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1. ROCKCK_181031_004.JPG: This was basically impossible to see before they replaced the casing
2. ROCKCK_181031_014.JPG: The memory of the just is blessed. To the glory of god and the honoured and beloved memory of Levi Ziegler Leiter Born November 22nd 1834 Died June 9th 1904 Mary Theresa Carver Leiter Born Decemeber 13th 1844 Died March 6th 1913 Levi Leiter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Levi Ziegler Leiter (November 2, 1834 – June 9, 1904) was a Chicago businessman. He co-founded what became the Marshall Field & Company retail empire. Early life Leiter was born to Anne (n�e Ziegler) and Joseph Thomas Leiter, of Leitersburg, the Washington County, Maryland, town founded by his grandfather, Abraham Leiter. Leiter's family was of German Swiss descent, and some of his ancestors had been Mennonites. Leiter was raised a Lutheran. Career As a boy, Leiter worked for a dry goods business in Springfield, Ohio. In 1853 he began working as a bookkeeper at Chicago's then-largest dry goods company, Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., where he worked alongside Marshall Field and Potter Palmer. Leiter and Field became partners in the firm, but in 1865, they sold their interest in the company to John V. Farwell and went into business, along with Palmer, as Field, Palmer, Leiter & Co. In 1867, Palmer left his business to pursue real estate ventures, and the company was renamed Field, Leiter & Co. Field & Leiter built a six-story store on State Street in 1868. It was rebuilt after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. From 1874 to 1880, Leiter was a member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, which helped collect and distribute funds to rebuild Chicago after the fire. When Leiter sold his interest to Field and retired from the dry goods business in 1881, the name was changed to Marshall Field and Company. As Leiter's wealth increased, he invested much of his savings in Chicago real estate. After retirement from Field, Leiter & Co., he devoted his attention to real estate and corporate interests. He later devoted time to travel and philanthropy. He was the first president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the second president of the Chicago Art Institute, a president of the Chicago Historical Society, and a prominent figure in the Illinois Trust Company. From 1892 to 1898, his son Joseph was his agent. Joseph attempted to corner the wheat market from 1897 to 1898, and was briefly the largest individual holder of wheat in the history of the grain trade. Concerted action by his competitors broke the corner. Levi paid millions of dollars to settle Joseph's debts after the market crashed in 1898. Levi's losses were reputed to run to $10 million. Joseph was later president of the Zeigler Coal Company, Chicago, and of the Chicago, Zeigler and Gulf Railway Company; and a director of the American Security and Trust Company. Personal life In 1866, Leiter married Mary Theresa Carver (1844–1913) of Chicago. From 1885 until her death, she served as the second Vice Regent for Illinois in the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, which is occupied with the preservation of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. Together, they were the parents of: * Joseph Leiter (1868–1932), who graduated from Harvard University in 1891 and who married Juliette Williams (1887–1942). * Mary Victoria Leiter (1870–1906), who married the British Conservative statesman George Curzon, later 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, in 1895. * Nancy Lathrop Carver Leiter (1873–1930), the sponsor of USS Illinois (BB-7) who married Colin Powys Campbell (1859–1923). * Margaret Hyde Leiter (1880–1968), who married Henry Molineux Howard (1877–1917), the 19th Earl of Suffolk and 12th Earl of Berkshire. Leiter died of heart disease at the Vanderbilt family cottage in Bar Harbor, Maine on June 9, 1904. His estate became the subject of eight years of litigation. Washington residence In 1891, Leiter had a mansion built adjacent to Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.. The home was designed by Theophilus Chandler. After his death, his Washington, D.C. home was used for elaborate parties hosted by his widow. During WWII, the mansion was leased to the U.S. Government for office space. The property was sold and the structure demolished in 1947. The site is now the location of the Dupont Hotel. Descendants Through his eldest daughter, he was the maternal grandfather of Mary Irene, Lady Ravensdale (b. 1896); Lady Cynthia Curzon (b. 1898), the first wife of Sir Oswald Mosley; and Alexandra Naldera Curzon (b. 1904), the wife of Edward Dudley Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of King Edward VIII. Through his daughter Margaret, he was the maternal grandfather of Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk (1906–1941); Hon. Cecil John Arthur Howard (1908–1985), married Frances Dean; and Lt.-Cdr. Hon. Greville Reginald Howard (1909–1987).
