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There is an important instance in which burial at Mt, Auburn was proposed, but did not happen: the abolitionist John Brown, executed by Virginia in 1859. His friend Wendell Phillips, meeting the funeral party in Troy, New York, hoped to take the body to Boston for burial in Mount Auburn Cemetery, [1] as Charles Turner Torrey had been.
In the 1840s, Mount Auburn was considered one of the most popular tourist destinations in the nation, along with Niagara Falls and Mount Vernon. [16] A 16-year-old Emily Dickinson wrote about her visit to Mount Auburn in a letter in 1846. [16] [17] 60,000 people visited the cemetery in 1848 alone. [16]
Grave of Jones at Mount Auburn Cemetery. He died in Binghamton, New York, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His home at Binghamton, known as the Gen. Edward F. Jones House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [4]
Jacob Bigelow grave at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Jacob Bigelow (February 27, 1787 [1] – January 10, 1879) was an American physician, botanist and botanical illustrator. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts (in which he is interred), husband to Mary Scollay, and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow.
More than half the people buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery are Black. The cemetery's nomination form says the earliest known burial there took place in 1888 while the cemetery was formally ...
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She is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [35] At her memorial service approximately 4,000 people sang "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as a sign of respect as it was the custom to sing that song at each of Julia's speaking engagements. [36] After her death, her children collaborated on a biography, [37] published in ...
Nathaniel Bowditch's memorial statue by Robert Ball Hughes, in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bowditch died in Boston in 1838 from stomach cancer. He is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, where a monument to him was erected through public collections. The statue was the first life-size bronze to be cast in America.