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A History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com AhistoryofthecemeteryMountAuburn JacobBigelow r HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY v A H II I S T 0 T? Y COKTEJLY OK MOuVI M'MiXS. ^ .\ fACou 3/01: low,/ .,. !:. M • ..... .i.. ;•! -.,k. ... ..• . .:I:-.:. i J. 1 i.ij • Hi? Mii '. •.. it .•]"'ST-.)X A XT) TAMIjKIDGK: J A M I; > M.t .s I! • : r, ., >' \i C O M I' A N V 73-/0 Aj -4*r~ i_J i_^ -y tMtt :c &£& EX . • - "mm fpmm *&1 <•' ',. ."..*r ."""-^ rfi£i^r-^.^V,i• . M & TOWER FROM THE NORTH WEST W. 3Í& ..V. lü!| 1 Cé¿euv rf/fa ¿) li /¿ *éí*%¿, / seo. .' p 5 l !• ? €tmltT% :of Ararat |jtknt. r■ . ' . - . x ..*• :-->\ \-.r- ... ... 'y si--,. 5 .' (-,". ?& : ;"c. * &?%?-*:. ',V: .•;•• . ,. .-. -., .-. •:. - . " *.• ■:.:..; .• -. •. .• v\ HISTORY • or Till CEMETERY OF MOUNT AUBURN. //■ BY JACOB BJGELOW, mwiuiii or tub couroiiA riuM. •• Hot bear mc gently forth, Ik.iicath the oprti *ky, Where on the- plfttMiit earth Till night the Miubunu lie. Leere, it my Mile, a »paee Wliere tliou ihell come at lut To find a renting place When jean and gricfc an put." Hrvast. C BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. MDCOCIX, #6 ;0o6 Kolered according lo Act of ronjrrcw, In lb* yttr lMt, ItT JACOB MOrXOW, la tb* Cltrk'i Ofle* of Ihc Dialrlct Court of Um Dblrict of MaiMcbiuctu. i/s ;3z*7- -2 / — c<- r HARVARD \ UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NOV 20 1973 C»llllll, Kill,! OB, Kilos, tad Vrltohoti, PREFACE. Havino been a witness and an agent in most of the movements which have taken place in regard to Mount Auburn Cemetery from its commencement to the present time, I have felt it a duty to leave on record some account of the more noticeable occurrences J connected with the inception, progress, and manage ment of the first enterprise of its kind in the United States. That this task might be discharged with fidelity, I have strengthened my own reminiscences by those of my friends, as well as by a perusal of the Records of the Corporation, from which frequent ex tracts arc made, and also of such contemporaneous publications and documents as I have, for my own satisfaction, from timo to time, preserved. — Thirty years ago, the citizens of this metropolis buried their deceased friends in frequented parts of the city, crowding to the utmost capacity the spaces provided for them, and filling with sepulchres the cellars of their most central churehes. So rooted was the attachment to this objectionable, but in veterate custom, that a change of place from the city \ to the country was not effected without difficulty, and not until after some years of unsuccessful effort on the VI PREFACE. part of its advocates, and even then only by a fortunate, and as it were, accidental concurrence of cireum- •tanccSj_j But the successful experiment of Mount Auburn had no sooner been made, than it was rapidly imitated in all parts of the United States. The at tractive and consoling association of the garden with the grave has found a response in almost every consid erable city and villago of our country. Men seem to have discovered, as it were, a new solace, and almost a new pleasure, in building and decorating their own tombs.* To the memory of Joseph Story, George W. Brim mer, Ocorgo Bond, II. A. S. Dearborn, and B. A. Oould, and to my surviving friends and early col leagues, Charles P. Curtis and James Read, this little volumo, the token of much pleasant intercourse and grateful remembrance, is now dedicated. * Mount Auburn was consecrated ss a Cemetery in 1831; Laurel Hill, near Philadelphia, was incorporated in 1836; Green wood Cemetery, near New York, in 1887. J. B. CONTENTS. PART I. A simrntuN Cemetert, 1 • Original meetixo 'I COMMITTEE ON PURCHASE, '2 CONTEMPLATED SITES IN BllOOKLINE AND IUiXBLUT, 8 Ineffectual negotiations 3 *i Sweet Aururn " or " Stone's Woods," 3 Mr. Brimmer's purchase, . 8 Overtures tor a Cemetery, . 4 Horticultural Societt 4 Meetino at tub Exchange Coffee Uouse, »« EXPERIMENTAL Garden, .... 0 Prooress or the enterprise, . G Meeting at Jot's Dlildiho, . 7 8urscription commenced, . 8 Preliminary Report, .... 8 Subscription completed, . 8 Garden and Cemetery Committee appointed, 10 / Consecration or Mount Aururn, Cotemporaneoci account, Description or Mount Aururn, . u Avenues and lots laid OCT, . 19 Size or lots tlxed 20 Till CONTENT*. MM General Dearborn, 20 Paths and avenues named and flab lithographed, . 21 Pi-ui.io lots, St. James and St. John's, . .21 Aiction sau or right or choice, .... 