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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jacob Abbott
Author
14-Nov-1803 31-Oct-1879 Franconia Stories
Jacob Bigelow
Botanist
27-Feb-1787 10-Jan-1879 American Medical Botany
George Caleb Bingham
Painter
20-Mar-1811 7-Jul-1879 Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
Henry Box Brown
Activist
1815 c. 1879 Former slave, escaped via crate
Elihu Burritt
Activist
8-Dec-1810 6-Mar-1879 Organized Friends of Peace
Henry C. Carey
Economist
15-Dec-1793 13-Oct-1879 The Principles of Social Science
Joseph Cinqué
Activist
c. 1813 c. 1879 Led the Amistad slave rebellion
Caleb Cushing
Politician
17-Jan-1800 2-Jan-1879 US Attorney General, 1853-57
Honoré Daumier
Artist
20-Feb-1808 11-Feb-1879 Caricaturist and satirist
John Adams Dix
Politician
24-Jul-1798 21-Apr-1879 Governor of New York, 1873-75
Margaret O'Neill Eaton
Relative
1796 8-Nov-1879 War Secy.'s wife caused cabinet shakeup
David Einhorn
Religion
1809 1879 Jewish reform movement
William Lloyd Garrison
Activist
10-Dec-1805 24-May-1879 Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator
Heinrich Geissler
Inventor
26-May-1815 24-Jan-1879 Geissler tube
Sarah Josepha Hale
Author
24-Oct-1788 30-Apr-1879 Editor, Godey's Lady's Book
Rowland Hill
Inventor
3-Dec-1795 27-Aug-1879 Invented the postage stamp
John Bell Hood
Military
29-Jun-1831 30-Aug-1879 Confederate General
Joseph Hooker
Military
13-Nov-1814 31-Oct-1879 Union Army General
William Howitt
Author
18-Dec-1792 3-Mar-1879 The Book of the Seasons
James Clerk Maxwell
Physicist
13-Jun-1831 5-Nov-1879 Maxwell's equations
Sir Anthony Panizzi
Curator
16-Sep-1797 8-Apr-1879 Librarian of the British Museum


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