Green Mount Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in

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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

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. The cemetery was listed in the

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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 throu ...

are buried here,

Samuel Arnold Samuel Arnold may refer to: *Samuel Arnold (composer) (1740–1802), English composer and organist * Samuel Arnold (Connecticut politician) (1806–1869), U.S. Representative from Connecticut * Samuel Arnold (conspirator) (1834–1906), co-conspira ...

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 assassi ...

. It is common for visitors to the cemetery to leave penny, 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 Edward VIII and his wife, the Duchess of Windsor, 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 Queen Elizabeth II allowed for the king and duchess to be buried near other members of the royal family in the Royal Burial Ground near Windsor Castle.

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 (Maryland politician), James J. Archer (1860–1921), American politician *Samuel Arnold (conspirator), Samuel Arnold (1834–1906), Abraham Lincoln, 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 *Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806–1873), a United States Congressman and diplomat. *James Lawrence Bartol (1813–1887), American jurist *Joseph Colt Bloodgood (1867–1935), American surgeon *A. Aubrey Bodine (1906–1970), photographer. *Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Elizabeth ("Betsy") Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879), Baltimore-born wife of Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte (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. * Carroll Bond (1873–1943), American jurist *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

. *Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852), noted English actor, the foremost tragedian of the early-to-mid 19th century. *Augustus Bradford (1806–1881), Governor of Maryland. *Joseph Lancaster Brent (1826 – 1905) lawyer and politician in California, Louisiana and Maryland and a brigadier general in the Confederate army. *Jesse D. Bright (1812–1875), United States Senate, United States Senator from Indiana. *Nathan C. Brooks (1809–1898), American educator, historian and poet *Frank Brown (governor), Frank Brown (1846–1920), Governor of Maryland. *James M. Buchanan (diplomat), James M. Buchanan (1803–1876), Judge and United States Ambassador to Denmark. *James Buck (1808–1865), an American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. *John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889), was a United States Supreme Court Justice. *John Lee Chapman (1811–1880), Mayor of Baltimore, glass maker, railroad executive. *George Colton (Maryland politician), George Colton (1817–1898), member of the Maryland House of Delegates *Henry Winter Davis (1817–1865), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd congressional district, Maryland's 3rd District, 1863–1865. *William Daniel (Maryland politician), 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 (Maryland), Forest Park High School. *Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. (1922–2007), metallurgist and chemical engineer. *Thomas Dunn (musician), 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, United States Navy. *D. Hopper Emory (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 (Maryland politician), Charles W. Field (1857–1917), Maryland state delegate *Elizabeth Gault Fisher (1909–2000), entomologist, bacteriologist, and bryologist. *Richard Fuller (minister), Richard Fuller (1804–1876), Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Baptist movement *William H. B. Fusselbaugh (politician), William H. B. Fusselbaugh, member of the Maryland House of Delegates *George M. Gill (1803–1887), American lawyer *James Hall (governor), James Hall (1802–1889), founder of Maryland-in-Africa *Robert G. Harper (1765–1825), United States Senate, 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 *Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), businessman and philanthropist. He left substantial bequests in his will to found the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital. *Benjamin Chew Howard (1791–1872), a United States Congress, congressman and the fifth Supreme Court of the United States Reporter of Decisions, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court *Benjamin Huger (general), Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), a career United States Army ordnance officer and a Confederate States Army, Confederate general in the American Civil War. *Jesse Hunt (1793–1872), mayor of Baltimore, Maryland *Obed Hussey (1792-1860), American inventor and rival of Cyrus McCormick. *Henry Barton Jacobs (1858–1939), American physician and educator *John Hanson Thomas Jerome (1816–1863), Mayor of Baltimore *Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876), statesman, United States Senate, United States Senator and United States Attorney General. *Joseph E. Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807–1891), military officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. *Isaac Dashiell Jones (1806–1893), U.S. Congressman *Anthony Kennedy (Maryland politician), Anthony Kennedy (1810–1892), United States Senate, United States Senator. *John P. Kennedy (1795–1870), United States Congress, 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 II, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Jr. (1806–1878), civil engineer and Green Mount's landscape architect. *Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe (1833–1911), Mayor of Baltimore and speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates *John H. B. Latrobe (1803–1891), American lawyer and inventor *James O. Law (1809–1847), Mayor of Baltimore and merchant *Walter Lord (1917–2002), author, best known for his book on the sinking of the ''RMS Titanic'', ''A Night to Remember (book), A Night to Remember''. *John Gresham Machen (1881–1937), influential Presbyterian theologian and founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. *John MacTavish (British Consul), John MacTavish (1787–1852), British Consul (representative), Consul to

in the 1840s. *Charles Marshall (Colonel), Charles Marshall (1830–1902), Colonel (United States), colonel in the Confederate States Army, aide de camp, assistant adjutant general, and Military Secretary (United Kingdom), military secretary for the Army of Northern Virginia and General (United States), Gen. Robert E. Lee. *Theodore R. McKeldin (1900–1974), 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. * Arthur C. Needles (1867-1936), president of the Norfolk and Western Railroad. *John Nelson (lawyer), John Nelson (1794–1860), United States Attorney General. *Benjamin Franklin Newcomer (1827–1901), railroad executive and bank president *Harry W. Nice (1877–1941), Governor of Maryland. *Daniel S. Norton (1829–1870), United States Senate, United States Senator from Minnesota. *

(1840–1867), Abraham Lincoln, 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. *John P. Poe, Sr. (1836–1909), Attorney General of Maryland, 1891–1895. *Isaac Freeman Rasin (1833–1907), Baltimore politician and political boss *William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874), sculptor *Cadwalader Ringgold (1802–1867), U.S. Navy officer. *Albert C. Ritchie (1876–1936), Governor of Maryland, 1920–1935. *Winford Henry Smith (1877–1961), American physician *William Wallace Spence (1815–1915), financier from Baltimore *Major General George H. Steuart (1790–1867), a United States Army general in the War of 1812. *George H. Steuart (brigadier general), George H. Steuart (1828–1903), a Confederate States Army, Confederate general in the American Civil War. *Thomas Swann (1809–1883), List of Maryland Governors, Governor of Maryland, 1866–1869, U.S. Congressman for United States House of Representatives, Maryland District 3, Maryland's 3rd and United States House of Representatives, Maryland District 4, 4th Districts, 1869–1879, Mayor of Baltimore, 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, civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate States Army, Confederate general in the American Civil War. *Daniel Turner (naval officer), 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) United States Navy, U.S. Navy United States Navy Chaplain Corps, chaplain, academic, and co-founder of Goucher College *Joshua Van Sant (1803–1884), Mayor of Baltimore *John Carroll Walsh (1816–1894), state senator *Henry Walters (1848–1931), president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, art collector whose bequest to the City of Baltimore in 1931 started the Walters Art Museum. *William Thompson Walters (1820–1894), Liquor distributor, banker, railroad magnate and art collector. *Teackle Wallis Warfield (1869-1896) Father of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Wife of Edward VIII, Prince Edward Duke of Windsor. *William Pinkney Whyte (1824–1908), Maryland House of Delegates, Maryland State Delegate, State Comptroller, a United States Senate, United States Senator, the Governor of Maryland, State Governor, the Mayor of Baltimore, and State Attorney General. *Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer (1812–1878), Episcopal bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, Louisiana. *John H. Winder (1800–1865), Confederate general during the American Civil War.

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