This is the grave of Jeremiah Evarts. Born in 1781 in Sunderland, Vermont, Evarts grew up in a farming family. His father owned a good bit of land in Vermont but was not particularly wealthy, which made is somewhat surprising that he went to Yale...
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This is the grave of E.E. Cummings. Born in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edward Estlin Cummings grew up in the Harvard elite. His father was a professor and quite famous.
This is the grave of Walt Whitman. Born in 1819 in West Hills, New York, Whitman grew up as part of a large, pretty poor family. He did remember being.
This is the grave of Jim Fisk. Born in 1835 in Pownal, Vermont, Fisk was a rough kid who ran away from home at the age of 15 to join the circus. He did this for awhile, then took a job in a hotel, and...
This is the grave of John C. Fremont. Born in 1813 in Savannah, Fremont grew up in scandal. His father was a teacher from Canada, hired by a Georgia planter.
This is the grave of Clark Terry. Born in 1920 in St. Louis, Terry picked up the trumpet at a young age and was playing in local jazz bands when.
This is the grave of Bat Masterson. The thing to understand up front about people such as Masterson, or anyone who was involved in the "classic" western gunfights of the post-Civil War period is that they were all violent thugs. As my undergraduate advisor Richard...
This is the grave of [spit] Antonin Scalia. Is it really necessary to provide a biography of this utter hack? I don't think so. We all know about Scalia. And.
This is the grave of Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Born in 1813 on a plantation in Montgomery County, Maryland Maria Rosetta O'Neale, grew up in relatively comfortable circumstances. Her father was.
This is the grave of John Barry. Born in 1745 in Ballysampson, County Wexford, Ireland, Barry was a Catholic. He was treated as a Catholic in 18th century Ireland too. His family was kicked off their land by the landlord and moved to the coast,...
This is the grave of Paul McNutt. Born in 1891 in Franklin, Indiana, McNutt grew up in the middle class. His parents were initially teachers, but then his father became.
This is the grave of Oscar Mayer. Born in 1859 in Kösingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, Mayer's father was a forester. But his father died in 1870 and his son Oscar.