1941–2021), first African-American woman to form a commercial bank in the United States
Clarence Clark (1859–1937), financier, American tennis promoter and player, member of
Tennis Hall of Fame
Constance Clayton (1933–2023), educator, civic leader, Superintendent of the
School District of Philadelphia from 1982 to 1993
William Clothier (1881–1962), Men's Singles Winner,
1906 U.S. National Championships (tennis) , member of
Tennis Hall of Fame
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton (1889–1971), artist, co-founder
Museum of Northern Arizona with her husband Harold Sellers Colton (1881–1970); member
Philadelphia Ten
Colin Campbell Cooper was known for his architectural paintings of skyscrapers
[6]
Colin Campbell Cooper (1856–1937), Impressionist painter
Joseph K. Corson (1836–1913), Medal of Honor recipient
Peter E. Costello (1854–1935), Republican member of the
United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania 1915–1921
Cyrus Curtis (1850–1933), founder of
Curtis Publishing Company , publisher of
Ladies' Home Journal and
Saturday Evening Post
D
Frank Miles Day (1861–1918), architect
John Blair Deaver (1855–1931), aggressive surgeon at
German Hospital known as "The Great Slasher"
Joseph H. Diss Debar (1820–1905), French-born American artist and government official
Giuseppe Del Puente (1841–1900), Italian opera baritone
Francis Xavier Dercum (1856–1931), neurologist, consultant for
Woodrow Wilson after his stroke
Harry Diddlebock (1854–1900) sportswriter, manager
St. Louis Browns
John Thompson Dorrance (1873–1930), president of the
Campbell Soup Company
Cecil Kent Drinker (1887–1956) physician, founder of
Harvard School of Public Health
Henry Sandwith Drinker (1880–1965) lawyer and amateur musicologist
Henry Sturgis Drinker (1850–1937) mechanical engineer, lawyer, author, and fifth president of
Lehigh University
Katherine Rotan Drinker (1889–1956) physician, researcher of
Radium Girls with husband Cecil
Sophie Drinker (1888–1967) author, musician, musicologist; founder of women's musicological and gender studies
H. Louis Duhring Jr. (1874–1953) architect, rebuilt
Powel House in the
Society Hill section of Philadelphia
Clarissa F. Dye (1832–1921) Army nurse during the American Civil War, president of
National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War
E
George W. Edmonds (1864-1939), Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1913–1925, 1933-1935
Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), anthropologist, poet, philosopher, best-selling author
George Emerick Essig (1838–1925), painter, watercolorist, and etcher who specialized in marine scenes
F
Beatrice Fenton (1887–1983), sculptor and artist
Larry Ferrari (1932–1997), American organist who hosted The Larry Ferrari Show from 1954 to 1997 on
WPVI-TV
Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Jr, MD (1894–1963), physician, University of Pennsylvania, namesake for
Fitz-Hugh–Curtis syndrome
Frank H. Fleer (1857–1921), inventor of
bubble gum and pioneer of the
baseball card
John Weiss Forney was the first Republican secretary of the U.S. Senate
[7]
John Weiss Forney (1817–1881) politician, journalist,
Secretary of the United States Senate 1861–1868
Tillie May Forney (1862–1922), daughter of
John Weiss Forney , writer, journalist
Robert Foster (1856–1921), professional baseball player
Daniel M. Fox (1819–1890), mayor of Philadelphia 1869-1871
G
Dave Garroway (1913–1982) American television personality, founding host and anchor of NBC's "Today" from 1952 to 1961
Arrah Lee Gaul (1888–1980) artist, member
Philadelphia Ten
Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (1839–1917), represented
New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1889 to 1895.
[8]
Clarence H. Geist (1866–1938), financier who played an important role in the early history of
Boca Raton, Florida
Alfred Godwin (1850–1934), English-born
stained glass artist for
The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel ,
Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, et al.
Nelson Z. Graves (1849–1930), businessman
Nelson Z. Graves Jr. (1880–1918), cricket player
John Trout Greble (1834–1861), U.S. Army and Union Army officer; first graduate of the
United States Military Academy to be killed in the war
John Gribbel (1858–1936), businessman, philanthropist, donated the Glenriddell Manuscripts to the
National Library of Scotland
Robert Cooper Grier (1794–1870), Associate Justice of The United States Supreme Court (1846–1870).
H
Gladys Hall (1891–1977), film journalist, gossip columnist, wife of glamor photographer
Russell Ball
Alfred C. Harmer (1825–1900), represented
Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1871 to 1875, and from 1877 until his death in 1900.
