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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 645

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 12, 2020

This is the grave of Walter Prescott Webb. Born in 1888 in Panola County, Texas, he went to high school in Eastland County, taught at some high schools, then went to college at the University of Texas, where he graduated in 1915, at the age of 27. He spent a few years working lesser jobs […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 644

By Erik Loomis

On March 9, 2020

This is the grave of Louisa Adams. Born in 1775 in London, Louisa Johnson was the daughter of Joshua Johnson, a Maryland merchant, and an English woman named Catherine Newth. They were also part of th

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 643

By Erik Loomis

On March 8, 2020

This is the grave of Carl Mays. Born in 1891 in Atterson, Kentucky, Mays grew a very strict Methodist. His father was a minister and imposed in the boy an extremely religious upbringing, to the point

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 642

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 7, 2020

This is the grave of Elihu Root. Born in 1845 in Clinton, New York, Root grew up comfortable. His father was a mathematics professor at Hamilton College and Root went to Hamilton himself. His parents wanted him to become a minister but he decided to go into the law. He graduated from NYU School of […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 641

By Erik Loomis

On March 3, 2020

This is the grave of Harve Bennett. Born Harve Fishman in Chicago in 1930, Bennett grew up in a fairly prosperous family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a journalist. I’m not sure when h

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 640

By Erik Loomis

On March 2, 2020

This is the grave of John Wanamaker. Born in 1838 in a rural area that is now part of south Philadelphia, Wanamaker had a pretty average raising. His father was a brickmaker and his mother was the dau

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 639

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 1, 2020

This is the grave of Dom DiMaggio. Born in San Francisco in 1917, DiMaggio of course grew up in the one of the nation’s great baseball families. His brother Joe was simply one of the greatest hitters of all time and Vince was a journeyman who had a good long career. Dominic was the youngest […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 638

By Erik Loomis

On February 29, 2020

This is the grave of John Erhardt. Born in 1889 in Brooklyn, Erhardt graduated from Hamilton College in 1915 and went to law school at Fordham. He volunteered for World War I when the nation entered t

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 637

By Erik Loomis

On February 28, 2020

This is the grave of William Dean Howells. Born in 1837 in Martinsville, Ohio, Howells grew up in a somewhat downwardly mobile family. His father was a Whig newspaperman and Swedenborgian follower who

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 636

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 23, 2020

This is the grave of Winslow Homer. Born in 1836 in Boston, Homer came from an old New England family. His mother was a talented amateur artist and gave Winslow his first lessons. But his father was, like many Americans of this generation, restless and desperate to get rich quick. In 1849, like so many […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 635

By Erik Loomis

On February 21, 2020

This is the grave of Billy De Wolfe. Born in 1907 in Quincy, Massachusetts, William Jones was the son of bookbinder and Baptist who urged his son to become a Baptist preacher. To say the least, that d

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Erik Visits an (Non-) American Grave, Part 634

By Erik Loomis

On February 20, 2020

This is the grave of Georges Méliès. Born in 1861 in Paris, Méliès was born into a bootmaking family. His mother was Dutch and her father had been the official bootmaker of the Dutch court. His fa

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