Character Bios
Jacob Bigelow ( 1787-1879 ) was a polymath with expertise in medicine , botany , technology , and architecture . He served as a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital while teaching at Harvard , wrote pioneering works on plants , and created a new field of study that he called “ the useful arts ,” today called engineering . He was also a founding leader and the second president of Mount Auburn and designed several significant Cemetery landmarks including the Egyptian Revival Gateway , the gothic chapel ( later named Bigelow Chapel in his honor ), Washington Tower , and The American Sphinx monument . Jacob Bigelow is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Beech Avenue .
Martin Milmore ( 1844-1883 ) was an acclaimed monument sculptor . He immigrated from Ireland as a child , and initially learned to carve from his older brother before entering the studio of the renowned sculptor Thomas Ball . Milmore ’ s most notable works include the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Boston Common and the Ceres , Flora , and Pomona sculptures for the Horticultural Hall in Boston , in addition to the American Sphinx monument at Mount Auburn memorializing the Civil War dead . Martin Milmore died at only 39 years of age from cirrhosis of the liver and is interred at Forest Hills Cemetery in Roxbury .
Joseph Story ( 1779-1845 ) was the youngest Associate Justice ever appointed to the Supreme Court at the age of 32 , where he is best remembered for The United States v . Schooner Amistad , an important abolitionist precedent case that freed the kidnapped Africans of a Portuguese slave ship . He later moved to Cambridge to serve as a Professor of Law at Harvard University , and it was during this time he gave the consecration