Swan Point Cemetery
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Swan Point Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Established in 1846 on a 60-acre plot of land, it has approximately 40,000 interments.
Entrance sign for Swan Point Cemetery
Grave of Rhode Island Governor Elisha Dyer Jr.
Gravestone of H. P. Lovecraft
Nelson W. Aldrich
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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s, he was
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…David Aldrich, American artist Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, grandfather of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Richard Steere Aldrich, U.S. Congressman, son of Nelson W. Aldrich…
Nelson W. Aldrich
Abigail Pearce Truman Chapman
Reformers hated and feared Senator Aldrich for killing reforms disliked by big business. 1906 Puck cartoon.
Taft tries to get progressive ideas into Aldrich