This is the grave of Francis Parkman. Born in Boston in 1823, Parkman grew up in the region's elite. His father was one of the city's leading Unitarian ministers. He was a sickly boy and spent a lot of time at his grandfather's heavily forested...
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This is the grave of Matthew Perry. Born in 1794 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Perry grew up in the world of post-Puritan respectability, with many ancestors being leading early.
This is the grave of Harry Blackmun. Born in 1908 in Nashville, Illinois, Blackmun grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Somewhat incredibly, he went to elementary school with Warren Burger..
This is the grave of Jaroslav Pelikan. Born in 1923 in Akron, Ohio, Pelikan grew up in a Lutheran family. His father was a pastor of a Slovak Lutheran church (I grew up Lutheran and had no idea that there were Slovak Lutherans). He embraced...
This is the grave of Arnold Stang. Born in 1918 in New York City, Stang broke into radio pretty early, doing child radio shows in the city. As he grew.
These are the graves of William Patterson, Jack and Sue Kling, and Art and Esther Shields. William Paterson was born in 1890 or 1891 in San Francisco. His father was.
This is the grave of Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee. Born in 1756 in Dumfries, Virginia, Lee grew up in the colonial Virginia elite that would soon be the leadership of the United States. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)...
This is the grave of Henry and William Steinway. Born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg in Wolfshagen, Duchy of Brunswick of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1797. His family was torn up.
This is the grave of Wade Hampton, II. Wade Hampton II is the son of the famed Revolutionary War leader and the father of the post-Civil War scumbag Wade Hampton.
This is the grave of Ralph Bunche. Born in Detroit in 1904, Bunche didn't have a great childhood. His father was a barber and moved around a lot for work, often leaving the family in quite a bit of poverty. They moved to Toledo when...
This is the grave of Allen Dulles. Born in 1893 in Watertown, New York and brother of future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Allen grew up in an elite.
This is the grave of George Ruffin and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. George Ruffin was born in 1834 in Richmond to free parents. Josephine St. Pierre was born free in.