Green Mount Cemetery is a historic

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, United States. Established on March 15, 1838, and dedicated on July 13, 1839, it is noted for the large number of historical figures interred in its grounds as well as many prominent Baltimore-area families. It retained the name Green Mount when the land was purchased from the heirs of Baltimore merchant Robert Oliver. Green Mount is a treasury of precious works of art, including striking works by major sculptors including William H. Rinehart and Hans Schuler. The cemetery was listed in the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ...

in 1980. Guided tours are available at various times of the year. A

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plaque at the entrance reads: In addition to John Wilkes Booth, two other conspirators in the assassination of

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...

are buried here, Samuel Arnold and

Michael O'Laughlen Michael O'Laughlen, Jr. (pronounced ''Oh-Lock-Lun''; June 3, 1840 – September 23, 1867) was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in John Wilkes Booth's plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and later in the latter's assas ...

. It is common for visitors to the cemetery to leave pennies on the graves of the three men; the one-cent coin features the likeness of the president they successfully sought to murder. The abdicated King

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and his wife, the

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, had planned for a burial in a purchased plot in Rose Circle at Green Mount Cemetery, near where the father of the Duchess was interred. However, in 1965 an agreement with

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allowed for the king and duchess to be buried near other members of the royal family in the Royal Burial Ground near

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Notable interments

* Arunah Abell (1808–1888), journalist, newspaper publisher, founder of the Philadelphia ''Public Ledger'' and Baltimore ''Sun'' newspapers. * William Julian Albert (1816–1879), U.S. Congressman. * James J. Archer (1860–1921), American politician * Samuel Arnold (1834–1906), Lincoln assassination conspirator. *

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(1783–1856), U. S. Army General that served in the

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, and

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. * Robert T. Banks (1822–1901), Mayor of Baltimore *

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(1806–1873), a

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man and diplomat. *

James Lawrence Bartol James Lawrence Bartol (June 4, 1813 – June 23, 1887) was an American jurist who served as chief judge of the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, the Court of Appeals. Early life James Lawrence Bartol was born on June 4, 1813, in Hav ...

(1813–1887), American jurist * Joseph Colt Bloodgood (1867–1935), American surgeon * A. Aubrey Bodine (1906–1970), photographer. * Elizabeth ("Betsy") Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879), Baltimore-born wife of Napoleon's brother,

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(m. 1803). Napoleon refused to recognize the marriage. When Jérôme returned to France in 1805, his wife was forbidden to debark and went to England, where her son, Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte, was born. Napoleon issued a state decree of annulment for his brother in 1806, and Elizabeth Patterson returned to Baltimore with her son. *

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(1873–1943), American jurist *

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, (1847–1921), lawyer and inventor. *

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, (1835–1888), author and sister of

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. *

(1838–1865), assassin of President

. *

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(1796–1852), noted English actor, the foremost tragedian of the early-to-mid 19th century. * Augustus Bradford (1806–1881),

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. *

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(1826 – 1905) lawyer and politician in California, Louisiana and Maryland and a brigadier general in the Confederate army. * Jesse D. Bright (1812–1875),

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from Indiana. *

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(1809–1898), American educator, historian and poet * Frank Brown (1846–1920),

. * James M. Buchanan (1803–1876), Judge and

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. *

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(1808–1865), an

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recipient. * John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889), was a

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Justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

. *

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(1811–1880), Mayor of Baltimore, glass maker, railroad executive. * George Colton (1817–1898), member of the Maryland House of Delegates *

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(1817–1865), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1863–1865. * William Daniel, state legislator and

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vice presidential candidate, 1884. *

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(1893–1969), director of the

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and a member of the

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. * 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 from Maryland. * George F. Emmons (1811–1884), Rear Admiral,

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. *

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(1841–1916), Maryland state senator * George Hyde Fallon (1902–1980), U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Maryland. * Henry D. Farnandis (1817–1900), Maryland state politician and lawyer * Charles W. Field (1857–1917), Maryland state delegate *

Elizabeth Gault Fisher Elizabeth Gault Fisher (April 29, 1909 – ) was an American entomologist, bacteriologist, and bryologist. She collected thousands of examples of Maryland mosses, including the first examples of a number of species in Maryland. A moss, '' Desma ...

(1909–2000), entomologist, bacteriologist, and bryologist. * Richard Fuller (1804–1876), Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Baptist movement * William H. B. Fusselbaugh, member of the Maryland House of Delegates *

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(1803–1887), American lawyer * James Hall (1802–1889), founder of Maryland-in-Africa * Robert G. Harper (1765–1825),

from Maryland. *

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(1810–1873), Mayor of Baltimore, U.S. Representative from Maryland, member of the Maryland House of Delegates *

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(1795–1873), businessman and philanthropist. He left substantial bequests in his will to found the

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and

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. *

Benjamin Chew Howard Benjamin Chew Howard (November 5, 1791 – March 6, 1872) was a Maryland politician and lawyer. After serving on the city council of Baltimore in 1820 and in both houses of the Maryland legislature, he was a Representative in the United States Co ...

