Mount Hope Famous Residents
Mount Hope is more than a cemetery. It’s where Rochester’s history is celebrated!
The final resting place of an eminent human rights leader, a tireless advocate for women’s rights, a media mogul, an influential landscape architect, an innovative poet, and tens of thousands of people who shaped Rochester’s past as well as that of the country. A partial list of its famous residents is provided below.
- Susan B. Anthony
- John Jacob Bausch
- Hartwell Carver
- Emma Lampert Cooper
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Algernon Crapsey
- Frederick Douglass
- Thomas B. Dunn
- George Ellwanger
- Frank Gannett
- Malcolm Glazer
- Morton Goldberg
- Seth Green
- Myron Holley
- Rev. Thomas James
- Henry Lomb
- General E.G. Marshall
- Lewis Henry Morgan
- Anna Murray-Douglass
- Henry O'Reilly
- Amy and Isaac Post
- Charles Mulford Robinson
- Nathaniel Rochester
- George B. Selden
- Henry R. Selden
- Hiram Sibley
- Fletcher Steele
- Margaret Woodbury Strong
- Lillian Wald
- Henry Augustus Ward
- William Warfield
- Don Alonzo Watson
- Jessica M. Weis
- George Whipple
Pictures provided from the collection of the Rochester Public Library Local History & Genealogy Division.