Episode 142 - From Quaker Values to Railroad Empires: The Life and Legacy of General William Jackson Palmer
The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery - Un pódcast de Jennie Johnson & Dianne Hartshorn - Jueves
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Send us a textThe New York Times called him "the foremost citizen of Colorado." William H. Spurgeon said he was "the soldier, the builder of an empire, the philanthropist, the friend of the people, whose life was a blessing." At his funeral in 1909 Colorado College president William Slocum told more than 3,000 mourners that gathered in the snow at Evergreen Cemetery, "A great man has passed, but the influence of his life can never go from us." All of these men were commenting on the life and ...