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 Mansfield. He grew up there, lied about his age to join the Union Army in...
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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 Ray Boone. Born in 1923 in San Diego, Boone was a star baseball player in high school. The Cleveland Indians signed him after high school.
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 he was young. He graduated from Washington College in 1810 and was admitted to the...
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 T.V. Soong. Soong Tzu-Wen was born in 1894 in Shanghai to one of the China's most elite families. Among his sisters were Soong Ching-Ling, who.
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 U.S. and a mother from Italy. He became a radical from a young age, outraged...
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 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1917 to legendary early social historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr and Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger, a relative of George.
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 I am going just make 10 points about one of the most well-known people in...
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.
This is the grave of Bruce and Brandon Lee. Bruce Lee was born in 1940 in San Francisco. His actual name was Lee Jun-Fan, but from birth, he was known.