[9]
Abram W. Harris (1858–1935), 8th president of
Northwestern University , first President of the
University of Maine
Marvin Haskin (1930–2009), Professor and Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at
Hahnemann University
Herman Haupt (1817–1905),
Union Army General and engineer
Lewis M. Haupt (1844–1937), United States
civil engineer whose career emphasized work on
waterways
James M. Hazlett (1864–1941), Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Howard Head (1914–1991),
aeronautical engineer who is credited with the invention of the first commercially successful aluminum
laminate
skis and the oversized
tennis racket
Jocko Henderson (1918–2000), radio
disc jockey , businessman, and
hip hop music pioneer
Constantine Hering (1800–1880), early pioneer of
homeopathy in the United States
Rudolph Hering (1847–1923), helped in reversal of
Chicago River , namesake for Rudolph Hering Medal awarded by
American Society of Civil Engineers
Catherine Elizabeth "Kitty" Sweeney Hershey (1871–1915), wife of
chocolatier and
philanthropist
Milton Hershey ; she died at the
The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and spent four years in the
receiving vault of Laurel Hill West
George Herzog (1851–1920), interior designer and decorative painter
Brenda J. Payton Hill (1945–1992), as Brenda Payton, lead singer of
doo-wop group
Brenda & The Tabulations
John Hofford (1863–1915), professional
baseball
pitcher for
Pittsburgh Alleghenys 1885–1886
Vera Huckel worked as a "junior computer" at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a predecessor of NASA
[10]
Vera Huckel (1908–1999), one of the first female "computers" at
NACA , now
NASA
Edie Huggins (1935–2008), long-time television personality in Philadelphia
Hannah Clothier Hull (1872–1958), clubwoman, feminist, pacifist
Joseph Miller Huston (1866–1940), designed the third (and current)
Pennsylvania State Capitol
J
Chevalier Jackson (1865–1958), physician, teacher, and father of
endoscopy
Roy Jackson (1876–1944), early professional football player for
Duquesne Country and Athletic Club
Bushrod Washington James (1806–1903), surgeon, homeopathist, writer, and philanthropist; namesake of
Bushrod, Oakland, California
Anna Jarvis (1864–1948), originator of
Mother's Day
Eldridge R. Johnson (1867–1945), founder of
Victor Talking Machine Company
Emory Richard Johnson (1864–1950), economist who specialized in transportation issues, dean of
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1933
Wallace W. Johnson (1842–1911), Medal of Honor recipient
Jack Jones (1950–1991), first African-American
news anchor in Philadelphia market
K
John Ernst Worrell Keely (1837–1898), fraudulent inventor who claimed to have discovered a new mode of power
Roland Grubb Kent (1877–1952), educator and founder of the Linguistic Society of America
Martha Kimball (1839–1894), philanthropist associated with founding of
Memorial Day
William J. Kirkpatrick (1838–1921), musician, composer of
Away in a Manger
Charles Klauder (1872–1938), architect
Harold Knerr (1882–1949), illustrator, cartoonist, did comic strip
The Katzenjammer Kids for 35 years
Daniel S. Koltun (1933–2014), theoretical physicist who specialized in
nuclear physics
Irena Koprowska (1917–2012),
cytopathology pioneer, co-developer of the
Pap smear
Hilary Koprowski (1916–2013),
virology expert, developer of first oral
polio vaccine , developer of first H.D.C.V.
rabies vaccine
Robert Lowe Kunzig (1918-1982), judge of the United States Court of Claims
L
John A. Lafore Jr. served as a U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1957 to 1961
[11]
John A. Lafore Jr. (1905–1993), Republican member of
U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1957–1961
Robert Eneas Lamberton (1886–1941), 114th mayor of Philadelphia from 1940 to 1941
John Lawrence LeConte (1825–1883), 19th century American naturalist and entomologist
Donald Lippincott , (1893–1962), world class sprinter, medal winner at
1912 Summer Olympics
Sarah Lee Lippincott , (1920–2019), professor of
astronomy at
Swarthmore College , director of the college's
Sproul Observatory
D. Herbert Lipson (1929–2017), publisher
Philadelphia magazine
Walter R. Livingston Jr. (1922–2011), architect
Hy Lit (Hyman Aaron Lit) (1934–2007), Philadelphia radio & TV broadcaster
William H. Luden (1859–1949), developer of the menthol
throat lozenge
Harry Lyons (1866–1912), professional baseball player
M
Harry Arista Mackey (1869–1938), football player and coach, lawyer, and politician who served as the mayor of Philadelphia 1928–1932
Franklin J. Maloney (1899–1958), Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 1947–1949
Frederick Maxson (1862–1934) German-born American composer and organist
Frank M. Mayo (1839–1896), stage actor
Katharine Elizabeth McBride (1904–1976) neuropsychology researcher, President
Bryn Mawr College 1942–1970
Robert M. McBride (1879–1970) publisher and defendant in the obscenity prosecution of novelist
James Branch Cabell
Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (1901–1985), represented Pennsylvania in the
United States House of Representatives 1944–1957.
