No regular grave will do for Halloween. Thus, this is the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. There is no reason to go over Lincoln's biography. Just a few general points and then everyone can go for it. 1) I really hate Mt. Rushmore. I hate it...
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This is the grave of Uriah Tracy. Born in Franklin, Connecticut in 1755, Tracy graduated from Yale in 1778 and was admitted to the bar in 1781. He got involved.
This is the grave of Rick James. Born James Johnson in Buffalo in 1948, James became interested in both partying and music in his early teens. He lied about his.
This is the grave of Collis Huntington. One of the most corrupt capitalists of the Gilded Age, Collis Huntington was born in 1821 in Harwinton, Connecticut. He traveled around a lot as a young man, from Virginia to New York, before heading to California during...
This is the grave of Thurgood Marshall. While Marshall is justly famous, his actual life is not so well known so it's worth spending some time laying this out. Born.
This is the mass grave for the victims of the 1890 genocidal massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee. I assume that everyone knows the story of Wounded Knee, but.
This is the grave of Charles Evans Hughes. Born in 1862 in Glens Falls, New York, Hughes enrolled at what is today Colgate University at the age of 14, transferred to Brown, and graduated at the age of...
This is the grave of Ed Muskie. Born in 1914 to a Polish immigrant father originally named Stephen Marciszewski before he changed his name when he immigrated in 1903, Muskie.
This is the grave of George McNeill. The so-called "Father of the Eight-Hour Day," McNeill was born in 1836 in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Like many young New Englanders of his day,.
This is the grave of Millard Fillmore. Please, try not to get too excited by this post. I recognize what hero worship looks like and I know the average LGM reader loves Millard Fillmore for obvious reasons. Born in 1800, Fillmore was the last Whig...
This is the grave of Miles Davis. For my money, Miles Davis is the greatest jazz musician of all time. This is hardly a novel assertion. I say this not.
This is the grave of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It's also of course the grave of Martin Ginsburg, her husband and a big-time lawyer himself. But I post this to remind.