william allen white

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 983

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 26, 2021

This is the grave of William Allen White. Born in 1868 in Emporia, Kansas, White grew up in the town of El Dorado, Kansas, not far from Wichita. His family was pretty well-off for small-town Kansas and he went to Emporia College, back in the...

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