Green Mount Cemetery

Green Mount Cemetery
Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos
Portão principal do cemitério
Green Mount Cemetery está localizado em: Maryland
Localização: 1501 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore
 Maryland
 Estados Unidos
Coordenadas: 39° 18′ 27″ N, 76° 36′ 26″ O
Construído/Fundado: 1839 (185 anos)
Arquiteto: Robert Cary Long, Jr., et al.
Estilo(s): Mixto (multiplos estilos de diferentes períodos), renascimento gótico
Administração: Privado
Adicionado ao NRHP: 2 de abril de 1980 (44 anos)
Registro NRHP: 80001786[1]

Green Mount Cemetery é um cemitério histórico em Baltimore, Estados Unidos. Estabelecido em 15 de março de 1838, e dedicado em 13 de julho de 1839, é conhecido pelo grande número de personalidades históricas sepultadas em seu terreno bem como por famílias proeminentes da região de Baltimore.

O cemitério foi listado no Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos em 1980. Visitas guiadas são disponíveis.

Sepultamentos notáveis

Green Mount Cemetery Chapel from the southwest.
Southwest corner looking northeast
  • Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1808–1888), journalist, newspaper publisher, founder of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Baltimore Sun newspapers
  • William Albert (1816–1879), U.S. Congressman
  • Samuel Arnold (1834–1906), Lincoln assassination conspirator
  • James Monroe Bankhead (1783–1856), U. S. Army General that served in the War of 1812, Second Seminole War, and Mexican–American War
  • Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806–1873), a United States Congressman and diplomat
  • A. Aubrey Bodine (1906–1970), photographer
  • Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879), mulher do irmão de Napoleão Bonaparte Jerônimo Bonaparte (m. 1803), nascida em Baltimore. 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
  • Elijah Bond, (1847–1921), lawyer and inventor
  • Asia Booth, (1835–1888), author and sister of John Wilkes Booth
  • John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865), assassino do presidente Abraham Lincoln
  • Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852), noted English actor, the foremost tragedian of the early-to-mid 19th century
  • Mary Ann Holmes Booth (1802–1885), mulher de Junius Brutus Booth e mãe de John Wilkes Booth
  • Augustus Bradford (1806–1881), Governor of Maryland
  • Jesse D. Bright (1812–1875), senador dos Estados Unidos from Indiana
  • Frank Brown (1846–1920), Governor of Maryland
  • James M. Buchanan (1803–1876), Judge and United States Ambassador to Denmark
  • James Buck (1808–1865), recipiente da Medalha de Honra por participação na Guerra de Secessão
  • John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889), membro da Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos
  • Henry Winter Davis (1817–1865), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1863–1865
  • Allen Dulles (1893–1969), director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of the Comissão Warren
  • Wendell E. Dunn (1894–1965), educator and principal of Forest Park High School
  • Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. (1922–2007), metallurgist and chemical engineer
  • 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
  • George Hyde Fallon (1902–1980), U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Maryland
  • Robert Goodloe Harper (1765–1825), United States Senator from Maryland
  • 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 congressman and the fifth reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court
  • Benjamin Huger (1805–1877), a career United States Army ordnance officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876), statesman, United States Senator and United States Attorney General.
  • 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 (1810–1892), United States Senator
  • John Pendleton Kennedy (1795–1870), 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.
  • Walter Lord (1917–2002), autor, mais conhecido pelo seu romance A Night to Remember.
  • John Gresham Machen (1881–1937), influential Presbyterian theologian and founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • John MacTavish (1787–1852), British Consul to Maryland in the 1840s
  • Charles Marshall (1830–1902), colonel in the Confederate States Army, aide de camp, assistant adjutant general, and military secretary for the Army of Northern Virginia and Gen. Robert E. Lee
  • Theodore 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
  • John Nelson (1794–1860), United States Attorney General
  • Harry Nice (1877–1941), Governor of Maryland
  • Daniel Sheldon Norton (1829–1870), US Senator
  • Columbus O'Donnell (1792–1873), founder of the Canton Company
  • Michael O'Laughlen (1840–1867), Lincoln assassination conspirator
  • Edward Coote Pinkney (1802–1828), poet
  • John P. Poe, Sr. (1836–1909), Attorney General of Maryland, 1891–1895
  • William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874), sculptor
  • Cadwalader Ringgold (1802–1867), U.S. Navy officer
  • Albert Ritchie (1876–1936), Governor of Maryland, 1920–1935
  • George H. Steuart (militia general) (1790–1867), a United States Army general in the War of 1812
  • George H. Steuart (1828–1903), a Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • Thomas Swann (1809–1883), Governor of Maryland, 1866–1869, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd and 4th Districts, 1869–1879, Mayor of Baltimore, 1856–1860
  • Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (1802–1888), a U.S. Army officer, civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War
  • 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
  • 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 the Duchess of Windsor
  • William Pinkney Whyte (1824–1908), Maryland State Delegate, State Comptroller, a United States Senator, the State Governor, the Mayor of Baltimore, and State Attorney General
  • Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer (1812–1878), Episcopal bishop of Louisiana
  • John H. Winder (1800–1865), Confederate general during the American Civil War

Referências

  1. Serviço Nacional de Parques (23 de janeiro de 2007). «National Register Information System». National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service 

Ligações externas

  • Official Green Mount Cemetery website
  • Green Mount Cemetery at Find A Grave
  • Green Mount Cemetery Famous People Map Grave Marker Locations
  • Pictures and other information at EastGhost
  • Green Mount Cemetery at Cold Marble
  • Photos of Green Mount Cemetery on Flickr
  • Green Mount Cemetery at the Political Graveyard
  • Green Mount Cemetery on Explore Baltimore Heritage
O Commons possui uma categoria com imagens e outros ficheiros sobre Green Mount Cemetery
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