Occupation Architect Projects Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Project Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | Practice Cleveland & Copeland Alma mater Harvard University | |
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Born December 11, 1830 ( 1830-12-11 ) Roxbury, Massachusetts Spouse(s) Josephine Kent (m. 1854) Died 28 March 1874, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Books Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening | ||
Robert Morris Copeland, Sr. (December 11, 1830 – March 28, 1874) was a landscape architect, town planner and Union Army officer in the American Civil War. Along with his partner H.W.S. Cleveland of the firm Cleveland and Copeland, he is known chiefly for his cemetery plans, most notably Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts as well as contemporaneous designs around Massachusetts and New England.
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Copeland was born on December 11, 1830 to Benjamin and Julia Fellows Copeland, who lived in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College, and opened a Boston-based landscape gardening firm with Horace Cleveland in 1854, which became known as Cleveland and Copeland.
Copeland died suddenly on March 28, 1874 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is buried at his Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.