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98 famous people found
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James Abbott MCNEILL WHISTLER
American artist active during the American Gilded Age
1834 - 1903 -
Elisabet NEY
German-American sculptor
1833 - 1907 -
Edmund MONTGOMERY
Scottish-American philosopher, scientist and physician
1835 - 1911 -
Candace WHEELER
American interior and textile designer, often credited as the "mother" of interior design
1827 - 1923 -
Harrison Gray OTIS
President and general manager of the Times-Mirror Company, publisher of the Los Angeles Times
1837 - 1917 -
John TAYLOR OF CAROLINE
American politician and writer, United States Senator from Virginia
1753 - 1824 -
Charlotte FORTEN GRIMKÉ
African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator
1837 - 1914 -
Horatio ALGER
American writer
1832 - 1899 -
Albert Pinkham RYDER
American painter
1847 - 1917 -
Armistead Lindsay LONG
Brigadier general for the Confederate States of America, and the author of the 1886 book Memoirs of Robert E. Lee
1825 - 1891 -
Rufus KING
Newspaper editor, educator, U.S. diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War
1814 - 1876 -
Artemas WARD
American author and advertising executive
1848 - 1925 -
Benjamin C. TRUMAN
American journalist and author
1835 - 1916 -
John NORVELL
American newspaper editor and one of the first U.S. Senators from Michigan
1789 - 1850 -
Minnie WARREN
American entertainer associated with P.T. Barnum, a proportionate dwarf
1849 - 1878 -
Commodore NUTT
American midget who became famous working for P. T. Barnum
1848 - 1881 -
James Russell LOWELL
American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
1819 - 1891 -
George Bird GRINNELL
American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer
1849 - 1938 -
Charlotte Saunders CUSHMAN
American stage actress
1816 - 1876 -
Francis Pharcellus CHURCH
American publisher and editor
1839 - 1906