Category
page 119th-century American writers
William James
American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842–1910)
John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)
Henry George
American political economist and journalist (1839–1897)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
American mechanical engineer (1856–1915)
Elbert Green Hubbard
American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

Davy Crockett
American frontiersman and politician (1786–1836)
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)

Ernest Thompson Seton
British/American author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the scouting movement (1860–1946)

Matilda Joslyn Gage
American abolitionist, writer

Edward Everett
American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat and orator (1794–1865)
Henry Steel Olcott
U.S. Army officer; founder of Theosophy (1832-1907)

Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist (1792–1873)

Jean Webster
American novelist (1876-1916)

Rose Cleveland
First Lady of United States (1846-1918)

Frances Willard
American temperance activist and suffragist (1839–1898)
Fanny Crosby
19th century Christian hymnist
Harriet Jacobs
American slave, writer, and abolitionist (1815-1897)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
American writer
Charles Fort
American writer (1874–1932)
Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
Baltic German physician, naturalist and explorer (1793-1831)
Edward S. Curtis
American photographer (1868-1952)
Alice Dunbar Nelson
American writer, activist (1875-1935)
Sylvester Graham
American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer
Angelina Grimké
American abolitionist and feminist
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
American physician (1831 - 1895)
Sarah Winnemucca
Native American writer, activist, scout, and teacher (1844–1891)
Lester Frank Ward
American sociologist and paleontologist (1841-1913)
Clement Clarke Moore
American biblical scholar and poet
John Burroughs
American naturalist and essayist (1837-1921)
Judith Sargent Murray
American writer and advocate for women's rights (1751-1820)
George Perkins Marsh
American politician (1801-1882)
Mary Livermore
American journalist
Daniel Harvey Hill
Confederate States Army general (1821–1889)
James Freeman Clarke
American theologian and writer (1810–1888)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
American publisher, journalist, African American civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor
Mary Ann Shadd
American abolitionist (1823–1893)
Kate Douglas Wiggin
American writer (1856-1923)
Agnes Repplier
American essayist (1855–1950)
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
American writer (1835–1905)
Alexander Campbell
Scots-Irish American ordained minister (1788–1866)
Amanda Jones
American author and inventor (1835–1914)
Mary Church Terrell
American activist and suffragette (1863–1954)
Lightner Witmer
American psychologist (1867-1957)
James Mooney
American ethnographer (1861–1921)
Tennessee Claflin
American suffragist (1844-1923)
Mary Richmond
American social worker
Christopher Memminger
German-born American politician (1803-1888)
John Merle Coulter
U.S. Botanist (1851-1928)
Ina Coolbrith
American poet, writer, and librarian (1841–1928)
Sarah Parker Remond
American abolitionist and suffragist (1824-1894)
Alexander Hill Everett
American diplomat (1792-1847)
Susette LaFlesche Tibbles
Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter and artist (1854–1903)
Charles Follen
German-American educator
Hannah Webster Foster
novelist
Abigail Scott Duniway
American suffragist, writer, journalist, pioneer (1834–1915)
Elizabeth Peabody
American educator 1804-1894
Orson Pratt
Apostle of the LDS Church (1811–1881)
King Kelly
Major League Baseball player and manager (1857–1894)