Adams, Henry Brooks - Washington DC

Henry Brooks Adams

Washington, DC

N 38° 56.844 W 077° 00.618

Adams Memorial

The grave of Henry Adams and Marian Hooper Adams, known as Clover, is marked by a sculpture created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture was commissioned by Henry Brooks Adams upon the death of his wife Marian Hooper "Clover" Adams who committed suicide at the age of 42 because of health issues that led to depression. The Adams Memorial is set within a closed space surrounded by conifers in Rock Creek Cemetery. It is the most visited grave in Washington DC. At the request of Henry Brooks Adams, there are no inscriptions at the gravesite.

The 5' 10" bronze sculpture depicts a draped figure of undetermined gender seated on a granite bench with their right arm bent upwards touching the lower right side of their face. The figure has an expression of sadness with eyes closed. Saint-Gaudens named this sculpture Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, but it is commonly called Grief.

Grief

Grief - Detail

Henry Brooks Adams was a historian, author, and journalist and the great grandson of the sixth President of the United States John Quincy Adams. He was the great-grandson of President John Adams, the grandson of President John Quincy Adams.

Henry Brooks Adams was born in Boston on February 16, 1838 into the prominent Adams family. He graduated Harvard University in 1858. In Washington, DC began his career as a journalist and in 1870 he became a professor of medieval history at Harvard University.

Adams is most famous for his nine volume work The History of the United States of America (1801 to 1817) His other writings include (in chronological order):

Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law

Life of Albert Gallatin.

The Writings of Albert Gallatin

Democracy: An American Novel

John Randolph.

Esther: A Novel

1889–1891. History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (9 volumes).

Historical Essays.

Tahiti: Memoirs of Arii Taimai e Marama of Eimee ... Last Queen of Tahiti

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres.

The Life of George Cabot Lodge

The Education of Henry Adams

The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

Letters

The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1–3: 1858–1892 .

The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 4–6: 1892–1918

Alcott, Louisa May - Concord, MA

Louisa May Alcott

Concord, MA

N 42° 27.886 W 071° 20.535

On top of Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the family plot and grave of Louisa May Alcott. She is buried near the graves of of Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorn, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. She is buried in a large family plot which includes her father, Bronson Alcott, mother, and sisters. In addition to the family headstone there is a small standing headstone inscribed:

L.M.A.

1832 -1888

and a ground level plaque that is inscribed:

LOUISA M. AlCOTT.

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, PA on November 29, 1832 to Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott. She was the second of four daughters. The family moved to Boston in 1838. As a child she lived at 20 Pinckney Street in Boston, MA with her parents and her three sisters: Anna Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Abigail May Alcott. Her family was part of the Boston literary scene with such friends as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

In 1860, Louisa May began writing for the Atlantic Monthly and later she wrote novels under the pen name A. M. Barnard. In 1868, while living at the Orchard House in Concord, MA, she published her most famous work, Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), a semi-autobiographical book about her childhood with her sisters.

Alcott died at age 55, in Boston, MA, of a stroke on March 6, 1888 and is buried on Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA.

Author's Ridge contains the graves of the four elite members of the Boston literary world of the 19th century. In sequential order you will find the family plots, including the graves, of these four famous contemporary authors: Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864), Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888), and Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882). The Thoreau, Hawthorne and Alcott graves are clustered together while a sign points to the grave of Emerson a short distance east along the ridge.

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Writings by Louisa May Alcott:

The Little Women trilogy:

Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868)
Good Wives (1869)
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871)

Other Novels:

The Inheritance (1849, unpublished until 1997)
Moods (1865, revised 1882)
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (1867)
An Old Fashioned Girl (1870)
Will's Wonder Book (1870)
Work: A Story of Experience (1873)
Beginning Again, Being a Continuation of Work (1875)
Eight Cousins or The Aunt-Hill (1875)
Rose in Bloom: A Sequel to Eight Cousins (1876)
Under the Lilacs (1878)
Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880)
Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" (1886)

Barnum, Phineas T. - Bridgeport, CT, USA

Phineas T. Barnum

Mountain Grove Cemetery

Bridgeport, CT, USA

N 41° 10.316 W 073° 13.453

The family plot of Phineas T. Barnum is marked by a tall monument and individual headstones. The monument is inscribed:

PHINEAS T. BARNUM

DIED

APRIL 7, 1891

AE. 80 Y'RS.

