LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jacob Abbott	Author	14-Nov-1803	31-Oct-1879	Franconia Stories
Jacob Bigelow	Botanist	27-Feb-1787	10-Jan-1879	American Medical Botany
George Caleb Bingham	Painter	20-Mar-1811	7-Jul-1879	Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
Henry Box Brown	Activist	1815	c. 1879	Former slave, escaped via crate
Elihu Burritt	Activist	8-Dec-1810	6-Mar-1879	Organized Friends of Peace
Henry C. Carey	Economist	15-Dec-1793	13-Oct-1879	The Principles of Social Science
Joseph Cinqué	Activist	c. 1813	c. 1879	Led the Amistad slave rebellion
Caleb Cushing	Politician	17-Jan-1800	2-Jan-1879	US Attorney General, 1853-57
Honoré Daumier	Artist	20-Feb-1808	11-Feb-1879	Caricaturist and satirist
John Adams Dix	Politician	24-Jul-1798	21-Apr-1879	Governor of New York, 1873-75
Margaret O'Neill Eaton	Relative	1796	8-Nov-1879	War Secy.'s wife caused cabinet shakeup
David Einhorn	Religion	1809	1879	Jewish reform movement
William Lloyd Garrison	Activist	10-Dec-1805	24-May-1879	Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator
Heinrich Geissler	Inventor	26-May-1815	24-Jan-1879	Geissler tube
Sarah Josepha Hale	Author	24-Oct-1788	30-Apr-1879	Editor, Godey's Lady's Book
Rowland Hill	Inventor	3-Dec-1795	27-Aug-1879	Invented the postage stamp
John Bell Hood	Military	29-Jun-1831	30-Aug-1879	Confederate General
Joseph Hooker	Military	13-Nov-1814	31-Oct-1879	Union Army General
William Howitt	Author	18-Dec-1792	3-Mar-1879	The Book of the Seasons
James Clerk Maxwell	Physicist	13-Jun-1831	5-Nov-1879	Maxwell's equations
Sir Anthony Panizzi	Curator	16-Sep-1797	8-Apr-1879	Librarian of the British Museum

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