[12]
James McCrea (1848–1913), president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad from 1907 to 1913
Henry Plumer McIlhenny , (1910–1986), connoisseur of art and antiques, world traveler, socialite, philanthropist, curator and chair of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Robert L. McNeil Jr. (1915–2010),
chemist and
pharmaceutical industry executive, responsible for commercial development, naming, and introduction of the pain reliever
Tylenol
William Morris Meredith Jr. (1919–2007), educator, poet, won
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1988
Reuben Moon (1847–1919), U.S. Congressman
Robert Charles Moon (1844–1914),
ophthalmologist
J. Hampton Moore (1864–1950), 108th (1920–1924) and 111th (1932–1936) Mayor of Philadelphia, Republican member of the
United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1906–1920)
Walter Moser was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Browns
[13]
Walter Moser (1881–1946), professional baseball player
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O
P
Daniel Pabst (1826–1910), cabinetmaker, worked closely with
Frank Furness
Robert E. Pattison (1850–1904), Governor of Pennsylvania 1883–1887 and 1891–1895
Billy Paul (1934–2016), born Paul Williams, singer "
Me and Mrs. Jones ", "
Am I Black Enough for You? "
George Franklin Pawling (1879–1954), President of
Amateur Athletic Union in 1910s, builder of the
Philadelphia Arena in 1920s
Teddy Pendergrass was posthumously inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2021
[14]
Teddy Pendergrass (1950–2010), soul and R&B singer
J. Howard Pew (1882–1971), American philanthropist, president of
Sunoco (Sun Oil Company)
Joseph Newton Pew (1848–1912), founder of Sun Oil Company (now
Sunoco ) and philanthropist
Joseph N. Pew Jr. (1886–1963), American industrialist, influential member of
Republican Party
Theodore Presser (1848–1925), founder of
Music Teachers National Association , publisher of
The Etude magazine, founder of
Theodore Presser Company
R
Nate Ramsey (1941–2019), professional football player
Harry C. Ransley (1863–1941), Republican member of
United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 1921–1937
Al Reach (1840–1928), professional baseball player, sporting good manufacturer
Ira De Augustine Reid (1901–1968) sociologist and author who wrote extensively on the lives of Black immigrants and communities in the United States
John Reilly (1836–1904), represented
Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 1875 to 1877.
[15]
Francis Richter (1854–1926), editor
Sporting Life newspaper 1883–1917, refused presidency of the
National League
Ralph J. Roberts (1920–2015), co-founder
Comcast
Lawson Robertson (1883–1951), medal winner at
1904 Summer Olympics , renowned track and field coach
Mario Romañach (1917–1984), Cuban-born modernist architect, planner, and university professor
Jack Rose (1971–2009), musician, played
American primitive guitar
S
L. Lewis Sagendorph (1842–1909), inventor and pioneer in
sheet metal production
Dennis Sandole (1913–2000), jazz guitarist, composer and music educator; mentor to
John Coltrane
William I. Schaffer (1867–1953), Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Justice
Fritz Scheel (1852–1907), first conductor and musical director of the
Philadelphia Orchestra
Henry Walter "Slick" Schlichter (1866–1944) sports executive, co-founder and owner
Philadelphia Giants
Negro league
baseball team, sportswriter for Philadelphia Item , referee in Thomas Eakin's 1898 painting
Taking the Count
Arthur Hoyt Scott (1875–1927) inventor of
paper towel , namesake for
Scott Arboretum
John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott (1873–1945), member
Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1899, 1909, 1911, and 1913
Edgar Viguers Seeler (1867–1929), architect
Coleman Sellers II (1827–1907), prominent engineer and inventor
[16]
Orator Shafer (1851–1922), Major League Baseball player
Taylor Shafer (1866–1945), Major League Baseball player
John O. Sheatz (1856–1922), Pennsylvania state representative, state senator, and state treasurer
Ben Shibe (1838–1922), sportsman, sporting goods salesman, namesake of
Shibe Park at 21st & Lehigh
Hannah Shipley, Elizabeth Shipley, and Katharine Shipley founders of
Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Rachel H. Shoemaker (1838–1915), founder of the
National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia.
