This is the grave of John Jacob Astor. Johann Jakob Astor was born in 1763 in Walldorf, in what is today Germany. His family was skilled workers and that seemed where he was heading. He moved to England in 1779 to work in his uncle's...
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This is the grave of Earl Butz. Born in Albion, Indiana in 1909, Butz grew up working on his parents' dairy farm. Unlike many young farm boys, Butz kept on.
This is the grave of William O. Douglas. Born in 1898 in Maine Township, Minnesota, Douglas' father was an itinerant preacher and the family moved around a lot. By 1904,.
This is the grave of Elizabeth Freeman. Born into slavery around 1744 on a farm near Claverack, New York, Freeman's experience wasn't so unusual. New York was the center of American slavery in the North. While there were slaves in all the colonies and while...
This is the grave of Bernard Kilgore. Born in Albany, Indiana in 1908, Bernard Kilgore, who preferred to be called Barney, graduated from DePauw University. For whatever reason, DePauw, which.
This is the grave of the odious Gilded Age lawyer and capitalist George Baer. Born in 1842 in Lavansville, Pennsylvania, Baer dropped out of school at the age of 13.
This is the memorial to Margaret Fuller. Born in 1810 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to an active family in politics and reform and to a father who served several terms in Congress, Fuller was taught to read at a very young age and subjected to a...
This is the grave of William Jennings Bryan. One of the most complicated and fascinating figures in American history, Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois in 1860 to a locally.
This is the grave of the vile right-wing anti-union extremist senator from Ohio, Robert Taft. The son of William Howard Taft and grandson of former attorney general Alphonso Taft, Robert.
This is the grave of the traitor Matthew Maury. Born in 1806 to an elite Virginia family near Fredericksburg, Maury wanted nothing more than to join the Navy. But after his older brother died of yellow fever while in the Navy, his father forbade it....
This is the grave of the traitor Jefferson Davis. Unfortunately born in 1808 in Kentucky, Davis' family moved when he was a child, first to Louisiana and then to Mississippi..
This is the grave of Jackie Robinson. There isn't much point of doing a biography of Robinson here. He's so famous and his story.