This is the grave of Al Smith. A lifelong resident of Manhattan, Al Smith was born in 1873. From a poor Irish Catholic family, Smith dropped out of school at age 14 to work in a fish market. He became involved in local politics and...
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This is the grave of William Paterson. William Paterson was born in Ireland in 1745. His family immigrated to the American colonies in 1747 and settled in New Jersey. He.
This is the grave of Ulysses S. Grant. Born in 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio, Grant grew up in a pretty working class or middling background. His father was a.
This is the grave of Roger Sherman. Born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1721, Roger Sherman moved with his family to Connecticut in 1743, where he rapidly rose in the colony's political scene. He had little formal education but picked up the law in his 30s....
Look what this nattering nabob of negativity found. As a proponent of amnesty, abortion, and acid, you can imagine how excited I was to stumble upon the grave of this.
This is the grave of Timothy Dwight. Timothy Dwight IV was born in 1752 in Northampton, Massachusetts. His family already had deep ties to Yale and not only was it.
This is the grave of Eli Whitney. Born in 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts, Eli Whitney became one of the most important inventors in American history. He graduated from Yale in 1792, going late because his stepmother opposed it and he had to earn the money...
This is the tomb of William McKinley. Born in 1843 in Niles, Ohio, William McKinley volunteered for the Civil War in 1861. He slowly rose in the war, rising to.
This is the grave of Robert Fulton. Fulton, the creator of the first commercially successful steamship, was born in Pennsylvania, managed to make friends with prominent people, and went to.
This is the grave of A. Bartlett Giamatti. Giamatti was born in 1935 and became an literature professor at Yale. In 1978, he became president of Yale, serving in that role until 1986. His tenure as president was marked by a bitter strike among Yale...
This is the grave of Thurlow Weed. Thurlow Weed was a political kingmaker of the Whig Party. Born in 1797 in New York, Weed became involved in politics at a.
This is the grave of Mark Hanna. Mark Hanna was the premier Republican kingmaker of the Gilded Age. Most famous for his close association with William McKinley, Hanna became a.