This is the grave of Phil Sheridan. Born in 1831 in Albany, New York, Sheridan's family moved to Ohio when he was young. He was a very lucky young man. He worked as a bookkeeper as a teenager but got to know his local congressman,...
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This is the grave of John Smilie. Born in 1741 in Ireland, Smilie immigrated to Pennsylvania around 1760. He became involved with the Patriots in Lancaster County, fighting as a.
This is the grave of John Shalikashvili Born in 1936 into an exiled noble Georgian family in Poland, Shalikashvili spent his childhood in the upheaval of World War II Europe..
This is the grave of Paul Laurence Dunbar. A pioneering African-American poet, Dunbar was born in Dayton in 1872 to former slaves who had traveled north from Kentucky after emancipation. He started writing poetry at a very young age, giving his first public recital at...
This is the grave of Potter Stewart. Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1915, Stewart was a member of a powerful Ohio Republican family. His father was mayor of Cincinnati and.
This is the grave of Charles Pillsbury. Born in New Hampshire in 1842, Pillsbury graduated from Dartmouth in 1863. Rather than fight in the Civil War, Pillsbury moved to Quebec,.
This is the grave of Elbridge Gerry. Born in 1744 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Gerry grew up in a Massachusetts elite merchant family. He gradated from Harvard in 1762 and received an M.A. from the same institution in 1765. He was an early supporter of anti-British...
This is the grave of Omar Bradley. I don't have indifference to military history, I have open hostility to it and to the people who find interest in utterly pointless.
This is the grave of Henry McCarty, aka, William Bonney, aka, Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid was a murderous thug who achieved the Old West fame that eastern urban.
This is the grave of Stephen Solarz. Born in 1940 in Manhattan, Solarz became interested in politics from a young age, received an MA in public law and government from Columbia in 1967 and taught for a year at Brooklyn College. He managed the House...
This is the grave of William Howard Taft. While I am far past the point of venerating presidents, I find Taft a pretty interesting case, largely because his reputation today.
This is the grave of Joseph Inslee Anderson. Born in 1757 in Philadelphia, Anderson volunteered for the Patriot forces in 1776. Serving in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment, he rose.