LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Taylor Adams	Author	30-Jul-1822	27-Mar-1897	Oliver Optic's Magazine
Johannes Brahms	Composer	7-May-1833	3-Apr-1897	Ein deutsches Requiem
Edward Drinker Cope	Paleontologist	28-Jul-1840	12-Apr-1897	Potential holotype for Homo Sapiens
Alphonse Daudet	Novelist	13-May-1840	16-Dec-1897	Lettres de mon moulin
Galileo Ferraris	Physicist	31-Oct-1847	7-Feb-1897	Invented the induction motor
Carl Remigius Fresenius	Chemist	28-Dec-1818	11-Jun-1897	Anleitung zur qualitativen chemischen Analyse
Henry George	Economist	2-Sep-1839	29-Oct-1897	Progress and Poverty
Harriet Irwin	Architect	1828	1897	Designer of hexagonal houses
Harriet Ann Jacobs	Author	1813	7-Mar-1897	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
John Mercer Langston	Politician	14-Dec-1829	15-Nov-1897	First black Congressman elected from Virginia
Margaret Oliphant	Novelist	4-Apr-1828	25-Jun-1897	The Chronicles of Carlingford
Francis Turner Palgrave	Critic	28-Sep-1824	24-Oct-1897	Golden Treasury
Sir Isaac Pitman	Inventor	4-Jan-1813	12-Jan-1897	Stenographic Soundhand
George Pullman	Business	3-Mar-1831	19-Oct-1897	Inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff	Educator	3-Nov-1814	20-Mar-1897	Women's education reformer
James Joseph Sylvester	Mathematician	3-Sep-1814	15-Mar-1897	Studied finite analysis
Francis A. Walker	Economist	2-Jul-1840	5-Jan-1897	The Wages Question
Justin Winsor	Curator	2-Jan-1831	22-Oct-1897	Librarian of Harvard University

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