EMINENT MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA.

BORN

DIED

1826 1848

...1808 .....1722

.1807 ..1825 .1799

1803 1873 1861

1859

Adams, Abigail, Author
Adams, Charles Francis, Statesman.......
Adams, Hannah, Author...
Adams, Isaac, Inventor ...
Adams, John, Second President........
Adams, John Quincy, Sixth President.
Adams, Neremiah, Author.
Adams, Samuel, Statesman.
Agassiz, Louis Jolin Rudolph, Naturalist...
Akers, Benjamin Paul, Sculptor ...
Alcott, Amos Bronson, Educator.
Alcott, Louisa May, Author ..........
Alcott, William Alexander, Physician .........
Alden, Janies, Naval oficer...
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, Author.
Alexander, Archibald, Clergyman.
Alexander, James Waddell, Clergyman.
Alexander, John Henry, Chemist and Physicist..
Alexander, William, Officer and Astronomer.......
Alger, William Rounseville, Clergyman and Author.......
Allen, Ethan, Military officer ...,
Allibone, Samuel Austin, Author ......
Allston, Washington, Painter
Ames, Fisher, Statesman ..
Anderson, Robert, Military officer
Andrew, Jolin Albion, Statesman......
Appleton, Samuel, Philanthropist.
Arnold, Benedict, Military oficer...
Audubon, John James, Ornithologist.

1851 1859 1867 1783

1798 .1810 ..1836 .1772 .1804 .1812 1726 1822 .1737 .1816 .1779 .1758 1805 .1818 .1766

1789

1843 1808 1871 1867 1853 1801 1851

Babbitt, Isaac, Inventor.
Bache, Alexander Dallas, Physicist ...,
Bacon, Leonard, Clergyman and Author
Bainbridge, William, Naval officer..
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, Naturalist.
Ball, Thomas, Sculptor ......
Ballou, Hoseii, Clergyman...
Bancroft, George, Author '.
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, Statesman.
Barlow, Joel, Poet.....
Barnard, Henry, Educator
Barnes, Albert, Clergyman.
Barney, Joshua, Naval officer.
Barry, Jolin, Naval officer....
Bateman, Kate Josephine, Actor.
Bates, Joshua, Philanthropist....
Bayard, James Ashton), Statesman.
Beach, Moses Yale, Inventor...
Beaumont, William, Physician.....
Beecher, Catherine Esther, Author ..
Beeclier, Henry Ward, Clergyman and Author.
Beecher, Lyman, Clergyman..
Bell, John, Statesman.........
Bellows, Henry Whitney, Clergyman and Author
Benjamin, Park, Journalist.........
Bennett, James Gordon, Journalist..

1870 1818 1803

1864 1815 1868 1853

.1842 .1788 .1767 1800 1785 ..1800 .1813 1775 1797 .1814 1809 1800

1863 1869

1864 1871

1852 1838 1790

1875 1657 1672 1875 1644

Benton, l'homas Hart, Statesman ........
Bierstadt, Albert, Painter .....
Bigelow, Jacob, Physician and Author.
Bigelow, John, Author and Editor.
Blair, Francis Preston, Journalist and Politician....
Boker, George Henry, Poet..........
Bond, William Cranch, Astronomer.
Boone, Daniel, Pioneer.
Booth, Edwin F., Actor ...
Booth, Junius Brutus, Actor.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, Mathematician and Astronomer.
Bowdoin, James, Statesman......
Bowen, Francis, Author..
Bowles, Samuel, Journalist...
Brace, Charles Loring, Author
Bradford, William, Pilgrim..
Bradstreet, Anne, Poet......
Breckinridge, John Cabell, Statesman
Brewster, William, Pilgrim..........
Brooks, Charles Timotliy, Clergyman and Author
Brown, Charles Brockden, Novelist.
Brown, George L., Painter...
Brown, Goold, Grammarian.
Brown, Jolin, of Ossawottomie....
Brown, Samuel Gilman, Educator..
Browne, Charles F., Humorist ......
Bryant, William Cullen, Poet and Journalist.
Buchanan, James, Fifteenth President.
Buckingham, Joseph Tinker, Journalist.
Buckminster, Joseph Stevens, Clergyman.
Bullions, Peter, Grammarian...
Burges, Tristam, Orator and Jurist..
Burlingame, Anson, Statesman and Diplomatist.
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, Military officer.
Burr, Aaron, Statesman....
Burritt, Elihu, Reforıncr.
Burton, William Evans, Comcdian and Author...
Bushnell, Horace, Clergyman and Author...
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, Lawyer and Politician..
Byles, Mather, Cleryyman..

