Category

Sailors from Massachusetts

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American writer (1922–1969)

Henry Way Kendall

American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics

American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015)

Richard Henry Dana

American author and lawyer (1815–1882)

Nathaniel Bowditch

American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigation (1773-1838)

Benjamin Briggs

American sailor

Crispus Attucks

African American/Native American, first victim of the Boston Massacre

Frederick Townsend Ward

American general (1831–1862)

American sailor, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1792–1872)

Richard Phillips

former captain of the MV Maersk Alabama

American writer and poet (1915–1996)

American Senator (1752-1823)

Mary Ann Brown Patten

American sailor

Thomas Hubbard Sumner

American sea captain (1807–1876)

William Henry Leonard Poe

American sailor and poet (c. 1807 - 1831).

Nathaniel Silsbee

American politician (1773-1850)

American businessman (1759-1817)

American sailor (1797-1869)

American sea captain

Rowland Hussey Macy

American businessman (1822–1877)

Bernard C. Webber

United States Coast Guardsman

American sailor (1905-1991)

Alfred "Centennial" Johnson

American sailor

Howard Blackburn

American sailor (1859–1932)

American nautical captain

Thomas Nickerson

American sailor and author (1805-1883)

New York City shipping merchant (1766-1846)