Word: hibben
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peabody Museum: Hemenway fellowship, for the study of American Archaeology and Ethnology, to James H. Gaul, 3G, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Thaw fellowship to Frank C. Hibben, 1G, of Albuquerque, New Mexico...
...many who died in the October Revolution. Sverdlov is buried here, and Dzerzhinski, Nogin, Podbyelski, Krassin, John Reed and others. Set in niches in the Kremlin wall are funeral urns containing the ashes of others of the honored dead including those of Bill Haywood, Charles Ruthenberg and Paxton Hibben, all Americans...
Thus it will be seen that the Soviet Government believes it buried the body (not the ashes) of John Reed behind the tomb of Lenin. But it should be noted that the same document quoted above states that it had buried the ashes of Paxton Hibben in a niche in the Kremlin wall...
...such niche could be found by the Curator of the Kremlin when it came time for my wreath-laying and it was only after several days of search that, quite by accident, a woman came forward who remembered the funeral of Paxton Hibben and it was she who finally led me to his grave in the cemetery of the ancient Novo-Devichi Convent on the outskirts of Moscow. LIONEL TOMPKINS...
...most brilliant men ever graduated from Princeton (1903), Paxton Hibben had successive exciting careers in diplomacy, politics, war correspondence, the A. E. F., post-War famine relief, authorship (Constantine I and the Greek People, Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, An American Report on the Russian Famine). A lifelong liberal, he requested that his ashes be taken to Moscow. Following his death in Manhattan in 1928, they were...