Highlights

Of Note…

  • Member of US Army’s fabled 29th Division
  • Landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day
  • Professor of pathology, oncology, medicine at Johns Hopkins
  • Faculty member of Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Director of Hopkins Immunology Lab
  • Local architect
  • Supporter of area arts organizations
  • Towson physician whose home and office were on Allegheny Avenue
  • Dr. Green known to have transfused a patient directly with his daughter on an adjoining cot
  • Green family housekeeper, Louise Franling, is buried with the family

State Senator representing Baltimore County, built the landmark house at 517 West Joppa Road, Towson Maryland, where he and his wife Rosa Ellen Heathcote (1865 – 1949) raised their children Herschel, Wendell, Sarah, Miriam and Edward (portrait also in the Towson Courthouse). The home still stands and eventually became the long-time home of Towson attorney John E. Mudd.  Newton’s portrait hangs in the Towson Courthouse.

Senior partner of J. E. Greiner Company in Baltimore — one of the nation’s most prolific bridge designers. It was Herschel’s childhood dream to design a bridge to span the Chesapeake Bay. He accomplished that dream when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened in July, 1952.

  • Civil engineer who worked on both Bay Bridges, Francis Scott Key Bridge and other major structures
  • Past president of the Engineering Society of Baltimore
  • Prominent Towson attorney
  • Republican candidate for Congressional seat in 1968
  • President, Maryland State Bar Association
  • Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals
  • Judge, Baltimore County Circuit Court
  • Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals
  • Family farm on Stevenson Lane in Towson originally a land grant from King George III
  • Farm developed into Country Club of Maryland and family burials moved to Prospect Hill
  • Prisoner at San Quentin for 17 years; self-taught writer of Felony Tank, False Start, On the Yard
  • After completing his prison sentence he eventually became a writing instructor at UMBC

Towson resident who operated a steam shovel building the Panama Canal

  • Past Master of Mt. Moriah Masonic Lodge in Towson; Grand Master of Masons in Maryland 1920 – 1930
  • Planned and oversaw construction of Bonnie Blink Retirement Home in Hunt Valley
  • West Point graduate who served under General Winfield Scott and died in the Battle at Mexico City.
  • Possibly moved to Prospect Hill when the cemetery opened; monument is original.

Chinese immigrants who operated a laundry on Chesapeake Avenue in Towson from the 1940s to 1970s

  • Member of the Army Nurse Corp stationed in England, where she nursed the wounded from D-Day
  • Honored with a military funeral
  • Along with husband Jim Fisher, comprise the only husband & wife military couple in the cemetery
  • Baltimore television pioneer at WBAL-TV
  • Rose from prop department to camera man, director, news director to assistant general manager
  • Polish freedom fighter in WW II and son of prominent European artist Jan Styka
  • Organizer for the Baltimore Katyn Forest Memorial in Harbor East
  • Four-generation family that owned a successful road paving and concrete business
  • Owned several area quarries, and developed their White Marsh quarry into White Marsh Town Center
  • Towson Saloon keeper – original site now occupied by The Point
  • Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore 1912
  • More than 100 family members are buried at Prospect Hill
  • Family farm east of Towson in what is today know as Baynesville, site of the family wheelright shop
  • Family also ran the stagecoach to Lutherville
  • Donated land from his 400-acre estate in West Towson for construction of original Baltimore County Courthouse
  • His home on the estate, Uplands, in today’s Southland Hills neighborhood, became the Presbyterian Home of Maryland (1929-2016)
  • Family farm became the center of Jarrettsville
  • As delegate to Maryland gubernatorial nominating convention in 1858, Dr. Jarrett cast deciding vote for Thomas Hicks to become the pro-Union governor and preserve Maryland in the Union during the Civil War
  • After serving with the Union Army, Jarrett opened his medical practice in Towson
  • Member of the Baltimore Colts in the 1950s
  • With fellow Colt Gino Marchetti, he founded Gino’s fast food restaurants
  • Grew up in Towson and Lutherville. Lived six houses from John Waters
  • Starred in early Waters’ movies: Pink Flamingo, Polyester and Hairspray
  • Family farm from 1700s is now Mount Pleasant Golf Course on Hillen Road
  • Family members served in Revolutionary War, Battle of Fort McHenry and as mayor of Baltimore, member of Congress and founding members of Baltimore Basilica
  • Recently re-landscaped resting place of over 100 stillborns, infants and young children
  • This type of area was common in old cemeteries before modern medicine saved young lives
  • Served on Admiral Dewey’s flagship at Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, and was awarded a cannon for valor, now located on the Courthouse lawn
  • Until the 1940’s, when cannon balls were soldered into place, teenage boys enjoyed rolling the balls down the streetcar tracks from Chesapeake to York Road late at night