----

CHARITY

HIS WIFE

DIED NOV. 19, 1873

AE. 65 Y'RS.

----

FRANCES J.

THEIR DAUGHTER

DIED APRIL 10, 1844

AGED 1 YEAR & 11 MO.

BARNUM

The headstone for Phineas T. Barnum is inscribed:

P.T. BARNUM

NOT MY WILL BUT

THINE BE DONE

P.T. Barnum was born in Bethel, CT on July 5, 1810 where he founded a weekly newspaper before moving to New York City in 1834.

In New York, Barnum creating a curiosity museum and the circus that now is part of the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus. His career in entertainment included a variety troupe called "Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater" and purchasing Scudder's American Museum, which he renamed the Barnum American Museum. He became famous for using the museum to promote hoaxes and human curiosities such as the Feejee mermaid and General Tom Thumb. He also promoted the American tour of singer Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale". P.T. Barnum is closely associated with the aphorism "There's a sucker born every minute."

Barnum was also served in Connecticut House of Representatives from 1866–1869 and the mayor of Bridgeport, CT from 1875–1876. He died in Bridgeport on April 7, 1891 and is buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery.

The following books authored by P.T. Barnum:

The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
The Life of P. T. Barnum
Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum
Humbugs of the World
The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT IN THE UNIVERSE
Reader's Digest Great Biographies: Struggles And Triumphs Or The Life Of P T Barnum; The China I Knew; The Life And Death Of Adolf Hitler; An Exceptional Marriage, Louisa Catherine And John Quincy Adams
Animal Stories: An Account of the Author's Famous Expedition in Search of Wild Animals for the Circus
Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum
The Art of Money Getting and Letter to John Greenwood
The Wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles of the World: The Story of Their Capture

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Bellamy, Edward - Chicopee, MA

 

Edward Bellamy

Fairview Cemetery

Chicopee, MA

N 42° 08.389 W 072° 35.416

The family brownstone obelisk in Fairview Cemetery, Chicopee, MA marks the grave of 19th century American author Edward Bellamy.

EDWARD BELLAMY
MARCH 26, 1850
MAY 22, 1898

EMMA S. BELLAMY
FEBRUARY 12, 1861
SEPTEMBER 4, 1956

BELLAMY A. EARNSHAW
APRIL 21, 1912
OCTOBER 13, 1959

Inscription

Edward Bellamy was born on March 26, 1850 in Chicopee, MA. He attended Union College of Schenectady, NY for two semester before leaving school travel in Europe for a year, spending much of this time in Germany. Upon his return home he became a journalist on the staff of the New York Post before returning to Massachusetts to take a position at the Springfield Union newspaper. He quit journalism to devote himself completely to writing both short stories and novels. Edward Bellamy's writings include: 

Six to One: A Nantucket Idyl., 1878.
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, 1880.
Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immorality, 1885.
Looking Backwards 2000–1887, 1888.
"How I Came to Write Looking Backward", May 1889.
"Principles and Purposes of Nationalism" December 19, 1889.
"The Programme of the Nationalists" 1894.
Equality, 1898.
The Blindman's World and Other Stories, 1898.
The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shay's Rebellion, 1900.
"Edward Bellamy: Selected Writings on Religion and Society", 1955.
Apparitions of Things to Come: Edward Bellamy's Tales of Mystery & Imagination, 1990.

