This is the grave of Grover Cleveland. Born in 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey to a minister father, he grew up in Fayetteville, New York, after his father became pastor at a church there and then moved to Utica, where his father died in 1853....
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This is the grave of Upton Sinclair. Born in 1878 in Baltimore to an impoverished boozing liquor-dealing father and a strictly religious mother from a very wealthy background who despised.
This is the grave of Richard Wright. Born in 1908 on a plantation outside of Natchez, Mississippi, Wright grew up sadly not too different than so many black agricultural families..
This is the grave of Tim Keefe. Born in 1857 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Keefe was the son of an Irish immigrant who fought for the Union in the Civil War. His father was a POW; all four of his brothers were killed. Young Tim was...
This is the grave of William Findley. Probably born in 1741 in County Ulster in Ireland, Findley emigrated to the American colonies in 1763. He moved to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
This is the grave of Albert Murray. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1916, Murray attended Tuskegee Institute and graduated in 1939. He started a graduate program at the University of.
This is the grave of Abraham Ribicoff. Born in New Britain, Connecticut to Polish Jewish immigrants in 1910, Ribicoff's parents were deeply committed to educating their children. Rather than send young Abe into a lifetime inside the factories where his father worked, they had him...
This is the grave of Bruce Goff. Goff was born in 1904 in Alton, Kansas to a watch repairman. The family was pretty poor and Goff grew up mostly in.
This is the grave of Jack Johnson. Born in 1878 in Galveston, Texas, Jack Johnson was the greatest challenge to white manhood in the Gilded Age. He left school as.
This is the grave of Andrew Goodman. Born in 1943 in New York, he grew up in a liberal Jewish family committed to social justice issues. After spending a short time at the University of Wisconsin, he transferred to Queens College. There he got involved...
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson. What to say about Jackson that hasn't been said? Not much. He's had a lot of ink spilled on him and you all.
This is the grave of Francis Preston Blair. Born in Abingdon, Virginia in 1791 to a politically ambitious family, Blair's father would become Kentucky's attorney general after the family moved.