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- Smithson died in Genoa, Italy on 27 June 1829. He was buried in a Protestant cemetery overlooking Sampierdarena.
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Smithson was buried in Sampierdarena, Genoa, Italy. The United States consul in Genoa was asked to maintain the grave site, with sponsorship for its maintenance coming from the Smithsonian Institution.
James Smithson died in Genoa, Italy, and was buried there. In 1903, Alexander Graham Bell and his wife oversaw the exhumation of Smithson's body so that it could be moved to a place of honor in the institution that his generosity established.
- Washington, District of Columbia
On this day in 1829, passed away in Genoa, Italy. His remains were originally buried there, about a mile west of Genoa, on a high elevation overlooking the town of Sampierdarena. In January 1904, headed the team that brought back Smithson's remains to the United States.
- Mitch Toda
- 2012
James Smithson wrote a draft of his Last Will and Testament in 1826 in London, only three years before he died. He died on June 27, 1829, in Genoa, Italy, where he was buried in a British cemetery.
- seanm
- 2012
In 1903, the cemetery in Genoa, Italy, where Smithson was buried was displaced by the enlargement of a quarry. Alexander Graham Bell, a regent of the Smithsonian, personally escorted Smithson’s remains from Italy.
Tomb of James Smithson in Italy, Near Genoa (1897) by Prematio Studio Fotographico (Genova, Italy) Smithsonian Institution Building, The Castle. In 1900 the Smithsonian Regents learned that...
Oct 26, 2021 · The Smithsonian Crypt is the final resting place for James Smithson, a British scientist who never visited this country...while he was alive. Smithson left his fortune to the U.S. to start an educational institution (but only if his nephew died without heirs, which happened).
