Politics & Law

There were seven siblings in Sam’s family that were older than him, plus two younger ones. Their parents were immigrants who settled in Philadelphia from northern Ireland. From a family…

This man’s plot is marked with a ledger grave, a flat, horizontal stone that has plenty of room for a lengthy epitaph or whatever else one wishes to have inscribed.…

The Bryan family was one of the earliest to settle in the coastal plain of eastern North Carolina. Nathan’s father was one of several brothers that established plantations. As such,…

This ancient Irish surname is pronounced like Mars but without the letter “s.” John was given the name when he was born in Waterford, Ireland, but his father wasn’t there…

Charles was the grandson of Nicholas Iseminger, a Continental Army soldier who served in the Sixth Battalion of the Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution. The soldier’s son, Adam, had…

The easternmost city in the continental United States is appropriately named Eastport, Maine, where John was born. His Irish father and Massachusetts-born mother raised four other boys and a girl…