This is the grave of Charles Pillsbury. Born in New Hampshire in 1842, Pillsbury graduated from Dartmouth in 1863. Rather than fight in the Civil War, Pillsbury moved to Quebec, where he worked for the next 6 years as a clerk and then as a...
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This is the grave of Elbridge Gerry. Born in 1744 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Gerry grew up in a Massachusetts elite merchant family. He gradated from Harvard in 1762 and received.
This is the grave of Omar Bradley. I don't have indifference to military history, I have open hostility to it and to the people who find interest in utterly pointless.
This is the grave of Henry McCarty, aka, William Bonney, aka, Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid was a murderous thug who achieved the Old West fame that eastern urban Americans were just eating up in the late 19th and early 20th century. Born in...
This is the grave of Stephen Solarz. Born in 1940 in Manhattan, Solarz became interested in politics from a young age, received an MA in public law and government from.
This is the grave of William Howard Taft. While I am far past the point of venerating presidents, I find Taft a pretty interesting case, largely because his reputation today.
This is the grave of Joseph Inslee Anderson. Born in 1757 in Philadelphia, Anderson volunteered for the Patriot forces in 1776. Serving in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment, he rose in two years to the rank of captain, while also serving as paymaster, which I...
This is the grave of Ron Brown. Born in 1941, Brown grew up in a middle-class Harlem family and attended elite prep schools, one of the first black students at.
This is the grave of Billy Sunday. Born in 1862 in Iowa, Billy Sunday (his actual name) grew up poor. His father was in the Union army and died four.
This is the grave of John F. Kennedy. Oh, where to start here. He wasn't a terrible president. He also wasn't a particularly good president. He was certainly a massively overrated president, put on a pedestal by a generation of Baby Boomers who wanted their...
This is the grave of Voltiarine de Cleyre. Born in 1866 in Leslie, Michigan and named after Voltaire, her father placed her in a convent at the age of 12.
This is the grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Born in 1803 in Boston at the site of the Macy's downtown (there's a little plaque on the building), Emerson was the.