Mount Hope Cemetery (San Diego) - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

• E. S. Babcock (1848-1922), real estate mogul, built the Hotel del Coronado
• Samuel Brannan (1819-1889), early Mormon pioneer, first millionaire of the California Gold Rush, member of San Francisco's first city council
• Hick Carpenter (1855-1937), American baseball player
• Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), author of crime stories and novels, created detective Philip Marlowe
• Charles Merwin Fenn (1835-1907), doctor, a founding member of the San Diego Medical Society
• Benjamin T. Frederick (1834-1903), politician, miner and real estate agent from Iowa and California
• Gertrude Gilbert (1871-1947), civic activist, instrumental in saving the exposition buildings in Balboa Park
• Nathan Harrison (1823-1920), early African-American pioneer in the region
• Charles T. Hinde (1832-1915), industrialist, riverboat captain, businessman, and original investor of the Hotel del Coronado.
• Alonzo Horton (1813-1909), founder of modern San Diego, namesake of Horton Plaza
• Alta M. Hulett (1854-1877), one of America's first female attorneys
• Joseph Jessop, jeweler
• John F. Kinney (1816-1902), American attorney, judge and politician
• George Marston (1850-1946), involved with establishing Balboa Park, the San Diego Public Library System, and the Serra Museum
• Kate Morgan (1865-1892), Iowa woman who died under questionable circumstances and is thought by some to haunt the Hotel del Coronado
• Ah Quin (1848-1914), merchant, farmer and leader in the Chinese Mission
• Kate Sessions (1857-1940), San Diego's pioneering horticulturist
• Matthew Sherman (1827-1898), land developer, San Diego pioneer, mayor from 1891 to 1893
• Walter R. Taliaferro (1880-1915), aviator
• Thomas Whaley and his family
• Robert Waterman (1826-1891), Governor of California from 1887 to 1891
• Thomas Waterson (1895-1947), member of Memphis Police Dept. who captured notorious public enemy Machine Gun Kelly in Memphis, Tennessee, raid in 1933