“Eulogy of the Dog”
George Graham Vest (1830-1904) was a United States Senator from Missouri and noted attorney. In 1870, Vest successfully represented a client whose hunting dog, a foxhound named Drum (or Old Drum), had been killed by a farmer. Vest won the case and also won its appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. A bust of the dog resides in the Missouri Supreme Court building in Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1958, a statue of the dog was erected on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn containing a summation of Vest’s closing speech, “A man’s best friend is his dog.”
Mother Jones Monument
Union Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Illinois
Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American labor organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the Labor unionist trade union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). She is known for originating the phrase, “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!” The monument is maintained by the The Mother Jones Museum which is located in the Mt. Olive City Hall Building. https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/
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