This is the grave of Andrew Jackson. What to say about Jackson that hasn't been said? Not much. He's had a lot of ink spilled on him and you all have strong opinions. Like you, I have a bunch of holiday prep to do and...
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This is the grave of Francis Preston Blair. Born in Abingdon, Virginia in 1791 to a politically ambitious family, Blair's father would become Kentucky's attorney general after the family moved.
This is the grave of Chester Arthur. Born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1829. A minister's son, the family moved around a lot in his early years, finally settling in Schenectady,.
This is the grave of William Pinkney Whyte Born in Baltimore in 1824, Whyte was named for his grandfather, former attorney general William Pinkney, who served under James Madison. However, he seems to have hated his parents, as he later changed his name from "White"...
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.
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 a brief discussion of the people building black communities in a very grim era of...
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,.
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 to Vassar College in 1883. Vassar claimed she was too young; whether her ethnicity had...
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.
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.