This is the grave of Gilbert Stuart. Born in 1755 in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, Stuart grew up in comfortable circumstances. I've driven by this house hundreds of times as it is on the way to where I work, but I've never actually stopped at the...
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This is the grave of Robert Casey. Born in 1932 in Jackson Heights, Queens, Casey grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His father was attending Fordham Law after two decades working.
This is the grave of Anthony Quervelle. Born in 1789 in Paris, Quervelle immigrated to the U.S. in 1817, settling in Philadelphia. We know almost nothing about his early life..
This is the grave of Nelson Miles. Born in 1839 in Westminster, Massachusetts, Miles moved to Boston as a young man, working as a clerk in a crockery store. When the Civil War began, he was an eager volunteer for the army. He had received...
This is the grave of Alfred Thayer Mahan. Born in 1840 in West Point, New York, Mahan was military his whole life. His father taught at the Military Academy. He.
This is the grave of Burleigh Grimes. Born in 1893 in Emerald, Wisconsin, Grimes grew up in an athletic family. His father, a farmer and laborer, was a former baseball.
This is the grave of Owen Roberts. Born in Philadelphia in 1875, Roberts was the son of a prosperous hardware merchant. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and edited the school newspaper there before graduating in 1895. He stayed there for law school and finished...
This is the grave of Henry Morgenthau. Born in 1856 in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Morgenthau was the son of a big cigar manufacturer. The family was Jewish and.
This is the grave of Thomas Nelson. Born in 1738 in Yorktown, Virginia, Nelson was part of the early Virginia elite. He was educated in England, graduating from Cambridge in.
This is the grave of Lou Gorman. Born in 1929 in Providence, Rhode Island, Gorman was a huge baseball fan. He played high school ball at La Salle Academy, the city's most prominent Catholic school. In fact, his given name was James but he was...
This is the sign memorializing the unmarked graves of the Native chiefs who died in Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of 1793. You can read the sign so I don't need.
This is the grave of Saul Yanofsky. Born in Russia in 1864, Yanofsky (sometimes spelled Yanovsky) is primarily known today for being the editor of Yiddish-language anarchist newspapers in New.