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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 114

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 27, 2017

This is the grave of Hugh Bennett. The father of American soil conservation, Bennett was born in 1881 in North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1903 and went to work on soil conservation. This was a major problem in American...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 113

By Erik Loomis

On July 26, 2017

This is the grave of Matthew Brady. Probably born in 1822 in New York (there is a bit of conflicting testimony about both facts, with some believing he was born.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 112

By Erik Loomis

On July 25, 2017

This is the grave of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Wilbur Wright was born in 1867 in Indiana and his younger brother Orville was born four years later in Dayton. Neither.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 111

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 24, 2017

This is the grave of Phil Sheridan. Born in 1831 in Albany, New York, Sheridan's family moved to Ohio when he was young. He was a very lucky young man. He worked as a bookkeeper as a teenager but got to know his local congressman,...

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Erik Visits as American Grave, Part 110

By Erik Loomis

On July 23, 2017

This is the grave of John Smilie. Born in 1741 in Ireland, Smilie immigrated to Pennsylvania around 1760. He became involved with the Patriots in Lancaster County, fighting as a.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 109

By Erik Loomis

On July 22, 2017

This is the grave of John Shalikashvili Born in 1936 into an exiled noble Georgian family in Poland, Shalikashvili spent his childhood in the upheaval of World War II Europe..

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 108

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 21, 2017

This is the grave of Paul Laurence Dunbar. A pioneering African-American poet, Dunbar was born in Dayton in 1872 to former slaves who had traveled north from Kentucky after emancipation. He started writing poetry at a very young age, giving his first public recital at...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 107

By Erik Loomis

On July 18, 2017

This is the grave of Potter Stewart. Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1915, Stewart was a member of a powerful Ohio Republican family. His father was mayor of Cincinnati and.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 106

By Erik Loomis

On July 17, 2017

This is the grave of Charles Pillsbury. Born in New Hampshire in 1842, Pillsbury graduated from Dartmouth in 1863. Rather than fight in the Civil War, Pillsbury moved to Quebec,.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 105

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 16, 2017

This is the grave of Elbridge Gerry. Born in 1744 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Gerry grew up in a Massachusetts elite merchant family. He gradated from Harvard in 1762 and received an M.A. from the same institution in 1765. He was an early supporter of anti-British...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 104

By Erik Loomis

On July 15, 2017

This is the grave of Omar Bradley. I don't have indifference to military history, I have open hostility to it and to the people who find interest in utterly pointless.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 103

By Erik Loomis

On July 14, 2017

This is the grave of Henry McCarty, aka, William Bonney, aka, Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid was a murderous thug who achieved the Old West fame that eastern urban.