James Naismith is the creator of the best game in the world...Basketball. He wrote the original 13 rules,and coached basketball from 1898-1907 at the University of Kansas. His parents were Scottish immigrants. He was the eldest child of Margaret and John Naismith. His parents died when he was 9 of Typhoid fever. He was then raised be his strict religious grandmother and his Uncle Peter. He suffered a major brain hemorrhage and passed away when he was just 78 years old, he is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence, KS. He lived from 1861-1939. James A. Naismith is actually one of my ancestors.
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he had a very hard time growing up. all of his family members died and only his uncle could take care of him and hi siblings.his family died from typhoid fever,a very rare uncurable fever
James Naismith is famous because he invented basketball.
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James Naismith is buried alongside his first wife, Maude Sherman, in Lawrence, Kansas.