Church of St. James The Less - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

The surrounding churchyard is the final resting place of several notable people.

• Chapman Biddle (January 22, 1822 – December 9, 1880) Civil War Union Army officer.
• Horace Binney (January 4, 1780 – August 12, 1875) US Congressman.
• Mark Wilkes Collet (June 2, 1826 – May 3, 1863) Civil War Union Army officer and physician.
• James Barnet Fry (February 22, 1827 – July 11, 1894) Civil War Union brigadier general.
• John R. Goldsborough (July 2, 1809 - June 22, 1877), Civil War Union naval officer and later United States Navy commodore
• Henry K. Hoff (d. December 25, 1878) United States Navy Rear-Admiral.
• Robert Morris, Jr. (d. August 13, 1863) Civil War Union Army officer.
• The Rt. Rev. Henry Ustick Onderdonk, second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
• John Grubb Parke (September 22, 1827 – December 16, 1900) Civil War Union Major General.
• William Stevens Perry (January 22, 1832 – May 13, 1898) Historian, Author, president of Hobart College and second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa.
• Anthony Taylor (Medal of Honor recipient) (October 11, 1837 – May 21, 1894) Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient.
• Martin Russell Thayer (1819–1906) US Congressman for Pennsylvania, 1863 to 1867. State Court Judge in 1867.
• Benjamin Chew Tilghman (October 26, 1821 – July 3, 1901) Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, inventor of sandblasting.
• Stephen Decatur Trenchard (July 11, 1818 – November 15, 1883) United States Navy Rear-Admiral.
• John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) Businessman, founder of chain of Wanamaker's Department Stores of Philadelphia and New York, founder of Bethany Presbyterian Church and a prominent Christian layman, and Postmaster General of the United States.
• (Lewis) Rodman Wanamaker (13 February 1863 – 9 March 1928), son of John Wanamaker, philanthropist, artistic benefactor and patron of the Wanamaker Organ.
• William Halsey Wood (April 24, 1855 – March 13, 1897) Architect, one of four finalists in the competition for the design of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York.