The Woodlands (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - Notable Burials

Notable Burials

  • John Joseph Abercrombie (1798–1877), Civil War general
  • Timothy Shay Arthur (1809–1885), author, founder of Arthur's Home Magazine
  • Hartman Bache (1798–1872), Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
  • Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. (1875–1948), author, adventurer, the man upon whom the play and film The Happiest Millionaire were based
  • Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. (1897–1961), diplomat (cenotaph)
  • David B. Birney (1825–1864), Civil War Union major general
  • Sylvester Bonnaffon, Jr. (1844–1922), Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
  • Benjamin Harris Brewster (1816–1888), presidential cabinet secretary
  • William Christian Bullitt (1891–1967), diplomat, journalist, and novelist
  • James Hepburn Campbell (1820–1895), U.S. congressman
  • Joseph A. Campbell (1817–1900), businessman, founder of Campbell Soup Company
  • Edward Coles (1786–1868), 2nd governor of Illinois, private secretary to Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
  • Elliott Cresson (1796–1854), philanthropist
  • Paul Philippe Cret (1876–1945), architect, designed the Woodlands' main gate
  • Thomas Cripps (1840–1906), Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
  • George H. Crosman (1799–1882), Civil War brevet major general
  • Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1833–1900), surgeon
  • Francis Martin Drexel (1792–1863), Philadelphia banker, progenitor of the Drexel banking dynasty
  • Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826–1893), founder of Drexel University
  • Joseph William Drexel (1833–1888), banker, trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and director of the Metropolitan Opera house
  • Francis Anthony Drexel (1824–1885), banker, father of Saint Katharine Drexel
  • Susan Eakins (1851–1938), artist, wife of Thomas Eakins
  • Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), artist
  • John Ely (1816–1869), Civil War Union brevet major general
  • Thomas W. Evans (1823–1897), dentist
  • Wilson Eyre (1858–1944), architect
  • Clement Finley (1797–1879), Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
  • Alice Fisher (1839–1888), nursing pioneer at the former Philadelphia General Hospital
  • Sidney George Fisher (1809–1871) lawyer, farmer, political essayist
  • John Fraser (1825–1906), architect
  • Samuel David Gross (1805–1884), medical pioneer
  • James Gwyn (1828–1906), Civil War Union brevet major-general
  • Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829–1887), geologist
  • Charles Herring (1829–1889), Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
  • Edward W. Heston (1745–1824), PA state senator and Revolutionary War colonel, founder and namesake of Hestonville
  • Eliza Hewitt (1851–1920), hymn composer
  • Henry Horn (1786–1862), U.S. congressman
  • Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782–1862), U.S. congressman
  • William Williams Keen (1837–1932), first U.S. brain surgeon
  • John Lane (1831–1903), Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
  • James Barton Longacre (1794–1869), engraver
  • Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914), physician and writer
  • Samuel Moore (1774–1861), U.S. congressman
  • Anna Claypoole Peale (1791–1878), American miniature painter, daughter of James Peale
  • Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), artist
  • Eli Kirk Price (1797–1884), lawyer, state senator
  • Eli Kirk Price II (1860–1933), lawyer, art patron
  • Lewis Redner (1831–1908), organist, composer, wrote the music for Phillips Brooks's poem "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
  • William Rush (1756–1833), sculptor
  • John Scott (1824–1896), U.S. senator
  • Thomas Alexander Scott (1823–1881), president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
  • Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935), illustrator
  • Charles Stewart (1778–1869), naval officer
  • Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902), author of "The Lady or the Tiger?" and other tales
  • Edward T. Stotesbury (1849–1938), prominent partner at J.P. Morgan & Co. and its Philadelphia affiliate Drexel & Co. for over 55 years
  • William Moseley Swain (1809–1868), journalist
  • James Thompson (1806–1874), U.S. congressman
  • John Edgar Thomson (1808–1874), civil engineer, railroad executive and industrialist
  • Rufus Welch (1800–1855), circus impresario
  • Asa Whitney (1797–1872), railroad magnate
  • Alan Wood, Jr., U.S. congressman
  • Horatio Curtis Wood (1841–1920), physician

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