Druid Ridge Cemetery
Druid Ridge Cemetery is located just outside the city of Baltimore in Pikesville, Maryland at 7900 Park Heights Avenue, Baltimore Co., MD 21208. Among its monuments and graves are several noted sculptures by Hans Schuler and the final resting places of:
- Felix Agnus, American Civil War general and newspaper publisher
- Alfred Blalock, pioneering cardiovascular surgeon
- Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, widow of tenor Enrico Caruso
- William Jones "Boileryard" Clarke, baseball player and coach
- Claribel Cone, physician and art collector
- Etta Cone, famous art collector along with her sister who together helped establish the Baltimore Museum of Art
- Walter Dandy, one of the fathers of neurosurgery
- Anthony Hastings George, British Consul-General.
- Jennis Roy Galloway, Baltimore-born World War II Commander, later Managing Director of Union Carbide India, Ltd
- Elisabeth Gilman, daughter of Daniel Coit Gilman and prominent Maryland socialist and civil liberties advocate
- John F. Goucher, namesake of Goucher College
- Virginia Hall, Baltimore-born World War II spy for the British Special Operations Executive
- Eli Jones Henkle, U.S. Congressman, 5th District of Maryland
- John Charles Linthicum, U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Maryland
- Art Modell, owner of professional football teams
- Curt Motton, professional baseball player
- Rosa Ponselle, celebrated soprano
- Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. (1898-1983), investment banker and founder of T. Rowe Price
- Carl Vernon Sheridan, World War II Medal of Honor recipient
- Hugh H. Young, pioneering urologist
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