This is the grave of Fernando Wood. Born in 1812 in Philadelphia, Wood's Spanish first name, highly unusual for an English-American at the time, came out of a gothic novel his mother liked. His family moved to New York in 1820. Wood became a bar...
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This is the grave of George Clinton. Born in 1739 in Little Britain, New York, Clinton's father was a farmer involved in local politics. Although just a kid, Clinton readily.
This is the grave of John Wilkes Booth. There's really no need for a biography of Booth. All I can really say is that it was extremely weird to visit.
This is the grave of Daniel Burnham. Born in 1846 in Henderson, New York to a Swedenborgian family, as a young man he failed to get into either Harvard or Yale and also failed at an initial attempt to enter politics. Instead, he became an...
Underneath this fallen tree is the grave of Jonas Salk. Born in 1914 in New York City to Jewish parents, Salk at first lived a pretty normal life for that.
This is the grave of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. The parents of FDR, James and Sara Roosevelt were landed elite in Hyde Park, New York, part of the.
This is the grave of Samuel Flagg Bemis. Born in 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bemis graduated from Clark University in 1912 and then got a Ph.D. in History from Harvard in 1916. He went west and taught at Colorado College in Colorado Springs and then...
This is the grave of Henry James. Born in 1843 to old New York money, Henry grew up in luxury. He and his family, which of course included his brother,.
This is the grave of Ted Kennedy. It's hardly necessary here to provide the details of Ted Kennedy's life. After all, he was a seminal figure of American politics for.
This is the graveyard at Jamestown Colony. Jamestown was a complete disaster in its early years. See, all the European colonial incursions faced a problem: there wasn't very many of them and they violently demanded that Native people work for them for free. When those...
This is the grave of Jonathan Edwards. Born in 1703 in East Windsor, Connecticut to a minister and the daughter of another minister, Edwards grew up in a family deeply.
This is the grave of the vile traitor Albert Sidney Johnston. Born in 1803 in Washington, Kentucky, he was educated first at Transylvania University in Lexington and then at the.