About Laurel Hill Cemetery
Laurel Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 3.6 mi south of Philadelphia. The grounds sit at about 56 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 518 notable people buried here, including George Meade, Robert Cornelius and Sarah Josepha Hale. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1192743. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Vernon Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is McIlvaine Funeral Home in Philadelphia, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 94 cemeteries we list in Philadelphia County, and 194 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 4 of the 94 listings in Philadelphia County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Philadelphia. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
Among them: 50 writers, 35 Civil War veterans, 32 business leaders, 31 artists, 30 US representatives, 26 scientists, 25 physicians, 20 inventors and engineers.
- George Meade1815-1872United States Army general and civil engineer
- Robert Cornelius1809-1893American photographer and lamp manufacturer
- Sarah Josepha Hale1788-1879American writer and editor
- David Rittenhouse1732-1796American astronomer (*1732, †1796)
- Mary Engle Pennington1872-1952American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer
- Richard Rush1780-1859Former United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Thomas McKean1734-1817American Founding Father and politician
- Owen Wister1860-1938American writer
- Titian Peale1799-1885American ornithologist, entomologist, photographer, artist and explorer
- Florence Kelley1859-1932American activist
- John Cassin1813-1869U.S. ornithologist
- Samuel George Morton1799-1851American physician and naturalist
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- John C. Pemberton1814-1881Confederate Army officer
- Thomas Sully1783-1872American painter
- William Gilmore1895-1969American rower
- William J. Duane1780-1865American politician, Jackson administration cabinet member
- Elisha Kent Kane1820-1857American explorer and military medical officer
- Henry Charles Lea1825-1909American historian
- Meredith Colket1878-1947American tennis player
- Witmer Stone1866-1939American ornithologist
- Charles E. Bohlen1904-1974American diplomat
- Joseph Wharton1826-1909American industrialist
- Matthias W. Baldwin1795-1866American inventor and machinery manufacturer
- Robert Montgomery Bird1806-1854American novelist, playwright, physician
- Samuel J. Randall1828-1890Politician, attorney, soldier
- William Trost Richards1833-1905American painter
- A. B. Frost1851-1928American artist;
- Charles Thomson1729-1824American patriot leader
- Sarah Bagley1806-1889American labor leader
- William Duane1872-1935American physicist
- Edwin J. Houston1847-1914American businessman
- Henry Deringer1786-1868American gunsmith
- Isaac Lea1792-1886American geologist and Philadelphia publisher (Carey & Lea)
- Joseph Reed1741-1785Pennsylvania lawyer, military aide and statesman
- Martha Coston1826-1904American inventor
- Adolph E. Borie1809-1880United States merchant; Secretary of the Navy briefly
- Samuel W. Crawford, Jr.1829-1892United States Army surgeon and Union general
- William P. C. Barton1786-1856American surgeon and scientist
- Hugh Mercer1726-1777Jacobite and General in the American Revolutionary War
- R. A. F. Penrose Jr.1863-1931American mining geologist and entrepreneur
- Thomas Buchanan Read1822-1872American artist
- Thomas Godfrey1704-1749American optician and inventor
- Thomas Ustick Walter1804-1887American architect
- William D. Kelley1814-1890American politician
- Charles Ferguson Smith1807-1862Union Army General
- David Bispham1857-1921American operatic baritone
- Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler1770-1843Swiss-American mathematician and surveyor
- Franklin Peale1795-1870Employee and officer of the Philadelphia Mint
- George Henry Boker1823-1890American poet, playwright, and diplomat
- Isaac Hull1773-1843American naval officer
- John Bach McMaster1852-1932American historian
- Michael Leib1760-1822American politician
- Richard Dale1756-1826American admiral
- Samuel Augustus Mitchell1792-1868American geographer and publisher
- William Pepper1843-1898United States physician
- Alfred Sully1820-1879American Civil War officer
- Boies Penrose1860-1921United States Senator from Pennsylvania
- Charles Coulston Gillispie1918-2015American historian
- Charles Ellet, Jr.1810-1862American civil engineer
- Ebenezer Hazard1744-1817American postmaster
- Frank Furness1839-1912Philadelphia architect and United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Helen Abbott Michael1857-1904American chemist
