Category
page 119th-century American journalists
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
Henry Morton Stanley
British journalist and explorer (1841–1904)
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)
Nellie Bly
American journalist
Stephen Crane
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
Margaret Fuller
American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

Ida Tarbell
American journalist (1857-1944)
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

Amelia Bloomer
Women's rights activist (1818–1894)

Cyrus McCormick
American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)

William Walker
American filibuster, physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (1824-1860)

Mathew Benjamin Brady
American photographer (c. 1823 – 1896)
Lysander Spooner
American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)
Horatio Alger
American novelist (1832–1899)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
American writer
Frank Norris
American journalist and novelist (1870-1902)
Rufus Wilmot Griswold
American editor, literary critic, anthologist, and writer (1815–1857)
Stand Watie
2nd principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
Alice Dunbar Nelson
American writer, activist (1875-1935)
Bayard Taylor
United States poet, novelist and travel writer (1825-1878)
Kin Hubbard
American cartoonist (1868–1930)
Helen Hunt Jackson
American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)
Gideon Welles
American government official; United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 (1802–1878)
George Washington Williams
American Civil War soldier, Christian minister, Ohio politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer
George Hearst
American politician (1820-1891)
Albert Jay Nock
American journalist (1870-1945)
Samuel Brannan
American politician (1819–1889)
Henry Jarvis Raymond
American journalist and politician (1820–1869)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
American publisher, journalist, African American civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor
Joseph Weydemeyer
US Union Army officer (1818–1866)

Jacques Futrelle
American journalist and mystery writer (1875-1912)
Gustav Struve
German revolutionary and journalist (1805-1870)
Mary Ann Shadd
American abolitionist (1823–1893)
Alfred Ely Beach
American businessman (1826–1896)
Vojtěch Náprstek
Czech traveller (1826-1894)
Elizabeth Bisland
American writer and journalist
Elizabeth Akers Allen
American author, journalist, poet (1832-1911)
William Wetmore Story
American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor (1819–1895)
William Black
British novelist (1841–1898)
Rebecca Harding Davis
American journalist (1831–1910)
John L. O'Sullivan
American politician (1813-1895)
Ida Husted Harper
American suffragist and writer (1851-1931)

Francis Amasa Walker
Union Army general and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1840-1897)
Marcus Thrane
Norwegian politician (1817-1890)
James Henry Hammond
Governor of South Carolina, South Carolina politician (1807-1864)
George Jones
American journalist who co-founded the New-York Daily Times (1811–1891)
Richard Hildreth
American journalist (1807–1865)
Stephen Pearl Andrews
American anarchist (1812-1886)

Aaron A. Sargent
American politician (1827-1887)

James Gibbons Huneker
American music critic (1857–1921)
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Novelist, poet, editor (1819–1881)
Lucy Larcom
American teacher, poet, author (1824-1893)
George William Curtis
American writer (1824–1892)
Samuel S. Cox
American politician (1824-1889)
Phoebe Palmer
American evangelist and writer (1807–1874)

Mary Louise Booth
American editor, translator and writer
Patrick Edward Connor
Union Army general (1820-1891)
Fanny Fern
American writer (1811–1872)

Jane Cunningham Croly
American journalist (1829–1901)