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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- OAK_201020_007.JPG: Bigelow Iron Fence Restoration
A project of the Oak Hill Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation
- OAK_201020_010.JPG: The Oak Hill Cemetery
Continuing to Serve
- OAK_201020_027.JPG: Edgar H. Brenner
They started burying urns under the sidewalk in 2000.
- OAK_201020_031.JPG: Stephen Bloomer Balch was the revered pastor
of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church from
1780 to 1833. He also attained acclaim as a
leader in Georgetown civic and cultural affairs,
most notably as the founding principal of the
Columbian Academy and as a co-founder of the
Columbian Library. Earlier he served as a
captain in the Revolutionary War from 1775
to 1777. This site was restored in 2007 by
members of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church.
- OAK_201020_034.JPG: Sacred
to the memory of
Stephen B. Balch, DD
who died September 22, 1933
in the 87th Year of his Age.
He was founder of this Church
and for more than half a century
its revered Pastor.
He planted the Gospel in this town,
and his example was for many years
a light to its inhabitants.
"He being dead yet speaketh."
- OAK_201020_038.JPG: Revolutionary Soldier
1775 - 1783
State Historical Committee
District of Columbia
Daughters of the American Revolution
- OAK_201020_040.JPG: Sonia Ainsworth
- OAK_201020_053.JPG: Fairfax OFA Council
- OAK_201020_059.JPG: Anna Wagner Smith
Jan. 31, 1947 - Apr. 19, 2009
- OAK_201020_067.JPG: Stephen John Smith
- OAK_201020_070.JPG: Philip Laussat Geyelin
- OAK_201020_106.JPG: Ben Bradlee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (August 26, 1921 – October 21, 2014) was one of the most prominent journalists of post-World War II United States, serving first as managing editor, then as executive editor at The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when he joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper's extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal. He was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered its award-winning story was false.
After retirement, Bradlee continued to be associated with the Post, holding the position of "Vice President at-large" until his death. In retirement Bradlee was an advocate for education and the study of history, including working for years as an active trustee on the boards of several major educational, historical, and archaeological research institutions.
- OAK_201020_115.JPG: Ben Bradlee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (August 26, 1921 – October 21, 2014) was one of the most prominent journalists of post-World War II United States, serving first as managing editor, then as executive editor at The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when he joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper's extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal. He was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered its award-winning story was false.
After retirement, Bradlee continued to be associated with the Post, holding the position of "Vice President at-large" until his death. In retirement Bradlee was an advocate for education and the study of history, including working for years as an active trustee on the boards of several major educational, historical, and archaeological research institutions.
- OAK_201020_143.JPG: John Howard Payne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Howard Payne (June 9, 1791 – April 10, 1852) was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had most of his theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States and the English-speaking world. Its popularity was revived during the American Civil War, as troops on both sides embraced it.
After his return to the United States in 1832, Payne spent time with the Cherokee Indians in the Southeast. He amassed material about their culture, language and society, which have been useful to scholars. But he published accounts that suggested their origin as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel, at a time when Anglo-Americans were strongly influenced by a Biblical basis of history; this has been disproved.
In 1842, Payne was appointed American Consul to Tunis, where he served for nearly 10 years until his death. Although he was first buried there, in 1883 his remains were returned to the United States and buried in Washington, DC, paid for by philanthropist W. W. Corcoran. Payne was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 (Carrie Jacobs-Bond bio on the Songwriters Hall of Fame site). Archived January 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- OAK_201020_153.JPG: Štefan Osuskı
1889-1973
Co-founder of Czecho-Slovakia, envoy to France, pillar of the League of Nations, adviser to the US Presidents W. Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt, H. S. Truman.
Štefan Osuskı
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Štefan Osuskı, Ph.D., J.D. (31 March 1889 – 27 September 1973) was an Austro-Hungarian born Slovak lawyer, diplomat, politician and university professor.
