This is the grave of Clarence King. Born in 1842 in Newport, Rhode Island, King grew up in the trading class out of that town. His father was heavily involved in the China trade and young Clarence barely knew him before the father died in...
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This is the grave of Pierce Manning Butler Young. Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1836, the pretentiously named Young grew up in the southern slaveholding elite. He had private.
This is the grave of George Pendleton. Born in 1825 in Cincinnati, Pendleton went to the local public schools in Porkopolis and then was off to the precursor of today's.
This is the grave of Edwin Jemison. Born in 1844 in Milledgeville, Georgia, Jemison grew up in the slaveholding class. Like many southern slavers, the family invested in new lands and so he spent his teenage years on the new plantations outside of Monroe, Louisiana....
This is the grave of Robert Rantoul. Born in 1805 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Rantoul grew up wealthy, went to Phillips Andover and then was on to Harvard, where he graduated.
This is the grave of William H. Prescott. Born in 1796 in Salem, Massachusetts, Prescott grew up well off. His father was a prominent lawyer, his grandfather a colonel in.
This is the grave of Billy Rose. Born in New York in 1899, William Rosenberg grew up in the Jewish immigrant world of that city. He had an interesting start out of the neighborhood--he was a savant at stenography. Seriously. He won awards from it...
This is the grave of George Shepley. Born in Saco, Maine in 1819, Shepley grew up well off and went to Harvard, then transferring to Dartmouth, where he graduated in.
This is the grave of Lewis Howard Latimer. Born in 1848 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Latimer grew up in the free Black community of that state. His parents had both escaped.
This is the grave of William Gillette. Born in 1853 in Hartford, Connecticut, Gillette grew up as part of the elite of that city in a time when actually was elite, when Mark Twain lived there, before it became exactly as exciting as you'd think...
This is the grave of William Fessenden. Born in Boscawen, New Hampshire in 1806, Fessenden actually grew up as a child of unwed parents, which wasn't necessarily uncommon at that.
This is the grave of John Howard Payne. Born in 1791 in New York City, Payne grew up in a well-off family. They had old colonial roots and he mostly.