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18 famous people found
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William EUSTIS
American physician, politician, and statesman
1753 - 1825 -
Robert FULTON
Colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat
1765 - 1815 -
William H. PRESCOTT
American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian
1796 - 1859 -
Henry SCHOOLCRAFT
American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist
1793 - 1864 -
David RAMSAY
American physician, public official, and historian
1749 - 1815 -
John Fitch
American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur, and engineer
1743 - 1798 -
David Cobb
American physician, military officer, jurist, and politician
1748 - 1830 -
Cyrus BRYANT
American educator and scientist
1798 - 1865 -
John Brooks
American doctor, military officer, and politician
1752 - 1825 -
Lyman HALL
American physician, clergyman, statesman, and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
1724 - 1790 -
Dewitt CLINTON
Early American politician and naturalist who served as an United States Senator and was the sixth Governor of New York
1769 - 1828 -
Charles Delucena MEIGS
American obstetrician
1792 - 1869 -
Josiah BARTLETT
American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire and signatory of the Declaration of Independence
1729 - 1795 -
Laommi BALDWIN
American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War
1744 - 1807 -
John Henry LIVINGSTON
Fourth President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University)
1746 - 1825 -
Eleuthère Irénée DU PONT
French American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
1771 - 1834 -
Edward HITCHCOCK
American geologist and the third President of Amherst College
1793 - 1864 -
Ezra STILES
American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, author, and president of Yale College (1778–1795)
1727 - 1795