3. ROCKCK_181031_033.JPG: I ran into Juliet Folger inspecting the family plot
4. ROCKCK_181031_095.JPG: Colin Powys Campbell
5. ROCKCK_181031_097.JPG: Joseph "Joe" Leiter Dec. 4, 1865 Apr. 11, 1932 Chicago Capitalist and Sportsman In 1897 he tried to corner the wheat market. With the collapse of the market in 1898 he lost over $10,000,000 of his family's fortune. He and his father, Levi Zeigler Leiter, purchased land in Franklin County, Illinois, and founded Zeigler Coal Company. Built the town of Zeigler and the first hospital in Franklin County. Headed the Illinois Coal Company, president of Zeigler Coal Company, Zeigler & Gulf Railway and the Washington Gas Company. The above was from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19608580/joseph-leiter
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7. ROCKCK_181031_214.JPG: Ratti
8. ROCKCK_181031_236.JPG: Lynda Nersesian Gordon
9. ROCKCK_181031_263.JPG: Gerald Mull
10. ROCKCK_181031_274.JPG: William L. Eagleton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Lester Eagleton Jr. (August 17, 1926 Peoria, Illinois, USA – January 27, 2011 Taos, New Mexico, USA) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat who served as Ambassador to several Middle Eastern and North African states. Early life Born in Peoria, Illinois, Eagleton served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He joined the U.S. foreign service in 1949. Diplomatic career Eagleton served as American consul in Tabriz, Iran between 1959 and 1961 and United States Ambassador to Yemen 1967, Tunisia 1977, Libya 1978–1979, Algeria 1979, Iraq 1980–1984 and Syria 1985–1988. He is also an author of The Kurdish Republic of 1946 (1961) and, "Iraqi Kurdistan" in The World Today (1956). After his term as Ambassador to Syria ended in 1988, Eagleton worked with the United Nations as Deputy Commissioner-General for Palestinian Refugees (1988–94), Special Coordinator for Sarajevo (1994–1996), and Director of UN Operations in Western Sahara (1999–2001). He rejoined the State Department in 2003 as a special advisor for Northern Iraq. Textile publications Eagleton's 1988 book Introduction to Kurdish Rugs drew from his experience collecting rugs in Baghdad and elsewhere in the middle east. It remains the standard book on Kurdish pile weavings, which remain relatively unknown even among textile collectors.
11. ROCKCK_181031_280.JPG: Nikita Grigorovich-Barsky
12. ROCKCK_181031_289.JPG: Mark Palmer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robie Marcus Hooker "Mark" Palmer (14 July 1941 – 28 January 2013) was a United States diplomat, who served as United States Ambassador to Hungary (1986–90). He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Committee on the Present Danger, Vice Chairman of Freedom House and the Council for a Community of Democracies. He was also the co-founder of the National Endowment for Democracy.
13. ROCKCK_181031_297.JPG: Chester Hallett Kimrey (1910-2001)
14. ROCKCK_181031_311.JPG: George Patrick Morse
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16. ROCKCK_181031_339.JPG: Eugene Allen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eugene Allen (July 14, 1919 – March 31, 2010) was an American waiter and butler who worked for the US government at the White House for 34 years until he retired as the head butler in 1986. Allen's life was the inspiration for the 2013 film The Butler. Life Allen was born in Buckingham County, Virginia and raised on Shirland Farm near Scottsville. He worked as a waiter for many years, in "whites-only resorts and country clubs", including The Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, and a club in Washington. He started in the White House in 1952 as a "pantry man", a job which involved basic tasks such as dish washing, stocking and cleaning silverware. Over the years Allen rose in his position, becoming the butler to the president. Allen was particularly affected by the murder of President Kennedy in 1963. According to his son, "My father came home late on the day that President Kennedy had been shot. But then he got up and put his coat back on. He said, 'I've got to go back to work.' But in the hallway, he fell against the wall and started crying. That was the first time in my life I had ever seen my father cry." He was invited to the funeral, but chose to stay at work to prepare for the reception, because "Someone had to be at the White House to serve everyone after they came from the funeral." Allen never missed a day of work in 34 years. Allen finally attained the most prestigious rank of butlers serving in the White House, Ma�tre d'h�tel, in 1981, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Reagan invited Allen and his wife Helene to a state dinner in honor of Helmut Kohl at the White House. Allen was the first White House butler ever to be invited as a guest to a state dinner. He retired in 1986. Allen had been married to his wife, Helene, for 