1810

1857 1859

.1727 1811 .1826 1826 1588 . 1612 1821 1566 ..1813 1771 1814 1791 ..1800 .1813 1834 .1794

1791 .1779 1784 ..1791

1770 .1822 ..1824 ... 1756 .1811 1802 ...1802 .1818 1706

1867

1868 1861 1812 1864 1853 1870

1836

1860

1788

Calhoun, John Caldwell, Slatesman.....
Calvert, George Herry, Author.....
Cameron, Simon, Statesman
Carey, Matthew, Political writer .....
Carroll, Charles. of Carrollton, Patriot....
Carson, Christopher, Mountaineer and Guide.
Carver, John, Pilgrim...............
Cary, Alice, Poct......
Cass, Lewis, Statesman...
Cassin, John, Ornithologist..
Channing, William Ellery, Clergyman.
Chase, Samuel Portland, Statesman......
Chauncey, Charles, Clergyman....
Cheever, George Bauell, Clergyman and Author
Chickering, Jonas, Philanthropist.
Child, Lydia Maria, Author.
Choate, Rufus, Lawyer und Orator.
Clarke, George Rogers, Military officer...
Clarke, James Freeman, Clergyman and Author.
Clay, Henry, Orator and Statesman.

! Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, Iłumorist... Clintou De Witt, Slatesman .........

1839 1832 1868 1021 1871 1866 1869 1812 1873 1672

..1820

1782 ..1813

.1780 .....1808 ...1592 .1807 .1798 .1802 .1799 ..1752

1810 ...1777

1835 1769

1853

1859 1818

1852

1828

1871 1833 1817 1829

1862 1857 1851

Cogswell, Joseph Green, Scholar.
Colburn, Warren, Mathematician....
Cole, Thomas, Painter..
Coleman, William, Journalist.
Collyer, Robert, Clergyman..
Colt, Samuel, Inventor...
Colton, Calvin, Clergyman and Author...
Cooper, James Fenimore, Novelist......
Cooper, Peter, Philanthropist .......
Copley, John Singleton, Painter.
Cotton, John, Clergyman.
Crawford, Thomas, Sculptor.
Crittenden, John Jordan, Lawyer and Senator,
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, Jurist.
Curtis, George Ticknor, Jurist and Author
Curtis, George William, Author..
Cushing, Caleb, Politician and Jurist.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, Actor.

.1786

1793 1801 .1766 1823 .1814 .1789

1789 ...1791 ....1737

.1585 ....1814 ...1786 ...1809

1812 ..1824 .1800 .1816

1813 1682 1857 1863 1874

Dahlgren, John A., Naval oficer......
Dallas, Alexander James, Stutesman and Financier
Dallas, George Mifilin, Statesman.....
Dalton, John C., Physiologist....
Dana, James Dwight, Physicist..
Dana, Richard Henry, Poet and Essayist...
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., Lawyer and Writer..
Dane, Nathan, Jurist and Statesman.
Darley, Felix 0. C., Artist...
Davies, Charles, Mathematician.....
Davis, Charles Henry, Mathematician and Naval officer.
Davis, John, Statesman.
Deane, Silas, Diplomatist..
De Borr, James D. B., Journalist and Statistician....
Decatur, Stephen, Naval officer ......
Dexter, Samuel, Lawyer and Statesman.....
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, Orator and Reformer.
Dickinson, John, Statesman.
Dix, John A., Soldier, Lawyer and Statesman.
Dixon, Joseph, Inventor..
Dodge, Mary Abigail, Author'.
Douglass, Frederick, Orator and Journalist.
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, Statesman.
Downing, Andrew Jackson, Horticulturist.
Drake, Joseph Rodnian, Poet.....
Drake, Samuel Gardner, Historical writer
Draper, John William, Chemist and Physiologist..
Duchi, Jacob, Clergyman........
Dunglison, Robley, Physician and Author...
Dunlap, William, Painter and Author ......
Dupont, Samuel Francis, Naval officer.
Durant, Asher Brown, Painter and Engraver
Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, Author
Dwight, Timothy, Clergyman and Scholar.

..1737

1820 ..1779 1761 ..1842

1732 ..1798 ... 1798 ... 1838

1808

1869

Edwards, Jonathan, Metaphysician ....
Eliot, John, Apostle to the Indians.
Eliot, Samuel, Author..
Ellis, George Edward, Clergyman and Author
Ellsworth, Oliver, Jurist..
Emerson, George Barrell, Educator
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Essayist.........
Emory, William Helmsley, Military officer......
Ericsson, Johu, Inventor..

.1703 ...1603 ...1821 ...1814 ..1745 1797 1803 ...1812 ..1803

Everett, Alexander Hill, Scholar and Diplomatisi..
Everett, Edward, Scholar and Orator ....................

Faneuil, Peter, Merchant.....
Farragut, David Glascoe, Naval oficer
Felton, Cornelius Conway, Scholar and Author .......
Fessenden, William Pitt, Lawyer and Senator.
Fillmore, Millard, Thirteenth President .....
Fitch, John, Inventor.
Flint, Austin, Physician.....
Foote, Andrew Hull, Naval officer..
Force, Peter, Historian ........
Forney, John Weiss, Journalist.
Forrest, Edwin, Tragedian...
Fowler, Orson Squire, Phrenologist.
Franklin, Benjamin, Philosopher and Statesman.........
Fremont, John Charles, Explorer...
Freneau, Philip, Poet..
Frothingham, Richard, Jr., Historian and Journalist.
Fuller, Sarah Margaret, Author ....
Fulton, Robert, Inventor ..

