This is the grave of Roland Hartley. Born in 1864 in New Brunswick, Hartley was the son of a reverend, but at some point became involved in the timber industry. He moved to Minnesota and started a timber company. In doing so, he rose among...
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This is the grave of Dixy Lee Ray. One of the weirdest governors in a weird era of American politics, Ray was born Marguerite Ray in 1916 in Tacoma. When.
This is the grave of Junior Wells. Born Amos Blakemore in 1934 in or around Memphis, the boy who became Junior Wells began playing harmonica at the age of 7..
This is the grave of Susan Komen. There isn't that much to say about Komen herself. She was born in 1943 and died of breast cancer in 1980 at the age of 36, three years after her diagnosis. That is far too young and tremendously...
This is the grave of James Baldwin. Baldwin was born in 1924 and was raised by his mother and an awful stepfather. Avoiding his enormous, poor, and abusive family, Baldwin.
This is the grave of James Birney. Born in 1792 in Danville, Kentucky to Irish immigrants, Birney's family was torn on the issue of slavery. He had abolitionist family members..
This is the grave of Lucy Parsons. Despite her gravestone claiming she was born in 1859, Lucy Gonzalez was probably born around 1853, probably in Texas. She was born a slave. Parsons later claimed to be entirely Mexican and Native American heritage and not African-American....
This is the grave of Paul Revere. No, not that one. Paul Revere Dick was born in Harvard, Nebraska in 1938. At some point, his family moved to Idaho. In.
This is the grave of Franklin Pierce. One of the most detestable people to ever sit in the White House, a man so bad that he compares in quality to.
This is the grave of Enrico Fermi. Born in 1901 in Rome to a prominent political family, Fermi showed an unusual aptitude for physics from a very young age and went to the University of Pisa where he received an advanced degree at the age...
This is the grave of Peggy Pascoe. One of the finest historians of the 1980s and 1990s, Pascoe was a pioneer in women's history and legal history, particularly in the.
This is the archive of the Erik Visits an American Grave Series 1) Henry Clay Frick, vile steel capitalist 2) Eng and Chang Bunker, famed 19th century conjoined twins 3).