- John Adolphus Dahlgren1809-1870United States Navy admiral
- William Short1759-18491759-1849 Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789, later ambassador
- Eleanor Elkins Widener1861-1937American heiress
- George Rex Graham1813-1894American journalist
- George W. Melville1841-1912American admiral and engineer
- Jacob Zeilin1806-18807th Commandant of the Marine Corps
- James H. Hyslop1854-1920American professor of philosophy, psychologist, and psychical researcher
- James Ross Snowden1809-1878Director of the United States Mint
- Joel Cook1842-1910American politician
- John Sergeant1779-1852American politician
- Joseph Hemphill1770-1842American politician
- Persifor Frazer Smith1798-1858American politician
- Robert Patterson1792-1881Union United States Army general
- Alexander McClure1828-1909American politician
- Edward Joy Morris1815-1881American politician
- Edwin Henry Fitler1825-1896American politician
- Fairman Rogers1833-1900American academic
- Frederick Gutekunst1831-1917American photographer
- George Bacon Wood1797-1879American physician and university professor
- George Bryan1731-1791American judge
- Henry H. Bingham1841-1912Union Army General and Medal of Honor recipient
- John E. Reyburn1845-1914American politician
- John Morin Scott1789-1858American lawyer and politician, Philadelphia
- Mathew Carey Lea1823-1897American chemist
- Owen Jones1819-1878U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- Rachel Lloyd1839-1900American chemist
- Richard Vaux1816-1895American politician
- Robert T. Conrad1810-1858American politician
- William Drayton1776-1846American politician
- William Millward1822-1871American politician
- Adam Seybert1773-1825American politician
- Alexander Cummings1810-1879American politician
- Alexander Henry1823-1883American politician (1823-1883); mayor of Philadelphia from 1858 to 1865
- Alfred L. Elwyn1804-1884American physician
- Charles Delucena Meigs1792-1869Obstetrician
- George C. Lorimer1838-1904American minister
- George McClellan1796-1847American surgeon
- George Nicholas Eckert1802-1865American politician
- George William Childs1829-1894American publisher
- Harry Kalas1936-2009American sports announcer
- Hymen Lipman1817-1893American inventor
- John Bouvier1787-1851American jurist
- John Robbins1808-1880American congressperson from Pennsylvania
- Joseph E. Widener1871-1943American businessman and art collector
- Lewis Charles Levin1808-1860American politician
- Morton McMichael1807-1879American politician in Pennsylvania
- Paul Beck Goddard1811-1866American physician and photographer of the 19th century
- Robert Adams Jr.1849-1906American Republican politician
- Stanley H. Ford1877-1961United States general
- William Henry Furness1802-1896American clergyman, theologian, reformer and abolitionist
- A. Loudon Snowden1835-1912United States politician and diplomat
- Albert Newsam1809-1864American lithographer and painter
- Alonzo Potter1800-1865American bishop
- Anna Lukens1844-1917American physician
- Benjamin Wood Richards1797-1851American mayor
- Caroline Furness Jayne1873-1909American ethnologist
- Charles Bingham Penrose1862-1925American gynecologist known for inventing the Penrose drain
- Charles Brown1797-1883Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Charles Naylor1806-1872American politician
- Charles Porterfield Krauth1823-1883American theologian
- David Conner1792-1856United States Navy Commodore
- Francis E. Patterson1821-1862American general
- Frederick James1845-1907American artist
- George Alfred Townsend1841-1914American journalist
- George C. Read1788-1862United States Navy officer
- George C. Thomas Jr.1873-1932American golf course architect, botanist, and author
- George D. Widener Jr.1889-1971American businessman
- George Washington Toland1796-1869American politician
- Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson1811-1870American textbook author
- Harriet Whitney Frishmuth1880-1980American artist
- Henry Cadwalader Chapman1845-1909American physician and naturalist
- Henry Morris Naglee1815-1886Union Army general
- Henry Peterson1818-1891American author and editor
- Jacob Ridgway1768-1843Financier
- James Harper1780-1873American politician from Pennsylvania
- James St. Clair Morton1829-1864American general
- Job Roberts Tyson1803-1858American politician
- John Kintzing Kane1795-1858United States federal judge
- John Rhea Barton1794-1871American surgeon
- John T. Smith1801-1864American politician; U.S. representative from Pennsylvania
- Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant1746-1793American politician
- Joseph Bonnell1802-1840American soldier
