This is the grave of Charles Lee. Born in 1732 in Darnhall, Cheshire, England, Lee grew up in a prominent English military family. His father John was a major general and his mother came out of serious landed gentry. So he was very rich. This...
graves
This is the grave of Alan Freed, visited in the aftermath of a ridiculous amount of snow not allowing me to get a better photo. Born in 1921 in Windber,.
This is the grave of Hiram Johnson. Born in 1866 in Sacramento, California, Johnson grew up in politics. His father was a leading California Republican who spent a term in.
This is the grave of Ulrich B. Phillips. Born in 1877 in La Grange, Georgia, Phillips was a son of the post-Reconstruction South and boy did he show it over his long career as a historian. His father was a minor merchant but his mother...
This is the grave of the Hearst family. Born in 1820 near Sullivan, Missouri, George Hearst was an uneducated man of the frontier who didn't read well, but got interested.
This is the grave of William Crocker. Born in 1861 in Sacramento, California, Crocker grew up the son of Charles Crocker, one of the "Big Four" railroad kings of California..
This is the grave of Leslie Groves. Born in 1896 in Albany, New York, Groves was the son of an Army chaplain. So they moved around a lot. Dad was the chaplain blessing soldiers as they wrested colonies from Spain and the people in Cuba...
This is the grave of Justin Morrill. Born in Stafford, Vermont in 1810, Morrill grew up a child of the common schools. That really stuck with him as perhaps no.
This is the grave of Charles Dudley Warner. Born in 1829 in Plainfield, Massachusetts, Warner grew up in Charlemont and then the family moved to New York in about 1843..
This is the grave of Bernard Bailyn. Born in 1922 in Hartford, Bailyn grew up in a wealthy Jewish family. He got into Williams, not so easy for Jews at that time. He graduated in 1945 rather than joining the military. He then went to...
This is the grave of John Spencer Bassett. Born in 1867 in Tarboro, North Carolina, Bassett was a white kid in the Reconstruction era and its aftermath, but he had.
This is the grave of Carl Fisher. In the history of America, some people are just born hustlers. They aren't necessarily dumb (or smart) and they aren't necessarily evil, though.