This is the grave of Christy Mathewson. Born in 1880 in Factoryville, Pennsylvania…ok wait a minute. Factoryville? Let’s just say that was a naming of ambition rather than reality. The 1880 census showed 462 people in that tiny northeast Pennsylvania town and it never had more than 1,300 (in 1990). So that’s that. Anyway, Mathewson wasn’t your usual coal mining kid. He went to good schools and then got into Bucknell University, a very fine liber…
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