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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 17

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 11, 2016

This is the grave of William Clark, copper capitalist and Gilded Age plutocrat. I have discussed Clark before. He was a miner turned capitalist in Montana who became one of Montana’s three Copper Kings. He’s remarkable not so much for that, but for being the personification of Gilded Age corruption. Clark really wanted to be […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 16

By Erik Loomis

On February 8, 2016

This is the grave of Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher was the most prominent minister in mid-19th century America. The son of Lyman Beecher, one of the most important ministers of his generation, Beecher s

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 15

By Erik Loomis

On February 4, 2016

This is the grave of William “Boss” Tweed I hardly need to provide a biography of the man whose name is synonymous throughout the United States with political corruption. Tweed, the child

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 14

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 3, 2016

This is the grave of J.P. Morgan. The Gilded Age capitalist’s Gilded Age capitalist, J.P. Morgan was born to a wealthy Hartford family in 1837. He became a banker in London in 1857. He came back to the US in 1858 and started working in his father’s banking firm in 1860, buying his way out […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 13

By Erik Loomis

On January 23, 2016

This is the grave of Sidney Hillman. Hillman was born into a Jewish family in Lithuania in 1887. He was training to be a rabbi, but fell in with political radicals, joined the Bund, and fled Tsarist a

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 12

By Erik Loomis

On January 22, 2016

Time for the next installment in the internet’s least important historical series. This is the grave of Samuel Gompers. Gompers, an English immigrant from a Jewish background, immigrated to the

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 11

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 20, 2016

This is the grave of Henry George. Henry George was the man behind the idea of the single tax. This was his solution to the inequality dominating the United States during the Gilded Age. In 1879, he wrote Progress and Poverty, his discussion of how to fix America’s gaping inequality. The single tax was a […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave (X)

By Erik Loomis

On January 14, 2016

Underneath this rock is buried Jacob Riis. A Danish immigrant, Riis became one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era, exposing the terrible conditions of immigrants and the urban poor in hi

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Erik Visits an American Grave (IX)

By Erik Loomis

On January 7, 2016

Now this is a grave you can set your watch to. That’s right, this is the grave of Johnny Unitas, 9th round pick out of Louisville, Baltimore Colts legend, 10 time Pro Bowl selection, 3 time NFL

Erik Visits an American Grave (VIII)

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 5, 2016

This is the grave of Philip Murray, former CIO president and of the United Steelworkers of America. Murray emigrated from Scotland in 1902, arriving in Pittsburgh. He was 16 years of age. He then went into the coal mines. He became involved with the United Mine Workers of America in 1904 and he punched the […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave (VII)

By Erik Loomis

On November 21, 2015

This is the grave of Gifford Pinchot. Like most Progressives, Gifford Pinchot’s legacy is deeply complicated. The nation’s first major forester, a process begun with his father felt terrib

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Erik Visits an American Grave (VI)

By Erik Loomis

On November 19, 2015

This is the grave of John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898-1908. Mitchell was born in 1870 and a founding member of the UMWA in 1890. That’s right, he was 20.

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