The first U.S. commissioner of education, Henry Barnard founded the Connecticut Common School journal and the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction.
1811-1900
1811-1884
1811-1882
1811-1888
Journalist Horace Greeley launched the New Yorker and the New York Tribune. He also ran for president under the Liberal Republican Party, which he founded.
1811-1872
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian pianist and composer of enormous influence and originality. He was renowned in Europe during the Romantic movement.
1811-1886
1811-1884
Isaac Singer founded the Singer Sewing Machine Company, the first company to make sewing machines practical and easy to use at home.
1811-1875
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and social activist best known for her popular anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
1811-1896
Charles Sumner was a U.S. Representative best known an anti-slavery advocate who authored the nation’s first civil rights legislation.
1811-1874
1811-1863