The novel Looking Backwards is Edward Bellamy's most famous work. His concerned with social and economic justice inspired this novel. The book describes a Utopian vision for American society in the year 2000. The vision expressed in this book led to the formation of Bellamy Nationalist Clubs and a political movement that became known as Nationalism. Looking Backwards has been described as the basis for 19th century liberalism in America.

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Bellow, Saul - Brattleboro, VT

Saul Bellow

Brattleboro, VT

N 42° 50.438 W 072° 33.233

The grave of Pulitizer and Nobel Prize winning Canadian-American author Saul Bellow is located in the Shir He Harim Jewish Cemetery section of Morningside Cemetery in Brattleboro, VT. His grave is marked by a larger, upright, granite, family monument and a horizontal ground level monument. The family monument is inscribed with the family name BELLOW. A dado in the lower left corner is inscribed in Hebrew and English. The English inscription is:

SAUL BELLOW

WRITER

JUNE 10, 1915 - APR. 5, 2005

The horizontal ground marker is has a Star of David and the inscription:

SAUL BELLOW

1915 - 2005

 

Saul Bellow was born Solomon Bellows on June 10, 1915 in Lachine, PQ, Canada.When he was 9 years old his family moved to Chicago, IL, USA. He attended the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and graduate school at the graduate work at the University of Wisconsin.

While as a merchant marine during World War II he wrote his first novel Dangling Man in 1944. He continued a writing career while he taught at several colleges and universities. During is life he published the following novels and novellas:

Dangling Man (1944)
The Victim (1947)
The Adventures of Augie March, (1953) National Book Award for Fiction
Seize the Day (1956)
Henderson the Rain King (1959)
Herzog (1964), National Book Award
Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), National Book Award
Humboldt's Gift (1975) , winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Dean's December (1982)
More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
A Theft (1989)
The Bellarosa Connection (1989)
The Actual (1997)
Ravelstein (2000)

In 1976, Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work."

During his life he received the following awards:

1948 Guggenheim Fellowship

1954 National Book Award for Fiction

1965 National Book Award for Fiction

1971 National Book Award for Fiction

1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1976 Nobel Prize in Literature

1980 O. Henry Award

1986 St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates

1988 National Medal of Arts

1989 PEN/Malamud Award

1989 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award

1990 National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

1997 National Jewish Book Award for The Actual

2010 Inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.

Bronson, Charles - West Warren, VT

 

Charles Bronson

Brownsville #2 Cemetery

West Warren, VT

N 43° 28.331 W 072° 28.323

The grave of actor Charles Bronson is located in the northwest corner of Brownville No 2 Cemetery in the village of Brownsville in West Warren, VT. The ledger stone is inscribed:

Charles Bronson
November 3, 1921
August 30, 2003

Cherished Husband
and Father

NOTE: The ashes of his second wife, actress Jill Ireland, have been interred along with Bronson. However, her name does not appear on the marker.

Below is a popular memorial poem "Immortality", written by Clare Harner in 1934.

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not here, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond's glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the autumn's gentle rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush.
I am the swift uplifting rush.

Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not here, I did not die.

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Burgess, Thornton Waldo - Springfield, MA

 

Thornton Waldo Burgess

Springfield Cemetery

Springfield, MA

N 42° 06.149 W 072° 34.481

Headstone

Conservationist, naturalist and famous author of children stories Thornton W. Burgess is buried in Springfield Cemetery, 171 Maple Street, Springfield, MA.

THORNTON W

JAN 14 1875 JUNE 5 1965
HIS WIFE

NINA E. OSBORNE

JUNE 1 1881 MAY 18 1906
FANNIE H. PHILLIPS HIS WIFE
FEB 16 1872 AUG 16 1950
CAROLINE F BURGESS
JAN 1 1850 JUNE 18 1912

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Thornton Waldo Burgess was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts on January 14, 1874 to Caroline F. Haywood and Thornton W. Burgess, Sr. He became an ardent conservationist, naturalist, and author of children's stories. His stories reflected his love of nature. He wrote over 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column, Bedtime Stories.

He moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he took a job as an editorial assistant at the Phelps Publishing Company. He married Nina Osborne in 1905, but she died a year later on May 18, 1906. He remarried in 1911 to Fannie Phillips who had two children from a previous marriage.

Burgess' first stories were written under the pen name W. B. Thornton. Burgess' first book, Old Mother West Wind was published in 1910. There and in later books he introduced many of his well known characters, including Peter Rabbit (a.k.a. Peter Cottontail), Jimmy Skunk, Sammy Jay, Bobby Raccoon, Little Joe Otter, Grandfather Frog, Billy Mink, Jerry Muskrat, Spotty the Turtle, and Old Mother West Wind and her Merry Little Breezes.

In 1925 he bought a home in Hampden, Massachusetts which is now in 1925 now now part of the Laughing Brook Wildlife Sanctuary operated by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He died on June 5, 1965, at the age of 91

Wikipedia list the following publications by Thornton Burgess:

1905 The Bride's Primer (contributor)
1910 Old Mother West Wind
1911 Mother West Wind's Children
1912 Baby Possum Has a Scare
1912 Baby Possum's Queer Voyage
1912 Mother West Wind's Animal Friends
1912 The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp
1913 Little Animal Stories for Little Children
1913 Mother West Wind's Neighbors
1913 The Adventures of Reddy Fox
1913 The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
1913 The Boy Scouts on Swift River
1914 A Glad Time Made a Sad Time
1914 Danny Meadow Mouse Learns Something
1914 Fun with Farmer Brown's Boy
1914 How Unc' Billy Possum Met Buster Bear
1914 Jack Frost Helps Paddy the Beaver
1914 Jerry Muskrat Begins to Build
1914 Jerry Muskrat Is Laughed At
1914 Jerry Muskrat Wins Respect
1914 Jumper the Hare Cannot Sleep
1914 Mr. Toad and Danny Meadow Mouse Take a Walk
1914 Old Mr. Toad Gets His Stomach Full
1914 Peter Rabbit Puts on Airs
1914 Striped Chipmunk's Secret Joke
1914 The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
1914 The Adventures of Mr. Mocker
1914 The Adventures of Peter Cottontail
1914 The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
1914 The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail
1914 Unc' Billy Possum Has a Fright
1915 Mother West Wind "Why" Stories
1915 My Own Bedtime Story
1915 Peter Rabbit's Get Acquainted Party
1915 The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
1915 The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
1915 The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
1915 The Adventures of Sammy Jay
1915 The Bedtime Story Calendar
1915 The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's Camp
1915 Tommy and the Wishing Stone
1915 Tommy's Wishes Come True
1916 Little Animal Stories for Children
1916 Mother West Wind "How" Stories
1916 The Adventures of Buster Bear
1916 The Adventures of Old Man Coyote
1916 The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad
1916 The Adventures of Prickly Porky
1917 An Important Meeting at the Smiling Pool
1917 Busy Folks and Sleepy Folks
1917 Four little Mice at School and Play
1917 Johnny Chuck Loses His Temper
1917 Mother West Wind "When" Stories
1917 Paddy the Beaver Gives Warning
1917 Peter Rabbit Introduces His Big Cousin
1917 Peter Rabbit Learns from Striped Chipmunk
1917 Striped Chipmunk Has a Secret
1917 The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver
1917 The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
1918 Happy Jack
1918 Happy Jack Squirrel's Thrift Club
