Foss monument, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

Description

A stereograph of the Jacob Foss monument in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The monument is in the form of a granite obelisk, surmounted by a religious figure holding a book or Bible. Masonic symbols are cut into the stone. There are two inscriptions on the front of the monument, the higher one of which reads: Make us eternal truths receive, and practice all that we believe. This is taken from a poem/hymn variously attributed to Charlemage and Rabanus Maurus under the title, "Veni Creator Spiritus". A marble sculpture of a lamb sits on a table in front of the monument and next to a garden seat. The monument is on lot number 719 and is located on Snowdrop Path. Jacob Foss was a businessman and philanthropist from Cornish, New Hampshire who lived in Charlestown, Massachusetts and died in 1866. He first married Mehitable Clark and then remarried to Martha Abbie Howland.