Notable burials · Science and work
Inventors and engineers buried in Massachusetts
Wikidata records 90 inventors and engineers as buried in 47 of the cemeteries we list in Massachusetts. Mount Auburn Cemetery in North Brighton holds the most, with 28. Massachusetts has the 4th highest count of any state, out of 1,162 nationally.
People with inventor or engineer among their recorded occupations.
90
inventors and engineers
47
cemeteries
2%
of notable burials in Massachusetts
1910s
the decade with the most deaths (14)
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In order of death
Inventors and engineers buried in Massachusetts
- Richard Gridley1710-1796British Army officerCanton Cemetery, Canton, MA
- Loammi Baldwin, Sr.1745-1807American engineer, politician and soldierFirst Burial Ground, Woburn, MA
- Benjamin Franklin Baldwin1777-1821American civil engineerFirst Burial Ground, Woburn, MA
- Loammi Baldwin, Jr.1780-1838American civil engineer 1780-1838First Burial Ground, Woburn, MA
- William Howe1803-1852American bridge builderSpringfield Cemetery, Springfield, MA
- Cyrus Alger1782-1856American arms manufacturer and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth1802-1856American explorer and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Thomas Blanchard1788-1864American inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- John L. Sullivan1777-1865American engineerGranary Burying Ground, Boston, MA
- Russell L. Hawes1823-1867Inventor, automatic envelope folding machineRural Cemetery & Crematory, Worcester, MA
- Linus Yale1821-1868American mechanical engineerArms Cemetery, Shelburne Falls, MA
- Josiah Warren1798-1874American social reformer, philosopher, inventor, musician, and authorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Uriah A. Boyden1804-1879American engineerRock Hill Cemetery, Foxborough, MA
- Donald McKay1810-1880American shipbuilderOak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, MA
- John G. Barnard1815-1882Union Army generalCenter Cemetery, Sheffield, MA
- William Mason1808-1883American mechanical engineerMount Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, MA
- Lemuel Wellman Wright1790-1886American inventor, active in EnglandMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- George Crompton1829-1886American inventorRural Cemetery & Crematory, Worcester, MA
- George Rumford Baldwin1798-1888American civil engineerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Cyrus West Field1819-1892American businessmanStockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA
- James Bicheno Francis1815-1892American engineerLowell Cemetery, Lowell, MA
- Horace Smith1808-1893American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman, Smith & Wesson founderSpringfield Cemetery, Springfield, MA
- Edward Appleton1816-1898American railroad engineerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Reading, MA
- John Celivergos Zachos1820-1898Greek-American Doctor, Author, Educator, and AbolitionistNewton Cemetery, Newton, MA
- Daniel Chapman Stillson1826-1899American inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Zealous Bates Tower1819-1900Union army generalCohasset Central Cemetery, Cohasset, MA
- William Francis Channing1820-1901American activist, physician and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Lewis Waterman1836-1901American inventorForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Gordon McKay1821-1903American businessman and philanthropistPittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, MA
- Daniel B. Wesson1825-1906American gunsmithOak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, MA
- Samuel Langley1834-1906American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the SmithsonianForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Josiah "Joe" Vincent Meigs Sr.1840-1907Civil War Captain and InventorLowell Cemetery, Lowell, MA
- Alexander Agassiz1835-1910Swiss-American zoologist and engineerForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- William Jackson1848-1910Boston, Massachusetts city engineerEvergreen Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, MA
- Thomas Hutchins Dodge1823-1910American lawyer and inventorHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Amos Dolbear1837-1910American physicistOak Grove Cemetery, Arlington, MA
- Milton Bradley1836-1911American publisher and board game designerSpringfield Cemetery, Springfield, MA
- William Augustus Putnam Willard Jr.1864-1912(1864-1912) American engineerOak Hill Cemetery, Sterling, MA
- Francis Blake1850-1913American engineerLinwood Cemetery, Weston, MA
- Frederick H. Daniels1853-1913American engineer and corporate directorHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Betsey Ann Stearns1830-1914American dressmaker inventor, school founder, authorWoodbrook Cemetery, Woburn, MA
- Margaret E. Knight1838-1914American inventorNewton Cemetery, Newton, MA
- Harry Grant1877-1915American racing driverMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Emory A. Ellsworth1852-1915Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke, MA
- Elmer Lawrence Corthell1840-1916American civil engineerColebrook Cemetery, Whitman, MA
- Francis Edgar Stanley1849-1918American businessmanNewton Cemetery, Newton, MA
- William J. Morton1845-1920American physicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Benjamin Smith Lyman1835-1920US mining engineerBridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
- William Rotch1844-1925EngineerOak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, MA
- Fred Hovey Allen1845-1926American clergyman, authorMaplewood Cemetery, Rockland, MA
- Desmond Fitzgerald1846-1926American engineerWalnut Hills Cemetery, Bellevue, MA