- OAK_201020_161.JPG: Katharine Graham
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was the first twentieth century female publisher of a major American newspaper. Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
Phil Graham
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip Leslie Graham (July 18, 1915 – August 3, 1963) was an American newspaperman. He served as publisher and later co-owner of The Washington Post and its parent company, The Washington Post Company. During his years with the Post Company, Graham helped The Washington Post grow from a struggling local paper to a national publication and the Post Company expand to own other newspapers as well as radio and television stations. He was married to Katharine Graham, a daughter of Eugene Meyer, the previous owner of The Washington Post. Phil Graham, who had bipolar disorder, died by suicide in 1963, after which Katharine took over as de facto publisher, making her one of the first women in charge of a major American newspaper.
- OAK_201020_178.JPG: Dean Acheson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. Acheson helped design the Marshall Plan and was a key player in the development of the Truman Doctrine and creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Acheson's most famous decision was convincing President Truman to intervene in the Korean War in June 1950. He also persuaded Truman to dispatch aid and advisors to French forces in Indochina, though in 1968 he finally counseled President Lyndon B. Johnson to negotiate for peace with North Vietnam. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy called upon Acheson for advice, bringing him into the executive committee (ExComm), a strategic advisory group.
In the late 1940s Acheson came under heavy attack for his defense of State Department employees accused during the anti-gay Lavender and Red Scare investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others, and over Truman's policy toward China.
- OAK_201020_185.JPG: Michael Getler
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Getler (November 13, 1935 – March 15, 2018) was an American journalist and ombudsman for the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. He was the first holder of this post, and the first ombudsman to be appointed at any of the major American television networks. His previous posts included ombudsman at the Washington Post from 2000 to 2005 and executive editor at the International Herald Tribune from 1996 to 2000. Prior to those positions, he was a reporter (covering defense and military affairs), foreign correspondent, foreign editor, assistant managing editor and deputy managing editor for The Washington Post from 1970 to 1996.
According to the Family Jewels documents, he was under surveillance by the CIA in 1971 for having "run a story which was an obvious intelligence leak".
Prior to the start of his journalism career, Getler was a United States naval aviator.
Getler died of bile duct cancer in Washington, D.C., at the age of 82.
- OAK_201020_187.JPG: John Osborne Hedden
- OAK_201020_195.JPG: Nancy Woodward
- OAK_201020_196.JPG: Paulina Ledergerber Crespo de Kohle
- OAK_201020_199.JPG: Fitzhugh S.M. Mullan
Fitzhugh Mullan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fitzhugh Mullan (July 22, 1942 – November 29, 2019) was an American physician, writer, educator, and social activist. He participated in the founding of the Student Health Organization, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Seed Global Health, and the Beyond Flexner Alliance. Mullan was a professor of Health Policy and Management and of Pediatrics at the George Washington University and the George Washington University Health Workforce Institute, now renamed the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. He was an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
- OAK_201020_206.JPG: Lyndon E. Lee, M.D.
Marina D. Lee, M.D.
"Medicine, the noblest of callings."
-- Sir William Oster, M.D.
- OAK_201020_207.JPG: John O'Toole
1931-2013
Writer * Mentor * Wit * Beloved
- OAK_201020_210.JPG: Beata Vest
7 March 1999 - 13 March 2016
Allons-y [Let's go]
- OAK_201020_214.JPG: Fly me to the moon
Sterman
Sidney David 1921
Eileen Calman 1926-
Let me play among the stars. Just hold my hand. Until forever more.
- OAK_201020_223.JPG: Henry D. Owen
Aug. 26, 1920 - Nov. 5, 2011
Energy and persistence conquer all things
Henry D. Owen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry David Owen (August 26, 1920 – November 5, 2011) was a diplomat, Brookings Institution Director (1969–78) and United States Ambassador at Large for Economic Summit Affairs from 1977 to 1981, on the National Security Council.
- OAK_201020_224.JPG: James Monroe Cannon III
A true gentleman
February 26, 1918 - September 15, 2011
Cherie Dawson Cannon
March 9, 1927 - May 28, 2015
We loved the earth but could not stay.