- Lawrence Saint1885-1961American stained glass artist
- M. Louise Thomas1822-1907American social leader, clubwoman
- Michael Woolston Ash1789-1858American politician
- Peter Arrell Brown Widener1834-1915American art collector
- R. Heber Newton1840-1914American priest
- Richard Penn Smith1799-1854American playwright
- Robert Empie Rogers1813-1884American chemist
- Robert Evans Peterson1812-1894American publisher and physician
- Robert H. Foerderer1860-1903American politician
- Robert Patterson1743-1824American academic
- Samuel Gibson Dixon1851-1918American lawyer, bacteriologist, and sanitarian
- Walter Colton1797-1851American mayor and publisher
- William Duane1760-1835American newspaper editor
- Adam Forepaugh1831-1890American circus owner
- Alexander Lawson1773-1846American printmaker, born in Scotland
- Anna Hallowell1831-1905Civic leader and education reformer
- Benjamin Fiske Barrett1808-1892American clergyman
- Charles Gilpin1809-1891Mayor of Philadelphia
- Curtis Bok1897-1962American judge
- Dickinson S. Miller1868-1963American philosopher
- Erskine Hazard1789-1865
- Frank Hamilton Taylor1846-1927American artist and author
- Frank Patterson1871-1966American composer
- Franklin Bache1792-1864American physician
- Frederick Halterman1831-1907American politician
- George Hewitt Cushman1814-1876American artist
- George Meade Easby1918-2005American actor and art collector
- George Sharswood1810-1883American politician
- Hamilton Disston1844-1896American industrialist and real-estate developer
- Hampton L. Carson1852-1929Pennsylvania lawyer, state Attorney General
- Henry Bohlen1810-1862Union Army general
- Henry Wilson Hodge1865-1919Director of railroads for the American Expeditionary Force
- Hilary Baker1746-1798Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, from 1796 to 1797
- Horace Jayne1859-1913American zoölogist and educator
- Isaac J. Wistar1827-1905Union Army general
- J. Edward Addicks1841-1919American political candidate
- James D. McCabe1842-1883American writer
- John Fries Frazer1812-1872American geologist
- John Moffet1831-1884American politician
- John Randolph Clay1808-1885American diplomat
- John Wyeth1770-1858American music printer
- Joseph George Rosengarten1835-1921American lawyer and writer
- Joseph Pancoast1805-1882American surgeon
- Langdon Lea1874-1937American football player and coach
- Levi Twiggs1793-1847American Marine corps officer
- Lewis C. Cassidy1829-1889American politician
- Louis Antoine Godey1804-1878American editor and publisher
- Miers Fisher Longstreth1819-1891American astronomer
- Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker1838-1903American politician
- Robley Dunglison1798-1869Physician
- Samuel G. King1816-1899Mayor of Philadelphia
- Stephen Duncan1787-1867American planter
- Sylvanus William Godon1809-1879United States Navy admiral
- Thomas Harris1784-1861American naval surgeon
- Ulric Dahlgren1842-1864Union Army officer
- William M. Singerly1832-1898American newspaper publisher
- William S. Reyburn1882-1946American politician
- William S. Stokley1823-1902American politician
- Wilmot Fleming1916-1978American politician
- Anna H. Wilstach1822-1892Art collector and benefactor
- Bradford Ripley Alden1811-1870American military officer
- Charles B. Penrose1798-1857American politician
- Charles R. Ellet1843-1863Union Army officer
- Charles R. Hale1837-1900American bishop
- Edgar M. Gregory1804-1871
- Edward Y. McCauley1827-1894American Navy admiral
- Eleanor Widener Dixon1891-1966American socialite and philanthropist
- Elie A. F. La Vallette1790-1862United States Navy admiral
- Emily Ray Gregory1863-1946American zoologist
- Francis Ayer1848-1923American businessman
- Frank Walter Taylor1874-1921American illustrator
- H. Craig Lewis1944-2013American politician
- Harry Luff1852-1916American baseball player
- Henry Bond1790-1859American physician and genealogist
- Hugh Lenox Hodge1796-1873American physician, educator, author
- Isaiah Vansant Williamson1803-1889American merchant and philanthropist
- J. S. Lovering Wharton1850-1931American financier
- James Hall Mason Knox1824-1903American educator
- Jane Cooper Sully Darley1807-1877American painter
- Jehu Eyre1738-1781American businessman
- John Blair Linn1777-1804American clergyman and poet
- John Harrison1773-1833American industrial chemist
- John Rowson Smith1810-1864Smith, John Rowson, 1810-1864
- Joshua Ballinger Lippincott1813-1886Publisher in Philadelphia, founder of the family firm J.B. Lippincott Company
- Joshua T. Owen1821-1887Welshman who became Union Army general
- Lon Knight1853-1932Major League Baseball player, manager
- Louis Raymond Francine1837-1863Officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- Louis Starr1849-1925American pediatrician