1863 1868

1872

..1809

1790

1832

.1706
.1813
.1752

.1812
...1810
.1765

1850 1815

1808

....

1849

...1761

1804

Gallagher, William D., Poet and Journalist....
Gallatin, Albert, Statesman..
Garrison, William Lloyd, Anti-Slavery Agitator
Gerry, Elbridge, Statesman...
Girard, Stephen, Merchant and Banker.
Godwin, Parke, Journalist and Author...
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold, Author
Goodyear, Charles, Inventor.
Gough, John B., Temperance lecturer,
Gould, Augustus Addison, Naturalist.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, Eighteenth President...
Gray, Asa, Botanist.....
Greeley, Horace, Journalist.
Greene, Nathaniel, Military officer.
Greenleaf, Simon, Jurist.
Greenough, Horatio, Sculptor...
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, Author.

...1750

.1816 1793 .1800 ..1817

1860 1860

...1805 po.......1822

........1810

...1811
..1742
..1783
1805
1815

1872 1786 1853 1852 1857

1867 1872 1804

Hale, Edward Everett, Clergyman and Author
Halleck, Fitzgreene, Poet.........
Halleck, Henry Wagner, Military officer........
Hamilton, Alexander, Statesman.......
Hamlin, Hannibal, Statesman.
Hancock, John, Patriot ........
Harding, Chester, Painter.
Hare, Robert, Chemist...
Harris, Thaddeus William, Entomologist..
Harrison, William Henry, Ninth President..
Hawks, Francis Lister, Clergyman and Author
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Author.
Hayne, Robert Young, Statesman ...........
Headley, Joel Tyler, Author ....
Henry, Joseph, Physicist.
Henry, Patrick, Orator and Statesman
Herbert, Henry William, Author...
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Author
Hildreth, Richard, Author and Journalist.
Hill, Thomas, Clergyman...
Hillard, George Stillman, Lawyer and Author.
Hitchcock, Edward, Geologist.......

.1822 .1790 ..1814 .1757 ..1809 .1737 1792 1781 1795 ..1773 ... 1798 1804 1791 1814 1797 .1736 1807 .1823 ...1807 ..1818

1808 ..1793

1793 1866 1858 1856 1841 1866 1864 1839

1799 1858

1865 1874

1864

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, Jurist.....
Hoffman, Charles Fenno, Author..
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, Author and Journalist.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Physician, Poet and Essayist.
Holt, Joseph, Statesman..
Hooker, Joseph, Military officer....
Hosmer, Harriet G., Sculptor
Houston, Samuel, Soldier and Statesman
Howe, Elias, Jr., Inventor ....
Howells, William Dean, Author ......
Hughes, Robert Ball, Sculptor.
Hull, Isaac, Naval officer.
Humphreys, David, Soldier, Diplomatist and Poet....
Huntington, Daniel, Painter..
Hutchinson, Thomas, Governor of Mass......

..1819
.1809
1807
.1815
1830
1793
..1819
..1837
.1806
.1775
..1752

1863 1867

1868 1843 1818

...1816

1711

1780

Irving, Washington, Author ........

...1783

1859

..1777

Jackson, Andrew, Seventh President...
Jackson, Charles Thomas, Chemist and Geologist.
Jackson, James, Physician....
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan, Military officer......
Jay, John, Statesman......
Jeffersou, Joseph, Comedian.
Jefferson, Thomas, Third President....
Johnson, Andrew, Seventeenth President.....
Johnson, Sir William, Military officer
Jones, John Paul, Naial officer...

1767 1845 1805

1867 1824 1863 1745 1829 1829 .1743 1826 ..1808 1875 ...1715 1774 1747 1792

Kennedy, John Pendleton, Author ......
Kensett, John Frederick, Artist....
Kent, James, Jurist...
Kenton, Simon, Pioneer....
King, Rufus, Statesman and Diplomatist..
King, Thomas Starr, Clergyman and Author ......
Kirkland, Caroline Matilda, Author.
Knuland, Samuel, Naturalist.
Knox, Henry, Dilitary officer .......

1870 1872 1817 1836 1827 1864 1864

1806

.1724

...1786

Laurens, Henry, Statesman....
Lawrence, Amos, Philanthropist..
Lawrence, James, Naval officer
Ledyard, John, Traveller .......
Lee, Arthur, Diplomatist.
Lee, Charles, Military officer
Lee, Henry, Mititary officer....
Lee, Richard Henry, Statesman.
Lee, Robert Edmund, Military officer..
Leslie, Charles Robert, Painter .....
Lieber, Fraucis, Publicist .......
Lincoln, Abrahani, Sixteenth President......
Lincoln, Benjamin, Military officer.......
Livermore, May Ashton, Reformer..
Livingston, Edward, Jurist and Statesman..

.1781 ....1751 ...1740

1731 ...1756 ... 1732 .1807 .1791 ..1800 1809

1792 1852 1813 1789 1792 1782 1818 1794 1870 1859 1872 1865 1810

..1733
.1821

.1764

1830

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