- OAK_201020_227.JPG: Roselee N. Roberts
April, 1942 - April, 2020
A wonderful wife, mother and grandmother. A person of integrity and humanity.
William "Art" Roberts
February 1942 -
We found a place to park in Georgetown!
- OAK_201020_233.JPG: Selma Lelling Curns
Together for 75 years
Fred Francis Curns
- OAK_201020_237.JPG: Cheryl Drozen Crowley
Feb. 13, 1951 - Sept. 29, 2004
Most loving wife, mother, and best friend
Babe,
"I promise that I will always love you."
-- You best friend and love forever, George
- OAK_201020_240.JPG: Robert H. Fowler
Green Grow the Lilacs
John R. Madigan
- OAK_201020_243.JPG: USA
Spanish War Veterans
1898-1902
Army United Navy
Philippine Islands
Porto Rico
Cuba
- OAK_201020_249.JPG: Zander Hollander
July 29, 1931 - October 3, 2006
- OAK_201020_251.JPG: Victor A. Ocampo
1926-2010
- OAK_201020_259.JPG: Angela Fay Geddes
August 27, 1973 - January 10, 2020
- OAK_201020_281.JPG: In memory of John & Susan Cumberland
Aged 73 & 68 years
- OAK_201020_289.JPG: Named for a river, Saone bathed every living creature in her love, and light
Saone Baron Crocker
1.11.1943 - 6.17.2017
- OAK_201020_320.JPG: John Tucker
CSA
- OAK_201020_324.JPG: Anne Eustis Pepper
"Wendy"
August 23, 1964 - November 12, 2017
Artist * Mother * Free Spirit
Wendy Pepper
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne Eustis Pepper Stewart (August 23, 1964 – November 12, 2017), known as Wendy Pepper, was a fashion designer who appeared on the first season of the reality television show Project Runway, which aired on Bravo from December 2004 through February 2005. She was also a contestant on the second season of Project Runway All Stars. She was eliminated from the Project Runway All Stars competition in the second challenge.
- OAK_201020_334.JPG: William Wilson Corcoran
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Wilson Corcoran (December 27, 1798 – February 24, 1888) was an American banker, philanthropist, and art collector. He founded the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Early life
Corcoran was born on December 27, 1798 in Georgetown in the District of Columbia. He was one of 12 children (six boys and six girls), six of whom survived to maturity, born to Thomas Corcoran (1754–1830), a well-to-do merchant twice elected as mayor of Georgetown, and Hannah Lemmon (1765–1823). His father was born in Ireland, settled in Georgetown in 1788, and established a leather business.
William Corcoran was raised in Georgetown where he studied classics and mathematics at local private schools run by Alexander Kirk and the Reverend Addison Belt, and also took classes for a year at Georgetown College, the predecessor of Georgetown University. Instead of finishing his education, he joined the family business and developed a successful business career.
Career
Corcoran entered business at the age of 17, working in dry goods store owned by two brothers, and opened his own branch store two years later. Corcoran brothers established a wholesale auction and commission business, but their ventures failed after the Panic of 1819. He worked in another family business, and in 1828, he took control of large amount of real estate from his father.
Corcoran was employed as a clerk at the Bank of Columbia at Georgetown branch, and then as a real estate and loan manager at the Second Bank of the United States in Washington. He also participated in the domestic slave trade.
In 1837, Corcoran established a brokerage firm on Pennsylvania Avenue at 15th Street. He was successful and in 1840 entered into a partnership with George Washington Riggs, a son of Elisha Riggs. The Corcoran and Riggs private banking firm enjoyed the patronage of Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury and prospered after it re-sold to investors $5 million of U.S. Treasury notes in 1843. In 1845, it purchased the former Second Bank of the United States building located on 15th Street at New York Avenue.
In Spring 1847, the Corcoran and Riggs sold to investors at home and abroad the bulk of two issues of the U.S. Treasury Mexican War bonds; Corcoran's earnings were $1 million. In 1854, Corcoran retired from Corcoran and Riggs to focus on his investments in real estate, land grants, armaments, railroads, as well as pursue pleasure and philanthropic endeavors.
