This is the grave of Samuel Tilden. Born in 1814 in New Lebanon, New York, Tilden grew up in money for an interesting reason. His family created a patent medicine called Tilden’s Extract, which
This is the grave of Carter Glass. Born in 1858 in Lynchburg, Virginia, Glass grew up in the Confederate world of loss and nostalgia. His father was a newspaper editor who joined the Treason Army in 1
This is the grave of Ira Hayes. Born in 1923 in Sacaton, Arizona, part of the Gila River Pima Reservation, Hayes grew up in the poverty of the Native communities who had their land stolen as Phoenix r
This is the grave of Margaret Mead. Born in 1901 in Philadelphia, Mead grew up in a pretty wealthy family. Her father was a finance professor at the Wharton School at UPenn. She went to college for a
This is the grave of David Sarnoff. Born in 1891 in what is today Belarus, Sarnoff’s youth was like many Jewish families of the time. His father went to the U.S. alone, saved up money, and paid
This is the grave of Jacob Javits. Born on the Lower East Side in 1904, Javits grew up in the Jewish tenements of that time and place. They were a poor family with lots of children. His mother sold th
This is the grave of George Meade. Born in 1815 in Cádiz, Spain, Meade had a father who had made a ton of money in the merchant trade between the U.S. and Spain. But he put a bunch of money into the
This is the grave of Leonard Wood. Born in 1860 in Winchester, New Hampshire, Wood grew up in a pretty elite family. His father was a doctor and the family had roots back to the Mayflower, which is so