22 Price or tors rmoM 1881 to 1864 22 Wooden doajid laa emoted 28 / Hannah Adams 23 * THE GATEWAY 24 New purchase or land or Stone and Cctteb, . 27 MoRTOAOE, • . .27 FlBST INVESTMEXT Or ITXDS, 27 Plan or land anterior to tub Cemetery, . 28 Size or Mount Auburn, 29 RlOBT Ot DBAINAOE TIIROCOH J. COOLIDOB's LAND, . 29 Regulations or admission to the Cemetery, . .29 First and subsequent catalogues 80 / Separation from the Horticultural Society, . 81 New Corporation or Proprietors 32 Miming Records 83 Organization, 34 Death or George W. Brimmeb 86 Gratuitous appropriations or lank prohibited, 87 Number or Trustees increased to ten, .... 88 Death or George Bond 88 Repair tund instituted, ....... 89 Water subvets, 89 V Ji not Stort's Report on improvements, . .40 IRON FENCE, 48 Wooden pausade fence, . .60 Death or Judge Stobt, o0 Statue or Dr. Bowditch, 62 CONTENTS. IX rxai Dbaixaoe or Mocrr A.burx, W TlIE CHAPEL 64 No.i-rru-iuiEXT or items or contract, . .CO Re-construction or Chapel, 68 Well House 69 TOE TOWER 69 Prospect rnoM the summit, CI THE STATUES, . • 02 Dr. Bioelow's RxroBT, 02 Appropriations roa statues, 67 Statue or Jidoe Stort, C9 Contracts sioned roa three other statues, . 71 Unsuccessful movement to rescind hum contracts, . 72 Artists employed, 72 Qcartkr lots authorized, ...... 73 Special police provided 78 Water courses, pojm, uollows, etc, . .73 Lawn, 74 Miss Lorino's purchase 74 Land made hear tue Cuapel, 76 Superintendent's House, ..*... 76 Gate-keeper and Superintendent's Clerk, ... 77 Gardener, 77 J Ornamental snam, etc., 78 STONE FARM, 78 Harvard Colleue Lot, 80 Death or Mr. B.ihcs, 81 Status or Ret. H. IIallou 81 Death or Ms. Oorui 82 PERMANENT FUND 83 Annual Report, Jan. 1, 1866 90 1 tlMSIKOO MTI laoxay **a<M»n *«Tf 'I aLQ9l Id laaaay '*«<"JH '«Tf 'I 8981 801 lraaay! 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XI PAOR President, 223 BkXRKrART, . 224 Treasure*, . * 224 superintendent, 226 Superintendent's c:.i;nK, 227 Gate-keeper, 227 Gardener 227 Committee*, 228 Committee on finance, 228 Committee on loth, 229 Committee ok oroinds 230 Committee oh regulations axd reoorim or interments, 230 Interments, 230 Lots and spaces 231 Fuuuc lots, 233 8au:1 AND CONVEYANCE* 233 Lots or deceased proprietors, 236 Plans and portfolios, 236 Treks, . 237 Tomrs 238 Catacomrs, . 238 Receiving tomim, 238 Monuments, stones, fences, etc., 239 Appropriations, 239 Collection and payment or money 240 Repair fund, 240 Admittance 242 Funerals, . 244 Alterations or rt-laws, 244 COHTEKtt. APPENDIX. MM Fobms fob oontetancb or urn, 246 Emulations concuni.io vimtou, 262 Omont noM 1831 to 18G0 2G6 OnwroBT io atocb aid rxxut, 267 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAOC View or toe Towk» raoM nut South West, Frontispiece. Map or Moot AtncRs wmi a View or toe Gate, . 21 Lakd or Mount Acdurh previodslt to 1632, . 28 Ciiafel in Feokt, 63 View nou toe Law*, 67 Vow raox CoMEOATioa Dtax, 69 PART I. HISTORY OF MOUNT AUBURN. ! • : HISTORY MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY. About the year 1825 my attention was drawn to some gross abuses in the rites of sepulture as they then existed under churehes and in other receptacles of the dead in the city of Boston. At the same timt^ajove of the country, cherished by the character of my earlier pursuits, had long led me to desire the institution of a suburban ceme tery, in which the beauties of nature should, as far as possible, relieve from their repulsive features the tenements of the deceased ; and in which, at the same time, some consolation to survivors might be sought in gratifying, as far as possible, the last social and kindred instincts of our nature. With these views I requested, in that year, a meeting of a few gentlemen at my house in Summer Street, to see what measures might be 1 2 II (STORY OV thought desirable and practicable for promoting an object of such a character. This original meeting was attended by Messrs. John Lowell, William Sturgis, George Bond, Thomas W. Ward, John Tappan, Samuel 1\ Gardiner, Nathan Utile, and . Jacob Bigelow. Other gentlemen invited ex pressed their concurrence in the design, but did not attend the meeting. A plan for a cemetery, corresponding to what Mount Auburn now is, [cp composed of family burial lots, separated and interspersed with trees, shrubs, and flowers, in a wood or landscape garden, was submitted by me, and received with approval by the persons present.
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