graves
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson. What to say about Jackson that hasn't been said? Not much. He's had a lot of ink spilled on him and you all.
This is the grave of Francis Preston Blair. Born in Abingdon, Virginia in 1791 to a politically ambitious family, Blair's father would become Kentucky's attorney general after the family moved.
This is the grave of William Pinkney Whyte Born in Baltimore in 1824, Whyte was named for his grandfather, former attorney general William Pinkney, who served under James Madison. However,.
This is the grave of Frank Steunenberg. Born in 1861 in Keokuk, Iowa, he went to college at Iowa State and then went into the newspaper business, taking a job.
This is the grave of Martha Smith. I don't know anything about Smith. She's not a particularly globally important figure. But I thought this was a worthy way to have.
This is the grave of Henry McNeal Turner. Born in 1834 in South Carolina to free blacks, Turner had ambition from a young age. Teaching black people, slave or free,.
This is the grave of Lillian Wald. Born in 1867 to a middle-class and secular Jewish family in Cincinnati, Wald's family moved to Rochester in the late 1870s. She applied.
This is the grave of Herbert Hoover. As the semester ends, I am overloaded with grading, so I don't have time to provide a full biography of Hoover. It's easy.