Category
page 1American city founders
Joseph Smith
founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and prophet (1805–1844)
William Penn
English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
Brigham Young
American religious leader (1801–1877)
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
early founder of Chicago
Ben Klassen
American engineer, author and politician (1918-1993)
Samuel Brannan
American politician (1819–1889)
Henry Morrison Flagler
American entrepreneur (1830-1913)

Stephen Benton Elkins
Union United States Army officer (1841-1911)
Horace Tabor
American politician (1830-1899)

James Strang
American Mormon leader (1813–1856)
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Californian military commander, politician, and rancher (1807–1890)
Patrick Edward Connor
Union Army general (1820-1891)
Joseph Smith III
eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith Jr and Prophet-President in Community of Christ
John Wood
Governor of Illinois (1798-1880)
William Levitt
American real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia
Solomon Juneau
American mayor
John Alexander Dowie
Scottish evangelist (1847-1907)
Silas Garber
American politician (1833-1905)
Charles C. Moore
American politician, Idaho (1866-1958)
William Jackson Palmer
American engineer and American Civil War recipient of the Medal of Honor (1836–1909)

Abbott Lawrence
American politician (1792–1855)
Julia Tuttle
founder of Miami City (1849–1898)
Emanuel L. Philipp
American railroad executive and politician from Wisconsin (1861-1925)
Robert P. McCulloch
American entrepreneur and city founder (1911-1977)
Marquis de Morès
French ranchman in the Dakota Territory, railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and politician
William A. Phillips
American politician, Kansas (1824–1893)
William Pynchon
founder of Springfield, Massachusetts 1590-1662
Agoston Haraszthy
first winemaker in California (1812-1869)
Eugene Skinner
American pioneer
John Bozeman
American pioneer in Montana (1837-1867)
Peter Demens
Russian-American businessman (1849–1919)

Charles D. Sherwood
American politician (1833-1895)
Denny Party
group of American pioneers
Thomas S. Hinde
American minister and businessman

Arthur Armstrong Denny
American politician, businessman, author (1822-1899)
Madison S. Perry
American politician (1814-1865)
James S. T. Stranahan
American politician (1808-1898)
Frank Arthur Vanderlip
American journalist (1864–1937)
Charles C. Rich
American leader in LDS Church
John Hoge
American politician
David Hill
Oregon politician, born 1809
Leven Powell
American politician (1737-1810)
Jack Swilling
American pioneer in the Arizona Territory (1830-1878)
William Abraham Bell
British born American physician, businessman and photographer (1841-1921)
John O. Meusebach
German pioneer, Texas state senator (1812-1897)
José Antonio Navarro
Texas statesman, revolutionary, politician, and merchant
John Parker Boyd
United States general
Elias Cornelius Boudinot
Cherokee politician (1835-1890)
Rufus Easton
American politician
Zina P. Young Card
American religious leader and activist
LeRoy Pope
American judge
Zadock Pratt
American Politician
Arthur Stilwell
American railroad executive (1859-1928)

Adam Stephen
American physician and Continental Army general

William A. Richardson
California pioneer, city founder
George E. Merrick
American real estate developer
Zephaniah Platt
American politician (1735–1807)
Terry Carpenter
American politician (1900-1978)
John Coffee Hays
Texas ranger and politician

Cyrus K. Holliday
American politician