This is the grave of John Altgeld. Born in 1847 in what is today Germany, Altgeld's parents immigrated to Ohio when he was an infant, settling on a farm near.
This is the grave of Lionel Hampton. Born in 1908 in Louisville, he and his mother moved frequently in his youth--to Birmingham, then to Kenosha, and then to Chicago. He.
This is the grave of Thomas McKennan. McKennan was born in New Castle, Delaware in 1794. His family moved to the frontier town of Washington, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh, when.
This is the grave of Herman Melville. Born in 1819 in Manhattan, Herman Melvill (the "e" was added later) was born into the middle class, as his father was a.
This is the grave of Vito Marcantonio. Born in East Harlem in 1902, Marcantonio grew up in a poor, nearly all-Italian neighborhood, the son of a father born in the.
This is the future grave of Roland Burris. Born in Centralia, Illinois in 1937, Burris attended Southern Illinois University and then got a law degree from Howard. Burris was a.
This is the grave of Theodore Roosevelt. OK, where to begin here. I could easily write several thousand words on Roosevelt without even having to think hard about it. So.
This is the grave of Jock Yablonski. Joseph "Jock" Yablonski was born in 1910 in Pittsburgh. His parents had moved to the U.S. from Poland not long before. Not uncommonly.
