West Laurel Hill Cemetery

West Laurel Hill was the first cemetery to ever map its entire grounds on a smart phone device, enabling visitors to search and navigate to grave locations, and "access photos, video, text and other information."[3] Visitors can also use the app to navigate through tours of the cemetery and visit the grave sites of interesting and famous persons.

The cemetery opened a designated Jewish section called Chesed Shel Emet in 2011.[4] It is building another Jewish section, Makom Shalom, which is slated to debut in 2022.[5] Its funeral home offers services consistent with Jewish burial and mourning traditions.[5]

Cemetery in the Fall

Sphinx on the Drake tomb

Figure on Soulas tomb

Entrance to the Widener tomb

Figure on the doorway of the Spink tomb

• Timothee Adamowski (1858–1943), composer, violinist and first conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra
• Green Adams (1812–1884), represented Kentucky's 6th congressional district from 1847 to 1849 and from 1859 to 1861.[6]
• David Hayes Agnew (1818–1892), noted surgeon. Attended President James Garfield's gunshot wound.
• Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974), American civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas
• Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898–1989), first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States.[7]
• Samuel Howell Ashbridge (1848–1906), "Stars and Stripes Sam," Philadelphia mayor 1899–1903.

• Hobart Amory Hare "Hobey" Baker (1892–1918), namesake of U.S. college hockey's outstanding player award and only member of both the College Football and Hockey Halls of Fame.
• Samuel L. M. Barlow II (1892–1982), composer, pianist and art critic
• Joseph Beam (1954-1988), African-American gay rights activist, writer and poet
• Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter
• Frank Bettger (1888–1981), Major League baseball infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
• John F. Betz (1831–1908), founder and owner John F. Betz & Sons Brewery
• Richard Binder (1839–1912) US Marine Corps sergeant on the USS Ticonderoga during the Civil War and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[8]
• Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973), writer best known for biographies, winner 1958 National Book Award for Nonfiction
• Caroline G. Boughton (1854–1905), educator and philanthropist.
• Benjamin Markley Boyer (1823–1887), represented Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1865 to 1869.[9]
• Anna Robeson Brown (1873–1941), prolific author of fiction and nonfiction, daughter of Henry Armitt Brown
• Edward G. Budd (1870–1946), founder of the Budd Company.
• Jervis Burdick, (1869–1962), track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
• Edward Bushnell (1876–1951), distance runner in 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, founder and editor of Franklin Field Illustrated.

• Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), famed sculptor of all statues on and in Philadelphia City Hall, including William Penn on top of the north tower
• Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945), sculptor, son of Alexander Milne Calder, known for Swann Fountain on Logan Circle
• John Carbutt (1832-1905) photography and radiology pioneer, standardized 35mm for still and motion pictures
• Charlotte Wardle Cardeza (née Drake) (1854–1939), wealthy socialite and survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking.[10]
• Alan Calvert (1875–1944), weightlifter, bodybuilder, founder Milo Bar-bell Company
• Clarence Clark (1859-1937), financier, American tennis promoter and player, member of Tennis Hall of Fame
• William Clothier (1881–1962), Men's Singles Winner, 1906 U.S. National Championships (tennis), member of Tennis Hall of Fame
• Colin Campbell Cooper (1856–1937), Impressionist painter, most renowned for his architectural paintings
• Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850–1933), founder of the Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post.

• Francis Xavier Dercum (1856-1931]] neurologist, cared for President Woodrow Wilson, first described Adiposis dolorosa
• Harry Diddlebock (1854–1900) sportswriter, manager St. Louis Browns
• Cecil Kent Drinker (1887–1956) physician and founder of the Harvard School of Public Health
• Henry Sandwith Drinker (1880–1965) lawyer and amateur musicologist
• Henry Sturgis Drinker (1850–1937) mechanical engineer, lawyer, author, and fifth president of Lehigh University
• Katherine Rotan Drinker (1889–1956) physician, researcher of Radium Girls with husband Cecil
• Sophie Drinker (1888–1967), author, musician, musicologist; founder of women's musicological and gender studies

• Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), anthropologist
• Otto Eisenlohr (1852–1914), cigar manufacturer (see Eisenlohr–Bayuk Tobacco Historic District)
• George Emerick Essig (1838–1925), painter, watercolorist, and etcher who specialized in marine scenes

• Frank H. Fleer (1857–1921), inventor of bubble gum and pioneer of the baseball card
• John Weiss Forney (1817–1881) politician, journalist, Secretary of the United States Senate 1861–1868

• Dave Garroway (1913–1982) American television personality, founding host and anchor of NBC's "Today" from 1952 to 1961
• Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (1839–1917), represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1889 to 1895.[11]
• Nelson Z. Graves (1849–1930), businessman
• Nelson Z. Graves Jr. (1880–1918), cricket player
• Robert Cooper Grier (1794–1870) Associate Justice of The United States Supreme Court (1846–1870).

• Alfred C. Harmer (1825–1900), represented Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district from 1871 to 1875, and from 1877 until his death in 1900.[12]
• Herman Haupt (1817–1905), Union Army General and engineer.
• Howard Head (1914-1991), aeronautical engineer who is credited with the invention of the first commercially successful aluminum laminate skis and the oversized tennis racket
• Constantine Hering (1800–1880), early pioneer of homeopathy in the United States
• Edie Huggins (1935–2008), long-time television personality in Philadelphia
• Hannah Clothier Hull (1872–1958), clubwoman, feminist, pacifist

• William B. Irvine (1843–1914), Philadelphia city treasurer whose estate was used to build the Irvine Auditorium on the University of Pennsylvania campus

• Chevalier Jackson (1865–1958), famed physician, teacher, and "father of endoscopy"
• Anna Jarvis (1864–1948), originator of Mother's Day who then spent most of her life fighting its commercialization.
• Eldridge R. Johnson (1867–1945), Founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company.

