william holbrook beard

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,053

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 4, 2026

This is the grave of William Holbrook Beard. Born in 1824 in Painesville, Ohio, Beard became a painter. He studied in Europe, but when he came back to the country in the 1860s, he avoided the Civil War (I assume he bought his way out)...