1918 Mother West Wind "Where" Stories
1918 The Adventures of Bobby Coon
1918 The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
1919 Mrs. Peter Rabbit
1919 The Adventures Bobby White
1919 The Adventures of Ol' Mistah Buzzard
1919 The Burgess Bird Book for Children
1920 Bowser the Hound
1920 Old Granny Fox
1920 The Burgess Animal Book for Children
1921 Lightfoot the Deer
1921 Tommy's Change of Heart
1922 Blacky the Crow
1922 Buster Bear Invites Old Mr. Toad to Dine
1922 Grandfather Frog Stays in the Smiling Pool
1922 Whitefoot the Woodmouse
1923 Buster Bear's Twins
1923 The Burgess Flower Book for Children
1924 Billy Mink
1925 Animal Pictures
1925 Little Joe Otter
1926 Jerry Muskrat at Home
1926 The Christmas Reindeer
1927 A Frightened Baby
1927 A Great Joke on Jimmy Skunk
1927 A Woe-Begone Little Bear
1927 An Imp of Mischief
1927 Cubby Bear Has a Mind of His Own
1927 Cubby Finds an Open Door
1927 Cubby Gets a Bath
1927 Cubby in Mother Brown's Pantry
1927 Digger the Badger Decides to Stay
1927 Grandfather Frog Gets a Ride
1927 Happy Jack Squirrel Helps Unc' Billy
1927 Longlegs the Heron
1927 Milk and Honey
1927 The Neatness of Bobby Coon
1927 What Farmer Brown's Boy Did
1928 Bobby Coon Has a Good Time
1928 Bowser the Hound Meets His Match
1928 Grandfather Frog Fools Farmer Brown's Boy
1928 Happy Jack Squirrel's Bright Idea
1928 Peter Rabbit Learns to Use His New Coat
1929 Farmer Brown's Boy Becomes Curious
1929 Little Joe Otter's Slide
1929 The Burgess Seashore Book for Children
1929 Wild Flowers We Know
1929 Wild Flowers We Should Know
1930 Betty Bear's Lesson
1930 Whitefoot's Secret
1932 Big Book of Green Meadow Stories
1932 The Burgess Big Book of Green Meadow Stories
1933 Birds You Should Know
1933 Jimmy Skunk's Justice
1933 Peter Rabbit's Carrots
1935 The Wishing-Stone Stories
1937 Big Thornton Burgess Story-book
1937 Tales from the Storyteller's House
1937 The Book of Animal Life
1938 Mother Nature's Song and Story Book
1938 While the Story-Log Burns
1940 A Merry Coasting Party
1940 A Robber Meets His Match
1940 Bobby Coon's Mistake
1940 Paddy's Surprise Visitor
1940 Peter Rabbit Proves a Friend
1940 Reddy Fox's Sudden Engagement
1940 The Three Little Bears
1940 Young Flash the Deer
1941 Little Pete's Adventure
1941 The Little Burgess Animal Book for Children
1941 The Little Burgess Bird Book for Children
1942 Animal Stories (also published as The Animal World of Thornton Burgess)
1942 Little Chuck's Adventure
1942 Little Red's Adventure
1942 Thornton Burgess Animal Stories
1944 On the Green Meadows
1944 The Feast at Big Rock
1944 Why Peter Rabbit's Ears Are Long and Three Other Stories
1945 At the Smiling Pool
1945 The Big Book of Burgess Nature Stories
1946 The Crooked Little Path
1947 The Dear Old Briar-Patch
1949 Along Laughing Brook
1949 Baby Animal Stories
1949 Nature Almanac
1950 A Thornton Burgess Picture Story Book
1950 At Paddy the Beaver's Pond
1953 Everybody Lends Jerry Muskrat a Hand
1953 Peter Rabbit's Prank
1953 Reddy Fox Takes a Bath
1954 Peter Rabbit and Reddy Fox
1954 The Littlest Christmas Tree
1955 Aunt Sally's Friends in Fur
1955 Stories Around the Year
1956 50 Favorite Burgess Stories
1956 Little Peter Cottontail
1957 How Peter Cottontail Got His Name
1958 Read Aloud Peter Rabbit Stories
1959 Bedtime Stories
1959 Nature Stories to Read Aloud
1960 Now I Remember: Autobiography of an Amateur Naturalist
1963 The Million Little Sunbeams
1965 Mother West Wind Stories to Read Aloud
1965 The Burgess Book of Nature Lore

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