Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,947 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,947 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Joseph Sweeney. Born in 1884 in Philadelphia, Sweeney grew up pretty working class. He lived in rooming houses as a child, one of them at the same residence as W.C. Fields, which is a fact of totally random trivia. Anyway, at some point, he got interested in acting and by 1910 decided to make a go at it professionally. He started with a stock company in Norwich, Connecticut, was pretty good at it, and ended up on Broadway. H…