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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 460

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 24, 2019

This is the grave of Albert Bierstadt. Born in Solingen, Germany in 1830, in 1831, Bierstadt’s family immigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was a talent artist from the time he was young. In 1853, he returned to Germany to study with leading artists there. He was particularly interested in large landscape paintings, particularly those […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 459

By Erik Loomis

On April 22, 2019

Inside this family tomb lies Edward G. Robinson. Born Emanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania in 1893, his family decided to move to the U.S. in 1904 to escape anti-Semitism. His family joined the ho

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 458

By Erik Loomis

On April 16, 2019

This is the grave of a lovely criminal named John Mitchell. Born in Detroit in 1913, he grew up in Queens, went to Fordham and stayed there for law school, and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 457

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 15, 2019

This is the grave of Maury Maverick. Born in 1895 in San Antonio, Maverick grew up in a well-off San Antonio family with deep Texas roots. In fact, the term “maverick,” i.e. “John McCain was never a maverick despite decades of fawning media coverage looking for a Republican daddy to tell them what to do,” […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 456

By Erik Loomis

On April 13, 2019

This is the grave of George McClellan. Born in 1826 in Philadelphia, McClellan was a brilliant young child from a leading family. He started at the University of Pennsylvania in 1840 to study the law,

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 455

By Erik Loomis

On April 12, 2019

This is the grave of Pierre Charles L’Enfant. Born in Paris in 1754, L’Enfant’s father was a favorite painter of Louis XV, allowing him to study art at the Royal Academy of Art and t

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 454

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 11, 2019

This is the grave of Mary Elizabeth Garrett. Born into an elite Baltimore family in 1854, Garrett grew up in wealth. Her father was president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and good friend of Abraham Lincoln, they lived in a big mansion, etc. She was also ambitious. Even as a girl, she was uninterested […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 453

By Erik Loomis

On April 10, 2019

This is the grave of William James. Born in 1842 in New York to one of the nation’s most prominent intellectual families, William, as well as his brother Henry, grew up both in the U.S. and Euro

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 452

By Erik Loomis

On April 6, 2019

This is the grave of Jimmy Martin. Born in 1927 in Sneedville, Tennessee, Martin grew up in a poor farming community that was typical of any number of people in southern Appalachia. The church was a c

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 451

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 5, 2019

This is the grave of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut to one of the most important families in early American history–her father was the minister Lyman Beecher–she grew up in the intellectual ferment of the early 19th century. She was highly educated and moved with her father to Cincinnati in 1832 […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 450

By Erik Loomis

On April 4, 2019

This is the grave of Mary Lease. Born in 1850 in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, in 1870 she moved to Kansas to teach school to the Osage, part of the broader missionary movement to educate Native Americans in

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 449

By Erik Loomis

On April 3, 2019

This is the grave of “Uncle” Alfred. Evidently born in or around 1803, Alfred was the name of a slave who was the son of Andrew Jackson’s enslaved cook. He lived at the Hermitage or

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