[17]
Matthew Simpson (1811–1884), notable
Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church , delivered
eulogy at funeral of
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Emory Smith (1842–1908), U.S.
Minister to Russia 1890–1891, U.S.
Postmaster General 1898-1902
David Smyrl (1935–2016), actor and writer, known for his role of Mr. Handford (
Hooper's Store ) on
Sesame Street
[18]
Albert Henry Smyth (1863–1907), editor of the Writings of
Benjamin Franklin
Ed Snider founded the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League
[19]
Ed Snider (1933–2016) Chair of
Comcast Spectacor , owner
Philadelphia Flyers , former owner
Philadelphia 76ers , part-owner of
Philadelphia Eagles
Edward Taylor Snow (1844–1913) landscape artist, collector
Pearl Pinkerton McClelland Snowden (1875–1943), woman for whom the
Rhode Island mansion
High Watch (now owned by
Taylor Swift ) was built
Alice Barber Stephens (1858–1932), engraver and magazine illustrator
John Batterson Stetson (1830–1906), American hat manufacturer and founder of the
John B. Stetson Company
George H. Stockman (1833–1912), Medal of Honor recipient
Marion Stokes (1929–2012), access television producer, civil rights activist, librarian, and archivist who videotaped more than 70,000 tapes of television news over 35 years
John Streaker, aka
Cub Stricker (1859–1937), professional baseball player
Edwin Sydney Stuart (1853–1937),
Mayor of Philadelphia 1891–1895,
Governor of Pennsylvania 1907–1911.
[20]
T
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915), mechanical and industrial engineer, management consultant, and "father of
scientific management ".
Charles W. Thomas (politician) (1860–1907), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Pennsylvania Senate
[21]
Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900–2001), aka "DBT,"
classical archaeologist and
art historian at
Bryn Mawr College
Homer Thompson (1906-2000), Canadian classical archaeologist, specializing in ancient Greece
Joseph Earlston Thropp (1847–1927), Republican member of the
United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 1898–1900
[22]
John Cresson Trautwine (1810–1883), civil engineer, architect, and engineering writer
Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938), architect
C. Delores Tucker was a civil right activist who lead a campaign against rap music in the 1990s
[23]
C. Delores Tucker (1927–2005), civil rights and anti-rap activist
Ellwood J. Turner (1886–1948), Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County (1925–1948), Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1939–1941)
Thomas Lovatt Turner, aka
Tink Turner (1890–1962), professional baseball player
V
Flora M. Vare (1874–1962), Pennsylvania State Senator 1925–1928, wife of Edwin H. Vare
Glenna Collett-Vare (1903–1989), American amateur golfer, member
World Golf Hall of Fame , "The Female
Bobby Jones "
William Scott Vare (1867–1934), U.S. Senator-elect, U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania State Senator, Republican political boss
Moses Veale (1832–1917), Medal of Honor recipient
W
William Wagner (1796–1885), founder of the
Wagner Free Institute of Science
Charles F. Warwick (1852–1913), author, lawyer, and Republican politician who served as mayor of Philadelphia 1895–1899
Grover Washington Jr. is considered one of the founders of the smooth-jazz genre
[24]
Grover Washington Jr. (1943–1999), American
jazz-funk and
soul-jazz saxophonist
George Austin Welsh (1878–1970), represented
Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1923 to 1932.
[25]
Donald H. White (1921–2016),
composer , educator at
Depauw University
Peter Arrell Browne Widener II (1895–1948), racehorse owner/breeder
Elwood N. Williams (1842–1921), Medal of Honor recipient
Henry Williams (1834–1917), peacetime recipient of the
Medal of Honor
Hugh Irvine Wilson (1879–1925), golf course designer
James H. Windrim (1840–1919), architect
John T. Windrim (1866–1934), architect
Margaret F. Winner (1866–1937) illustrator, portrait painter, and miniaturist
Septimus Winner (1827–1905), songwriter -
Ten Little Indians ,
Listen to the Mockingbird , et al.
David Duffield Wood (1838–1910), blind composer, educator, musician, organist and choir master at
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church for 46 years
Milton Work (1864–1934), world expert on
whist ,
bridge whist , auction and
contract bridge
Harry Wright (1835–1895), pioneer of professional baseball, member of the
Baseball Hall of Fame
Y
Charlotte Yhlen (1839–1920), first Swedish woman to graduate as a physician from a university
Z
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