Writers and poets buried in Pennsylvania

• Benjamin Franklin1706-1790
  American polymath and statesman
  Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
• Andy Warhol1928-1987
  American artist, film director, and producer
  Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
• Margaret Mead1901-1978
  American anthropologist
  Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Doylestown, PA
• Joseph Priestley1733-1804
  English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist
  Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland, PA
• John Updike1932-2009
  American novelist, poet
  Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery, Flying Hills, PA
• Fred Rogers1928-2003
  American television personality
  Unity Cemetery, Latrobe, PA
• John Barrymore1882-1942
  American actor
  Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Charles Taze Russell1852-1916
  Founder of the Bible Student movement
  United Cemetery, West View, PA
• Marianne Moore1887-1972
  American poet
  Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA
• Benjamin Rush1746-1813
  American physician, educator, and author
  Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
• Stephen Foster1826-1864
  American songwriter
  Allegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
• Ida Tarbell1857-1944
  American journalist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, PA
• Smedley Butler1881-1940
  United States Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient, activist, lecturer, official, and writer
  The Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
• Lloyd Alexander1924-2007
  American children's writer
  Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper1825-1911
  American writer
  Eden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
• August Wilson1945-2005
  American playwright
  Greenwood Cemetery, Sharpsburg, PA
• Sarah Josepha Hale1788-1879
  American writer and editor
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Bayard Taylor1825-1878
  United States poet, novelist and travel writer
  Longwood Cemetery, Kennett Square, PA
• William Tenn1920-2010
  British-American science fiction author
  Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Thompsonville, PA
• Isaac Israel Hayes1832-1881
  United States explorer and physician
  Oakland Friends Cemetery, West Chester, PA
• Owen Wister1860-1938
  American writer
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Rembrandt Peale1778-1860
  American painter
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Carl Benjamin Boyer1906-1976
  American mathematician and historian
  Springtown Cemetery, Hellertown, PA
• Gifford Pinchot1865-1946
  American forester and politician
  Milford Cemetery, Gold Key Lake, PA
• Jessie Redmon Fauset1882-1961
  American novelist
  Eden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
• John Cassin1813-1869
  U.S. ornithologist
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Charles Godfrey Leland1824-1903
  American folklorist
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• William Christian Bullitt, Jr.1891-1967
  American diplomat
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Richard Harding Davis1864-1916
  American journalist and fiction writer
  Leverington Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Elinor Wylie1885-1928
  American poet
  Forty Fort Cemetery, Swoyersville, PA
• H. Beam Piper1904-1964
  American science fiction writer
  Fairview Cemetery, Altoona, PA
• Elisha Kent Kane1820-1857
  American explorer and military medical officer
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Henry Charles Lea1825-1909
  American historian
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Harry Jacob Anslinger1892-1975
  1st Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
  Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery, Hollidaysburg, PA
• Silas Weir Mitchell1829-1914
  American physician
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Rebecca Harding Davis1831-1910
  American journalist
  Leverington Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• George Kelly1887-1974
  American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor
  Westminister Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Daniel Garrison Brinton1837-1899
  American archaeologist and ethnologist
  Media Cemetery, Media, PA
• James DePreist1936-2013
  American conductor
  Eden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
• Robert Montgomery Bird1806-1854
  American novelist, playwright, physician
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Frank R. Stockton1834-1902
  American writer
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• David Goodis1917-1967
  Novelist, screenwriter
  Roosevelt Memorial Park, Trevose, PA
• Charles Thomson1729-1824
  American patriot leader
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Sarah Bagley1806-1889
  American labor leader
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Graceanna Lewis1821-1912
  American ornithologist, naturalist, illustrator and abolitionist
  Providence Friends Cemetery, Media, PA
• William Darlington1782-1863
  American physician, botanist, and politician
  The Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
• Joseph Hergesheimer1880-1954
  Novelist, short story writer
  The Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
• Edward Martin1879-1967
  Politician
  Green Mount Cemetery, Waynesburg, PA
• David H. Keller1880-1966
  American writer
  Laurelwood Cemetery, Stroudsburg, PA
• William Still1821-1902
  American activist, abolitionist, historian, and businessman
