Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick) - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

• George Baer, Jr., (1763-1834), U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 4th District, 1797-1801 & 1815-1817.
• Francis Brengle (1807-1846), a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1832, 1834, and 1836, and was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845.
• James Cooper (1810-1863), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Pennsylvania, Union Army general.
• Barbara Fritchie (1766-1862), American patriot during the Civil War and the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1864 poem, Barbara Frietchie.
• Thomas Johnson (1732–1819), the first Governor of Maryland, a delegate to the Continental Congress and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• Francis Scott Key (1779-1843), author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States.
• John Ross Key (1754-1821) commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key.
• Jacob Michael Kunkel (1822-1870), served in the Maryland State Senate form 1850-1856 and was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (1857-1861).
• Charles McCurdy "Mac" Mathias, Jr. (1922-2010), served in the US Navy and became a Captain in the Navy Reserve, was Frederick’s city Attorney (1954-1959), member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1959-1960), Represented Maryland’s 6th district in the United States House of Representatives (1961-1969) and was a United States Senator (1969-1987).
• Roger Nelson (1759-1815),was an American politician who represented the fourth district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1804 to 1810.
• Frank Rudolph Olson (1910-1953), was a United States Army biological warfare specialist employed at Fort Detrick in Maryland. His death raised suspicions that he had been assassinated by the Central Intelligence Agency.
• Richard Potts (1753-1808), served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1779-1780, and in the United States Senate from 1793-1796.
• John Ritchie (1831-1887), Civil War Brevet Brigadier General and United States Congressman (1871-1873).
• Milton George Urner (1839-1926), was a United States Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland (1879-1883).
• Charlotte Louise Berry Winters (1897-2007), the last surviving female American veteran of the First World War.
• Thomas Contee Worthington (1782-1847), served as a captain in the War of 1812 and was a United States Representative from Maryland. The nephew of Benjamin Contee.