Cemitério Laurel Hill
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Cemitério Laurel Hill (em inglês: Laurel Hill Cemetery) é um cemitério em Filadélfia, Pensilvânia, o segundo maior cemitério-jardim dos Estados Unidos. Foi classificado um Marco Histórico Nacional em 1998, um dos poucos cemitérios a receber esta distinção.[1]
Tem uma área de 74 -acre(s) (300 000 m2), com mais de 33.000 monumentos e mais de 11.000 lotes familiares.[2]
História
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Sepultamentos notáveis
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- Robert Adams Jr. (1849–1906)[4]
- Hilary Baker (1746–1798)[4]
- Matthias William Baldwin (1795–1866), empresário, Baldwin Locomotive Works[4]
- Alexander Biddle (1819–1899)[4]
- Robert Montgomery Bird (1803–1854)médico[4]
- David Bispham (1857–1921), cantor de ópera[4]
- Charles E. Bohlen (1904–1974), diplomata[4]
- Henry Bohlen (1810–1862)[4]
- George Henry Boker (1823–1890), poeta, diplomata[4]
- Joseph Bonnell (1802–1840), West Point graduate, hero of the Texas Revolution
- Adolph E. Borie (1809–1880)[4]
- Charles Brown (1797–1883), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania[4]
- John Cassin (1813–1869), ornitologista
- George William Childs (1829–1894)[4]
- Walter Colton (1797–1851)
- David Conner (1792–1856), U.S. naval officer[4]
- Robert T. Conrad (1810–1858), mayor of Philadelphia[4]
- Joel Cook (1842–1910), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania[4]
- Robert Cornelius (1809–1893), fotógrafo pioneiro
- Martha Coston (1826–1904), inventora e empresária[4]
- Samuel W. Crawford (1829–1892), Union army general[4]
- Louisa Knapp Curtis (1851–1910), jornalista[4]
- John A. Dahlgren (1809–1870), U.S. naval officer[4]
- Richard Dale (1756–1826), Revolutionary naval officer[4]
- Henry Deringer (1786–1868), gunsmith[4]
- Henry Disston (1819–1878), businessman, Disston Saw Works[4]
- Ida Dixon (1854–1916), socialite and first female golf course architect in the United States[5]
- George Meade Easby (1918–2005), great-grandson of General George Meade and a celebrity figure
- George Nicholas Eckert (1802–1865), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania[4]
- Robert H. Foerderer (1860–1903), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania[4]
- Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890), an entrepreneur, businessman, and circus owner[4]
- Samuel Gibbs French (1818–1910), Confederate General[4] has a cenotaph in his family's plot in Laurel Hill.
- Frank Furness (1839–1912), Medal of Honor recipient, architect[4]
- Henry D. Gilpin (1801–1860), U.S. Attorney General[4]
- Louis Antoine Godey (1804–1878) American editor and publisher[4]
- Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749), optician and inventor[4]
- Frederick Gutekunst (1831-1917), prominent photographer
- Henry Schell Hagert (1826–1885), writer, poet, Philadelphia district attorney
- Sarah Hale (1788–1879), writer, poet[4]
- Frederick Halterman (1831–1907), U.S. Congressman[4]
- James Harper (1780–1873), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770–1843), first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey[4]
- Joseph Hemphill (1770–1842), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Alexander Henry (1823–1883), Civil War mayor of Philadelphia
- Henry Wilson Hodge (1865–1919), engineer
- Isaac Hull (1773–1843), Commodore, USN, captained Constitution to victory over HMS Guerriere[4]
- Owen Jones (1819–1878), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Harry Kalas (1936–2009), Philadelphia Phillies Hall of Fame broadcaster[4]
- Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), explorer
- William D. Kelley (1814–1890), U.S. Congressman[4]
- William J. Kirkpatrick (1838–1921), composer
- Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909), historian
- Michael Leib (1760–1822), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Lewis Charles Levin (1808–1860), U.S. Congressman[4]
- George Horace Lorimer (1868–1937), journalist[4]
- Thomas McKean (1734–1817), lawyer and politician, Signer of the Declaration of Independence[4]
- George Gordon Meade (1815–1872), Union General, victor at the Battle of Gettysburg[4]
- Hugh Mercer (1726–1777), Continental general in the American Revolution[4]
- Helen Abbott Michael (1857–1904), plant chemist
- William Millward (1822–1871), U.S. Congressman[4]
- John Moffet (1831–1884), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Charles Naylor (1806–1872), U.S. Congressman[4]
- John Notman (1810–1865), architect and designer of Laurel Hill
- Francis E. Patterson (1821–1862), Union general in the Civil War
- Titian Peale (1799–1885), artist[4]
- John C. Pemberton (1814–1881), Confederate Civil War General[4]
- Garrett J. Pendergrast (1802–1862), U.S. Civil War naval officer[4]
- Boies Penrose (1860–1921), U.S. Senator[4]
- Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872), American poet, sculptor, portrait-painter[4]
- Joseph Reed (1741–1785), Continental Congressman
- John E. Reyburn (1845–1914), U.S. Congressman, mayor of Philadelphia[4]
- William S. Reyburn (1882–1946), U.S. Congressman[4]
- David Rittenhouse (1732–1796), astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor[4]
- John Robbins (1808–1880), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Richard Rush (1780–1859), U.S. Attorney General[4]
- Lawrence Saint (1885–1961), stained glass artist
- Jonathan Sergeant (1746–1793), Continental Congressman[4]
- Charles Ferguson Smith (1807–1862), U.S. Army General[4]
- Witmer Stone (1866–1939), ornithologist, botanist
- Thomas Sully (1783–1872), portrait painter[4]
- Charles Thomson (1729–1824), secretary of the Continental Congress[4]
- George Washington Toland (1796–1869), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Levi Twiggs (1793–1847), officer in the U. S. Marine Corps[4]
- Job Roberts Tyson (1803–1858), U.S. Congressman[4]
- Richard Vaux (1816–1895), U.S. Congressman, mayor of Philadelphia[4]
- Thomas Ustick Walter (1804–1887), architect[4]
- Jonathan Williams (1751–1815), U.S. Army officer and first superintendent of West Point
- Peter A. B. Widener (1834–1915), business tycoon, philanthropist[4]
- Isaac J. Wistar (1827–1905), Union Army general and penologist[6]
- Owen Wister (1860–1938), novelist, author of The Virginian[4]
- Jacob Zeilin (1806–1880), 7th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps' first general officer[4]
Referências
- ↑ Listing at the National Park Service
- ↑ National Historic Landmark Nomination, Aaron V. Wunsch, National Park Service, 1998.
- ↑ Mullen Tomb December 26, 1881 article from the New York Times.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt Laurel Hill Cemetery at Find-A-Grave
- ↑ «The Historic Buildings of the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania» (PDF). Community ArtsCenter.org. Consultado em 30 de novembro de 2015
- ↑ Warner, Ezra J., p. 569
- Warner, Ezra J. (1964). Generals in Blue: The Lives of the Union Commanders. [S.l.]: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-0822-7
Ligações externas
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- «Sítio oficial»
- Historic American Buildings Survey, Laurel Hill Cemetery, HABS No. PA-1811 (Adobe .pdf format)
- Our Burial Lot (Kennedy), North Laurel Hill Cemetery, June 14, 1875 by D.J. Kennedy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Laurel Hill Cemetery sculptures, Association for Public Art website
- From the collection of The Library Company of Philadelphia: