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 as a reporter with the Des Moines Register. He worked at that for awhile, then...
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This is the grave of Bob Bullock. Born in Hillsboro, Texas in 1929, Bullock received a B.A. from Texas Tech in 1955, after serving in the Korean War. He then.
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, was illegal in that state. Turner was apprenticed to a cotton planter, making his condition...
This is the grave of Ogden Mills. Born in 1884 in Newport, Rhode Island to the toniest of the Gilded Age elite, Mills grew up with all the luxury and.
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 enough to look up. But a few general points to spur conversation: 1) Two things...
This is the grave of Allen Treadway. For the most part, Allen Treadway is not particularly interesting. He was a long-time congressman from Massachusetts. He was born in 1867 in.
This is the grave of Jesse Bright. Born in Norwich, New York in 1812, Bright's family moved to Indiana in 1820. Bright was, well, bright, and was admitted to the.
This is the grave of Taza. A leader of the Chiricahua Apache, Taza was born around 1843, the son of the legendary Cochise. He grew up in a period where the life for his people was in complete collapse. The various Apache groups had more...
This is the grave of Bernandine Healy. Born in 1944, Healy went to Vassar College, graduating as a chemistry major in 1965. She then went to Harvard Medical School and.
This is the grave of Hassan Toufanian. I don't know too much about Toufanian. But I was wandering a cemetery looking for someone else and boy did that grave stone.