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NRHP Reference #
  
92000991

Phone
  
+1 610-668-9900

Added to NRHP
  
14 August 1992

Area
  
76 ha

Year built
  
1869

West Laurel Hill Cemetery

Location
  
227 Belmont Ave., Bala Cynwyd, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania

Architect
  
Trumbauer,Horace; Cope & Stewardson

Architectural style
  
Classical Revival, Beaux Arts, Gothic

Address
  
215 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004, USA

Hours
  
Closed now Friday8AM–4:30PMSaturday9AM–3PMSunday10AM–2PMMonday8AM–4:30PMTuesday8AM–4:30PMWednesday8AM–4:30PMThursday8AM–4:30PMSuggest an edit

Burials
  
Frederick Winslow Taylor, Anna Jarvis

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West laurel hill cemetery


West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the site of many notable burials, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992 (#92000991). West Laurel Hill was designed as a rural cemetery and is a "sister" institution to the Laurel Hill Cemetery nearby in Philadelphia.

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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." Visitors can also use the app to navigate through tours of the cemetery and visit the grave sites of interesting and famous persons.

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Notable burials

  • Green Adams (1812–1884), represented Kentucky's 6th congressional district from 1847–1849 and from 1859-1861.
  • David Hayes Agnew (1818–1892), noted surgeon. Attended President James Garfield's gunshot wound.
  • Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898-1989), first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States.
  • 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.
  • John Cromwell Bell (1892–1974), governor of Pennsylvania for three weeks in 1947.
  • Frank Bettger (1888-1981), Major League baseball infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
  • Richard Binder (1839–1912) US Marine Corps sergeant on the USS Ticonderoga during the Civil War and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
  • Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973), biographer.
  • Benjamin Markley Boyer (1823–1887), represented Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1865 to 1869.
  • Edward G. Budd (1870-1946), founder of the Budd Company.
  • Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850–1933), founder of the Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post.
  • Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), anthropologist.
  • Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (1839–1917), represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1889 to 1895.
  • 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.
  • Herman Haupt (1817–1905), Union Army General and engineer.
  • Anna Jarvis (1864–1948), originator of Mother's Day who then spent most of her life fighting its commercialization.
  • Eldridge R. Johnson (1867-1945), Co-created the Victor Talking Machine Company.
  • John Lawrence LeConte (1825-1883), 19th century American naturalist and entomologist after whom two birds are named.
  • Hy Lit (Hyman Aaron Lit) (1934–2007), legendary Philadelphia radio & TV broadcaster.
  • Robert M. McBride (1879–1970) publisher and defendant in the obscentiy 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.
  • Daniel Pabst (1826–1910), cabinetmaker
  • Teddy Pendergrass (1950–2010), soul and R&B singer
  • John Reilly (1836–1904), represented Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district from 1875 to 1877.
  • Jack Rose (1971–2009), American musician noted for his exploration of experimental and traditional acoustic guitar styles.
  • Coleman Sellers II (1827–1907), prominent engineer and inventor.
  • 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
  • John Batterson Stetson (1830–1906), famous American hat manufacturer and founder of the John B. Stetson Company; namesake of Stetson University in Florida.
  • Edwin Sydney Stuart (1853–1937), Mayor of Philadelphia from 1891 to 1895 and Governor of Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1911.
  • Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915), mechanical and industrial engineer, management consultant, and "father of scientific management".
  • Joseph Earlston Thropp (1847–1927), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
  • William Scott Vare (December 24, 1867 – August 7, 1934), was an American construction contractor and Republican Party politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 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.
  • Joseph E. Widener (1871–1943), thoroughbred owner/breeder
  • Harry Wright (1835-1895), pioneer of professional baseball, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Charlotte Wardle Cardeza (née Drake) (1854-1939), wealthy socialite and survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking.

    • In the season 7 episode of Mad Men "The Milk and Honey Route" character Betty Hofstadt-Francis tells her daughter that she wants to be buried in the Hofstadt family plot in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

    References

    West Laurel Hill Cemetery Wikipedia
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