Notable Residents

Cedar Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous politicians, industrialists, writers, actors, artists and educators. Below is a listing of some of Cedar Hill’s most notable residents.  Click here to download a printable version of our Guide to Visitors brochure. To read a brief bio, click on the person’s name.

• Robert Ames – Actor
• John Moran Bailey – Politician
• Henry Barnard – Educator
• James G. Batterson – Businessman
• George Beach – Businessman
• Leverett Brainard – Businessman/Politician
• Donald Lamont Brown – Businessman
• The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Brownell – Episcopal Bishop
• Morgan Gardner Bulkeley – Businessman/Politician
• Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley – Businessman
• William Gedney Bunce – Artist
• John Burnham – Civil War Soldier
• Henry Ward Camp – Civil War Soldier
• George J. Capewell – Inventor/Businessman
• William Baxter Closson – Artist
• Emily Parmely Collins – Women’s Rights Advocate
• Elizabeth Colt – Businesswoman
• Samuel Colt – Inventor/Businessman
• Charles Custis – Businessman
• Lemuel R. Custis – Tuskegee Airman
• Katharine Seymour Day – Artist/Preservationist
• Charles B. Dillingham – Broadway Producer
• Albert Entress – Sculptor
• Edward Miner Gallaudet – Educator
• Sophia Fowler Gallaudet – Educator
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet – Educator
• Guilio “Johnny Duke” Gallucci – Boxer
• William Glackens – Artist
• Annie Warburton Goodrich – Healthcare
• Rev. Francis Goodwin – Minister
• William Gray – Inventor/Businessman
• Henry Green – Former Slave
• Charles K. Hamilton – Aviator
• Joseph Roswell Hawley – Civil War Soldier/Businessman
• Katharine “Kit” Hepburn – Women’s Rights Activist
• Katharine Hepburn – Actress
• Thomas Hepburn – Healthcare
• Gilbert F. Heublein – Businessman
• Nicholas Hudson Holt – Actor
• Isabella Beecher Hooker – Women’s Rights Activist
• Mark Howard – Businessman
• Marshall Jewell – Businessman/Politician
• Pliney Jewell – Inventor/Businessman
• Walter & Henry Keney – Businessmen
• Edwin Denison Morgan – Politician
• John Pierpont Morgan – Businessman
• Benjamin Wistar Morris – Architect
• Col. Charles Harvey Northam – Businessman/Philanthropist
• Michael P. Peters – Politician/Businessman
• Albert Linder Pope – Businessman
• Francis A. Pratt – Inventor/Businessman
• Henry Roberts – Businessman/Politician
• Thomas Henry Seymour – Politician
• Virginia Thrall Smith – Children’s Rights Advocate
• General Griffin A. Stedman – Civil War Soldier
• Wallace Stevens – Poet/Businessman
• Cincinnatus Taft – Healthcare
• Allen Butler Talcott – Artist
• James Terry – Businessman/Anthropologist
• Isaac Toucey – U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Dorothy Ulrich Troubetzkoy – Writer
• Joseph Hopkins Twichell – Reverend
• Robert Ogden Tyler – Civil War Soldier
• Charles Dudley Warner – Writer
• Jacob Weidenmann – Landscape Architect
• Gideon Welles – U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Horace Wells – Healthcare
• Amos Whitney – Inventor/Businessman
• Yung Wing – Educator
• George Wright – Artist
• Paul Zimmerman – Artist

Cedar Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of many distinguished and notable individuals.

Among them are Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under President Abraham Lincoln.

 

 

 

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the American School for the Deaf;

 

 

 

 

Samuel Colt, founder of Colt Industries and inventor of the famous Colt 45 revolver;

 

 

The Rt. Reverend Thomas Church Brownell, presiding Episcopal Bishop of the United States and founder of Trinity College;

 

 

 

 

Isabella Beecher Hooker, half-sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and19th century leader of the women’s movement;

 

Hartford dentist and discoverer of anesthesia, Dr. Horace Wells;

 

 

 

Internationally-acclaimed poet Wallace Stevens;

 

 

 

 

The world-famous financier and philanthropist J. P. Morgan;

 

 

 

Yung Wing, Chinese scholar, Yale graduate and founder in 1872 of Hartford’s progressive and innovative Chinese Educational Commission School.  Although Chinese conservatives abruptly terminated the Commission in 1881, the nine years the Chinese scholars studied in Hartford gave China her first generation of the 20th century railroad builders, engineers, medical doctors, naval admirals and diplomats;

 

 

 

 

and the incomparable Katharine Hepburn.