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218 famous people found
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Samuel Sewall
Judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials
1652 - 1730 -
Abraham J. Hasbrouck
United States Representative from New York and a slaveholder
1773 - 1845 -
Samuel Cunard
British-Canadian shipping magnate
1787 - 1865 -
David Sears
Pprominent 19th-century Boston philanthropist, merchant, real estate developer, and landowner
1787 - 1871 -
Nathaniel Rochester
American Revolutionary War soldier, and land speculator
1752 - 1831 -
Louis VICAT
French engineer
1786 - 1861 -
Frédéric De Coninck
Dutch merchant active in Copenhagen, Denmark
1740 - 1811 -
Francis Baring
English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets
1740 - 1810 -
Charity BRYANT
American business owner and writer
1777 - 1851 -
Richard Bland
American planter and statesman
1710 - 1776 -
Stephen WHITNEY
American merchant
1776 - 1860 -
Louis BIGO
French industrialist
1787 - 1876 -
Philemon WRIGHT
American farmer, lumberman and entrepreneur who founded the first permanent settlement in the National Capital Region of Canada
1760 - 1839 -
Louis CRESPEL-DELLISSE
French industrialist
1789 - 1865 -
Louis MONNERON
French businessman, arms supplier and politician
1742 - 1805 -
Nathan APPLETON
American merchant and politician and a member of "The Boston Associates"
1779 - 1861 -
Samuel BERNARD
French noble and financier
1651 - 1739 -
Mirabeau B. LAMAR
Texas politician, poet, diplomat, and soldier, 2nd President of Texas
1798 - 1859 -
Jim BOWIE
American pioneer, slave trader and soldier who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution
1796 - 1836 -
Matthias W. BALDWIN
American inventor and machinery manufacturer
1795 - 1866