65 years. They met at a birthday party in Washington in 1942, and married a year later in 1943. The couple had one son, Charles Allen. He and his wife had intended to vote for Barack Obama in 2008, but she died the day before the election, on November 3. Allen died of kidney failure at the Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Maryland on March 31, 2010. Public reputation Allen came to public attention when a 2008 article about him and his wife, by journalist Wil Haygood, entitled "A Butler Well Served by This Election", was published in The Washington Post shortly after the 2008 presidential election. It placed Allen's life in the context of changing race relations and the personalities of the presidents he'd served. It ended with the story of how the couple intended to vote for Obama together but Helene died just before the election, They talked about praying to help Barack Obama get to the White House. They'd go vote together. She'd lean on her cane with one hand, and on him with the other, while walking down to the precinct. And she'd get supper going afterward...On Monday Helene had a doctor's appointment. Gene woke and nudged her once, then again. He shuffled around to her side of the bed. He nudged Helene again. He was all alone. "I woke up and my wife didn't," he said later. The story had an immediate impact. Columbia Pictures bought the film rights to Allen's life story, and he was invited to the new president's inauguration, where he commented, "That's the man...Whew, I'm telling you, it's something to see. Seeing him standing there, it's been worth it all." Allen and other workers who served presidents were featured in a 32-minute documentary, Workers at the White House, directed by Marjorie Hunt and released on a 2009 DVD, White House Workers: Traditions and Memories by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Allen's life was the inspiration for the 2013 film The Butler. Danny Strong's screenplay was inspired by the 2008 Washington Post article. The film departs from the facts of Allen's life. The central character, "Cecil Gaines", is only loosely based on the real Allen.
17. ROCKCK_181031_352.JPG: Michael Novak From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Novak (September 9, 1933 – February 17, 2017) was an American Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. The author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, Novak is most widely known for his book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982). In 1993 Novak was honored with an honorary doctorate degree at Universidad Francisco Marroqu�n due to his commitment to the idea of liberty. In 1994 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which included a million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace. He wrote books and articles focused on capitalism, religion, and the politics of democratization. Novak served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1981 and 1982 and led the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1986. Additionally, Novak served on the board of directors of the now-defunct Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a conservative anti-Communist faction of the Democratic Party, which sought to influence Democratic Party policies in the same direction that the Committee on the Present Danger later did. Novak was George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. In 2004, he claimed to be a lifelong Democrat, while noting that he has supported many Republican candidates.
18. ROCKCK_181031_365.JPG: Edna Peyton Gordon
19. ROCKCK_181031_372.JPG: Gabriel Domenique Boehler (1926 - 2005)
20. ROCKCK_181031_402.JPG: M. Carl Holman Playwright, Academic, Poet, Educator, Civil Rights Activist, Editor Birth Date: June 27, 1919 Death Date: August 9, 1988 M. Carl Holman was a noted 20th century poet, playwright and scholar, as well as the longtime head of the National Urban Coalition. Synopsis Born in Minter City, Mississippi, on June 27, 1919, M. Carl Holman earned two graduate degrees before teaching at Clark College, also working as a writer. He helped found The Atlanta Inquirer and later became head of the National Urban Coalition, focusing on educational and work opportunities for black and Latino communities among an array of civic service goals. He died in Washington, D.C., on August 9, 1988. Background and Education Moses Carl Holman was born in Minter City, Mississippi, on June 27, 1919, to Mamie Durham and Moses Holman. Going by the moniker M. Carl to distinguish himself from his dad, Holman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and became an award-winning writer during his youth. He attended Lincoln University in Jefferson, graduating magna cum laude in 1942. He subsequently earned his master's degree in English from the University of Chicago and another graduate degree, this time in fine arts, from Yale University. Professor and Editor Holman taught at the Hampton Institute and his alma mater, Lincoln -- both historically black schools -- before becoming a professor at Clark College in 1948, a position that he would hold until the early '60s. In the summer of 1960, he became one of the co-founders of The Atlanta Inquirer, a weekly newspaper that was student-driven and presented topics for African-American communities, with a focus on the Civil Rights Movement. During the publication's beginnings, Holman served as editor and mentored journalists like Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Julian Bond. Poet and Playwright Holman also focused on his own writing during his teaching and editing years, scripting plays, poetry and fiction. His work would be read in anthologies like The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century (1973, Harper Collins); some of his richly detailed, evocative poems included "Notes for a Movie Script," "Picnic: The Liberated" and "Mr. Z," as well as the prize-winning stage work The Baptizin. National Urban Coalition In 1962, Holman joined the staff of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission as an information officer, later assisting the agency's staff director and becoming deputy director. In 1968, he became vice president of the National Urban Coalition, an organization meant to address racial strife and economic inequalities affecting the country. He became president of the coalition in 1971, and served in that position until his death. As NUC head, Holman focused on coalitions with a variety of social activist organizations across the country and formed bridges between communities, looking to bring together African-American and Latino groups for example and stressing governmental and corporate liaisons. He also stressed the importance of preparing girls and children of color to succeed in mathematics and the sciences with talk of group-wide self-empowerment. Noted to be a thoughtful and generous tactician, Holman was part of the Black Leadership Forum as well. M. Carl Holman died from cancer at the age of 69 on August 9, 1988, in Washington, D.C. He was survived by his wife, Mariella, and his children and grandchildren. The above was from https://www.biography.com/people/m-carl-holman-37830
21. ROCKCK_181031_425.JPG: David Wilmot II
22. ROCKCK_181031_464.JPG: Adams Memorial (Saint-Gaudens) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Adams Memorial is a grave marker located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., featuring a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The shrouded figure is seated against a granite block which forms one side of a hexagonal plot, designed by architect Stanford White. Across a small light-toned granite plaza, a comfortable stone bench invites visitors to rest and meditate. The whole is sheltered by a close screen of dense conifers, more dense and uniform in 2015 than in the photograph to the right. History Erected in 1891, the monument was commissioned by author/historian Henry Adams (a member of the Adams political family) as a memorial to his wife, Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams. Marian Adams, suffering from depression, had died by suicide through the ingestion of potassium cyanide, which she otherwise used to develop photographs. Adams advised Saint-Gaudens to contemplate iconic images from Buddhist devotional art. One such subject, Kannon (also known as Guan Yin, the Bodhisattva of compassion), is frequently depicted as a seated figure draped in cloth. In particular, a painting of Kannon by Kanō Motonobu, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and shown to Saint-Gaudens by John LaFarge, is said to have played a major role in influencing the conception and design of this sculpture. Henry Adams, who traveled to Japan with LaFarge ostensibly to find inspiration for this memorial, particularly wanted elements of serenely immovable Buddhist human figures to be contrasted with the waterfall-like robe associated with Kannon. In addition to the still and flowing elements, the monument's dualism includes male-female fusion in the figure itself and blends Asian and European ideals of figure. These checks to the standard heroic figure combine to make a "countermonument" for a woman who disliked monuments generally. Saint-Gaudens may also have been influenced by Parisian funerary art from his stay in France. Saint-Gaudens's name for the bronze figure is The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, but the public commonly called it Grief -- an appellation that Henry Adams apparently disliked. In a letter addressed to Homer Saint-Gaudens, on January 24, 1908, Adams instructed him: "Do not allow the world to tag my figure with a name! Every magazine writer wants to label it as some American patent medicine for popular consumption -- Grief, Despair, Pear's Soap, or Macy's Mens' Suits Made to Measure. Your father meant it to ask a question, not to give an answer; and the man who answers will be damned to eternity like the men who answered the