This is the grave of Abner Doubleday. Born in 1819 in Ballston Spa, New York, Doubleday grew up in Auburn, the son of a 4-term Congressman. He was sent to Cooperstown to live with an uncle and receive a high school education. He worked as...
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This is the grave of Robert Smith. Born in 1757 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Smith joined the Revolutionary Army soon after the war started and fought in the Battle of Brandywine..
This is the grave of Isaac Stevens. Born in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1818, Stevens had a rough childhood. His father was an unloving taskmaster who forced the boy to.
This is the grave of Ed Koch. Almost all of the time, I either already know more about these people than 99% of you or I can find out enough to do so. Not with Koch. I know many of you are New Yorkers and...
This is the grave of William Borah. Born in 1865 in Wayne County, Illinois, he was sent to a Presbyterian seminary, but was expelled for hitching train rides to spend.
This is the grave of Gaylord Nelson. Born in 1916 in Clear Lake, Wisconsin, Nelson ended up going to college at what is today San Jose State University in California,.
This is the grave of Meridel Le Sueur. Born in 1900 in Murray, Iowa, she grew up in a reformist family. Her family was involved in temperance, Populism, labor rights, the IWW, and other political movements. She imbibed deeply in all of them. Her parents...
These are the graves of the Staple Singers. Roebuck "Pops" Staples was born in Winona, Mississippi in 1914. He grew up with the blues, but switched to gospel in the.
This is the grave of James Cagney. What to even say about someone like Cagney? A true great of the early sound era. Everyone knows him for his gangster pictures--and.
This is the grave of Jerry Chesnut. Born in 1931 in Harlan County, Kentucky, Chesnut moved to Nashville in 1958 to make it in the country music industry. Like so many aspiring performers, he really didn't have it what it took to be a big...
This is the grave of Jean-Baptiste "Illinois" Jacquet. Born in 1922 in Louisiana, Jacquet and his parents moved to Houston when he was young. His father was a bandleader, though.
This is the grave of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. Born in 1914, the fifth child of FDR and Eleanor, Jr graduated from Groton in 1933, Harvard in 1937, and the.