• John Ernst Worrell Keely (1837–1898), fraudulent inventor who claimed to have discovered a new mode of power.
• Martha Kimball (1839–1894), philanthropist associated with founding of Memorial Day
• William J. Kirkpatrick (1838–1921), musician, wrote melody for Away in a Manger
• Harold Knerr (1882–1949), illustrator, cartoonist, did comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids for 35 years
• Daniel S. Koltun (1933–2014), theoretical physicist who specialized in nuclear physics
• Irena Koprowska (1917–2012), cytopathology pioneer, co-developer of the Pap smear
• Hilary Koprowski (1916–2013), virology expert, developer of first oral polio vaccine, developer of first H.D.C.V. rabies vaccine

• John Lawrence LeConte (1825–1883), 19th century American naturalist and entomologist after whom two birds are named.
• Donald Lippincott, (1893–1962), world class sprinter, medal winner at 1912 Summer Olympics
• Hy Lit (Hyman Aaron Lit) (1934–2007), legendary Philadelphia radio & TV broadcaster.
• William H. Luden (1859–1949), developer of the menthol throat lozenge
• Harry Lyons (1866–1912), professional baseball player

• Frank M. Mayo (1839–1896) famed 19th century stage actor, known for playing Davy Crockett
• Katharine Elizabeth McBride (1904–1976) neuropsychology researcher, President Bryn Mawr College from 1942 to 1970
• Robert M. McBride (1879–1970) publisher and defendant in the obscenity prosecution of novelist James Branch Cabell
• Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (1901–1985), represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives from 1944 to 1957.[13]
• Henry Nelson McKinney (1849–1918), promoted term sneakers as name for athletic shoes

• Nellie Neilson (1873–1947), first female president of American Historical Society
• Wedgwood Nowell (1878–1957), stage and film actor and director

• Charles O'Neill (1821–1893), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district, Pennsylvania State Representative, Pennsylvania State Senator

• Daniel Pabst (1826–1910), cabinetmaker
• Robert E. Pattison (1850–1904), Governor of Pennsylvania 1883–1887 and 1891–1895
• Billy Paul (1934–2016), born Paul Williams, singer Me and Mrs. Jones
• Teddy Pendergrass (1950–2010), soul and R&B singer
• Frederick A. Poth (1840–1905), successful brewer who built Frederick A. Poth Houses in the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia
• Theodore Presser (1848-1925), founder of Music Teachers National Association, publisher of The Etude magazine, founder of Theodore Presser Company which published sheet music

• Al Reach (1840–1928), professional baseball player, sporting good manufacturer; his name was on American League baseballs until 1976
• Ira De Augustine Reid (1901–1968) sociologist and author who wrote extensively on the lives of Black immigrants and communities in the United States
• John Reilly (1836–1904), represented Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 1875 to 1877.[14]
• Lawson Robertson, (1883–1951), medal winner at 1904 Summer Olympics, renowned track and field coach
• Jack Rose (1971–2009), American musician noted for his exploration of experimental and traditional acoustic guitar styles.[15]

• Dennis Sandole (1913–2000), jazz guitarist, composer and music educator
• William I. Schaffer (1867–1953), Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Justice
• Arthur Hoyt Scott (1875–1927), scion of Scott Paper Company, inventor of the paper towel, namesake for Scott arboretum at Swarthmore College
• Coleman Sellers II (1827–1907), prominent engineer and inventor.[16]
• Ben Shibe (1838–1922), sportsman, sporting goods salesman, namesake of Shibe Park at 21st & Lehigh
• Rachel H. Shoemaker (1838–1915), founder of the National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia.[17]
• Matthew Simpson (1811–1884), a notable Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
• David Smyrl (1935–2016), actor and writer, known for his role of Mr. Handford (Hooper's Store) on Sesame Street[18]
• Alice Barber Stephens (1858–1932), engraver and magazine illustrator, home and studio at Thunderbird Lodge in utopian community of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania
• John Batterson Stetson (1830–1906), American hat manufacturer and founder of the John B. Stetson Company; namesake of Stetson University in Florida.[19]
• Marion Stokes (1929-2012), access television producer, civil rights activist, librarian, and prolific archivist who videotaped more than 70,000 tapes of television news over 35 years
• Edwin Sydney Stuart (1853–1937), Mayor of Philadelphia from 1891 to 1895 and Governor of Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1911.[20]

• Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915), golfer at 1900 Summer Olympics, mechanical and industrial engineer, management consultant, and "father of scientific management".
• Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900–2001), aka "DBT," classical archaeologist and art historian at Bryn Mawr College
• Joseph Earlston Thropp (1847–1927), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.[21]
• Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938), prominent Philadelphia architect of the Gilded Age
• C. Delores Tucker (1927-2005), activist in American Civil Rights movement, crusader against gangsta rap
• Ellwood J. Turner (1886–1948), Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County (1925–1948), Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1939–1941)

• Flora M. Vare (1874–1962), Pennsylvania State Senator from 1925 to 1928
• William Scott Vare (1867–1934), U.S. Senator-elect, U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania State Senator, Republican political boss and construction contractor

• William Wagner (1796–1885), founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science
• Charles F. Warwick, (1852–1913) mayor of Philadelphia.
• Grover Washington Jr. (1943–1999), musician
• George Austin Welsh (1878–1970), represented Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1923 to 1932.[22]
• Antoinette Passo Westphal (1937-2004), businesswoman and philanthropist, namesake of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University
• Peter Arrell Browne Widener II (1895–1948), racehorse owner/breeder
• Elwood N. Williams (1842–1921), soldier during the Civil War and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Harry Wright (1835–1895), pioneer of professional baseball, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

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