Sphinx." In his The Education... Henry Adams reflects on the statue and its interpreters: "His first step, on returning to Washington, took him out to the cemetery known as Rock Creek, to see the bronze figure which St. Gaudens had made for him in his absence. ...in all that it had to say, he never once thought of questioning what it meant. He supposed its meaning to be the one commonplace about it - the oldest idea known to human thought. ...As Adams sat there, numbers of people came, for the figure seemed to have become a tourist fashion, and all wanted to know its meaning.... Like all great artists, St. Gaudens held up the mirror and no more." At the time of Saint-Gaudens's death, the statue was well known as an important work of American sculpture. Its popularity inspired at least one prominent copy, the Black Aggie, which was sold to General Felix Agnus for his gravesite. An informative and engaging study of the memorial and the relationship between Clover and Henry Adams is Clover: The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age by historian Otto Friedrich. On March 16, 1972, the Adams Memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
23. ROCKCK_181031_491.JPG: Rabboni (sculpture) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rabboni is a public artwork by American artist Gutzon Borglum, located Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. Rabboni was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1993. It is a tribute to Charles Matthews Ffoulke, prominent Washington banker and tapestry collector. Description This Realist sculpture depicts Mary Magdalene emerging from an alcove consisting of three granite blocks that surround her. Dressed in long robes and a cape which covers her head, her proper right hand is raised to lift the cape from her head. Her proper left arm is extended outward in front of her. Her proper right leg is stepping forward, to recognize Jesus Christ has risen from his tomb on Easter. The lower right of the sculpture is signed: Gutzon Borglum Sc / Gorham Co. The front of the sculptures base is inscribed: RABBONI On the back of the center granite piece is an upper bronze plaque which is inscribed: THE END OF BIRTH IS DEATH THE END OF DEATH IS LIFE AND WHERFOR MOURNEST THOU A lower bronze plaque is inscribed: IN MEMORY OF Charles Mather Ffoulke 1841-1909 Sarah Cushing His Wife 1852-1926 AND THEIR CHILDREN HORACE CUSHING FFOULKE 1876-1903 GWENDOLINE FFOULKE CHARLES MATHER FFOULKE II 1889-1912 AND HORACE CUSHING BELOVED FATHER OF SARAH CUSHING 1819-1865
24. ROCKCK_181031_499.JPG: Kauffmann Memorial From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kauffmann Memorial is a public artwork by American artist William Ordway Partridge, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. Kauffmann Memorial was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1993. The memorial is a tribute and grave for the former owner of the Washington Star, Samuel Kauffmann. Description The memorial features a curved granite wall exedra with seven bronze relief panels on the curve and a curved bench. Upon the bench, a "classically-draped" figure of a woman sits. She leans forward with her head bowed, looking down at a wreath made of asphodel she is in the process of making. She wears a robe tied at the waist, sandals, and her hair is pulled back and curved around her face. This woman represents "Memory," and the bronze panels (15 in. x 26 in.) depicts scenes from Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Men," from As You Like It. In front of the bench and wall is a large urn that is placed on a low granite block. The front of the urn has the inscription: KAUFFMANN
25. ROCKCK_181031_525.JPG: Paul Raymond Tully A Democrat [The political director of the Democratic National Committee]
26. ROCKCK_181031_552.JPG: Tim Russert From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted an eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball. Russert covered several presidential elections, and he presented the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey on the NBC Nightly News during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Time magazine included Russert in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. Russert was posthumously revealed as a 30-year source for syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
27. ROCKCK_181031_558.JPG: Michele Anne Moriarty
28. ROCKCK_181031_577.JPG: Evangeline Wise
29. ROCKCK_181031_620.JPG: Byron K. Clark
30. ROCKCK_181104_057.JPG: This grave of Ann Barber was moved from a site near the Adelphi Mill on Riggs Road February 4, 1955 through the cooperation of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Mr. Leander McCormick-Goodhart and the Adelphi Citizens Association.
Wikipedia Description: Rock Creek Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre (350,000 m2) cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. It is across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery.

