Reverend Daniel Waldo

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Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

One of the last living veterans of the Revolutionary War

  • Enlisted at 16

  • Served for a month at a tiny, nameless fort in Connecticut called “Fort Nonesuch” because … it wasn’t much

  • Fought at Saratoga

  • Held as a POW in a Manhattan “Sugar House” for two months

  • Voted in as congressional chaplain of New York at 94 years old

  • Gave the eulogy for Preston Brooks, the guy who beat Senator Charles Sumner (Waldo spoke of penitence)

  • Centenarian, nearly making it to 102. Or making it to 102, depending on the source.

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Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

Heather isn’t a historian, an academic, or an impartial storyteller… but she has read more than one book about every U.S. president. Out of spite. She was dubbed America’s Preeminent Presidential Doodler by one of her favorite authors and she’s been repeating it ever since. When she’s not reading or doodling history books, she’s a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. (Has she mentioned she’s related to Presidents Adams and Coolidge…?)

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