(1791–1872), a

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and the fifth

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of the

* Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), a career

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ordnance officer and a Confederate general in the

. * Jesse Hunt (1793–1872), mayor of Baltimore, Maryland * Obed Hussey (1792-1860), American inventor and rival of

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. * Henry Barton Jacobs (1858–1939), American physician and educator *

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(1816–1863), Mayor of Baltimore * Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876), statesman,

and

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. * Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807–1891), military officer in the

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during the

. * Isaac Dashiell Jones (1806–1893), U.S. Congressman *

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(1810–1892),

. * John P. Kennedy (1795–1870),

and

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. * Harriet Lane (1830–1903), niece of President

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, acted as

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from 1857 to 1861. *

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(1842–1881), musician and poet. * Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Jr. (1806–1878),

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and Green Mount's landscape architect. * Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe (1833–1911),

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and speaker of the

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John H. B. Latrobe John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe (May 4, 1803 – September 11, 1891) was an American lawyer and inventor. He invented the Latrobe Stove, also known as the "Baltimore Heater", a coal fired parlor heater made of cast iron and that fit into firepla ...

(1803–1891), American lawyer and inventor *

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(1809–1847),

and merchant *

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(1917–2002), author, best known for his book on the sinking of the ''

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'', '' A Night to Remember''. *

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(1881–1937), influential

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theologian and founder of

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, Pennsylvania. * John MacTavish (1787–1852), British

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in the 1840s. * Charles Marshall (1830–1902),

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in the

, aide de camp, assistant

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, and

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for the

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and Gen.

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. * Theodore R. McKeldin (1900–1974),

and

. *

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(1786–1857),

man from

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, and later the

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. * Robert Milligan McLane (1815–1898),

. * Louis Wardlaw Miles (1873–1944),

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Recipient. *

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(1867-1936), president of the

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. * John Nelson (1794–1860),

. *

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(1827–1901), railroad executive and bank president *

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(1877–1941),

. *

Daniel S. Norton Daniel Sheldon Norton (April 12, 1829July 13, 1870) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Minnesota State Senate and as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota. Life and career Norton was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio to Daniel Sheldon an ...

(1829–1870),

from Minnesota. *

(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), American sports journalist and executive. * Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828), poet. *

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(1836–1909),

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, 1891–1895. * Isaac Freeman Rasin (1833–1907), Baltimore politician and political boss * William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874), sculptor *

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(1802–1867), U.S. Navy officer. *

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(1876–1936),

, 1920–1935. * Winford Henry Smith (1877–1961), American physician *

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(1815–1915), financier from Baltimore * Major General George H. Steuart (1790–1867), a

general in the

. * George H. Steuart (1828–1903), a Confederate general in the

. *

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(1809–1883),

, 1866–1869, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd and

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Districts, 1869–1879,

, 1856–1860. * Joseph Pembroke Thom (1828–1899), member of the Maryland House of Delegates, military officer in the Mexican–American War and Confederate States Army * Isaac R. Trimble (1802–1888), a U.S. Army officer,

, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the

. * Daniel Turner (1794–1850),

officer during the

. * Erastus B. Tyler (1822–1891),

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general in the

. * Martha Ellicott Tyson (1795–1873), Quaker elder, author, and co-founder of

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John B. Van Meter John Blackford Van Meter (September 6, 1842 – April 8, 1930) was an American Methodist minister, educator, and the co-founder of Goucher College. Van Meter also served as the college's first dean and as acting president from 1911 to 1913. Ear ...

(1842–1930) U.S. Navy

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, academic, and co-founder of

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/ ...

Joshua Van Sant Joshua Van Sant (December 31, 1803 – April 8, 1884) was a United States Congressional representative from Maryland. He served as mayor of Baltimore from 1871 to 1875. Background Van Sant was born in Millington in Kent County, Maryland. He ...

(1803–1884), Mayor of Baltimore *

John Carroll Walsh John Carroll Walsh (December 22, 1816 – December 1, 1894) was a politician and farmer from Baltimore. He served in the Maryland Senate in 1868 and from 1874 to 1876. Early life John Carroll Walsh was born on December 22, 1816, in Baltimore t ...

(1816–1894), state senator *

Henry Walters Henry Walters (September 26, 1848 – November 30, 1931) was noted as an art collector and philanthropist, a founder of the Walters Art Gallery (now the Walters Art Museum) in Baltimore, Maryland, which he donated to the city in his 1931 will f ...

(1848–1931), president of the

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whose bequest to the City of Baltimore in 1931 started the

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. * William Thompson Walters (1820–1894),

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distributor, banker, railroad magnate and

. * Teackle Wallis Warfield (1869-1896) Father of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Wife of Prince Edward Duke of Windsor. *

William Pinkney Whyte William Pinkney Whyte (August 9, 1824March 17, 1908), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was a politician who served the State of Maryland as a State Delegate, the State Comptroller, a United States Senator, the 35th Governor, the ...

(1824–1908), Maryland State Delegate, State

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, a

, the State Governor, the

, and State

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. * Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer (1812–1878), Episcopal bishop of

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. *

John H. Winder John Henry Winder (February 21, 1800 – February 7, 1865) was a career United States Army officer who served with distinction during the Mexican–American War. He later served as a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War. Wind ...

(1800–1865), Confederate general during the American Civil War.

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Green Mount Cemetery Famous People Map
Grave Marker Locations
Green Mount Cemetery
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Photos of Green Mount Cemetery
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Green Mount Cemetery
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Plan, Prospectus, and Terms, for the Establishment of a Public Cemetery, at the City of Baltimore (1838)
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