Philanthropy
In 1854, after his retirement, he devoted himself and his substantial fortune to art and philanthropy. In 1848, Corcoran had purchased 15 acres (6 ha) of land for Oak Hill Cemetery, which overlooks Rock Creek Park. He organized the Oak Hill Cemetery Company to oversee the cemetery, which was formally incorporated by Act of Congress on March 3, 1849. Corcoran paid for the construction of a Gothic Revival chapel in Oak Hill Cemetery, commonly known as the Renwick Chapel.
Corcoran also established a $10,000 fund, administered by the Benevolent Society, to purchase firewood for the poor in Georgetown. Corcoran also gave many gifts to several universities, including The George Washington University, the Maryland Agricultural College, the College of William and Mary, and Washington and Lee University. Corcoran also contributed to a fund to purchase George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, after his family could no longer keep it up, and the federal government refused to purchase it. One of William Wilson Corcoran's longtime business associate and friend was the renowned George Peabody.
Art
In contrast to many contemporary art patrons, Corcoran was not exclusively interested in European works, and he assembled one of the first important collections of American art. By the mid-1850s his pictures and sculpture were overflowing his mansion on Lafayette Square and he hired the foremost architect of the day, James Renwick, to build a picture gallery in the Second Empire style on Pennsylvania Avenue. Before it was ready, however, the Civil War began, and Corcoran, a Southern sympathizer, left Washington for Paris, where his son-in-law, George Eustis Jr., was a representative of the Confederacy.
Architect James Renwick was commissioned in 1859 to a museum building to house William Wilson Corcoran's growing art collection. Corcoran was a southern sympathizer and good friend of Robert E. Lee, and felt it opportune to leave for Europe during the Civil War. The half-finished building designed by Renwick was taken over by the U.S. Government and used as a supply depot. When the war was over, Corcoran returned to Washington; the building was finished in 1869 and the Corcoran Gallery of Art opened in 1874, but the structure was soon outgrown. A new building for the Corcoran Gallery of Art and its nascent school of art (now the Corcoran College of Art + Design) was designed by American architect Ernest Flagg in the Beaux-Arts Style and completed in 1897, nine years after Corcoran's death. The façade of the building reflects the "Neo-Grec," an offshoot of the Beaux-Arts style that attempted to reflect the functions of the building by revealing detailed and decorative accents on the exterior. The Corcoran's first home is now the Renwick Gallery, a Smithsonian museum.
Corcoran made many other important bequests to the people of Washington, among them the Louise Home for Women, several departments of the Columbian University (now the George Washington University), and the land and half the construction costs for what is now the Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes. Corcoran was also the President of the Corporation of Columbian (George Washington) University. Early in 1883, Corcoran arranged to have the body of John Howard Payne returned to the United States, an expense he personally bore. Payne, actor, poet, and author of "Home! Sweet Home!" had been the United States Consul to the Bey of Tunis in 1852 and had died there. Payne had been good friends of Corcoran and his business partner, George W. Riggs in 1850, prior to Payne's second appointment as Consul to Tunis.
Personal life
In 1835, Corcoran eloped and married Louise Morris (1818–1840), who was the daughter of Commodore Charles Morris (1784–1856) and the older sister of Robert Murray Morris (1824–1896). Before his wife's early death on November 21, 1840, they had three children, however, only one survived into adulthood:
* Harriet Louise Corcoran (1836–1837), who died in infancy.
* Louise Morris Corcoran (1838–1867), who married George Eustis, Jr. (1828–1872) in 1859.
* Charles Morris Corcoran (1840–1841), who also died in infancy.
After his wife died in 1840, Corcoran chose not to marry again. He died on February 24, 1888 in Washington, DC and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Corcoran joined the Potomac Lodge No. 5 of Free and Accepted Masons in Georgetown and was raised as a Master Mason on July 26, 1827.