History

The cemetery was first established in 1719, under the British colony of the Province of Maryland, as a churchyard within the glebe of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish. Later, the Vestry decided to expand the burial ground as a public cemetery to serve the city of Washington, D.C., which had acquired the cemetery, within its district boundaries as established in 1791, formerly, being a part of the state of Maryland, and formally established through an Act of Congress in 1840.
Rock Creek Cemetery statuary

An expanded cemetery was landscaped in the rural garden style, to function as both a cemetery and a public park. It is a ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, with sections for St. John's Russian Orthodox Church and St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral.

The park-like setting of Rock Creek Cemetery has many notable mausoleums, sculptures, and tombstones. The best known is the Adams Memorial, a contemplative, androgynous bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite that was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White. It marks the graves of Marian Hooper 'Clover' Adams and her husband, Henry Adams, and sometimes, mistakenly, the sculpture is referred to as Grief. Saint-Gaudens entitled it The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding.

Other notable memorials include the Frederick Keep Monument, the Heurich Mausoleum, the Hitt Monument, the Hardon Monument, the Kauffman Monument that is known as The Seven Ages of Memory, the Sherwood Mausoleum Door, and the Thompson-Harding Monument.

Sculptors of works in the cemetery

* Gutzon Borglum, Rabboni-Ffoulke Memorial, 1909
* James Earle Fraser, Frederick Keep Monument, 1920
* Laura Gardin Fraser, Hitt Memorial, 1931
* William Ordway Partridge, Kauffmann Memorial, also known as Seven Ages or Memory, 1897
* Brenda Putnam, Simon Memorial, 1917
* Vinnie Ream, Edwin B. Hay Monument, 1906
* Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Adams Memorial, 1890
* Mary Washburn, Waite Memorial, 1908
* Adolph Alexander Weinman, Spencer Memorial, after 1919

Interments

A

* Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), prominent American meteorologist (section M)
* John James Abert (1788–1863), Chief of the Corps of Topographical Engineers
* Henry Adams (1838–1918), American writer, descendant of two U.S. presidents; grave is marked by the Adams Memorial (section E)
* Clover Hooper Adams (1843–1885), Washington hostess and accomplished amateur photographer, wife of Henry Adams; grave is marked by the Adams Memorial (section E)
* Alice Warfield Allen (1869–1929), mother of the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson (section G)
* Doug Allison (1846–1916), American baseball player
* Frank Crawford Armstrong (1835–1909), Confederate general
* Timothy P. Andrews (1794–1868), Union Army general and paymaster-general of the United States Army (1862-1864)
* James B. Aswell (1869–1931), American educator and member of the House of Representatives from 1913 to 1931

B

* Abraham Baldwin (1754–1807), Yale graduate, U.S. Senator, attorney, signer of the U.S. Constitution, first president of the University of Georgia (section E)
* Cecil A. Beasley, Alabama State Senator.
* Melville Bell (1819–1905), Scottish teacher and inventor, father of Alexander Graham Bell, Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial (section A)
* * Eliza Grace Symonds Bell - wife of Melville Bell
* Andrew H. Berding, journalist and former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
* Emile Berliner (1851–1929), German-born American inventor of the gramophone (section M)
* Montgomery Blair (1813–1883), Lincoln's Postmaster General (section A)
* Ben H. Brown Jr. (1914–1989), former United States Ambassador to Liberia
* Robert C. Buchanan (1811–1878), American military general during the American Civil War and the Mexican War

