whitelaw reid

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,459

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 16, 2023

This is the grave of Whitelaw Reid. Born in 1837 outside of Xenia, Ohio, Reid grew up poor. His family were struggling farmers and they didn't have much more than the basics of life. But he was determined to get an education and ended up...

Mike Furlan If we had an English sporting culture Hartford would have a team. “The exact number of clubs varies from year to year as clubs join and leave leagues, merge, or fold altogether, but an estimated...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,798 · January 12, 2025
thicket creeper That's too early, by a generation, to have been a symbol of the death of the dead ball era.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,798 · January 12, 2025
Mike Furlan Chariot racing was an earlier example probably not the first of using colors for team names. “These syndicates were named from the colors worn by their drivers. We hear at first of two only, the...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,798 · January 12, 2025
DavidCassatt I took a geology class in college and one of our field trips (besides a shale fossil yard and the Treman State Park gorge) was to the cemetery to study weathering. In terms of longevity,...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,798 · January 12, 2025
Keaaukane Is it better that Mary got her own, albeit smaller, headstone rather than just being added to his?
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,798 · January 12, 2025