Descendants
Through his surviving daughter Louise, he was the grandfather of William Corcoran Eustis (1862–1921) and Louise Marie Eustis Hitchcock (1867–1934), who married Thomas Hitchcock (1860–1941), in 1891.
Legacy
The bank Corcoran co-founded in 1840 existed as Riggs Bank up until 2005, when it was taken over by PNC Bank. The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. was one of the oldest American private museums focusing on American art until it was dissolved in 2014 with its holdings transferred to the National Gallery of Art. Corcoran has a street named after him in the Dupont Circle neighborhood in the District of Columbia between Q street and R street NW, one block away from Riggs Street. As well, the Corcoran neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota which is bounded by East Lake Street to the north, East 36th Street to the south, Hiawatha Avenue to the east, and Cedar Avenue to the west, is named for William Corcoran.
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Being made perfect in a short space, she fulfilled a long time, for her soul pleased god.
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1924
Karen Friedmann Beall
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- OAK_201020_497.JPG: William Marbury
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Marbury (November 7, 1762 – March 13, 1835) was a highly successful American businessman and one of the "Midnight Judges" appointed by United States President John Adams the day before he left office. He was the plaintiff in the landmark 1803 Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison.
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- OAK_201020_537.JPG: Georgie Anne "Gee Gee" Geyer
Foreign Correspondent
1935-2019
"My God it was fun"
Georgie Anne Geyer
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Georgie Anne Geyer (April 2, 1935 – May 15, 2019) was an American journalist who covered the world as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and then became a syndicated columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns focused on foreign affairs issues and appeared in approximately 120 newspapers in North and South America. She was the author of ten books, including a biography of Fidel Castro and a memoir of her life as a foreign correspondent, Buying the Night Flight.
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Louis Harry Cantor
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"Loops"
1993-2017
Abandon the skies
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- OAK_201020_593.JPG: John A. Joyce
Poet, soldier, philosopher
Born July 4, 1842
Died Jan. 18, 1915
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone."
-- Joyce
[Oddly, this line was not written by Joyce although he claimed credit for it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was a poet and author, most famous for the lines "laugh, and the world laughs with your; Weep, and you weep alone" from her work "Solitude." Her most famous work was "Poems of Passion," published in 1883.]
- OAK_201020_606.JPG: "My Flag My Country My God
I Loved While Living On This Sod
And Through The Rolling, Rushing Hours
I Cherished Truth And Fragrant Flowers."
-- Joyce
- OAK_201020_610.JPG: In memory of
George Marshall Dunn
Born March 20, 1856
Died October 6, 1926
Colonel
Judge Advocate
USA
[He was also a Major with Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish War.]
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Robert Paul
Deborah Stern
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Thomas Anthony
Patricia Ann
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Donald F.
Cynthia L.
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1869 - 1954
Noellie Matisse
1872-1958
This marker confused me. Matisse is buried in DC? I emailed the cemetery and Lois Brown replied:
They are Sample markers for prospective buyers to look at.
Its not the first time we have been asked that question.
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Jesse Lee Reno (April 20, 1823 – September 14, 1862) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War, in the Utah War, on the western frontier and as a Union General during the American Civil War from West Virginia. Known as a "soldier's soldier" who fought alongside his men, he was killed while commanding a corps at Fox's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain. Reno, Nevada; Reno County, Kansas; Reno, Ohio; El Reno, Oklahoma; Reno, Pennsylvania; Fort Reno (Oklahoma); and Fort Reno Park in Washington, D.C. were named after him.
- OAK_201020_813.JPG: Jesse L. Reno
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jesse Lee Reno (April 20, 1823 – September 14, 1862) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War, in the Utah War, on the western frontier and as a Union General during the American Civil War from West Virginia. Known as a "soldier's soldier" who fought alongside his men, he was killed while commanding a corps at Fox's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain. Reno, Nevada; Reno County, Kansas; Reno, Ohio; El Reno, Oklahoma; Reno, Pennsylvania; Fort Reno (Oklahoma); and Fort Reno Park in Washington, D.C. were named after him.
