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People & Pets
Lives remembered, and the companions who shared them.
In Memory of
Bass Reeves
1838 - 1910 - Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States
Every account of Bass Reeves reaches the same number: more than three thousand arrests. It is on the statues, in the encyclopedias, and in e...
In Memory of
Clara Brown
1800 - 1885 - Denver, Colorado, United States
She was sold away from her husband and three of her children at auction, and she spent the next forty-seven years looking for one of them. ...
In Memory of
Ida Lewis
February 25, 1842 - October 24, 1911 - Newport, Rhode Island, United States
She did the lighthouse keeper's job for twenty-two years before anyone gave her the title. Idawalley Zoradia Lewis was born in Newport, Rho...
In Memory of
Mary Fields
1832 - December 5, 1914 - Cascade, Montana, United States
She was about sixty years old when she took the job, and she never missed a day. Mary Fields was born into slavery in Hickman County, Tenne...
In Memory of
Standing Bear
1829 - 1908 - Niobrara, Nebraska, United States
In 1879 a federal court in Omaha was asked to decide whether a Native American was a person. It had never been settled. Standing Bear was a...
In Memory of
The Sager Children
1844 - Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Seven children crossed the plains in 1844. In twenty-six days they lost both parents, and the wagon train raised them the rest of the way. ...
In Memory of
Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins
1849 - 1908 - Columbus, Georgia, United States
He was born blind and enslaved in Harris County, Georgia, and by the time he was eight years old other people were making money out of him. ...
Places
Homes, buildings and ground that holds a story.
Things & Shared History
Businesses, teams, working lives, and everything else worth keeping.
A Tribute to
Pioneer Day and the Days of '47
July 24, 1849 - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
The same community has marked the same day for a hundred and seventy-seven years, and the sentence everyone quotes was written down thirty y...
A Tribute to
The Choctaw Gift to Ireland
1847 - Scullyville, Oklahoma, United States
In 1847 a group of Choctaw people in Indian Territory took up a collection for the starving poor of Ireland, a country none of them had seen...
A Tribute to
The Erie Canal
1817 - 1825 - Lockport, New York, United States
It is three hundred and sixty-three miles long, it was dug by hand, and the men who surveyed it were a judge, a mathematics teacher and a tw...
A Tribute to
The Lowell Mill Girls
1823 - Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
They were farm girls, most of them between fifteen and thirty-five, and they went to Lowell because it was the only place in America where a...
A Tribute to
The United States Life-Saving Service
August 14, 1848 - January 28, 1915 - United States
The regulations told them to launch. They did not say anything about getting back. The United States Life-Saving Service ran more than two ...
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