This is the grave of John von Neumann. Born in 1903 in Budapest, Neumann János Lajos grew up in a wealthy secular Jewish family. When the boy was 10, his father was given a spot in the Austro-Hungarian nobility, despite his heritage. It was at...
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This is the grave of Frankie Frisch. Born in The Bronx in 1897, Frisch was a phenomenal athlete who played four sports at Fordham University: baseball, basketball, football, and track..
This is the grave of John McLoughlin. Born in Quebec in 1784, Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin grew up Catholic, despite a Scots-Irish father. His father married a Quebecois woman and so the.
This is the grave of Horace Greeley. Born in 1811 on a farm outside of Amherst, New Hampshire. Evidently he barely survived, not really being able to breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life. At least on the Wikipedia page for Greeley, it...
This is the grave of Samuel Morse. Born in 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Morse grew up in a strong Federalist neo-Puritan family. His father was a minister and while much.
This is the grave of Joel Poinsett. Born in 1779 to a rich doctor and his wife in Charleston, South Carolina, Poinsett was educated with the elites of his time..
This is the grave of Al Capp. Born in 1909 in New Haven, Connecticut, Al Caplin grew up in a Jewish family with immigrant parents. They were very poor, but his parents were happy to have escaped the anti-Semitism of what is today Latvia. But...
This is the grave of August Belmont. Born in 1816 (many sources say 1813, including Wikipedia fwiw) to a Jewish family in Prussia, Belmont grew up mostly in Frankfurt and.
In this vault are the graves of John O'Connor and Edward Egan, cardinals in the Catholic Church. O'Connor was born in Philadelphia to an Irish Catholic family in 1920. Egan.
This is the grave of Clark Clifford. Born in 1906 in Fort Scott, Kansas, Clifford grew up in Missouri and attended Washington University in St. Louis. He picked up a law degree and practiced steadily and successfully between 1928 and 1943. He was a good...
This is the grave of Pierre Salinger. Born in San Francisco in 1925 to a wealthy half-Catholic, half-Jewish family, Salinger grew up with stories of his family's past. His grandfather.
This is the grave of John McCain, Jr. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1911 to a military family, McCain grew up traveling around the nation, following his father, who.