Greenmount Cemetery
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Green Mount Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1839, it is noted for the large number of historical figures that have been interred in its grounds as well as a large number of prominent Baltimore-area families. The name comes from one of the streets that border the cemetery, Greenmount Avenue. The cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Guided tours are available at various times of the year.
A Baltimore City Landmark plaque at the entrance states:
"Green Mount Cemetery was dedicated in 1839 on the site of the former country estate of Robert Oliver. This was at the beginning of the 'rural cemetery movement'; Green Mount was Baltimore's first such rural cemetery and one of the first in the U.S. The movement began both as a response to the health hazard posed by overcrowded church graveyards, and as part of the larger Romantic movement of the mid-1800s, which glorified nature and appealed to emotions.
Green Mount reflects the romanticism of its age, not only by its very existence, but also by its buildings and sculpture. The gate way, designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr., and the hilltop chapel, designed by J. Rudolph Niernsee and J. Crawford Neilson, are Gothic Revival, a romantic style recalling medieval buildings remote in time.
Nearly 65,000 people are buried here, including the poet Syndey Lanier, philanthropists Johns Hopkins and Enoch Pratt, Napoleon Bonaparte's sister-in-law Betsy Patterson, John Wilkes Booth, and numerous military, political and business leaders."''
[edit] Persons of note interred
- Samuel Arnold (1834 – 1906), Lincoln assassination conspirator.
- Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806 – 1873), a United States Congressman and diplomat.
- Elizabeth ("Betsy") Patterson Bonaparte (1785 – 1879), Baltimore-born wife of Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte (m. 1803). Napoleon refused to recognize the marriage. When Jérôme returned to France in 1805, his wife was forbidden to land and went to England, where her son, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, was born. Napoleon issued a state decree of annulment for his brother in 1806, and Elizabeth Patterson returned to Baltimore with her son.
- John Wilkes Booth (1838 – 1865), the assassin of President Lincoln.
- Jesse D. Bright (1812 – 1875), former United States Senator from Indiana.
- James Buck (1808 – 1865), an American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient.
- John Archibald Campbell (1811 – 1889), was an United States Supreme Court Justice.
- Henry Winter Davis, 1817 – 1865, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd District, 1863-1865.
- Allen Welsh Dulles (1893 – 1969), director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1961 and a member of the Warren Commission.
- Robert G. Harper (1765 – 1825), former United States Senator from Maryland.
- Johns Hopkins (1759 – 1873), businessman and a 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
- Reverdy Johnson (1796 – 1876), statesman and jurist.
- Harriet Lane (1830 – 1903), niece of President James Buchanan, acted as First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861.
- Joseph Eggleston Johnston (1807 – 1891), military officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
- Anthony Kennedy (1810 – 1892), United States Senator.
- John P. Kennedy (1795 – 1870), congressman and United States Secretary of the Navy.
- Sidney Lanier (1842 – 1881), musician and poet.
- Walter Lord (1917 – 2002), author, best known for his novel A Night To Remember.
- John Gresham Machen (1881 – 1937), influential American Presbyterian theologian and founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Theodore R. McKeldin (1900 – 1974), former Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland.
- Louis McLane (1786 – 1857), former United States congressman from Delaware, Secretary of the Treasury, and later the Secretary of State.
- Robert Milligan McLane (1815 – 1898), former Governor of Maryland.
- Louis Wardlaw Miles (1873 – 1944), World War I Medal of Honor Recipient.
- John Nelson (1794 – 1860), former Attorney General.
- Harry W. Nice, (1877 – 1941), former Governor of Maryland.
- Michael O'Laughlen (1840 – 1867), Lincoln assassination conspirator.
- Edward Coate Pinkney (1802 – 1828), poet.
- William Rinehart (1825 – 1874), sculptor.
- Albert C. Ritchie (1876 – 1936), former Governor of Maryland, 1920-1935.
- George H. Steuart (1828 – 1903), a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- Thomas Swann, Governor of Maryland, 1866-1869, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 3rd and 4th Districts, 1869-1879, Mayor of Baltimore, 1856-1860.
- Isaac R. 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.
- William Pinkney Whyte (1824 – 1908), former Maryland State Delegate, State Comptroller, a United States Senator, the State Governor, the Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and State Attorney General.
