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Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 founding fathers (and mothers) responsible for the birth of the United States of America. This special volume includes those who lived, worked, and or died in Virginia. Included in this volume are biographies and grave information for 30 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause. In this volume: -George Washington: Cincinnatus Americanus -Thomas Jefferson: The Founder of the Virginia Dynasty -James Madison: The Father of the Constitution -Dolley Madison: The Elegant Hostess -James Monroe: ""The Last Cocked Hat"" -Thomas Adams: Delegate from Virginia -John Banister: The Master of the Hatcher's Run -John Blair, Jr.: Grand Master of Virginia -Richard Bland: Planter and Pamphleteer -Daniel Boone: Western Pioneer -Carter Braxton: Most Descendants -George Rogers Clark: Conqueror of the Old Northwest -Cyrus Griffin: The Last President of Congress -Benjamin Harrison V: Father and Great-Grandfather of Presidents -John Harvie: Friend of Jefferson -Patrick Henry: Revolutionary Orator -James Armistead Lafayette: Lafayette's Double Agent -Francis Lightfoot Lee: Virginia Congressman -Henry Lee III: Lighthouse Harry -Richard Henry Lee: Resolution for Independence -John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice -George Mason: ""The Father of the Bill of Rights"" -Daniel Morgan: Victor at Cowpens -Thomas Nelson, Jr.: The Governor Who Was All-In -Edmund Pendleton: ""Here Comes the Judge!"" -Edmund Randolph: Jefferson's Chameleon -Peyton Randolph: The First President -Daniel Roberdeau: Pennsylvania Associator -Charles Scott: Head of Intelligence -George Wythe: The Law Professor

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Lawrence Knorr has authored or co-authored over 20 books, mostly on history or biography. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Sons of the American Revolution, and numerous other historical organizations. He enjoys most writing about the formerly famous and his beloved Pennsylvania Dutch culture. He is a lifetime Penn State alum. Joe Farrell was born in Brooklyn and raised on the mean streets of Queens. He attended and graduated from Catholic schools in New York and went on to College at St. Vincent College where he graduated with a degree in Psychology. He studied Clinical Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Public Administration at Shippensburg. Joe Farley was born and raised in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. His high school graduating class from Hazleton Saint Gabriel's in 1970 was the last in the history of the school. At Saint Gabriel's Mr. Farley demonstrated his academic prowess by graduating 37th in his class of forty. He was the point guard on the school's 1970 state championship basketball team. Those exploits are covered in the book ""Trumpet Call to Victory: The Final Years of Hazleton Saint Gabriel's Basketball."" Mr. Farley then attended Bloomsburg University where after four dimly remembered years he graduated with a degree in education. In 1975 Mr. Farley began a 35-year public service career working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Upon his retirement in 2010, he began work on the Keystone Tombstone series with his coauthor Joe Farrell. To date, there are thirteen volumes in that series. Farley and Farrell have also authored Gotham Graves Volumes One and Two. Mr. Farley also penned ""Song Poems in Search of Music"" in 2014 He and his wife Sharon reside in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. They have three children.

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