Notable burials Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)

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the grave of louisa may alcott @ sleepy hollow



ephraim wales bull (creator of concord grape)
arthur r. bethke (concord oil owner, army captain, bethke cancer center)
william ellery channing (transcendentalist , poet)
ralph waldo emerson (american transcendentalist, essayist, lecturer, , poet)


ralph waldo emerson s grave in sleepy hollow cemetery



daniel chester french (sculptor of lincoln memorial)
nathaniel hawthorne (author of scarlet letter , others)
sophia hawthorne (wife of nathaniel hawthorne)
george frisbie hoar (19th-century politician)
richard marius (reformation historian , southern novelist)
ralph munroe (yacht designer , pioneer of south florida)
elizabeth peabody (education reformer)
franklin benjamin sanborn (author , social reformer)


the grave of franklin benjamin sanborn @ sleepy hollow



henry david thoreau (american transcendentalist, philosopher, essayist, , lecturer)
mary colman wheeler (founder of wheeler school)
george washington wright (california s first representative in congress)
dorothea e. reiffel minden (project matterhorn scientist)
henry thomas minden (ring laser gyroscope pioneer)




^ minden, henry (25 april 1955). secret research team here aided h-bomb development project matterhorn - headed wheeler (volume 79, number 56). 
^ minden, henry. ring laser gyro , magnetic mirror therefor . google patents. google. 






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