19th-century American educators

American writer and poet (1819–1891)

African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)

American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)

teacher and companion of Helen Keller

American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

American politician (1796-1859)

First Lady of the United States from 1850 to 1853

First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913

American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (1799-1888)

First Lady of the United States from 1889 to 1892

American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Freemason (1809–1891)

First Lady of United States (1846-1918)

American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)

Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re

United States Navy officer

American novelist (1832–1899)

Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just nine days before the death of her older sister Emma.

American educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870

German-American Franciscan Sister, missionary and saint (1838-1918)

Confederate States Army general (1824-1893)

American educator and founder of the American School for the Deaf

American beekeeper (1810–1895)

Native American writer, activist, scout, and teacher (1844–1891)

American Catholic sister and saint

American deaf-blind woman

American abolitionist (1823–1893)

American philanthropist, schoolteacher (1839-1915)

American educator, botanist, author (1793-1884)

Irish inventor and writer (1867-1948)

wife of Charles Ingalls

American suffragist and writer (1851-1931)

American writer and activist (1857–1902)

United States Army officer and physician, abolitionist, journalist, and writer (1812–1885)

Greek-American educator of the blind

American activist (1813-1876)

Jewish American historian, scholar, religious leader (1863–1940)

American writer 1789-1867

Governor of California (1865-1955)

American physician

American educator 1804-1894

American lawyer, social reformer, social scientist and civil rights activist (1866-1948)

Confederate general (1833-1908)

Governor of Oklahoma; politician (1860-1933)

American physician, educator, and activist (1848–1919)

American author and educator (1859-1941)

American physician and author (1798-1859)

American writer/women's educator/foreign advisor to the Japanese government in Meiji period Japan (1858-1918)

governor of Arkansas from 1862 to 1864, and in exile from 1864 to 1865 (1817–1874)

American politician (1821-1889)

American mathematician (1869-1936)

American chemist

American politician, lawyer and postmaster (1800-1866)

American mental calculator (1804–1840)

African-American physician

American activist (1879–1961)

American activist and artist (1806-1882)

Inventor, Educator, Patent Attorney

American politician (1814-1899)

American philosopher

African-American author of Life history