- Louisa Knapp Curtis1851-1910American writer
- Mary D Rosengarten1846-1913US travel writer
- Matthew Henry Wilson1814-1892British painter, 1814-1892
- Moncure Robinson1802-1891American businessman
- Peter Arrell Brown Widener II1895-1948American racehorse owner
- Robert Patterson1753-1827American pioneer
- Thomas Lindsley Bradford1847-1918American homeopath
- Thomas Sergeant1782-1860American lawyer and politician
- William Lukens Elkins1832-1903American businessman and art collector
- William Smith1727-1803First provost of the University of Pennsylvania William Smith
- Winthrop Sargent1825-1870American writer
- Agustin James Pocock1922-2012American producer
- Albert Sydney Ashmead1850-1911American physician
- Alexander Biddle1819-1899Union Army officer
- Andrew Alexander Blair1848-1932Chief Chemist, U.S. Geological Survey
- Andrew Bayard1762-1833
- Andrew Boyd Cummings1830-1863United States Navy officer
- Andrew Mallet-Prevost1780-1850
- Arthur Ames Bliss1859-1913American otolaryngologist
- Byron Keyser Hunsberger1873-1961American educator
- Caroline Hollingsworth Pemberton1857-1928American author
- Charles Carstairs1865-1928Art dealer
- Charles Crillon Barton1812-1851United States Navy officer
- Charles Smith Ogden1822-1904American businessman, genealogist, and civic leader
- Charles Stewart Wurts1790-1859American businessman and founder of the Delaware and Hudson Railway
- Clarence S. Bement1843-1923American manufacturer and mineral collector
- Clark Henry Wells1822-1888United States Navy officer
- David Sands Brown1800-1877American industrialist
- Douglas Macfarlan1886-1966American physician
- E. Coppée Mitchell1836-1887American legal scholar
- Edward Wetherilldied 1908Abolitionist
- Eleanor Holmes Pancoast1874-1929
- Elihu Spencer Miller1817-1879American lawyer and legal scholar
- Ethel Amorita Kelly1893-1936Musical theatre actress
- Eugenie M. Wireman1874-1961American illustrator
- Frances Maria White Sharpless1835-1904American poet
- Francis R. Abbott1843-1925American artist
- Francis Rawle1846-1930American lawyer
- Franklin Archibald Dick1823-1885American lawyer
- George A.H. Blake1810-1884U.S. Army cavalry officer
- George C. Thomas1839-1909American banker and philanthropist
- George D. Rosengarten1801-1890German-American businessman
- George J. Pitman1839-1884Medal of Honor recipient
- George Leib Harrison1811-1885American merchant, philanthropist and author
- George W. Elkins1858-1919Philadelphia art collector
- Harrison S. Morris1856-1948American businessman, philanthropist, and author
- Harry B. Rosengarten1837-1921American businessman
- Henry A. Adams1833-1878American naval officer
- Henry A. Adams1800-1869US Navy 1800-1869
- Henry C. Gibson1830-1891American financier and art collector
- Henry F. Wireman1877-1931American artist
- Henry Schell Hagert1826-1885United States lawyer, writer, and poet, the son of Jacob E. and Eliza Hagert
- Howard Barclay French1848-1924American industrialist
- James Brade Sword1839-1915American painter
- James Kitchenman1825-1909English-American textile manufacturer
- Jeremiah Bernard Brinton1835-1894American physician and botanist
- John Chester Backus1810-1884American Presbyterian minister
- John F. Braun1867-1939American industrialist and art collector
- John Howard McFadden1850-1921American art collector
- John Price Durbin1800-1876American clergyman
- John Rhea Barton Willing1864-1913Socialite
- John Rutherfoord1861-1942American lawyer and politician
- Joseph Clay Neal1807-1847American writer
- Joseph Lapsley Wilson1844-1928American railroad executive
- Joseph Ripka1789-1864
- Joshua Gilpin1765-1841American merchant and manufacturer
- Katharine Richardson Wireman1878-1966American illustrator
- Langhorne Wister1834-1891American military officer
People whose Wikidata entry gives Laurel Hill Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
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What Laurel Hill Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
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Funeral homes near Laurel Hill Cemetery
- McIlvaine Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 844-0211
- Dupree Funeral Home Inc1.0 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 763-5126
- Turay Memorial Chapel1.2 miFuneral chapel · Philadelphia · (215) 225-1100
- Fountain Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 223-9999
- Jason Lloyd Funeral Home Inc 11.4 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 278-2776
- Pennick Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Philadelphia · (215) 763-8919
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