C

* Camille Chautemps (1885–1963), Prime Minister of France
* Edward Clark (1822–1902), Architect of the Capitol
* Catherine Cate Coblentz (1897–1951), writer, wife of William Coblentz (section O)
* William Coblentz (1873–1962), American physicist, notable for pioneer contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy (section O)

D

* S. Wallace Dempsey (1862–1949), American Republican politician
* Hubert Dilger (1836–1911), American Civil War artillerist, captain in the Union Army, Medal of Honor recipient
* Gerald A. Drew (1903–1970) United States Ambassador to Haiti and Bolivia
* Amanda Ruter Dufour (1822–1899), American poet

E

* Susan Ann Edson (1823–1897), personal physician to President James A. Garfield
* Matthew Gault Emery (1818–1901), mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1870 to 1871
* Henry Ellsworth Ewing (1883–1951), arachnologist

F

* Charles S. Fairfax (1829–1869), Virginia-born California politician who was entitled to the British title 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
* Stephen Johnson Field (1816–1899), American associate justice of Supreme Court (section A)
* Peter Force (1790–1868), American politician, American lieutenant in the War of 1812, newspaper editor, archivist, and historian, who served as the twelfth mayor of Washington, D.C., and whose library of historical documents became the first major Americana collection of the Library of Congress (section B)
* Israel Moore Foster (1873–1950), American Republican Representative in Congress
* William H. French (1815–1881), American military major general during the American Civil War and the Mexican War (section B)

G

* Julius Garfinckel (1872–1936), American merchant, founder of Washington department store, Garfinckel's
* Harry Post Godwin (1857-1900) Chief Editor of the National Republican, Washington Star
* Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875–1966), president of the National Geographic Society, Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial (section A)

H

* John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), American Supreme Court associate justice, known as the "Great Dissenter;" he wrote the lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (section R-11)
* Patricia Roberts Harris (1924–1985), Ambassador, first African-American woman to serve in a presidential cabinet (section 20)
* George L. Harrison (1887–1958), American banker, insurance executive, and political advisor during The Second World War
* Frank Hatton (1846–1894), U.S. Postmaster General and editor of the Washington Post (section B)
* Christian Heurich (1842–1945), German-born American founder of Heurich Brewery (1871–1954)
* Samuel Billingsley Hill (1875–1958), U.S. Representative from Washington and member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (now the United States Tax Court)
* William Henry Holmes (1846–1933), known for scientific illustration of the American West, his role in controversy over the antiquity of humans in the Americas, and leadership at the Smithsonian Institution (section M)

J

* Charles Francis Jenkins (1867–1934), American television and motion picture pioneer (section 10)
* Nelson T. Johnson (1887–1954), American ambassador
* James Kimbrough Jones (1839–1908), American politician
* John Johnson (1842–1907), Medal of Honor recipient
* Opha May Johnson (1879 - 1955), 1st known female U.S. Marine (1918)

K

* Samuel H. Kauffmann (1829–1906) newspaper publisher
* Oliver Hudson Kelley (1826–1913), a founder of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange) (section I)
* Angela Jurdak Khoury (1915-2011), Lebanon's first female diplomat and esteemed member of the Lebanese delegation to the United Nations.
* Sergei Kourdakov (1951–1973), a former KGB agent and defector from the Soviet Union to Canada

L

* Jane Lawton (1944–2007), Maryland Democratic politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates
* Blair Lee, III (1916–1985), American Democratic politician
* George E. Lemon (?–1896), Patent lawyer and founder the journal National Tribune
* Walter Lenox (1817–1874), mayor of Washington from 1850 to 1852
* John Lenthall (1807-1882), American naval architect and shipbuilder, Chief Constructor of the Navy from 1849 to 1853 and chief of the United States Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1853 to 1871
* Fulton Lewis (1903–1966), American radio and television broadcaster
* Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980), Republican Party icon, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (section F)
* Anthony Francis Lucas (1855–1921), Croatian-born mechanical engineer