  Eden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
• Sarah Mapps Douglass1806-1882
  American activist and artist
  Eden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
• Sidney Drew1863-1919
  American comedian and filmmaker
  Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Ruth Plumly Thompson1891-1976
  American writer
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• David Porter1780-1843
  Officer in the United States Navy
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Paul Philippe Cret1876-1945
  French-American architect and industrial designer
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Sara Jane Lippincott1823-1904
  American writer
  Grove Cemetery, New Brighton, PA
• Thomas Buchanan Read1822-1872
  American artist
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• George Lippard1822-1854
  Novelist, journalist
  Lawnview Memorial Park, Rockledge, PA
• Rebecca Gratz1781-1869
  American writer
  Mikveh Israel Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• George Henry Boker1823-1890
  American poet, playwright, and diplomat
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• John Bach McMaster1852-1932
  American historian
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Langdon Elwyn Mitchell1862-1935
  American playwright
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• John Russell Young1840-1899
  Librarian of Congress
  Mount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
• Edith Emerson1888-1981
  American painter
  Thompson Memorial Cemetery, New Hope, PA
• Jane Swisshelm1815-1884
  American journalist
  Allegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
• Charles Fenno Hoffman1806-1884
  United States poet and novelist
  Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
• Timothy Thomas Fortune1856-1928
  American writer, activist
  Eden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
• William H. Whyte1917-1999
  American sociologist
  The Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
• Benjamin Matlack Everhart1818-1904
  American mycologist
  The Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
• Henry Christopher McCook1837-1911
  Union Army chaplain
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Henry Marie Brackenridge1786-1871
  American politician
  Prospect Cemetery, Brackenridge, PA
• Septimus Winner1827-1902
  American songwriter, lyricist, composer, music publisher
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Charles Jared Ingersoll1782-1862
  American politician and writer
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Walter Conrad Arensberg1878-1954
  American art collector, critic and poet
  Allegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
• James H. Hyslop1854-1920
  American professor of philosophy, psychologist, and psychical researcher
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Amelia Smith Calvert1876-1965
  American botanist
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.1874-1948
  American philanthropist
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Timothy Shay Arthur1809-1885
  American novelist, short story writer and publisher
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Anne Hampton Brewster1818-1892
  American writer
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Mary Fels1863-1953
  German-born American suffragist, philanthropist, Georgist, economist, author, journal editor
  Mount Sinai Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
• Edward McPherson1830-1895
  American politician
  Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, PA
• Francis Newton Thorpe1857-1926
  American historian
  North East Cemetery, North East, PA
• Robert T. Conrad1810-1858
  American politician
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Catherine Drinker Bowen1897-1973
  American writer
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• John Redman Coxe1773-1864
  American botanist and physician
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Bartley Campbell1843-1888
  American playwright
  Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
• Margaret G. Hays1874-1925
  American cartoonist and poet
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Hugh Boyle Ewing1826-1905
  Union Army General
  Saint Mary's Cemetery, Lancaster, PA
• Clifford Ball1908-1947
  American author
  Millerstown Riverview Cemetery, Newport, PA
• Frazier Hunt1885-1967
  American correspondent
  Newtown Cemetery, Newtown, PA
• Francis Hodur1866-1953
  Bishop primate and founder of the Polish National Catholic Church
  Saint Stanislaus Cathedral PNCC Cemetery, Taylor, PA
• Benjamin Tucker Tanner1835-1923
  African Methodist Episcopal minister
  Merion Memorial Park, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Charles Fechter1824-1879
  French actor
  Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• William Henry Furness1802-1896
  American clergyman, theologian, reformer and abolitionist
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Alfred L. Elwyn1804-1884
  American physician
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• George C. Lorimer1838-1904
  American minister
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• George William Childs1829-1894
  American publisher
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• John Weiss Forney1817-1881
  American journalist and writer
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Sydney George Fisher1856-1927
  American lawyer and historian
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Augustus Caesar Buell1847-1904
  American author
  Mount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
