Church Cemetery
Notable People Buried in the St. James the Less
The cemetery is open to the public seven days a week from dawn to dusk. To make an appointment for a tour of the graveyard, please contact David Kasievich.
Chapman Biddle (1822-1880)
Civil War Union Army Officer
Horace Binney (1780-1875)
US Congressman
Mark Wilkes Collet
Civil War Union Army Officer and physician
James Barnet Fry
Civil War Union Brigadier General
George Harding
Greatest US Patent Attorney of the late-19th century
Son of Jesper Harding, founder of Pennsylvania Inquirer
Henry K. Hoff
United States Navy Rear-Admiral
Agnes Irwin (1841-1914)
American educator, best known as the first dean of Radcliffe College from 1894–1909 and as the principal of the West Penn Square Seminary for Young Ladies in Philadelphia, later re-named, in her honor, The Agnes Irwin School
Robert Morris, Jr.
Civil War Union Army Officer
John Grubb Parke (1827-1900)
Civil War Union Major General
William Stevens Perry (1832-1898)
Historian, Author, President of Hobart College and second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa
Anthony Taylor (1837-1894)
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Martin Russell Thayer (1819-1906)
US Congressman for Pennsylvania, 1863 to 1867. State Court Judge in 1867
Benjamin Chew Tilghman (1821-1901)
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, inventor of sandblasting
Stephen Decatur Trenchard (1818-1883)
United States Navy Rear-Admiral
John Wanamaker (1838-1922)
Businessman, founder of chain of Wanamaker’s Department Stores of Philadelphia and New York, founder of Bethany Presbyterian Church and a prominent Christian layman, and Postmaster General of the United States
(Lewis) Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928)
son of John Wanamaker, philanthropist, artistic benefactor and patron of the Wanamaker Organ
William Halsey Wood (1855-1897)
Architect, one of four finalists in the competition for the design of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York
