He was an artist.
From: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Volume IX: Albert Leighton Rawson, author and illustrator, was born at Chester, Vt., Oct. 15, 1828; son of Adolphus and Betsey (Armington) Rawson. He was educated under private tutors, and at Black River academy, Ludlow; studied law under William H. Seward, theology under "Elder" Joseph Muzzy Graves, and medicine under Professor Webster of the Massachusetts Medical College. He visited the Far East four times, and in 1851-52, by representing himself to be a Mohammedan medical student, succeeded in accompanying a caravan from Cairo to Mecca. He made important investigations in the Indian mounds of the Mississippi valley, and in 1854-55 made similar research in Central America. He was adopted as a "brother" by the Adwan Bedouins of Moab. He was one of the two founders of the Nobles of the Mystio Shrine, a founder of the Theosophical society in the United States, a life member of the Society of the Rosy Cross, and a member of various literary and scientific societies. He was married to Sarah Lord. He received the degrees D.D. and LL.D. (1880), from Christ College, Oxford, England, and M.D. from the University of Sorbonne, Paris. He illustrated books, including "The Life of Jesus" by Henry Ward Beecher (published by J. B. Ford & Company, 1871); executed more than 3000 engravings, and painted the portraits of Queen Victoria, Louis Napoleon, Empress Eugenie and other celebrities. He contributed to magazines, wrote rituals for many secret societies, and is the author of: Divine Origin of the Holy Bible (1846); Stella and Other Novels (1847); Vocabularies and Dictionaries of Arabic, Persian and Turkish (1854); Bible Handbook (1869); Ruins and Relics of the Orient (1870); Bible Dictionaries (1870-75); Histories of all Religions (1870); Statistics of Protestantism (1870); Antiquities of the Orient (1871); Scarlet Books of Free Masonry (1873); Vocabulary of the Bedouin Languages of Syria and Egypt (1874); Dictionaries of Arabic, German and English (1876); Vocabulary of Persian and Turkish Languages (1877); History of the Quakers (1878); Chorography of Palestine (1880); The Symposium of Basra (1880); Historical and Archaeological Introduction to the Holy Bible, with maps and illustrations (1879, 1881, 1882); The Unseen World (1888); The Archaic Library (Vols. I and II, 1893), and The History Mysticism. In 1903 he resided at Hillsdale Manor, NJ. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has his “Boatman on the Ithaca Canal” a drawing with pen and ink on paper.]

Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 182, Lot 21444
Inscription, front:
Laura Keene
Died November 4, 1873
Inscription, right side of stone:
Clara Stella Taylor
Died February 1876
Aged 27 years
Inscription, rear of stone:
"He giveth his beloved sleep."
Inscription, left side of stone:
Jane Moss Keene
Died December 11, 1872
Aged 76 years.
[NOTE: Laura Keene's mother, Jane Moss King, was the first burial in this lot, March 5, 1874, recorded as the burial of Jane Moss Keene. Laura Keene died November 4, 1873 in Montclair, NJ and was buried there. She was moved to Green-Wood after the death of her daughter (by her first marriage), Clara Stella Taylor. Clara was interred here February 8, 1876, and Laura was moved from Montclair and reinterred here April 20, 1876. Another daughter of Laura Keene, Emma Taylor Rawson (buried Aug 26 1882) also rests here with her husband, Albert Leighton Rawson (buried Nov 4 1902). The Rawsons have no stone or inscription on this lot.

Village Crossroads, Myerstown, Virginia (c1864) by Albert Leighton Rawson

A Drover and His Cattle Heading Home by Albert Leighton Rawson