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Aug 2021
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EP63: King Solomon The Gravedigger and C...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Kentucky journalist Sam Terry tells the story of William King Solomon, a gravedigger who may have saved the town of Lexington during the Cholera epidemic of 1833; and TJ Stiles tells the humble story of Cornelius Vanderbilt and how he became one of the richest men in U.S. history;

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