- Henry Larcom Abbot1831-1927American military officerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Lewis Howard Latimer1848-1928American inventorOak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, MA
- Frank Austin Gooch1852-1929American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Clemens Herschel1842-1930Hydraulic engineer, inventor of the Venturi meterMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Emery Nickerson1853-1930American engineer and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Howard Adams Carson1842-1931American civil engineerWoodlawn Cemetery, Everett, MA
- Ralph Munroe1851-1933American yacht designerSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Thomas A. Watson1854-1934American inventor and businessperson; assistant to Alexander Graham BellNorth Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, MA
- Hiram W. Blaisdell1851-1934Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- James MacKaye1872-1935American writerOak Grove Cemetery, Plymouth, MA
- Edwin W. Rice1862-1935American engineerPine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, MA
- Elihu Thomson1853-1937American inventorPine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, MA
- John Frank Stevens1853-1943American canal engineerMount Hope Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Charles T. Main1856-1943American engineerWildwood Cemetery, Winchester, MA
- Charles Bedaux1886-1944American businessmanMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert H. Goddard1882-1945American physicistHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Bowdoin B. Crowninshield1867-1948American yacht designerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edwin S. Webster1867-1950American electrical engineerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Richard von Mises1883-1953Austrian physicist and mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Lionel Simeon Marks1871-1955EngineerWenham Cemetery, Wenham, MA
- Robert W. Wood1868-1955American physicist and inventorSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- G. W. Pierce1872-1956American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henry E. Warren1872-1957American inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henry P. Kendall1878-1959American businessmanMaple Grove Cemetery, Walpole, MA
- Reinhold Rudenberg1883-1961German engineerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- John Garand1888-1974Canadian firearm designerHillcrest Park Cemetery, Ludlow, MA
- Rachel Fuller Brown1898-1980American chemistOak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, MA
- Irvin Lavine1902-1980American engineerSharon Memorial Park, Sharon, MA
- John Coleman Purves1896-1980American engineerMayflower Cemetery, South Duxbury, MA
- An Wang1920-1990American businessmanLincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, MA
- B.F. Skinner1904-1990American behavioristMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Harold Edgerton1903-1990American engineer and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edwin H. Land1909-1991American scientist and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henry Burkhardt III1945-2000American computer programmerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Claude Shannon1916-2001American mathematician and information theoristMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Victor A. Vyssotsky1931-2012American mathematician and computer scientistMassachusetts National Cemetery, Pocasset, MA
- Otto Vogl1927-2013American chemistWildwood Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Leo Beranek1914-2016American acoustical engineerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Mildred Dresselhaus1930-2017American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1790s1
- 1800s1
- 1820s1
- 1830s1
- 1850s3
- 1860s4
- 1870s2
- 1880s6
- 1890s6
- 1900s7
- 1910s14
- 1920s8
- 1930s9
- 1940s5
- 1950s7
- 1960s1
- 1970s1
- 1980s3
- 1990s4
- 2000s2
- 2010s4
By recorded year of death, for the 90 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA28
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery · Concord, MA3
- Forest Hills Cemetery · Roslindale, MA3
- First Burial Ground · Woburn, MA3
- Newton Cemetery · Newton, MA3
- Springfield Cemetery · Springfield, MA3
- Hope Cemetery · Worcester, MA3
- Pine Grove Cemetery · Lynn, MA2
- Lowell Cemetery · Lowell, MA2
- Rural Cemetery & Crematory · Worcester, MA2
- Oak Grove Cemetery · Springfield, MA2
- Cohasset Central Cemetery · Cohasset, MA1
- Massachusetts National Cemetery · Pocasset, MA1
- Granary Burying Ground · Boston, MA1
- Colebrook Cemetery · Whitman, MA1
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Everett, MA1
- Center Cemetery · Sheffield, MA1
- Pittsfield Cemetery · Pittsfield, MA1
- Stockbridge Cemetery · Stockbridge, MA1
- Oak Grove Cemetery · Fall River, MA1
- Laurel Hill Cemetery · Reading, MA1
- Lincoln Cemetery · Lincoln, MA1
- Oak Grove Cemetery · New Bedford, MA1
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Newburyport, MA1
- Wenham Cemetery · Wenham, MA1
Top 25 of 47 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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Other notable burials in Massachusetts
Writers and poets657United States representatives259Scientists217Painters, sculptors and photographers189Business leaders188Architects158Physicians154Journalists140American Civil War veterans124Actors112Baseball players86Musicians and singers84Medal of Honor recipients72Governors57World War II veterans57American football players50United States senators40World War I veterans38Pulitzer Prize winners22Spanish-American War veterans18American Revolutionary War veterans15
Method
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.