• Charles Belmont Davis1866-1926
  American journalist, writer, publisher and dramatic critic
  Leverington Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Henry Phillips1838-1895
  American numismatist and translator
  Mount Sinai Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
• Solomon Solis-Cohen1857-1948
  Jewish American physician, professor of medicine and prominent Zionist
  Mount Sinai Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
• Catharine H. Waterman1812-1897
  American poet , hymn writer
  Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Harry Stuhldreher1901-1965
  American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
  Calvary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Homestead, PA
• Elizabeth Stumm1848-1910
  American teacher, journalist
  Eden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
• R. Heber Newton1840-1914
  American priest
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Harriet Reynolds Krauth Spaeth1845-1925
  Translator of hymns
  Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Richard Penn Smith1799-1854
  American playwright
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Walter Colton1797-1851
  American mayor and publisher
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• George Alfred Townsend1841-1914
  American journalist
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Henry Peterson1818-1891
  American author and editor
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Henry W. Shoemaker1880-1958
  American writer, diplomat, and conservationist
  Highland Cemetery, Lock Haven, PA
• Elmer Holmes Bobst1884-1978
  American businessman
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Sara Dary Armbruster1862-1911
  American business woman and publisher
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• George Boardman1828-1903
  American theologian
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Albert H. Smyth1863-1907
  American writer
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Juliet H. Lewis Campbell1823-1898
  American poet, novelist
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• John Augustus Stone1800-1834
  American writer
  Mount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
• Mrs. Findley Braden1858-1939
  American author, newspaper editor, elocutionist
  Doylestown Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Doylestown, PA
• Marie Hansen-Taylor1829-1925
  German writer and translator
  Longwood Cemetery, Kennett Square, PA
• Louis Bauman1875-1950
  American minister
  Germantown Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Wyndmoor, PA
• Arthur Briggs Farquhar1838-1925
  28 Sep 1838 - 5 Mar 1925
  Prospect Hill Cemetery, North York, PA
• Seymour Eaton1859-1916
  American author and educator
  Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
• Patricia Dobler1939-2004
  American writer
  Calvary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Homestead, PA
• Mrs. A. Elmore1829-1901
  American temperance reformer; author; magazine editor & proprietor
  Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, PA
• Tom Boggs1905-1952
  American writer
  Homewood Cemetery, Wilkinsburg, PA
• Robley Dunglison1798-1869
  Physician
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Franklin Bache1792-1864
  American physician
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Joseph George Rosengarten1835-1921
  American lawyer and writer
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Benjamin Fiske Barrett1808-1892
  American clergyman
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Frank Hamilton Taylor1846-1927
  American artist and author
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• James D. McCabe1842-1883
  American writer
  Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• John Syng Dorsey1783-1818
  American surgeon and author
  Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
• Nellie Neilson1873-1947
  American historian
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Emma Churchman Hewitt1850-1921
  American writer, journalist
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Mary Townsend1814-1851
  American entomologist and author
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Bella Zilfa Spencer1840-1867
  1840-1867
  The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
• Ellen Bernstein1953-2024
  American rabbi, environmentalist and founder of Shomrei Adamah
  West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• William J. Cromie1875-1962
  American physical education instructor
  Fernwood Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
• Julia H. Scott1809-1842
  American author, poet
  Riverside Cemetery, Towanda, PA
• John Witherspoon Scott1800-1892
  American academic
  Washington Cemetery, Washington, PA
• Linda Grace Hoyer1904-1989
  1904-1989 , fiction writer
  Robeson Lutheran Church Cemetery, Flying Hills, PA
• Edwin Emerson1823-1908
  American literature professor, poet and photographer
  Thompson Memorial Cemetery, New Hope, PA
• Francis Harvey Green1861-1951
  American poet
  Siloam Methodist Cemetery, Boothwyn, PA
• Jessie Eldridge Southwick1865-1957
  American poet
  Union Hill Cemetery, Kennett Square, PA
• Byron Vazakas1905-1987
  American poet
  Gethsemane Cemetery, Laureldale, PA
• Rosey Rowswell1884-1955
  American radio sportscaster
  Allegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
• James Jerpe1885-1917
  American sportswriter
  Allegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
• Julia A. Orum1843-1904
  American educator
  Ivy Hill Cemetery, Wyndmoor, PA

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