M

* Arthur MacArthur, Sr. (1815–1896), 4th Governor of Wisconsin, grandfather of General Douglas MacArthur
* Jackie Martin (1903-1969), American newspaperwoman
* Anna Broom McCeney (1850–1903), Mother of vaudeville performer La Belle Titcomb (Heloise McCeney)
* Hugh McCulloch (1808-1895), Secretary of the Treasury (section B)
* George McGovern (1922-2012), Democratic presidential nominee in 1972 and senator from South Dakota (section O)
* Dempster McIntosh (1896–1984), American ambassador
* Evalyn Walsh McLean (1886–1947), wealthy heiress, one-time owner of the Hope Diamond and the Washington Post (section L)
* Washington McLean (1816–1890), businessman, owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper
* John Gordon Mein (1913-1968), American ambassador
* William Rush Merriam, (1849-1931), governor of Minnesota, father of the United States Census Bureau
* Mihran Mesrobian (1889-1975), Armenian-American architect

P

* Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922), First Families of Virginia descendant, attorney, ambassador to Italy, and Southern writer (section L)
* William Paret (1826–1911), sixth Episcopalian Bishop of Maryland
* Rosalie Mackenzie Poe (1810–1874), sister of Edgar Allan Poe (section D)
* Terence Powderly (1849–1924), longtime leader of the Knights of Labor (section I)
* Robert Prosky (1930–2008), Polish-American actor (section M)

R

* John B. Raymond (1844–1886), American politician
* Isidor Rayner (1850–1912), American Democratic politician, member of the Senate
* George Washington Riggs (1813–1881), American banker, founder of Riggs Bank (section D)
* William A. Rodenberg (1865–1937), American politician
* Frederick Rodgers (1842–1917), United States Navy rear admiral
* Tim Russert (1950–2008), American journalist, host of Meet the Press (section C)

S

* Alexander Robey Shepherd (1835–1902), American politician, governor of District of Columbia from 1873 to 1874
* Thetus W. Sims (1852–1939), American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the eighth congressional district of Tennessee from 1897 to 1921
* Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), American author, Pulitzer Prize winner (section 17)
* Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1825–1908), American journalist and publisher, sixth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1864 to 1897 (section E)
* Harlan Fiske Stone (1872–1946), Chief Justice of the United States (section A)
* Paulina Longworth Sturm (1925–1957), daughter of Alice Roosevelt and granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt

T

* Abner Taylor (1829–1903), American politician
* George Taylor (1820–1894), American attorney and Democratic politician
* Thomas Weston Tipton (1817–1899), U.S. Senator from Nebraska
* Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams (1869–1962), Russian-American writer and journalist

V

* Tran Van Chuong (1898–1986), South Vietnam's Ambassador to the U.S., appointed by Ngo Dinh Diem
* Willis Van Devanter (1859–1941), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (section R-11)
* Gore Vidal (1925–2012), author and playwright, next to his companion of 50 years Howard Austen. (section E)

W

* Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (section L)
* Paul Warnke (1920–2001), American Diplomat, Assistant Secretary of State from 1966–1969; SALT Negotiator and Director of the Arms Control and disarmament Agency under President Clinton
* Sumner Welles (1892–1961), American diplomat, Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1943 (section 8)
* Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975), American Democratic politician and U.S. Senator (section 30)
* James Alexander Williamson (1829–1902), Union Army general during the American Civil War, Medal of Honor recipient
* Richard L. Wilson (1905–1981), American journalist
* William Windom (1827–1891), U.S. Congressman, Senator, Secretary of the Treasury (under Garfield & Harrison) (section B)
* Otis Wingo (1877–1930), U.S. representative from Arkansas's 4th congressional district, 1913-1930

Y

* Helen Yakobson, (1913-2002) academic and professor at George Washington University
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