This is the grave of John Hancock. Born in 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts to a prosperous and slave owning family, Hancock's father died when he was 7, but he went to live with his uncle, who ran a successful import business. He and his aunt...
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This is the grave of Stefan Osusky. Born in 1889 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in what is today Slovakia, Osusky became a Slovak patriot from a young age and was.
This is the grave of Edwin Drake. Born in 1819 in Greenville, New York, Drake grew up on farms in New York and Vermont. He wasn't too interested in doing.
This is the grave of Ephraim Bull. Born in 1806 in Boston, Bull was not destined for a life as an agricultural innovator. He was a city boy and was apprenticed to a goldbeater. I had to look up what that was. Turns out it...
This is the future grave of B. Vithal Shetty. Yesterday, I wrote about what happens when you wander around cemeteries, seeing stories of interesting people. Well, sometimes you find yourself.
This is the grave of Winston Edmunds. Sometimes, when you are wandering around a cemetery, you find a gravestone that speaks to you. This isn't so common anymore, because in.
This is the grave of George Pullman. Born in Brocton, New York in 1831, Pullman's father was a carpenter who achieved some renown for creating a machine to move buildings to different foundations as he worked on the Erie Canal. Pullman grew up helping his...
This is the grave of Traveller, the horse of the traitor Lee. Traveller was born in 1857 in Greenbrier County, Virginia, which is now part of West Virginia. He won.
This is the grave of Dudley Moore. Born in London in 1935 to a working class family, Moore had physical aliments from his birth, resulting in his short height, a.
This is the grave of Henry David Thoreau. Born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts to a middling family and a pencil making father, Thoreau attended Harvard and found the experience rather trying, beginning to question whether he was learning anything of real value. During these...
This is the grave of Henry Adams. Born in 1838 into one of the nation's most elite families, if not the single most elite, young Henry was the son of.
This is the grave of Caspar Weinberger. Born in 1917 in San Francisco, Weinberger's family were ethnically Jewish but had abandoned the faith a long time before and were vaguely.