Notable People Buried in the St. James the Less

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