- Wikipedia Description: Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
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Oak Hill Cemetery is a historic 22-acre (8.9 ha) cemetery located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was founded in 1848 and completed in 1853, and is a prime example of a rural cemetery. Many famous politicians, business people, military people, diplomats, and philanthropists are buried at Oak Hill, and the cemetery has a number of Victorian-style memorials and monuments. Oak Hill has two structures which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel and the Van Ness Mausoleum.
The cemetery's interment of "Willie" Lincoln, deceased son of president Abraham Lincoln, was the inspiration for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
History
Oak Hill began in 1848 as part of the rural cemetery movement, directly inspired by the success of Mount Auburn Cemetery near Boston, Massachusetts, when William Wilson Corcoran (also founder of the Corcoran Gallery of Art) purchased 15 acres (6.1 ha) of land. He then organized the Cemetery Company to oversee Oak Hill; it was incorporated by act of Congress on March 3, 1849.
Oak Hill's chapel was built in 1849 by noted architect James Renwick, who also designed the Smithsonian Institution's Castle on Washington Mall and St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. His one-story rectangular chapel measures 23 by 41 feet (7×12 m) and sits on the cemetery's highest ridge. It is built of black granite, in Gothic Revival style, with exterior trim in the same red Seneca sandstone used for the Castle.
By 1851, landscape designer Captain George F. de la Roche finished laying out the winding paths and terraces descending into Rock Creek valley. When initial construction was completed in 1853, Corcoran had spent over $55,000 on the cemetery's landscaping and architecture.
Notable interments
* Alice Acheson (1895–1996), painter
* Dean Acheson (1893–1971), Secretary of State under President Harry Truman
* Frederick Aiken (1832–1878), attorney for Lincoln assassination co-conspirator Mary Surratt
* Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887), founder of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
* Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747–1833), Presbyterian minister and educator
* Henry W. Barry (1840–1875), Brevet Brigadier General in the Union Army and Representative from Mississippi
* Alice Birney (1858–1907), co-founder of the National Parent-Teacher Association
* Walker Blaine (1855–1890), assistant Secretary of State, solicitor of the Department of State
* Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921–2014), executive editor for The Washington Post
* Glenn Brenner (1948–1992), Washington, D.C., sportscasting legend
* Thomas Barbour Bryan, businessman and politician
* Wilkinson Call (1834–1910), Senator from Florida
* Frances Carpenter (1890–1972), photographer and writer
* Samuel S. Carroll (1832–1893), U.S.Army general
* Joseph Casey (1814–1879), Representative from Pennsylvania
* Adolf Cluss (1825-1905), architect
* William Wilson Corcoran (1798–1888), banker and philanthropist
* Richard Cutts (1771–1845), Representative from Massachusetts, Comptroller of the Treasury
* Rachel Davies – see Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) under "F"
* Josiah Dent (1817–1899), third president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
* Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834), frontier minister and writer
* William M. Dunn (1814–1887), Representative from Indiana, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army
* John Eaton (1790–1856), Senator from Tennessee, Secretary of War
* George Eustis Jr. (1828–1872), Representative from Louisiana
* William Harrell Felton (1823–1909), politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister
* Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn) (1846–1915), Welsh-born minister
* Uriah Forrest (1746–1805), Continental Congressman and Representative from Maryland
* Judith Ellen Foster (1840-1910), American lecturer, temperance worker and lawyer
* Thomas J. D. Fuller (1808–1876), Representative from Maine
* Charles C. Glover (1846-1936), banker and philanthropist
* Arthur Pue Gorman (1839–1906), Senator from Maryland
* Katharine Graham (1917–2001), president of The Washington Post
* Charles Griffin (1825–1867), Union general in the American Civil War
* Peter V. Hagner (1815–1893), U.S. Army officer
* John Harris (1793–1864), U.S. Marine Corps colonel and sixth Commandant of the Marine Corps
* James P. Heath (1777–1854), Representative from Maryland
* John J. Hemphill (1849–1912), Representative from South Carolina
* Joseph Henry (1797–1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
* Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), statistician and inventor
* Samuel Hooper (1808–1875), Representative from Massachusetts
* William H. Hunt (1823–1884), Secretary of the Navy
* Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831–1879), Representative from Illinois
* O.H. Irish (1830–1886), Chief, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, United States Department of the Treasury
* Thomas S. Jesup (1788–1860), Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army from 1818 to 1860
* Philip Barton Key (1757–1815), Representative from Maryland
* Philip Barton Key II (1815–1859), United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
* William S. Lincoln (1813–1893), Representative from New York
* John B. Montgomery (1794–1872), U.S. Navy officer during Mexican–American War and the American Civil War
* Gale W. McGee (1915–1992), Senator from Wyoming, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States
* Henrietta McKenney (1825-1887), painter
* John R. McPherson (1833–1897), Senator from New Jersey
* Richard Mohun (1864–1915), explorer and diplomat
* Charles Morris (1784–1856), Commodore, U.S. Navy, an officer from 1799 to 1847, during Quasi-War, First Barbary War, Second Barbary War and War of 1812
* John George Nicolay (1832–1901), private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln
* Štefan Osuskı (1889–1973), Slovak diplomat
* Carlile Pollock Patterson (1816–1881), fourth superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
* John Barton Payne (1855–1935), politician, lawyer, and judge and United States Secretary of the Interior
* John Howard Payne (1791–1852), composer of "Home! Sweet Home!"
* Paul J. Pelz (1841–1918), architect of the Library of Congress
* Wendy Pepper (1964–2017), fashion designer
* George Peter (1779–1861), Representative from Maryland
* George Peter (1829–1893), Maryland politician, son of George Peter (1779–1861)
* Albert Pike (1809–1891), American attorney, Confederate officer, writer, and Freemason
* Charles Pomeroy (1825–1891), Representative from Iowa
* John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina
* William Radford (1808–1890), Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy
* Jesse L. Reno (1823–1862), U.S. Army officer from Virginia
* Zalmon Richards (1811–1899), Educator and first president of the National Education Association
* William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), U.S. Navy admiral, and naval and military historian
* Gustavus H. Scott (1812–1882), United States Navy rear admiral (exhumed in 1896 and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia)
* Willis Shapley (1917–2005), NASA executive
* Howard K. Smith (1914–2002), CBS and ABC newscaster; war correspondent; film star
* E. D. E. N. Southworth (1819-1899), novelist
* Samuel Sprigg (c. 1783 – 1855), governor of Maryland
* Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), Attorney General under President James Buchanan, Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln
* Hestor L. Stevens (1803–1864), Representative from Michigan
* Cornelius Stribling (1796–1880), United States Navy rear admiral, United States Naval Academy Superintendent[circular reference]
* Noah Haynes Swayne (1804–1884), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Lorenzo Thomas (1804–1875), Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, acting Secretary of War under President Andrew Johnson
* Theodore Timby (1822–1909), inventor of the revolving turret first introduced on the Civil War ship USS Monitor, and many other inventions.
* Charles Henry Tompkins (1830–1915), brevet Brigadier General of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War. Recipient of the Medal of Honor. Later served as Assistant Quartermaster General.
* Robin Toner (1954-2008) journalist
* James True (1880–1946) Washington DC journalist.
* James Noble Tyner (1826–1904), Representative from Indiana, Postmaster General under President Ulysses S. Grant
* Henry Ulke (1821–1910), portrait painter, photographer, entymologist; painted more than 100 portraits of high government officials
* Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844), Secretary of State and Secretary of the Navy under President John Tyler; originally buried at the Congressional Cemetery
* Robert J. Walker (1801–1869), Secretary of the Treasury, Senator from Mississippi
* George Corbin Washington (1789–1854), Representative from Maryland, grand-nephew of George Washington
* Edward Douglass White (1844–1921), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States
* Cadmus M. Wilcox (1824–1890), U.S. Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War; Confederate general during the American Civil War
* David Levy Yulee (1810–1886), Senator from Florida, first Jew to serve in the U.S. Senate
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